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Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.

Brilliant!

Here's a gift link!

"How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party"

This was the single best thing I read this week. I'm not a metal head, but I respect and admire both as a genre and, as a quoted fan calls it, "a strange road to joy".

I'm reading Toronto minister Maggie Helwig's Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community and it's difficult but beautiful

I mean, who amongst us, etc etc

Orange cats are the best, aren't they? Malone was his shelter name and I thought about changing it but it fit him so well. I lost him too soon, at 7.

A fluffy orange tabby cat sleeps, one paw stretched across my snowflake pajama clad legs

I still miss Malone, best of cats. He was a bruiser who never lost his kitten mew and never met a person he didn't love. The feeling was universally mutual.

If you need a delightful little boost to your day, this is for you:

Deep magenta and green aurora over nearby city buildings

From my balcony!

The Edmund Fitzgerald and the 'Ladder of Abstraction' How a renowned shipwreck produced an almost perfect lesson in storytelling.

@anthonyted.bsky.social offers a class in 'The Ladder of Abstraction' and I feel the wiser for it.

The Edmund Fitzgerald and the 'Ladder of Abstraction' open.substack.com/pub/unsorted...

Still Haunted by the Edmund Fitzgerald 50th Anniversary Tribute

@charlieangus104.bsky.social offers another look at the song/singer/disaster from an equally compelling vantage point.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/still-haun...

PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism

@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever

We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help

If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:

pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...

If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You | Defector You picked a bad weekend to fly. Over 1,500 flights in the US were cancelled yesterday, and over 1,200 over them have already been cancelled this morning. One of those may have been yours. You’re stuc...

I'm on Sunday duty at @defector.com today! First up, my newser on the airport crisis. Spoiler: Trump is fucking you. defector.com/if-youre-stu...

Sarah holds up an eel facts advent calendar in front of blooming flowers on her sidewalk. It says eel facts an advent calendar. It has 24 boxes with orange and yellow zigzags and yellow circles in the middle with numbers one through 24 in the middle of the boxes there are six eels depicted on this calendar, one green Moray, two splendid garden eels, one blue and yellow ribbon eel, and one American eel and one European.

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

Stuff The British Stole | Shows | CBC Gem The British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Those objects are housed in museums and galleries across the world. We peel back the true histories behind those objects - and meet those who want them back.

This is such a well made and interesting show, and available on CBC Gem. Stuff The British Stole gem.cbc.ca/stuff-the-br...

Nobody's Baby Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective.Welcome to ...

The second Dorothy Gentleman novella is out in March, but you can pre-order now! NOBODY’S BABY is a sapphic sci-fi mystery kicked off with one bone-chilling sentence: A wild baby appears!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

And I got my wheat bag out to heat later!

Didn't manage the candle during dinner but I'm having hot chocolate now!

Oh I need to put that back in the rotation

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz Team With ‘Ready or Not’ Filmmakers for New ‘Mummy’ Movie Radio Silence, the directing team known for the recent 'Scream' hits, will direct the feature for Universal.

WE DESERVE THIS. All I want is for them to be older but still in love, make this the third movie we all deserved pretty please.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The cover for CE Murphy's urban fantasy (modern romantasy) novel HEART OF STONE depicts a stylized green and gold stained glass window against a deep green brick background. The title, centered in the window, has a faint heart outline behind it, and below it are two stained-glass gargoyles facing one another. Cover art and design by Fakel Barros Studio.

It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...

Meanwhile, read “Fight Like Hell” by Kim Kelly, until morale improves.

I have a book dropping from @torbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday (The Nameless Land, the 2nd book of The Witch Roads duology, so if you're waiting for the entire story, it is here)

THEN a near future sf novelette ("Barnacle") dropping on Wednesday at @reactorsff.bsky.social

so brace yourselves, peeps.

Some links to support people in Jamaica (from someone in JA). please boost

1. www.foodforthepoorja.org

2. theafj.org

3. (if you want to give to the govt) supportjamaica.gov.jm?fbclid=PAdGR...

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle.

www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

Tell Banjo I could deny him nothing 😅

Banjo I adore you in all costumes

As a Gen-Xer, they're not alone in their yearning. Bless you for your intergenerational generosity