Trudence

Found you 😁

Oh no. I thought it was Friday and decided to finish my audiobook. Instead of sleeping. It's Friday now... But I still have to get up in a few hours and do daytime stuff 😬💤💤💤

Oops.

I just saw someone describe an author as a "shill for big copyright" because she (the author) wants to be paid for her books instead of having them pirated and I think that's enough internet for today. It's only 8:30 in the morning but the loathing that person expressed for authors was too much.

I swing by and like a few things in a flurry every week or so. I'm sadly most active reading sad sack post on reddit right now 😞

@passeriform.bsky.social Happy birthday to you 💚💚💚

If the cats no longer wish to get up for breakfast, why am I still waking up at 6am?

I really want to like birds. They're cute and sassy. So much personality!

But as someone who gets headaches and migraines, have they ever thought about shutting the hell up?

Jack Kirby's prescience working overtime.

Hey as most of the country gets plunged into terrible heat and humidity: if you got AC, use it. There is no special big kid prize for waiting until it hits a certain arbitrary temperature. Heat sickness comes on fast. Just use the damn thing.

This is the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard!! 😍

Please miss. Do you have an ark?

@pumpkinspic3d.bsky.social happy birthday 🎂

Every time I see someone come out as trans it's like seeing a supernova exploding in the sky.

What a beautiful and magnificent thing to witness, someone proudly determining for themselves and themselves alone who they truly are.

May we all have moments of such splendor.

I visited Australia in the late 90s. My mom got my photos developed and wanted to know why I took half a roll of ducks. The koala was very grumpy and the emu was worse. The ducks were delightful.

Amazing breakdown of the recent @newyorker.com piece that twists HIV/AIDS activist history to prop up the lab leak theory

221B Con - A Fan Con for All Things Sherlock Holmes

THE CON IS NEVER OVER!
The rumors are true, #221bcon will be returning in 2026.
More info coming this summer - keep an eye on the website and our social media for dates and pre-registration info.
See you again in 2026!
www.221bcon.com

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't.

Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

A banner that reads OLDER LGBT SCIENCE FICTION: A DATABASE in big letters, and tinyurl.com/oldgaySF in smaller print below. The background is an orange-tinted retro-looking photo of a row of radio telescopes.

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀

LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

Texas! But it totally would happen here too.

Damn Disney princess

Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...

I'm so so sorry Diane. Much love.💔

YKINMKATOK or Kink Tomato.
I'm very sure you do know this. But maybe not in those words. fanlore.org/wiki/Kinktom...

Red background. Rows of covers, "Asian Romance Authors" rows of covers, "40+ Books in KOBO PLUS" rows of more gorgeous covers. Really just a wealth of books in every subgenre.

Happy Asian Heritage Month! Check out these romances by authors of Asian heritage in Kobo Plus, including Hard Knocks and Clean Breaks.
kobo.com/p/romance-by...
Thanks so much Jackie Lau for putting this together.

YouTube video by Jonathan Coulton - Topic First of May

my most early 2000s-coded trait is that every first of May I like to spring Jonathan Coulton’s “First of May” upon at least one entirely unsuspecting person and just go “oh here’s a fun song I like with today’s date in the title, ha ha” and then sit back and wait for the response

As advised by my friend and colleague who is an Irish language scholar and folklore collector, I have hung a small posy of yellow wildflowers at my front door to see off curses for the next year.
Considering how things are going, seems worth a shot?