AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈)

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI.

The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

Also, they use Fabio as a shorthand reference because they never bothered learning any of the authors' actual names. More misogyny - they'll remember a male cover model over a woman author every time.

most of all, fuck everybody who sees romance as a cash register rather than a genre worthy of respect. the booktok to AI slopfest pipeline has been the most grim, depressing downward spiral. it sucks.

They had to chase down their highest ever chase in a world cup, so not great. And 2 early wickets.

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Canadian-born US illustrator Carson Ellis, from Rumpelstiltskin, a retelling by Mac Barnett. Orchard Books, February. Painterly image influenced by folk art and fine art, with stillness and a mediaeval flavour. Love the pears and the butterfly. @scholasticuk.bsky.social

This is indeed a long thread - and one of the best curated threads, with 💯 relevant links and succinct summaries, that I've seen on any platform.

Esther, thank you.

Harriet Tubman: Force of Nature is one of the books already chosen for #NewIllustrationOfTheDay that is also in the 2026 Empathy Lab selection of books to make us kinder, which has just been announced. See the full selection on empathylab.uk/rfe/ @whatonearth.bsky.social @empathylabuk.bsky.social

Just finished xoxo.
England b Nepal next up.

Yep, at 6.30pm.

So, I'm not feeling too confident with the Black Caps at the world cup.
🇳🇿🏏.

why does everyone work with Kermit? pretty swell guy, good hang, has your back

frog part isn’t important

Finally got around to reading Don’t Trust Fish by @unshavedmouse.bsky.social and @dansantat.bsky.social This book is perfection. Informative yet hilarious and the illustrations are fantastic!

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

I found the NZ fairy tern / tara-iti! There are only about 50 adult fairy terns in New Zealand, making them the rarest bird that breeds here by far. It took a lot of trial and error (and some dumb luck) but yesterday, I succeeded! 🪶
www.instagram.com/reel/DUeIROk...

When someone posts an unidentified spider pic and 30 comments are all

Ugh!
Whitetail
KILL IT
white tail don’t get bitten
HATE spiders

and them someone who wrote an actual book on NZ spiders says

Common house spider (Baudumna sp.), harmless

And this in a nutshell is all social media discourse.

Two common phrases that don't help when a child is in pain Kids learn from their parents' reactions whether feeling pain can be safe or is always a disaster.

'Children look to adults and even borrow our nervous system to gauge danger. They read our tone and posture as clues to determine how worried they should feel.'

Is craftivism performative? Yes. That's the point. Resistance includes a public demonstration of opposition at accessible events with a low barrier to entry.

The red resistance hat pattern has raised $300k for the people of Minnesota. That's not effective?

My mind is as blank as the inside of the card… but maybe you have something witty to say and you might win!!

Based on my experience, this is an excellent thing!
Enjoy xoxo

I was 29, turned 30 a few months later.
Great-great-aunt last year, at 54. (Who was not the baby of the oldest 4 of the greats.)

Hey, you! Yes you! You look like the kind you knows just the right thing to write in a card... so would you like to winsome?

Check out all the designs at www.thesewphist.com/product-cate..., grab a link to your fav, then quote post or reply with the Valentine's epigram you'd write inside.

I kea-nnot imagine being with anyone else 😍

www.thesewphist.com/product/kea-...

You know what — we should be paid for Sundays. It’s basically a life admin day. Spend all day doing all chores (washing, house cleaning, meal prep, etc.) and it eats up one day of the weekend.

Hi, my name is Rami and I’m running for office.

My policy:

- Life admin days deserve pay!

Vote 1 Rami!

Jorja Miller (born 8 February 2004) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby union, and is a member of the New Zealand Women's Sevens team.

Georgia Ellen Plimmer. Born February 08, 2004. Profile from Cricinfo.

Coincidence?!

Need a mood boost?

Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

The absolute best TV of my youf is now on ITV Retro on YouTube - legends

My photo shows two Roman gold-band mosaic glass bottles on display at the Met Museum. Made of mosaic patterned translucent cobalt blue, turquoise green, and opaque white glass, together with gold leaf encased in colourless glass. Both bottles have round bodies, flat bases, and cyclindrical necks with horizontal everted rims. The larger bottle on the left is 10.5 cm tall, the smaller bottle on the right is 4.8 cm tall. They are displayed on a clear glass shelf against a light beige background. According to the museum label: “Gold-band cast glass was a particularly opulent type of early Roman glassware. It combines canes of brightly colored translucent and opaque glass with strips of gold leaf encased between layers of colorless glass. Only a limited number of vessel shapes were made in this way, and some of the most common are small globular or carinated bottles such as these. They were presumably used to store expensive cosmetics and perfumes”.

Luxury Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. 1st century AD.

This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass.

Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!

The Met. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Have you hearde the joke about a catte who doth lyve with a witch? Ich kan tell thee the punch lyne ys familiar.