Left unchecked, the Joro spiders would certainly wall off access to my front door with webs easily thick enough to ensnare cicadas.
Yet I find myself apologizing to them aloud every time I relocate them from the human thoroughfares in my front yard. Sorry, my creepy little goofballs!

I just devoured Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social. Finished last night and woke up still in awe. My only regret is that it wasn’t for a book club or buddy read because I need to talk about it! 😅🤓📚 #booksky

Just finished Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison. Mind blowing — so much is packed into this small book. Thankful for the thoughtful, nuanced, intersectional look into a complex issue.

Reading wrap-up from February and March with star ratings, courtesy of @thestorygraph.com

EITB tour stop in Atlanta!

The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.

Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)

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Reading The Reformatory by Tananarive Due — I struggled a bit until the halfway point, but now I’m invested, and I am desperate to know what happens to Robert and Gloria.

Reading update:
Finished Orbital, but otherwise diverged sharply from the plan.
I read The Safekeep and Cantoras, both 5-Star reads. Spent a few hrs of my return flight trying to discreetly sob through the last 100 pgs of Cantoras.
Also dabbled in The Cartographers, but didn’t make much progress.

This week’s reading agenda is award-themed:
Orbital by Samantha Harvey (almost finished)
James by Percival Everett
The Safekeep by Yale Van Der Wouden
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
(I’m on vacation, so lots of transit reading time available)

💥ATTENTION FEDS💥
All the termination letters going out that we've seen use "inadequate performance" as the reason for termination. SAVE YOUR PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. Tell your friends who aren't on bluesky! Probationary employees can't be fired for "poor performance" if their performance is not poor

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

This week’s reads:
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon, The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey, and His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik.

February 2, 2025

Mid-week reading update…
Colored Television was excellent and layered but very readable.
As You Wish is just as lovely as I hoped it would be, and I’ve broken out into broad smiles many times so far.
I’ll probably finish it tomorrow and jump into Green Dot to round out my January reading.

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Let’s go wild…two posts in a day!
Here’s what I’m reading this week (books 11 - 13 for the year)
Colored Television by Danny Senna
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

I like to post monthly meme dumps around the 7th of the month, but here’s one a little early in honor of joining Bluesky.