That’s the Way That the World Goes Round, with honorable mention to Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore

Both the Puritans and Huguenots are on my mom’s side ~400 years ago and I only know the prominent stories, I’m sure along the way they married people who came for approximately every other reason a Western European might emigrate.

I saw The First Thousand Trees face out in the sci-fi section at Elliot Bay Books a few weeks ago, I should have taken a photo!

Abuse of powerpoint comes as no surprise

and I thought, I can't believe you're telling on yourself in print like this.

When I read Lolita, the writing was brilliant but I could only handle being in that monster's head in small doses. My edition had an afterword from some dude like, "Isn't it amazing the way Humbert draws you in and then after you finish, you start to think, was he the bad guy??"

I extremely do not want to live in a Years of Lead country, it’s bad on many levels, murder is wrong. and yet few have done more to make that happen than this guy bsky.app/profile/pete...

“I’m against a politics of hygiene” I say as I continue to cook in an ancient nonstick pan, teflon visibly crumbling into my food.

No, I know this one. you put both of them in the rowboat together and then sink the rowboat halfway across the river.

The vorkosigan saga is good, you should read it!

it just, you know, pops in my head now and then, unprompted. no reason.

Hell, I do see tiny flying dinosaurs every day, and I have bought two pairs of binoculars over the last couple of years in order to look at them better!

I have lived in walking distance of Seattle’s zoo for over a decade and go like, once a month. They have an animatronic dinosaur zone this summer and kids love it. If they had real T Rexes I would go every goddamn day.

found the one reader you gained from the FdB post

The only non-upsetting option I can come up with is chunks of broccoli stem

I'm glad it worked out!