Ellen W.
@spurioustuple.bsky.social
Punk ass book jockey, academic edition
Only three bags remaining on the LEGO Sherlock Holmes book nook set!
January 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Only three bags remaining on the LEGO Sherlock Holmes book nook set!
Somehow all the other people in this morning’s HYROX workout (OOF) are smiling in the picture while I am clearly still fully dissociated.
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Somehow all the other people in this morning’s HYROX workout (OOF) are smiling in the picture while I am clearly still fully dissociated.
Successfully hired someone today!
January 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Successfully hired someone today!
Today is my dad’s birthday. He would have been 80.
January 16, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Today is my dad’s birthday. He would have been 80.
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u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
I'd be happy with big non politics accounts.
January 5, 2026 at 9:57 PM
u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.
The plural of Dollar General is Dollars General. We counted 15 Dollars General between Oxford and Mobile today.
December 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The plural of Dollar General is Dollars General. We counted 15 Dollars General between Oxford and Mobile today.
Pippin Christmas joy to all!
December 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pippin Christmas joy to all!
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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2025 was like the “Battlestar Galactica” episode where the Cylons attacked every 33 mins.It required adjusting our way of thinking, of fighting, our imagination & our willingness to take risks. It required asking people who had done a specific job a specific way for a long time to do it differently.
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
2025 was like the “Battlestar Galactica” episode where the Cylons attacked every 33 mins.It required adjusting our way of thinking, of fighting, our imagination & our willingness to take risks. It required asking people who had done a specific job a specific way for a long time to do it differently.
I did a lot of work on my office today to make it more like what it was pre-pandemic. Excited to have my reading spot back!
December 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I did a lot of work on my office today to make it more like what it was pre-pandemic. Excited to have my reading spot back!
I spent a few hours decluttering/ cleaning my office, finishing phase one of a reorganization that should basically return it to its pre-pandemic state as a relaxing place. I have to wait until after Christmas to start phase two because it’s currently where all the Christmas presents are stashed
December 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I spent a few hours decluttering/ cleaning my office, finishing phase one of a reorganization that should basically return it to its pre-pandemic state as a relaxing place. I have to wait until after Christmas to start phase two because it’s currently where all the Christmas presents are stashed
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The Donald Trump Kennedy Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Want To Learn How To Do Other Stuff Good Too
December 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Donald Trump Kennedy Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Want To Learn How To Do Other Stuff Good Too
I would like to keep donning our gay apparel and add back the meadcup and barrel.
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I would like to keep donning our gay apparel and add back the meadcup and barrel.
I did 40 legal wall balls at the gym this morning. Then I came home and knocked over a bottle of ink while attempting to fill a fountain pen. You win some, you lose some.
December 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I did 40 legal wall balls at the gym this morning. Then I came home and knocked over a bottle of ink while attempting to fill a fountain pen. You win some, you lose some.
We also went to a local nursery and got ambitious but Mike and his parents pulled it off!
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We also went to a local nursery and got ambitious but Mike and his parents pulled it off!
I went through all my piles of books today and sorted them and this is the remaining TBR situation, nonfiction on top, fiction in the middle, and poetry on the bottom.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I went through all my piles of books today and sorted them and this is the remaining TBR situation, nonfiction on top, fiction in the middle, and poetry on the bottom.
I’m flying a little close to the sun trying out a new recipe for Thanksgiving. Will I end up like Icarus? It’s got potatoes, sour cream, and cheese as ingredients so I feel like my odds of survival are good.
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’m flying a little close to the sun trying out a new recipe for Thanksgiving. Will I end up like Icarus? It’s got potatoes, sour cream, and cheese as ingredients so I feel like my odds of survival are good.
I got auto-approved by @graywolfpress.bsky.social on NetGalley, you can’t tell me anything today, I am the boss.
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I got auto-approved by @graywolfpress.bsky.social on NetGalley, you can’t tell me anything today, I am the boss.
I have ordered my slightly unhinged work and gym holiday party outfit. No one can say I didn’t participate this year.
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I have ordered my slightly unhinged work and gym holiday party outfit. No one can say I didn’t participate this year.
I’ve had a very, very, very long week but it has also been book-heavy. Tuesday I went to a Zoom discussion about book awards. Wednesday night M and I watched the livestream of the National Book Awards. Tonight I went to the student book club, where we discussed both Shatter Me and Gravity’s Rainbow…
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I’ve had a very, very, very long week but it has also been book-heavy. Tuesday I went to a Zoom discussion about book awards. Wednesday night M and I watched the livestream of the National Book Awards. Tonight I went to the student book club, where we discussed both Shatter Me and Gravity’s Rainbow…
This morning at the gym I got my knee to the floor on all the sandbag lunges, but the really impressive part, I think, is that I then got back up. Yes, everything is sore.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This morning at the gym I got my knee to the floor on all the sandbag lunges, but the really impressive part, I think, is that I then got back up. Yes, everything is sore.
I played around with zine templates today. I was really excited about a one page version, only to discover upon printing that it was for A4 paper.
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I played around with zine templates today. I was really excited about a one page version, only to discover upon printing that it was for A4 paper.
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If you let someone cut in front if you in traffic and they don’t do the little hand wave as thanks, you should be legally allowed to ram their car.
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If you let someone cut in front if you in traffic and they don’t do the little hand wave as thanks, you should be legally allowed to ram their car.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
This building’s portion of the Systems Department is in the Halloween spirit.
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This building’s portion of the Systems Department is in the Halloween spirit.