Gail O’Connor
@tofueater.bsky.social
I like books and birds. Living with chronic illness. Nonprofit professional. My reading goal this year (again) is to decrease the number of unread books I own.
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this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 AM
this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
Since I'm awake in the middle of the night worrying about the state of affairs, it seemed like a good time to send an email to my Congressman.
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Since I'm awake in the middle of the night worrying about the state of affairs, it seemed like a good time to send an email to my Congressman.
This is so delightful.
Oh my god she uploaded a slow motion video and it's amazing. He's just like me fr running as best he can and still going backwards over and over!
January 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
This is so delightful.
I just got home from the emergency room after slipping on ice and landing on the back of my head. Probably concussed. It's so slippery out there. Be careful, everyone.
January 9, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I just got home from the emergency room after slipping on ice and landing on the back of my head. Probably concussed. It's so slippery out there. Be careful, everyone.
I'm finally watching Great British Sewing Bee season 10, and they just sent home the best, most consistent sewer and kept the one who should have gone home a few episodes ago. It's been annoying to watch this woman slide through each week as others were sent home, but this is a travesty.
December 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I'm finally watching Great British Sewing Bee season 10, and they just sent home the best, most consistent sewer and kept the one who should have gone home a few episodes ago. It's been annoying to watch this woman slide through each week as others were sent home, but this is a travesty.
Book completed: What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To by Mary Lucia. Entertaining and worth reading. It has reaffirmed my decision to stop donating to MN Public Radio a couple of years ago.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Book completed: What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To by Mary Lucia. Entertaining and worth reading. It has reaffirmed my decision to stop donating to MN Public Radio a couple of years ago.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
I just spent too much of this afternoon reading messages between Epstein and Steve Bannon. It's both interesting and disturbing. Clearly the sexual abuse was only a small part of what Epstein was up to.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I just spent too much of this afternoon reading messages between Epstein and Steve Bannon. It's both interesting and disturbing. Clearly the sexual abuse was only a small part of what Epstein was up to.
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Fuck your app. I want to be able to visit your website and do everything I need to do there. Apps are for specific functions, the way computer programs used to be.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Fuck your app. I want to be able to visit your website and do everything I need to do there. Apps are for specific functions, the way computer programs used to be.
Sigh, on the Reddit fantasy forum someone asked for books with no sexual assault and, as usual, people are recommending books with sexual assault in them.
August 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sigh, on the Reddit fantasy forum someone asked for books with no sexual assault and, as usual, people are recommending books with sexual assault in them.
It’s a beautiful afternoon to not be at work.
July 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It’s a beautiful afternoon to not be at work.
I'm reading The Appeal by Janice Hallett and enjoying it. It's set among a community theater group. I work in theater myself. The theater group in the novel SUCKS. Holy crap, they suck. I realize this is deliberate, but wow, they are so terrible.
July 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm reading The Appeal by Janice Hallett and enjoying it. It's set among a community theater group. I work in theater myself. The theater group in the novel SUCKS. Holy crap, they suck. I realize this is deliberate, but wow, they are so terrible.
My cat just walked across my keyboard and now I'm trying to figure out how to fix the settings she changed by randomly standing on keys. How does she do this?!?
July 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My cat just walked across my keyboard and now I'm trying to figure out how to fix the settings she changed by randomly standing on keys. How does she do this?!?
Today was my 22 year anniversary at my job.
July 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Today was my 22 year anniversary at my job.
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Absolute Puritan bullshit. Suffering does not make the world better! Heat stress is really hard on your body! People do not need to suffer medically dangerous temperatures to remember that climate change sucks!
July 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Absolute Puritan bullshit. Suffering does not make the world better! Heat stress is really hard on your body! People do not need to suffer medically dangerous temperatures to remember that climate change sucks!
Book read: Strange New World by Vivian Shaw. I'm so glad there was another volume in this series. In this one, Greta is sent to the US to do a road trip with a young angel and young demon as "interns." Quite enjoyable, I stayed up too late to finish it last night.
July 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Book read: Strange New World by Vivian Shaw. I'm so glad there was another volume in this series. In this one, Greta is sent to the US to do a road trip with a young angel and young demon as "interns." Quite enjoyable, I stayed up too late to finish it last night.
This is the first time I've missed Minicon (except for the two years it didn't happen) since I started attending in 1994. My parents died last month, and I've been busy arranging a funeral and trying to clean out their apartment, and I'm exhausted.
April 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is the first time I've missed Minicon (except for the two years it didn't happen) since I started attending in 1994. My parents died last month, and I've been busy arranging a funeral and trying to clean out their apartment, and I'm exhausted.
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I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.
April 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.
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Don't watch the stock market, watch a baby goat try to figure out a hammock
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Don't watch the stock market, watch a baby goat try to figure out a hammock
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We don’t fake being sick. We fake being well. Today I was fighting my fatigue to where I was seeing double and trying to keep my eyes open while trying to look fine 🤷🏻♀️ #chronicillness #chronicallyill #disabled
March 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
We don’t fake being sick. We fake being well. Today I was fighting my fatigue to where I was seeing double and trying to keep my eyes open while trying to look fine 🤷🏻♀️ #chronicillness #chronicallyill #disabled
Book finished: Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh. Part of her Union/Alliance series, this was really good! I don't always enjoy Cherryh's non-Foreigner works. I really miss the days when an author could tell a complete story in about 200 pages.
February 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Book finished: Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh. Part of her Union/Alliance series, this was really good! I don't always enjoy Cherryh's non-Foreigner works. I really miss the days when an author could tell a complete story in about 200 pages.
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You think *you're* having a day.
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A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed.
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February 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
You think *you're* having a day.
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In the end, people like effective governance. There's disagreement about what this means exactly, but it is very popular to ensure that essential services are provided, that the food supply isn't contaminated, that planes don't collide midair. People don't want a real-life version of Twitter.
January 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
In the end, people like effective governance. There's disagreement about what this means exactly, but it is very popular to ensure that essential services are provided, that the food supply isn't contaminated, that planes don't collide midair. People don't want a real-life version of Twitter.
It's sunny and 45 degrees in January, and I took the day off for an appointment and some errands. What a fantastic day to be out and about. I should do this more often.
January 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's sunny and 45 degrees in January, and I took the day off for an appointment and some errands. What a fantastic day to be out and about. I should do this more often.