they are so good! I have been having quinoa & sautéed ramps for breakfast

Karaoke Scene | The Pitt Season 2 | HBO Max YouTube video by HBO Max

HBO has heard your cries.

Roe v. Wade, 1973-2022

Everyone’s Poly In Space: The Sexual Politics of C.J. Cherryh Gwen C. Katz “We have another case. Two sisters marry a man for a one-year each in succession. But no sooner has the first marriage been consummated than the man divorces that wife and marries a th…

Everyone’s Poly In Space: @gwenckatz.bsky.social looks at sexual and familial relations in the science fiction of C.J. Cherryh!

She's said the next one is probably the last one.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Octet Cast Could Not Be More Exciting The stars of the two best movie musicals of the past five years have both signed on.

They had me at Octet adaptation.

ramps season yes!!

Ancillary Review of Books: Year 7! Questioning power, imagining possibility: ARB provides thoughtful criticism of speculative fiction. Help us pay our writers and staff!

Big news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!

at afternoon tea. this fig, mascarpone, & apricot jam sandwich tastes weirdly like a crayon, only delicious

The Pitt storyline of a grown child trying to convince her aging parents to move out of the house that is no longer accessible to them = way too real.

Terribly Honesty by Ann Douglas & Mojo Hand by JJ Phillips + new Brooklyn Public Library card

triumph!

at the library. somehow my library card doesn't exist, even though I came here to pick up 2 books I put on hold with it.

the cover of Silvia Park's "Luminous: A Novel": a multicolored mosaic tiger atop a tall green plinth

NEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social

Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...

You'd think I'd be done by now, but I put it on hold during a diversion into fantasy nostalgia reading.

A street mural of Rumi and the blue demon tiger from K-Pop Demon Hunters. In one corner a big signature credits the work to "Chloe, Age 10".

Good work, Chloe, Age 10.

Eugenie should be played by Animal

... I can see the appeal of cinnamon and chili together, actually, but that doesn't mean it isn't WEIRD

but that would imply that fluffernutter and chili cinnamon rolls are NOT weird

how are cider doughnuts weird

March 18, 2026 Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

From Dolores Huerta:

“I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for… I can no longer stay silent…”

Full statement:
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Dragons Made Me Do It: A Pern Podcast

I have recently been listening to The Dragons Made Me Do It podcast & it's probably relevant to your interests.

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guys are tastebuds the downfall of the human race

cab driver, high school gym teacher

Am reading Rebecca. Not sure how the relationship with the guy is going to work out, but the narrator and the house have clearly found True Love.

As the elected government officials pop on here to rationalize their enthusiastic complicity in the bombing of children, a reminder that this fun labeler identifying who is funding them exists.

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also the idea of free love proponent Mary Wollstonecraft not placing sufficient importance on love ...

Very sorry to hear this. Alice Doesn't and Technologies of Gender were formative texts for me.

why do people on Bridgerton think it's shocking for gentlemen to have mistresses

I know it sees history more as a fever dream than a field of study, but wtf

Humble Book Bundle: Best of Humble Bundle: Terry Pratchett's Discworld by HarperCollins Encore 2026 Experience Sir Terry Practchett’s beloved Discworld series! Get 35+ books covering all corners of this comic fantasy universe and help support Room to Read!

Discworld ebook bundle! Pay what you want (at least $16) to get 39 Discworld books (almost the whole series).

Two big important caveats, if this bundle is the same as last time they offered it:

* Available only in the US.

* Available only for Kobo.

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I read it many years ago, but I am pretty sure a couple of women turned into trees. (I thought the Booker nom might be a new translation, but it just looks like the existing one hasn't been published in the UK before.)