Text: Welcome to the Infinite Pantry. A cozy fantasy chock-full of love and deliciousness. Book cover for Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry, by Jo Miles. An illustrated fantasy castle accompanied by playful cats, teapots (one cracked), and an assortment of foods including cinnamon buns, bread, cheese, and tomatoes.

Happy book birthday to Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry! 🎉🎂🫖

A museum of rare and precious foods. Lovable found family. Loads of queer characters. A tasty mystery & a sweet F/NB romance.

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Lady knight mech jousts, you say? I spy @scmillsbooks.bsky.social's excellent flash story...!

I've used buffer for scheduling posts on bsky.

Changed bedding today. Dog tucked one of his tartar control chews into my blankets. His version of a mint on my pillow?

AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand.

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

ICYMI, I wrote my story of disability acceptance -- this story took years of processing to write!

Getting #ME/CFS or #LongCovid is a Kafkaesque nightmare, but there's a path forward towards a happy ending. Even if you're turned into a giant invisible sloth.

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Treat them like the fae. Do not touch. Contain, salt/vinegar.

ICE detains 2 doctors serving underserved Texas region ICE detentions of two physicians raise alarms about healthcare gaps in deep South Texas.

ICE detains 2 doctors serving underserved Texas region
#FuckICE

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Happy birthday 🎂

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It's such a good story! Yay!

how dare you, friend

Trying to tell a joke in your first language that is no longer in your brain is running through the joke for words you don't know and trying to find synonyms without ruining the punch line before the conversation has moved on.

The smile goes colon ), not ( colon. Go in the direction of the reading.

This is the short listed story!
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Oh, big sigh, apparently I was carrying some stress about the astronauts.

Thanks for letting me know!!

Shortlist for Chinese drought goddess vs. Asian-fetish guy story?
“I always thought it was interesting how people use water, as if it was infinite.”

The one I caught them was "what's your deepest darkest secret" "I don't like kids" "you don't like us? Why don't you like kids?" "you're loud"

The one question they asked me that caught me was "what was your childhood like?"

I just listened to the Behind the Bastards episodes about him and what a POS

Aunt, after hearing me speak English to my dad: eh, you talk that fast in English?
Niece and nephew doing rapid fire questions while I'm trying to eat: why do you talk so fast?

Is this about the Lily Adler series? Bc same.

Kermit as a tarot card

Pause from scrolling for 5 mins and self reflect on what the rainbow connection means to you

I know this is imperfect comparison. The point is, don't use AI.

If I learned my microwave sometimes froze my food instead of heating it, was poisoning my neighbor's house, stole food from other ppls fridges, and used way more electricity than microwaves should, I wouldn't use it??