ISTFG we are governed by the dumbest fucking people in history.

She knows; she posted about it last week. An upgrade broke the site, and since a new site is under development, efforts are better put into that one than fixing the old.

And this, friends, is why I am eating Girl Scout cookies for lunch.

The guy next to me in rehearsal Sunday was excited that we're doing Immigrant Song in the next concert.

Me: I hate this song.
Him: I love this song. I only know it from "Thor."
Me: I know it as the soundtrack of being bullied in middle school.

Red, black, and white circular sticker declaring "Hail Satan"

Maybe one of these stickers for your water bottle?

Cartoon I watched in the early 70s: teenagers out on a date, when the girl, a werewolf, realizes it's a full moon, and tries to sneak off. The boy is also trying to sneak away because —we learn when the girl transforms—the moon turns him into a vampire.

Why?

Money.

Handknit sock in progress atop a Starbucks cup

Good start to my day trip to Minneapolis for #PLA26: quick passage through security, random exit row seat.

I've got a sock to knit and an Americano for energy. Let's go!

#menwhoknit

The subtlety and specificity of the politics in your books is why they're my favorites. (Note to self: It's time to reread the Doomsday Books.)

This was my initial problem with the Redwall books. Are these enormous animals in a normal-sized abbey, or normal-sized animals in a miniature abbey? Or...

Those concerns were eventually eclipsed by the racism, of course.

This is a dance off!
If you see this, post a dance or you're eliminated.

The floppy garter stitch cowl and "I meant to do that; I didn't just run out of yarn for the sleeves" treatment really kept SHETLAND afloat through this bracket. But *clearly* the HTGTHFB Aran is the better sweater.

Um, the God's Junk Drawer Cinematic Universe? @peterclines.com

A pair of blue and white plaid socks with black cuffs, toes, and accent lines.

A pair of brown socks with yellow slipped-stitch accents strung with small bronze beads. The dumbest damned socks I've ever made.

(As opposed to the qualifying and first rounds, which I hated. The Round 1 beaded sock is an abomination.)

Gray handknit sock with elegant lace design

This is only my second year participating in #sockmadness, but the Round 2 sock is one of my favorites.

#menwhoknit #queerknitters

I guess the correct answer is "Buy both!"

Is this true of audiobook preorders as well?

😮

Nothing but respect for MY formative young adult fantasy novel series

Dan, "itty bitty kitty committee" was right there.

These match-ups are brutal. I've voted for the two Arans in previous rounds for their more-authentic construction, so now I'm torn. (Better collar on Midwife.) And those cardigans are almost sister-sweaters. (I think I prefer the raglan though.)

I read that letter and thought, "Benjamin Dreyer is right; you really can hear both k's."

Search your camera roll for hell.

I think every Ohioan on BlueSky has a version of this picture saved.

#stateofthestate #ohiopolitics #smokeandmirrors

I would watch the hell out of a Stephen Blackmoore–penned Ghosts (US-West).

This sign surprises me not at all. Completely on brand for a library.

Every time one of my library staff would say, "Could we have a sign . . ." my response was "Could we not?"

When I left that job, I left behind a file drawer full of signs that I had stolen from our locations.

Uh oh. DST messing with Noon God's High Priest?

Mary Poppins, of course.

Jack.

I thought "Hormone Replacement Theory + Shit Outta Luck."