omg and the disappointment when it was nothing - hilarious

Squaredle Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

I played squaredle.com 04/21:
32/32 words (+6 bonus words)
📖 In the top 31% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 10

oh, dude - I can't do HRT because of my cancer, but even still... I have worse acne at 53 than I EVER did as a teen

Also if you have pets - my cats are older and get zoomies less frequently now, but there's been a time or two when I was grateful I had my TV anchored.

poorly drawn cat with very long legs

a picture of a white-and-gray cat lounging on the edge of a bed, its front legs hanging straight down unusually long toward the floor

On the one hand, Fiona longs to be with Malachi (the mutual pining is years long by the time the novella starts). On the other hand, she's pretty happy with who she is and how her life has shaped up - other than the dead husband thing, but it's more than a decade in her past in the book.

Lockwood & Co, Book 1, The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud

Choose 30 books that you’ve read that have been turned into movies &/or tv shows; covers only, no explanations.

#booksky
#bookchallenge

Day 2

Sure, Fiona is calm here, but they go home and research hallucinations on the internet that night. #WIPSnips

Current WIP (Getting Hairy) has a disaster bisexual afab enby. Getting Lucky, my second book, is a sapphic love story - a lesbian 1/2 leprechaun and a pansexual human. Getting My Goat has a disaster bisexual MC.

no prompt today bc it's time for all of you to buy gay books /silly

Look, if the police were stupid enough to fall for it last time, I figured why not again... Forgetting that last time I had help carrying the corpse to my car and @niwandajones.bsky.social isn't in town this time.

I believe in you, Gussie

Another day, another vote for an album I'm pretty sure won't win.

Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog!

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

Super fun to have a panic attack out of nowhere on a Monday morning.

Screenshot of law and order svu scene with z folder on desk labeled “Epstein.”

🧐

seven months on beehiiv, by the numbers was leaving substack worth it?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."

Here are the hard numbers:

Doing my @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social homework and... is it just me, or does Rilo Kiley sound like Lisa Loeb Jr? Not saying that's a bad thing (okay, maybe it's a bad thing since Lisa Loeb did it better), but it's wow obvious to me right now.

Me, trying to be normal.

I want more of that

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

Choose 30 books that you’ve read that have been turned into movies &/or tv shows; covers only, no explanations.

#booksky
#bookchallenge

Day 1

This smart dog knows about politics, he literally gives a shit.😆😆

Ugh - someone I've followed for years sharing a substack... sighing as I unfollow

Two tabbies on a bed. One is sitting and the other is laying down with his front legs over the tail of the first.

Is Viktor upside-down today? No, he's laying on Zephyr's tail. #CatSky #CatsOfBluesky

Better Boy and Big Boy tomatoes.

Ladies know, after a break up there are two kinds of rebounds:

There's a metal band called Glyph that kicked out their lead singer when they found out he was beating his now ex-wife. That same ex-wife is now the lead singer of Glyph. I think a lot of men could learn from their example.

Another day, another substacker blocked.

Herring run today, Bourne, MA

Friend-shaped but very much not friend

The inside of a flute

The inside of a steinway piano.

The inside of a pipe organ.

The inside of a stradivari violin.

Mausritter and Pico inspiration:

Photographer, Charles Brooks, explores the hidden spaces inside instruments, revealing a small world of hidden architecture.
www.charlesbrooks.info