That is a disturbingly distracting thought. Hope it heals well for you.

Ouch! What did you do?

Thanks so much Steve.

Adorable cat laying on crossed paws on a green patterned quilt

Had to say goodbye to the sweetest baby. Our hearts are broken

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Post an image you can hear

Sign the Petition Stop the Bell Fabric AI data centre from being built

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I actually might have watched if they’d done that instead of just reading about episodes on Bluesky

That’s adorable!

holy shit

A positive story amongst all the bad on this International Women’s Day

Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically They just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be.

"Instead of respecting my inalienable right to be debated, they just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be."

Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically

People are so strange. Don’t know what it means? Keep scrolling

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It's been a long time coming. Canadian independent bookstores have banded together to create an online book buying source so you can avoid the behemoth in the room. (Here are the titles published by CMU Press, which I run.)
Spread the word #booksky!

www.booksellers.ca/publisher/cmu-press-18021

stanley tucci with members of the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

It rocks that America is so insecure now that they’ll give you the Medal of Freedom for winning a hockey game against Canada

I think so. I have a couple 2 word phrases muted

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display

Bruce Arthur: Canada gave everything in its Olympic finale — and should have won. A golden opportunity ends in heartbreak and regret This Canadian team played their best game of the Olympics, but couldn’t score. There will be regrets.

That was one of the best Team Canada performances I have ever seen, except they could not score. Column from a gold medal game that hurt, in every way. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Nails it. Or should I say it’s on the button 😋

It certainly can be. It wasn’t even 6 months from my mother in law’s diagnosis to her death last year. It’s a terrible disease

Good grief I can’t believe how nervous that overtime made me. And I’m just reading a recap at work 😬

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE SHINDIG (1930)! 🐭🐮🐴🎶

🎬 Mickey & Minnie take to the stage to show off their musical chops in this charming hoedown. Horace Horsecollar & Clarabelle Cow cut a rug as dancers.

Full short ➡️ archive.org/details/the-...

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain #animation

This 2000s Show Paved the Way for 'Schitt's Creek,' and You Can Stream All 100+ Episodes Free O, Canada!

Well now... HERE'S a lovely article spreading the word about the history and influence of Corner Gas, for anyone who may have missed out. From @movieweb.bsky.social. (***Feel free to repost this to spread it around!) movieweb.com/schitts-cree...

Wow, that is a lot of UNO sets. We have Spider-Man UNO which I don’t think I see here

Snow covered yard with shrubs sticking out of the deep snow

Definitely much farther south than I am