Sway was part of my fave fight of the year, btw. That was NOT his job for the night

Missed half the hockey game that broke out during the Buf/Bos fight last night, now rewatching the middle* I missed.
Fave bit so far is Swayman skating away cradling the puck as fisticuffs erupt in front of his net again like, “Come child, we need not be part of this”
*condensed game

AFAIK the AI tools can be toggled off v. easily! I use it it though once in a blue moon there’s a site I have to open in a compatible browser

Is that a reflection of a tire? With this resolution, I can’t tell if that handlebar goes past this block of grid or not…
It’s so stressful

Have unfortunately trained myself to sing “I’m too autistic for this CAPTCHA” (to the tune you’d expect) when confronted with proving I can identify the difference between the bike and it’s rider or whatever

People ask me if I can still speak Japanese and in general I feel mediocre about saying yes after 20 years but I CAN improv-sing to our cat about his internal monologue around dinner time so

Currently the only way I get to write is by neglecting other responsibilities.
I have, however, recently also decided to lean into my oppositional instincts so I got to write today!

Ask me how I slept last night after using my last bullet to cover a work event then having something fall over as I was trying to fall asleep!

Super American but I just realized that instead of spoons I find it easier to think in terms of rounds.
Also learning the hard way that using the last shot means being truly *screwed* if anything else happens

Me!

I have been fighting dehydration the last week or so because of how much box-lifting I’ve been doing at work 😂 usually don’t need to drink much after my morning quart*
*this sounds fully unhinged typed out srry for being a wellness coach in recovery

I'm seeing people defending this decision by saying things like "this is eliminating prison LIBRARIANS, not LIBRARIES" so let's take a closer look at that. 1/

Great 🧵!
The high control of what materials enter corrections facilities means that w/o librarians access could shrink.
And libraries don’t maintain themselves! (I hear complaints about others holding communal books too long, haha)
The condition of the books deteriorates, relevance, so much.

TFW you’re 3 rows in and the gage is *clearly* wrong but it IS a K2P2 rib….

Bethany holds up a copy of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews as well as a character art keychain

In the midst of the uniquely joyful book hangover from the first book in a new series by a longtime fave author

the sense of relief and yet bittersweet rejection when the cat leaves me to sleep in peace

Because one of the ways my brain entertains itself is worrying about people unconnected to me, I’ve been mulling over the tepid reviews of the Arirang album…
Then I realized: there are reviews of the new BTS album. That *I* can read. They’re fine.

Join JOHN CHU on tour! APRIL 8 - ODYSSEY BOOKS WITH JEDEDIAH BERRY South Hadley, MA APRIL 9 - PRINT: A BOOKSTORE WITH LIBERTY HARDY Portland, ME APRIL 10 - PORTER SQUARE BOOKS WITH MAX GLADSTONE Cambridge, MA

Also, on the 8th, 9th, and 10th, Tor is sending to bookstores in South Hadley, MA; Portland, ME; and Cambridge, MA to support The Subtle Art of Folding Space. See you there!

Poster for book event 4/8/26 at 7pm with John Chu and Jedediah Berry

Thrilled that @odysseybks.bsky.social will be hosting @johnchu.bsky.social & @jedediahberry.bsky.social
on Wednesday! Join me there!

*the exception being almost every post from the autism satire Insta account

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I wanna shoutout @shelf-awareness.com for a standout April Fool’s edition (which I finally read). I’ve never read a satire that spoke to me more personally, haha!*

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GREAT NEWS
Tho I already composed the emails I needed it for it’s April 1st which means this is on my dash just in time for me to hit send

To get through my docket for the night I could really use a playlist of the most abrasively peppy EDM

It’s always a good day when I can bring my writing group participants the chapbooks printed with their work!
Even if it’s so late I owe them another one…

A very basic Swiss Army knife is being held up to the camera

I had decided that I’d lost this knife in the last pair of panicked moves, which I’ve been proud to not lose through the previous 14 or so moves since it was given to me at 12. Strange little joys sometimes!

😩

Alas, it has been determined this is the most practical way to wear my hair for hockey

I was a lil worried about not playing for over 3 weeks before my MHC alum game but one of my teammates hasn’t played in 3 years. (She’s under 25, tho!)

Heard recently someone express that fake swears give them the ick and this is now haunting me
(Like, I get it!)(But also…)

Brain fizz. Must Stardew the heck out and sleep!