SO many good fics.

I think the suits told them M/M HEA would not fly in China, but I'm still sad and cross about it.

This is a horror.

"Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment."

www.tumblr.com/nooomagnus/8...

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

The Sense of an Ending An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia.

Much of what people are saying was captured for me in this beautiful report from Rebecca Mead on what was then cutting edge dementia care. I still think about her writing, "when I have dementia, I hope..." a lot. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

"Fine. I'll take the dragon outside again tonight. Hmph."

And the trashing of MCU's own properties and plot lines and I really, really hated it. Asked to see the movie again by friends, I astonished them by walking out for the lest ten minutes.

Une vache à l'air sérieux se tient debout devant une table sur laquelle sont posés des outils grossiers. Il y a une ferme en arrière-plan. La légende dit juste: "Cow tools".

Je déclare ouverte ma liste personnelle de one-panel-comics préférés.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.

How New Mexico is ‘building a forest’ by solving a seedling shortage - High Country News What it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire.

What it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire.

Opinion | You Can’t Defend a Nation When Soldiers Don’t Have Child Care

You Can’t Defend a Nation When Soldiers Don’t Have Child Care www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

Trump Administration Takes Steps to Refund $166 Billion in Tariffs

Trump Administration Takes Steps to Refund $166 Billion in Tariffs

(Companies like Amazon will cash in by keeping the tariffs you paid.)

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

(I would love to be a writer for the new self-parody version)

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

I completed day 1 of the Poetry Challenge! Let’s learn one poem together this week.

www.nytimes.com/shared/v2/20... it’s been a long while since I worked to memorize a poem. My brain feels better!

Lawyers' fees?

We have ("we": our ancestors, a lot of vested interests, the British Empire etc) a governance/government culture in the UK which is bound up to some extent with being some kind of horrible arsehole. We select for it. We incentivise it. We punish the gentle and the unguarded by public shaming.

I'll think about this much too much today.

Also 'blot in ___'s copybook' has a cheesy little assonance to recommend it.

outside the recipe has corrupted it (that would be the incoherent Toronto Maple Leafs management preventing its stars from achieving historic greatness, and I'm sorry to be being so niche and North American but it's very early and my glitches won't work out without more tea).

Matthews from scoring for a couple of weeks?), and though non-metaphorical blots are not, as I know, voluntary, I think the expression implies metaphorical blot _are_. Flaws in the code are definitely not. And flies in the ointment (or soup) are descriptions of specific situations where something

Thing is, a blot on one's copybook/escutcheon is about, I think, character or career or reputation (eg Auston Matthews visiting Trump), and they're permanent.
Bugs and glitches are reparable, subtle and don't _necessarily_ mar the whole presentation (perhaps a minor injury that prevents Auston

A small fly in the ointment.

lmao someone my husband knew who voted for brexit because "muslims just dont integrate" is now living in dubai and posting fawningly on insta about how great it is there. heinous little 🚬

Bold but lovely colors together.Those umbrellas deserve something wonderful and daring.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Extremely online pu'er tea | Mercury One man’s journey to track down, package, and sell the world’s most coveted tea.

mercury.com/blog/extreme...

One of the tastiest memories I have of Harvard Square involves Peet's Jasmine Tea Lemonade.

I first became acquainted with rose-flavored black tea when I lived in Canterbury in England in ca. 1978. I had terrible trouble getting it in the US before Upton was founded in (checks page) 1989 and I have been a loyal customer ever since.

(holds up two crossed fingers and backs away)

Matcha ice cream....so good....(also red bean ice cream, but i was more accustomed to sweet bean things). I figure since bona fide Japanese people drink matcha lattes and offer matcha ice cream I should try to get over myself. Sen Rikyu spins in his grave well before I even got here.