Note: This isn't really about pancakes.

The world seems to have a lot of people who hear, "I like pancakes," and think it means, "I hate every other food ever, most especially the foods you love."

I just learned (from New Scientist) that human anesthetics work on plants. Dose a Venus flytrap with anesthetic, and the plant stops reacting to flies.

In Nara, Japan, sika deer roam freely among cherry blossoms, creating a breathtaking scene each spring. These sacred creatures enjoy the beauty of hanami season too.

All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault by @jagardner.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale for $3.

I got copies of each of those for random giveaway.

There are also a lot of Tom Holt books on US Kindle sale.

It is designed to break your heart...

A tube of glow-in-the-dark plastic planets that lists the contents as “8 glowing planets” and “1 glowing Pluto”

I salute the pedantry of the child’s new toy.

People are always saying “polyamory makes no sense. How can you love two people?” and then they’ll turn around and buy DC Comics *and* Marvel Comics

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

Specificity is also a good way to create characters whom readers want to hang out with. Who'd want to spend time with someone who's blank and blah?

Born 1955 in Canada. Not too much fear of being nuked, except the night when the air raid sirens went off in the 1980s. (Some sort of electrical problem. By then, they weren't being well-maintained, so we all got a chance to be terrified.)

Hey, I've already done the St. Jacobs Market and the Transylvania Club. If Tor had sprung for Book 3, I was going to do Perimeter and the Clay & Glass Gallery.

I love how people in manga think. "Oh, when we humiliate and banish the bastard son, let's also give him the only weapon that can hurt us."

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

Louise Jensen Duffy (@LouiseWeebe) on twitter: "So, a lot of people ask me why I buy so many books. The truth is, I have a genetic disorder where my body doesn't produce enough books of its own, so I have to supplement."

A lot of you need to learn the difference between "I'm not interested in this story" and "no human being could possibly want to create or read/watch this story and its existence is a personal insult against me."

Donald Trump is if Brexit became president. That's obvious, right?

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Dogbert weighing Scott Adams’ heart against a feather

My reading stats for 2025 (only counting works I actually finished in 2025, not ones I started but then put down):

Audiobooks: 110
Manga series/graphic novels: 60
Hardcopy books: 22
Ebooks: 4

(I count a manga series if I read it from the beginning to most recent episode, for at least 20 episodes.)

NOW GO OUT THERE AND LIVE THE FINAL DAYS OF THIS SHITSTAINED YEAR BEING KIND AND BOLD AND DARING AND FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE PIT WHEN YOU SEE SOMEBODY GO DOWN YOU HELP THEM THE FUCK BACK UP

That black cat named Moon at Stonehenge surrounded by its adoring crowd during this year's winter solstice

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

A bunny wearing a Santa hat peeks out of a red gift box in front of a decorated Christmas tree.

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

"Seen" is such a common word, I wondered if you could notice when people started to say, "I feel seen." But it's very obvious:
books.google.com/ngrams/graph...