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@gabz You made the right choice.

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@theroguesenna.bsky.social I only know and like T-Rex because of the Billy Elliot soundtrack but “T-Rex: No matter how much you clean, there will always be trace amounts of glitter on your stove and blender.” is spot on.

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@theroguesenna.bsky.social Man most of the time I love having a big kid (turned 10 a month ago) but I do miss this kind of dancing.

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@jenreadsromance.bsky.social No big deal

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@deanleetal.bsky.social Hold on getting on a plane to come eat at your house

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@theroguesenna.bsky.social Oof.

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Ah, the sweet sound of your family rushing to play Ocarina of Time in the morning. 🎮

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@heyitswhitney.bsky.social I don’t like this for you.

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@heyitswhitney.bsky.social oh and it literally just got here! I must have summoned it by replying to you.

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@heyitswhitney.bsky.social He did too! Weird. But it’s supposedly out for delivery and will be here in the next couple hours.

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Finished reading: Strong Enough to Love by Victoria Dahl 📚

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@heyitswhitney.bsky.social Seems like Nintendo is selling W out and not getting his preorder to him in a remotely timely fashion. But my biggest question is: how’s the camera?

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@deanleetal.bsky.social Ooh I’m so sorry.

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@gabz Same

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@heykellyjensen.bsky.social In NC, amendments are always worded to obscure what they’re really doing and I think that’s why we have the discrepancy here.

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@mollyak.bsky.social Ooh I like this pie idea. I’m having a bagel but maybe I can acquire some pie later.

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@patrickrhone This!

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@deanleetal.bsky.social People are exhausting.

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@kjcharleswriter.com So. This is like someone decided to write something funny and then they wrote something and it ended up being funny but not for the reason they thought.

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@fswriter.bsky.social It’s been really lovely to see the kids’ joy at the reopening.

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Finished reading: Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe 📚

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Gory, gross, hot, romantic, and really has me vibing on monstrous women who are ready to destroy the structures that try to keep them down.

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@fswriter.bsky.social Also yes re: scientist (I am a jerk who refuses to call him a Dr because he dropped out during his coursework). You made this creature ON PURPOSE and now you’re going to be the worst because it scares you? Come on.

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@annahavron Brilliant!

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@fswriter.bsky.social I haven’t. I’ll make a note that I should!

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@theroguesenna.bsky.social Yeah, the pluralism is necessary, not sufficient.

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🔖 Read UNC-Chapel Hill’s graduate students feel ‘discarded’ and ’expendable’ following multiple changes.

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I want to write a coherent response to this article but all I can manage is, yeah, this is an escalation of the systematic erosion of higher ed, especially in NC.

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Hey! If you’re in the US and you haven’t voted yet, vote today!

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@heykellyjensen.bsky.social My kid got a book about the Internet with a pub date of 1998 from a Little Free Library.

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@theroguesenna.bsky.social I am not up to date on academic feminist thought, but once a dude friend asked me what he could do to write women well and I told him the easiest shortcut is to have a bunch and make them all different from each other.

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@kimberlyhirsh.com Hmm. It wasn’t paywalled for me. I wonder what that’s about. But yes! There are so many ways to read Frankenstein. And I find the creature incredibly sympathetic.

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🔖📚 Read Artist Jane Benson Has Some Strong Ideas About Frankenstein by Grace Edquist (Vogue).

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♥️ On my most recent read of Frankenstein, I found Shelley herself in both scientist and creature. It felt like a book about being the daughter of a dead mother and the mother of dead children.

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It’s been 9 months since a pipe burst in the school library and we had to close it. Yesterday we re-opened it. There will be little additions here and there in the coming weeks, but the space is ready for use now!

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🎮 Played Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice.

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This series makes me so happy.

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Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
\nBut I with mournful tread,
\nWalk the deck my Captain lies,
\nFallen cold and dead.

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Doing some seasonally appropriate reading tonight.

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O captain my captain

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📚🗨️ “Humans ubiquitously suck. I know I was one at some point, but I like to think I’ve grown since then.” Taylor Grothe, Lethal Kiss

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I'm a NaNo Rebel writing about children and fandom. kimberlyhirsh.com

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I was going to do something besides lie on my couch and look at my phone but (gestures at meat cage, then at everything else). Today I have had brunch with a friend, returned something to Torrid, and scheduled a pediatrician appointment. Isn’t that enough?

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📚🗨️ “What’s life without the pursuit of knowledge? When you have a nearly limitless lifespan, after a while the only thing to do with yourself is learn… I want to read everything. All of it… When my body finally gasps its last, I want to be a verifiable library in kinda-human form.” Taylor Grothe, Lethal Kiss

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Finished reading: The grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer 📚

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Sophy herself is a delight.

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I want to capture something cool that happened at school/work. A kid ate a pepper from the school garden, not knowing it was a spicy pepper. Now that kid has a new interest in spicy peppers and their SHU ratings and is doing independent research on it. I love when kids find and pursue new interests!

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📚🗨️📝 “if your business is words, a notebook can be at once your medium — and your mirror.” Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

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People are going to try to tell you spooky season is over at the end of October, but you don’t have to listen to them. If you want, it can be spooky season all year.

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Finished reading: We ride upon sticks by Quan Barry 📚

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🎮 Played Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

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As charming as it was the first time I played it.

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Finished reading: Dead Beat (Ninth House Series, 3) by Leigh Bardugo 📚

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I love this whole trilogy so much. I love how Leigh Bardugo always manages to leave me with a sense of hope, even in a series where there is so much active evil in the world.

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📚🗨️ “That was the gift of coming from nothing. You learned to work with what you had.” Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat

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