I'm always asking this

(No shade to the books on the list but whew this framing)

future archaelogists running chemical analyses on the residue and concluding we were in fact worshipping a corn (syrup) god

neighbors

Not sure if we're allowed to say "vampire" but the new guy is kind of a

Yeah, weird angle shot that does some cursed things to the entry+fountain-marble thing. Plus some suspicious processing that generates eg Weird Hedge Chunks

Last good Readercon coffee: Gerson Mora Colombia from Broadsheet. Sweet & complex, loads of peachy fruit & floral coming through. One of my top cups so far this year.

didn't take a single picture of myself and/or other humans at Readercon. Here's a dragonfly tho

The temporary decline of proletarian criticism as laid out by @willmcmahon36.bsky.social in our Readercon panel

Second good Readercon coffee: shot of George Howell Alchemy from Pressed. Nothing mind-blowing, but a good pull of a good blend, probably better than 99% of espressos out there.

First good Readercon coffee: shot of Guatemala Finca Los Pinos from Gracenote (good canele, too)

Arriving for @readercon.org! Catch me at these, and points in between:

Buzzing out here

Stylish Salticidae

remembered to pack Tip's ball, so one of us is relaxed at least

Bantam atmospheres

real stopping the tide with a mop here, but this is why I am so salty about adaptations *in general*. the ability to imagine a text, to bring it to life in your mind, is something truly amazing to me for a low monthly charge a streaming service will foreclose that for you, forever

i take no moral credit for avoiding psychic pre-fascist damage from various hunter-gather-glorifying stuff I read when I was younger. Beans, central heating, etc are just really cool, to me

I've run into a few books with a "credits" page and it's such an obvious, nice, professional thing to do, wish it would become standard

whew, took me a second.

"Fire...good!"

where to even begin with this

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lots to be mad at in the world but google sheets just updated their icon, in line with increasing pathetic evil levels

interviewer's Scylla, interviewer's Charybdis

Twilight over Erie. The gulls and terns were loudly discussing things, but I don't know what.