Miss AbOoOoOpriated

The hardcovers I preordered and paid for with money, watching me put more Libby books on hold.

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Kiwis and Aussies! This might be ages away from being something Pharmac can access but how cool is this?

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Shout out to Samuel Parnell who was such a shit-hot carpenter he could refuse to work more than 8 hours a day and his employers had to agree to it but instead of just taking the win he worked to get the 8 hour day for OTHER WORKERS. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/labour-day/

Make sure you’re enrolled to vote before the sun sets on Sunday! vote.nz

"Throw an insult on the ground and the owner will pick it up"

Zane Lamprey introduces the Indonesian striped possum, highlighting its elongated fourth finger that functions like a woodpecker's tool to extract insects from tree bark, a rare marsupial adaptation related to sugar gliders. IG: @ zanelamprey

Has anyone ever been lying with their feet up, wiggled each set of toes alternately and thought, wow these look like super stubby sea anemones flowing in a sea of air? And in that world, the fish swimming past might be like, disembodied fingers and toes? Or is it just me?

@srslymagenta.bsky.social Me in the middle of a pretty bad PEM spiral after my dad’s funeral: I’m going to pull a card, for comfort. My deck: reversed Wheel of Fortune for you my friend! 🫠

@4boat.bsky.social there’s gonna be a new Sufjan Stevens album!!! It’s a Christmas one, releasing on Nov 6. It may be a Best Of, but still.

Read a few pages of Nine Goblins this summer and loved it, but couldn’t afford to buy. Happily my library have just added it to their app for spooky season, so I’m now on the reserve list. Really excited to get into it when the time comes.

On tonight’s insomnia watch: The Diplomat. I’m on episode 3 and wow is it nice seeing an American President who seems vaguely competent, even if they’re fully fiction. The Prime Minister though… I know who they’re satirising but *sigh* it’s all of them.

Literally me, every time. The amount of books I’ve read because of the little map is… well. Many.

I feel like Jaws might have played out differently if this wee dude had been the shark in question. Look at it go!

Just $196 shy of target now - so close!

Oh. Oh no. The new book is The Starving Ones by Caitlin Starling. It’s great but I missed the cannibalism ref and a @tkingfisher.com recommendation… which means it’ll be superb but V V Scary and I don’t do horror well 🤦‍♀️ I adore T Kingfisher’s books but can only read the tame ones. What have I done 🤣

My dad died suddenly just over a week ago, after being diagnosed with cancer the week before. I thought losing my job and becoming bedbound with Long Covid was this year’s kicker but being too ill to fly home for his funeral or be with family has floored me. For those who’ve been through it… how?

Have hit the “huh, I’ve never watched Nosferatu” stage of grief and insomnia. I don’t think I’ve watched a silent movie since I was uni, but I don’t want to be either asleep or awake, dramatic vampires will do nicely.

Yea, for though we walk through the valley of the shadow of winter, it’s not all fear, for potatoes and stew and cheesy bakes and hot chocolate are with us and shall comfort us.

I can imagine Bill Nighy’s character from Underworld, Eric from True Blood and Lestat from the recent Tv adaptation hanging out as a crew. That’d be a fun lil trio of diva vamps.

The patronage system is back? 2026 is really delivering on spooky medieval time travel vibes.

I am very pleased to report someone made a picture book about the Ever Given.

The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55.

The Connoisseur. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Dreaming of autumn... Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...