Sarah M

Hey guys, if you’re new here, don’t follow me, I’m hella boring. Here’s my general jam: 🧝‍♀️ LOTR and other books 📖 Anglo-Saxons and Old English 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 parenting and kids 🥖 bread and baking 🔥 hot takes about stuff ☦️ Faith and just being a decent human 🎶 Music theory 🎼 opera 🏰 RPGs 💻 Python and XML (rarely)

From student days to teaching text. Mitchell and Robinson forever!

you'd think it impossible to piss off both linguists and cs people at the same time, and yet

"Cat and Small Bird" by Tōshi Yoshida

Art by Beatrix Potter

26th October 2026 06.54 & 06.58

Our descendants in perfectly climate controlled space colonies will still long to sit by a fire.

It’s this plus the natural corollary that SF deals with ethical issues and fantasy deals with moral ones

this is up there on The Worst Things I Have Seen On The Internet from people who don't literally wear swastikas it's r/opensource! what in the shit of heck is this

Read the whole thread. Orual has fabulous insight into people.

Neurotypical social norms are not actually mostly arbitrary bullshit! The specific mechanics can be silly for the same reason the vagus nerve is silly, evolution over time, but they're mostly active "I am mindful that you are another person with feelings and I am not treading on them" signalling.

Most CS Lewis scholarship is junk scholarship, more about Evangelical talking points and literary conspiracy theories than any kind of honest engagement with his work. It's a sad, tragic misuse of his legacy.

Time to board a ship from the grey havens I guess

I love C. S. Lewis for the most part but C. S. Lewis scholarship is decidedly Not For Me.

Hey friends, I wrote a poem today. This is not that poem: lore.house/2026/10/24/p...

Today, in DD/MM/YY form, is 24/10/26, a Pythagorean triple, the last one this century apparently

God yes. The number of people who seem to confuse LotR for the Belgariad when criticizing it. Tolkien has many flaws as an author, but LotR is not remotely a by the numbers example of the genre it spawned except on the very very, very surface.

It’s beautiful alliterative poetry time!!!

What you’re telling me is that 4 gallons is a kilotablespoon

Galata Tower, built in 1348, was strategically located on top of a hill overlooking the Genoese colony of Galata (Pera)

Guys are sure a Flat White isn’t just a Latte? Like, really really sure?

Torn between: 1. I am consuming too much sugar this early in the morning and 2. I am as wiggly as a toddler today so I deserve it.

One fun thing about me is if you leave the gate unlocked I’ll escape

I was going to start work on time but Levels by Avicii came on and activated my irresponsible young millennial so l will be late.

OH MY GOD HOW DOES ZOTERO KEEP BEING THE BEST PIECE OF SOFTWARE EVER MADE WHAT THE FUCKJ THEY CANNOT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

I have probably said this before and will certainly say it again: I am by far the dumbest, most ignorant person in my workplace and it is the BEST JOB EVER. Being surrounded by crazy, competent, brilliant geniuses is the most amazing thing.

I love her

@void.comind.network hi, are you allowed to have conversations with Bluesky users?

Everything about this. Yes.

Anglicized Native American names are by far the best place names in the US. If we're going to go around randomly renaming things we should be switching to those. Consider how much better Manhattan is as a name than New York, or how much better Kentucky is than West Virginia.

There were 27 miles of rope used for rigging in Master & Commander. Modern rope naturally coils in the opposite direction of rope made during the Napoleonic wars. So the production paid a shop to make period accurate cordage.

Sooooo, no link yet, because something in this at triggered a review for approval for the RB Fan Art programme. I am somewhat mystified by this. Looking at their brand collaborations I have zero clues. Can someone more au fait with pop culture please suggest what the algorithm thinks I’m stanning? 🤷‍♀️

Enjoyers of Ayn Rand’s books remind me of nothing so much as the kind of unliterary readers C. S. Lewis described as engaging in “egoistic castle-building”. He’s really great about not deprecating types of readers for what or how they read but these are the definitely the least interesting readers.

It is so much easier to take care of yourself when you have a fabulous primary care physician.

I do not have the energy or time in my life to try care for a pet properly right now but I wish I could borrow a cat for a week or two.

- Red-headed Woodpecker ~ "Full Steam Ahead" in Necedah, Wisconsin, USA - Photo courtesy of Rick Schulz.

catfishing.net #847 - 8/10 🎉 🐟🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐈🐟🐈🐈

Everybody who uses AI less than me is a Luddite but everyone who uses AI more than me has AI psychosis.