And then I walk up this morning remembering the _absolutely perfect_ (fiction) book for an LGBTQ workplace book club - great for discussions - and I believe the author lived in the PNW at some point?
In Universes by Emet North
ummmmm, oooops, none are PNW authors, but any would be great for the first read of yer LGBTQ workplace book club😬
Fiction:
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makai
Bunny by Mona Awad
We Do What We Do In The Dark by Michelle Hart
My day got away from me, I totally didn’t properly brb, and these suggestions may be obvious, but anyway - I very much enjoyed:
Memoir:
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
and also
Party of One by Dave Holmes
and as far as Fiction…
Go Italy, beat Mexico?
brb - will peruse my bookshelves.
fiction or non-fiction?
A federal judge on Monday ordered officers at Portland’s ICE facility to continue restricting use of tear gas and less-lethal munitions against non-violent protesters. It's the second ruling in less than a week that has limited their use of chemical agents. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/03/09/f...
omgoddesses, of all the cities to be at on 4/20 😏 how perfect that it’s PDX - and that it’s at the place I got married (in their planetarium, natch) - well, that’s ✨🤩
these pix are amazing
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68
actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67
Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!
The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman
a badly placed ad section on a website. The website content says to “Check out the gallery below …” to see petrified dinosaurs, and directly below is a store ad that shows how two modern day human babies, one in green clothing and the other in pink clothing. This bluesky person has added two red arrows to connect the sentence to the imagery.
@lawnmowerpranks.bsky.social
I'm happy that most of the world gets the full 24hrs to celebrate.
Anyway. Happy International Women's Day today - a day that has just 23hrs because it's also Daylight Saving Day 😑
please pass Blaney his baby in the winner's circle and someone please put a mustache on that baby.
gibbs gibbs gibbs everywhere. gibbs to your left, gibbs to your right.
HELPFUL FLOWCHART
Are you a dude who is about to reply guy mansplain an expert woman on Bluesky?
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Yes No
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Don't Good
I have little patience for learned helplessness and absolution-seeking. Our founding document opens with "We The People."
Either we, the collective citizenry, have power or we don't. This ain't Schrodinger's democracy.
We have power. It's incumbent upon us all to seize it.
Many hands=light work!
huh, when did the position name change from Gasman to Fueler?
I trust no one who wants you to call them by their first name yet also insists you preface that implied friendliness with their “hard-earned / smarty-pants” title.
I never clocked how much Judge winks at other people till tonight. They showed so many slo-mo winks.
Never have I ever been compelled to wink at someone.
Go Judgey❣️⚾️😄
Ahhhhh a delight for the eyes in the morning scroll 🥰🍉🎶
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
Oh great. We had a Pineapple Express in the west a few weeks ago and now there’s Hovering Avocado 🥑 in the midwest.
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
a dark gray cat wrapped in a blue, red, yellow, white blanket next to a woman’s hand with plaid nail polish who’s holding a mug with the words “I’ve got 99 problems and white heteronormative patriarchy is basically all of them.” And a red chair is in mid ground.
This morning.
(mug via @cindygallop.bsky.social )
🎵it’s happening🎶
This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.
