Stories and Songs

My URL is inspired by a quote from Mr. Rogers. TV shows, books, music, and movies are all things that grow in the gardens of our minds, those of the audience and their creators. I like too many things to list, so if you like what you see, you can follow my blog if you want. She/Her. Canadian. I'm on AO3.

[bruzum]

[shadowen]

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

[inthegardensofourminds]

The way people on MAL talk about Aqua in the forums vs what I think of Aqua really reminds me that I may be watching Oshi no Ko, but I am not the intended audience

[ichorknight]

driving my chevy to the levee today

[ichorknight]

what the fuck

[microsff]

The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

The parking attendant moved on.

[lionessfeather]

I was going to just queue it for later but then it stuck in my brain, and I decided to make it everyone's problem

[liebelesbe]

attaching something to an email is so scary. what if i accidentally put hard-core porn in there. i don't think i have any downloaded but what if i do and i attached it to the email. what then.

[tonsimonsi]

Need some fables AESOP

[amnhnyc]

Can you imagine a world without lions? For World Lion Day, let’s take a moment to appreciate these majestic but vulnerable animals. Over the last century, lions have disappeared from more than 80 percent of their historic range. Some populations, like the Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo), have been eradicated completely. The last photograph of a wild Barbary lion was snapped in 1925. 

Those that remain are under threat from human encroachment, poaching, trophy hunting, and more. The disappearance of lions would have major implications for their ecosystems: These apex predators hunt weak or sick animals, keeping ungulate populations healthy and helping to maintain the conditions of the grasslands and forests where they live. 

Photo: The Book of the Lion, Pease, PD, Wikimedia Commons

[have-you-been-here]

Any Leonidas chocolate shop, Earth

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

[bookhobbit]

why is “olde vampires in high school” the big thing and not “olde vampires in college”

everyone in college is eccentric. everyone

you wanna wear full on Victorian suit? the girl in pajamas who clearly hasn’t slept in three days supports you

everyone is too preoccupied to care as long as you’re polite and follow class etiquette

multiple high school diplomas? eh. same stuff. multiple BAs? Enjoy learning chemistry AND art history! All in detail!

wandering around campus at 3am? that’s just the lifestyle tm

no matter how old or young you look it’s not really that weird, there’s sixteen year olds and sixty year olds doing BAs somewhere

big schools are very anonymous so nobody’s gonna bother to hassle you

[dragon-in-a-fez]

consider: vampire PhD students and postdocs, because in addition to all of the above:

been at the same campus for 57 years? seems legit

[inthegardensofourminds]

Could just one good thing happen to me this year without also being accompanied by stress because of some wrinkle in things

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[voyaging-too]

It's so important to acknowledge the very real and sometimes truly horrible failings of the healthcare profession and the pharmaceutical industry while never ever ever letting them drive us into the arms of pseudoscientific bullshit. This is something I feel really strongly about.

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[normystical]

wedding dresses are white specifically so that if the bride goes axe-crazy you can rest assured you will see the blood stains all over her and it'll be sick as fuck

[ghw-archive]

The Making of the Perfect Martini, Guy Buffet (b. Paris, 1943), Lithography, 2000.