god I missed clubs (sincere)
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Mostly getting thru daily life okay but just burst into tears at an actually really sweet bit in the *acknowledgements to a slasher novel*, grief is weird
okay, I think I've gotten at least slightly used to Mastodon. so far tho I've been on the giant social instance & of course the main feed is a firehose that I simply Cannot. any thoughts on smaller instances that might have a manageable feed? I know I have excellent buddies on wandering.shop, what do y'all think of it? anybody loving another instance?
Sigrid EllisI am reading The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, by Kassia St. Clair. I'm on page 21. I am already incensed at the perception of history I was taught for 35 years of my life.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age.
Those are the tools that survived, yes. But what those tools were for was the Twisted Fiber Age. The Linen Age. The Wool Age.
We then entered the Cotton Age, riding the backs of global colonization and industry. Now we are in the Petrochemical Age.
@sigridellis that sounds FASCINATING
Skye KilaenMy queer romance new release newsletter has gone out!
Focus: self-pub & small press, marginalized authors, books that can get overlooked, and varied queer rep beyond allocis M/M and F/F.
If you're not subscribed, see the books here: https://skyewritesromance.com/new-queer-romances-february-2023
Nice thing this morning: a Northern flicker hung out in our back yard for ages, just going to TOWN on a tree stump. Happy bug breakfast to you, Mr. Flicker.
Grimm 
Act normal as you read this and boost if you are pretty sure the squirrels are up to something.
on last night's dogwalk we spotted the silhouette of the barred owl we'd only heard on previous nights. that was nice.