Currently reading: Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore 📚

Currently reading: Household Saints by Francine Prose 📚

Finished reading: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett 📚silly but a very fun read. Faeries, the Alps, and a neurodivergent heroine.

Finished reading: Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick 📚Interesting social history, worth reading.

Finished reading: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel 📚Non-fiction about a Black woman, freed in the 1840s but then kidnapped and re-enslaved for 20 years who was then able to receive a pitiably small financial recompense from the enslaver.

@jack One of the ways I justify my SetApp subscription is that it prevents me from buying non-SetApp apps. So I don't waste time checking things out. In addition, like you, the math justifies the subscription for me.

@jack Welcome back! I've seen you on Mastodon but prefer to read here.

@Denny Hope you feel better soon, and have no Long COVID stuff after.

@tracydurnell So true. As though that age gap was OK because they were both guys? I don't think so!

Currently reading: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty 📚

Currently reading: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett 📚

Finished reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason 📚A wonderful novel. I immediately started to read it for a second time, to catch more of the nuance. New England gothic, some elements of horror but only in service to the story.

Quit reading: Wolfsong by TJ Klune 📚 A novel that takes ten times as many words as necessary to say anything.

Currently reading: Wolfsong by TJ Klune 📚

Currently reading: North Woods by Daniel Mason 📚

Finished reading: Escape From Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚A very silly book but I’m a completionist for KSR. If you have visited Kathmandu, then the descriptions of the city feel very true. Brought back good memories of a 1981 trip for me.

Misty lake for my morning swim

@aa Are you going to have leather-wrapped handlebars?!? Pix, please.

Currently reading: Escape From Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚

Finished reading: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez 📚A very fun summer read. A bit indulgent but in a direction that I have to appreciate. Also about artists, art history, and coming of age in the 2000s.

Currently reading: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel 📚

@patrickrhone Thank you for sharing the story of Brutus. It's always hard to lose these beloved animal members of our families. Virtual hugs to you.

My husband’s son is visiting from the Netherlands. We’re having lovely summer weather. There’s lots of swimming and hiking and eating of summer fruits. Overall, a good time is being had by all.

Finished reading: This Other Eden by Paul Harding 📚An excellent novel. There is child abuse, which normally means I stop reading a novel, but I can see that it was integral to the story and the overall message of the book is both beautiful and sad. A beautiful island Maine setting in early 1900s.

Currently Reading: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez 📚

Finished reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚A very fun sci-fi / detective noir read. Interesting world building, fun characters and a good story. Highly recommended.

Qui reading: How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry 📚good characters but ultimately too boring to finish.

Currently reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚

Finished reading: A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab 📚not as good as the other two in this trilogy but now I’m ready for book 4 which I hear is really fun.

Finished reading: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris 📚Such a beautiful graphic novel. Totally worth the $45 to own it. I expect to re-read it regularly.

Finished reading: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett 📚Fun summer reading: faeries and Norway/Iceland in a somewhat academic environment.

@jamesvandyne Yeah, I thought this was a great article, as Maggie's often are.

@dejus I am in the AWAS. We have 16 miles of coastline in NH and I try to get there at least once a year.

@TheMacPsych I'm looking forward to seeing your photos of Estonia!

@SimonWoods Thank you for

@ndreas one of my few claims to fame is that I went to high school with Ian MacKaye

@maique gorgeous. Looks like a painting

@maique incredible photo. And I get a sense of wellbeing just looking at it.

@ner3y widescreen

@PBones good news! I’ve been scared of the install in the past as it seemed so invasive and I wouldn’t know what to do if it failed.

@Denny secure client site so can’t bring my phone, that’s how I normally do it.

@patrickrhone this is so smart. I will build this habit, too.

@maique what IS that? Natural or artificial?

@ChrisJWilson are they technical? People say Basecamp is great for non-technical collaborators. But it’s expensive. Craft is free with SetApp and I hear great things about it.

@manton I don’t know what to do when Strata asks for an encryption key

@alexink thanks for this review so I know to skip it. I hated Slow Horses S3 because it devolved into pointless violence. Who likes this garbage?

@moonmehta in addition, I don’t watch videos or TV, mainly because they tend to give me migraines. So more time to read.

@moonmehta I broke my leg a month ago which has given me a lot of time for reading. Hoping to be reading less as I get back on my feet next week.

@ton Fascinating, thank you for sharing.

@cliffordbeshers goofy floofy! Love it.