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Christopher Walken from the SNL "more cowbell" sketch: Your treatment plan needs more cowbell.
Norman Rockwell's freedom of speech painting. Shows a man standing up to express himself in a town-meeting type setting.
HarperCollins said the process will be “creator-led,” per the announcement, but declined to address how authors will be involved and whether they will receive royalties.
Gold infinity symbol with "autism acceptance" written on it.
First, Geordi LaForge makes a "whoa, hold on there" gesture to "autism awareness." Then he makes a "yeah, that's the way" gesture to "autism acceptance."
Collage of audiobook covers with star ratings, from Storygraph. For the Record, Emma Lord, 4.5 Knockout, Sarah McLean, 4.25 You Were Made to be Mine, Julie Anne Long, 3.0 How to Tame a Wild Rogue, Julie Anne Long, 3.5 My Season of Scandal, Julie Anne Long, 3.5 The Beast Takes a Bride, Julie Anne Long, 3.0 Always Only You, Chloe Liese, 5.0 Rootbound, Tarah DeWitt, 4.5 Don't Let Your Dukes Grow Up to be Scoundrels, Louisa Darling, 3.0 Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake, Sarah Maclean, 2.5 The Finest Print, Erin Langston, 5.0 First-Time Caller, B.K. Borison, 4.0 A Rogue By Any Other Name, Sarah Maclean, 1.5 Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord, Sarah Maclean, 4.0 Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart, Sarah Maclean, 3.0 One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, Sarah Maclean, 3.0 No Good Duke Goes Unpunished, Sarah Maclean, 3.0 No Place Like You, Jillian Meadows, 3.75 My Fake Rake, Eva Leigh, 4.0 A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting, Sophie Irwin, 4.5 You, Again, Kate Goldbeck, 2.5 Would I Lie to the Duke, Eva Leigh, 4.0
Credit to Naked Pastor. Image shows Jesus (brown -skinned and wearing a crown of thorns) making a heart with his hands. Inside the heart is the trans flag pattern.
The clitoris, responsible for sexual pleasure, is one of the least studied organs of the human body. Virtual taboo around female sexuality has held back scientific investigations and the clitoris did not even make it into standard anatomy textbooks until the 20th century. And in the 38th edition of Gray's Anatomy in (highlighted) 1995 it was introduced at just "a small version of the penis."
Shows that I have blocked user "Attie," @attie.ai.
Gimli: I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with NIMBY Legolas: What about fighting side by side with a friend? Gimli: As soon as we're done here I'm putting an apartment building in your backyard
Michelle Rodriguez as Holga Kilgore in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Two posts in my Bluesky feed. First is a quote repost from Micah @rincewind.run saying please enjoy the actual photo of Marco with shoes that are too big for his feet. The quoted post is from Jake @tonymagoni.bsky.social with a picture of feet in men's dress shoes that are very much too large, saying I'm a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought for me that do not fit. The second post is from William Shakespeare saying I can tell you it will serve you to mend your shoes. Come, wherefore should you be so pashful? Your shoes is not so good.
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social We're bringing back literary snobbery. Genre fiction doesn't count as real books. Especially not romance.
Book covers and ratings for the audio versions of: If Not For My Baby, 4.75 After the Wedding, 4.25 The Rogue Not Taken, 4.0 Lady Derring Takes a Lover, 3.75 Say Yes to the Marquess, 3.5 If Only You, 5.0 Angel in a Devil's Arms, 3.5 Love at First Sighting, 4.0 Bound, 4.5 A Scot in the Dark, 3.25 When a Scot Ties the Knot, 2.75 I'm Only Wicked with You, 4.0 Bombshell, 4.25 Goddess of the Hunt, 1.75 Only and Forever, 5.0 The Duke and I, 3.5 The Viscount Who Loved Me, 3.0 After Dark with the Duke, 3.0 Heartbreaker, 4.25
Gimli and Legolas going into battle meme. "I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a NIMBY." "What about side by side with a friend?" "As soon as we're done here I'm putting an apartment building in your back yard."
Only and Forever by Chloe Liese. Cover shows a bearded man reading a romance novel with kittens climbing on him, and a blue-haired woman with a medical device on her upper arm, holding papers. Two large dogs and more kittens are next to her.
Background image shows the Stonewall Inn and a large pride flag. Text reads: Join interfaith leaders for prayer and blessing of the Pride Flag re-raising. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. We cannot be erased." 3:30pm. Stonewall National Monument. February 12, 2026.
Red image with the IWW logo and a photo of Big Bill Haywood. Text reads "Hey Valentine, are you the marks of capital? Cause I can see you all over my body..."
Monster-looking lizard creature with corn on the cob instead of a torso, complete with pat of butter. Chupacornonthecabra.
If Only You by Chloe Liese. Shows a read-headed white woman embracing a dark-haired white man with tattoos under a blossoming tree
Current temp 4, feels like -13
Post from Patches @Mostly_Cheese Cop: You're driving on the wrong side of the road Driver: Sorry, I'm English Chip: (shouting) It's the wrong soid of the roade ye was droivin down, innit?
Topsy-turvy food "pyramid" with steak and cheese at the top.
Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World, a novel by Mark Waddell. Image evokes gambling, bargains, and a world on fire.
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Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory Marlowe. Tagline: They want to believe. Shows a man and a woman embracing in front of a camera outside at night with a huge Bigfoot silhouette behind them.
The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow, New York Times Bestselling author of Starling House. A legend, a lie, a love story. The center of the image shows a face reflected in a sword surrounded by flowers.
I am a tiny potato and I believe in you. You can do the thing.
Full-wool merino sheep eating grass, photo from Wikipedia by Charles Esson
Two images. First, captioned "Those who build," is the famous photo by Charles Clyde Ebbet "Lunch atop a Skyscraper." It shows hard-working laborers taking a well-earned break along a steel beam high above the ground. The second image is captioned "Those who destroy," and it's the image that Time Magazine used in its terrible ripoff cover to make the robber barons in charge of the AI bubble it's People of the Year. These billionaires are depicted in a bad photoshop (or is it AI?) putting them sitting on the same beam with the same background, except they're sitting there with their tech and their self-important silicon valley glory.
Second Chance Romance (A Harlot's Bay Novel) by Olivia Dade. A fat male baker and a fat woman sitting on his counter look intensely into one another's eyes.
Last Call at the Local by Sarah Grunder Ruiz. A woman with a guitar and a man with a cat face each other at a bar.
A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston. A woman peeks around a book while a man peeks out of it. Tagline: Love is Stranger Than Fiction.
If Only You by Chloe Liese. A female soccer player and a male hockey player, both white, stand apart but looking towards each other.
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Vinyl Resting Place (The Record Shop Mysteries) by Olivia Blacke. A broken record lays outside the open door of a record shop with a small cafe and a cat in the front window.
The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell. A cottage sits next to the water. Booted feet stick out of a cluster of plants.
Brownies and Broomsticks by Bailey Cates. Cute bakery scene with yummy baked goods, a spell book, a broom, and a cat.
Blackout by Connie Willis. Images from the London Blitz.
Activity by quarter. You can see that I opened my account in September and have been pretty active since then.
From the halls of power to the fortress tower, not a stone will be left on stone. Let the king beware for your justice tears every tyrant from his throne. The hungry poor shall weep not more for the food they can never earn. There are tables spread, every mouth be fed, for the world is about to turn. My heart shall sing of the day you bring, let the fires of your justice burn. Wipe away all tears for the dawn draws near and the world is about to turn!
Cover of "In The Weeds" by B.K. Borison. A brown-skinned woman kisses a white man behind a bouquet of wildflowers.
Cover of the audio version of "To Say Nothing of the Dog" or Howe We Found The Bishop's Bird Stump At Last by Connie Willis, narrated by Steven Crossley.
Cover of Savor It by Tarah DeWitt. A couple embrace with Oregon scenery in the background. Tagline reads "Summer won't last forever."
Cover of "Luck & Last Resorts" by Sarh Grunder Ruiz. A woman and man embrace on the bow of a yacht at sunset (or, I guess, sunrise -- who knows?). Tagline reads "A chance at love will force them to sink or swim."
Cover of The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alex E. Harrow. Shows a door surrounded by flowers. Little keys are hidden in the flowers.
Cover of "In the Night Garden" by Catherynne M. Valente, illustrated by Michael Kaluta. Image of a girl with a variety of fairy-tale creatures. This is the first book in The Orphan's Tales duology.
The Enterprise D from the Star Trek: The Next Generation intro, seen from behind. The nacelles are glowing and the ship is about to go into warp. I'm probably on the holodeck, which is running a Dixon Hill simulation. I'm killing it in my 1940's bombshell look, but I'm glad that when I emerge from my leisure time, I'll still be living the dream of an egalitarian post-capitalist society.
Cover of The One I Stood Beside by Piper Rayne. Photo of a white couple kissing while the man dips the woman backwards.
Cover of "Love, Lists, & Fancy Ships" by Sarah Grunder Ruiz. Shows a blond woman in a uniform shirt with a super yacht reflected in her sunglasses.
Cover of "Last Call at the Local" by Sarah Grunder Ruiz. A redheaded woman with a guitar faces a white man with tattoos at a bar. A floofy black cat sits nearby.
Cover of "Last Call at the Local" by Sarah Grunder Ruiz. American musician with ADHD meets Irish pub owner.
Cover of "Censor(Shipped)" by Savannah Scott, tagged as "a sweet romcom." Shows a white man and white woman standing in front of a service station which is flying an American flag.
Cover of "The Seven Year Slip" by Ashley Poston, Male and female figures are separated by the letters of the title, with some branches at the edges.
Jeffrey Combs in "From Beyond" (1986), wearing significantly less makeup than I'm used to seeing on him.
Cover art of "The Plus One" by Mazey Eddings. Well-dressed male and female figures sit facing each other in chairs decorated for a wedding. Additional text reads "Warning: Falling for your childhood nemesis can cause complications of the heart."
Cover of "Fun at Parties" by Jamie Harrow. Shows a man and a woman in casual/athletic wear sitting on top of a car looking out at city lights at night.
Cover of "One Golden Summer" by Carley Fortune. Shows a man and a woman on a small motorboat.
Cover of "My Favorite Holidate" by Lauren Blakely. Shows a holiday scene of a well-dressed couple embracing in the snow.