Andromeda Yelton

@thatandromeda.bsky.social

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Libraries, software, math, Latin, nonprofit governance, weightlifting, knitting, singing, my cats, Somerville (MA), planes planes planes. Hi! đź‘‹ Skybrarians feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a55ia2ojiv2cnshifmrc7wr6/feed/skybrarians

A wallpaper design, which looks kinda like tessellating peacock feathers outlined in bright yellow with white-and-brown eyes against a medium-dark blue background
The “choosing which of two identical red buttons to press” meme
A bar graph. Most of the bars are the same height, more or less. The second-from-last is WAY shorter. It is labeled, "when Canada attacks".
Patrick Stewart, with a determined expression and a badass jacket, holding a sign that says "stop violence against women".
The miraculous aforesaid hot dog, in my hand
Screenshot of a forecast for July 4 (it’s for Washington, DC, although that’s not marked). The “feels like” ranges from 88 to 109 F.
A Venn diagram on a white board. Circle 1 says, “The set of all sets meeting some criterion”. Circle 2 says, “sets that do not contain themselves”. The intersection says, “dammit”.
Seal of the city of Somerville, Mass, with the slogan “municipal freedom gives national strength”, and an image of a revolutionary-era powder house, and “Town 1842 / 1872 City”, and a real questionable claim about our history with the Pawtuckets
Screenshot from a web site that says "Select Payment Method / The maximum payment allowed on a credit card is $999,999"
Some books I have bought but not yet read, including Children of Strife
A white cat with a grey splotch over one ear - one blue eye, one gold - extravagant whiskers - standing with her cute little paws on my leg, looking rather reproachful that there is not currently room on my lap
Still reading Dark Tide, about the molasses flood. It’s sitting on the table decorated with coffee beans under epoxy. I finished the latte next to it.
A handwritten sign that says “random weirdness” and has prices for large, medium, and small. A bunch of unframed paintings in the bin behind.
A sign in a moody, mossy, rocky landscape. It’s a yellow circle with a black border that says DANGER! GEFAHR! PELIGRO! and some Chinese characters that presumably mean the same thing. There’s a life preserver on a stand behind it.
A book called “Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919”, by Stephen Puleo, sits on top of a table, next to an iced coffee. The surface of the table is a bunch of coffee beans suspended in a clear coating, the book design is in shades of molasses-color, everything is a study in brown.
A youngish white dude in Revolutionary Era garb standing up on a picturesque trolley. Blue wool coat, gold vest, white breeches, tricorner hat!
An MBTA Green Line car, except it’s covered in big rainbow stripes and has the T logo next to “Pride in Transit”. It’s not even June!
A banner with a drop of blood surrounded by rainbow and trans flag colors, captioned “Pride in every drop”. Underneath, pictures of a diverse set of people holding first time blood donor signs.
A closeup of the face of a mostly white cat with a dark grey blotch over one eye. That eye is blue; the other one is gold. She looks serious and thoughtful and impossibly soft. Her whiskers are extravagantly long.
A white cat with grey blotches sitting in the bathroom sink, gazing at you with big eyes. Her mood is halfway between “I have been waiting for your attention” and “if you don’t pat me I will murder you in your sleep”. The neurosurgeon is warned.
An orange cat looking extremely derpy. He has giant ears and tiny eyes and a weird asymmetric pose and he looks straight at you. He does not have the brain cell.
A terra cotta dick and balls. It’s Etruscan, it’s about 2200 years old, and there is absolutely no doubt what we’re looking at.
A very large hanging scroll, mostly shades of grey, with layered mountains and a few trees, in a distinctly Chinese and almost calligraphic style. Apparently Mount Huang by Li Huayi, 2004.
A wall with a bunch of framed butterflies, mostly the bright blue ones that look like the emoji
the "sure, grandma, let's get you to bed" meme template
A shiny new hardback of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Strife. A sticker says “autographed edition”!
Me, pink and sweaty and grinning ear to ear, with a race number half-visible, holding up finisher’s medal
A stone with a plaque labeling the President Obama Rose Garden at Winter Hill, MA
Screenshot of an Outlook email. The entire email is someone accepting a meeting invite -- not even a message, just someone hit the "accept" button and I'm being notified. There's a "summarize" button with a tooltip eagerly offering "Get an AI summary -- Let Copilot summarize this email for you."
Me wearing a running jacket and reflective harness, sitting on my stairs, with a deeply skeptical expression
an Onion picture of a somewhat bummed-looking Milano-Cortina Olympics athlete, captioned "Non-Biathlon Skier Would Also Like Gun"
someone holds a giant freaky trilobite-looking crab thing, underside to the camera. Underneath the image, a newspaper headline: "Massachusetts wants to bleed more horseshoe crabs. What if there was a better way?" Picture me also struggling to forgive them for not having used the subjunctive
A buff orange cat with a white chest and nose and giant ears, sitting in a weirdly disjointed way, with the derpiest expression.
Screenshot of a weather app. It’s Los Angeles. It’s 81, feels 81.
Screenshot of a weather app saying 22, feels 11
One foot, in a knitted sock. Dark green variegated yarn with a diamond cable texture.
Close-up of the face of very soft white cat with a grey patch over one eye, extravagantly long whiskers. It dawns on you that she has, arrestingly, one blue eye, one gold.
Weather app screenshot. It says “18, feels 9”
An orange cat sitting on the carpet, looking mildly worried at you, with gigantic ears
a big orange cat and a much smaller white cat with dark grey splotches snuggled up against each other, overlapping, curled up tight and very asleep
screenshot of the part of github's PR interface that shows lines added/lines removed. Green +0, red -0, some empty boxes.
the Fearless Girl statue facing down the Wall Street bull statue
A weather app screenshot which says 23 feels like 9
Flynn Ryder from Tangled with a bajillion swords pointed at him
Maya Deane’s novel Wrath Goddess Sing, with its brilliant orange-yellow cover and a woman’s face, styled like ancient Greek art and colored like Ancient Greek red and black vases, with golden Medusa-like hair twining riotously up. It’s atop a table of red and blue, intertwining like feathers and wind gusts. The reds and the organic forms and the boldness of the designs echo each other.
That xkcd where geochemists comment that the average person only knows the formulas for one or two feldspars. And quartz, of course.
A pale orange cat with white feet, chest, and nose, tiny ears, and giant ears, his tail tucked around his feet and his fur looking extra plush, looks up at the camera with concerned hopefulness
the astronaut shooting another astronaut meme. "Wait, it's government procurement rules?" "always has been"
Screenshot of the "by people" filter from the linked Epstein docs search. The top of the list (4,742 docs) is Epstein. Number 2 (4,428 docs) is Trump.
A buff orange cat with a white chest and paws, tiny orange eyes, and gigantic ears looks at you with the absolute derpiest expression
The cat in my avi sits in a sink, looking somewhat reproachful
Betty & Don Draper, Peggy, Pete, Joan, and Roger Sterling from Mad Men, in fabulously garish attire. I mean that PLAID on Pete’s sport coat, damn
A sign with an angry guy in a tricorner hat on a wooden boat, dumping a van labeled ICE out of a crate labeled ICE TEA into the waves. The sign is captioned THE HARBOR THIRSTS FOR TEA
The rhythmic mid-century domes of the DCA roof, stretching toward the ATC tower
A book stand labeled “the cozy corner”. On the wall above, “welcome”, in a pink cursive font. On the book stand, everything Mary Roach has ever written. MARY ROACH. COZY.
A sticker on a window saying “caution: do not stand in designated area / do not lean against door”. There’s a red circle with a slash through it over an outline of the absolute chillest dude, leaning against the door with his legs crossed, just no idea he’s in a safety announcement
An orange cat with a white chest. He stands eagerly, head askew, with gigantic ears and the absolute derpiest expression.
NASA space tourism canvases, a plush Critter from Wildermyth, and a tiny 3d-printed duckling with a knife