• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance, queer romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA, historical romance, horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “How to stand up for your local library by getting involved“.
• A zine you can download with ideas for countering fascism.
• “Microsoft study finds relying on AI kills your critical thinking skills“.
• “The best AI-free, encrypted alternatives to Google Docs“.
• Some ideas for substituting for eggs, plus recipes for meals without chicken.
• 50+ recipes that start with a can of chickpeas.
• 40 soup recipes.
• GF chocolate bundt cake.
• xkcd about incoming asteroids. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Live and work in a bookshop.
• MCM with repositionable walls in the main living area.
• Cozy Italian mountain home.
• Nice converted carriage house that just needs a touch of color.
• Cool oast house.
• Well, you don’t see houses like this every day.
• Must love tiled cabinets.
• Must love pastels.
• Very tacky.
• So. Much. Stuff.
• Hard to tell what’s going on with this one, but whatever it is, it’s not good.
• Hot mess.
• Anything castle-esque is gone from the interior.
• WTF.
• Good grief.
• Sharp, thin, no railing.
• Quite the tall steps.
• The height of the bottom step is the least of my concerns.
• Yikes.
• And they’re in a single line, so you have to climb them in a very unnatural way.

Polly using the scratcher.

Harry, looking dapper in his bow tie.

Polly and Harry making it very hard to get up and exercise.

Mayhem, deeply asleep.