Lynn Persists
@lynnpersists.bsky.social
This becatted bisexual librarian finds happiness in books, cats, puzzles, and other good generic fun. Seeks to follow fellow enthusiasts.
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Lynn Persists
@lynnpersists.bsky.social
· Oct 12
Beloved: I don't understand how we're going to clean this without putting it in the dishwasher
Myself: With very hot water and dish soap.
Beloved: LIKE CAVE PEOPLE.
Myself: With very hot water and dish soap.
Beloved: LIKE CAVE PEOPLE.
So TIRED and the world doesn't ever slow down and I'm just supposed to keep going and going like I'm fine while everything is on fire and nothing is fine.
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
So TIRED and the world doesn't ever slow down and I'm just supposed to keep going and going like I'm fine while everything is on fire and nothing is fine.
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Aurora over the #lakedistrict this morning - G4 storm from 0100 until around 0430. Amazing show!! #aurora #cumbria
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Aurora over the #lakedistrict this morning - G4 storm from 0100 until around 0430. Amazing show!! #aurora #cumbria
Choose the one who sees into your heart at the Taiwanese bakery and buys you not one, but TWO bags of prawn crackers.
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Choose the one who sees into your heart at the Taiwanese bakery and buys you not one, but TWO bags of prawn crackers.
Not me shotgunning slightly fizzy unpasteurized pear cider in an attempt to counterbalance the unpeeled raw apple I fed my low-motility gut earlier. Witchcraft.
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Not me shotgunning slightly fizzy unpasteurized pear cider in an attempt to counterbalance the unpeeled raw apple I fed my low-motility gut earlier. Witchcraft.
The boot tray I bought from Ikea makes the best food mat—Charlie can splash in his fountain or scatter kibble like confetti and it doesn't really matter. (Do I wish I could have cute cat things? Yes. But we adopted goblins, so needs must).
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The boot tray I bought from Ikea makes the best food mat—Charlie can splash in his fountain or scatter kibble like confetti and it doesn't really matter. (Do I wish I could have cute cat things? Yes. But we adopted goblins, so needs must).
The bed will not be made today, no.
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The bed will not be made today, no.
Tiny, tiny flakes of snow steadily falling from the sunny sky.
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tiny, tiny flakes of snow steadily falling from the sunny sky.
I drank a bunch of water, ate an apple and avocado toast, and I can almost delude myself into believing I am okay, except that my brain keeps screaming "FORTHELOVEOFGODMONTRESOR, you must get sleep in greater than 10 minute increments."
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I drank a bunch of water, ate an apple and avocado toast, and I can almost delude myself into believing I am okay, except that my brain keeps screaming "FORTHELOVEOFGODMONTRESOR, you must get sleep in greater than 10 minute increments."
Fucking capitalism: "He had been sailing for more than 40 years, and now his wife, Nellie, was in poor health ... He hoped one final voyage would cover the cost of Nellie’s care."
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nobo...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nobo...
Nobody Knows What Sank the 'Edmund Fitzgerald.' But Its Doomed Final Voyage Will Always Be America's Defining Shipwreck
Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ballad it inspired—still haunt the popular imagination
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Fucking capitalism: "He had been sailing for more than 40 years, and now his wife, Nellie, was in poor health ... He hoped one final voyage would cover the cost of Nellie’s care."
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nobo...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nobo...
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VERY Limited Supplies!
The 2026 Westport Astronomical Society Calendar is here — featuring stunning astrophotography from our talented members and daily sky data from Phil Harrington.
Perfect for any stargazer!
Get yours before they’re gone → was-ct.org/calendar-...
The 2026 Westport Astronomical Society Calendar is here — featuring stunning astrophotography from our talented members and daily sky data from Phil Harrington.
Perfect for any stargazer!
Get yours before they’re gone → was-ct.org/calendar-...
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
VERY Limited Supplies!
The 2026 Westport Astronomical Society Calendar is here — featuring stunning astrophotography from our talented members and daily sky data from Phil Harrington.
Perfect for any stargazer!
Get yours before they’re gone → was-ct.org/calendar-...
The 2026 Westport Astronomical Society Calendar is here — featuring stunning astrophotography from our talented members and daily sky data from Phil Harrington.
Perfect for any stargazer!
Get yours before they’re gone → was-ct.org/calendar-...
This quarter's all-hands meeting has been rescheduled and, for one glorious half hour, I thought I would miss it entirely.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This quarter's all-hands meeting has been rescheduled and, for one glorious half hour, I thought I would miss it entirely.
What's a third cat when we already have two, she asks while remembering very well what having six was like. Six was An Experience.
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
What's a third cat when we already have two, she asks while remembering very well what having six was like. Six was An Experience.
So, so close to adopting another tuxie, but no, that would be madness. Madness. Don't get another cat. Don't.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
So, so close to adopting another tuxie, but no, that would be madness. Madness. Don't get another cat. Don't.
Functional systems of organization and classification are hot.You want to seduce me? Tell me about how you would spend a weekend organizing and classifying my baking cupboard, complete with a series of color-coded charts for the inside of the cupboard door.
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Functional systems of organization and classification are hot.You want to seduce me? Tell me about how you would spend a weekend organizing and classifying my baking cupboard, complete with a series of color-coded charts for the inside of the cupboard door.
Do you have a bad brain? Label things, label all the things, label everything you think a normie would mock you for labeling, you will thank yourself later.
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Do you have a bad brain? Label things, label all the things, label everything you think a normie would mock you for labeling, you will thank yourself later.
Clearing out a bunch of junk before the Thanksgiving festivities and what do I find, but a SECOND Brother P-touch label maker?
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Clearing out a bunch of junk before the Thanksgiving festivities and what do I find, but a SECOND Brother P-touch label maker?
Avocado toast at home means half an avocado per toast, the avocado is properly chunky, there's lashing of everything seasoning, and a good drizzle of lemon juice.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Avocado toast at home means half an avocado per toast, the avocado is properly chunky, there's lashing of everything seasoning, and a good drizzle of lemon juice.
I am here for the queer Drew-Marple mashup. I don't care if it requires timey-wimey nonsense in order to have an ounce of credibility.
Looking at what's entering the public domain in January, and it looks like 2026 belongs to the girls.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I am here for the queer Drew-Marple mashup. I don't care if it requires timey-wimey nonsense in order to have an ounce of credibility.
Hibiscus, ginger, strawberry, apple, rhubarb tisane to start the day.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Hibiscus, ginger, strawberry, apple, rhubarb tisane to start the day.
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The waning gibbous moon setting behind two agave stalks on San Ysidro Mountain just after sunrise today (Photo: Sicco Rood).
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The waning gibbous moon setting behind two agave stalks on San Ysidro Mountain just after sunrise today (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement.
mappingdeportations.com
mappingdeportations.com
Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790
Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement…
mappingdeportations.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement.
mappingdeportations.com
mappingdeportations.com
Here are some pretty minerals from the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Red is rhodochrosite, yellow-orange is wulfenite, deep blue is azurite with malachite (green). I cannot explain how badly I wished to lick one of these.
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Here are some pretty minerals from the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Red is rhodochrosite, yellow-orange is wulfenite, deep blue is azurite with malachite (green). I cannot explain how badly I wished to lick one of these.
Wow, bunch of new followers! How weird, though, that some of you are skeeting and reskeeting the same skeets, in the same order, as each other. Almost as if you aren't quite people ....
November 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Wow, bunch of new followers! How weird, though, that some of you are skeeting and reskeeting the same skeets, in the same order, as each other. Almost as if you aren't quite people ....
Spent part of my birthday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, gawking at the glass flowers in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. (Although, the Comparative Zoology’s selection of invertebrate models on display were in some ways more fascinating).
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Spent part of my birthday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, gawking at the glass flowers in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. (Although, the Comparative Zoology’s selection of invertebrate models on display were in some ways more fascinating).
Yes, turkeys are cute and gourds are great, but bring back the cornucopia!
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Yes, turkeys are cute and gourds are great, but bring back the cornucopia!