Gail O’Connor
@tofueater.bsky.social
I like books and birds. Living with chronic illness. My reading goal this year is to decrease the number of unread books I own.
I just spent too much of this afternoon reading messages between Epstein and Steve Bannon. It's both interesting and disturbing. Clearly the sexual abuse was only a small part of what Epstein was up to.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I just spent too much of this afternoon reading messages between Epstein and Steve Bannon. It's both interesting and disturbing. Clearly the sexual abuse was only a small part of what Epstein was up to.
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Fuck your app. I want to be able to visit your website and do everything I need to do there. Apps are for specific functions, the way computer programs used to be.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Fuck your app. I want to be able to visit your website and do everything I need to do there. Apps are for specific functions, the way computer programs used to be.
Sigh, on the Reddit fantasy forum someone asked for books with no sexual assault and, as usual, people are recommending books with sexual assault in them.
August 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Sigh, on the Reddit fantasy forum someone asked for books with no sexual assault and, as usual, people are recommending books with sexual assault in them.
It’s a beautiful afternoon to not be at work.
July 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It’s a beautiful afternoon to not be at work.
I'm reading The Appeal by Janice Hallett and enjoying it. It's set among a community theater group. I work in theater myself. The theater group in the novel SUCKS. Holy crap, they suck. I realize this is deliberate, but wow, they are so terrible.
July 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm reading The Appeal by Janice Hallett and enjoying it. It's set among a community theater group. I work in theater myself. The theater group in the novel SUCKS. Holy crap, they suck. I realize this is deliberate, but wow, they are so terrible.
My cat just walked across my keyboard and now I'm trying to figure out how to fix the settings she changed by randomly standing on keys. How does she do this?!?
July 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My cat just walked across my keyboard and now I'm trying to figure out how to fix the settings she changed by randomly standing on keys. How does she do this?!?
Today was my 22 year anniversary at my job.
July 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Today was my 22 year anniversary at my job.
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Absolute Puritan bullshit. Suffering does not make the world better! Heat stress is really hard on your body! People do not need to suffer medically dangerous temperatures to remember that climate change sucks!
July 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Absolute Puritan bullshit. Suffering does not make the world better! Heat stress is really hard on your body! People do not need to suffer medically dangerous temperatures to remember that climate change sucks!
Book read: Strange New World by Vivian Shaw. I'm so glad there was another volume in this series. In this one, Greta is sent to the US to do a road trip with a young angel and young demon as "interns." Quite enjoyable, I stayed up too late to finish it last night.
July 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Book read: Strange New World by Vivian Shaw. I'm so glad there was another volume in this series. In this one, Greta is sent to the US to do a road trip with a young angel and young demon as "interns." Quite enjoyable, I stayed up too late to finish it last night.
This is the first time I've missed Minicon (except for the two years it didn't happen) since I started attending in 1994. My parents died last month, and I've been busy arranging a funeral and trying to clean out their apartment, and I'm exhausted.
April 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is the first time I've missed Minicon (except for the two years it didn't happen) since I started attending in 1994. My parents died last month, and I've been busy arranging a funeral and trying to clean out their apartment, and I'm exhausted.
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I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.
April 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.
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Don't watch the stock market, watch a baby goat try to figure out a hammock
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Don't watch the stock market, watch a baby goat try to figure out a hammock
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We don’t fake being sick. We fake being well. Today I was fighting my fatigue to where I was seeing double and trying to keep my eyes open while trying to look fine 🤷🏻♀️ #chronicillness #chronicallyill #disabled
March 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
We don’t fake being sick. We fake being well. Today I was fighting my fatigue to where I was seeing double and trying to keep my eyes open while trying to look fine 🤷🏻♀️ #chronicillness #chronicallyill #disabled
Book finished: Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh. Part of her Union/Alliance series, this was really good! I don't always enjoy Cherryh's non-Foreigner works. I really miss the days when an author could tell a complete story in about 200 pages.
February 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Book finished: Merchanter's Luck by C.J. Cherryh. Part of her Union/Alliance series, this was really good! I don't always enjoy Cherryh's non-Foreigner works. I really miss the days when an author could tell a complete story in about 200 pages.
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You think *you're* having a day.
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A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera
A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed.
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February 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
You think *you're* having a day.
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In the end, people like effective governance. There's disagreement about what this means exactly, but it is very popular to ensure that essential services are provided, that the food supply isn't contaminated, that planes don't collide midair. People don't want a real-life version of Twitter.
January 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
In the end, people like effective governance. There's disagreement about what this means exactly, but it is very popular to ensure that essential services are provided, that the food supply isn't contaminated, that planes don't collide midair. People don't want a real-life version of Twitter.
It's sunny and 45 degrees in January, and I took the day off for an appointment and some errands. What a fantastic day to be out and about. I should do this more often.
January 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's sunny and 45 degrees in January, and I took the day off for an appointment and some errands. What a fantastic day to be out and about. I should do this more often.
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
January 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
Book finished: The Enigma of Room 622 by Joel Dicker. I expected to like it. A murder in a nice hotel is exactly the kind of story I usually like. But this is not really a mystery, it's general fiction that happens to have a crime as a minor plot point. Very long, slow, and totally preposterous.
January 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Book finished: The Enigma of Room 622 by Joel Dicker. I expected to like it. A murder in a nice hotel is exactly the kind of story I usually like. But this is not really a mystery, it's general fiction that happens to have a crime as a minor plot point. Very long, slow, and totally preposterous.
Book finished: Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker. This is a novella about a young woman who gets a job on a home improvement/haunted house reality TV show.
January 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Book finished: Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker. This is a novella about a young woman who gets a job on a home improvement/haunted house reality TV show.
Book finished: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. This fantasy-mystery crossover was so much fun! I will be very surprised if it isn't a Hugo nominee.
January 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Book finished: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. This fantasy-mystery crossover was so much fun! I will be very surprised if it isn't a Hugo nominee.
Thinking back, I have to wonder why they had us read The Old Man and the Sea when we were 14. We were way too young to actually get anything out of it.
US and UK friends, I'm curious: What books were part of your required reading for highschool literature class? Which of them do you remember loving, and which did you loathe?
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Thinking back, I have to wonder why they had us read The Old Man and the Sea when we were 14. We were way too young to actually get anything out of it.
Book finished: Out of the Drowning Deep by AC Wise. It's a mashup of genres, a novella murder mystery in a science fictional setting where gods and angels are real, and sometimes answer your prayers.
January 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Book finished: Out of the Drowning Deep by AC Wise. It's a mashup of genres, a novella murder mystery in a science fictional setting where gods and angels are real, and sometimes answer your prayers.
Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline #SomethingBeautiful
December 1, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline #SomethingBeautiful
Post a film gif from the year you were born.
November 24, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Post a film gif from the year you were born.