Melinda G.
@melindag.bsky.social
I write, read, enjoy good beer, spend time with my humans & cat, and try to hold pockets of hope where I find it.
Defend marginalized people. Trust science. Mask up.
Defend marginalized people. Trust science. Mask up.
Related in Chicago.
Reminder: the FIRST story is the one people remember. Every newspiece after has to fight twice as hard to get the word out about the corrections.
Reminder: the FIRST story is the one people remember. Every newspiece after has to fight twice as hard to get the word out about the corrections.
October 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Related in Chicago.
Reminder: the FIRST story is the one people remember. Every newspiece after has to fight twice as hard to get the word out about the corrections.
Reminder: the FIRST story is the one people remember. Every newspiece after has to fight twice as hard to get the word out about the corrections.
A very happy Caturday from us!
![Foreground: OP’s open page of Sarah Kendzior’s Hiding in Plain Sight, as cat (Midnight, in profile) looks on
Background: OP’s partner reading Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter, as [artsy prints of] Malcolm X and Angela Davis look on.
In home library, so… miscellaneous books about.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zenwpu3bfewukblf3tdqxmr6/bafkreihon2b3mitkczacym2ne272j44wmayhsjajqyxov6bvqr6c34m6vy@jpeg)
May 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A very happy Caturday from us!
I’m coeditor of an old school DIY print zine published quarterly: Final Gravity. It’s all person-centric stories about and around beer and the community it provides. We pay our writers. It makes us terribly happy, and is mostly how we’re breathing these days.
www.beantobarstool.com/shop/zines
www.beantobarstool.com/shop/zines
March 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I’m coeditor of an old school DIY print zine published quarterly: Final Gravity. It’s all person-centric stories about and around beer and the community it provides. We pay our writers. It makes us terribly happy, and is mostly how we’re breathing these days.
www.beantobarstool.com/shop/zines
www.beantobarstool.com/shop/zines
Fam.
This right here.
This right here.
February 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fam.
This right here.
This right here.
Here’s Midnight!
I don’t know how much of a distraction she is to you, but she’s making it impossible for *me* to write tonight because she insists on being on my lap.
Alone.
With no notebook or pen nearby.
And yes, she is fiercely guarding all she perceives as her space.
I don’t know how much of a distraction she is to you, but she’s making it impossible for *me* to write tonight because she insists on being on my lap.
Alone.
With no notebook or pen nearby.
And yes, she is fiercely guarding all she perceives as her space.
January 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Here’s Midnight!
I don’t know how much of a distraction she is to you, but she’s making it impossible for *me* to write tonight because she insists on being on my lap.
Alone.
With no notebook or pen nearby.
And yes, she is fiercely guarding all she perceives as her space.
I don’t know how much of a distraction she is to you, but she’s making it impossible for *me* to write tonight because she insists on being on my lap.
Alone.
With no notebook or pen nearby.
And yes, she is fiercely guarding all she perceives as her space.
Did you say you wanted to meet him?
Why, of coouurrsseeee you can.
Why, of coouurrsseeee you can.
January 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Did you say you wanted to meet him?
Why, of coouurrsseeee you can.
Why, of coouurrsseeee you can.
But what if we neeeeedddd it and are going to cry if our local indie doesn’t have the cool robot cover one?
Can you be bribed?
Will you start the bribe at a photo of a small wooden robot constructed by hand (from a kit, but by hand nonetheless)?
Can you be bribed?
Will you start the bribe at a photo of a small wooden robot constructed by hand (from a kit, but by hand nonetheless)?
January 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
But what if we neeeeedddd it and are going to cry if our local indie doesn’t have the cool robot cover one?
Can you be bribed?
Will you start the bribe at a photo of a small wooden robot constructed by hand (from a kit, but by hand nonetheless)?
Can you be bribed?
Will you start the bribe at a photo of a small wooden robot constructed by hand (from a kit, but by hand nonetheless)?
I used to keep this mug in my office, but it became too dicey with walk-ins.
My current standard is: “Not sure where the misunderstanding occurred! Hope this clarifies: [obviously copied and pasted text, this time in bold and sometimes even highlighted]. Thanks!”
My current standard is: “Not sure where the misunderstanding occurred! Hope this clarifies: [obviously copied and pasted text, this time in bold and sometimes even highlighted]. Thanks!”
January 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I used to keep this mug in my office, but it became too dicey with walk-ins.
My current standard is: “Not sure where the misunderstanding occurred! Hope this clarifies: [obviously copied and pasted text, this time in bold and sometimes even highlighted]. Thanks!”
My current standard is: “Not sure where the misunderstanding occurred! Hope this clarifies: [obviously copied and pasted text, this time in bold and sometimes even highlighted]. Thanks!”
A weekend morning watching our outdoor patio birds, and then moving to hanging out with Midnight and diving into our piles of books.
This is, I think, the perfect way to spend the first weekend of the newest year.
This is, I think, the perfect way to spend the first weekend of the newest year.
January 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A weekend morning watching our outdoor patio birds, and then moving to hanging out with Midnight and diving into our piles of books.
This is, I think, the perfect way to spend the first weekend of the newest year.
This is, I think, the perfect way to spend the first weekend of the newest year.
Favorite New Year’s Day tradition is starting the year out with this movie.
January 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Favorite New Year’s Day tradition is starting the year out with this movie.
They say that putting a name to your trauma helps the healing.
Do you have any of these handy field guides nearby?
Do you have any of these handy field guides nearby?
December 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM
They say that putting a name to your trauma helps the healing.
Do you have any of these handy field guides nearby?
Do you have any of these handy field guides nearby?
They are so awful!
Our Midnight loves to help herself to such well-known cat delicacies as uncooked long grain rice, broccoli, extra-poisonous tomato sauce (because garlic), and bags of bagels of which she insists on taking little bites before remembering she hates.
Our Midnight loves to help herself to such well-known cat delicacies as uncooked long grain rice, broccoli, extra-poisonous tomato sauce (because garlic), and bags of bagels of which she insists on taking little bites before remembering she hates.
December 13, 2024 at 2:04 AM
They are so awful!
Our Midnight loves to help herself to such well-known cat delicacies as uncooked long grain rice, broccoli, extra-poisonous tomato sauce (because garlic), and bags of bagels of which she insists on taking little bites before remembering she hates.
Our Midnight loves to help herself to such well-known cat delicacies as uncooked long grain rice, broccoli, extra-poisonous tomato sauce (because garlic), and bags of bagels of which she insists on taking little bites before remembering she hates.