Somanybees
@thesomanybees.bsky.social
Maura. She/Her 🍳♠️
Former @imaginarybookshop.bsky.social Co-Proprietor & Editor. Excellent taste in books, appalling taste in films. Extremely tired.
Western MA, formerly of OH->VA->UK->NY
Former @imaginarybookshop.bsky.social Co-Proprietor & Editor. Excellent taste in books, appalling taste in films. Extremely tired.
Western MA, formerly of OH->VA->UK->NY
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Somanybees
@thesomanybees.bsky.social
· Apr 22
A #WeirdLittleGuys update. I gave these cards to @cristadericco.bsky.social’s kids at our belated Christmas exchange in March (it sure has been a year).
Reading Gaudy Night and trying to figure out if a character being pro-eugenics is signifying they’re terrible, or if it’s just the 30’s.
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Reading Gaudy Night and trying to figure out if a character being pro-eugenics is signifying they’re terrible, or if it’s just the 30’s.
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I would like it better if he would speed up the process. Dude last night was his first real boxer he faced, I believe.
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I would like it better if he would speed up the process. Dude last night was his first real boxer he faced, I believe.
Well this is some ableist garbage. Got wheelchair assistance for my last plane journey due to a broken toe, didn’t realize I had to specify I needed it on landing as well, so “miraculously” hobbled off the plane to request one in the airport. You can’t tell someone’s support needs by looking at them
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Well this is some ableist garbage. Got wheelchair assistance for my last plane journey due to a broken toe, didn’t realize I had to specify I needed it on landing as well, so “miraculously” hobbled off the plane to request one in the airport. You can’t tell someone’s support needs by looking at them
Pretty sure this is how network notes went on every Xena episode:
Network: So the scene where Xena & Gabrielle declare their love in bed is definitely too gay
Writers: What!? It clearly says “friend” right there!
Network: …why is she playing with Xena’s hair while gazing lovingly into her eyes?
Network: So the scene where Xena & Gabrielle declare their love in bed is definitely too gay
Writers: What!? It clearly says “friend” right there!
Network: …why is she playing with Xena’s hair while gazing lovingly into her eyes?
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Pretty sure this is how network notes went on every Xena episode:
Network: So the scene where Xena & Gabrielle declare their love in bed is definitely too gay
Writers: What!? It clearly says “friend” right there!
Network: …why is she playing with Xena’s hair while gazing lovingly into her eyes?
Network: So the scene where Xena & Gabrielle declare their love in bed is definitely too gay
Writers: What!? It clearly says “friend” right there!
Network: …why is she playing with Xena’s hair while gazing lovingly into her eyes?
Removing all the em-dashes in my resume & cover letter so people don’t think I used AI—yet another way AI is ruining everything.
December 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Removing all the em-dashes in my resume & cover letter so people don’t think I used AI—yet another way AI is ruining everything.
Murdoch Mysteries is a goddamn bonkers delight
I directed the episode of MURDOCH MYSTERIES set in 1910 where they invented the internet AND the concept of the nude selfie.
best we've got right now is Murdoch Mysteries, a detective show set in late 1800's Toronto, where the lead characters regularly invent modern technology by accident. Detective Murdoch created the Roomba. Tatiana Maslany's brother plays a gay jewish cop. It's incredible.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Murdoch Mysteries is a goddamn bonkers delight
When I was at Oxford Brookes University you’d occasionally have Oxford University types be snobs about it (it used to be a polytechnic, the horror). This was obviously classist garbage, but I’m willing to concede that Brookes was dramatically lacking in cats & needs to address that fundamental flaw
I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
When I was at Oxford Brookes University you’d occasionally have Oxford University types be snobs about it (it used to be a polytechnic, the horror). This was obviously classist garbage, but I’m willing to concede that Brookes was dramatically lacking in cats & needs to address that fundamental flaw
Still trying to figure out how to describe my recent job history in a cover letter post bookshop—so I had a bookshop that closed because *gestures widely at the economy* but I promise it was a great bookshop. But also I’ve been working an unrelated admin job so I could do that with my free time…
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Still trying to figure out how to describe my recent job history in a cover letter post bookshop—so I had a bookshop that closed because *gestures widely at the economy* but I promise it was a great bookshop. But also I’ve been working an unrelated admin job so I could do that with my free time…
Got jump scared by a horrible, pale spider, only for it to disappear in the time it took me to get a squishing implement. Now it’s just lurking somewhere in my living room…
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Got jump scared by a horrible, pale spider, only for it to disappear in the time it took me to get a squishing implement. Now it’s just lurking somewhere in my living room…
Shin Godzilla (a film in which politicians, shockingly, eventually come to the realization that maybe they should take an action of some kind in the face of an existential threat) turned out to be excellent election night viewing
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Shin Godzilla (a film in which politicians, shockingly, eventually come to the realization that maybe they should take an action of some kind in the face of an existential threat) turned out to be excellent election night viewing
@comicprintinguk.bsky.social if you haven’t already seen it, this is so deeply your jam
Just watched Dracula 2000 and its 19% on Rotten Tomatoes is a travesty—this film is art! I mean it could have used more Jeri Ryan, but that’s true of most things!
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@comicprintinguk.bsky.social if you haven’t already seen it, this is so deeply your jam
Just watched Dracula 2000 and its 19% on Rotten Tomatoes is a travesty—this film is art! I mean it could have used more Jeri Ryan, but that’s true of most things!
October 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Just watched Dracula 2000 and its 19% on Rotten Tomatoes is a travesty—this film is art! I mean it could have used more Jeri Ryan, but that’s true of most things!
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Let me be clear on my position: If ChatGPT Atlas was the only browser left, I would no longer use the web.
October 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Let me be clear on my position: If ChatGPT Atlas was the only browser left, I would no longer use the web.
Visiting my dad & watching Jason Takes Manhattan as god intended—starting part way through because it’s on cable.
October 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Visiting my dad & watching Jason Takes Manhattan as god intended—starting part way through because it’s on cable.
The needle covers from my B-12 injections looked like robot legs so I made a #WeirdLittleGuy. Engineering wise it makes no sense, but I don’t care.
October 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The needle covers from my B-12 injections looked like robot legs so I made a #WeirdLittleGuy. Engineering wise it makes no sense, but I don’t care.
Also I don’t think I’ve shared this Little Guy on here yet. A sculpture of my sister’s beautiful cat that I made for my nephew. I didn’t quite capture her full beauty or roundness, but I think I got the eyes.
September 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Also I don’t think I’ve shared this Little Guy on here yet. A sculpture of my sister’s beautiful cat that I made for my nephew. I didn’t quite capture her full beauty or roundness, but I think I got the eyes.
#WeirdLittleGuys forever!
Today's Love Letter is from the unstoppable @shing.bsky.social. Shing's ode to Making Little Guys is one of the single most nourishing pieces of nonfiction I have ever read. Maybe you need this one as much as I do.
Little Guys
A Love Letters Feature by Shing Yin Khor - September 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
September 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#WeirdLittleGuys forever!
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honestly rough month for tingle haters. i apologize
September 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
honestly rough month for tingle haters. i apologize
A very polite way of saying ‘Look, we all know this flag is specifically for football or racists’.
An English friend walking down a street with a bunch of Saint George’s Cross flags one time: ‘I was freaked out by all the flags, then I remembered England’s doing well in the World Cup’.
An English friend walking down a street with a bunch of Saint George’s Cross flags one time: ‘I was freaked out by all the flags, then I remembered England’s doing well in the World Cup’.
Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags
To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets
It's really not that hard, is it?
To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets
It's really not that hard, is it?
September 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A very polite way of saying ‘Look, we all know this flag is specifically for football or racists’.
An English friend walking down a street with a bunch of Saint George’s Cross flags one time: ‘I was freaked out by all the flags, then I remembered England’s doing well in the World Cup’.
An English friend walking down a street with a bunch of Saint George’s Cross flags one time: ‘I was freaked out by all the flags, then I remembered England’s doing well in the World Cup’.
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Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
Anyway, it is true that democracy will be on the ballot in 2028. But it'll be on the ballot for Democrats well before the general. And the party's task is creating democracy, not defending it. That demands both an attentiveness to structural politics and a willingness to defend the equality of all.
August 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
I set up my Gmail* account when I lived in the UK & while the calendar I actually use is the American one, the primary calendar is stuck as the British one so I get taunted by holidays I don’t actually have.
*it was actually googlemail at first because they didn’t have the rights
*it was actually googlemail at first because they didn’t have the rights
August 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I set up my Gmail* account when I lived in the UK & while the calendar I actually use is the American one, the primary calendar is stuck as the British one so I get taunted by holidays I don’t actually have.
*it was actually googlemail at first because they didn’t have the rights
*it was actually googlemail at first because they didn’t have the rights
Missed an email about apartment maintenance and woke up to the noise of a man in my living room—an adrenaline fueled start to the day
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Missed an email about apartment maintenance and woke up to the noise of a man in my living room—an adrenaline fueled start to the day
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If they get negative comments they will weight this more heavily than all of the scientific community combined. We have to flood this with positivity to make it useless to them.
The feds are gathering public comments on gender-affirming care for minors. Whatever they are intending to do, it's essential to make it clear that Americans support GAC for all of us, including minors. Learn more and find links to leave your comment here: transequality.org/ftc-hands-of...
#trans
#trans
Tell the FTC: Hands Off Gender-Affirming Care | A4TE
The FTC has opened a 60-day public comment portal—and your action and your story are urgently needed. This is a critical opportunity to submit your public comments in support of gender-affirming care ...
transequality.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If they get negative comments they will weight this more heavily than all of the scientific community combined. We have to flood this with positivity to make it useless to them.
Twice, in different cities, I’ve somehow ended up living close enough to the site of a Christian music festival that I’m unable to escape it in my own home. At least this time I’m not trying to finish a dissertation I guess.
August 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Twice, in different cities, I’ve somehow ended up living close enough to the site of a Christian music festival that I’m unable to escape it in my own home. At least this time I’m not trying to finish a dissertation I guess.
Freshman year of college in Salem, VA (pop about 25,000) got a ride somewhere with guy who closed the windows because “we’re driving through the ghetto.” It was a street with a couple of warehouses & no people around. I made fun of him immediately.
The idea among rightwingers of cities being dangerous extends to the smallest cities possible. I live in a city of maybe 30,000 people, and I remember a coworkers' husband years ago acting like I must witness Taxi Driver-level degradations everyday.
August 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Freshman year of college in Salem, VA (pop about 25,000) got a ride somewhere with guy who closed the windows because “we’re driving through the ghetto.” It was a street with a couple of warehouses & no people around. I made fun of him immediately.