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Kate Nepveu
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Speaking solely for myself. Neither gives nor receives unsolicited advice. She/her.

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from the dawn of time right down to today, no one has ever said "I don't want to sound X" and then successfully avoided sounding X.

(this includes me, btw. when I find myself starting to say that, I try to take it as a sign to reconsider.)
September 30, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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@courtneymilan.com this just popped out of my Tumblr queue and I thought you might like it

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8-Bit Willow | Olly Moss | V&A Explore The Collections
Plate, ‘8-Bit Willow’, designed by Olly Moss, made in Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, 2013. Glazed bone china, overglaze printed in blue.
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September 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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this is four sizes too big for me but I've been hugely tempted anyway. save me!
September 23, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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I went down a rabbit hole about portable sundials this morning at Tumblr in case it's of interest to anyone here. thanks to resident physicist @orzelc.bsky.social for consulting

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💬 2  🔁 395  ❤️ 719 · A Brief History of Timekeeping - BenBella Books · I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole looking at this: how does a portable sundial work? Would this one work? Sadly the mu…
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September 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Our dog Charlie caught a chipmunk yesterday and then stood stock-still with its head and top half in his mouth and the back half hanging out. You have never seen a dog so clearly convey "ummm, NOW what am I supposed to do??"

(I told him to drop it and he did, for which he got a very good treat.)
September 6, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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today in amazingly effective and welcome mood-lifters:

Seven Nation Army where the bass line is samples of Homer Simpson saying D'oh.

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💬 1  🔁 323  ❤️ 519 · η - Seven Nation Army where the bass line is samples of Homer saying D'oh
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August 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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spot the one plant around our lamppost, all of which I planted in the spring, that is NOT being eaten by local fauna
silver rod that isn't blooming because something's eating it irises what are being chomped on a stem of a cardinal flower extending almost horizontally because it's being crowded out, with a clean cut where the nice red flower used to be a frickin' enormous calico aster, nearly as tall as the lamppost, which is starting to think about blooming
August 28, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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this is so true and good and also immediately reminded me of the classic post from the other perspective (spoilers for Ancillary Justice)

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August 28, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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I did not see the tiny bird heads in D at first (or look at the description in the post) so I parsed it as an alien head with a long neck. (I will put a screenshot in the reply otherwise it'll break the quote.)

and I think they look sick as heck. someone should buy them.
August 24, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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busy day today, broke out new T-shirt for morale
mirror selfie of me wearing the T-shirt that Nona is wearing on the cover of Nona the Ninth
August 22, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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not the last @readercon.org catchup, I hope, but the last for a while:

Miles to Go: The Vorkosigan Saga at 40, with @ianrandalstrock.bsky.social @katherinecrighton.bsky.social and Meredith Schwartz

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August 3, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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more @readercon.org catchup: Things Everyone Likes But You, with @casella.bsky.social, John Kessel, @karchwrites.bsky.social and Tracy Majka, which was so much fun and which I did actually take thorough notes for:

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August 3, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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resuming the @readercon.org writeups with quite incomplete notes on The Odyssey in 2026 (pre-Nolan movie), with Charlie Allison, @kenschneyer.bsky.social and Sonya Taaffe!

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August 3, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Readercon homework, part two: booklogging Emily Wilson's translations of The Iliad and the Odyssey, with bonus comments on three other Odyssey translations (two I did not read, and one I read about half of, but grudgingly and with suspicion).

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Homer (tr. Emily Wilson), The Iliad and The Odyssey – Outside of a Dog: Kate Nepveu’s Book Log
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August 3, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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trying to catch up on my blogging before vacation! First, somewhat abbreviated thoughts on Megan Whalen Turner's series The Queen's Thief, which was one part of my Readercon homework.

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Turner, Megan Whalen: The Queen’s Thief series – Outside of a Dog: Kate Nepveu’s Book Log
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August 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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goopy boys in musicals: thoughts on Oklahoma!, Les Miserables, and Hadestown (three times, including today).

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August 2, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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going to the Hadestown proshot!
reversed mirror selfie of me wearing a T-shirt with lyrics from Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" ("You got a fast car / I got a plan to get us out of here") over a picture of Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm in an apple car
August 2, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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okay this felt easy for a hard? I did almost no screenshot markup for it.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 2nd 2026 (Hard), in 04:55
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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August 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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cannot believe I got all greens on this, spending one zillion years running possibilities on a marked-up screenshot was worth it

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 1st 2026 (Hard)
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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August 1, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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I've been thinking about how you do the "Nobody" scene in the Odyssey without the cyclops--who is supposed to be reasonably intelligent--saying "yeah right, pull the other one."

Tumblr has a suggestion.

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screenshot of a post from Tumblr user rosethyme, imagining the Muppets doing the Odyssey: "Who stabbed you in the eye, Polyphemus?" "Moi! Moi stabbed me!" "He stabbed himself. Sad."
July 30, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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I'm still sad that Bluesky doesn't let you have multiple gifs, because posting them one at a time did not give the full comedic effect of this squirrel missing the catch and going spinning end-over-end, twice, before finally making it. so here's Tumblr:

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acrobatic squirrel
This squirrel attempted to jump a full six feet (yes, I measured) from a nearby bush to the bird feeder. Its first two misses were spectacular, so much so that when it made it on the third try, I let....
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July 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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I'm pretty sure this is a dead steal and entirely sure that someone should buy it so I know it's gone and therefore cannot wist after something entirely out of my budget.
July 24, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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I'm early for an appointment & listening to Mary Beard & Charlotte Higgins' pedantic reaction to Nolan's Odyssey, partly about the film's very different moral framework, which reminds me of the poem's omissions:

no hint of women war captives in the poem, either. 1/

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July 23, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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this is how I found out that Emily Wilson is on here, which is a great way to start the morning

(h/t @pameladean.bsky.social )
emilyrcwilson.bsky.social EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · Jul 23
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
July 23, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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I'm so mad, that yellow was a misclick. (I removed the time because I mark up screenshots on the really complicated ones, so it is significantly understated.)

hopefully this is a good sign for the day!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jul 19th 2026 (Brutal)
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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July 19, 2026 at 12:44 PM