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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I say I feed the birds but, really, it’s a full-menagerie event.

Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It was our family computer and then I took it to college with me (along with a dot matrix printer and a box of paper). Used it all four years.

An Apple Macintosh Plus, a small, boxy, beige computer with an external hard drive, keyboard and mouse. I didn’t have an extended keyboard like this and I used a trackball instead of a mouse.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I call this one “Evening Feeding of the Birds”.

Two small brown and black juncos, standing on dirt, watching four small, reddish-brown Douglas squirrels and a large grey squirrel eat all of the food. There is a little bit of green grass and foliage around but it has been a dry summer in Seattle.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lots of posts about Duncan Sheik just mention his one big hit. He had a good-sized catalog, and his Smith covers are fantastic. He put beautiful music out into the world. He will be missed.

Six cds by Duncan Sheik. Four studio albums, one covers album, and a promotional EP of covers.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Get yourself a Steller’s Jay that looks at you like this. Just kidding. Don’t. He’s stalking me. I’m inside the house on the couch. #stellersjay #birdsky

The view through a window. There is a hummingbird feeder made of copper and a suction cup stuck to it. Outside is a leafy green rhododendron. Sitting on a branch is a medium sized bird with blue pants and a black top. He is looking straight at the camera.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reading outside while I can—no smoke, no rain, but not a lot of green either. The birds make a lot of noise in the bushes because of all the dried leaves and such.

The cover of The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories with the classic Penguin black bottom and white strip. The top has green fields, a blue sky, and pink clouds, with a grey railway cutting across it. The little two car train is white with red accents and black windows. I’m using a Spirited Away inspired bookmark in it for obvious reasons.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Saw my first American Goldfinch (female) in my yard today! Washington state bird but I was starting to wonder. #birdsky

A very well camouflaged female goldfinch is slightly yellow with black and white striped wings. She sits on a dead lawn with some small greenish weeds and brown leaves around her.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah! Time to hang out with Din again (and Ana, I guess, although she scares me!).

A maroon book cover for A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett. There are goldeny green mushrooms around the edges and a flayed head in the middle. More fungi seem to be growing from the neck hole of said head.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I had never heard of her before! I’m reading this one.

The cover of GUILTY CREATURES: A Menagerie of Mysteries, bluey greens with some reeds and some birds.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Doing the non-fic thing right now. I enjoyed Richard Holmes’ book The Age of Wonder and have been reading other books lately about Darwin’s effect on his contemporaries so I’m reading this one on Tennyson (who I know almost nothing about).

The cover of The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes. The cover is purple, pink and blue with splashes that resemble the night sky, and has Tennyson’s face at the top.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Until the End of the World (1991), dir. Wim Wenders. I have seen the US theatrical cut (158 mins) many, many times but have been watching the Criterion director’s cut, all 287 mins of it, quite a bit recently. I’m not sure many other people have even seen this once. One of the best soundtracks too.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Digging in the dirt in the backyard yesterday (former logging land that used to be native land about 15 miles from Seattle) and this agate stone tool popped out. There are apparently agate seams near here. This is still quite a sharp point too!

A manmade agate stone tool, clear on the edges and rust red on the inside. Placed against a remote control for size.

Tilted into the sun to show more of the facets

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Very cool. We found this stone tool while clearing dirt near our patio yesterday. It’s not very poseable.

An agate stone tool, clear on the edges and rust red in the middle.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

What a lovely, lovely little novelette this is! Sweetly romantic, quite naughty, and so, so smart, just like all of @zenaldehyde.bsky.social’s stories. Another amazing read from Homeward Books!

THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho, a white book cover featuring a glamorous young Chinese woman in a red cocktail dress and black shoes, holding a pink cocktail.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just spent way too much time trying to figure out this warning on my scone packet mix, especially since they don’t even have butter in them.

A food packet that says, among other non-related things, Do not eat raw butter.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

@gavingrant.bsky.social warned readers not to rush through WHAT WE ARE SEEKING so, before the last 100 pages, I switched to short stories by @ambersparks.bsky.social. They were the PERFECT companion to Cameron’s book. Gender, sexuality, marriage, religion, it’s all in both. Now back to the novel!

On the left, What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed is blue fading to purple with an alien sort of magnolia flower on it in creams and yellows. On the right is And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks and is is yellow with women’s busts, faces obscured by flowers and red.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Give me a favorite non-Star Trek performance from a Star Trek actor. Recently, Jack Quaid in Novocaine. Granted, it was hilarious that you could close your eyes and imagine it was a bonkers, violent movie starring Boimler.

A man hanging by his ankle from a hole in a ceiling, framed by an internal doorway.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Out with the old books and in with the new/used. WHEN WE WERE REAL is just a copy for my shelves since I can’t stop thinking about it months later!

Three book covers and an upside-down puzzle on a maple coffee table. The books are PLATFORM DECAY by Martha Wells with Murderbot on the cover, WHEN WE WERE REAL by Daryl Gregory (pinky-orange with clouds and cloud sheep scattered around), and THE NOH MASK MURDER by Akimitsu Takagi, teal and black with a devilish Noh mask.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New bird at the feeder! Band-tailed pigeon 🐦 #birdsky

A grey, meaty bird with a yellow and black beak and yellow feet. It sits on an orange bird feeder with a tray of seed in front of it and a blue roof above. The background is full of green trees and pink flowers.

The distinctive white and black on the back of the neck (nape)

The wide-angle camera turning this sweetie into a derp that looks like a gull

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I think the library is going to need more than 5 copies of this audiobook! I’m looking forward to THE LAST CONTRACT OF ISAKO because I didn’t expect to enjoy The Jade Saga series but it was unputdownable (in my ears).

A screenshot of the King County Library Libby app where I got to be lucky number 100 on the holds list for The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. The book cover is a woman with windblown black hair in a red swooshy coat, holding a sword and looking out at a snowy landscape.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Also, this is how close the feeder is to the front of our house and it’s the window that the kid looked out of when he heard the sounds outside. Front row seat!

A red-headed dinosaur (pileated woodpecker) on a black suet block cage, hanging from a black pole in front of a white-framed window and a green rhododendron.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A new portable cd player for my birthday meant looking through my cds for an inaugural discman-era album to play. It was a pretty easy choice.

A round black portable cd player and the cd case of the soundtrack to The Crow, a white album with a crow in shades of grey. They are on a beat-up maple coffee table.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Gonna take the weekend off of social media and build a book nook instead.

A box containing a kit to build a book nook. The box is off-white and has delicate Japanese-style buildings sketched on it. It also shows the Kyoto Gion book nook which has a tiny town with streetlights, cherry blossoms, and ginger cats.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A Northern Flicker came by to hide in the rhody for a bit and wait his turn for the (almost gone) suet block. #birdsky

A Northern Flicker male who has everything: a grey body with a brownish cap, a rosy belly with black spots, red cheek patches, and an orange underside to his tail. He is sitting in a snowy rhododendron bush.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Here’s the squirrel. He’s very mad at me now for taking a picture.

A brown Douglas squirrel eating black sunflower seeds in the snow.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Surprise snow day! I took care of the birds (and the resident Douglas squirrel, who got some sunflower chips under the house eve) and bought some tea from @fridaytea.com because I have to try the Lucky 13 blend! #birdsky #wawx

A red-breasted nuthatch, sheltering from the snow in a green-leafed rhododendron. The bird is grey with black accents, a reddish orange tummy and a white head with a black Zorro mask. Its beak is a tiny little sword.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Okay, phones down, books up. I’m going with CARPE JUGULUM by Terry Pratchett for #MarchMagics2026.

The cover of Carpe Jugulum is dark blue with a large white moon and a black silhouette of a coach and horses flying over it on a sparkly trail. The book is sitting on a multi-colored puzzle called Venetian Escape, which would sure be nice right about now.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Today’s “bad photo through the window” visitor for #NationalBirdDay. The flickers have finally figured out good positioning on the suet cage so that they can stab down like they want to. Also, my husband is accusing me of reverting all of the local birds to carnivores.

A Northern Flicker, grey with a black collar and a fancy spotted tummy, on a black cage that houses a delicious (to them) suet block. Don’t look up what suet is. And don’t smell it up close. You will gag.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My final finished book of 2025 and number 100 for the year. I solved both mysteries in this one so I’m pretty sure that @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social has to give me a prize or a job or something now. Or maybe the reading of a good book is its own prize?

The cover of MISS WINTER IN THE LIBRARY WITH A KNIFE by Martin Edwards. The actual cover is red, with a vague blueprint drawing, a letter opener, and a pair of dice. This picture is black and white for more DRAMA.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. Diner coffee. I knew it.

A steaming cup of diner coffee in a dark brown ceramic mug on a scuffed, light brown table. There is a clear plastic glass of ice water on the left, a reddish booth seat behind, and a window in the very back. The end of a metal spoon snuck into the picture on the left.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I just got really angry for a minute at Penguin Random House … for reasons.

An image that says Historical Fiction Set in the 1990s and has a tacky 80s background.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

A bit of atmospheric river today is bring all of the woodpeckers to the suet block. Took these within the span of about three minutes. #woodpecker

A downy woodpecker, black and white with a red patch on the head, is perched on the side of a suet block in a black metal cage. The background has orangey maple leaves, reddish burning bush and a black driveway.

A northern flicker, grey and black with and white and black speckled tummy and a black collar. So fancy.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I accidentally made an Aughra cookie the other day!

A chocolate chip cookie that scarily resembles Aughra from The Dark Crystal.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Cyndi Lauper WAS my first! Madonna was my second. Still have both!

The album covers of Cyndi Lauper’s She’s So Unusual and Madonna’s self-titled debut, leaning against a white bookshelf. They both feature pictures of the singers.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Okay, I am now in legal compliance. My first read of it was a library book but awesomely unique and weird books eventually get a home on my physical shelves!

A receipt showing purchase of The Shamshine Blind so that Paz Pardo and I can legally be internet friends. I also preordered Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur) which comes out next week and We Will Rise Again which comes out in December. All were bought on Bookshop.org and support a small, diverse indie bookshop!

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I am so happy I have KATABASIS to disappear into right now. As it says on the beautiful sprayed edge, “Hell is Other People”. (Not you. It’s Republicans.) 📚

The sprayed edge of KATABASIS by R. F. Kuang has orange and red flames and flowing turquoise water and a badge in the center that says Hell is Other People. The book is sitting on a new puzzle from Thames and Hudson called The Story of Rome in 1000 Pieces but it’s really The Aeneid. It matches the book perfectly and features many mini-scenes.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I think there‘s something weird about this episode of Marlow Murder Club.

A DVR recording with the description “The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece, season two, episode one. A princess steals the heart of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War 2.”

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Read AUTOMATIC NOODLE now. Read AUTOMATIC NOODLE NOW. READ AUTOMATIC NOODLE NOW!

The cover of Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz has a large bowl of noodles and some small robots, all above some San Francisco elements. It is bright teal and orange and purple and red and full of friendship (and noodles).

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I think the Bird Buddy AI is having a rough day.

A grey circle with pink legs and feet, standing on an orange perch in front of a tray of seeds and grain. It is labeled Mourning Dove. 🐦

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Probably not entirely a coincidence that the octopus art I recently bought from @arielleishere.bsky.social matches the cover of the new @bschillace.brandyschillace.com book. Also, Mola mola!

The cover of a book reads The Dead Come to Stay. It is a medium blue with neon green flowers and building accents. The two Lino prints are 1) a black octopus on blue and green overlapping rectangles and 2) a Mola mola colored in pink and orange gradient.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I guess my Seafair experience will just be this Boeing 777 that is doing donuts and passing directly over our house, northeast of Seattle. Might be up to ten or so passes by now. @chasingray.bsky.social

A flight tracker screen shot that shows a circular pattern for one flight. My house is directly on that circle path.

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Kristen Meston @klpm.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I tend to curate my reading order like a playlist, with variety and themes and all sorts of fun. But sometimes random luck steps in and you end up with consecutive reads with bright colors and cats on the covers and the connection makes itself. (Just finishing LUMINOUS. OMG.) 💙📚👀

The cover of INFINITE ARCHIVE by Mur Lafferty is in fluorescent pink, yellow and turquoise and has a woman in white on the front and lots of cat silhouettes. LUMINOUS by Silvia Park has a multicolored tiger on it.

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