Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
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my sister and i saw crime 101 on friday. i liked it, partly because the hotter hemsworth played a guy who's very good and very confident in what he does - jewel thief - but is anxious in so many other aspects of his life. like, he can't look people in the eye when he talks to them about anything that isn't crime-related, and it comes across as nervousness more than anything else. and i liked that. also, you know, he's a very attractive human. :D
saturday i went into the square to see if i had any new comics - i didn't - and ended up in line for a chocolate festival, in which vendors all around the square set up tables and gave out chocolate samples. when i first got to the square the line was excessive so i went to the comic shop instead but by the time i was ready for the line it was a. much shorter because b. the festival was winding down and vendors were out of samples and folding up their tables. i did however get a couple of truffles (yum) and some hot chocolate with whipped cream (also yum). and then it was cold and i went home and watched rental family which was extremely cute and only a little sad and i highly recommend it and not just because brendan fraser is still so charming.
and then sunday my car died! as i was on my way to curling! all the lights on the dashboard went on and then the engine just died. and i couldn't get it to turn over. so i called aaa and eventually they sent a tow truck (it always takes an hour) and in the meantime i sat in my car and read a thing for writing group and four sets of people - four! - stopped to ask if i was ok. (one couple maybe in their late 20s/early 30s, one guy with a dog in a u-haul, one dad with one kid, one mom with two kids.) i was on a residential street, i was mostly out of the way, it wasn't cold, a tow was coming, i was fine.
there is coincidentally and surprisingly a garage around the corner from me. so my car is there and so far they don't know what's wrong with it, only that it seems to be electrical or computer related and not mechanical. hopefully they figure out what's wrong and can fix it because i am 100% absolutely going to curling on sunday because it's been WEEKS. and the only way to get there is to drive.
in weather news it snowed last tuesday (so, a week ago) (and then i got rained on going home >.< ) and yesterday it was like 70º and all the hedges of dirty icy snow along the sidewalk had melted. so i took a walk after work. it was spring! and now it's a little cold again. whatever, at least it's not snow. and i love snow! but it should be closing in on spring already.
a fun story i learned at the comic shop on saturday: years ago there was a signing with jimmy carter somewhere in the square (i think at the bookstore that used to be around the corner from the comic shop and is a bank now but it wasn't a big bookstore so maybe not) and this one woman, after she got her book signed, was walking away and turned and said to the former president "if you still have lust in your heart i'm available". and i thought that was so funny. i felt kind of bad for carter, i mean he must have been mortified, but come on, it was a good line.
yesterday they got rid of the admin manager at work, by which i mean they eliminated her position. (i think as a cost-cutting measure and not because she'd done anything to deserve being fired or anything.) we had the weekly admin meeting and then like two hours later we were all getting an email saying "we've done this thing..." she leads the admin meetings. she didn't act like she knew she was about to lose her job. so now the admins aren't going to have anyone to advocate for us to hq and no one to run interference and do all those things that we need someone to do for us because we have too much other shit to do. i really liked her. i'm sad she's gone.
i also heard a fun story about one of the pi's: she had to fly to houston and then san jose for conference/talk/workshop/whatever, and her admin kept asking for feedback on potential flights, and the pi kept not answering. she has to leave on a tuesday and calls the admin on sunday and the admin says what about your flights? and the pi says i can't find the information you sent me, can you send it again. so the admin does. and then the pi says i found a flight to san jose and the admin says there are no flights to san jose airport (i think this was the houston-san jose leg), you have to fly to san francisco. and the pi insists she found a flight to san jose airport. and the admin finally says fine, ok, whatever. so it's tuesday and the pi is theoretically on her way and the admin gets a phone call and the pi is in san jose... in COSTA RICA. not california. and she can't get through customs because they won't let her out of the airport and into the country without a hotel reservation which she obviously doesn't have because she was supposed to be in the united states and not, may i repeat, costa rica. so the admin probably swears a lot in her head and thinks i told you so, maybe you should fucking listen to me next time and busts her ass trying to get the pi out of costa rica without having to deal with a 24-hour layover in el salvador.
that is a long layover.
i want a nonstop flight, says the pi. you can't get one, says the admin. i need to fly business class, says the pi. the admin probably swears a lot inside her head again and somehow manages to get the pi out of costa rica and to the correct san jose and she ends up only missing one meeting. but holy shit, lady, maybe listen to your admin when she gives you travel information. and also, wouldn't you have to show your passport when you checked in at the airport and did you not realize you don't normally do that flying from one part of the us to another part of the us? good lord.
me and the other admins who heard this story are under strict orders not to tell anyone but you guys don't work with me so i can tell you. :D
i know this was like a week ago but have some pics of the blood moon. so cool, so spooky.
and i know this was a month ago but if you wanted to know about the couple who were married during bad bunny's halftime show here ya go. (it should be a gift link.) when they were done sending out invitations for their wedding (which was not supposed to be during the super bowl, obvs) they had some leftover and figured they'd send bad bunny one for the hell of it because he's the groom's favorite singer. surprise. :D
saturday i went into the square to see if i had any new comics - i didn't - and ended up in line for a chocolate festival, in which vendors all around the square set up tables and gave out chocolate samples. when i first got to the square the line was excessive so i went to the comic shop instead but by the time i was ready for the line it was a. much shorter because b. the festival was winding down and vendors were out of samples and folding up their tables. i did however get a couple of truffles (yum) and some hot chocolate with whipped cream (also yum). and then it was cold and i went home and watched rental family which was extremely cute and only a little sad and i highly recommend it and not just because brendan fraser is still so charming.
and then sunday my car died! as i was on my way to curling! all the lights on the dashboard went on and then the engine just died. and i couldn't get it to turn over. so i called aaa and eventually they sent a tow truck (it always takes an hour) and in the meantime i sat in my car and read a thing for writing group and four sets of people - four! - stopped to ask if i was ok. (one couple maybe in their late 20s/early 30s, one guy with a dog in a u-haul, one dad with one kid, one mom with two kids.) i was on a residential street, i was mostly out of the way, it wasn't cold, a tow was coming, i was fine.
there is coincidentally and surprisingly a garage around the corner from me. so my car is there and so far they don't know what's wrong with it, only that it seems to be electrical or computer related and not mechanical. hopefully they figure out what's wrong and can fix it because i am 100% absolutely going to curling on sunday because it's been WEEKS. and the only way to get there is to drive.
in weather news it snowed last tuesday (so, a week ago) (and then i got rained on going home >.< ) and yesterday it was like 70º and all the hedges of dirty icy snow along the sidewalk had melted. so i took a walk after work. it was spring! and now it's a little cold again. whatever, at least it's not snow. and i love snow! but it should be closing in on spring already.
a fun story i learned at the comic shop on saturday: years ago there was a signing with jimmy carter somewhere in the square (i think at the bookstore that used to be around the corner from the comic shop and is a bank now but it wasn't a big bookstore so maybe not) and this one woman, after she got her book signed, was walking away and turned and said to the former president "if you still have lust in your heart i'm available". and i thought that was so funny. i felt kind of bad for carter, i mean he must have been mortified, but come on, it was a good line.
yesterday they got rid of the admin manager at work, by which i mean they eliminated her position. (i think as a cost-cutting measure and not because she'd done anything to deserve being fired or anything.) we had the weekly admin meeting and then like two hours later we were all getting an email saying "we've done this thing..." she leads the admin meetings. she didn't act like she knew she was about to lose her job. so now the admins aren't going to have anyone to advocate for us to hq and no one to run interference and do all those things that we need someone to do for us because we have too much other shit to do. i really liked her. i'm sad she's gone.
i also heard a fun story about one of the pi's: she had to fly to houston and then san jose for conference/talk/workshop/whatever, and her admin kept asking for feedback on potential flights, and the pi kept not answering. she has to leave on a tuesday and calls the admin on sunday and the admin says what about your flights? and the pi says i can't find the information you sent me, can you send it again. so the admin does. and then the pi says i found a flight to san jose and the admin says there are no flights to san jose airport (i think this was the houston-san jose leg), you have to fly to san francisco. and the pi insists she found a flight to san jose airport. and the admin finally says fine, ok, whatever. so it's tuesday and the pi is theoretically on her way and the admin gets a phone call and the pi is in san jose... in COSTA RICA. not california. and she can't get through customs because they won't let her out of the airport and into the country without a hotel reservation which she obviously doesn't have because she was supposed to be in the united states and not, may i repeat, costa rica. so the admin probably swears a lot in her head and thinks i told you so, maybe you should fucking listen to me next time and busts her ass trying to get the pi out of costa rica without having to deal with a 24-hour layover in el salvador.
that is a long layover.
i want a nonstop flight, says the pi. you can't get one, says the admin. i need to fly business class, says the pi. the admin probably swears a lot inside her head again and somehow manages to get the pi out of costa rica and to the correct san jose and she ends up only missing one meeting. but holy shit, lady, maybe listen to your admin when she gives you travel information. and also, wouldn't you have to show your passport when you checked in at the airport and did you not realize you don't normally do that flying from one part of the us to another part of the us? good lord.
me and the other admins who heard this story are under strict orders not to tell anyone but you guys don't work with me so i can tell you. :D
i know this was like a week ago but have some pics of the blood moon. so cool, so spooky.
and i know this was a month ago but if you wanted to know about the couple who were married during bad bunny's halftime show here ya go. (it should be a gift link.) when they were done sending out invitations for their wedding (which was not supposed to be during the super bowl, obvs) they had some leftover and figured they'd send bad bunny one for the hell of it because he's the groom's favorite singer. surprise. :D
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starandrea Mar. 11th, 2026 09:50 pm)Marci heard the first red-winged blackbird two days ago, and I heard the first woodcock tonight. There are two whole crocus sprouts coming up through the snow in the front garden, plus a tiny bit of new green from the hardy irises, lilies, and stonecrop.
Plants that keep their green under the snow, so I can never tell when they're awake and when they're not, include the recently revealed euonymous, heuchara, ginger, pulmonaria, and lamium. Apparently last year I posted a picture of the first daffodil sprout on March 9, so I have been looking intently for them. Kathy has some, and they're up on the sunny street just south of us, but none in my gardens so far.
I do have these lovely haworthia flowers in my succulent planter, which I have on my calendar to water for the first time this weekend. How neat. Also a picture of Daphne walking with a friend, and some pretty photos of the sun and sky.
( flower & Daphne )
( sunrise and sunset )
Plants that keep their green under the snow, so I can never tell when they're awake and when they're not, include the recently revealed euonymous, heuchara, ginger, pulmonaria, and lamium. Apparently last year I posted a picture of the first daffodil sprout on March 9, so I have been looking intently for them. Kathy has some, and they're up on the sunny street just south of us, but none in my gardens so far.
I do have these lovely haworthia flowers in my succulent planter, which I have on my calendar to water for the first time this weekend. How neat. Also a picture of Daphne walking with a friend, and some pretty photos of the sun and sky.
( flower & Daphne )
( sunrise and sunset )
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It's still Wednesday here! Are you making any progress in your reading?
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(conuly Mar. 9th, 2026 08:59 pm)
conuly Mar. 9th, 2026 08:59 pm)Jenn related everybody's lack of sleep, ending with a hopeful "So, you're not working tonight, right?"
Ah, no, I am working, and under no circumstances will I call out on the grounds that my dog is crazy.
Other than dementia, which she shows no signs of (the dog, not my sister... I mean, not her either, but that's not what I'm talking about), what could cause this sudden barking spree in an otherwise pretty quiet doggie?
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Ah, no, I am working, and under no circumstances will I call out on the grounds that my dog is crazy.
Other than dementia, which she shows no signs of (the dog, not my sister... I mean, not her either, but that's not what I'm talking about), what could cause this sudden barking spree in an otherwise pretty quiet doggie?
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Link to a sample letter/email
A friend let me know about a new Bureau of Prisons guideline for treatment of inmates with gender dysphoria, which you can read in its entirety here. The short form is that they're denying trans inmates gender-affirming care despite medical consensus, and substituting conversion therapy, which has been proven to be harmful and does not in any way "cure" gender dysphoria
A friend let me know about a new Bureau of Prisons guideline for treatment of inmates with gender dysphoria, which you can read in its entirety here. The short form is that they're denying trans inmates gender-affirming care despite medical consensus, and substituting conversion therapy, which has been proven to be harmful and does not in any way "cure" gender dysphoria
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At first I was like "is an Ed Sheeran reference going to make this comic seem dated" but then remembered Ed Sheeran's music sucks no matter what year it is
1. Tuxie was back this morning looking no worse for wear (he still is missing fur/scabby on his forehead, but that's from a couple weeks ago). He wasn't out there first thing when I went to feed the other cats, but was there when I got back from my walk. He doesn't understand daylight savings time, so it was too early for him the first time lol.
2. I finally managed to get a work meeting scheduled for Monday that has been so hard to wrangle. Hopefully it doesn't fall through (even the people who didn't accept the invite yet did specifically say they would be able to attend so fingers crossed).
3. The other night Ollie looked so sad at being evicted from the couch when we had dinner lol. He settled in to the perch in a few minutes, but those first few minutes he just looked so put out.
2. I finally managed to get a work meeting scheduled for Monday that has been so hard to wrangle. Hopefully it doesn't fall through (even the people who didn't accept the invite yet did specifically say they would be able to attend so fingers crossed).
3. The other night Ollie looked so sad at being evicted from the couch when we had dinner lol. He settled in to the perch in a few minutes, but those first few minutes he just looked so put out.
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Nothing but storms, high winds and tornado warnings (nothing spinny here in PA but who knows about back home).
So I did nothing but taxes (smaller refund and less pay in general, shocker) and grading ALL the things. I worked from 11-7. My brain is tired now.
So you'll get my books and one thing I've been forgetting for forever.
What I Just Finished Reading:
At Death's Dough - a so-so mystery. It took forever to get started and the ending was dumb
The Final Problem - mystery set in the 60s talk about dumb endings
I Want to be a Wall - a lavender marriage with an aro-ace BL loving girl and a gay man in love with his childhood friend. It was decent but not even for me to read more.
What I am Currently Reading:
The Snow Child - so far depressing. It's for my ugly prompt of dealing with infertility. It's a retelling of the
Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more so far, I really like this one
What I Plan to Read Next: With Friends Like These, La Grand Familia, and Luna Park history
I keep forgetting to post aboutkingstoken's reading challenge which you can see here. It's a prompt bingo. I'm going for a black out.
This is what I have so far (too tired to link them up, sorry, also I need to get up soon. Been sitting too long)
I'm just sharing the ones I've done
Main character over 30 The Final Problem by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Graphic novel/comic book Heavy Vinyl Complete Collection by Carly Usdin
Set at a school/university - Murder Made Her Wicked by Elizabeth Hobbs
No sex/romance - Murder in the Ranks by Kristi Jones
Figures without facial features on the cover - Murder Made Her Wicked by Elizabeth Hobbs
Crime/mystery - Sugar and Vice by Eve Calder
Book Older than you are - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Female author - Tell-Tale Treats: A Magical Fortune Cookie Novel by Jennifer J. Chow
A favorite author blurbed it - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
Banned book - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler & Damian Duffy
YA/Children’s - A Curious Kind of Magic by Mara Rutherford
So I did nothing but taxes (smaller refund and less pay in general, shocker) and grading ALL the things. I worked from 11-7. My brain is tired now.
So you'll get my books and one thing I've been forgetting for forever.
What I Just Finished Reading:
At Death's Dough - a so-so mystery. It took forever to get started and the ending was dumb
The Final Problem - mystery set in the 60s talk about dumb endings
I Want to be a Wall - a lavender marriage with an aro-ace BL loving girl and a gay man in love with his childhood friend. It was decent but not even for me to read more.
What I am Currently Reading:
The Snow Child - so far depressing. It's for my ugly prompt of dealing with infertility. It's a retelling of the
Violet Thistlewaite is not a villain any more so far, I really like this one
What I Plan to Read Next: With Friends Like These, La Grand Familia, and Luna Park history
I keep forgetting to post about
kingstoken's reading challenge which you can see here. It's a prompt bingo. I'm going for a black out.This is what I have so far (too tired to link them up, sorry, also I need to get up soon. Been sitting too long)
I'm just sharing the ones I've done
Main character over 30 The Final Problem by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Graphic novel/comic book Heavy Vinyl Complete Collection by Carly Usdin
Set at a school/university - Murder Made Her Wicked by Elizabeth Hobbs
No sex/romance - Murder in the Ranks by Kristi Jones
Figures without facial features on the cover - Murder Made Her Wicked by Elizabeth Hobbs
Crime/mystery - Sugar and Vice by Eve Calder
Book Older than you are - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Female author - Tell-Tale Treats: A Magical Fortune Cookie Novel by Jennifer J. Chow
A favorite author blurbed it - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
Banned book - Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia Butler & Damian Duffy
YA/Children’s - A Curious Kind of Magic by Mara Rutherford
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Out of concern for visa problems and the possibility of harm, after 30+ years, the Ig Nobel prize ceremony is moving to Switzerland this fall, although there will be a celebration later in Cambridge for the USian winners. (that's quite a run-on sentence but I think it's OK).
https://apnews.com/article/ig-nobels-award-prize-comical-science-achievement-where-7413f288bb43b5490611795b876684d2
I don't have any respect for FIFA. This year they should reschedule all the US-based World Cup matches. Iran has already (understandably) said their men's team won't come.
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/iran-world-cup-america-trump-boycott/
Their women's team was playing in Australia when the war started, and some of them have (requested? received?) asylum, although I have heard conflicting reports.
I am also full of admiration for the Foxborough select board that has thus far refused an "entertainment" license for the games scheduled there, as nobody has coughed up the money they need.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/03/kraft-group-deeply-disappointed-with-foxborough-officials-over-78m-security-costs-for-world-cup.html
BTS is scheduled to play there in August. I would guess the security money has already been budgeted by the concert promoters.
https://apnews.com/article/ig-nobels-award-prize-comical-science-achievement-where-7413f288bb43b5490611795b876684d2
I don't have any respect for FIFA. This year they should reschedule all the US-based World Cup matches. Iran has already (understandably) said their men's team won't come.
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/iran-world-cup-america-trump-boycott/
Their women's team was playing in Australia when the war started, and some of them have (requested? received?) asylum, although I have heard conflicting reports.
I am also full of admiration for the Foxborough select board that has thus far refused an "entertainment" license for the games scheduled there, as nobody has coughed up the money they need.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/03/kraft-group-deeply-disappointed-with-foxborough-officials-over-78m-security-costs-for-world-cup.html
BTS is scheduled to play there in August. I would guess the security money has already been budgeted by the concert promoters.
I just scrubbed my bathroom floor. This is an accomplishment!, or an embarrassment. It's been on my to-do list for at least six months. You know, if I wiped the floor more often I wouldn't have to do such scrubbing. Hmm, yeah.
While I scrubbed away I listed to a Bowery Boys episode (New York History) about the great blizzard of 1888. I noticed that they didn't mention equally terrible weather in the plains states. :-0
Here's a link that discusses the Children's Blizzard and a massive cold-wave, before describing the Great Blizzard of New York and New England.
Blizzard of 1888
Note: it mentions school children dying in the Dakotas and Minnesota. Not so much Minnesota, actually, mostly Nebraska and South Dakota.
Random bits:
Whenever I hear a complicated fraction I think "99 and 44/100 Percent Pure" - Ivory Soap.
And the mention of "Mennen" brought an immediate memory, just the words sung at the end of the commercial.
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While I scrubbed away I listed to a Bowery Boys episode (New York History) about the great blizzard of 1888. I noticed that they didn't mention equally terrible weather in the plains states. :-0
Here's a link that discusses the Children's Blizzard and a massive cold-wave, before describing the Great Blizzard of New York and New England.
Blizzard of 1888
Note: it mentions school children dying in the Dakotas and Minnesota. Not so much Minnesota, actually, mostly Nebraska and South Dakota.
Random bits:
Whenever I hear a complicated fraction I think "99 and 44/100 Percent Pure" - Ivory Soap.
And the mention of "Mennen" brought an immediate memory, just the words sung at the end of the commercial.
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daringfireball_feed Mar. 12th, 2026 12:46 am)Jason Snell:
So here we are: Six Colors now has three Jeopardy! players as contributors.
Come on, Moltz, get your shit together.
(daringfireball_feed Mar. 12th, 2026 12:26 am)
daringfireball_feed Mar. 12th, 2026 12:26 am)When I re-read my 2006 piece “And Oranges” today before linking to it, I paused when I read this:
And while it is easy to find ways to complain that Apple is not open enough — under-documented and undocumented security updates and system revisions, under-documented and undocumented file formats — it would be hard to argue with the premise that Apple today is more open than it has ever been before. (Exhibit A: the Web Kit project.)
It’s not often I get to fix 20-year-old typos, and to my 2026 self, “Web Kit” looks like an obvious typo. But after a moment, I remembered: in 2006, that wasn’t a typo.
I have started occasionally experiencing selective mutism.
And on the one hand, I don't actually think this is all that new an experience to me. I think I've always found it hard to talk sometimes, I've just not had a good language to refer to those times in any useful way. Selective Mutism is good language, and enough people are starting to know it that it kinda even is a useful thing to indicate to others on the rare occasion it matters.
But like everything about me, I don't _really_ have it and should probably not appropriate from other people's struggles just to sound cool. Especially because I don't actually have it. If I need to talk, and am experiencing a no-talk moment, I just step out of the no-talk and do what I need to do until I can return to it.
The phrase "slightly upsetting and marginally poetic" comes to mind, for no reason at all.
~Sor
MOOP!
And on the one hand, I don't actually think this is all that new an experience to me. I think I've always found it hard to talk sometimes, I've just not had a good language to refer to those times in any useful way. Selective Mutism is good language, and enough people are starting to know it that it kinda even is a useful thing to indicate to others on the rare occasion it matters.
But like everything about me, I don't _really_ have it and should probably not appropriate from other people's struggles just to sound cool. Especially because I don't actually have it. If I need to talk, and am experiencing a no-talk moment, I just step out of the no-talk and do what I need to do until I can return to it.
The phrase "slightly upsetting and marginally poetic" comes to mind, for no reason at all.
~Sor
MOOP!
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Because Biden told HHS that they couldn't stick kids with people who would make them more likely to be bullied into self harming, and Trump hates everything that Biden stands for including protecting kids from people like him, Trump is trying to stick LGBTQ kids with unsupportive "traditionally Christian" families. He's getting his stooge, RFK Jr., to propose scrapping protections for LGBTQ+ kids in foster care.
The Trumpist regime is trying to sneak another shortened comment period by us too quickly for people to protest. If you want to register a comment about how much these people hate children, etc, here is where to do so. And if you want to read the whole weasel-worded decision, you can do so here.
The Trumpist regime is trying to sneak another shortened comment period by us too quickly for people to protest. If you want to register a comment about how much these people hate children, etc, here is where to do so. And if you want to read the whole weasel-worded decision, you can do so here.
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daringfireball_feed Mar. 12th, 2026 12:15 am)If you write about Mac keyboard shortcuts, as I did yesterday, you should know how to do it right. Just as there’s a proper order for adjectives in English, there’s a proper order for listing the modifier keys in a shortcut.
I haven’t found any documentation for this, but Apple’s preferred order is clear in how they show the modifiers in menus and how they’re displayed in the Keyboard Shortcuts Setting.
The order is similar to how you see them down at the bottom left of your keyboard. Control (⌃), Option (⌥), and Command (⌘) always go in that order. The oddball is the Shift(⇧) key, which sneaks in just in front of Command.
Perhaps this wasn’t documented in 2017, but at least since 2022 (per the Internet Archive), Apple has documented the correct order for modifier keys in a keyboard shortcut in their excellent Apple Style Guide, under the entry for “key, keys”:
If there’s more than one modifier key, use this order: Fn (function), Control, Option, Shift, Command. When a keyboard shortcut includes a mouse or trackpad action, use lowercase for the mouse or trackpad action.
- Option-click
- Option-swipe with three fingers
There’s all sorts of good stuff in this Style Guide entry, including an explanation for why the shortcut for Zoom Out is ⌘- (using the lower of the two symbols on the “-/_” key) but the shortcut for Zoom In is ⌘+ (using the upper of the two symbols on the “=/+” key):
If one of the characters on the key provides a mnemonic for the action of the command, you can identify the key by that character.
While I’m at it, here’s a pet peeve of mine. When you write out a keyboard shortcut using modifier key names, you connect them with hyphens: Command-R. But when using the modifier glyphs, you should definitely not include the hyphens. ⌘C is correct, ⌘-C is wrong. For one thing, just look at the shortcuts in the menu bar — the shortcut for Copy has been shown as ⌘C since 1984. For another, consider the aforementioned shortcuts that most apps use for Zoom In and Zoom Out: ⌘+ and ⌘-. Both of those would look weird if connected by a hyphen, but Zoom Out in particular would look confusing: Command-Hyphen-Hyphen?.
(How do you write those out using words, though? Apple uses “Command-Plus Sign (+)” and “Command-Minus Sign (-)”. Me, I’d just go with “Command-Plus” and “Command-Minus”.)
Pay no attention to Drang’s follow-up post, or this one from Jason Snell. The correct order is Fn, Control, Option, Shift, Command — regardless if you’re using the words or the glyphs.
(daringfireball_feed Mar. 11th, 2026 11:06 pm)
daringfireball_feed Mar. 11th, 2026 11:06 pm)“Mr. Macintosh”, on Twitter/X last week:
Small change:
Looks like Apple updated the keyboard on the new M5 16‑inch MacBook Pro. The Backspace, Return, Shift, and Tab labels are gone, replaced with symbols instead.
All the new MacBook keyboards sport this same change, including the M5 Air and A18 Pro MacBook Neo. I’m not a fan. I like the words on those keys. But I’m willing to admit it might just be that I’ve been using Apple keyboards with words on those keys since I was like 10 years old. iOS 26 switched from the word “return” to the “⏎” glyph on the software keyboard (and removed the word “space” from the spacebar — which, in hindsight, seemed needless to label).
The Escape key is still labelled “esc”, and the modifier keys (Fn, Control, Option, and Command) still show the names underneath or next to the glyphs. I suspect this is because documentation — including Apple’s own — often uses names for these keys (Option-Shift-Command-K), not the glyphs (⌥⇧⌘K). It’s only in the last few years that Apple began including the glyphs for Control (⌃) and Option (⌥) — until recently, those keys were labelled only by name. They added the ⌃ and ⌥ glyphs between 2017 and 2018. And until that change in 2018, Apple added the label “alt” to the Option key — a visual turd so longstanding that it dates back even to my own beloved keyboard.
Outside the U.S., Apple has been using glyphs for these key caps for a long time. The change from words to glyphs is new only here.
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