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#valentinesday — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Accidentally Yours (The Improbable Meet-Cute: Second Chances)

    "One lucky blunder can change everything"

    Sale: $1.99 to $0.99

    by Christina Lauren
    Rating: 4.2/5 (22,344 Reviews)

    #romance #contemporary #fiction #kindle #books #booksky #meetcute #valentinesday #humor #sweetread

    Accidentally Yours (The Improb...

  2. Accidentally Yours (The Improbable Meet-Cute: Second Chances)

    "One lucky blunder can change everything"

    Sale: $1.99 to $0.99

    by Christina Lauren

    Rating: 4.2/5 (22,232 Reviews)

    #romance #contemporaryfiction #kindle # #books #booksky #valentinesday #humor #banter #shortread #readers

    Accidentally Yours (The Improb...

  3. The Fall Risk: A Short Story "Two good neighbors make the best of a bad Valentine’s Day" Sale: $1.99 to $0.99 by Abby Jimenez Rating: 4.3/5 (94,482 Reviews) #romance #contemporary #kindle #ebook #books #booksky #valentinesday #shortstory #neighbors #banter #humor #love #treehouse #reading

    The Fall Risk: A Short Story

  4. The Fall Risk: A Short Story "Two good neighbors make the best of a bad Valentine’s Day in a funny and improbably romantic short story" Sale: $1.99 to $0.99 by Abby Jimenez Rating: 4.3/5 (94,290 Reviews) #romance #kindle #books #booksky #novella #valentinesday #neighbor #friends #humor #love

    The Fall Risk: A Short Story

  5. Q sweet (#Chinese: 巧克力菁點) is a chocolatier and dessert shop based in #Taipei, #Taiwan. The business produces handmade chocolate items including truffles, soft-centred confections, and chocolate bars. Q sweet has also created seasonal gift boxes for holidays such as #LunarNewYear and #ValentinesDay. The company was founded by Queenie Wu (Chinese: 吳葵妮). According to interviews and brand materials, Wu began making chocolate after studying confectionery techniques in Europe.

  6. Gee, @wikipedia , why couldn’t you have published the “Did you know…” article on candle salad *before* #ValentinesDay ?! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_s

  7. #3goodthings

    singing birds going absolutely crazy calling outside our windows for the first time in months

    trying a breakfast place a little further afield, because .. why not?!

    lilies from valentine's day surprised me by suddenly opening while we were away breakfasting

    #birds #flowers #february #bloomscrolling #winter #restaurants #valentinesday

  8. 💘The Eros Llama has less than 20% of its health left!
    This is your last chance to join the raid and grab a copy of this card before he comes back next year!

    llamalegends.com

    #ValentinesDay #IndieDev #RaidBoss #Gaming #Event #GameDev #free #BrowserGame #IndieGame #WebGame #CardGame

  9. I received a very emotional surprise on Valentine's Day my mom passed away about 2 months ago and she use to buy me something small every year well this year she must have placed an early order for flowers to be delivered to me along with the teddy bear and her boyfriend paid for me to treat myself to lunch rip mommy I love and miss you so much
    #valentinesday
    #grief
    #fediverse
    #mentalhealth
    #imissyou
    #surprise

  10. #Sciart for #ValentinesDay 💕:
    Heart Cockles! (Corculum cardissa)
    “Cardium,” Plate 59 in General Conchology by William Wood (London, 1815)
    Via Biodiversity Heritage Library:
    flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrar
    #Shells #Mollusks #Molluscs

  11. Whether the weather be dreich or fair, my luve,
    if guid times greet us, or we hae tae face the worst,
    ahint and afore whit will happen tae us…

    —Jackie Kay, “A Lang Promise”
    published in BANTAM (Picador, 2017)

    panmacmillan.com/authors/jacki

    #Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #Valentine #poem #poetry #LGBTQ #LGBTQplusHM #lovepoem #lovepoetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #womenwriters #JackieKay

  12. CW: May contain nudity.

    Happy Valentine's Day! xo
    ♥💘💖💗💓💙💚💛💜🧡💝💞💟🖤❤💌❣💕 #ValentinesDay #love #BeMyValentine #Valentine #romance #sexy #FunnyShit #FuckedUpPictures

  13. ‘We’ve been together ever since’: Swansea couple celebrate 63 years of marriage after moving into care home together

    Margaret and David Beynon moved into Peniel Green Care Home on 21 January and have already become firm favourites with staff and residents. They’re the only married couple living at the home — and their love story stretches back nearly seven decades.

    ‘He didn’t show up… then we had a row… and we’ve been together ever since’

    Margaret was 17 when she first met David, then 19, during a day out with friends in 1958. She still remembers the nerves — and the drama.

    “I was out with a friend and we met up with these two boys. I was so shy on the day we met that we rearranged a new date — where David didn’t show up,” she said.

    “So third time lucky, we went on another date, where David and I had a row over him not showing up the previous time. We have been together ever since.”

    The pair married in 1962 — a day Margaret calls “the best day of our lives.”

    A family built on six decades of love

    Since that wedding day, the couple have raised two daughters, welcomed four grandchildren and celebrated the arrival of six great‑grandchildren.

    David still talks about Margaret with the same affection he had as a teenager.

    “She’s been the best wife,” he said.

    Margaret smiled back:

    “I couldn’t ask for a better husband.”

    Settling into life at Peniel Green

    Staff say the couple have brought warmth and joy into the home from the moment they arrived.

    Lisa Sullivan, Senior Wellbeing Coordinator at Peniel Green, said:

    “Margaret and David are a beautiful, loving couple, and we are so pleased they have come here to start a new chapter in their lives. What a beautiful love story.”

    Rhian Dummer, Home Administrator, added:

    “It has been wonderful to hear Margaret and David’s story and to see the affection they have for each other. Their love is truly inspiring and brings a lot of joy to everyone here at Peniel Green.”

    A Valentine’s date, 63 years on

    To mark Valentine’s Day, Margaret has invited David on a “Valentine’s Cake and Cuppa Date” in the home’s dining room — a chance to celebrate their enduring romance with fellow residents and staff.

    Peniel Green says it is “delighted” to be part of the couple’s ongoing journey and is already looking forward to celebrating more milestones with them.

    Nearly 70 years after a shy teenager and a no‑show date sparked their first argument, Margaret and David are still choosing each other — every single day.

    #careHome #PenielGreenCareHome #Swansea #ValentinesDay #WeddingAnniversary
  14. Today is the 24th birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    Best known for catalyzing the #OpenAccess movement in 2002, the BOAI has been continuously active and formed a nonprofit organization just last year.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    See the org's progress report on its first year.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    The latest version of the BOAI recommendations is its 20th anniversary statement.
    budapestopenaccessinitiative.o

    In contrast to the earlier BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focuses on a small number of top priorities:

    1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
    2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
    3. Moving away from #APCs
    4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

    I'm proud of my contributions to #BOAI (2002), #BOAI10 (2012), and #BOAI20 (2022), and honored to serve on the org steering committee.

    Happy #ValentinesDay to all who work for #OpenAccess worldwide.

  15. Valentine's Day is here, and so is International Book Giving Day! 📚 ❤️

    So how about combining these two and giving someone a romantic / romance book? 📖 💝 ☺️

    HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY & HAPPY #READING! 🥰 💖

    #ValentinesDay
    #valentinesday2026
    #InternationalBookGivingDay
    #InternationalBookGivingDay2026
    #book
    #books
    #bookgiving
    #love
    #lovestory
    #lovestories
    #romance
    #romancenovels
    #romantic
    #sapphic
    #lesbian
    #ff
    #wlw
    #womenlovewomen
    #queer
    #LGBTQIA
    #queerbooks
    #queer
    #bookstodon

    📖🌈 🌹👭 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 💞

  16. In "A Valentine’s Day Message on Love and Loss" I examine Seneca's "Letter 63—On Grief for Lost Friends".

    “Let us see to it that the recollection of those whom we have lost becomes a pleasant memory to us.” ~Seneca

    Read more on the blog at spiritualbnr.org.

    #ValentinesDay #Love #Loss #Grief #HappyMemories

  17. 🧡 Couples 🧡

    John Cage & Merce Cunningham

    "It's very simple now, because I'm looking forward to seeing you again rather than backward to having seen you recently. That's a happy way to be" __ Cage

    John Cage first met Merce Cunningham in 1938 when he was still married to Xenia Kashevaroff. Their paths crossed again in 1942 + Cage invited Cunningham, who was a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, to work on a project. Their collaboration turned into a life-long creative + romantic partnership. Cunningham founded his own dance company in 1953 with Cage serving as the company’s music director, a position he held until his death. They staged over 50 dance works together.

    #johncage #mercecunningham #couples #valentines #valentinesday #composer #choreogropher #dance #lovestory #lovestories

  18. 💜 Couples 💜

    Jozef Garlinski & Eileen Short

    "I shan't make any attempt to get away, I shall stay in Warsaw. I will wait for you"

    On the 1st of September 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland. 25-year-old Christian Pole Jozef Garlinski had just fallen in love with Eileen Short, an Irish nurse on an exchange visit from Liverpool. His colonel gave him an hour's leave to get married before the regiment left for the front. Eileen's parting words to Jozef were her commitment to wait.

    Jozef joined the Polish underground resistance. He was arrested in April 1943 + arrived at Auschwitz in May. Eileen remained in Warsaw. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 she helped care for wounded. The German SS captured + shot anyone who looked like a soldier or who was wearing an armband. Eileen survived only because her red cross armband had falllen off + was stuffed in her pocket. The survivors were taken to a camp for civilians near the city. She escaped from the camp + spent the next few months with relatives of Jozef..

    Jozef + Eileen had decided before the war that if they were separated + the Soviets took over Poland they would head for the West + contact each other through Eileen's mother in Ireland. Their plan was successful, both reaching London where they settled + raised their son.

    #couples #resistancefighters #lovestories #valentines #valentinesday #alovestory #warstory #wwii