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Walmart employees? On SNAP. Junior US military personnel with families? On SNAP. Wherever workers are being underpaid, they are on SNAP.

The saga of the beautiful husky who needed a home, & the BlueSky folk who stepped forward to make an old-fashioned internet miracle...has had a lot of developments I've been too busy handling to update you all on. She's ON HER WAY! The whole story, for all to read: www.patreon.com/posts/142111...

Look I'll be completely honest. You will not get anyone out of radicalized right wing ideology like MAGA via posting or voter outreach. It will only happen through a genuinely trusting and caring relationship. If that's your ministry, great, but you cannot demand it of everyone.

Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human

The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.

I once took some shoes to be repaired and when I walked into the store, the guy grabbed them out of my hands, stared at them, and then said, in a very thick Southern accent, “Did you get these off’n a DAID person?!” …in retrospect, they were a little beat up.

I know someone here knows the answer to this question—when not-feeding a gremlin after midnight, at what time does it cease to be after midnight and become safe? 5 AM? Daybreak? Noon?

As a student of history, I hope to live long enough to see the prosperity gospel and all of those who follow it tossed into some kind of big vat, 'cuz I really want to see what new system comes after Big Vat Day.

I don't want to be over the top, but I hate Joe Rogan with all my heart and wish only terrible things to happen to him for the rest of his life

first book banners told us it was just about what was in schools then they came for books in the public libraries then they started getting book stores for carrying certain stock now I'm hearing about little free libraries being shut down also a reminder that Utah still has a book destruction law.

BURY YOUR GAYS entering yet another printing today LETS TROT

All the heavy armament ICE is rolling with is not for use to apprehend immigrants, it's for use against YOU. Citizens. Residents. Americans. It's to intimidate, terrorize, and eventually massacre YOU.

One of the things you do in the Navy at night on the open sea when the moon is new and there is no light anywhere is sit around and run hypotheticals and ask weird but hard questions. Turns out that even senior enlisted feel more loyalty to the captain of the ship than the President.

Iowa farmers are largely corn and soybeans and receive subsidies for those crops directly. The size of dairy farms varies widely by state, Tyson outsources the risk of raising the chickens to farmers who are effectively sharecroppers, & to explain the emerging probs in beef is a dissertation

There's nothing like seeing your cheery "that's a tomorrow problem!" post and realising it is now tomorrow.

Excuse me…?

1. A French cheesemonger tried to suss out what intensity & type of stinkiness I could handle by asking me if I preferred fromage comme les pièds, comme le vagine, or comme la morte. I stuck with feet & crotch, & to this day if I encounter a stinky cheese I classify it according to his system.

"Nobody cheered when Reagan got shot" lol my grandaddy always called Reagan "that sumbitch" (derogatory) and said the only the worse than that sumbitch was that the sumbitch who shot him couldn't aim.

I have received this exact email three times in the last week, with AI-generated details about three different books.

Seasonal Affective Friends: NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OUT THE SAD LAMP.

I just got every charging cord and organized them into types and put them into marked containers, then I found a box in the closet marked CORDS that had 75 more and I screamed out loud.

Hi! No, Fiasco, I am not going to bodily remove your sister from the shark bed just because you want to sleep in it, so you can stop giving me that look, thanks

DUE TO FURTHER SUSPICIOUS RUSTLING NOISES I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT SHE DUG THE SNIPPED BAG OUT OF THE RECYCLING AGAIN AND WAS PLAYING WITH IT ON THE BED

On Halloween I'm doing a liveread of @tkingfisher.com's WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT. This is the second novella in the Sworn Soldiers series and came out in 2024. Mute or unfollow if you don't want spoilers or anything to do with the fungus among us. #Halloween #horror #BookSky

"Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest." Wendell Berry, "Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front"

Is it possible that women in Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror/Other stay away from certain men (for reasons), leaving these men with the impression that there are no women in Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror/Other?

One of the great things about living in the high desert as a middle aged man who used to be a butch woman is that evenings are chilly enough for flannel year-round.

Okay. I have bin bags, rubber gloves, face mask, eucalyptus catarrh tablets, and a spade. One more cup of tea and I'm going in.

That's right! THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES, latest and so far longest of the Mossa & Pleiti Investigations, is on ebook sale across platforms! If you've been waiting to catch up on the latest Jovian mystery, or wanted to get your own copy, now is a great time to do it!!

So when I was 4 or 5 my best friend's mom got pregnant with twins and I asked my mom how that happened. She explained in an age appropriate way using the book "Where Did I Come From", afterwards cautioning me not to go to school/daycare and tell all my friends as parents like to tell their kids.

Ishmael you're not nekkid in bed with a blanket and a cannibal, are you

Maybe, just maybe, unshittification is possible.

Nope.

What the holy fuck is wrong with these motherfuckers? What is it about AI that makes people lose their damn minds and spew bilge from their mouths? (The key thing here is 'licensing deal' which = money, the love of which is root of all evil.)

Love this for us trans people. Really helps me feel safe.

They are predicting record snowfall in Reykjavík this week, which doesn't really concern me, because I'll be at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social in Brighton! I'll be on the horror panel The Cold Shiver on Friday at 2 pm and then I'll read from my forthcoming novella Dead Weight directly after at 3!

The book isn’t out yet, AI genius.

And this morning the Shed is a park bench under a golden plane tree…

I have been really feeling the dread of what is about to happen to so many people in this country so this morning I am doing two things to try to channel that 1) we're setting up a spreadsheet of everyone's favorite local food banks/charities to make it easy to find places to donate.

‘Tis the season!

Note to self before leaving for international travel: please do not do the funniest yet stupidest thing possible at the airport tomorrow

The greatest pleasure in life is when you read the premise for a book and you're like "Hey that could be quite good" and then you read it and you're like "Thank God this person can ACTUALLY WRITE" Yes this is a SOUR CHERRY subtweet (read it)

Me: Wow, at least I won't see anything more sickening than that decomposing fox today! Nigel Newton: Hold my beer.

when you are so protective of Jews you say something wildly anti-semitic

I did it to. Helped a lot.

With their permission, these are the marvelous humans who are making this Space Pup Coast to Coast Incredible Journey happen: @lakewoodanarchyhub.bsky.social @stormzand.bsky.social @simonsfolly.bsky.social @risawolf.bsky.social @butijustmether.bsky.social

Whoever could’ve predicted this outcome of masked thugs grabbing people off the street and throwing them into unmarked cars.

Annual reminder, when you see an industry professional dishing advice on here… an agent, editor, author… their insight is informed by their experience. Check that experience before taking the advice. Visit their websites. It will save you so much rage and grief.

This is how I found out about 40 inches of rain and I would like to argue there is pretty much no standard measurement where 40 of them is a good amount of rain!!!even 40mm of rain could mess up your day, 40cm is a nightmare and 40 inches is.... Holy shit.

just in time for Halloween:

Afternoon

In case you're wondering if that book review offer or marketing pitch or friendly message from a well-known author are genuine (the short version: probably not)...my collection of blog posts on the new Nigerian marketing scams will help you decide writerbeware.blog/tag/nigeria/

Vel has reached NEBRASKA! Some kind of portal technology must be involved…

67% of Jewish voters in NYC age 18-44 y they'll vote for Mamdani so it raises the question of who, exactly, the WJC is representing with this position: docs.google.com/presentation...

Asexuality Awareness Week is over. I'm still here. Still ace. Still love my fellow ace peeps.

When your feed starts to look like a promo for a dark domestic thriller. (I don't actually heart my own posts btw, that was for convenience because I have Been Through too much to crop images.)

It's also too important to trust to a machine that provides wrong answers regularly, is programmed to echo your beliefs, hits on you, and has on at least one occasion talked a kid into killing himself.

Before I crawl off to bed, I do want to say that I just packed up a bunch of whistles to send to @moryan.bsky.social and if you are also someone who is involved locally with protests/orgs that want tiny but loud whistles in bulk, I have a bunch of 3D Printing friends who are happy to get to work!

When a 10-year-old tells you, "I'm seeing an old friend today."

but wait in the press release in which they announced that soon chatgpt would be allowed to get horny with you, they said they had solved the mental health problem. surely they weren't lying????????

Vel just crossed into Utah with @lakewoodanarchyhub.bsky.social! ZOOMIES ON AN EPIC SCALE!

It's Monday again and today I'm reading Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

Eetu Tarkamo’s golden demon award entry (from Warhammercommunity.com) is beautiful. Just a perfect moment of compassion and human contact at the heart of a universe at war.

i hear this book is good

If you're new to @bsky.app and you're wondering where all the sci-fi and fantasy folks are, this starter pack contains a lot of great people to follow: go.bsky.app/Pmq3Moa

Good morning, Bluesky. So it turns out that my assistant has an email folder marked “weirdos” and there is some correspondence that goes straight there without me ever seeing it. Should we get drunk at our two-person office Christmas party and open the weirdo file? (No, we should not.)

If you have an horf, what is your favorite and most useful horf accessory? I neck rein but have a handmade McClellan saddle coming, so western bridle/rein accessories are likely to work but saddle accessories beyond blankets may get iffy. (already have a phone holder that will clip on)

"what's the worst candy" I'll stop you there. I'm an adult. I'm not ranking candy. If I want something sweet, I simply eat a tiny and elegant éclair like a grown man.

THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES, latest and so far longest of the Mossa & Pleiti Investigations, is on ebook sale across platforms! If you've been waiting to catch up on the latest Jovian mystery, or wanted to get your own copy, now is a great time to do it!!

I haven’t slept through the night in a week and a half, so today Oscar is going to show me the video game where you just powerwash things.

Weird research question - if you get a tattoo as a child, what happens to it as you grow?

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am I understanding this right that currently these people are literally flying into a hurricane for no pay due to the shutdown

The world is on fire so Dr. Beer and I are, of course, adding more sexy monsters.

I think every move that has made movie effects less tactile has been one that has made movies basically worse. however this is one of the few where it's like, ok this will prevent a lot of injury and death, we can keep this one

I really don't know what I'd do if not for righty tighty lefty loosey.

The Binti trilogy now has a Folio Society edition, 👽🪼🪐🌍! It’s illustrated (painted by hand) by David Palumbo. This special edition is available here: www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-bint...

I think we all need to accept that establishment dems are going to need to be led, not lead. If they had the right ideas, we'd be winning. They didn't and they don't. I just can't muster surprise about it tbh. (Disgust for immediately jettisoning trans ppl. But not surprise)

Book 9 of the Terrible Worlds set, plus the 2nd collection, on their way.

Real good thread on information infrastructure

"Please try again later"

Excellent news--for Australian creators, anyway (thanks to Jonathan Bailey @plagiarismtoday.com for the link) www.billboard.com/pro/australi...

How are accounts on here following 10K people? Heh, 🤖, that's how.

Just got an ad for straight up prostitution on tiktok which is pretty wild. Not even using code words just like "wanna buy sex? Here's a website"

okay this is true, I think my most epic grudge is the bookstore lady who got so mad at me she threatened to fight half of publishing while Notre Dame burned in the background, but I SWEAR I DIDN'T START IT LOL

Nigel Newton is an idiot.

I let my Prime subscription expire after barely using it all this year. I have kept my Kindle Unlimited subscription, though, because there are writers who are basically trapped in that scumbag company town and it's not their fault If they could escape it, they would.

I call my seasonal depression the "seasonal slump." The energy sap is normal and natural way to react to darker days and cooler temps. What pathologizes it for me is that our society's work hours don't shorten seasonally accommodate it. As a college kid in Alaska, I just slept thru it. It was great!

K1 has now successfully reheated a lasagna in the oven and eaten it for lunch If you need me I'll be over there wondering where the time went. (it's part of life! But still)

Has anyone watched that first episode of Welcome to Derry? I need to know how scary it is. P****wise scares the HECK out of me (I’m a scaredy cat), but I have this need to consume every Derry story out there, 😬. You don’t need to spoil it for me but just…spoil it a bit for me, 😆.

Spotted in the wild: the groundbreaking science fiction, fantasy and horror anthology OF SHADOWS, STARS, AND SABERS from @starsandsabers.bsky.social , edited by @jendiagammon.bsky.social and @garethlpowell.bsky.social and featuring a stellar array of authors. #books

Brian McFadden leaked the whole plan!

I love friends who are like, “You know what KB needs for her birthday? More trolling.”

I would not be processing all these apples if someone on my discord hadn't pointed me to this amazing apple slicer which goes so fast I can prep 4 trays faster than the 15 minutes the machine takes to prep for a run. 😂

wake up babe the new mystery for the ages dropped

I'm not mature or refined in my tastes, but I swear to god nothing is as delicious to me as a cheeseburger pizza. 💓 also thank you @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social, I think I finally have the crust managed!

Good morning. We are open - pick up a book today if you missed your chance over the weekend. 📖☕️

If you're one of my New York City friends who's watched my election blog posts about downticket races in Minneapolis & St. Paul go by and muttered "I wish someone did that here," BEHOLD, SOMEONE IS DOING THAT FOR NYC!