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WOW I AM INCREDIBLE. I AM MADE OF BLOOD AND ELECTRICITY AND I CHANGE THE WORLD ALL THE TIME. VERY COOL

If you live in VA07 I need you to write to Eugene Vindman and tell him about me. Tell him about the transgender military veteran who used to live in his district and just wanted to raise his goddamned sheep in peace and now lives 3000 miles away because of transphobic bullshit.

We're seeing a bunch of small fires pop up here in Northern California already, pretty much always attributable to human idiocy. 1) don't use campfires, use a propane stove and keep flammable material clear 2) be sure your tow chains can't drag on the road 3) don't throw lit cigs out the car

as we trot forward i strongly believe human creation will be preferred, but i also think the battle against slop will take EFFORT. more than ever, artists will survive based on YOU making a conscious choice to support them. that is why PREORDERS MATTER us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

We will be closed Monday for Memorial Day, so stop by today or tomorrow for your long weekend mystery reads!

Here’s some of ShouXin art to make your Thursday a little better.

Me: Fuck AI Me, thirty seconds later: ...fuck all of us on this damned planet

I DID IT. I DID THE THING I WAS AVOIDING. IT TOOK AN EMBARRASSINGLY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME AND EVERYONE INVOLVED WAS EXTREMELY PLEASANT AND KIND.

Total Federal public lands in the US are 640 million acres. The internet tells me the Germany is ~88 million acres. I think I begin to understand why European tourists die in the desert.

You know what's great? Books.

Listen to me. The Mandalorian and Grogu is a TREAT, it is DELICIOUS, it is so fun and wild and surprising and sweet. It has ROTJ vibes for me, with critters and different set pieces and laughs and peril. Do not miss seeing it in the theater. Take your kids. This is what Star Wars is all about!!

One of my spiciest opinions is that reality TV with voting off is dystopian. All you have to do is change a few of the words to sci-fi words to see it. Poor people compete in humiliating challenges on vidscreens to win dollarcreds. Sometimes enough to purchase a real home!

Reproductive rights come next. In the words of Florence Reece, which side are you on?

...doesn't everyone do this??

I hate interpersonal conflict with every fibre of my nature but if i ever see someone trying to stop a trans person piss in peace, they will override all my factory settings.

I keep boggling at this. The Westminster bubble does something to people’s minds. Was this really why you joined the Labour movement? Was this what moved you, when you were young, and you heard the word “equality”? Do you see what has happened, in that last sentence?

since I accidentally helped kick off this horrifying realization for so many, please let me pass along a link where you can yell about it.

Happy friday! It's time for the weekly good news thread. What's YOUR good news from the week? What's made you smile? What's brought some joy into the last 7 days? Breaking my usual TV gif rules to show my good news: BABY FOXES LIVING BEHIND MY FENCE.

like this definitely sounds bad but I'm guessing from the way all the lawyers I follow are stroking out I do not even appreciate just how bad it is?!?

When I last kept chickens I also kept a spreadsheet in which I tracked the cost of feed and amortized the cost of their coop and run over the eggs produced. Never got below $1/egg.

I mentioned AI in my commencement speech for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago and I did *NOT* get booed. It’s not the mention of AI; it’s the ideas you convey.

I think it's an op to leak to the press that the AI is winning prestigious Literary prizes now. The prizes were already made up, now the writers and stories are too. The prestige is a plot by the CIA

Lobotomies are here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about lobotomies and start finding the ways that lobotomies can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to realize that this technology is inevitable.

A sudden storm of undignified noise, as of two dogs having a squeak-battle with toys whose noisemakers are dying, as two male California Quail attempt to woo a lady quail

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that posting, raising awareness and staying informed were effective political actions

✨ manifesting ✨

oh hey, just when we need it, another awesome story about people doing the small things they can to make the world a better place. Part of the @globalvoices.org local climate action Spotlight: globalvoices.org/2026/05/21/s...

Good god listen to yourself.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Odysseus: *rubbing his face and moaning something about Calypso*

The first 3 books in my series on #AnneBoleyn are just 99c or 99p for #kindle until May 24th! Begin with La Petite Boulain 👇 In the glittering courts of Europe, the story of Anne Boleyn begins... #Histfic #KU #Books #Kindle #Tudor US link a.co/d/0RifSLD UK link www.amazon.co.uk/Petite-Boula...

Wrote 75 rejections today (so far!) Did you get one? It's coming! The slow drive-thru is moving

Someone's stray rooster has found our chicken coop. Now we get to listen to a very frustrated rooster who can't get into Fort Clucks.

When you watch Bari Weiss' News Division, you C BS.

i have a contemporary romance set in the video game industry that is WAY out of date because it's 2015 industry problems my agent and I talked about updating it. I said, "I think I can" and then realized I need to research 2026 industry problems. Where do I start reading?

When I was 22 and brand new in NY, I went on a first date. She suggested the NY Neofuturists. I never saw her again, but i started volunteering with the Neos. Within a month, through the Neos I would meet my wife and my Night Vale co-writer.

Why sit on the couch when my stomach is right there?

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3803: Don’t sit at your desk all day. Most writers benefit from daily fresh air and sunlight.

In London I was stopped while wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. Dude stopped me under Stop and Search powers because I "looked suspicious" at 8.30 in the morning in a black suit during rush hour.

*Me strapped to a gurney being wheeled away at speed* SHE HATCHED FROM AN EGG!!! HER DADDY WAS A MYTHICAL CONSTRUCT APPEARING IN THE FORM OF A SWAN!!! A BLONDE WHITE LADY IS NOT IN ANYWAY MORE SENSIBLE!!!

THERE IS A TORNADO COMING RIGHT AT US AND IF IT EATS MY GARDEN I QUIT

My mother asked me earlier why she keeps seeing articles that are like "great election night for Trump" when he keeps primarying people with even less electable nut jobs. And like... It was a great night for him! He got revenge! He doesn't give a shit if that made it a terrible night for the GOP.

It turns out that opposed to many of my weirder hobbies, having a cat is a common point with lots of people and a good conversation starter hahaha

And besides this, what’s also charming is that people operating on butterflies are using the same terms (such as “imping”) that medieval falconers devised to discuss the repair of raptors’ wings. 😄

Finding L. Sprague de Camp's LEST DARKNESS FALL in a secondhand store when I was 14 or 15. Because of it, I •became a Byzantinist •wrote most of what I've written •met my wife while teaching for the prof I studied under •had the kids I had Besides that, it didn't change my life a bit.

I answer soooo many questions writers wouldn't need to send me if they would only subscribe to my blog.... writerbeware.blog

one of these things is not like the other this argument is entirely tendential. can you tell which thing is not like the other? it's the one that's not a myth you absolute pencil.

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. The hardcover of HOBAR is cheaper than the ebook right now! Cheap date full of magic, ghosts, murder, friendship, and creatures from beyond the reef… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Have a Great Day, Everyone........ ❤️ Afternoon Click.📸 Enjoy the green while it lasts..😍 #nature #photography #spring

I find that it helps a lot, when working with a new editor, to first include a page of words and spellings that are idiosyncratic or important to you: or just to say to them that you use certain words and spellings for a reason, and not to alter them...

HELLO WE ARE KICKING OFF TONIGHT AT 7 PM CT WITH READINGS! I think that's 6 pm my time Time zones are my nemesis I am going to read WORDS

DEAD WEIGHT comes out next Tuesday!

Good morning, Bluesky. “No, she hated movies about men rescued from uptight women by charming weirdos; check into those relationships 10 years hence and tell me how it worked out, bub . . . Men didn’t like ditzy women, not long term.” —A passage my editor wanted to cut from Prom Mom—

Oh uh Wonder what's... causing that

If Trump's tax returns didn't stink like a dead blue whale after two weeks lying on a tropical beach, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

o shit I knew Don Jr. was getting married this weekend but I thought it was to KIMBEEERRLLLLY GUILLLLFOYLLLLE. Didn't realize they had split.

Your lips, god's ears, etc

Last night's run turned into a walk at one point so I didn't accidently step on these little beauties! Wild orchids on the #Pembrokeshire coastal path 🌸🌸🙂🙂

Excited for this!

My beloved spouse has recently (like as of 2 days ago) decided that spoonerisms are the highest form of humour & I am currently trapped next to him on a train while he asks me if I think people can be convicted of clavicular manslaughter

YAY YAY thank you everyone who came! 😍 Such good, thoughtful questions for me and Darcie! And now I must go on my daily WALK OF RESENTMENT while we still have daylight even though there is RESENTMENT

"the evidence actually shows that cameras cluster in neighbourhoods where opposition parties organise, where protests have happened and where the press has “made trouble” for ruling regimes."

Do you know who else made people uncomfortable? The suffragettes

It's a bank holiday. If you don't have a book, run out and get one now so you can spend all weekend in the sun reading a lovely book.

thanks everyone who has helped out. boosting this one last time, as a fierce auntie with a dragon's worth of protective rage in her heart. 💓

The Devil Takes You Home has been nominated for a #kelvin505 award for best novel in translation in Spain! First international nomination. Bien merecido, enhorabuena y mil gracias al gran Mike Sanz y a La Biblioteca de Carfax por ser mi casa. ¡Y gracias al Festival Celsius 232 por el honor! 🖤

I probably got the cheapest version of setting up a robust garden because I had a WILD AMOUNT of the stuff already on hand and could build/repurpose a ton of other supplies to be creative. And it's still not been CHEAP but even more than that, my god the time I have spent out there. lol

And this morning the Shed is a flying machine; adrift among the thermals…

I did not participate in the 10 bands/musicians prompt because I am deeply uncool/traumatized (see my essay ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/my-mo...) but I once went to an Orioles game with Steve Earle where he talked about his fondness for bonsai and I have discussed Finnegans Wake with Jem Finer.

in a hotel room (as ever), with a timer set so I can watch the last Stephen Colbert show (in the meantime, watching some SyFy movie [beach, alien, Timothy Olyphant with a sometimes ponytail])

𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐋: Has anyone invited you to bully another Bluesky member? Sharing rumours and sensitive data (“they’re into weird sex!”), unflattering photos, etc., hoping you’ll join them in mocking and hating this person? ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answers only. If you want to share details, DM me. I don’t want drama.

I assume this isn't a bug for them. It's a feature.

also, fun fact

3-5 Months Guy increasingly wrong, all of this is beyond vile, what are we even doing to ourselves.

* screaming * This collection represents so many years of work. Thank you to everyone who nominated it, it means a lot.

If you’re around Wednesday, I’ll be in conversation with Caitlin about this book at Books on the Bosque!

I dont know what level of cat lady it is to own one of these, but since im buying it, im surely I am maxing out the crazy cat lady stat tree

It’s long fascinated me how Hollywood’s rare depictions of married couples still sexually excited by each other tend to be tinged with sinister/gothic/morbid vibes, like the Adams Adams, or Only Lovers Left Alive.

Right, I'm off to ComicCon on this ridiculously hot day

🎶🎵They oughta know by now 🎵🎶

I've been thinking about this piece since I read it the other day and I think there's definitely a truth in there - that some aspects of internet culture have, lets say, reduced the collective critical faculties when it comes to reading & understanding books. But I don't think fandom is the problem.

And I'm crying again. Both at such an unbelievable tribute to a wonderful person, but also at the beautiful pictures because how was she so fabulous in so many unique ways??? Unlimited range when it came to shining bright. 💖

sometimes anthropology is like pulling teeth

With DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP I didn’t worry about plausibility. I worried that it could become true before the book’s release. www.science.org/content/arti...

You know, if you yourselves plug your very own article like this, it would be nice if you let ordinary mortals read the whole piece without hitting a paywall like Wile E. Coyote running nosefirst into a tunnel opening painted on a mountainside. Clickbait sucks. A lot.

Look what just arrived--finished copies of ALL HALLOWS EVE. You can pre-order here: tinyurl.com/4a3j2hax

Based on the way you’ve seen people behave, what is the actual percentage of sociopaths* in North American society? *I’m using “sociopaths” as shorthand for “predators who deliberately take advantage of others, unburdened by a conscience”. (Apologies to those with ASPD who try to be decent people.)

We have a paranormal romance where a plot point hinges on them having to find someone with a zip drive. And in the book, the heroine is using a netbook. lol

I find that I have an actual political philosophy about this, so I am going to try to articulate it. For many decades now, if you are a left-wing person, you have been able to see laws get better. It has come to feel as if that is the way to improve the world.

Utterly surprised and delighted that my collection WHO WILL YOU SAVE? from @titanbooks.bsky.social is on the shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards!

VOTE EARLY VOTE OFTEN VOTE MICK

Front: two cats at play Back: the remnants of a yoga ball pierced in several places by mysterious claws

Oh hey, this is that thing! Maybe tune into PBS on the 26th to catch someone (me!) talking about authors from Pennsylvania, alongside some folks you might recognize!

"I Was Stoned and I Missed It," Shel Silverstein (most famous version by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show)

Hey, Dublin Blueskyers: Had an ask from someone who wants to send cookies to a friend in Dublin who's having a rough time. Does anyone know firms in town that do this?

Considering writing book reviews again (only of books I enjoy) but having a disclaimer at the top: "Content warning: this is not meant to be an objective review and is instead the emotional reaction I had to the work. This is especially critical to keep in mind if you are the author" 😆

Happy Friday! Today we're recommending some excellent fantasy, science fiction, and horror novels from Singaporean authors! What are your favorites? #Booksky

without quality, accessible public education it's not a democracy

It me

Since I'm going bald anyway and also rewilding the ranch which is kind of like tearing down the Veil do I want to shave my head and skulk around dressed like Solas? Cc @trickweekes.bsky.social www.etsy.com/listing/1887...

Uggi's ears are so floppy that I accidentally sat on one earlier.