this is a thing people supposedly do?? don't they know how to touch grass??
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this is a thing people supposedly do?? don't they know how to touch grass??
so pretty
Nailed it
IT'S TIME!!! www.twitch.tv/thekidsareas... for the event liaamador.com#writing for book info
good moon tonight chicago
This seems pretty accurate to me. (Study link in the replies.)
First they came for the em dashes
100000% same
I'm supposed to pick ONE fav horror movie??? well, these are the decisions edibles were made for, I guess; I'm going with
will spend the evening ranking the following singers in order of witchiness: Florence Stevie Nicks The Pierce Sisters Maddy Prior and June Tabor Susanne Sundfør Valerie June Emmylou Harris Little Scream Kate and Anna McGarrigle Lykke Li
Omg and that flirty male secretary when she broke her arm???
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
drop an old person you’re going to turn into one day
Forevah 💕
Just for clarity, "old" to me means the heaven of a MILF whose got her own money and solves crimes
I mean, it's Jessica Fletcher or The Log Lady, goddess willing
an old person I hope to turn into one day
You know who has the fastest, best customer service? @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social (Maybe tied with the Vehicle Inspection Station, which sounds like a joke unless you've been there. They're great). So grateful, always, for the institutions that help make this city such a nice place to live
Seeing this on the front page of the paper of record in 2025 might actually be the straw that breaks me
I know it doesn't matter, but Baltimore is experiencing HISTORICALLY low rates of violent crime right now: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
EAT SHIT RFK JR
my career goal is to write something that pleases me enough that I never write again when it's done
children of the
wish I'd finished revising This Book before becoming obsessed with New Book
I always liked a blue book tbh
hon SAME
me too 😭
September takes off its mask Scooby-Doo style & reveals just another August
If I skeet here If I just skeet here Would you skeet with me And just skeet at the world
Love this weird little story: "After we saw the devil, we wanted to bring Salem Night back, mainly because we felt so lonely. We missed sitting in the Circle of Accusation." monkeybicycle.net/little-devil/ "Little Devil" in Monkeybicycle by @janstinchcomb.bsky.social!
exceptional -- it's so sharp
all my stories in need of revision
"Both judges in the majority were appointed by Trump." www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
hell yeah!
Excited my poem, “The Mourning Robot” is out today in the new issue of @uncannymagazine.bsky.social! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
rewatched THE DEATH OF STALIN yesterday w/ @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social & it's truly haunting how much of Now is depicted in that film
it's so maddening!!
this is so fucking beautiful
"Fun really is the name of the game for Trump & co. It’s fun for them to see a majority-Democratic city like DC live in fear of violence/deportation, to flood the trains/buses with armed law enforcement just because they can, to unleash troops who understand that they will not be held accountable."
Many thanks to independent journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) for all the footage she captured.
I've been off and on thinking about Man Next Door for several weeks now
I should probably remind people that I had a novel called GIRL IN THE CREEK come out about a month and a half ago. It got a star in the Library Journal! And look at this awesome blurb from @keithrosson.bsky.social:
Archaeology friends (especially @meanlouise.bsky.social, @bbolander.bsky.social, & @stevetoase.bsky.social), do you have any nonfiction books about the early Roman occupation of Britain that you'd recommend?
This is becoming an unsolicited advice machine. If people ask for help GIVE THEM WHAT THEY ASK FOR NOT YOUR UNWANTED ADVICE. JFC especially if they’re chronically ill/disabled. I promise you we/they have already tried or considered your brilliant cure. Stop.
Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W
wish I'd finished revising This Book before becoming obsessed with New Book
a brief summary of writing life
My dog just wants to sleep all day. Her favorite thing is taking a nap while I take a nap nearby her.
Ahhh! Ty for this rec! And I'm so excited for your Pseudopod!
I always come back to Mouth & Marsh, Silver & Song by Sloane Leong firesidefiction.com/mouth-and-ma... I'm about to narrate one for @pseudopod.org which I absolutely love, it's dark & beautiful. But you'll have to wait for that :) #ShortStories #SFF #Fiction #Audio #Narrator #Podcast #Narration
Hollywood is crazy. They make all these movies and then proceed to tell absolutely nobody about them.
Talked to my mom, she and my dad had lunch at a diner and they saw a man with a lot of tattoos who looked disreputable
I promise you Jenifer Lewis is my blueprint for ageing and being comprehensively fabulous in SO many ways.
“My earnestness embarrassed me.” “Decades later, the chronology is a bit of a jumble. But not the pain I felt.” @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/claudia-monp...
i also find it really compelling that a lot of kids are reporting more *socialization* after smartphone bans in schools - speaking as a former extremely-online kid who desperately needed forced socialization at school myself
went so well! gracias!!
shall report back if there's any signs of reanimation 🫡
kicked off the morning by killing a true darling. RIP
road trip to new mexico....
Them: “I’m hanging by a thread” Us: “You guys have thread?!?”
so pumped that i get to visit boston and talk with my bud @melissacaruso.bsky.social about lady knighthood, national myth making, & gendered heroism!! also i googled the venue and it's really big oh my god yall better show up 😂
good god, yeah, that would have me closing the book again real fast
Lolsob too real
FRT! Any excuse to research something new and weird
THIS!! drives me bonkers when a job is simply tacked onto a character, as if our work doesn't shape us, our time, our priorities, our moods and opinions, etc
Look, there are plenty of roles for "owner of AI company" in romance novels! The villain, the murder victim...um, the other villain...
Cool. The solution to this is to have twenty people show up and pull out their chalk.
this just makes me so sad
some signs I saw today
I had an amazing time with @almakatsu.bsky.social at the Glen Allen Barnes and Noble today. If you're in the Richmond area, they have signed copies of everything you see here, including THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT 🖤
Hell yeah!!!
"The history of the English novel is all freaks and perverts! Freaks and perverts created all the culture worth talking about." @charliejane.bsky.social, telling the truth in "Lessons in Magic and Disaster." Every queer, every witch, and every child of a complicated mother should read this.
Find the lizard 🦎 😂
me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal
Mask up, punks!! We’re all we’ve got.
When I was little I thought the world would all make sense when I grew up
Stacey got some antique bar measures at an estate sale.
these are absurdly delightful
Finished a week of library and critical AI literacy orientations for 9th graders and I am knackered! But I'm also reminded of why I love 9th graders so much. They are so weird and chaotic. They are impossible to predict. Their energy is so much fun if you can handle never knowing what's happening.
A million thanks to Abby Wolf for this wonderful interview with me!
If the kids are good this year, we will reward them by installing hay racks on their room walls upon the Yuletide. Think of the possibilities. They will be free to munch on hay whenever they'd like. #parenting #tips
You love to see it
I did a practice of Perplexity in 2023 due to educators insisting it was good for searching. While it gave me links to real webpages, the sites were just from the top 10 or so from a standard google search. The images it cited were not related to my query topic. The hallucination rate was about 80%.
Let's start today with some good news! SLM Flash Editor @ericafrederick.bsky.social sold her novel FIGHT IN THE NIGHT to @scribnerbooks.bsky.social! buff.ly/yN0ddyJ
Made myself a flawless cup of tea. The problem with perfect cups is they make you want a second one. And, sadly, the sequel never lives up to the original. Nevertheless, I will be thoroughly enjoying my current cup. ☕️
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lookin at you @hayliebswenson.bsky.social
hell yeah! a good audiobook is a beautiful thing. If you haven't listened to it already, I highly highly recommend the audio of Kelly Link's WHITE CAT, BLACK DOG. The stories are extraordinary & the performances are gorgeous; I especially love Dan Stevens's performance of "Prince Hat Underground"
I hope you enjoy it all the way through! the audio version is also simply exquisite
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
I have consumed 25 minutes of current events. I'm not certain whether I need a cuddle or a cyanide capsule.
it is one of my very favorite books; it's simply fantastic
Whole books full of words, supported by their own science called archival research.
I love science, and I love interdisciplinary work. But I also love it when scientists acknowledge their tools cannot be universally applied across all disciplines and that that experts in other disciplines might have knowledge they don’t. Asking one historian to be part of this might have helped!
A Border Collie and Aussie both letting each other know they Are not a threat... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Today’s stupid problem. Found a ladybird in the pool changing rooms. Decided to rescue ladybird. Had no recepticle, so lured ladybird into coat pocket. Then had to carry coat like precious object so as not to crush it or allow other ppl to accidentally lean on it Gonna carry a match box from now on
Americans worship shortcuts as if this were the same as being clever
honestly, thank god, this ghost has haunted me for so long
P.S. my dad died a year ago today. I put this playlist together shortly after. #dadrock #dadcore open.spotify.com/playlist/6kW...