Just sitting here listening to a story. youtu.be/YaxGNQE5ZLA?...
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Just sitting here listening to a story. youtu.be/YaxGNQE5ZLA?...
Honest question: If the Subway sandwich is in a bag, is it a concealed weapon? #askingforafriend
As a historian, I can't thank just one. From Mr. Westover in Jr. High to my graduate committee chair Dr. Tanenhaus, they each led me to the place I am now.
They're releasing the Epstein files?
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Just putting this here for the record. #resistance youtu.be/ni30bI3LkdI?...
Did you enjoy #NaNoWriMo but struggle with it happening in the busy month of November? Thinking of trying a writing challenge this Fall? Come run the #NovelGauntlet this October! novelgauntlet.com #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmWriting
We also run a NaNoWriMo-esque event in April and October called the @novelgauntlet.com with the focus on finishing projects whether it means starting the first draft, doing a final edit, and everything in between. Learn more here: NovelGauntlet.com
The “Fascist Fighter Fun Run/ Walk” - sign me up! #fightfascism #democracy #saltlakecity www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Will they be done in time? Certainly the legislature is going to run to the higher courts because the people can't POSSIBLY be given their power. #gerrymander #democracy #utah youtu.be/mMWPfTle6XY?...
I've spent nearly three weeks with an adorable kindergartener. I love kindergarten but prefer 2nd and 3rd, if I'm honest. My third favorite grade to work with is 9th. (I don't teach ninth grade though. I watch them from afar.) So far, I have no students tomorrow. #Edusky #Teacher #foster
Check out the Narratess Sale and Bundles! I have a book in the Fantasy 3 bundle 💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #BookSky #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers itch.io/b/3240/narra... indiebook.sale
What is it called when government owns the means of production again?
The #visibilitybrigade in #paramus #nj speaks truth to power. #meltice #bebravewithus @jesscraven101.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @anatosaurus.bsky.social
He looked down at Jerome and laughed before he started inching his way along the roofline. Jerome sent the same laugh back. He clapped his hands against the mast, nodded in appreciation of the quality, took a deep breath, and clambered up before it was gone. #WIPSnips #LadySeis
Are you a fascist? Do you want to beat people up? Have you forgotten your oaths? PS. The photo is of four service members unrelated to the current story. #resist
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
Ice is everywhere. So is the #resistance
#WIPSnips | Trap Oh, it's all such a beautiful trap. #Writesky #Werewolf #Amwriting #IndieAuthor
🤣 I'll do my best to resist. Not that teaching in UT is better, but we aren't last place.
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
My first thought watching this was...omg, he's short! It's always the short ones.
Are you a person with student loans? Are you working toward PSLF? A new rule was just dropped. It will be published Monday. Public commenting will open then. I have concerns. Here's the suggested change: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-15665.pdf #Edusky #studentloans #PSLF #democracy
So, if you've looked at my patreon, you may have noticed the bulk of it is a 75,000+ word novel. And though it's free to read, that can be intimidating. So perhaps try my short story: Hunted in the Wolf Wood and see if my style is to your liking. www.patreon.com/collection/8...
I've survived my first week back teaching. Go Team!! #Teacher #Gamer I miss the days when I could stare at a video game and contemplate whether or not I wanted to play it instead of whether or not I had the energy and time to play it. Ahh, the good ol' days of last week.
Latest news! North Carolina Reps. joined together to propose a bipartisan resolution for continued Red Wolf repopulation and recovery effort support, including building wildlife corridors. With only 18 known Red Wolves left in the wild, every step forward is vital. Read more: 🔗 bit.ly/4mDSqZC
Hey, if you live in Utah, call your Representatives and remind them that We the People do not support HB267 and it must be repealed. Repeal and Replace is NOT an option! #UnionStrong #Union #Teacher #Utah www.instagram.com/reel/DNXGQAA...
I like her. We should all subscribe to her channel. :) #resistance youtu.be/263FaqrL6C4?...
Stay safe out there. youtube.com/post/UgkxDHE...
This is the energy we need right now. #standup #fightback youtube.com/shorts/aBp0p...
This year's Donor's Choose is a quest for robots. I have a small class and average only two students at a time. I'm hoping to raise enough funds for four Ozobots to cap off my computer programming work. #EDTech #Edusky #Education #Teacher www.donorschoose.org/project/some...
Just felt like sharing. #union #resistance youtu.be/jKVnur5DkdI?...
Do you want to help support the Texas Dems who are breaking quorum? riggedredistricting.com #democracy #resistance
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Joined a union rally yesterday for @sbworkersunited.org. I grew up in a union household and come from union households. This teacher has your backs, baristas! #UnionStrong
I've been quietly #writing on a refurbished Chromebook. It's so old and slow, I can ONLY write on it. Believe me, this is a good thing. Nearing the finale of the #werewolf novel, only about 20K words-ish left, unless the characters go rogue on me. (It's been known to happen.) #Writesky #IndieAuthor
Now THESE are the best people. #resist #Utah
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Petition · Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play - United States · Change.org share.google/Y3AYgnxyt3RS...
I was listening to this @maddow.msnbc.com segment, and I decided it might be a good addition to a lesson on information and digital literacy, along with AI literacy, for our students. #EduSky #Education #EDTech
The #WIPSnips word for July 28th is “trash” which is how Chloé feels she’s skating early in the story
A shorter #WIPSnips today Sonya and Johnny’s past selves wake up thrown into the Black Dragon fight cage. Kano mentions not long before this that the only prison blocks are taken up by a certain cowboy. #MKBloodMoney #SonyaBlade #JohnnyCage
I'm preparing to pull an AU novella of my biggest WIP off AO3 to plop it onto Beehiiv for folks to read for free, which MEEEEEANS I have things to post in the tag again! 8D And the first thing up is a synonym. And angst. 8D 8D #WIPSnips
#WIPSnips | Trash Ugh, don't talk about dentists. We have an appointment tomorrow. I had to run through a few synonyms to find this one. #Werewolf #WIP #Writesky #Amwriting
Going with rubbish. Wren is being chased by a criminal gang known as the Greenies. From my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Wrencer
Got to go with the opening of my book (which I am very nearly done drafting now! 🥳) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying 📚💙
#WIPSnips There are benefits to a horrifying rat problem: the trash takes itself out. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting
#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Here's proof this book isn't all bleak 😅 A silly little moment where Nat Gellar is trying to get Kazuo to read his poetry, & Noah is making things worse. From #Tenement, my dystopian mystery about people living in an infinite building.
#WIPSnips July 27 - Apologize Swapped for "sorry," and managed to get the actual beginning of the book in this snip! This is the opening to The Last Firstborn, my dystopian fantasy #WIP coming late next year. #FirstLine #WritingCommunity
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts wotd "apologize" Our Heroine is trying to figure out the polite way to apologize for ruining the Ottrava family's life. And planet. It's difficult.
#WIPSnips | Apology Apparently, I never say I'm sorry and neither do my characters. From my "On-Hold" sci-fi novel: #Amwriting #SFF #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying #writesky #epicfantasy From my Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain. Kahyla’s first encounter with Malgrim, a minstrel and diplomat, on the streets of the decadent city of Bivmiav.
Thanks! I love my job and the students I meet. I always have high hopes for them even though I know they face an uphill battle.
#Teacher Wishlist time. I teach elementary students in a temporary residential shelter. My students are in the custody of the state, waiting for a foster family. This year's Donor's Choose Project is a handful of Ozobots. #Edusky #STEAM www.donorschoose.org/project/some...
#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #LicoriceAndMint #QueerWriters I couldn't find anything with minor so I went with the "vibe" of minor as a musical term and ran with that. From Book 2: One Bad Tuesday, Chapter 7 - A Study in Architecture (in progress)
Do you watch @katiephang.bsky.social ? Check out her analysis. #resistance youtu.be/77ANdWFkjkw?...
As wars rage Around the world We weep A single #tear For our children Yesterday’s thoughts As we order our latte Forgotten And forsaken Swept away Like the tide #vss365 #resist #poetry #poem #writing
#WIPSnips word for July 23 is "minor" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts Poor Nin had a tumble down the hill after she and Darach had retrieved the gold. Darach will take extra special care of her, especially since she hurt her shoulder and is in no particular rush to return home.
I saw it's #SelfPublishedAuthorsAppreciationWeek 📚 I'm an autistic ace enby who writes melds of LGBTQ+ sci-fi and fantasy, ranging from urban to post-apocalyptic fae stories, with inspiration from JRPGs and anime. 🎮 ✨ go.cara.ink 🌈🚀💫 ♿️♾️📚 🌈📚🪐 💙📚👀 📢📚 🌈📚♠️ #SPAAW #queerAdultSFF
he #WIPSnips word for July 23 is "minor" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#WipSnips | minor I have to go with a synonym here: Champagne’s pack owned a small territory that included the suburbs Milia lived in and the nearby industrial district. #Werewolf #fantasy #AmWriting #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
While walking the dogs this morning, I was gifted a flock of glossy ibis. They circled overhead a few times, coming in very close, then landed a few meters away and foraged a bit before taking off. They're a known, but rare, species here in the Great Salt Lake area. #birding #glossyibis #utah #bird
#WipSnips | Moon Moons galore! They allowed their prey to bleed out in the name of the Mistress, an offering to the Moon Goddess. As the birds cooled, their life spent, the wolves shared the flesh of each animal with one another. #AmWriting #werewolf #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
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July has not been a productive month. I've had to create space for extra caregiving and rest before starting back to work in a few weeks. However, I'm still making slow progress on writing and reading projects. Life, don't talk to me about life. #WritingCommunity
I don't know about good, per se, but once upon a time, there was a fae called Nemaran, a deity of nature and childhood, who was banished to the mortal plane following a minor misunderstanding. Nemaran knew this was a death sentence, obviously, as fae weren't meant to exist in our world long term.
Sitting here being forced to listen to our dictator and all the moronic things he has said in the last day or so. We should get something started to round these up. Something like #stupidthingsthedictatorsaid. "He was never a big factor in terms of...life." #resistance
#WIPSnips - stripe Only one in my manuscript. Heading all the way back to Chapter 1 for this one.
Stripe = band We are in big trouble now... From "Endlings" #WriteSky #WritingCommuntiy #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips
Open skate-the sweltering summer sanctuary.
“Gilded Ornithopter” Art by me for July’s upcoming #SciFanSat issue and its theme of INSECT! Writers, 14 days remain until submissions are due on July 17th. Full details are on our landing page at scifansat.com/landing.html! #SFF #AmWritingScifi #AmWritingFantasy #WritingPrompts
Just finished watching @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social stand up for the American people. His speech was followed by a whiny little bitch. 🙄
It's a sad day, but all we can do is stand up more determined and stronger than before. #UTpol youtu.be/iydD99TNqHE?...
Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing?
Thanks Eryn! Just because nukes keep exploding, shapeshifters are trained as elite soldiers, and supernatural powers are vying to destroy the world, doesn't mean a secret agent gets any time off. Even if he falls in love with the person he was sent to kill. relinks.me/B09XJBQMRK #booksky #scifi
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
After surviving the school year and taking a 2-week vacation, I'm settling into a Summer schedule. Hoping to write more. #amwriting #EduSky #IndieAuthor
Let's keep going: goodtroubleliveson.org #Resistance
No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history. From deep red small towns to our largest cities, millions of people turned out to make it clear that the American people will not bow to fascism. #NoKings
Billionaire Walmart heiress Christy Walton is paying for a full page ad in the New York Times entitled ‘No Kings’ and MAGA are now calling to boycott Walmart. This is funny AF. 🤣
I keep watching the number of #NoKings rallies grow. www.nokings.org It does my heart good. We the People, United, can never be defeated. #Resist
JUST IN: Gavin Newsom's lawsuit against Trump goes to Judge Charles Breyer, brother of the Supreme Court justice and appointee of Bill Clinton.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill with Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., on Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, making him a rare congressional Republican to endorse the historically liberal cause. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
SHARE this as a reminder to EVERY member of our military: “We don't take an oath to a King. We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator” “We take an oath to the Constitution." #FreedomToDissent
“Seek your redemption.” Start the journey that spans worlds and lifetimes. 📖 The Pangean Chronicles 🔗 mybook.to/thepangeantr... Find out more - www.thepangeanchronicles.com #books #FantasySeries #bluesky #readers
Making my signs for Saturday's NO KINGS protest today. Be brave, be safe, be peaceful, my friends. And show up in massive fucking numbers.
tax the church tax the rich jesus christ son of a bitch black lives matter love is love we’re all migrants we’ll rise above #resist #wethepeople #nokings #poetry #quatrain
I feel like “Current Republican Speaker of the House threatens political opponent with third degree burns and torture” should get more media attention than it will
Wren gets lectured by her old thieving mentor, Scarlet. From my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
Not sure why this has been on my mind lately 🤷♂️..... United, we are a lot more powerful than we realize! @utah50501.bsky.social @meidastouch.com @indivisible.org
Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism. https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-huerta-arrested
CBS owner Shari Redstone is a coward who just wants to retire, but the people acquiring CBS (led by a guy fired from Comcast for sexual harassment) are even worse...just the biggest Trump bootlickers imaginable who will turn CBS into another fox news type propaganda mill
The end of the school year swallowed me up and has since spat me out. (Last day was yesterday.) Currently packing for a short cruise with hubby, hoping for some downtime and writing. Virtually tech free and internet free = writing by hand #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #EduSky
MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.
This is in the book, but I want to post it here also so no one in the special thanks feels pressured to buy the book to see themselves in it. Thank you to everyone who made me feel welcomed. If you're not on here, I apologize, I ran out of room and focused on as many people as I could.
