Time for pizza and dumb movies. I am tired of adulting, but my writing brain seems to be excited about some projects again, so that's always a good sign.

Soaring solar and a surge in hydro push more coal off the US grid arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Oooo this is cool!

Made the rookie mistake of leaving 8 cartons of eggs on a bench in the kitchen. There are now only 6 😆 Sprocket got two packs outside and ate at least ten eggs. Bless. Well. There are worse things he could have eaten. But I think he will regret it later.

This himbo

I keep reading things like this but there continues to not be a crash and the houses across the street are going for $325k and are actually being bought, but no one can find a job or afford groceries and the stock market is doing amazing. I feel like there was much shorter lead up in 2008?

One wonders how propaganda fares against the "Don't Engage, Just Block" ethos here. I imagine fairly poorly.

Yes.

Surely this is the fulfillment of some kind of prophecy

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.

My debut novel, UNITY, an apocalyptic tale of collective consciousness and a desperate flight across the shattered remains of the American Southwest, is currently on sale amid a feast of marvelous books from Tachyon!

In case you missed it yesterday 👇👇

Things causing panic attacks last 2 months: -actual traumatic job thing -actual traumatic financial thing -sudden certainty our gas lines will explode -driving -construction noise -communicating w/contractors -fear I've fed fowl flock something that will kill them -fear dogs will eat children

Why I'm paying $81.52 for drugs right now when between spouse and his employer we pay like $2200/month in premiums is the mystery of modern American "healthcare."

Brazil’s forest losses fell by 42% in 2025, helping pull the global tropical deforestation curve back from a record high. The country only lost 16,000 km² of tropical primary forest, non-fire-related losses fell 41% to their lowest level since records began in 2001 buff.ly/4gyL7jV #ShareGoodNewsToo

I really loved Wife-Shaped Bodies. The body horror is next level.

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" 😆

I was very excited to write this book with mushroom tech, which of course led me to reading lots of books with mushroom tech and body horror, and dang, there is a LOT of it. I know there was plenty before The Last of Us debuted, but it def seems to have kicked it up a notch

"What concerns me more than the virus is what the panic reveals." Yes.

They were like "not gonna let a motherfucker do THAT shit to us again."

Let alone STORE IT ALL!! 😆

Wow: “The tooth’s hollow had been scooped out by a stone drill rather than by natural decay or wear… The findings indicated that the prehistoric patient underwent a deliberate Stone Age root canal, a discovery that pushes back the earliest evidence of intentional dentistry by more than 40,000 years”

Enough food talk: it's shameless self-promotion time! Two weeks to go, and we're just $803 away from "150% more book." www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

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. 💓

“Everything on the internet is fake.” This is also why it's become so difficult to actually judge "public opinion" anymore. We are all of us being trolled all the time.

In this week’s newsletter we answer the dreaded question about “self-promotion” which is bullshit. Humility? In this economy?! LOL. Fuck that. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

"disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name," @murderbotbot.bsky.social

...doesn't everyone do this??

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.

Very sad news because FIYAH is a great magazine. If you want to support the magazine and also show how much FIYAH means to the genre, go and buy some back issues or subscribe. fiyahlitmag.com/shop/

Kind of Over all the new home construction across the street. The noise has been grinding me down. Looked up average time to actually finish a house that's fairly standardized like these and it's... 6-9 months 🙃 I'm hoping the heavy exterior stuff will be done sooner rather than later.

This is a such a bummer.

If you're a fan of the character, I'm compelled to note that my partner is the current writer on the Conan the Barbarian comics. The newest trade collection features Conan seizing the throne, and there's a few free comics available online if you're curious: bsky.app/profile/jimz...

Radio asking people what they would do if they won a thousand dollars. "Buy gas and groceries." Like, for real. That's about as far as that stretches these days 😆

The He-Man trailer makes a bold, bizarre assumption that there are people under 45 who know what the fuck is being referenced here.

Doing bamboo mitigation today. Will probably need to call service for this, but trying few methods first. Also called termite exterminator company for a quote. Finding basement window wells like butter. I hate adulting, but putting it all off longer just digs a deeper hole. Joys of home ownership!

"Show me a character’s junk drawer, and I can tell you precisely how they will damn—or redeem—themselves."

BE STILL MY HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS LITERALLY

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Post of the week.

Shutting down The Stress Palace for the evening. I do have a few days off now tho. There's some Adulting in there I need to do, but it does mean I get to spend tomorrow frolicking outside all day. And then... Writing my book???? My stress may be nearly reduced enough to do that??? Maybe?????

Hello! It's time for this week's "I guess we should try to raise money for bills" thread, brought to you by Apparently Things Cost Money. Starting off strong with my opinion of that whole situation. It's a holographic NOPE clicker!!! thebrokencircle.etsy...

‪Sandra Tayler‬ Only $1500 away from being able to expand this book. www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

I love that bank appraisals of your house value are always at least 30% lower than the appraisals from the state property tax people, let alone real estate sites.

I used to have sympathy for 70s rock star tax exiles but thinking it through most of them benefited hugely from public investment in the arts and the dole so whining about being taxed on exorbitant incomes was ludicrous. It's even worse from guys whose wealth derives from exploiting their employees.

"60% of Companies Plan to Lay Off Employees Who Won’t Adopt AI" Oh, they already have and are (survival is grim out here). But it's nice to see it said out loud. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

If you're going to be at the Gen Con Writer's Symposium I'm teaching THE CREATIVE RESET WORKSHOP. It looks like there are only a few tickets left, so grab yours now! www.gencon.com/event-catalo...

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