Roused from my bed at daybreak and forced against my will to draw a mouse tending to her cheese tree.

Maybe they also should have reconsidered Tatooine each others names on themselves so early in the relationship

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

In conjunction with Children’s Book Week, May 4–10, Chronicle is once again opening its slush pile to unagented children’s book creators

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 29 Sorry I missed a few prompts during my holiday. My short story STATUS GREEN about which I posted this month, is available in the time travel anthology THE ACCIDENTAL TIME TRAVELERS COLLECTIVE, volume 2. Buy links on my website: www.maykenbruenings.com/time-travel/...

One of my neighbors has the last name of Pope, and they keep missing their FedEx package so the delivery driver apparently has time on their hands

John Williams' oppressive "Imperial March" in the style of a classical romance with a lute and harp works way better than it should.

Hi, have you seen the beautiful cover of my debut science fiction romance novel coming this fall from @acebookspub.bsky.social ?? Okay, now you have 🪐

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

I loved the 2006 Mitchell & Webb TV sketch show, but I never imagined “are we the baddies?” would graduate from funny catchphrase to the defining philosophical aphorism for our age

🚨BREAKING: A Michigan court Thursday handed voters a major win — rejecting a Republican lawsuit that sought to disenfranchise U.S. citizens living abroad. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Langenberg, Germany, asks drivers to drive at walking pace, and to remove any doubt, it's very specific about it.

“In my 37 years in the travel industry, I have never seen anything like what the Canadians have pulled off,” Amir Eylon, President and CEO of Longwoods International, told Forbes. The ripple effect is that CDN visitor spending has dropped $4.5B. This is the way.

The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections is now LIVE! Please read it, share it, and bookmark it to help support anti-censorship candidates in Texas. And check back frequently! As always, I'll be updating it until election day (May 2). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today in social justice toolkit: A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation. You've given them only bad options. I give some examples & then we talk about how to design them. This one's pretty important. Read and share, please?

Trump touted how great he was because of “no tax on tips”. (Never-mind it only saves the average tip receiver a few hundred each year). It’s hilarious to hear Trump & MAGA get so close to them understanding a fundamental truth, but just not quite getting there. And by funny I mean fucking tragic.

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse. So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries. It’s your turn.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

Here’s an update on @demsabroad.bsky.social Taxation Task Force advocacy for US expat Residence Based Taxation on Tax Day. www.democratsabroad.org/rbt_update_t...

Since we're all swooning abt the Avatar movie leak of adult Zuko...I'm here to remind folks that I wrote a Filipino Mythology inspired Avatar the Last Airbender EXCEPT the Avatar is NOT a Pacifist and Dante Basco (Prince Zuko) voices the MMC in the audiobook-Do with that information what you will 😉

We're saying goodbye to our Second Chance Inbox and introducing a new query policy: Creators may now query more than one ABLA literary agent as long as you query us one at a time! Check out the SUBMISSIONS tab on our website for more info. We look forward to considering your work!

To the doomers who keep saying Trump will rig the 2026 and 2028 elections: Do not concede in advance

The real lesson of the Hungarian people's victory over authoritarianism is that people power can defeat dictators. The massive opposition movement led to a massive electoral victory. We can do it too!

I have ranted about this a million times before. But when you put a value judgement of "clean" on the content of books then you put the value judgement of "dirty" on the rest. You are then implying the readers who has had the same life experiences as those in "dirty* books are also "dirty." 1/2

got a much needed long laugh from this

Hey, pick up a phone. It'll help. Be kind to the staffers. You'll probably be speaking to an intern, if someone answers. They didn't do this. They very possibly agree with you if you call a DC office. But let your senators and representative know that Trump's genocidal threat cannot stand.

Happy Book Birthday to THE BLOODY AND THE DAMNED by @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social! An assassin with outlawed, magical abilities will do anything to get their kidnapped sisters back in this fantasy standalone, perfect for fans of Arcane and Iron Widow. It has 1 starred review! tinyurl.com/3sybst2w

More images here! 👇 www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

During the mission's loop around the moon, the crew took geological observations of places of interest on the lunar surface using their own eyes and snapping thousands of photos of the surface. n.pr/4sWjwi6

People wanna say you're washed up by middle age, but the YOUNGEST person on this moon mission is 47.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

We are so, so small. #Artemis

In a very real way, the President of the United States should be held to the highest standard of conduct in the whole country. Somehow, he’s held to a lower (nonexistent) standard of conduct than literally everyone else. It’s unfathomable.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

📚👍 For weekend BlueSky friends. May I reccommend this extensive list of verse novels to read and share with the kids in your life? I've included some stats. But I'm also sharing one 2025 verse novel each day of this month, here and on IG. #KidLit

Me, looking at my cake, baking in the oven: why are there orange specks in there? Me, five seconds later: because you're making a carrot cake, genius I suppose that's the baker's version of being surprised at getting an email you sent yourself. Which I also do.

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

We know from other reporting that these are all females, they are not all biologically related, and they both kept the mother company during the birth and worked together to keep the newborn afloat until it achieved its buoyancy. The newborn is the slightly darker whale being boosted to the surface:

An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process. n.pr/40THi23

"My promise has always been that I will veto any bill that makes WI a less safe, less inclusive, and less welcoming place for LGBTQ people and kids," he said. "It has been my honor to keep that promise over the course of two terms as governor, and I am proud to deliver on that promise again today."

The “Streisand effect” Is explained in this installment of my own newsletter. We’ll see it in action with the White House’s effort to hide a rather innocuous Karoline Leavitt photo.

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

ai is poison.

Yes, this is real.

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

This is the first bit of trans art I ever made. I am hardly anybody, but I promise to use whatever strength and privilege I have to make this world a better place for trans people, and one where we can live our lives without fear of simply existing. I wish you all a joyous #TDoV.

"I believe in a future in which trans people aren't forced to live in fear, shame and secrecy." My strip for TDOV.

Me, rolling past on a SFF skateboard: WELL WELL WELL, LOOK WHO'S SUDDENLY THE COOL KID

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!