i now know it isn't worth it to order ikea curbside if you're not sure it will fit in the car. i live at ikea now.

i started reading provenance by ann leckie, and i'm glad i did because this is a good day to read instead of scroll.

The moonlight suits you.

Hi Bsky! Restarting a fundraiser to help with survival. My issues with my bank are ongoing and it's not looking like I'm going to have my savings returned to me soon. I may even need to file a lawsuit. Any help would be so appreciated 🖤 Vmo: @marghoul CA: $margotlaine

The very simple question that should be asked over and over is “what good are all these AI companies giving us that outweighs the environmental devastation, skyrocketing utility costs, murders and suicides, revenge porn, general psychosis, and CSAM-on-demand”

i'm at the point in moving where i'm doordashing cleaning supplies.

spent new year's in door county, now i'm hanging out at the dmv.

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

she's a 10 but she steals all the blankets on the bed.

Welcome to 2026! The Trollbreath submission queues are now wide open, and will remain open until October 31st. Short stories, poetry, and all types of non-fiction pitches are welcome. This is our first year testing an "always open" policy, so please help support our work with a subscription:

Goo morning, monsters. The chrysalis squirms in its great resinous cradle. Transformation takes time, and often a change in position. The insensible sliding of cells will continue for some time, their busy squirming creating a two-part pulse that grows deeper with each iteration. New year. New you.

last night on the nye party shuttle, a whole group of people climbed in and said the shuttle smelled like smoked fish.

OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Hi everybody - in honor of the “Magica Riot” audiobook winning a Transfeminine Review award, I’m putting the whole Magica Riot audio series so far - Magica Riot, Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius, and Magica Riot Full Bloom - on sale for one week in an Itch bundle. itch.io/s/177864/mag...

do NOT make a lemon pig. the lemon pigs CAUSED THIS. you are messing with forces you DO NOT UNDERSTAND and CANNOT CONTROL.

little snowman with a gut wound screaming into the void.

the last step of the move was the great mezuzah heist of 2025.

My resolution for 2026 is to do even more of whatever the fuck I want to do without justification or apology, no matter how cringe or goblin-mode it might be

Blessing your timeline with pink Crouton toe beans 💕

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

this move has been such a silly thing

if your car lock freezes over with ice because the temperature dipped by 30 degrees in one night, you can warm your key with your breath.

"these three boxes of books are the sofa, those boxes are the coffee table, and those are the entertainment center."

if you need to know anything about me know that i always get my library card before i worry about less essential ids in a new city.

If you ask ChatGPT to give you a writing award, I'm sure it can do that for you. I imagine that soon it will even be able 3D print you an award, which you can display on your shelf. You don't even have to ask it to write you a book first.

the problem with living a quiet life where you don't make a lot of big purchases is that when you move cities and try to buy nice furniture your cards will begin to cock block you at every turn.

I think the thing that pisses me off most about that article by the lady with the insufferable face on why indie publishers/authors MUST use AI for the 'non-creative' tasks is that I'm an author currently in a state of deep depression and overwhelm, and you know what I use instead of AI? COMMUNITY.

me panicking for a sec out of the house worrying the cats will get into the turkey bones in the trash. (the cats are in a different state in a house that probably has 0 turkey bones.)

"Use AI tools to analyze royalty statements and contracts" oh my god please read your fucking contracts and ask a human being about things you don't understand.

Bluesky was generally better when we all more or less agreed to simply block dumb accounts and move on rather than quote dunk on them for clout.

i should get a merit badge for spatchcocking a turkey with a paring knife

Here's a simple happiness hack: Do something for someone that is truly altruistic. Do it in secret if you can, and take no credit, if you can manage that in a world that sees everything. Do this as often as your circumstances allow, which may be once a year or once a day. Try it and see.

me: gets up at 5 everything: opens at 8

We tell the attendees at @writingexcuses.bsky.social events that the most valuable thing they'll take away from the event is the relationships they're building with other writers. Not because those other writers are famous or powerful, but because your best future has long friendships in it.

today is one of those eating leftover pizza in the car kind of days.

i actively have to fight my body's desire to shut down and sleep away the day to get finished with about an hour's worth of packing and cleaning to finish up the work in this house.

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

My one resolution for 2026 is to refer to all my meals as either “wet food” or “dry food”

getting the last bits packed up before i head out

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

do you go by mxer or mxam?

Rating My Cat's Spy Potential: CROUTON Pros: adorable; no one will ever suspect him; moves at warp speed; very bouncy; does sneeze damage; concealed knife-toes & vampiric bite Cons: zero brain cell; easily confused; wouldn't remember the mission at all Spy Rating: .05/5 but VERY cute nonetheless

when the two most miserable and stubborn people in the world have to work together

time to ease into the day with carol before driving to my new home.

kitty ceiling tv.

people are still reposting this even though it’s no longer christmas. i regret to inform you that the time for being gay is over, you can now only reminisce

Found the pieces of Crouton’s circle toy and rebuilt it for him and he has been pushing it all over the floor for a solid five minutes 😅

Lol what he really means is he went to a convention and no one knew who he was and he didn't know how to socialize with who was there

look man we had to suffer through Queer As Folk to get to Gay Hockey Show. we’ve been in the shit. we deserve this

trying to decide between a portable projector and a digital display so my terrible cat sons can benefit from kitty tv enrichment time every day.