An astonishing letter published in the Times of London.

seasoning my carbon steel pan because i want to be able to cook eggs in it again and i have all of the fans and air filters going at once, it's a white noise paradise

December’s giftable What I Love & Where I’ll Be is up at the patreoblog for all subscribers! Contains details on December’s 2 free write-in sessions, goal/intention setting workshops, & a list of nifty gifty things. Not signed up yet? Come on over & check it out! www.patreon.com/posts/144927...

*looks directly at camera*

BUTTER IN A LITTLE CARDBOARD CHAPSTICK TUBE SO YOU CAN GREASE A WAFFLE IRON WITHOUT COOKING SPRAY

gumbo is a curry

And if you're arrested, do you think ICE is going to give a shit about what happens to your kid? We just saw them leave kids behind, alone, in the Minnesota winter. And this is a pattern: www.independent.com/2025/07/11/c... www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/... www.childrensrights.org/news-voices/...

My hot take on the accommodations thing is we shouldn’t make instructors (many of whom are contingent and receive negative institutional support) figure this out on their own. The disability office should be staffed with people trained in ND service provision, and staffed ROBUSTLY.

I have suffered a lot of very real psychological damage (I'm fine, nobody worry) being a healthcare provider during the worst time imaginable, but a few years into accidental burnout recovery (I got PPD and quit my job), one thing I am grateful for is I'm now immune to writing-rejection-angst.

Crossing the streams slightly to let people here know that @kristincollier.bsky.social's book, WHAT DEBT DEMANDS, is out! I have yelled about student debt pretty frequently, because it's the major factor I see separating my (millennial) peers into haves and have-nots. Link to MPR:

Day after Thanksgiving means my dad and I are transforming the borb into new forms, not because we hate turkey or anything but we need something to do while pointedly not going outside for fear of being hit by a shopping cart

Crossing the streams slightly to let people here know that @kristincollier.bsky.social's book, WHAT DEBT DEMANDS, is out! I have yelled about student debt pretty frequently, because it's the major factor I see separating my (millennial) peers into haves and have-nots. Link to MPR:

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

this thread is 100% accurate and also why I am full steam ahead on Canadian immigration for the spouse right now

Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.

People always ask me, “how do I know my manuscript is done?” There’s only one way, my friends. If your file name looks something like this: Manuscript - Final Draft 3.7 FINAL FINAL - FINAL (5).docx Then, and only then, is it time.

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who is following you dorks that you feel the need to repeatedly post that mtg is not on the side of the angels. it feels like spending a lot of time telling people not to eat hams they find on the ground

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

"THE RAILROADS LOOKED IRRATIONAL" my kingdom for a reasonable history curriculum

”I can’t overstate how profoundly the merging of these worlds, or motherhood as the impetus, has changed the way I make and the way I see.’

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Indeed, bus shelter kitty sticker. "Waow," indeed.

from @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social and Tarjimly, a webinar on culturally sensitive translation, with the recording available to watch + a tipsheet! lingua.globalvoices.org/2025/11/webi...

@andrea.bsky.social it occurs to me that you should read this book!!

So it's probably not the most savvy book promotion maneuver ever to point out that the author's note @clhellisen.bsky.social mentions as a selling point below is available to read for free here: raemariz.com/the-unidenti...

the patriots have such pretty periwinkle uniforms

WHAT ARE THE COSTUMES HERE WHAT IS HAPPENING ok tbh i hate this casting but the red pleather skirt has me seated, this is ridiculous i am so into it

Ok so the B12 definitely helped with mental clarity as per usual but unfortunately said mental clarity is just ye olde mind meat going "ahahahaaa we're so fucked" over and over again

It's Thursday! Time to pop a B12, put on brat, and aggressively clean.

My daughter just turned 15, the same age as the MC in my debut YA SF that came out 15 years ago. (Yes, I had a debut novel and firstborn in the same month.) I’m re-releasing a new edition of that novel now. 15 years later. The ebook’s out November 15. (Print coming soon.) books2read.com/b/bpJdnq

It's because a lot of the Appalachians are technically rain forest, but because of Various Reasons, we are not taught to think of them as such.

The year is 2059. James Bond is a Gen Alpha former heiress turned cryptography and Muay Thai expert. Her parents, before their tragic deaths by AI robo-dog, hung out on baby names forums way too much in the 2020s.

The increase in salience of "slop" to describe commodities that are low-effort, mass-produced, but yet made by humans, is an attempt to equivocate between AI-produced vs human-made commodities, further devaluing human labor while normalizing true AI slop. In this essay I will

The jobs/unemployment report for October was supposed to be released today. It was not. The September report, now over a month late, still hasn't been released. With record-setting layoffs continuing at an accelerating rate, the national unemployment rate hasn't been updated in two months.

THIS LOOKS SO FUN

once i told a male nurse that we had to delay an evaluation because of xyz reason and i'd need a specific surgical team to sign off beforehand and he claimed i was yelling at him :)

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

therrrrre it is

Did MTG, like, move OUT of a house that had black mold in it?

oh, wow. catharsis!

The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor (2018)

OKAY GUYS APROPOS OF NOTHING, I AM HERE TO SHARE MY METHOD FOR ADVENTURE SOUP. what is adventure soup? simple. it's soup. I call it an adventure because you don't know where you're going, or how you're gonna get there. other people call this "sweep the fridge". same concept.

It's called lateral agency and we've been talking about it forever here in the great unfunded humanities

oh no

"Putting away" is the worst part of the wash/dry/put away cycle and each time I have to do it a part of my soul withers and dies

Has anyone covering this Maine Senate run thing talked about how 100% of reputable tattoo shops won't tattoo Nazi shit, and will in fact escort you out impolitely if you try to make a fuss about it? You gotta seek out someone to do that special.

so is our military privately run now orrrr?

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.