I had my yearly physical (all good), and spent some time in a new-to-me cafe. I don't go to many post-covid, though I used to love hanging out in them. This one was so hip it was annoying. Yes, I get that we're in a Cute Town (tm), but seriously. It's okay to be less hip and more warm and relaxing.

Reminder: turn on your alt text setting, describe the photo or copy the text of the photo to alt text (it doesn’t have to be perfect), and then I will share your post.

Kay, a 45-year-old single mom, discovers her own magical abilities and also that there are killer vampires in her city. She has to juggle learning how to deal with her new community, what to do about the vampires, and still keep up with the groceries and laundry. www.amazon.com/dp/B09253NNQL

If you're wondering what do do now that the F1 season is over, I have a two-book F1 series, Fast & Reckless and Kiss & Collide. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DG292N4...

🥺 oh baby girl, you have many Bluesky friends sharing your story. We will find you a home. Hopefully soon 🤞 Here's MELIA's bio. Please read and repost. She needs someone who will be fully committed to her. ❤️ 🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

I think a lot of people still aren't used to the idea of a federal government that lies openly, nakedly and as a matter of course.

I get it. The millionaire romance trope is a Cinderella fantasy. I do get it. But the difference between MILLIONaire and BILLIONaire is huge. No, huger than that. They're not letting random waitresses nanny their kids. They call a service. I can't suspend disbelief for billionaires.

I can't tell if I'm just cranky or if books are just less good than they were when I was younger. But please, fellow authors, get someone to read over your book before you publish it. Even if that person is a friend or another author you're swapping beta reading with. Please.

It's December, so I'm thinking about Next Year. My plans for 2025 cratered in April; I'm hoping #2026 is less crater-filled. I'd like to publish some of the books simmering in my head, and I have a few other, personal goals, as well. Now I just have to work out a plan!

🌮Out Now🌮 Mcbride's Magical Munchies: Episode 8 mybook.to/MagicalMunch...

My husband put a newer/faster graphics card into the computer which drives our tv (don't ask me how it's set up, I don't know) and it's such a huge change. Suddenly I can see the point of 4K video. Golly!

Read for free at kitauthor.com/muse-happens/ or become a member to read even more plus get a whole bunch of free short stories. (I try to post one at least every couple of months.) Your membership supports this trans queer neurodivergent creator and helps with medical expenses & horse care.

Hmm. This isn't nearly enough. This is only 6% of my posts. I have to up my fucking swearing game. (Also, I need to use a wider range of swear words.)

@profanity.accountant I hope I've been sweary *enough*.

What's at the bottom left? Is there gravy? I do like a good buttered noodle, but not if it's standing in for mac and cheese. Why so few vegetables? Is that canned cranberry sauce, just stirred?

While you're in the virtual world doing your Black Friday Shopping today, get yourself something nice too at a major sale on hundreds of books! So many reads for just $0.99 each! And pick up a copy of my book Fun Facts while you're there, too! www.romancebooklovers.com

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.

Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!

As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead! So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.

American friends, I've seen a couple of IF YOU HAVEN"T STARTED DEFROSTING YOUR TURKEY IT'S TOO LATE posts, so just a reminder that air is terrible for heat transfer and you can also safely and (relatively) quickly thaw a turkey in cold water: www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/...

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

One day, I'll get people to understand that when I say, "sorry, what?" or, "what?" What I need is not an explanation, but simply for the previous statement too be repeated verbatim. I didn't hear you. Explaining the thing I didn't hear won't help either of us.

We made a turkey last week (we love turkey eating season), and today it was Vat Of Soup Day. The stock is the gravy, thinned with the water we boiled the rutabega in. There's turkey chunks, onion, celery, carrots, tomatoes, and cubes of rutabega.

*looks around at assorted trash fires* HEY KIDS, WANNA COOK A STREET CORN SMASH BURGER TACO WITH UNCLE KEVIN? LET’S GO! You don’t even have to do the burger part. Just the street corn will measurably improve your life. So let’s start there. Open a can of corn, dump in a skillet with oil, & char 1/

Okay. If you're in line at a fast food place, don't have a long conversation with your buddy, then stand for another 5 minutes trying to decide what you want. When you've finally ordered, don't rush back to ask if the thing you explicitly excluded is in your order, and complain when it's not. Ugh.

I #AmWriting, and I have a question. I'm avoiding writing about cops, but do Fire Marshals and other arson investigators fall under copaganda rules? I want to write some #UF with a #firewalker, but that'll probably include contact with officials.

If we could figure out a way to block somebody online by angrily hanging up an analogue phone that would be ideal I think

I'm at the dealership for my new car's First Maintenence Visit. Oil change, tire rotation, car wash. I'll have all the others done in more local shops, but I thought, for the first one, I should have it done at the dealer's. Their piped-in music is awful, OMG.

very little brings me as much joy as explaining the plots of romance novels to my husband. no one is more earnestly appalled. "he made a BET to marry her? but that will hurt her feelings when she finds out!" yes beloved

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Fish have committed credit card fraud

I love my biggest cat, I really do. He's 20 pounds of soft, scaredy-cat love. But. Last night, a scary hissing sound happened and he launched himself off my lap leaving a 5" long, deep scratch. Today, he knocked over my coffee and I'm having to clear off the whole table AND wash the floor.

Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed. And what illustrates it being EVEN MORE WRONG, are recent suspensions with restoration with much much more egregious offenses in the same line of what Bluesky claims Link was banned over. FREE LINK.

#JoyScrolling (what it says on the tin--and listen to that triumphant "YES!" at the end for an extra shot of joy)

#3157 A helpful tutorial

I really like the "what is this thing reddit" but there are exactly 3 kinds of posts: 1) person posts extremely niche item, person with extremely niche knowledge identifies it against all odds 2) mom convinced random piece of plastic is drug paraphernalia 3) adult person has never seen a spice rack

I have a list of things I cook (tbh, it's a long list) and I choose five or six on Sunday night, one of which I have the ingredients for already (grocery shopping is on Tuesday, so Monday night's dinner has to be in the house already). Then I go through the dishes randomly in the week. 🧵

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

if you're ever having a bad day I really recommend scrolling through my videos tab because it's almost entirely videos of Adonis

We moved here in 2018. Why an I still finding boxes I haven't unpacked since the move? Ugh.

I am not allowed to go to the bathroom alone. No matter what, one of my cats MUST accompany me. Peaches will wake up from a dead sleep and stagger through the house after me, eyes still shut, just so I'm not alone in that little room. What do they think will happen?

I’m back. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

crazy IG em_clarkson

I finished the second of my charity-based podfics (audiobooks of fanfiction), and I'm celebrating by having home-made carnitas and corn elote-ish salad, and I think I'll also make refried beans. Mmm, now I'm hungry.

I'm clearly going to have to spend a lot of time in my boxes of ephemera; now I need to find all the photos I can of the street I grew up on in Oakland. There must *be* pictures, right? Sometimes I am just so sad that the past is lost, ykwim?