The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

One of my elderberry bushes survived the series of nonsense that is my amateur gardening skills. Fingers crossed for the other five.

u should be able to call into work if u find a really cool rock and wanna look at it for awhile

TIL

A very happy 3 year book birthday to RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR! 🌊containing 50 poems 🌊 20 of those poems are original to the collection 🌊published 3 years ago today 🌊a finalist for 2 awards 🌊my first standalone book Available in print and digital @press-android.bsky.social 🫧

So effing many. Some I didn't realize were in there. WTF is wrong with men. (Rhetorical question.)

Gila Woodpecker cosplaying as a honey bee. 🪶 🌵

I need to bake a blueberry pie today

My chat with the amazing Brandon Sanderson from the EMPIRE OF THE DAWN tour is now live. This was a fun one :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM1a...

AT LEAST IT LOOKS GOOD FROM—

Glaze 2.2 is out. It is an update for Windows users to support recent NVidia GPUs (including 50xx GPUs). Downloads at: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu Mac users do not need to update. We are also updating Nightshade to fix the True bug and also support new GPUs. That update is coming in the next few days.

Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

Look what I saw today in Portland, @chuckwendig.bsky.social -- at Powell‘s Books. #booksinthewild

Nightmare shit. A prisoner from the George Floyd Uprising has just disappeared from state DOC records after weeks of being held in solitary and having no access to communications.

For those of you who are not Catholic, you need to know that the Pope has this thing called papal infallibility. He basically can't be wrong on matters of theology. I'm not saying YOU need to agree with this. You're not Catholic. But Vance treats the Pope like a debate me bro and it's offensive

Hi. I'm gonna remind you, once again, that you can go into the accessibility options in settings and turn on the toggle that doesn't let you post without alt text.

Seeing a lot of “we went to the moon instead of funding healthcare” takes and want to note it is a false dichotomy. The US could easily do both, but the politicians and people who finance them have chosen to make Americans suffer. And they avoid paying taxes to make it harder to help Americans.

Maybe unpopular opinion but SFF conventions should have way fewer panels and way more "somebody talks about something random and interesting for fifteen minutes"

A lil' doodle for the eco-celebrating Wild Mind festival in Fenit this year 🪴

Update: only 4 spots left! If you’re thinking about registering, now is the time!

Came home and found this small black frog asleep (?) on the wall next to the door. . . with a galaxy on its back!

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

I am a medieval historian!! The world always is in a state, it has never not been in a state, joy and delight and beauty is what humanity exists for

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation

A Date with a Girl!

Every part of the lily plant is deadly to cats - even drinking water that lilies were sitting in can kill them. Other popular spring flowers like tulips and daffodils can also make them very sick, but there are plenty of beautiful and safe alternatives.

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

you know what's great about writing? writing. follow me for more insights.

For my WIP, Kieran has been working and training with one of the main antagonists, Captain Edith. Neither of my MCs meet the king directly who's the other and Reilly (local chaos gremlin) briefly meets a minor antagonist that I haven't named yet. #AntagonistApril

We killed hundreds of bad bills this session. We also managed to pass some good ones including my EMS bill! Now, we are sprinting towards the primary and need your help. For over two months, our opponents have been fundraising while we could not because of session. 1/

Today is a Good Friday to support #IndieBooks and #IndieAuthors 👀👀 especially since you can get a full $6 off of the Moonshadow Rising Duology for #IndieApril!

Keep fighting it, everyone.

This is so, so well-articulated.

It's after midnight and I SHOULD go to bed, BUT I'm off work for a week so I can sleep in a little bit tomorrow so there's really no reason I can't watch just one more episode of The Pitt.

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

I got a great look at my first Hermit Thrush of the year in Central Park! Posed beautifully for me for just a moment. ❤️❤️❤️🐿️ #Thrush #centralpark #birding

Autographed copies of my books at Powell's Hawthorne, Portland. Really nice to hear from the booksellers there how much Annihilation and others mean to readers.

Five shows to get to know me: - Invader Zim - Daria - One Piece - Yu Yu Hakusho - Ed, Edd N Eddy

Red Lobster: Fuck It, We Ball

It’s been a few weeks, but I was finally able to photograph a bit today. We’re still waiting for spring to hit here and it was a gloomy, blustery day, but the birds were chattering and the redpolls are still here! This male common redpoll brought all the colour this dull day needed! #Birds 🪶

Free book alert! @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is running a Goodreads giveaway for SPLIT SCREAM VOL. 8: CURSED PLACES. 5 copies up for grabs -- is today your lucky day? Why not find out? www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Went with The Pitt, think this might be a new addition.

Oh, god. Another hot take. Listen, writers say they hate writing, but it's a lie. To understand, ignore what we say and watch what we do. To what do we give quality time? What do we moan about? What do we talk about to others? Strangers even? I hate celery. It's good for me, but I don't eat it

Keep requesting eachother's books from your local library system. They usually don't pay attention to just one person who wants such-and-such a book, but if multiple people ask for it, that might work! #WeeknightWriters

“All authors are using AI now” Not true! A lot of us use ADHD and anxiety!!

Finally get my taxes done. >_>

Contemplating if I should continue reading the next book in A Series Of Unfortunate Events that I started yesterday (I'm on book 9) or start watching The Pitt.

Tired brain fog. I'm not even lacking sleep. I think it's just my mind reacting to finally having some time off and deciding to be unproductive.

Knowing I have this next week off from work.

Anyone wanna come over and help me do a shit ton of yard work and reorganize my garage?