For anyone with little kids -- I was just able to make Covid shot appointments for all my kids, ages 2 to 9, at CVS. Still listed as not available at Walgreens. Interestingly, I'm going to have to cross from CT up to MA to get the shots. Very new. I got my covid shot last week in CT.

Study Finds Regular Journaling Can Help Provide Clues About Mysterious Disappearance https://theonion.com/study-finds-regular-journaling-can-help-provide-clues-about-mysterious-disappearance/

Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.

CHOTINER: And when was that? MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a- MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish- CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

I have books. You have legal tender. I’m told we can trade these things and that’s how commerce works. lishmcbride.squarespace.com/store-1

Different age, not a vengeful sociopath.

Got my covid shot yesterday. Can confirm, super effective. My skin feels sore right now.

"What Strange New Worlds has accidentally proven is that you can’t have episodic TV without a whole lot of episodes." @use-theforce-em.bsky.social reviews where Strange New World season 3 went wrong, and what it reveals about TV's streaming age: reactormag.com/star-trek-st...

Realizing very suddenly that the walking slit on the new skirt is rather insufficient, and you will be spending the rest of your workday moving at the speed of mince.

congrats to your grandma in heaven on finally being able to fulfill her fantasy of being eiffel towered by paul newman and robert redford

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

oh hey i have a BOOK out today! #booksky #romancesky #paranormalromance #ProfessionalWhimsicalSkedaddling #IrishDance meets a DJ gorilla in a story you'll (wait for it) go ape for! O.O www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX2V218...

IF YOU MISSED IT OVER THE WEEKEND... Audiobook preorders are up, read by my wonderful and always amazing friend, @realrayporter.bsky.social Honestly, I can't wait to hear how he did some of this.

Me, finally realizing how to permanently delete the emails from my work outlook trashcan. How many emails? 22,525. Also, pro-tip, this took a minute.

I have a student from South Carolina this semester, and northerners are simply unprepared for this level of weaponized charm and small talk. Thank God we had cannons during the Civil War, because I swear this kid could make pleasant social conversation with a rampaging army of orcs.

I really wanted this one comic by @tomgauld.bsky.social to put on my office door at the college, but it wasn't in his shop, so I bought a sacrificial copy of REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS, sliced it out, and now it is on my office door!

I never did a ranty writing blog post for this week. Which I felt kind of crap about, until I remembered I never mentioned the one from *last* week. Sooooo HEY-- last week on the ranty writing blog, I explain how writers block is partially caused by elves. If that sounds interesting to you...

I watched the first three episodes of a new anime last night, and it's about this elf mage from an adventuring party, and they saved the world, and she's slowing realizing, twenty years after one dude died of old age, that he was absolutely in love with her, and it's very my dating life?

As every year goes by, I think about September 11th and wonder if this is how Pearl Harbor Day felt for my grandparents. Just watching the date that changed so much eventually soften and get almost lost behind the years, and the people who weren't even alive when it happened be older and older.

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

leopard on leopard violence

Yesterday I spent three hours writing up ten essay assignments, and my brain still feels all floppy. Bright side -- now I don't have to write any more essay assignments for the rest of the semester, and if I play my cards right, I can use these fuckers FOR YEARS.

Happy Happy release day!

Adorable 'Tooterphants' Crocheted by Angry Angel, Get the Pattern! 👉 buff.ly/LMVAZ47 #crochet #amigurumi #etsy #affiliate #giftideas

Student enrolls in class in week three. What I say: How lovely for you to join us! What I think: what fucker in the advising department just fucked me this hard.

Oh my god, this is beyond amazing. Can political ads win Oscars? This should.

Great, now I will be forever bitter when this doesn't happen.

#HappyBaturday! 🦇 Silver-haired Bats are “migratory-hibernators.” They leave Alberta with other migratory bats but are found hibernating elsewhere—exact destinations unknown! Sadly, they’re among the species most often killed at wind energy sites.

is this classic tweet over here yet

But seriously, tomorrow I’m hosting the Coffeehouse noon to three at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego. It’s absolutely free, no sign up, no requirements. Just show up and talk about writing, publishing, and some of the weird spots where they overlap. Or don’t talk and just lurk. That's cool

Colleen is a good person (and her cats are characters)

When you see a clickbait article titled "Famous Literary Relationships: Best to Worst" and the picture is of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, you kind of hope you just saw Worst, because otherwise this is going to be a hell of a dark list.

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their face? Public servants should face the public — take off your masks! We just launched ads at over a hundred bus shelters around Washington, D.C. — check them out!

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu

who wants a danger hug

If any of you are on Instagram these days, I’ve got a giveaway going on over there…(link below)

This week over on the ranty writing blog I'm namedropping Kameron Hurley, the process-spiderweb, and all the weird terms writers come up with for things. If any of that sounds interesting to you.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

You know, you never truly notice the cursing and kinky sex content of a short story until you've already assigned it to a college class and are setting up the reading quiz for it and suddenly realize that in four weeks you are going to be staring down some very judgemental eyes.

[P] In honor of #NationalDogDay, and in the interest of posting something that’s not completely doom-filled, here a video of me getting buried under fourteen golden retriever puppies back in 2021. Genuinely one of the best memories of my life.

Someone is living their best life.

This is so excruciatingly dumb, and I hate that now this is what my students will be whining to me about in two months. "But grammarly's AI said it would be an A!"

These are all very solid attributes.

Yooooo! Guess who won a Hugo for Best Series!!! Thank you to each and every one of you who voted. You made a difference and I will be forever grateful. Now let me catch this 6:30 AM flight and head on home and back to work. Had a blast #worldcon #concurrentseattle . Let’s do it again sometime.

Hey, Halloween is coming! Want to stun all bitches with an amazing owl costume? I have an easy pattern for an amazing costume in my Etsy shop. Size adjusts from adult to toddler -- no intricate sewing experience necessary -- just brute force whip stitch. www.etsy.com/listing/1749...

I mean.... gosh. Either everyone who works for this administration is cripplingly incompetent, or someone is just so deeply unhappy with their job that this is kind of like a cry for help, or someone was just all FUCK IT & left the papers while also calling three news outlets to pick them up.

Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? Even in the summer, when it was scorching hot? Why is this? 🧵

some fishies 🐟 #art #fish