I was in Central Park on Sunday, not taking photos, didn’t even have my camera, and today I realized this gorgeous photo of an indigo bunting appeared on my phone’s camera roll. Someone airdropped by mistake? #centralpark #birds

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Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

Mifepristone access will remain available. SCOTUS kept its stay in place today, blocking the Fifth Circuit ruling that would have cut off telehealth, mail, and pharmacy access to the abortion pill. Read more 👇 rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/05/14/s...

this has to be the funniest Mother's Day cartoon I've ever seen.

And all the next day Toad read poems to his seeds.

JOHN FOGERTY: I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain JAMES TAYLOR: okay, you’re not gonna fucking believe this

Wow, must be great fun to be an editor at HarperCollins, knowing that the "content" you work on and publish will be used by the Big Bad Machines to put you out of a job and damned soon too.

Peek-a-boo, I see you! A stunning Scarlet Tanager peering down from the top of Central Park's 'magic' tulip tree. Birders call it magic because it attracts so many warblers, tanagers, orioles and grosbeaks every year. #Tanager #CentralPark #birding

Breaking news! Here’s a gift link to read a dozen stories for free: kaleidotrope.net

PSA for writers of time travel or 80s fiction. These were not soft & fuzzy days of yore in big cities = people left their doors unlocked. In fact we had things called police locks: much stronger/more complicated than standard locks. Love, Someone who was there, & just giggled through an episode

the two-year anniversary of The Originalism Trap is now one month away and I have sold 5,970 books! that smooth 6,000 mark looks so close and achievable! if you haven't gotten a copy yet or told your people to do so, please let this be a nudge 😅 🙏🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Rhubarb at the farmer’s market yesterday = pie today

I don't understand this. Not the don't use AI aspect, but how is it that I know several excellent writers w/excellent mss unable to get agents or publishers, but unintelligible AI msss are contracted? Is this what some publishers want now? Are these legit publishers or pay to play?

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The @authorsguild.org offers a suite of model contract clauses related to AI (recently updated with a clause addressing the possibility of publishers uploading manuscripts to AI without permission) authorsguild.org/advocacy/art...

Garlic knots, anyone?

“Water Softener People” by EC Dorgan (Kaleidotrope, Winter '26), writes @mariahaskins.com, is "a slow-burn blend of weird fiction and horror that starts out quietly in the everyday world before dragging you deeper into the mysteries lurking beneath the surface of the mundane." 🚿

Virgo: History may not remember your name but take heart, it will remember the exact number of crows that pecked you to death.

#BirdoftheDay #LongNecks

Hey, did you know April is #NationalPoetryMonth? Did you know Kaleidotrope has published a whole lot of poems?

#RestingBeakFace I think this Victoria Crowned Pigeon does it well.

For Earth Day, a piece the Atlantic created a while back around an interview with me. youtu.be/fr7ERELf_EU?...

The Girl with a Thousand Faces by @sunyidean.com is due out early May: set after WWII, Mercy Chan washes up in Hong Kong with no memory and tries to make a living as ghost-talker for the local triad. A gothic urban historical fantasy of trauma & war that's beautiful & emotionally devastating! 💙📚🪐

A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding

Hey friends, the Stitch & Bitch crew are planning a special livestream this afternoon to react to the Hugo shortlist! It'll be me, @breereadsbooks.bsky.social, @bookishdi.bsky.social, and @bookfinch.bsky.social (sadly no Rachel 😢) at 12 pm PT/2 pm CT/3 pm ET/10 pm EET youtube.com/live/5pJJJYW...

One of the greatest performances of all time. Just amazing. And George Harrison’s son was. The smiles between him and Prince show so much joy.

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯 Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke... A thread. 🧵

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I ran out of body cream & the stuff I'd been using is really out of budget now, so I picked up something else to try. Now I smell like lemon-scented Pledge and am feeling compelled to roll myself across the furniture.

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Since my brain has decided sleep is overrated and I've been awake since crazy o'clock, it isn't yet 7am and I'm cooking chick peas to make hummus and doomscrolling. @writerlaurabee.bsky.social posted this song, and I think it's perfect for this morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEQ...

Some days I wake up with an unignorable urge to make something. Today was orange cinnamon rolls.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

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UNENDING TORMENTS

In things you never imagined yourself saying: I went to a knitting cabaret today. Very fun, very worthwhile. She tours this show worldwide. 🧶

Anyone ready for a calzone?

My blog post about this very widespread scam, which arrives out of the blue in the form of a highly flattering (AI-generated) email writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/w...

Also HAPPY FRIDAY I would really like for people to pre-order my magical spy weird city novel! It's not coming out in the UK because the one (1) offer we got for UK rights was like "Ugh ugh bleh THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST barely sold, why would we WANT UK rights" But! If pre-orders?? Maybe LOVE???

Thrilled to see these Ravens have returned to raise another brood in the facade of NYC’s gothic cathedral, St John the Divine! Caught one parent as it was returning to the nest. 🖤♥️🖤 #Ravens #stjohnthedivine #birding

This is a widespread scam impersonating multiple editors. The emails all contain similar language. The goal: referrals for paid scam services. My blog post goes into detail: writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/w...

I’m currently sailing to the Netherlands. Meanwhile you should sail to the netherworlds of the new Spring issue of Kaleidotrope!

With all the excitement, I keep forgetting to share my space mission story, "For Whatever We Lose" It was in Luna Station Quarterly first, reprinted in Escape Pod It's my most autobiographical story escapepod.org/2020/05/07/e...

The absolutely stunning plumage of a recent visitor to Bryant Park. Gotta love Timberdoodles! #Timberdoodles #BryantPark #birding

Happy Saturday, all. If you haven't read it yet, maybe you'd like to check out my poem in Kaleidotrope? Death! Weirdness! Mermaids! kaleidotrope.net/spring-2026/...

This is a gorgeous story! Stunning, @faithallington.bsky.social "We run home, hair catching in branches, drunk on glitter and blood." kaleidotrope.net/spring-2026/...