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the best gay book for spooky season is The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by KJ Charles, which opens with the sexiest ghost story imaginable, and improbably turns into a gorgeous multidecade love story (with lots of ghosts and monsters)

happy frog Friday! 🐸⭐✨ #frogart

🐙 Octopus Garden VIII 🌊 Blue Ringed Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨 #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #BlueSkyArtShow #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #BlueSkyNightMarket #OnlyBeautifulThings #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

Chrome for Android has started hiding tab groups you haven't interacted with in a couple of weeks. Generally a good change, it's very easy to get them back. But I'm having an existential crisis at being able to see the NUMBER of tabs open instead of ":)"

As usual, my answer to "what can you talk about for 3 hours" is "literally anything, I do not recommend asking me questions" 😂

Reminder to my fellow bisexuals: do not do crimes today. You are briefly visible. Wait til tomorrow when you can no longer be perceived.

Re #lrp it's not holiday themed but I also just finished and enjoyed KD Casey's Breakout Year, fake dating m/m where both MCs are Jewish (and also there's baseball but it's great even if you don't like sports! Trust me!!)

If you are looking for a nice high holidays gay romance.... (aren't we all??) bsky.app/profile/rose...

Velcrow Birds of a feather stick together. www.worldofmoose.com/products/vel...

Genuinely incredible how many scams people try to hit you with when you buy real estate. Getting like 3 letters a week where the small print's like "we r a smol legitimate business, this isn't a government/bank document, pls don't come after us 🥺" but the big text is "CALL NOW OR LOSE YOUR HOUSE"

(snort) https://www.independent.ie/world-news/train-named-ctrl-alt-deleaf-to-tackle-leaves-on-the-line/a1086375853.html

The primary diff between writing fiction and nonfiction is when you write nonfic, you research a topic for 2 weeks and then write 1000 words on it and when you write fiction you research a topic for 2 weeks and get one sentence out of it.

Well, it finally occurred to me that some of my work might have been pirated by LLM AI companies -- I'm not a published fiction author, but I do have academic work. So I checked the Atlantic LibGen database. Ahahaha. Not only all my academic articles--my dad's and grandfather's too...

When Sarah Freeman's daughter Caitlin set her June wedding date, mom went to work creating the MOST fantastic wedding cake toppers in stained glass, recognizing the bride's favorite animal is the Piping Plover. 🤍 So beautiful!

I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.

Accidentally read that as "self-depreciation." Reducing one's own value in a market-appropriate way, I guess. (CC @aliascelli.bsky.social ) (Reposting with alt text so block/mute works!)

I'm late to the party for forward facing raptors, but it's one of my favourite subjects. I went with a bit of a twist on the 'typical' image :) #birds

Piglet squids (genus Helicocranchia) are a genus of small cranchiids known for their goofy appearance. They have a rather large siphon that make them look like a pig with a snout. Well I guess with their arms raised up cranchiid style, they look like a pig with a crazy hairdo. #SQUIDtember

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

This thread is the best.

Somehow I just placed two online shopping orders from two different stores that were EXACTLY, down to the cent, the amount I needed to pay to get free shipping. Weird!

I was just trying to work out if I should bother going to get my laptop, setting it up in the living room, etc so I could watch Thursday Murder Club while I sort my books... ...when I remembered I was literally in a room with a TV and Roku. Getting used to the new house setup is going great 😂

Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Not old enough to have seen this when it came out? Catch up to it now. Seriously!

In the southwest people say "it's hot but it's a dry heat" and I think Chicago people should say "it's nice but it's a moist nice"

Worked for me too. HWORK! *yeet*

Meet Thuan

Another in my series of libraries Iowa State Library, Des Moines #SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

Timeline cleanse. Seriously, you need to watch this.

Going home a bit early from Worldcon because I pregamed with a mini friend-con beforehand and the introvert needs some quiet time lol. Highlights - The "Beyond the Torment Nexus" panel about how many people take wrong ideas from SF stories

THE SIN OF COMFORT

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are. probably Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight. Not sure exactly when I started reading it, but I joined a MUSH about it the summer after 6th grade, so.... 😂

Bruce Coville's SF books! Aliens Ate My Homework was probably the first. The Giver was pretty early too. Not sure of Jane Yolen's book Dragon's Blood counts as SF, but if so...that one. And The Devil's Arithmetic, which is SF since it has time travel, right??

You sure about this, Google?

In fairness, people with Ph.D.s are also good at saying incorrect things very confidently. (AI, for those muting)

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I suppose I should actually ask--who's all going to Worldcon in Seattle next week? I'm planning to be there!

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Who WOUDN'T want to check out a website where you can work out how much your weregild would be if you lived and were murdered in Anglo Saxon Britain around the tenth century-ish? Not me! www.weregildcalculator.com

Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee. ~ Bean

TIL that John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme series 9 was NOT trying to get around trademarks by using a slightly different name 😂

The nemesis of Comicon ys Tragicon

The movers are bringing the stuff into the house now. There's only one piece of furniture already set up (a bed) and my parents are sitting on it, showing each other stuff on their phones 😂

I'm moving and I paid for the kind of movers that pack your stuff. Bye, all my money 💸 but also I can never go back holy shit. Also how do I have this much stuff. WILDLY underestimated the number of boxes. Going to do some clean out post move...pre move would've been better but ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Seasons in the Midwest, thanks B!

I asked Iain Banks why, for one of his books, he was Iain Banks in the UK & Iain M Banks in the US. He replied that the book was 51% science fiction in the US but only 49 here.