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Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

Wrote a newsletter about art and juggling eggs buttondown.com/matociquala/...

Oh I'm just a bill Yes I'm only a bill And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill So let me teach you 'bout institutional dysfunction- Since I won't come to a vote: Cultists have got no compunction. So I'll never be a law, no way, though I hope and pray that someday someone humane steps up to govern.

Wake up babe new Florence + The Machine just dropped. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XL...

This horse named Edith is an absolute unit with a very distinctive jumping style. But if she were doing dressage she would be Edith Piaffe. www.instagram.com/reel/DOGsJJd...

That is a very smart rec, @reactorsff.bsky.social ! New excerpt just dropped! Catch some thieves before they escape and launch next week!

Today is the second-best day to read a @disappearinjon.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy story. The best day would have been one when he was still around to chat with you about it later. Miss you already, friend.

Clearing my calendar

Oh is THAT my problem

When does TFG start banging his shoe on the table

Happy book day to the inimitable, invincible @hollyblack.bsky.social ! blackholly.com/books/thief-... Damn, that cover

Eeeeee!

Ooo, a new Beth Cato coming soon!

Woo hoo!

No need to take Tylenol when you can just inject bleach directly into your brain.

Thanks for the support. 2 hours left on the fundraiser. $854 to go.

So any signs of the people being bodily called home to God in Asia yet?

Hey, it's my birthday! I am Moderately Old! If you want to do something nice for me today, you could buy either of my new books for yourself or a friend! books2read.com/b/angelmaker books2read.com/b/thefoldedsky

This coming Friday is Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day. So you can plan accordingly to hug a non-microbial life form in celebration.

Let's do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

Rest in power, FloJo.

We're only ONE MONTH away from Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines! This cozy horror has already stolen the hearts of early reviewers! Three former Chosen Ones have come out retirement to save the world one last time because why leave saving the world to the young? buff.ly/RZXil82

Nobody's gonna make it through this year if it kills them anymore and that's a bummer.

Read these, they fucking rock.

This drives me absolutely batshit. Our orange cat is a diabolical genius. Our tortie is shy and sweet. And our red mare is the gentlest horse in the barn, with the softest temperament.

Baked a cake. Made some rose tea to drink while it cools. PT and yardwork later, then dinner with my family. Gorgeous Autumn day out these and I'm gonna enjoy it.

Ezra Klein seems to be the kind of reasonably smart person who reads a lot who at no point in his 20s had the realization that he's not always the smartest person in the room.

Honestly the more fully you process the fact that the US Confederacy lasted exactly as long as YOUR FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL CAREER START TO FINISH the more pathetic the whole side & its brain-jawed mutant fascist offspring truly show their bare fucking stupid shit-spackled asses to be #heritage #lol

I can't do millennial complaints, but my most GenX complaint is that cynicism should not be an excuse to roll over or tell others to quit. It's the armor you need to continue to fight when you know you won't be the one to benefit from it. Yeah, we're fucked. Now get your hands dirty.

alt text: Dr. Alanis Morissette, dressed in a black robe, with a red sash trimmed with white fur, is holding her degree in front of a building faced with Greek columns. Her hair is long and loose and her smile is radiant.

Got my covid and flu stabs. Still not turning into a dinosaur, this mRNA tech is bullshit.

This

A somewhat terrifying video by Ann Reardon of How To Cook That fame explaining the science behind exploding gnocchi. youtu.be/rZinHm5nBhY?...

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie. (When pre-orders open for JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW, my social media will be this with avengeance.)

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

Welcome to the resistance, er... Tucker Carlson? ... no, fuck it, I'm not sitting with him.

I see a new Ken Liu!

An interview with me by @katwithsword.bsky.social about ANGEL MAKER (available now!) in last week's @subpress.bsky.social newsletter, along with details on an @nkjemisin.bsky.social Peter Straub and @scalzi.com special editions, among others! You can read it here: tinyurl.com/2jtu9sdp

Cat is a treasure and if you are looking for a writer community this is a great place to start.

"To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights." --Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny"

I like all of these things very much and I am excited about this book.

Somewhere Ted Koppel is glad he retired.

Aggravating day, in which I tried to donate blood but got deferred because I have an ingrown hair on my right arm and nobody likes the veins on the left. Seriously though, this little fucker made me waste an hour driving and thirty minutes waiting in the office.

New Review - an absolute treat of short story collection to dive into and find the waters are deeper and stranger than you expect. Run and get hold of Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by @thomasha.bsky.social thanks to @undertow.bsky.social - www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

For less than $2, you get: * Southern Gothic creepy horror * feminine rage galore * kooky haunted artists at an isolated retreat in the mountains * Good For Her catharsis The sale starts at Amazon, but the e-book price will likely spread to wherever you prefer to buy your books. Pls spread the word!

Man, the book marketing spammers are like circling sharks lately, except that's unfair to sharks, which serve a vital ecological role and are also neat pointy guys.

There are only two kinds of serious writers/readers of SFF today: those who ferociously love the work of Kai Ashante Wilson and want to see a great deal more of it in the world, and those who have not yet read him. Good news, everyone! www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

New cartoon about (gestures vaguely) www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Congrats, @marissalingen.bsky.social ! WOOHOO!