for the second time in a week, I've ordered something that showed as in stock, only to be told afterwards that it was not. I think my definition of "in stock" must be different than these retailers… They seem to think that if they can order it, it's in stock. I don't agree.

Full on concentration camps. "We don't know half of what's going on in the camps, but we know enough" is echoing from 85 years ago.

The best thing in the world: Scots trying to speak with an American accent.

I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"

historically, that did in fact happen when the concept of handwashing before delivering babies was developed, and a lot of very offended male doctors killed a lot of women and infants as a result. self-important wealthy men become offended when someone tells them to follow procedure, constantly.

Delicious Pu Er arrived today. Sheng, first steep. Very plum.

if you are in the left lane with a line of people behind you and nobody in front of you, and you are going the same speed as the person to your right, you are wrong. move to the right and let faster traffic go by.

A year ago: We need TAXES on the WEALTHY Now: We need a cleansing fire

YOU KNOW WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO. DO THAT THING.

o/ "Oscar Meyer has a way with recombinant DNA"

If Janeway and Paris engaged in external fertilisation, they would have undertaken a manoeuvre called amplexus. Tom Paris would have come up behind Captain Janeway and embraced her with his forelimbs. They would then position their cloacas close together.

Grawr!

Alternatively, this. I guess it's easy to forget that sociology has terms for things. Science has been so beaten down it's easy to forget that expertise exists.

This does not mean we back down.

Bovino was just ablative armor. The way you move the average level of perception is by ratcheting up; the atrocities committed and policies present must not be forgotten. Yes, the round was on target, and it looks like the tank took damage. But it's still getting closer. It's manipulation.

Ugh. I visited the T-mobile store to get a portable hotspot, and they "helpfully" changed my plan. Now I can't even figure out how to manage it on the website anymore. It's all sorts of broken now.

Want to be very clear to anyone even remotely thinking about coming to events like GDC: Don't. It's not safe to be in the US, nobody's hiring or financing anyway, and it's not worth your life.

Her works deal in triumph and tragedy, love and loss, despair and impossible hope spanning the stars. I can't recommend them enough.

I also have an author discord at: discord.gg/DaXsZD6eQk

I know the world has bigger shit to worry about right now, but I wanted to remind people that I write science fiction! www.amazon.com/dp/0989441407/ www.amazon.com/dp/B078KVX6MZ/ ... and I'm hoping to get two more books out this year! At the moment one just needs cover art and the other editing.

dragons on bsky: DRAGONS DRAGONS DRAGONS kobolds on bsky: ᵈʳᵃᵍᵒⁿˢ ᵈʳᵃᵍᵒⁿˢ ᵈʳᵃᵍᵒⁿˢ ᵈʳᵃᵍᵒⁿˢ ᵈʳᵃᵍᵒⁿˢ

Does anyone else find that they get almost zero engagement on BlueSky? Or is it just me? I feel like the community has turned its back on me.

Author updates! The second printing of Theta and Dreams of Refugium paperbacks—with new covers—are both live. Ephemeris is done and I'm typesetting it now. (For real, this time) I do need to commission cover art, though. I want a good cover, and that sort of quality is beyond my artistic skill.

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

There is zero excuse for still using X/Twitter. Zero.

Bringing the boat back to her current home.

Appreciate kobolds day! #kobold #dragon #oc:Vitis #oc:Sima #oc:Atsu #oc:Vasu

Me and my mates play Shadowrun—a tabletop roleplaying game set in a cyberpunk dystopia—to escape to a world more optimistic and less bleak than our actual reality.

We are collectively responsible for the actions of our government. All of them. General strike. Until sanity is restored.

Things that dragons appreciate on appreciate Dragon day: - reading her books or stories - letting her know what you think of her books or stories - asking to beta-read her books or stories - meat - fan art - letting her know that you still think of her now and again - tributes - adulation - noodles

Is Dragon appreciation day. Well, here I am. Your Dragon. You know what to do.

The day is here! Dragon Appreciation Day! Hopefully I get this day to rest and be appreciated by someone. Might chomp on things for a bit...

I live in CA. Newsom showed us who he really is after he flipped from supposedly championing the homeless and the lgbtq communities to ordering encampment sweeps without real resources in place, spouting anti-trans BS, and giving extremists a platform. He is on the side of the billionaire tech bros.

Gavin Newsom is a slick-talking rich transphobic cop-loving dishonest opportunist. He takes his marching orders from billionaires. Newsom is a phony. I think most Americans can see right through him. I don't think he stands a chance in the general. He's Joe Lieberman with better hair.

Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.

Cool thing about being an airline pilot: Today I had a 06:15 report time for work. I won't finish working today until 23:45. That's a 17.5 hour day, for those keeping track. Last week I worked a 22 hour day. I won't be home until 1am, at which point I get two days "off" before 3am reserve.

Like, I know driving for a food delivery app service sucks. But don't take that out on your customers? We don't have a choice. If you're going to run eight different apps and carry people's food all over town until it's cold, howabout just ... do something else. This world is screwed up.

*Sigh* A restaurant here in Redmond, OR claimed to do their own delivery, but after placing my order I found they use a service called "Menu Wing." Restaurant's five minutes away. Driver has been sitting at a pizza place that's not the place I ordered from for almost 25 minutes now with my food.

Question: Should I create an account on SoFurry and post some of my short stories there? I don't generally write smut, and in its previous incarnation, anything less than X-rated was basically ignored, in my experience.

"And you dare to call me a terrorist While you look down your gun When I think of all the deeds that you have done."

So, apparently Home Depot and Low’s are using automated license plate readers in their parking lots and feeding all that data and more to ICE and law enforcement. We need to resist and financially punish endless, invasive surveillance. www.404media.co/home-depot-a... www.flocksafety.com

@notion.com Not happy about the AI slope you're forcing on us. Stop.

Wolf on the loose at Kraken Pride 🏳️‍🌈

A quick painting I did of one of my Shadowrun characters in her native habitat in Seattle. Meet Nyela, aka Obsidian.

Little foxes on the hillside, Little foxes made of ticky-tacky, Little foxes on the hillside, Little foxes all the same. There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

A quick painting I did of one of my Shadowrun characters in her native habitat in Seattle. Meet Nyela, aka Obsidian.

Blood and stuffies. Trump’s America.