Today on Substack, the author's note I wrote for my novel BITTER SPRINGS, where I spent a year in cowboy & queer library/museum archives to prove that we have had happy ever afters historically. (We did!) #HappyPride substack.com/@authorlaura...

iPhone users, check! Settings>Apps>Photos>enhanced visual search This feeds your photos to train AI. TURN IT OFF. 🫶🏼

iPhone users, check! Settings>Apps>Photos>enhanced visual search This feeds your photos to train AI. TURN IT OFF. 🫶🏼

A single mom who works two jobs Who loves her kids and never stops With gentle hands and a heart of a fighter I'm a survivor

long story short, my former webhost DELETED ALL MY FILES including my backups. Gone. Nada. I just found /everything/ on the Wayback Machine and I could cry from happiness. Bless the Internet Archive and all who maintain Her!

Wrote today about my real-life Auntie Mame, a client who was bigger than life, richer than god, and changed my life forever. (I post there because it's free and because I refuse to cede ground to assholes.)

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Reposting for the other time zones, with gratitude!

Do I have any folks following me here who do translation work or know someone who does? I'm looking to hire a native Spanish speaker (Mexico) to confirm/correct English to Spanish translation in a document, and I always want to tap my network before hitting Fiverr, etc.

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

"If you ask almost any Amazon worker, they'll know someone who died because of Amazon greed. So I have the names of all our fallen coworkers whose deaths could have been prevented if Amazon acted responsibly." -Mitch 26, former Amazon warehouse worker

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Not really On Here anymore but thought you might enjoy this photo of a rose I took today in the garden 🌱 DAR, “The Lady Gardener” with a ride along 🕷️

SPLASHDOWN!!! Three cheers for science, engineering, research, curiosity, cooperation. Look what the fuck we can do when we ask big questions, work together, and fund our scientists. Congratulations, NASA. Congratulations, humanity!

Splashdown! Welcome home, Integrity.

"Four green crewmen. That is not their complexion." THANK YOU FECKING MISSION CONTROL. 😏 #ArtemisII

COMCHECK! WE HAVE THEM LOUD AND CLEAR! #Artemis2

GUYS THEY'RE ALMOST BACK FROM BEHIND THE MOON, EVERYONE HIDE

PLAY PINK FLOYD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON NASA YOU COWARDS

The NASA #Artemis II tracking website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art... It includes a nice moveable visualization of the Moon, the spacecraft, the Sun, and the Earth, so you can get a feel for the relative positions of them all.

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

What a beautiful moment.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Popping in just to say I've been a wobbly, teary mess watching Artemis II lift off, holding my breath as they rise, hopeful not just for them, the integrity of their ship & the hearts of their loved ones, but hopeful for humanity, for our collective sense of wonder & drive for knowledge.

Whew. Okay. Okay.

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

Julius Caesar introduced a coin with his name, image, and the title DICT PERPETVO; dictator for life. It was created in February of 44 B.C. and stopped being minted in March of 44 B.C., for some reason.

In which I make a plea that deep, deep down, humans are worth saving. open.substack.com/pub/authorla... (I’m there because it’s free)

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

UGLY sweater? I'd say I've never seen anything more beautiful

The ref needs to stop this fight

This country has gone from worrying about the price of eggs to not having the money to drive to buy eggs they cannot afford under Trump.

Given that it's just a matter of time before They show up, I decided to write an argument on why we as a species should not be obliterated. (I make no money on Substack-I use it because it's free.) authorlaurastone.substack.com/p/dear-alien...

There were tens of thousands of people at the last No Kings Omaha, and the tables at the main concourse of the rally were all dedicated to groups doing the work for Palestine, repro. justice, and more. That crowd wasn't on Bluesky, and the oligarch-owned sites silence those messages. It matters.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

This man is deeply stupid and will cause even more health crises as a result. Glyphosphate is ROUNDUP. It leads to cancer in your dogs. It leads to cancer in humans. (According to non USA countries who banned its use years ago) I’m so sick of these dumbasses! (Claws face)

“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their ​citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

In Portuguese a manatee is called peixe-boi (or “bull fish”) and in Dutch zeekoe (or “sea cow”). In English a group of manatees is called an aggregate of manatees, though I think a better term would be either a “manateam” or “manytees” (in the same way a group of dugongs should be called a “dugang”)

God I love it when a stupid, older white man gets dog walked on politics by a full-lipped young white man who knows how to moisturize.

I am, once again (on my ER rewatch, currently S3e21) stating loudly that the world did Dr. Kerry Weaver so dirty by painting that handicapped lesbian as the villain. (And Carol/Doug aren’t aspirational romantic examples. They’re both pretty terrible, actually!)

Love this for her.

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless