Convincing you to read my ~preceding~ novel, because I need the sales in order to get this one contracted. 😬 Share yours if you want!

Tiny wee little thing. I don't know what it was called, or anything about it. It didn't exist the previous day and was gone the following morning. But for one glorious afternoon I got to appreciate its ethereal fairytale delicacy, and I feel like a better person for it.

When the broken-hearted people living in the world agree There will be an answer Let it be For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see There will be an answer Let it be And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me Shine until tomorrow Let it be

There are two wolves inside me. help. I was never designed to contain large canids. my doctors are flummoxed. they don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I'm splitting at the seams. it's getting worse. oh shit oh fuck I think they're getting into a fight.

Why am I fearful and angry every time I see an American flag on a car on the road, or flying from a house? Do I hate or fear our country? No. I feel like it's been co-opted as a symbol by those on the right who would see trans folk gone. But we're American too, and we love this country just as much.

This is what an American coot tail looks like. #PlacesBirdsWereASecondAgo #birds #birdbutt 🪶

Post a picture of who you wanted to be as a little kid. I dunno, does "older teenager" count as "little kid"? On the left.

For the people who say AI art is just pixels and get over yourself in making a stink about it, obviously you’re not an artist possibly having your original artwork stolen and someone else making a profit off what you worked hard on. Theft is theft and someone’s livelihood stolen is important too.

Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.

I pay taxes, and have for over thirty years, because I hold jobs consistently. I played baseball casually and for my church team as a kid. I have written many poems, including haiku and sonnets. I have dated my current partner for over six years. Previous partners, also dated for years.

As many of you know the Declaration of Independence contains a list of charges laid against King George by the colonists. What is old is new again. Do any of these sound familiar: He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

I am begging people to write articles and stop shooting video essays; I do not have 1hr to spare.

Silhouette time! Please bring out your nature silhouettes! #birds #silhouettes 🪶

"When you say 'Jesus,' you're talking about your leader. But when I say 'Jesus,' I'm talking about a guy who walked the earth for thirty-three years like any other guy but caught the imagination of some PR cats." - The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier

Food is my hedonism.

Birbs I got to listen to waking up and laying in bed this morning: Black-capped chickadee, northern flicker, and the omnipresent house finches. Some days there are California scrub jays, European starlings, American robins, savannah sparrows, bushtits, and recently even a brown-headed cowbird.

It is, apparently, #SapphicSaturday. I don't have a picture of adorable lesbians to share, but I am so caught up in the spirit of the day that I think I just might marry my partner today.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon, on May 18, 2016. 10', ƒ/22, ISO 100 Pentax DA* 16-50mm F2.8 on Pentax K-30. #waterfallwednesday

Oh, "the end of the Covid-19 pandemic"? When was that, exactly? Can somebody give me a specific date when it ended? Because as far as my inexpert ass can tell, IT'S STILL HERE, and has not gotten better in any substantive way beyond our ability and willingness to ignore it.

Happy hump day, friendos. You've made it halfway through the hard part of the week. Be gentle with yourself and others. Drink water. Don't forget your meds. Touch grass if reasonably practical. Practice self-care even if not reasonably practical. We made it this far, we can make it to the weekend.

Assuming you're not intentionally a transphobe, please just ditch Harry Potter. There's plenty of much, MUCH better-written fantasy made by authors who aren't absolute shit. And if you ARE intentionally a transphobe, kindly either fuck off or educate yourself, whichever you're capable of.

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

Who are the five writers that made you? Isaac Asimov C.J. Cherryh Louis L'Amour Iain Banks Dennis McKiernan

Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid. Sigh. Don't wanna. But if I must.

When in the past I have voiced interest in being fucked by a dude, today's events were not remotely what I was envisioning. I was thinking more along the lines of sundresses than genocide.

My five genres: 5. Oligarchs explode, permanently 4. We gave everyone everything they wanted and made an egalitarian utopia 3. Magic people ruin and humiliate megacorps 2. Cyborg/clone who "doesn't belong" in the human world figures out a way to make the world work anyway 1. Lesbians kissing

We bought my engagement ring today, and ordered our wedding rings. Couple weeks til I have the former in hand, I think, and 2-3 monthsish for the latter.

@profanity.accountant is gonna tell me that I'm one fuckin' profane motherfucker. Shit.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Periodic reminder that genai is not a peer, not an expert, and not a human; it is a chatbot whose algorithm is literally "tell you what it thinks you want to hear." Only it's really, really bad at it. It's happy to assume that you want to hear to eat rocks or glue your cheese to your pizza.

Surprise! It turns out that I am not going home tonight.

Recent news has reminded me of the timeless axiom, "Fate notices those who purchase chainsaws."

Author unknown. I've seen this around for years but never with an attribution. If anyone knows who wrote this, I would be absolutely thrilled to be able to attribute it going forward.

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

Someday I'm going to write a children's book entitled "Emma Nee, the Enemy Anenome." It will, with any luck, find shelf space immediately adjacent to @variax.bsky.social's future bestseller "Andrew the Can-Do Candiru."

It doesn't matter because nobody in a position of authority cares, but I read this "defending women from gender ideology" bullshit and the entire thing is blatantly fucking unconstitutional. After all the "this is what we're ordering" parts, the cited basis is, "The supreme court were wrong... (1/6)

I really miss the old days when Google’s slogan was “don’t be evil”

Something in orange, you say? Like, f'rinstance, a 2006 Dodge Charger RT Daytona in Hemi Pearl Orange?

I can't wait for pride month this year where all the companies that immediately bended over for Trump's bullshit beg LGBT people to give them money. You know what? This probably won't get traction, but what about a June boycott of any company that bended the knee to the right?

"Great news! My doctor told me I can jerk off anytime I want!" "NO. He said you could have a stroke at any moment." That energy, anytime I try to think of something positive about this time in history then my brain sabotages me.

I had coffee today, and it was delicious. It has greatly increased my energy available for shitposting, but negligibly increased my motivation and productivity at work.

Boss made a dollar, Grandad made a dime. But that was a poem From a simpler time. Boss made a thousand, Gave my Dad a cent. But that coin paid the mortgage, Or at least it paid the rent. Now bosses make a billion, And give us workers jack. Then smugly blame society, For the labor that they lack.

Sleeping like a baby in 2025. Every two hours I wake up and cry and go to the bathroom then try to go back and get some more sleep.

The Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center is here on Bluesky today! This is where I got all the (excellent) raven and (poor) magpie shots from May which I've posted here over the past six months. Give them a visit if you're ever in the Anchorage area! @akwildlife.bsky.social

A bargain at twice? thrice? quarice? the price! DO IT NOW

Apparently Mike Ybarra, former Important Guy at Blizzard, feels Marvel Rivals is unconscionably similar to Overwatch. That sure is a take which could be taken by the alum of a company which made its billions reskinning Dune 2 and Everquest, and implementing a Warhammer 40k RTS with different names.

without downloading new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?

Update: I’ve just finished the Watch arc, and have commenced Death.

The first major news story I remember as a child? I saw the Challenger disaster live at school.