In happy news, I just finished going through copyedits for A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence! It'll arrive on my Patreon ( patreon.com/stephanieburgis ) this Friday morning. Woot! ❤️🦇❤️ And it's all set to release widely on September 29. Preorder here: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave #romancelandia

Finally able to open my Oberon's Court package from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social . This really brightened up my day. Everything is gorgeous (as expected from this shop!) I cannot wait to show all of these off. Beautiful work. Thank you to Meg, Lauren, Hilary, Rachel, and Shiv. <3 <3 <3

It's dangerous to go alone.

My feed is in two distinct camps: YES! NOTIFICATION ALERTS And Oh, God, ew. How fast can I turn that off. I have not seen any of it as I don't think it is on deck blue yet.

I won a giveaway on @urbanbohemian.com 's cozy, Sunday Locomoto stream and the book arrived! It is flipping gorgeous and I may try to use it to bribe my precious DM to restart (or start new) our game.

Holy shit. #shareGoodNewsToo

It's a beetle!! With a knife! KNIFEBEETLE is a curated webring of webcomics, so if you are looking for something to read, please check it out! Namesake is on it. knifebeetle.neocities.org

It's me. I needed to hear this. (=

Hey, you. Yeah, you, the one reading this. I just hummed a song for you. You've got Bardic Inspiration. You can use that extra d12 for anything you need to conquer today. Do the thing. Start that project. Punch the sun. #OperaGeek #DnD #BardLife

Check Engine xkcd.com/3096/

I really dislike this sentiment re: AI impacts on education: If an assignment can be completed by AI then it is clearly just busy work; educators need to create better assignments. Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Sabine Wren phone backgrounds 💣 I think I'm gonna work my way through the Mandalorians I have helmets for and then put em together as a set! [ #sabinewren #starwars #downloads ]

#MSH45 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. The bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a lateral blast surges through the disintegrating slope. 7 miles north, Gerry Martin describes what he sees—until the radio goes silent.

You: They did the math. Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ You: What was that? Me: Nothing. Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ

I read this earlier this week. If you're looking for a single-sitting, cozy (with vampires) historical rom-com, look no further!

Hey! It's #WebcomicDay! That's that Thing I do! = D Biff the Vampire is a slice-of-life strip started in '06. It's got modern monsters in a mortal world. Also, Biff! = ) Site -> www.SillyVamp.com Newsletter -> buttondown.email/SillyVamp Patreon -> www.patreon.com/ProphetEKA

As of today Sorcery 101 started 20 years ago! So until June 10 everything in my store kelmcdonald.com/shop/ is 20% with the coupon code Happy Birthday And I'll be doing a celebration stream later today at 4pm PST www.twitch.tv/kelmcdonald Happy #webcomicday :)

My order from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social arrived and I paired the new earrings with the old ones. Very happy! Love them!!

Hi Canada. I hope you have a good election tomorrow. Someone deserves one.

I have no takers this year so far, so please boost so more folks know they can get custom jewelry for the big event!

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service." Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

queerness is holy ☁️✨

💜 This being a trend now, throwing this back atcha! Retro Hero Figure commissions are still 'unofficially' open. Shoot me a DM if interested.

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UPDATE: if the Blue Prince is giving you motion sickness, PLEASE go uncheck that "Smooth Look" option that's on by default. The good news is it makes a WORLD of difference. The bad news is that I can now play it for more extended periods of time. It is consuming me.

Here's an invite that's open for 7 days for the Re: Dracula discord server! All are welcome! discord.gg/2eEKhTN4

Gremlin mode

Aaaaaaaaaaa

@melshardae.bsky.social Your phone cases come for my ancient being of a phone (GalaxyS10) and I may have cried a little before buying one. THANK YOU.

Digging through files to find a wallpaper @d20monkey.bsky.social gave out years ago for Karthun (Cuz I wanna update my PC start screen with it) and found what might be the first commission I got from him. (= File save date is from April 2015. Thanks past Brian! (=

Stay informed! 📢📲

this would've done big numbers on tumblr

My order from @fridaytea.com came today! Looking forward to taking this to work. I ❤️ loose leaf, but it is hard to find a good place to rinse out the tea steeper there. Looking forward to trying the Genmaicha. The Peppemint Stick I have had & it is refreshing in a way that black tea usually is not!

A NOAA spokesperson confirms the agency is joining Bluesky and plans to operate these accounts "consistent with our other social platforms."

hey friends so today uh fuckin sucks lol anyway here's a thread of YouTube channels i really like and help keep my mind of things, enjoy

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

TikTok shut itself down as part of a pro-Trump propaganda campaign. The likelihood of a quid-pro-quo with Trump is extremely high. Using TikTok will mean being propagandized with pro-Trump messages over the next four years. You are not immune to propaganda!

I don't TikTok. I am glad small businesses can continue to do business. However, I'd be extremely careful about what you see on that app when doing your scrolling now. I dunno how hard it is to see *ONLY* The people you already follow. But it might be something to look into.

want to be excruciatingly clear about this: TikTok didn't have to go dark last night and it didn't have to turn back on this morning. both of those were voluntary moves that the law does not directly touch.

Speaking of 2025: I am finishing up things on my current schedule and I would love to load up new projects. I am available for cartography, illustrations, and logo work. Let's make your thing. brianfnpatterson.com

Just some free resources you are encouraged to access. www.si.edu/openaccess #TTRPG #WritingCommunity

Hi, I’m Ida, and if you like your mugs covered in blood, you’ve come to the right place. littleedenpottery.etsy.com/listing/1596... #pottery #art #horror #bsnm

Battle Pet Monday!! Today I've got this tiiiiiny Grunch here for you to color. It's best not to ask how Grunch acquired all these gifts because you know it's not because he's been nice. Have fun! <3

If I had millions of dollars I would not be so fucking BORING, especially hourly on the internet. All these dingdongs care about is colonizing space and perpetrating labor violations. If I could have anything I wanted I would have an amount of hobbies previously unseen by man

Someone did anti-AI glaze for audio!

It is disappointing that @safety.bsky.app keeps unsuspending Singal, when he explicitly stated he's here to target a group who helped build this site into what it is. Not even pretending good faith. He's here to ruin the vibes and try to normalize harassment of trans users. This is fucked up.

kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform