Baking tip from my Romanian grandmother-in-law - f you're making anything with nuts, buy them whole and chop them the day you use them. There's less surface to oxidize, they won't have time to oxidize, and they will taste a hundred times better.

can anyone suggest a summer writing session that includes a course in YA fantasy fiction? preferably a workshop taught by a published YA writer and/or a YA editor. thank you for helpful suggestions!

Listen to this "croaker"!

Writing a novel is a love affair. ~ I'm at that point in writing where I need to remember why I'm in love with the characters, and why I want to tell their stories. ~ Staying IN LOVE is part of it.

Operation Beluga

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Little bit of a painting WIP. Gouache.

CPTSD is like someone in your ear, 24/7, listing all the ways you suck, & anyone who says you don't suck doesn't "really" know you, & you may as well not try to not suck, because you just SUCK so much. And they don't shut up & they don't get tired & they don't stray off message.

Me as your Bsky therapist:

Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬

I can see for miles.

NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again. With @startribune.com

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. ~P.G. Wodehouse Hello, dear Bibliophiles! Thrilled to announce that #BookologyThursday & #BookChatWeekly return this week 🎉 with the heartfelt theme: ✨FRIENDSHIPS & COMMUNITIES✨

GOP idea of health care: we all get a free shovel so we can dig our own graves.

Have you ever lost sleep because you were worried about doing a good job? I did many times over my 30-year teaching career. Tim Kaine SHOULD lose sleep over the deal he's making! So mad I could spit!

Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50

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The 'lady' in 'ladybugs' refers to the Virgin Mary. First of all, there are over 5,000 varieties of ladybugs. However, the first type of these beetles to be called a 'ladybug' had 7 spots which were thought to symbolize the 7 sorrows she suffered.

What a great article. I was saying last night that Metal has always been pretty inclusive, it's a truly outsider genre. Just ignore that frat rock period that nearly destroyed it. It's always been a home for the disaffected, & accepting of people's differences.

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[a dimensional portal rips open] every fictional villain ever: WE'VE ARRIVED TO TAKE OVER YOUR WORLD!! society at this point: I mean sure, why not?

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

I just don't understand how to live amidst this. So angry and bewildered, all the time.

These are so beautiful! 💕 #Indigenous

Good morning all! Up and about. Have a great day. Oleg Baikoff - French Breakfast #art #food #breakfast

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity. Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated. Tag your post: #whistpr Word for October 19, 2025: #MEND #WritingPrompt #Art #WritingCommunity

We won't make the national news bc our crowds were smaller & the photos aren't as impressive to ppl who aren't from here, but I rly hope that ppl in big cities understand that small cities and towns all over showed out today, too. Some had their largest protests in living memory. Ppl are pissed.

after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

This is ridiculous.

Best sign so far. #NoKingsDay

New work underway for Old Chapel Gallery (Herefordshire). Exhibition opens on Saturday November 8th. Painted, engraved mouth blown glass.

I don’t know how to sum up this moment in time in America, but here goes: I hung out with a frog protesting the brutal, fascist ICE facility in my community while listening to Public Enemy

The cat’s new game is pulling bookmarks out of books.

Giotto di Bondone (1266-1377) - The Sermon to the Birds. 1290?

"You could go back to working in a hardware store. Or you could write a novel about a Lebanese Frankenstein who creates a monster out of body parts belonging to victims of suicide bombings, a Shiite left arm, a Sunni right arm, maybe a Catholic brain, a Druze heart." Rabih Alameddine #SundaySentence

Glorious sound!

Glorious colors on this varied thrush. 🖤🩶💙🧡

Nu-Image Style Shop Epes, AL

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Lovely pelican!

Delighted to be starting a new workshop tomorrow with my fellow poète maudit (cursed poets!), there are still a few spots left: www.poetrybarn.org/poetry-works...

Two adventurous turtles riding their log through the sky

Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897