I’m not too much of a landscape photographer, but I had my Leica handy and the stormy skies were calling 📷🌧️🌊

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

I'm guessing December will be the same. 😩

Omg November is rubbish for writing. Too much is going on in my life.

It was great committing [specific crimes] with you! Attached is the selfie we took while committing the crime. Remember how [witnesses] were there and observed it? Good times. Hope to commit many more premeditated crimes with you soon. Best, [full name] [address] [SSN]

1st of three in the pattern collection I created for Author Idris Grey - themed around gourmand botanics for the rollout of her novel “Eat You Up” @idrisgrey.bsky.social

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Oh wow, great news!!! This sounds like an EXCELLENT fun book.

I don't understand why so many air/sea sickness meds cause dizziness, but still supposedly help? Feeling dizzy is already one of the problems I experience during motion sickness, how is this med not just making it worse??

Also from this morning’s beach walk: kororā (Little Blue Penguin) tracks headed out to sea.

Wow! This is so helpful to see what Bsky is hiding from you. Remember that things can get flagged as "rude" or "threatening" as a form of censorship, or for being liberal or radical. And I often see classical art showing bums labeled as "sexually explicit" which is ridiculous. 🙄

Omfg yo holy shit look at this shot. Taken 34 minutes ago. I got some decent video I'll edit once I get to a hotel after catching the milky way...so..3 hours? 🪶

I would be dodging the cones of vision of every employee like Solid Snake.

Long live the Mossa and Pleiti Investigate series!! 🧡

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

Read this whole thread to give yourself a little dose of hope, as a treat. 🧡 (if you follow US politics...)

I need to put this on my TBR...

I made a decision when I started writing my own worlds that there would be no monarchies. It's the default in every fantasy setting and I'm kinda over it. It lionizes the "benevolent monarchy" and "good king" world view too much.

What an important win! The people of MS deserve so much better than what they've had. I hope this trend continues!

"after all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. and if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power." hooooooooooooooooly shit dude

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Authors are so creative, I swear. Really enjoying the omnivorous, clawed, fierce "horses" that hack up owl pellets in Queen Demon by @marthawells.com A delightful, unexpected take. 😁

I can't describe how beautiful tonight's murder of crows against a red sky was. I'm kindof emotional about it. 50% speed. Narrative video in next post 🪶

I wasn't feeling too bad about myself until the high protein breakfast 😂

One of my favorite @kjcharleswriter.com books is on sale!

Yes, @pbs.org, I AM interested in a documentary about pigeons. (Best $5/month I ever invested.)

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These books are so much fun, so clever, and just innocently playful. They have absolutely no agenda beyond compassion and friendship. Buy one for the kids you know! 🧡🧡

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM *That’s* the headline. (Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

I need a wall calendar for 2026, and I would love to buy one direct from an artist. Anyone know any Kiwi or Aussie artists who do calendars??

This book is so amazing and you all should definitely read it!!

Trying to parboil chicken and f-ing it up 🤦🏽‍♀️ In my defense, it's the first time I've tried it...

You can put the tea bag in your mug. You can put water in the kettle. But you can have tea until you BOIL THE JUG!!

Looks like a big meteorite hit in Australia, enough to shake houses and register on seismographs! I hope no one was hurt, and I hope they recover a cool space rock so we can all look at it!! 🕵️

Is it just me or is November a terrible month to try and write a whole novel? The end of the year is bearing down on us and there's so much to do. Why not have it in Feb or March when there's nothing else on?

Amazing!!!

The day after #Caturday and here's two cats on a tree, Kip and Twyla.

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I love their style! It looks amazing. (This is part of another Derek Guy thread, so obvs worthwhile reading the whole thing)

By his own account, Dimitry is primarily interested in business, not clothes. So you end up getting the blind leading the blind. Peterson doesn't know much about clothes and is willing to wear anything; Dimitry doesn't know much about clothes and is willing to sell anything.

Got in one of my extremely rare art moods and wound up with a little goblin monk dude with a jar.

Awed by this process and its results. 🤯

And this amazing book is currently on sale! 🤩

And when you read it, it will look exactly like this was something I planned from the start because it's so obvious it was an underlying theme. Writing is *weird* sometimes.

Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

First of all: Ruru!! Lil fella got a bath 🥰 Second: the alt text here is astoundingly good!

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Last night we celebrated the end of our course and the birth four books. We're especially proud of our fellow students; Cerys D'Arcy, winner of best all-round publishing student and Anna Morete, winner of most promising editor. We wish next year's ākonga all the best for 2026.

Agreed.

The Onion actually does some smart political/social commentary that you can't really get from mainstream news.