Discussing with my daughters why the ending of Stranger Things didn't work for them, and they identified all the things I teach in writing class as classic mistakes, I feel, of endings. We often don't study endings as much in classes, articles, or as writers and I think it shows.

In case you were wondering why your Cleveland-based friends are all posting about a microwave on a park bench: thelandcle.org/stories/find...

I just learned that 43 million Americans may lose access to local news and notifications by next July. Going to be taking a closer look at my budget.

PSA: Are you mad about public media funding cuts when public media funding correlates to the health of democracies? Adopt A Station is here to help: adoptastation.org

Good news if you like body-possessing aliens, flying saucers, and an underfunded, secret government project: Rights of Use is on sale for $15! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

If 2025 represents a regression to the mean. Let's hope 2026 begins the ascension of the kind. #Statjokes

This was indeed so good. I'm so excited to find I can subscribe to Archeology Magazine on Libby!

TFW you're trying to watch For All Mankind at exactly the wrong time, when everything hopeful in the show echoes the talking points of malicious men hiding their destructivity in impulsive aspiration.

sale ends tonight!

Shout out to the person in my library system who pushed for them to purchase all my favorite author's books, so I can binge them for free now and buy them slowly later. And she still got paid.

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

Just a reminder that my book, Promises to a Dragon, is available for pre-order and will be releasing in a few days! But if you're too impatient for the ebook to drop, it's already available for streaming on J-Novel Club 😉

"It's too cold for cold drinks. I'll heat up my chai protein powder in milk on the stove and have a chai latte." I have never chewed a chai latte before in my life.

I just want to add a couple clicks to minesweeper in between focus sprints. I don't want to bog my computer down in ads and malware.

You know, I really miss when Microsoft Games didn't eat RAM.

adding alt just to help people text searching for this later / mute words / accessibility and so more friends can share it, see quoted post for the source 🎨

Coincidentally, a friend sent me this comic while I was reading your post:

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Time to settle in to update my health spreadsheet. I've maintained this for a year now, trying to track data to analyze and tailor how to recover from covid. I am still so angry I have to do this, but I can see how it's helping.

AI is so haphazardly named/branded. Do we need to reckon with the energy/water usage of other forms of data center processing? What things are marketed as AI that are actually relatively lean algorithms? Do those concerned about H2O/energy need to reckon with their whole digital footprint?

Apologies to the handful of people that will see some of these on multiple platforms.

I realized my Bluesky account is rather sparse, because I moved all the shower thoughts I used to post to Twitter to discord. Trying to shift a bit of that for better marketing, so I hope to see y'all around more.

I keep avoiding my 2025 playlist, because I think of it as being too stressful to face. Except I *made* the playlist to deal with the stress. [facepalm]

I just learned there now are tools for detecting deepfakes. But there is something terribly perverse about using AI tools to identify AI. Like, let's waste energy identifying how someone else wasted energy to try to manipulate you. 😭

This is going to be amazing

1 day till Halloween. Wanted to share these awesome pumpkins my mom carved! I drew the face on the little one 😄

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This one's my favorite. Try and stop me from reading The Raven aloud to someone tomorrow btw.

Shout-out to all the folks involved who made NASA's new X-plane happen: the acoustics researchers, the flight experts at Armstrong Flight Research Center, the LM teams, the generations of project and program management who touched it... 1/2

The X-59 flew for the first time yesterday!!! 64,000 of us were tracking the flight, since we couldn't actually watch it live.

I met up with folks yesterday to celebrate the first flight of the X-59 and relearned that one of the furloughed civil servants has an etsy shop to sell nerdy cross stitch patterns: www.etsy.com/shop/picsnst...

If you donate to the Apex Magazine kickstarter, you could get personal critique from top authors, or a character named after you by me! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I finally got around to donating to the local food bank after reading about how some of my coworkers in other parts of the country are facing evictions due to the government shutdown. 1/3

I'm supposed to be recording book 2 this week to get it closer to publication and starting on the next round of revisions for book 3. But I saw sad shutdown rumors and wanted something happy, so I just reread what I have so far of the sequel to book 7. No regrets.

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If we can sell between 5,000 and 10,000 copies of OMENS OF CHAOS, we will debut comfortably on the New York Times Bestseller list, which is a very normal thing for a book to want (and will send a very clear message about what we want as a community). We won't, but a girl can dream.

Free advice for the aspiring writer: "I edited extensively as I wrote" is NOT the correct answer to "how many editing passes did you do?" The correct answer is at least two clean passes after you finish. Don't at me, this is hard-earned knowledge.

With SNAP not being replenished in November…if you’re well enough off to not need them, please donate to your local food banks. Not just your nearly expired canned goods; donate money too. They can make that stretch in ways you can’t. If you know a food stamp recipient, ask how you can help them.

Dictators evolve when good people of all different beliefs and backgrounds stay silent. This No Kings Day says we will not stay silent.

Just me blocking a bunch of accounts violating the Hatch Act, because I actually believe our federal agencies should be nonpartisan and work for the American people.

Too true.

This, all this, and pass it on!

Take a look before you head out today: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...