yeah nah, fuck you if you're an indie or not, i dont care, if you use AI? Im not using your fucking product or service or entertainment.

"The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax." Alfred Kazin #amwriting

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

I'm honestly shocked Funko held on this long, tbh. The wall of unsellable Funko Pops has been a constant in secondhand nerd spaces for years.

HELL IS EMPTY AND THE DEVILS ARE... wait, why aren't the devils here? No, no, I told them 6 o'clock *on the dot.* Can't get any good devils anymore, smh.

Went to check if we needed to refill the food in the Little Free Library and found someone had left menstrual hygiene products in there. ❤️

Skyrim's Empire vs. Stormcloaks plot was nearly the perfect moral quandary with no easy answer. And then they made the Stormcloaks white supremacists.

When I worked at Target, we had to roleplay with the manager about pushing the Red Cards. She would pretend to be a customer saying no and we had to argue against that no and keep pushing it anyway. But no cashiers did it with actual customers. Just like a bunch of employees won't be doing this. 😂

A day of lounging around the house to recover from an illness requires ✨THE ECCENTRIC WIZARD HOUSE COAT✨ Best thing I ever crocheted. #crochetsky 🧶

Spent most of the night throwing up, so I'm going to take it easy today. ... I'm going to *try* to take it easy today.

I can tell how much better I've been managing my health based on the fact that this is the first night I've spent throwing up in a very long time. It used to be a depressingly common occurrence.

The Ralph Lauren Christmas trend is so funny to me. "How can we take the holiday decor poor people have been using forever but also find a way to snub our noses at them."

Youtube is telling me I have 3 comments on my new video, but only showing me 1. I even checked the "held" comments, still nothing. I promise I'm not ignoring anyone.

I regret to inform you I've become a mac n cheese snob. I figured out how to make real cheese sauce and use spices and now I can't go back to the box stuff. What have I done.

The new video is here! Let's talk about how reading slumps are perfectly fine, actually. #booksky #booktube

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Behold: Butterscotch Bread Honestly went way quicker than expected, but we still have to check the taste with almond milk instead of regular.

My flute teacher said that if she didn't know for certain, she would never guess I've been playing for less than a year. No one can tell me SHIT.

Soon. #booksky #booktube

It's been over six months since I started a new hobby so Imma try baking.

Just went through the BlueSky Moderation filter and holy fuck the mods are condescendingly paternalistic and delusional.

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Was eating spoonfuls of peanut butter at 3 am to take enough edge off the hunger to sleep. PCOS is fun.

I would like to congratulate the dolls tonight, getting to watch several anti-trans politicians fail miserably. May your schadenfreude be feral and unhinged. (And give your Blajah a hug for me.)

I'm not saying I have trauma around spending money. I'm just saying I had to ask my husband if I should take the cost of ergonomic pencil grips out of my fun money budget. You know. Cuz ergonomic pencil grips are so much fun.

BREAKING: DECISION DESK HQ CALLS NYC MAYORAL RACE FOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI.

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

I don't want Mamdani to just win. I want the vote to be so gigantically in his favor that all opposition knows deep in their bones they never had a chance from the start.

Another surprise video! Let's go into how my October went. And why I am both succeeding and embarrassed. #booksky #booktube

Gaston from Beauty and the Beast has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

I wish we had a Mamdani in our mayoral election. Our choice is between two technically "non-partisan" candidates both vaguely right-wing coded who say almost the same talking points. The only notable difference is one is more for big business, the other for small.

The best line from the WIP yet: "In another circumstance, pride might have prevent me from asking for help. But when an attractive dragon woman offers to bind you with rope, you do not say no." #amwriting

My husband asked if we could cancel our out of town shopping trip and just relax at home instead. Which is fucking terrific and exactly what I wanted to do too.

ATTENTION INDIE BOOK READERS The Indie Ink Awards are open for nominations! Authors can't nominate their own books, so it's up to you to make sure your faves get their shot. #booksky #indiebooks #IndieInkAwards

So... after what happened at the border today, Clover and I are essentially homeless. I've got no choice but to change my GoFundMe while we look for housing. Anything you can spare will help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...

Reminder that Spotify has still not gotten rid of their ICE ads. They think they can just stay silent without answering to the public. Let’s show them how wrong they are, let’s hit them where it hurts! These corporations don’t understand anything unless it hurts their bottom line.

No, no, no. I didn't "drop stitches" while crocheting our new Christmas tree garland. It's an artistic choice. I'm just adding to it's rustic hand-made charm. #crochetsky

I would like to thank this article for informing me both Pentatonix and Straight No Chaser have new Christmas albums dropping. I, too, would like them to have a riff-off in Santa hats.

All I'm saying is, none of the Spooky Girls that started celebrating Halloween in September better say shit about me opening my Christmas playlist November 1st.

Some days it feels like users want BlueSky to succeed more than anyone in charge of it.

I get that writers wanted to replace NaNoWriMo with something else, but why did we stick with November??? November was always a terrible month to have a writing challenge. We should have used the death of NaNo to switch to one without a major holiday and increased demands on workers. #amwriting

Chonkiest one I ever read was "Coliseum Arcanist" by Shami Stovall. Clocks in at 701 pages and the ending GUTTED me. 😭 And it was a review book to boot. #booksky #indiebooks #bookreview #AMoRaR

The monthly report for October is here and I have firmly beaten my slump! #booksky #bookblog

Golly gee, I love having conversations IRL, where a hidden force decides who I want to talk to instead of me. ☺️

Absolutely not. Absolutely NOT. Do not force moderate our own feeds. You should be *giving US more control* over how we moderate our own feeds not forcing us to live with your choices. You don’t even know me you can’t determine what I want.

I feel like they're just leaning in to the "echo chamber" critique at this point, because there's no way "social neighborhoods" won't reinforce in-group/out-group mentalities. Also, lol at the "toxicity detection." Bsky mods have a horrific track record at clocking *actual* toxicity.

Another indie book review went live! This time for "The Last Will and Testament of Wilhemina Bruttenholm" by Vivian Moira Valentine. Also, I'm trying a new method of naming these videos. #booksky #booktube #bookreview #indiebook

I need one of the "horrormance" girlies to tell me if the genre is "dark romance turned up to 11." Or more "like every other horror that also has a romance, we just market the romance part too." #booksky

"Show don't tell," I say repeatedly to the 3rd grader who wants to tell me his answers instead of writing them.

I've long believed that sensitivity readers were misbranded when they first came to popularity. It shouldn't be "use them so you don't look like a meanie uwu 🥺" It should be "use them so you don't look like a raging dumbass."