Grocery shopping tomorrow, so tonight's dinner is whatever-is-in-the-fridge stew. Simmering and smelling surprisingly good for a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

When assembling your dog, please make sure that you follow the instructions carefully.

You are TWO THIRDS of the way through May! If you haven't bought a copy of my interstellar parliament mystery novel, Stars Die, yet while it's a Kindle Monthly Deal (US & Canada), hurry up!! Don't be late! Don't miss out! (also in KU). www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXMQQT8J #booksky

Thursday is brought to you by Coffee.

Reading, storytelling, and the neuroscience of it all - or rather, since that's a huge claim, a few of my thoughts. #booksky

#TombTuesday Moli del Vent - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in #France in Languedoc:Pyrénées-Orientales 66. #Archaeology #History

Wherever you are in the world, please follow Australia's public news broadcaster in appreciation of them joining Bluesky. #OurABC

"...when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression..."

This is not helping my headache

This was my intro to the Millennial vs Gen Z Marketing trend. Very cute. Very effective.

Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

I hate website management.

Undersea volcano erupts in Papua New Guinea's Bismarck Sea Authorities have warned of possible tsunamis and have advised seafarers to avoid the area. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Spring Moon, Ninomiya Beach (Haru no tsuki, Ninomiya kaigan), 1932, by Japanese artist, Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) Colour woodblock print 39 × 27 cm Art Institute Chicago Hasui Kawase was one of modern Japan's most important and prolific printmakers. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Rooster Nakagawa Shûrei (Japanese)Japanese Taishô period, about 1914 (Taishô 3) Woodblock print; ink and color on paper Gift of The Tengu

Listening to the dawn chorus #peace

⚡ '...making a prediction that sounds like a fact, if you convince people that that’s the future, is actually a way of creating the future you want...When we hear a prediction and take it as fact, what we’re really doing is obeying.' 👀 @carissaveliz.bsky.social ✍🏻 english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Happy day! Lindsay Buroker has a new book out today! A Calculated Whisk. Retired mercenary seeks quiet life... #booksky

My Nana had this set! Mum still has most of hers, too.

Vatican officially rolls out Pope’s 1st encyclical publication date for May 25 titled “Magnifica Humanitas: On the Protection of Human Dignity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” Leo will give an address on the encyclical on the same day at 11:30am in the Synod Hall.

Maybe Open Uni? I've not tried it, yet...

On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...

I never liked this show, but for some reason my brain insists on singing "notes, notes, notes, notes, many notes" to this tune. Sigh. #amwriting #distractedly

Typed up notes from the weekend for future book/s. Now onto #amwriting May your week be filled with rewarding endeavor ;)

Happy to see "Overpowered Demon Lord Slayer Book Two: An OP MC Slice of Life LitRPG" by SeanS3r3s out today. I enjoyed Book 1's wry humour. Also happy that Amazon finally managed to send me a new book alert in a timely manner. Miracles do happen! #booksky

#lifegoal Become an owl shifter - this is such a clever gif

@loredena.bsky.social thanks for reposting 😀

Ok, several items: 1. I called Dr. Snuffleupagus (a fish version); he's as delightful as you would expect. 2. My editor did not let me make the share headline "Science confirms Sesame Street’s Mr. Snuffleupagus is real" but you guys I really tried. 3. My mom's gonna be so proud of me. 🧪 🌍

Fantastic news!🧪 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/papua-n...

#caturday #cats

Went to a bookshop which, at first, appeared to be overseen solely by a cat. Bought a pile of old books. Can a Saturday technically be any better?

This Babylonian tablet is the oldest known map of a culture’s world. The Euphrates runs top to bottom with Babylon the horizontal rectangle. Other circles depict cities & peoples. Mesopotamia is surrounded by the “bitter sea” & foreign lands shown as triangular mountains. 🕰️C9th-7th BC 🏛️BM 📷 mine

Have you heard that Stars Die is a Kindle Monthly Deal this May? (US & Canada) An intriguing mystery set in a magical, interstellar parliament. 4.7 ✨️ a.co/d/0daf63i6 #booksky

Librarians literally saved my life

I was thinking of this old ad the other day, and tracked it down. Source: YouTube share.google/BrpfZilw3qPI...

Il était une fois...Charles Perrault, French poet, writer, author of Mother Goose fairy tales including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard; died #OTD 1703. Portrait by Lallemand (1671) after 1665 painting by Le Brun. Château de Versailles

Denali reminded us who really runs the park. We waited quietly while two grizzlies walked down the Park Road in front of us, and everyone else patiently waited too. Some delays are simply unforgettable. #Scape #ForestFriday #wildlife #travel #nature #NationalParks

Theatrical decor in Room of the Masks at the 'House of Augustus. Palatine Hill, Rome. 📷my own #FrescoFriday

@lorecrystal.bsky.social Thanks for reposting!

There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy. By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for making cheese. 🧵1/2 🏺

Excuse me, but have you bought Stars Die yet? It's a Kindle Monthly Deal! AND...it has a cute gremlin!! Pleeeeease a.co/d/04Z8ztaN #kindle #booksky

I'm planning a quiet, cozy weekend. Hoping to finish reading "Prophecy: Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI" by Carissa Veliz. I love books that change how I see the world. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQJV9K97/ Happy weekend! May it include naps ;)

Mid-month reminder! "Stars Die" is a Kindle Monthly Deal this May (US & Canada). It's HALF-PRICE! If you've been considering visiting an interstellar parliament & you're not scared of gremlins... Stars Die (4.7 rating on Amazon - check out the reviews!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXMQQT8J

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

We’ve had so many hummingbird moths at the nursery and I’m loving it. Such amazing insects. #moth #insects

The manuscripts — including poems written on envelopes, concert programmes + chocolate wrappers — of Emily Dickinson, who died #onthisday in 1886: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd (Pictured: “The way hope builds his house”, scrawled upon an opened out envelope, resembling a house)

Spend your weekend visiting the Darkhouse of Doom! Any House in a Storm a.co/d/04V4Ezo8 #fantasy in outer space

Woohoo! Unexpected early release of "A Fractured Conclave" by Vanessa Nelson. So very happy! #fantasy #booksky

🌿📚 The BHL collection has just surpassed 64 million pages! Like branching corals, BHL continues to grow as a global network of biodiversity knowledge, connecting literature, science, collections, data and discovery across centuries and continents. 💚 Explore: www.biodiversitylibrary.org #ILoveBHL

#SFFChat Q3 The world-building in the progression fantasy Mageling by JL Mullins just kept on surprising me, while being a little bit cozy. Nice balance between high stakes and comfortable character and relationship development.