Truth.

In my job, I occasionally get calls from people who are walking their dog, begging a flight attendant for just one more minute, or driving (ack - plz don't do that). But, THIS caller was in the airport, and just kept me on the phone while he went through security, so I got to go through a scanner!

TFW you wake up from a sound sleep a mere two hours after you went to bed, and can't get back to sleep, so you go downstairs and start playing around on social media for 90 minutes, but the overnight news cycle is stressing you out, so now you're awake AND agitated and you have to work in six hours.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Science, like every month for about a year now: These chatbots are melting your brains u motherfuckers can't even read or think anymore genAI guys: Why use lots brain cell when one do trick 🤓 ☝🏻 🧠 and I am very iphyshent

Have been working on a near-future short story so long I just had to change the date that its set.

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

"Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also faculty directo…" And is 63. I've read some really awful stuff on the Internet but this is ickier than anything.

Can you hear the hum of all these bees enjoying the heck out of my asters? #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence #Bees #Pollinators #Asters

If you see this, share a pic from your device with no explanation.

I wish the US would just catch up with the rest of the world with regard to public toilets design, and just do individual stalls with full walls and doors. Maybe it would stop the standoffs when poo-shy individuals try to wait it out to be alone, which then leaves just one stall for everyone else.

I guess it's a good thing that this is (technically) a smoke-free campus, because between the drought and the falling leaves, one one tossed cigarette butt would set the whole place on fire.

This regular column by io9 has put more great books in front of me than I care to name. And the comments section is usually five angry white guys yelling about how it's all sequels or romantasy and it never, ever is. 116 new books. Go take a look. gizmodo.com/116-new-sci-...

I love how my Beholder crown looks, but I really want to figure out how to get some horizontal support without wrecking the aesthetic. And of course, at some point, I will need to get all of the eyes looking in the same direction. They're currently reflecting my own squirrel brain. ##SomethingIMade

I had to run an errand at lunch, but wasn't expecting to have to run the dinosaur gauntlet...

I had a random memory, this morning, of the time I was doing a conference in Scottsdale, AZ a couple of years ago... IN JUNE. Scene: An elevator in the hotel Dramatis Personae: Me (allergic to the sun, covered from head to toe) My colleague Some random 60something-looking white guy 1/🧵

Nature is healing

I need journalists to be able to identify a push poll when they see one.

Okay, I know that I said yesterday that I was going to work on fixing that mini painting today, but then I got home from work and had this fantastic idea to make a Beholder crown using a bunch of eyeball beads...

This is the best news I've seen in.... pretty much forever! bookriot.com/new-host-of-...

I would hope that anyone making pizza for Klingons remembers to NOT add the gagh until right before serving...

IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SWEATER WEATHER, ALREADY!!! I mean, FFS. I just want to wear long sleeves! 😭 I would like to note that the only time since MID-JULY that it's rained for more than 14 seconds in my neighborhood was September 13, when we had a neighborhood event. #ClimateChange #ItsTooDamnHot

A WiP painting experimenting with black and white and shadows. It HAD been completed (and trimmed), but then I didn't like the shape of the shadows, so I whited over and, tomorrow, will fix the mountains and the glacier. And, now that I look at it, the water and ice... #Arting #TryTryAgain

The BALL is in this shot!

On its birthday, share one image from your favorite #TNG episode.

Let me be clear: Indigenous designer makes a game with an Indigenous theme? Indigenous Game. Indigenous designer makes a game without an Indigenous theme? Indigenous Game. Non-Indigenous designer makes a game with an Indigenous theme? Not an Indigenous Game. It's a game ABOUT Indigenous people.

#VoidKitty came to visit! #PorchKitty #VoidCat

I hate playing the Is It Fireworks or Is It Gunfire game. Especially when it sounds like it was right outside in the street.

I made some more nebulae - though, in the larger, round settings, some could also pass as gas giants. The warm color of my lamp doesn't do the sparkles justice, though. #Art #Arting #Watercolor #Nebulae #SomethingIMade

Reminder that my birthday sale—50% off of pins & prints—ends in 6 days! ✨🎉💖 ((I've also been throwing in stickers for every order too.)) shop link: ✨ shop.lioninthetrees.com

I got my monthly allergy shots, yesterday, and my left arm is ANGRY. I usually get one arm that puffs up a little more than the other, because the serum in one of the vials is of something I am Especially Very Allergic To... but wowie.... this was a bigger response than usual.

I made a Shiny. I had one of these headbands left over from the time I made some of those zip-tie crowns, and decided to try something different. #SomethingIMade #Shiny

The asters have exploded, and the pollinators are over the moon! (I wish I could get a decent video of the bees and the butterflies and other flying bugs living their best lives!) Someone is taking advantage of that, I see... #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence

Despite, or, perhaps because of overnight rain, the rose-of-sharon was looking dramatic, this morning #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence #Photography

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

TFW you're order at the coffee place and then realize the person in front of you is buying for the whole office...

Well, I certainly didn't have being held hostage on a country road by a Very Friendly but Stubbornly Foolish Dog Who Would Not Get Out of the Road on my bingo card for today, but that's why it took me longer to get home then it should have...

A Muse, musing. West Baden Springs hotel atrium

After the rain, on a tree in the sunken gardens at West Baden Springs hotel, Wesr Baden, Indiana September 2025 #Moss #MossyMonday #Lichensubscribe #WestBadenSprings

The P+ app is once again doing the thing where the closed captions keep appearing in different languages - sometimes changing by episode. This one's captions are in German, and it translated "RenFaire types" as "Mittelalter Freaks", and that makes it even funnier, in my opinion.

Bur oak Garfield Park, Indianapolis September 2025 #Oak #Acorns #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

@saintbeck.bsky.social In case the Mari Lwyd costume doesn't work out...

Writers, is anyone else writing secondary world fantasy/ epic fantasy or SciFi-Fantasy? Tell me about your wip! I'm always happy to connect with fellow SFF writers, especially queer and or neurodiverse ones, but I can never find enough secondary world/ epic/ SciFi-fantasy moots.

Met up with a friend whilst watering the garden. #Mantis

The saffron is starting to peek out of the soil! #Gardening #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence #Saffron

I've been wanting to actually eat the black walnuts that we are literally tripping over, this time of year, but, as those are the epitome of "a hard nut to crack", I've never managed to do it. So... I just ordered a special device made specifically for black walnuts. I'm kind of excited about it.

For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern

I am really enjoying seeing that most everyone who happened to be outside and facing east, early this morning, has posted their picture of the moon and Venus cuddling up together. We didn't know it, but we were all having a shared moment!