Everyone's posting their end of year reading wrap ups, best of 2025 etc, but hell, there's still a few days left! This race ain't over until it's over. Maybe the last book I read this year will be the best.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

I am never leaving tumblr because where else can I do my science?

All the best writers in the world have (secreted away in some drawer, or cloud, or a03 account) the most terrible, corny, mccheesemo shit you've ever read... and I reckon that's beautiful.

Of Monsters and Mainframes is in the Goodreads Choice Awards scifi finalists AND on Waterstones list of best scifi!! In 2022, when I started writing this goofy spaceship vs. Dracula idea, I remember thinking 'no one else will like this, this is just for me'. I'm so so glad to be proven so so wrong.

Just found out about the trio winning the nobel prize for medicine, and thank god, 'cause I needed some good news today. Possible treatments for immune disorders, cancers, organ transplants, and arthritis? Insane. This is amazing.

People who say I should use AI instead of writing my stories piss me off so much. I have been sharpening this stick since I was wee. I ain't putting it down just 'cause you think another stick is sharper. Fuck you. I like my stick.

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Was going through my photos and found some old pics of me playing in steam. I was 30 in these pics, but I've always loved playing in steam. Best part of going to railway museums: the steam.

This week has been a bit bumpy. Actually, really bumpy. Too fucking bumpy. I've been feeling those bumps, is what I'm sayin'. But, on the plus side, the librarians on tumblr found and old post of mine and they've been sending me a lot of highly strange messages (my favourite kind).

Let's freaking go. 🥳

THE MOON! The moon tonight is so beautiful. Not even a whisker, just a whisk. So new she's practically premature. No, I did not take a photo. My phone is from 2017 and occasionally turns super hot when she gets scared.

You're never alone. Your gut bacteria are with you always.

I've reached my drop down menu limit for the day.

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

My brain is so stupid. I love it so much. I get drunk on 0% beer. Why? It's 0%. I know it's 0%. But somehow, knowing that it's a placebo doesn't stop it from placeboing. I taste the silly water and so I get silly. Stupid, foolish, lovely brain.

This whole 'there might've been life on mars' thing has me crossing my fingers and toes like a little kid on xmas eve.

talking to @barbaratruelove.bsky.social truly feels like werewolf to werewolf communication #werewolf #werewolves

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

I love this so much I FEEL IT IN MY BONES 😆

Hey! That's me! I wrote that! 🥳🚀

Couldn't see the full moon last night, but the sky is blue, so I'm hopeful I'll get a peek tonight.

Oof. It's rough out there folks. Spent an hour holding a 'no more dead kids' sign and it made some people very angry.

Can I share tumblr links here? Is that acceptable bsky behaviour? I dunno. I wrote this. It's about pandemic projects: creative projects people had during the pandemic. I've become lowkey obsessed with them recently. Don't know why. www.tumblr.com/barbwritesst...

I parked my car in a different spot and now every time I look out the window I get a split second of panic thinking someone stole my car.

Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years, which have come to be dominated by a small circle of elites, says Cambridge researcher Luke Kemp. Kemp tells me how we can combat wealth inequality, save nature, and human society.

Seeing so many people in my country listen to and march alongside nazis this weekend sucked. It really fucking sucked.

YOOOO!!!! Of Monsters and Mainframes is #4 on Libro.fm's audiobook bestseller list!!!!

Emergency food supplies are running out in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, Save the Children warns.

FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.

I'm so sorry. 😅 I didn't think about the audiobook readers when I put those pages in. My dumbarse thought: 'a fun puzzle! People who don't like it can turn the page.' Meanwhile, I'm straight up engaging in cold war era torture with audiobook readers. Should've put in a beat track or somethin'.

A video on the hate campaign against Ms. Rachel for being pro-Palestinian children, but really a video about right-wing attacks on children's early education, but really a video about the importance of emotional literacy. Fantastic watch

I have learnt today that my library refers to me as a 'specific and highly active user' and has denied some of my purchase requests because 'we can't skew the collection too much toward the taste of the specific highly active user'.

Friend just sent me this

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!

actually unreal how funny this image is

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

I've been waiting talk about this for so long!! (not actually that long, but it feels like a long time. Einstein says only gravity warps time, but I reckon excitement does too). If you've ever read my writing before you'll know exactly what to expect (monsters, lesbians, overuse of the word 'fuck').

So much of the internet now is just technofeudalist farmland (aka, a rich dude harvesting as many clicks as cheaply as possible) and that's boring. Make the internet weird again please.

Ain't much in life more satisfying than the sound scissors make cutting up an old debit card. Shhhtiiccckk.

My brain zapped me awake urgently at 5am this morning so I could mentally compose the message I'll carve into stone in the event of a total nuclear apocalypse. Considering its now 8:55am and there's still no apocalypse, I'm thinking that sudden and urgent deadline was a dick move on my brain's part.

I apologize but I find the theology of the Warrior Cats books more compelling than any monotheistic religion.

got rlly excited about my paint pens the other night and decided to turn my calendar into blood moon fanart left to right, carrie, sammy, marco, and sergi, all of whom besides sammy belong to the incomparable @barbaratruelove.bsky.social

July fiction standouts: (part 1) - Of Monsters and Mainframes by @barbaratruelove.bsky.social a found family adventure story featuring sentient AI and classic monsters - Wearing the Lion by @wiswell.bsky.social in which all the monsters just need to be hugged - and get to be!

Can AGI save us from Dracula? A short review of @barbaratruelove.bsky.social 's new book: open.substack.com/pub/kcraybou...

I simultaneously adore fictional robots and despise real-world hoaxsters trying to convince us that LLM slop engines are even remotely the same thing.

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pls I want to talk about ShipGoo001 🧪 (1/2) - It contains "new" life, i.e. undescribed microbes, but they belong to known domains (Archaea & Bacteria) - They are not aliens - The research isn't yet peer-reviewed; more details/mistakes may surface - WHAT ARE THEY EATING www.popsci.com/science/ship...

@barbaratruelove.bsky.social’s Of Monsters and Mainframes is a 5 star read filled with so much heart, absurdity and science. I want to talk to EVERYONE about it (and add a spider drone to the robot sleeve I’m planning). #booksky #scifi