No damage to my house, but we can’t leave for a while yet as trees and power lines are down across the city: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

We’re about halfway through the worst of it. 9.30pm and they think by about midnight the strongest of winds will be gone. Trees are down and power is out in places. A friend has lost half her roof but other than that seems okay.

Cat 3 cyclone day. Hopefully it’ll turn out to be less interesting than it sounds.

You haven’t lived until you’re under cyclone watch and have to contend with a horder with dementia unable to cope with the idea of tidying. Let alone throwing stuff out.

Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things you like. Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz Animal Crossing Heavy rain Knitting Gyoza No Such Thing as a Fish Taskmaster Oxford commas Fresh warm bread with vegemite Physical journals/stationery with fountain pens, washi, etc

S C R E A M

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Me: beds are for sleeping Gizmo, the hell gremlin in charge of technology: relying on the normal infrastructure of bed ARE WE?! Ahahahahhaa

I’m at our Chief Minister’s Award night. It’s floor length gowns and black suits with ties annnnd I would really like to just start reading fic. Would that be rude?

Literally thought this was our guys.

Sana and I were subjected to some really awful stuff online in the early days of Ms Marvel and as a result I have neverrrrrrr posted a single photo of either of my kids on social media, even in friends-only contexts. I don't even use their real names. And I never will.

This could be the plot of part two of Jukebox Money archiveofourown.org/works/57791146

I just read this and it has EVERYTHING. Highly recommend!

You don’t make friends with salad, or; Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your kitchen!?

If only someone had written a really gay sci-fi horror book built around the central theme of how nostalgia is a weapon wielded by a fascistic and capitalist state Anyway, read PROPHET. Me and @hjm.bsky.social are super proud of it.

Nina Oyama just posted this update about Deadloch S2 on IG. Looks like we’ll be getting it next year! 👀

October is my birthday month! Maybe you could recommend Speculative Insight to someone who might be interested in future families, SEAsian SFF, Pratchett's Men, Warhammer, LOTR, the Dublin Portal, or historical science fiction? www.speculativeinsight.com/essays

🦈 🦑 🏴‍☠️ archiveofourown.org/works/713956...

Subtly downgrade a band: Princess Lady in Waiting Knight

we ride at dawn!!

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Hi all! As promised, here are the prompts for the Our Flag Means Death reading challenge 📚🏴‍☠️ The goal is to read one book by episode. There’s three possible prompts by episodes, inspired by quotes. The challenge is not timed so everyone can go at their own pace. #OFMDReadingChallenge

so is the rapture like new years where the Kiwis get it first and then it comes to Australia while America is still in last year? cos it’s late tuesday afternoon here and nothing has happened. v boring. 0 stars

Wait. Is the rapture supposed to happen Tuesday Australian time or US time? Cos it's Tuesday here... And there's nothing to report... 🤷🏼‍♀️

Look at this beautifulness 😍😍😍🥰

commission for @thiefofcamorr.bsky.social inspired by 'Seaglass' by @robertaseaport.bsky.social thank you so much ❤️ #ofmd

someone wrote a murderbot fic using minesweeper??!??? archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

Every day that passes I become more convinced that Magneto was right.

Newest art. Because we need to turn poison into positivity. And these guys make me happy. (They should have danced. We should have gotten to see them dance.) 💔🧡💜 #OFMD

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

The return of Blackbeard and The Gentleman Pirate #ofmd

This week was absolute shit from crying at work, boss being a dick but he’s in a really bad place mentally BUT hey he’s not the only one and now it’s all our problem. And one bestie is having Stuff and other bestie’s mum has a fresh cancer diagnosis and ambo emergency. And now I’ve burned my hand.

readwithcindy already tore this woman and her nonsense down 9 months ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1z... GET HER ASS!!!

Today is my last 30s birthday. Next year… the big… heeeey I somehow don’t think this was how old he was turning somehow 🤨

Happy September 1st, tis’ a hallowed day for our people.

The Hobonichi gauntlet is over for another year and I’m frazzled.

If you missed the live recording of the Murderbot interview episode at WorldCon, you can watch it here:

Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due. Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors. Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

My other one would be Final Fantasy VIII with OFMD.

Imagine being STEDE BONNET and going to sea and making BLACKBEARD into your BABYGIRL with nothing but the sheer power of your SILLY WHIMSY

I don’t think anyone wants OFMD crossed with CATS the musical. (Original VHS version obviously, I’m almost 40.)

seems like it's time for me to tap the sign again

in my defense no one told me being 40 was going to feel like being 20 but with the gay turned up to 11