before I started working from home, I felt like “métro, boulot, dodo” about did it now just the second two m.youtube.com/watch?v=DFy_...

Just spilled a drink all over my laptop. Fortunately most things are backed up in one way or another but I’m still upset. Ending the day on a note even lower than I began it

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Me, autistic, half-a-hundred times a day: I don’t know what that *means*, Pam

HR graphic novel adaptation done like a proper b&w sports manga. Send manifestation

Howdy everyone I've got a mutual aid ask this Monday. A friend of mine in Chicago is looking for help affording a gender affirming surgery. I have no words for how fucking scary it is to coordinate gender care in 2026. So instead I'll tell you about my buddy. www.gofundme.com/f/homecoming...

(Wirt from Over the Garden Wall voice) “Ugh! Kody Funderburk! He’s the total package!”

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

Has anyone on #breadsky or #bakingsky made Ham El-Waylly’s Focaccia Baladi? Sohla posted it a few days ago and I’m currently doing the stretch-and-folds and… the dough is super delicate, and wayyyy higher hydration than I’m used to even focaccia dough being. Just wondering if I did something wrong.

A little sneak peek at some art in progress by @oxsago.bsky.social for @signalstation.bsky.social's Trophy Gold incursion for our TTRPG anthology! Only 3.5 days left in the kickstarter! we're super close to $13,000 CAD! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

Well I’m sure in a terrible mood this morning. I think I’m going back to bed.

Just got a story rejection where the editor misspelled my name and then gave me a bunch of frankly condescending feedback. Like, if you want me to pay attention to your editing advice, don’t misspell my name in the first line of your email. Ugh.

I wrote a charming little piece that I love but it is very much not A Story and now I don’t know what to do with it

Our Trophy TTRPG anthology kickstarter has 5 days left! We're not printing a lot of extra books, so be sure to back if you want 20 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark by a slate of stellar writers, and art by Brian Sago!

A variation on the recipe listed on the label of Scrappy’s Chocolate Bitters: The Even More Perfect 2 oz Another Hendrick’s Gin ½ oz dry vermouth ½ oz sweet vermouth ¼ oz Licor 43 3 dashes Scrappy’s Chocolate Bitters Stir over ice. Strain into a Nick & Nora glass. Lemon twist for garnish. Enjoy.

This is very “first-world problem” of me, but the black paint is wearing off my Folio Society edition of Calvino’s Italian Folktales and getting all over my hands and I’m feeling feelings about that (Before anyone asks, yes it was a gift)

Saw some saturated, pixel-y art online and now I’m devoured by a sudden desire to replay Hyper Light Drifter

WE'VE HIT OUR FINAL STRETCH GOAL!!! This is an incredible surprise for our first TTRPG project, and now all the contributors can be paid more. I am legit excited to work out the budget, which is saying something, LOL. Thank you all, and let's keep it up! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

I’m sorry everyone. I’m the one who put protein in all the food. I just got so unsustainably shredded, folks. It’s been awful. everyone asks me if I can “suplex a Honda fit” and I cry, because I can, but only because the pop tarts have protein in them and everything good turns to chalk in my mouth.

So, long story short, thanks to @spindlypete.bsky.social , I signed up for the CookShelf app to start using my actual print cookbooks more. Well, today, I used it to make a drink from the Death & Co. cocktail book and it was amazing. Anyway, here’s the La Bomba Daiquiri. (Recipe follows)

I couldn’t make it through the interview with the Grammarly CEO because even the short quotes I was seeing from it made me so mad I couldn’t see straight. These people need to be stopped. They are evil at their core. Just morally bankrupt.

This is the T-shirt I’m wearing today. In case it’s of interest to any of you

One of my short stories has been longlisted by a magazine! Not an outright acceptance, but not a rejection, either. I’ll take it!

Time for our dog’s daily freakout. *Bark! Bark!* “Are you a crazy dog??” *Bark! Snarl!* “Yep, pretty crazy.” *Bark! Bark! Growl!* “Where’s racacoonie? Where’s your toy? Go get your toy!” *snarling as the raccoon toy is chomped on and flung around* “Yup. That’s our vicious, lovable dog.”

Just started @aliettedebodard.com ‘s Dominion of the Fallen series and I love it so much already. There’s such an aura of unease, of menace, of *venom* in even the most low-key scenes, everything thrums with tension, these books might kill me with suspense but I think it’ll be worth it

Speaking of “Another Hendrick’s Gin,” this is a delicious cocktail that plays to all that gin’s strengths and dials them up to eleven

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

i saw this last night and cannot stop laughing at it

Me, two seconds after tasting “Another Hendrick’s Gin” for the first time: I could absolutely ruin my life with you, couldn’t I?

Two story rejections this morning 😭

I too have some thoughts on the Shy Girl mess (free to read) www.patreon.com/posts/mia-cu...

The two that leap to mind are Stephen King’s IT (eleven years old) and Clive Barker’s Imajica (thirteen years old)

They’re making us do macrodata refinement in our dreams now people This is not a drill

PSA: everything is linear to a first approximation

really enjoyed the importance of being Earnest

This is the recipe I used for the brownies yesterday, btw, and it’s pretty amazing. It reminds me of the brownies I grew up making and eating (Brownies Cockaigne from The Joy of Cooking) but it is slightly better in every way. Fudgy & chocolatey, with a hint of brown butter. Perfection.

Brownies!!!

My least favorite reaction to me saying I'm autistic is "you don't look autistic." Ya, thanks, I'm glad you like the mask.

The number of times each day I remind myself not to be pedantic about X, Y, or Z… far too often my mouth still opens and I hear myself say something like, “I assume you mean ‘lie’; in the present tense ‘lay’ is a transitive verb” and then the Maenads tear me limb from limb, as is right and proper

Quiet quitting at work in order to daydream about the brownies I’m going to make tonight

Submitted another story today, this time to a venue that cares maybe a little too much about proper title case (they have a whole explainer on it, as well as other writing defects that they’ve apparently gotten tired of correcting over the years)

I thiiink the handwritten message on the card says something like “Chère Louisette “Bonne fête et mille souhaits “—Fernomy” (I have no idea what that last name actually is)

Someone said that Gd made autistic people to appreciate all the cool sharks He made and boy I sure can’t get that out of my head

t.A.T.u.’s “All the Things She Said” played by an orchestra

Really not enjoying my job much right now… but it definitely still beats working at the library, where I was regularly insulted and called slurs by the patrons. My coworkers may be incompetent and incurious but at least they aren’t mean