September 22,2025

A Brazilian drug raises hopes of reversing spinal cord injury. Scientists in São Paulo have developed a treatment based on the protein laminin. In animal trials, it reactivated dormant nerve pathways, restoring movement and sensation after paralysis. buff.ly/Jcj1euy #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Host: Let's play Wheel Of Ornithology! Me: Are there any jays? Host: No sorry Me: I'd like to buy an owl

The last panel I was on at Capclave was about dystopias, specifically writing about them while living in one, and honestly that could have been a 3-hour panel. Came away with a lot of thinky-thoughts, thanks to excellent co-panelists, which was a nice parting gift for my 10ish hour drive home.

Home at last!

I am settled into my room at Capclave, have stocked the fridge with sandwich stuffs from Wegmans, and debating a nap (-:

Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.

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fat bear week's back which means it's once again time for: 🐻 FAT BEAR FLASH 🧔🏽‍♂️ - 300 words OR 1 sketch - character matching - literal bears, fat guys, bear shifters, cartoon bears, bearsonas & more! Noms & Signups: now - Sept 22 Works due & revealed: Sept 30 archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Let's focus on supporting each other this year. Indie authors, publishers, magazines & editors need to stay connected! Keep yourself integrated into the SFFH world by reading Locus! Support our nonprofit and help us create the network we all deserve... https://locusmag.com/

A mini tutorial/tips on how I draw Those Angles with faces!

Refuse to be lectured-to about political violence by those who disappear people and kidnap children off the streets.

It’s 2:30am and at least three owls are all up in their bullshit right outside my window. I love you, owls, but OMGSTFU. Respectfully.

My freshman semester in college, I caught an SF triple feature at the local theater, none of which were films I'd seen or heard of before: Repo Man Barbarella Dark Star I have seen one of them just the once, one a few times at random, & one I now own on DVD. It's like the F/M/K of movie trios.

They murdered about 10% of the population of Gaza.

Stephen Miller having a coterie of child-sized porcelain dolls outfitted with real human hair with which he plays out vengeful fantasies when he's upset is the least surprising thing I could learn about Stephen Miller.

Weekend walk.

The world has been especially dark this week and the new baby tapir at the Calgary Zoo has been cheering me up.

In other news, I am looking forward to Capclave next weekend. (-:

Dammit @wamcradio.bsky.social spoiling wordle on the air... some of us do it in the evening, you know...

I used to shop at Target a lot, bought a significant portion of my groceries & household stuff there. Then they caved on diversity so I took probably 90-95% of my business elsewhere. Would’ve been 100% but there were things I couldn’t get anywhere else local, & Amazon is not a morally better choice.

I had never heard this!

Blows my mind that there are so many public domain image resource sites out there, that will happily let you use some incredible imagery for absolutely nothing, yet some bands and artists persist with real dogshit looking AI bollocks. Bleak.

On this anniversary, a link to a one of the best pieces of writing on the events 24 years ago:

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

Yall better have left a great review

it's bizarre to me to think that any actor finds being cast in the new harry potter adaptation in 20205 anything short of a degrading proposal. what are any of you doing

i know many authors are experiencing this but it is so unsettling to create something complex, personal, inextricably interwoven into your own truth, and then see the thing only you could have made being fed into the playdough spaghetti factory of gray meaningless slop

WHO WASHES THE WASHMEN!?

Lookie!

Coreo, just now: “Literary is in the eye of the goddamn beholder! But beholders are genre.”

Meanwhile, long solo drives are often great story-noodling time for me, and I realized I could connect two dots on the current story that is gonna make me look way more clever than I actually am, so that’s a win (-:

an active genocide funded by the united states

September 6th, 2025 Driving west on I90 in central Massachusetts, about 10 min before meeting the storm head-on. Rain was unbelievable. Gather a tornado passed me going the other way, just a bit to the north.

I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.

You can let Ro Khanna know how you feel at the bluesky address below.

This 100% If you're going to succeed at all, you can succeed AND be treated fairly.

September 4th, 2025 Cormorants, I think?

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September 3rd, 2025 Friend!

Every fourth woman used to be tiny. Not anymore, thanks to woke

Heads up! B&N is having a 25% off Pre-orders sale for rewards members, and that includes my forthcoming SF book, Ode to the Half-Broken. B&N link in first comment :)

Preorder out upcoming books for this fall and beyond! We’ve got cyborg dogs, space reality TV, and so much more! Our science fiction and fantasy books simply cannot get better than this 🤩

everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Heists! - Adventure serials - The job never going smooth Try @zanzjan.bsky.social's Finder zanzjan.net/writing/bibl... The MC has to repossess the spaceship of a gangster who runs a collection of orbital habitats, so there’s no way it’s going to be that easy...or is it?

Feeling doomy today, so here, have a rose from my garden.

When I lived in Austin, I saw these guys at Target and Starbucks every time I went in. But to be fair, socks and pumpkin spice can be scary.