497 words today! Roughly 316 of them with one eye dilated. (Long story.)

"The large rat is curled over, half on its side, exposing its belly, and now it chitter-squeaks again, and another of the tender-pink growths emerges from a bloody slit in the rat’s fur."

Tomorrow panel schedule at @armadillocon.bsky.social ! So excited!

If I had magic at all, I'd be a late bloomer who'd come into her own right after everybody else decided they were over it. 😂

Roundup of convention appearances this month, starting with @armadillocon.bsky.social ! elizabethcobbe.com/2025/09/10/c...

"Sadie’s ability to follow is briefly snagged on Simon’s use of the word “bloat,” because she thinks of whales. Beached whales in the sun, bloated and rotting, and how she would paint a scene like that, and which layers she would apply first." #WIPSnips

"The stench is subtle but unmistakable, hiding beneath the smells of yellowing books and unreachable dust so common to universities, churches, courthouses, and other fading institutions." #WIPSnips

I might be attempting to learn "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters on the cello. Might, I said.

if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake ::clap clap:: if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake ::clap clap:: look, we’ve all been fooled before when a deep-fake makes us sore but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake ::clap clap::

I wrote a chapbook! If you see me at Seattle WorldCon, ask me for a copy. Happy to share!

It's early August. Do you know what that means? IT'S FRESH FIG SEASON, MOTHER F***ERS!

Today's word count: 125 Total word count: 19,280 Days remaining: 80 I drafted the end of a chapter, though. Yay?

WOOHOO! I am psyched! Everybody say it with me - ART! ART! ART! 🚀 deadline.com/2025/07/murd...

Today's word count: 330 Total word count: 19,009 Days remaining: 82 I'm not panicking, you're panicking.

Let's ban the phrase "doubling down on innovation" from all posts and emails. I think it means, "We are greedy, and people who want to know if this is actually a good idea should shut up."

Copilot keeps prompting me to use AI to generate a summary of every Word doc I open, and look. If all we're doing is reading summaries of documents, why do we have the original documents in the first place?

Friends, if you are swayed to purchase Slack's pro plan by the offer of having AI summarize your Slack messages for you... then there's something seriously wrong with you, with the people sending you messages, or both.

We have named our new hybrid car "ART" in honor of Murderbot's Asshole Research Transport. It has all these high-tech features we didn't know about, and it keeps suggesting that we take breaks.

I long for the energy levels of a 70-year-old in a pharmaceutical ad.

At first I felt bummed that my kid may be reaching an age when I can no longer trick her into doing house chores by calling them "mad scientist adventures," then recalled that you can still trick ME into doing housework that way, so maybe it'll all work out.

Helpful tip: If you use Google as your search engine, you can add "-ai" to your search to cut out the AI overview. I'm a Duck Duck Go person myself, which so far has not pushed AI results to the front.

Hey new followers! I have no idea what brought you delightful non-bots my way, but I'm glad to be in conversation with you. I like my drama on the stage and on the page, not in my feed. Kindness is rare; let's tend some. 🙂

Dude, what day is it even? Wednursday? Fronday? Tuesmonth?

A lovely screed! terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...

Yes, support your local library! Also, dude: check your sources.

I feel better about how long it took me to work through One Hundred Years of Solitude... www.kut.org/austin/2025-...

Yeah, folks. Let's keep the human actors, please.

Mother's Day: Joy to those with a hand to hold, peace to those who grieve, and godspeed to those who are yet waiting.

I've got an unpopular opinion here: that, if portrayed honestly, WorldCon's use of LLMs to screen panel applicants is not so bad - and I am NOT a fan of generative AI. AI's value lies in its ability to chunk through massive amounts of data in a short period of time. (1/*)

Delighted that this little nugget of a story has caught a win! Congratulations to the other winning authors, and thanks to @armadillocon.bsky.social for running such a fun contest!

Really generous of Chappell Roan to provide the code to "Hot to Go!" in an open source package like that.

Losing your place in the middle of the Hallelujah Chorus: a true Easter tradition.

If only I could get myself to Chicago to catch this stage premiere. I love Mickle Maher's work. www.courttheatre.org/season-ticke...

Yep, that's me over here, just pulled a muscle with a sneeze.

A Python package for 2025: pypi.org/project/tari...

Free books for life YESPLEASE. woobox.com/r2f4rn/r74zqe

Any questions about the environmental impact of AI seem to be answered with "but if we keep doing it, maybe AI will actually SOLVE climate change" and y'all, that is not how this works.

Great thread, very smart observations!!

When in the course of our business and professional communications did we become enslaved to the exclamation point as a gesture of nonaggression? As in, "Please excuse me if I'm a few minutes late!" or "I really appreciate your effort!"

For Valentine's, I got you this lovely bouquet of raging uncertainty and impossible choices. It smells of vinegar and Sprite.

A little wisdom for your Wednesday.

If you follow one account on bsky, follow @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social !

This afternoon, I plan to put on my noise-cancelling headphones and sit with my family during the Superbowl while reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and occasionally looking up. I expect this will disappoint just about everyone in one form or another. WIN!

We have an incredible supply of MBAs and management degrees in this country, yet an insane shortage of actual leaders.

THIS IS SO TRUE.

Sadly true...

From Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time: "Ideas are frictional, factional entities which wilt when pinned to flowcharts. Ideas have to cause problems before they cause solutions."

Today I pulled a muscle in my back getting out of the car to open the hatch for curbside groceries and I blame the nerd-bucket on my left who parked too close and left me no room.

Favorite sentence of Zadie's Smith's On Beauty so far: "Umbrellas, like dead birds after a shooting party, pile up in the far corner." I mean it's only a tiny detail but such a great image!

Why is every person in this training video for a Microsoft product training wearing an identical blue button-up shirt, and are we allowed to get a job without one?