Too many options for this one! I'm opting for the weirdest of them. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips

More weekend food prep - carnitas in orange and lime juice, cooked low and slow and then broilered. I know I got this recipe from somebody on here and I'll be darned if I remember who. It's awesome, whoever you are!

Turmeric chicken. Good stuff! Rich and savory but the lemon juice gives it some lovely offsetting sweetness. (@botticellibelle.bsky.social - this was your recommendation, wasn't it? I failed to take proper notes but that's what my memory is telling me.) www.kosher.com/recipe/every...

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

While mourning the death of his family's first dog, a college student recounts the tale of a harrowing encounter he and his dog had several years earlier. "This Fleshy Side of the Bone" by @johnlangan.bsky.social is out now at Reactor! Art by @galactixy.bsky.social Edited by @datlow.bsky.social

Apparently not a word I use very often. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Making fresh bread is just so darn satisfying.

Reminded of this today and, as always, cried laughing at it. So I share it with you.

This is a very good thread about AI.

Walter Koenig as Bester on Babylon 5. Love to hate him.

Oh my god incredible

A prehistoric setting, where a handful of the population are something akin to shapeshifters (it's complicated). One is keeping watch for a much-feared group of cannibals. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

In doing our post-convention season inventory, we find ourselves with WAY too many High Caffeine Mystery Samplers on hand. We need to sell off 30 of these before June, so we programmed in an automatic 30% off* until we sell those 30! *Only online, only high caf www.fridaytea.com/products/fri...

Red Panda: I'm not even a panda who came up with this stupid name Electric Eel: Brother,I am actually a catfish King Cobra: You think you got a complaint? get a load of this. Flying Fox: Have I got a story for you guys

Happy New Murderbot for those who celebrate!

I got to spend several hours today hanging out with two of my favorite people in the world, eating chocolate and drinking wine, and you know, while the world kind of sucks right now, and there was some Big Feeling Dumping... these are the kinds of days that make things survivable.

I have discovered Hells Belles. Resident of Heaven gets bored and establishes a Hellp Desk in Hell so she can tell off all the people she didn't get to in life. Extremely short episodes, but there are 625 of them. She plays all the parts. Sharkey is my favorite. ♥️🦈

A new design appears. Dear fellow corvid lovers, this one's for you. artificerind.threadless.com/designs/crow...

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️ to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features" it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

Random entertainment while I wait for a site to finish syncing from prod to staging. Wheeeee. I'll include the questions with the answers for sanity's sake.

In Simon's hands, any matcha is a hot matcha.

Me, reviewing a user's entire posting history--ah, you have asked people the same types of question in every single reply ever posted: Who are your MCs, haha that's so neat, what genres do you like-- Checking ClearSky and finding them on multiple scam lists: *block*

Gosh, how I love the trend of random people running AI checks on sites and sending in Concerned Reports to my clients about Huge Vulnerabilities. Latest: No, the wp-cron job Random Person reported is not going to DDOS us, *it's already turned off*. But I'mma bill you for my time now.

Our feature artist/reference for today is this WONDERFUL page on how to draw WINGS by the talented @jenndeut! I love a model sheet like this, which actually explains WHAT the different wing types DO, not just HOW they LOOK! So useful! #gamedev #animationdev #conceptart #manga

This needs a little explanation--I don't normally do poetry, but this popped out of a random-word assortment and turned into a plotline wandering through several pending books. Rough in places, but I'll tidy it up once the books sort themselves out. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Did someone say ONE HUNDRED AND NINE TYPES OF TEA LISTED IN CLEARANCE? www.fridaytea.com/collections/...

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

HI PLEASE FUND TALES & FEATHERS you know they published one of my favourite things ever right? augursociety.org/the-youngest...

The babies have gotten huuuuuuge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L...

I’m going to get real about this, because I want people to have a better idea what the line of Phil is addressing means. I was born in 77. I was autistic in the 80s. Because I was hyperlexic, instead of being diagnosed with autism, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

Note to tomorrow's self: You had beets for dinner yesterday. A lot of them, with salt and lemon. It's the beets.

Passing this along - fucking scammers leveling up, here's a new one to pay attention to.

My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

This writing streak is making me jittery. I've been struggling to manage a few paragraphs at a time, going weeks between getting anything down at all. In five days I've written 6500 words. This is terrifying/exhilarating. No idea where it's going. Trying not to overthink it. #WriteSky #AmWriting

Today's experiment: ployes - Acadian pancakes made with a roughly half-and-half mix of regular and buckwheat flours. thewilddrive.com/classic-ploy... They weren't bad, but my brain said they tasted a bit like Play-Doh, which, well. Not immediately appealing. Next time, bit of lemon extract maybe.

Georgia's supreme court elections are in just 19 days. And they're so important: Two liberal attorneys are aiming to oust a pair of GOP-appointed justices. Voting rights already were a defining issue, & that was before Callais heightened the stakes. So much to unpack here. NEW in Bolts:

For the unfamiliar, yes this is NSFW. But educational!

This, to me, is one big reason Khan works as played by Ricardo Montalbán and why similar characters (or the reboot version) so rarely do. They always play the character as if revenge is the MOTIVE. Montalbán realised that revenge has to be the CONSEQUENCE. The motive is loss and regret.

Okay I am going to bed, you are all welcome to read about one (1) brief adventure in the life of the Great Wizard Firion (very burnt out), here you go Minor difficulty: sea monstre

Boiled and pureed some potatoes in a quart of chicken stock, browned up some chopped sausages, sauteed mushrooms and onions, threw it all together with a whole bunch of yellow squash and zucchini and chicken powder. Quite satisfactory.

Ten hours left in the sale!

Almost 2000 words today so far. Most of it small talk in a Mexican restaurant, but at least it's words on the digital page. (Also a panic attack, near-shapeshift, acts of kindness, and remembering the family-run place we ate all the time when I was a kid. So, stuff going on.) #amwriting

500 words the day before, 1300 yesterday. Lots of flailing. I know that's part of the process sometimes but it is really not the fun part. Ah, well. Time to manufacture a crisis to liven up the small talk. #WriteSky

I wish I could bottle my internal response to anyone using a gendered term for me and share it with people who don't believe nonbinary exists. The cognitive dissonance is *so* distinct. My brain just goes 'what.'

A lil custom uni, loosely inspired by a comet! #art #artdoll #CANartist #furryart

Sometimes in this crazy macro world I forget how *absolutely bonkers* things are at the cellular level, too. This is ONE CELL!