Wonder if anything was happening in the world while I was traveling. ***Checks news*** Nope, same ol' - same ol'. ***Sits in a cabin in the woods and writes Solarpunk***

The saga of a dog named Mosley, and an Alpaca named Snowball.

🤩 No More youtu.be/O1pk_RhEd_M?...

CAT OF CONFLICT: Oleksandra’s daughter played chess with the cat. It looks like the cat won the game.

For the anti-trans folks it is the next "logical" step. They have been working on it for over a year, and trying to associate autism with gender dysphoria. They aren't worried about the discrimination that will follow because that's the whole point of what they're doing.

Yesterday was rough. Mosley the Wafflehound can always tell a good day from a bad.

Wat omg

The bar for what is considered to be self-aware has been set really low. Not criticizing the reporting here, btw. Well done NPR. This is the most polite way to frame what's going on.

Kyle Reese traveling back in time to have sex with his best friend's mom wasn't the weird part of the movie?

Right in the feels. Often, my readership made unintended assumptions about the relationships between characters in my books. The lessons were learned in editing, letting women read and edit my work. There are things I'd write differently now than I did a decade ago, for sure.

The email address they are having anti-trans activists send emails to in order to keep the panel is [email protected]

really good analysis on the site today from @madisyn-writes.bsky.social. i love this game and loved their take on it, which makes a lot of points i had never considered before

I've had a free membership since their inception, reading each free article and the headlines / blurbs that peek up above the paywalls. Mothership is worthy of support merely from their mission statement, but this is the article that made me get out my wallet.

At what scale does identity reside? My opinion: some or all of it is at the atomic level, so if we had the diagnostic and technological ability to detect trans folks, having them born in bodies that suited their identities would be a simple matter. Brianna Wu's hope is born of madness and cruelty.

Are you a disabled person caring for another disabled person or an older adult? Want to talk to a journalist about it? Please DM or email sluterman at 19thnews dot org.

I'd rather be reading Ted Chiang, but I really need to finish Jared Diamond's "Gun, Germ, and Steel" before Friday. I read so often for research and so little for pleasure. 💔 My little vacation starts on Saturday though, and "Exhalation" will be a worthy travel companion. ✨

Google abandons hardware they make and acquire to the degree I don't even acknowledge that they make phones and tablets. NVIDIA is more a threat to themselves than anyone else. Jensen Huang has kinda lost it of late. Amazonis the more interesting potential adversary. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/g...

I designed this tote bag for www.indiebound.org. It will be available in participating US stores* on #IndieBookstoreDay, this Saturday, April 25!

SPACE DRAGONS futurism.com/space/nasa-m...

I'm getting ready for a sojourn into the outdoors this weekend. It's a place I've been many times. My writer's retreat for a lot of my 9th book. This time I'm bringing a new Boon Companion ™️ and our dog. Four nights of campfires and hopefully clear skies full of stars.

This is how whimsy leads to epiphany that leads to joy. These are the adventures we need to have in dark times, a reminder that there is a wider world out there. Also, birbs. ✨

Vesper

At the time, Tyson had a near monopoly on chromium production, was the world's largest chrome pigment supplier, and had expanded his operations to England. It would be pretty noteworthy if Van Gogh's yellow pigments hadn't originated from the Baltimore Ultramafic Complex.

Andrew's posts, while deeply informative, spur me to engineer improbable ocean-based adventures for my D&D games. Journeys to mountain tops and eerie swamps are sidetracked and back burnered for saltwater and surf. Friday, my players will be racing giant seahorses for gold and glory.

Maddy and Sam get into the launch of Mothership and the importance of owning one's own work.

Both of my restored Model M's

Usually, despots of this nature have some self-awareness. American Authoritarianism has no fear of the optics that come with murdering millions of innocent people via bombs, exposure, and starvation. Masks completely off at every level. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman shares a video of ‘Earthset’ that was taken with his iPhone “This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye…” Wiseman said. This has to be the greatest iPhone video of all time.

It is time.

Congratulations to The Counteroffensive and @timkmak.bsky.social on their third anniversary. Compelling stories published under war time conditions, so a more lighthearted look at where who they were as kids and how they ended up in journalism today is a good way to celebrate.

Gonna be one of those days I think. 😅

i am not a fan of acronyms in our public comms, but after our trustees passed a resolution yesterday to advertise our Westerly Trickling Filters project i am willing to make an exception.

This pic tho. Lurking for the memes that will inevitably follow. 😄

The cuteness. Also, the puns.

Counterintuitively, people buying more Warhammer.

bluesky admins, have you tried jiggling the handle?

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MAGA telling the Pope he can't oppose war is like the PMRC "Cosby Congressmen" telling John Denver, Dee Snider, and Frank Zappa they can't oppose state sponsored censorship. MAGA are the Nazis John Denver warned the US Senate about in 1985. Obvious Cosby-Trump comparisons also apply. 🧵

This #ThinkPadThursday goes out to you gamers. Wanting to play your WinXP games? A #ThinkPad like this T60 will serve you perfectly - like in this case the FPS classic "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" #ThinkGaming #LenovoIN @Lenovo

Alternatives to NY Times Games & Puzzles 🧵 If it bothers you that your passive games subscription and clicks to the NYT Games cartel is funding their awful OpEd army and "journalism," there are a wealth of puzzle/game options less iffy/yikes complicit, and many are direct clones to your NYT faves.

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

New evidence finds that sight and imagination rely on the same neurons and use the same neural code. n.pr/4mpWUEd

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Jfc the apologists are even worse The incessant bleating

I'm not buying it. Pearls are being desperately clutched. Where Trump's blasphemy and sacrilege are concerned, he's done things that are far (far) worse. "Christian Conservative" is an oxymoron now. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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That tiny weevil's face. ☺️💕 I know they're largely pests but I don't care.