While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

#repostyourart theme #magic Series of drawing for Howl’s moving castle from year 2019!

Another commission for @sorrynotbori.bsky.social , characters from her novel Mirrorwoven

commission for @sorrynotbori.bsky.social Lovely characters from her novel Mirrorwoven 🌸

Having a lot of thoughts this week about the erosion of YA as an age category (any subject/prose style is free game, but your intended readers are teens) and push for YA as a genre (simpler prose, mandatory romance, your target audience is adults)

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Buying salt reduced baked beans for your girlfriend with POTS should be classified as a hate crime

The ecstasy of eating half a pineapple vs The agony of eating half a pineapple

Not going to screenshot but JKR is dishing out hugs to people who've changed their profile pic to "I Am Charlie Kirk" and is quoting bits of Mein Kampf to make her point about how we should be crying over dead nazis. Seriously.

charlie kirk spent his short life advocating for people at schools & picnics & churches & synagogues & movie theaters to get their heads blown off anytime and you should suck it up and be fine with it, and now the worst people in the world want you to be sad that he got what he wanted for you

what an efficient reminder that "free speech" only ever applies to a really specific type of guy

Join LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE street team! In a little over 6 months, the book will be out. However, if you want read it before the release and help me spread the word, consider joining my street team. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Every so often I remember how about this time last year I reassured a friend sick with covid for the first time that long covid was proving 'annoying, but not like, debilitating'.

My toxic trait is I have an Instagram saved collection of approximately 89 recipe reels when in the past fourteen months I have cooked approximately six times

Roll for initiative! Finally, the villain piece to go with the companions, coming to CF! #BG3 #BaldursGate3 #BG3fanart

Personally I hope we find out that what Gollum was doing while wandering about looking for the ring was either solving a series of cozy murders (Precious We Wrotes) or performing in an incompetent hobbit amateur dramatic troupe (The Ring that Goes Wrong)

Toilet detective. Photo from my collection, ca. 1960s.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

A gorgeous gothic fantasy awaits in The Needfire by M K Hardy www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/7/...

Owlbur

So I've been thinking. If you mix half and half salted and unsalted peanuts, what do you end up with? Salted peanuts. LESS salted, but still salted. Is there a ratio in which you can combine the two where you arrive at anything but salted peanuts?

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

hauntings! fairies! fire! ballet! the existential angst of being a horny bisexual ghost! 100% REAL HUMAN CREATIVITY, FUCK YOU GEN-AI freyamarske.com/books/cinder...

I ❤️ Budapest.

i am a horribly picky and judgemental reader, it's not enough if the characters are gay the book also has to be good, im sorry

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

Can't stop thinking about how there is no Hungarian word for frown

HAPPY HAPPY MURDER TRAIN DAY

So there's a totally fucked up insect/spider bite on one of my index fingers. Obviously I need to take a picture to show all my friends. Problem: equally obviously, my other index finger needs to be in the shot too.

To celebrate Pride in the midst of political fear + uncertainty, I decided to look to the future with a recommendation list of upcoming 2025/2026 queer novels to add to your TBRs. Be strong and kind, ily shorturl.at/AnsSx

Imagine a language so nonsensical that a spectacle is made of native speakers competing to spell its words correctly

A hospitality worker once said to me 'I get the sense you're someone who's always a little bit cold'. I think about that a lot.

dire wolves more like liar wolves am I right

If your books have been stolen by #LibGen, the pirate resource #Meta has been using to train their #AI, or if you want to support UK authors/creators currently fighting for their rights, please consider signing this petition from @societyofauthors.bsky.social: www.change.org/p/protect-au...

to be fair,

you can have just about any view you want on copyright and IP, but the reality is, if people cannot make a living doing art, then only the rich will be able to afford being artists. That is a bleak, bleak horizon.

I love this book and so will you

pov all your favourite people live in a different timezone and/or continent

I love this post by @readingtheend.bsky.social - I love romance and I love fantasy and I do not want to be a snob about it, but I also do not want to be cribbed, cabinned and confined by tropes.

leopards eating t.s. eliot's face. is THIS anything

they should invent a somnia

The Needfire is now on Netgalley UK! If you'd like to read a story about generational trauma, spooky shit, and toxic lesbians then go go go! Request request request! www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

Do you ever get the feeling that Earth gravity is...a bit much? Tripping and falling should not be as big of a deal as it is.

secret pirate project is a go huehue

Replying, insanely mad at the original post: I don't think you've considered how hard it would be to catch and subdue a refrigerator that was actually running away from you

New art who dis?

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

ME: wanna hear a joke BSKY REPLY PERSON: a what

you know what *is* available. TiK ToK by kesha

It's amazing to think that "dark chocolate" comprises 94% of all the chocolate in the universe, even though our standard chocolate sensors can't detect it at all.