Hey girl, are you my phone on a snowy day? Because I've detected moisture in your charging port.

We decided the word for arranging Halloween skeletons into various scenes in the front yard is “Necroscaping”

Why on EARTH is ProWritingAid promoting NoQu: a nanowrimo alternative that was "built on a Christian and Constitutional foundation," a group that split off from NNWM because they disagreed with NaNo's liberal politics and their statement in support of Roe v Wade prowritingaid.com/nanowrimo-al...

Sample calculation of what will happen to RedBubble Standard Tier accounts on September 2025.

Got this from Redbubble today. So instead of making $2 per t-shirt, now I’ll only make $1. And if I bumped up the margin to make $2 again, they’ll just take 50% of that too. And this is all on top of the profit they’re making from producing the merch to begin with. Am I understanding this right?

Ffs. Can we have anything as artists? Tl;dr: RedBubble updating fee structure for sales starting Sept 1st. Looks to be most standard accounts will get a "flat rate" 50% scoop off the top of their earnings I'm going to have to sit down and decide if I'm going to continue listing with RedBubble

🚨LAST 8 DAYS 🚨🚨 of the annual Strange Horizons fund-raiser! Still a host of rewards up for offer (see link), and we’re very close (under $2.5K) to meeting our base goal. If you’ve been intending to support us this year, then the time is now! Donate here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky

"do the police solve more murders than they cause?" is a metric that should be on the dashboard of EVERY community omg

Things are about to get a bit ancient. I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

RIP to the NaNoWriMo website

Oatmeal raisin cookies count as trail mix

yeah I enjoy hard sci-fi

that last BlackSpecFic report showed 64 markets, MOST with fewer than 11% of original stories by Black authors 40 magazines had fewer than 6%, 26 venues had zero if you aren't actively seeking them out, you will likely only read a handful (or maybe none) in a year fiyahlitmag.com/2022-blacksp...

Just about everything I’m proud of in my life went like this…

an ace lesbian is a lesbian who's shot down at least five other lesbians in aerial combat

Hey y'all! Our friends at @voteriders.bsky.social have put together an info page on REAL IDs, what they are, their (current) impact on voting, and also how to get one. That is my summer task. www.voteriders.org/realid/?emci...

TBQ is open! Y'all are bringing it so far. We've received around 200 pieces overnight and I've read about 20 of them so far and already marked five as intrigued! Live más. Send us something. We now pay $150. I'm certain it will slow down but try to get your piece in by the next two weeks lol

If you play #Geoguessr, give my Graveyards of the World a chance. Over 6000 hand-picked locations for graveyards, crematoriums, columbariums, churchyards, and memorials. Goth AF. www.geoguessr.com/maps/63a7c80...

guy who absolutely has not learned a lesson

they should invent exorcisms for sinuses

Filed my taxes with a whole 3 hours left on the deadline. I am so good at being an adult

hey i have made one sale all weekend if anyone wants something. i am giving myself up to 2 weeks to get it out because my pain is still bad though

Some of my other favorite designs: www.redbubble.com/people/Audac...

Something new in my Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1698...

Something new in my Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1698...

Former NaNo archivist checking in. The NaNoWriMo website will shut down anytime (when? who knows?) so now's the time to archive stuff. 1/x🧵 Your posts: forums.nanowrimo.org Select your avatar in the upper right corner Select the person silhouette Select Preferences Scroll down -> "Request Archive"

I honestly find it hard to be sad the NaNoWriMo org is shutting down. Does it suck a lot of history will be lost in this? Yeah! But it was never fully the fault of the finances claimed in the video I shared, nor the community. The person now in charge ran this organization into the ground.

In light of the recent #NaNoWriMo email that was sent out, I think everyone should take the time to watch this video that goes into EXTREME DETAIL about the faults of the organization behind it. There's so much unsaid. We don't need the org. We can NaNo ourselves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=--bS...

NaNoWriMo: allows a groomer to remain on the staff until public backlash NaNo: barely makes changes to prevent future groomer or admit their faults Still NaNo: Promotes AI despite more public backlash NaNo: collapses and closes down, blames users of their free site for using it for free.

Kilby Blades, interim executive director of #NaNoWriMo officially announces she's shuttering the nonprofit organization. This does not appear to be an early April fools joke.

I haven't gotten the email or watched the entire video yet, but #nanowrimo is shutting down and from what I've gathered so far of the 27-minute video, Kilby Blades really is set on blaming the community forever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6N...

this is one of those timeless tips that still works today, btw

OK Bluesky, time to try to recreate a hit thread from the bad place, wherein I give you all of the tips for how to get your story published in Fusion Fragment. 1 Like = 1 Tip or until I run out of ideas or until I finish my drink.

Ahoy, fellow SFF fans! 🚢✨ Exciting times with the new ZNB #Kickstarter! Can't wait for those pirate tales! 🏴‍☠️ Let's support small press and dive into adventure! #Fantasy #Sc

I'm making a list of speculative poets and resources for speculative poetry, if you'd like to be added, let me know :) bsky.app/profile/holl...

NaNoWriMo (the nonprofit) is listed as Delinquent in California's charity registry, and this is reflected in Charity Navigator now. www.charitynavigator.org/ein/651282653 All you have to do is file paperwork, Kilby Blades! How hard is that with your supposed extensive nonprofit experience?

I wrote to all the sponsors of NaNoWriMo to make them aware of the delinquent status and to ask if they planned to continue to support a non-profit that's not allowed to accept donations and isn't filing taxes. Only ProWritingAid responded? Weird.

So I looked up #NaNoWriMo on Charity Navigstor and looks like their delinquency finally caught up to them

happiness as defiance

This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care. This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine. An absolutely hate-filled group of people

This is why I am getting progressively ragey about “data” People have real data and experiences about what’s happening to them , and people who prize data will spend so much time trying to correct and own them rather than understanding them

To give more time for submissions (I've received fewer than ten so far), I'm extending the BIPOC-only submission call through the end of February. Got a horror/Weird fiction collection? Send it my way! cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

“Musk’s maneuvering demonstrates a long-standing strategy of this elite class: not dismantling government, but replacing its power structures with ones they control. DOGE has not reduced bureaucracy—it has privatized it.”