(Cue my ancient ass participating in this.) 1. One of my friends vanished into the Sonoran Desert while on shrooms. 2. I volunteered as a digger/sifter/pot sherd gluer on archaeological sites and in a lab as a teen. 3. I was a teaching assistant at a party school in college.

Well, we've made our way back to Mother's Day again. Hopefully the fictive moms, super moms, aunties and grannies are having a good one. For those with lost moms, or eternally absent moms, or unaccepting dismissive moms--it's okay. We're in this trench together.

Come chat with me and help diversify publishing! Bid on a 30-min AMA zoom call with me (we can talk books, writing, or whatever your heart desires, within reason) & proceeds benefit @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social, which does great work diversifying publishing. Auction ends MONDAY, 5/11! 👇

Most publishers think sustainability = recycled paper. The real impact comes from: – Fixing overproduction – Smarter distribution – Better demand signals That’s where sustainable book publishing actually shifts the industry.

nature's quiet grace touches all along the wild walk escaping the churn #wildwalkprompt

rich gold leaf maelstrom, mosaic of skin and sun, drowning in the kiss #RetroArtPrompt #malesrrom #Klim #TheKiss #haiku #microppetry

Pawprints recede; are sponged and scrubbed away our cat's life's story #caturday #haiku

Continuing the celebration for Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday! 🎂 I am now rolling out interactive lessons with every video. In this one, you can also pilot your own submersible. 🕹️ Any feedback is much appreciated so I can keep improving these for our students. Enjoy the video! 🍿

www.instagram.com/p/DYDyDKlDByg/ If you haven't met Carrington Scott, you won't know the depth of his activism and have missed out on his good humor and his focus and intelligence. However: even if you haven't met him, you should know the rot in this country does extend to art and academia as well.

Eyes tilt to social media, the bugbear, the deliverer of sugar-coated dreams of self-fulfillment, the soma that Aldous Huxley was banging on about, with pill sizes ranging from 120 to 200 strawberry ice cream encapsulated characters.

Just up too early and dragging myself back into the world in a blanket shell. Coffee's too week. Sun's too bright (add more clouds.) Anyway, who out there needs a vampire music festival book, and is itch really all it's cracked up to be or is that also an AI book spamhole that will charge me rent?

'Scaredy Cat' by Cornish artist Kirsty Elson who trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw materials for her artworks #WomensArt

A Mass Movement: A History of the Baltimore Uprising, From the Ground Up baltimorebeat.com/a-mass-movem...

What once was wild like a torrent, like a tempest-turbine hurricane, has become meek and muted like a unremarkable spring morning rain All things face erosion as mountains turn to plain but I think this is facing explosion, from a wild too tamped and contained. #wildwalkprompt

I built the scaffold high and sure lashed with bamboo poles and clad the structure born within in the loftiest of goals the rains erupted from the sky burdensome and heavy and that is when it occurred to me I should have built a levy. #poem

Cross purposes like storm clouds warring well above man's pluralities. #haiku #ican'tbelieveit'snotdepression

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Dozens of bare legs I steal dismembered tokens of misguided love #haikuhorrorprompt

sometimes you spot someone who's clearly a main character. guy walking to the bus this morning had long hair, half dyed green, sunglasses in the rain, long coat, purposeful stride, like, that's a man on his way to meet some sort of secret council or kill the vampire who chomped his girlfriend or w/e

Also, submitting the series of doom again. (Doom does befall some people but it's kind of a read to get to that point, so buckle up, maybe?) Can also be found in my profile, but basically for #indieapril there's a cache of supernatural mockumentary books for the taking. www.kobo.com/us/en/series...

All right, giving into this #indieapril thing and posting some of my projects in lieu of maybe getting a query answered. (Magical thinking in droves here.) To start, we're going with a solid contender for best Bigfoot dad story, "They Might be Bigfoots." books2read.com/u/b6X2RZ #writing #barking

they are not tidy these repeating cramped lines of fossilized rib #wildwalkprompt

forget flesh and bones we are water, waves merging under muted tides #vss365 #water #haiku #writing #writingcommunity #micropoetry

This is the gist of it right here.

🚨"F*CK ICE! F*CK ICE! F*CK ICE!" protesters chant outside Broadview ICE Facility near Chicago for National F*ck Ice Day. Protesters are waving around sex toys to mock ICE agents. WATCH US LIVE 🔽

Upcycling is handmedown gentrification.

Kind of bobbing around this little reef in which I am but the tiniest fish, kind of wondering what the whole deal is with being an author on the internet right now. There's an 'indie book month' happening, I guess? It feels a bit like being aboard Wall-E's Axiom and getting the notification that...

Definitely read through this article if you see this post. #justiceforbigsam. With all the miscarriages of justice happening nationwide these POs are forgetting once again that they're accountable to the public. No one can live like this and no one should stand for it.

Point: space exploration is amazing and wonderful and one of the best accomplishments of mankind and will hopefully one day be a vehicle toward worldwide improvements. Counterpoint: Gil Scott Heron. Someone's sitting on an update of a certain poem featuring the ACA and the Epstein Files.

Okay, *now* I'm going to post The Police's 'Walking on the Moon' because it jeopardizes nothing and is a fun little tune/music video featuring a Saturn V rocket booster. Who doesn't love that? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwM...

Quite a bit of atmosphere on this piece.

"we built a new language from dial-tones, we held each other to our ears & laughed & laughed" —iris nguyễn beestungmag.com/issue20/one-...

1st lines I am a mountain God. My wedded wife, She of the Shiny Fur- so much did I respect her that I did not even allow her to fetch water 0r even kindle a fire. We lived on and on, ... By Hiraga Etenoa in Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans tr by Donald Philippi 1932 #1stlines #poetry #Japan #Ainu

Have you read our story of the week yet? Went up today. A debut author, a unique art form, and a strange unsolved mystery. www.brownhoundpress.com/stories/dean...

little furry feet pollinate the new blossoms erupting in spring #haiku #wildwalkprompt

I'm not the friend you'll sit under the stars with a la Oscar Wilde. Kind of more the one that shows up with a six pack of beer and spends the next hour keeping your cat company. Quiet, but trustworthy and in possession of a liquor store quality form of identification. #friendships

There are just days when you want to sprawl out in a fit of pique and then curl up into a ball and wrap a throw around yourself the way lemurs ball up into neat little bundles by using their tails.

Day 166 of inserting a Muppet into a Star Trek screenshot #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #TheMuppets #SesameStreet

Artist Emmanuelle Moureaux used over 100,000 paper number cut-outs to create this multihued installation designed to visualise the passing of time #WomensArt

Posting this here in case someone wants to start a publishing/comics/bookshop/art gallery/nursery/crafter's coop and doesn't know where to start: ncbaclusa.coop/blog/co-op-1... #coops #artists #wecanbelessbroketogether

Doomscrolling and happened upon someone mentioning how a fried egg sandwich received way more likes than they did, which, well, yeah...it's a fried egg sandwich. (Put an avocado on that sucker and we're riding that like button to the Moon.)

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Night ✨ has fallen upon Paris 🇫🇷

Whitecapped whispers; rumor over waves seagulls risk the deep beneath Crashes, cracks and roars One piercing cry above it all The triumph of the gull. #wildwalkprompt

Going to leave you all with a squid of unusual size, courtesy of JStor: daily.jstor.org/how-a-giant-... www.jstor.org/stable/27289...

Spoken word. This is a poetic diss with no stutter count. / Shots fired. Missed me with the Canon shutter count. / My poetry, always be brewing: pour over and dripping / Pull up for a Pulitzer. Clap, clap, and I’m dipping. Read poetry by Andy: buff.ly/0BY4yWr #PoetryCommunity #5amWritersClub

"¹THERE IS SOMETHING IN MY HOUSE. I KNOW THAT’S INCREDIBLY VAGUE & NOT VERY HELPFUL. I WILL NOT ELABORATE." —Eleanor Eli Moss beestungmag.com/issue01/one-...

Well, one day after a big event where Orioles fans living in shacks in Glen Burnie were again trying to prompt the crowd into doing something, I'm happy to say their toothless heckling went ignored and we had a great turnout! Love you, Baltimore.