Tomorrow is self-made writing retreat day, so I will be imposing a total social media ban for the duration. But then, as I was thinking about that, I thought...hey, why not start now? So, I am starting now. See you in 2026. 😌

I don’t want to jinx it, but IT IS SNOWING!!! ❄️ 🌨️ ❄️

It can be a bit wacky navigating it from the author side—when surges like this happen, agents/editors will buy heavily (PM shows sales), but for the past 6 months I’ve seen a slow down (anecdotally, from authors on submission) in interest. Makes me wonder what next fall will look like.

She seems like a Tabitha to me

Camel! 🐪

Hm…sounds like a scam. 😅

As an atheist, I would just like to say to everyone who has atheist/skeptic in their bio that it does not make you interesting to define yourself by the things you don’t like or disbelieve. At a certain point, it is just reinforcing the status quo (à la Foucault).

It is a good day when you make three different kinds of soup for freezer lego (roasted fall vegetable, butternut squash and apple, tuscan vegetable). ☺️

I saw an edit that was made by Google's AI, and honestly, the real thing is so much better than the stupid AI image. Moon is the Solstice God. Worship her!

The push I have seen from corporate entities in power grid and water management specifically to implement LLMs into coding processes is deeply worrying, and this "loosening up" is not my favorite idea ever proposed, ngl! [extreme understatement]

The thing getting me through record high temperatures right at this moment is looking forward to the master naturalist class schedule starting in January. Let's get so hype for paleontology units!!! 🪨🦖💃🕺🦕🌱

T likes to find me perfect wrapping paper. The red fair isle pattern is good, but the sparkle dinosaur paper was perfectly made for me (their [correct] assessment). 🥹 Apparently, they went into the shop thinking "if only there was sparkly dinosaur paper" & manifested it into existence.

Seasonal depression but because it is 50 degrees and there is no snow. 😭

Because it’s the Wren’s Day in Ireland: the tale of how, in another universe, she is Queen of Birds: and how this didn’t work out the way she thought it would. https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/734724959207817216/wip-wednesday-why-the-wren-is-queen-of-birds

The Devil's Bird. They go out and hunt the wren, the old trickster and king of the birds, today, on St Stephen's Day. And so, we go to Ireland in our 27th #Yulefolklore tale and meet one, too – read how that goes below! 🎨 Rosamund Fowler

Merryjingleballmasday !

Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us. www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...

I will do this for any of my mutuals. :)

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

I find this to be very satisfying to look at. ☺️

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This person is my kin, and I love them

I didn't know how much I needed Snoopy skating to Mazzy Star.

Also, Nollaig shona dhaoibh, agus athbhliain faoi mhaise dhaoibh. Sláinte! ☺️🥂

This time of year can be difficult for many, and I am thinking of all of you. I hope that you have friends, found family, community, and your own traditions to light your home. Wishing everyone so much joy today and always.

Scheduled some time up north for my writing escape for just the 28th through the 3rd. Time to start wishing for snow harder than I have ever wished in my life.

*taps this sign*

This is going to be intentionally vague, but it is so insane and actually touching my personal life in a way that ENRAGES ME, so I feel compelled to post: People who create extremely dysfunctional online parasocial communities with the transparent purpose of feeding their ego are to be avoided.

Saying it again, anthropomorphized "chatbot" user interfaces to LLMs should be illegal. There's zero reason these interfaces have to be like this—other than companies making people addicted to them.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

I just spatchcocked a turkey, and it has been a while. It made me a bit queasy, tbh! I may be a vegetarian, but T is not, and I suppose there was a reason my station professionally was “meat.” I happen to be quite good at it. 😅

People always yell at me when I say it's important to keep up on what's going on in the rural US, but it truly is if you want to understand larger cultural forces, and if you're not familiar with the constitutional sheriff movement, this is a good primer.

I’m yet again struck by the impression that desperation + toxic positivity culture + “manifestation” (à la The Secret) causes significant psychological stress that can mimic manic episodes.

The errors in these AI summaries are becoming more dangerous. This would feel so violating and terrifying. What are the consequences for Google here? Nothing. It is a hell, and it will keep happening.

Echoing this. A writing practice looks different daily for all of us, but particularly for the disabled, chronically ill, mad, etc. of us. And it is too easy to carry a lot of shame about these nebulous external metrics when everything else is also pretty ableist all of the time!

As we approach the end of 2025, I, like many others, find myself reflecting on the year to come with an eye toward what I want out of 2026. In doing so, it has become apparent that a high priority lies with projects that have a fair likelihood of creating joy.

I require a kotatsu. I think it would fix me.

At the parents’ house chilling on the couch, knitting a tiny shawl for my small gremlin. 🥰

That’s why I was so surprised when I saw a map of policy in force data provided by Idaho’s Department of Insurance. There it was: the Snake River Plain standing out like a sinister smile, the reds indicating ZIP codes where total policies had fallen by 10+ % in just 2 years.

Last month, @outsidemag.bsky.social sent me to spend 14 hours in a suburban ice rink, learning the stories of everyone I met. Why do they skate? I asked. To feel free, they told me. To feel God. To forget, for a minute, what they've done.

I feel like this is my final form

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Some of the things in here unlocked forgotten memories. Holiday lights! I kind of want that on my current mac, tbh.

Windmill workers are fighting for a union! Support their boycott! This holiday season, don’t buy Windmill mushrooms! #BoycottWindmillmushrooms

Making good on my promises to myself ☺️ + a bit of a volcanic situation with the vegan shepherd’s pie. Lol

A friend sent me "In Stars and Time" for my birthday, and since our solstice celebration was last night, I think I am going to make a shepherd's pie and get cozy with the game today. ☺️

Very hype for this. It’s always a good day when it’s new YDAW day.

Newgrange at Solstice

Happy solstice to you all. ☀️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...