Here Alan Taylor shares @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social's recent picture, spoiled by someone #photobomb -ing the Sun. Andrew McCarthy regularly makes wonderful photos of the cosmos, and, not infrequently, amazing photos of the cosmos. With this carefully arranged picture, he may have topped himself.

#mcr I need help reacting to something just saying is the mic cord hung up on their bone??? www.tumblr.com/infectiouspi...

Many people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.

Anyhow, goodnight to everyone but especially my shrimps

Truly needed the encouragement to keep writing at literally the exact moment the AO3 notification rolled in, someone loving a fic I wrote 16 years ago ;____; readers and commenters are the real MVPs out here.

For some reason this is definitely a @nicasio.bsky.social reaction pic

Also just had someone randomly come up and tell me they love getting the sci fi subscription I curate and that I’ve been nailing it and gosh that’s a good feeling I’ll never get tired of. Sometimes the work I do does matter and makes someone’s day better!!!!

Today, Jane found the perfect sticker at @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social

Best literary analysis ever

"But it's not only the letting go — there's also the rejoicing of how we can break the system that created the trauma and the division between us and the original caretakers of the land."

I was out at the lovely @infamousfiddler.bsky.social ‘s gig last night and a guy at the bar asked me what my tshirt meant and I had to explain/admit that it’s just a shirt that a rockstar wore on stage once and I think it’s funny to wear it and it is not a reference to anything specific.

Hurting my own feelings straight off the bat today with a kinky fic idea ow

Fuck. What a loss this is. Thank you for being an ancestor, Alice Wong.

I think most artists hit a point where they’re like, well if I can’t be the best artist, I shall be the most ME artist.

Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.

Midwest queer scholars: if you’re at this year’s MMLA at Marquette, I’m giving a paper on my mild obsession Bryher, the 20thc transmasc bajillionaire semi-known for being H.D.’s wife-guy, funding every Modernist ever, & saving people from nazis… www.midwest-mla.org/digital-prog...

Poly drama is so much worse/more annoying when you have kids fyi

that's so weird like there wasn't a big interest in an inconvenience store

Oedipus Family Therapy

How did they not call them Oroboreos?

good news for the people who are saying they'd never touch starbucks coffee anyway: you can go ahead and drop $5 in their strike fund sbworkersunited.org/strike-fund/

My neurodivergent ass keeps misplacing my headphones which means I can’t indulge my listen to one song on endless repeat method of getting thru it all

Today is Joyriding on repeat in my head while I send hopes and prayers and meds to kick the gunk outta my lungs

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

i had the idea for this piece last tdov but it didn't quite come together until now 🥖🍷 quote by Julian K Jarboe

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Here’s Frank Iero snuggling his dog for them as needs it: vt.tiktok.com/ZSynFodYc/

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Hey everyone can yall brag on yourselves to me? Tell me about something you’ve created that you are really proud of? I just wanna bask in your talent.

Also I have lost touch with someone important to me (due to Life, not any falling out or whatever) and they seem to have done that thing they periodically do where they delete every Internet they have and I am worried about them. This sucks.

I definitely read a fic last night that fucked me up a bit and then a friend who I suspect has passed away had done the Big Bang art for it and the art links are broken and I’m just Big Sad.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

all the state workers that got those payments out as fast as they could should be getting free drinks forever.

This how I find out I have a son??

Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋ (I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)

Frankenstein (2025)

Why stop at a 50-year mortgage? Let's go full dystopia and make it a 150 years, with your debt lovingly passed down like an heirloom of financial despair. Generation after generation, working not for wealth, but for the privilege of almost owning drywall. Why own a house, when you can haunt it?

I moved my fish tank and dresser to right by my bed and I get to admire my lil shrimps and gups while I’m going to sleep and it’s making me happy.

Tonight I am making the child who is willing to watch movies with me view Back to the Future

I am finally watching some of Frank Iero’s solo music videos and I would die for Joyriding, Weighted is fucked up and fun for stranger things return szn, Prettiest Girl feels like an early fall out boy video, I gotta know what his fake blood recipe/source is bc clearly it’s a bulk line item for him

I stayed up too late to watch Frankenstein last night. It was good but I think I’m a little less impressed with it than I anticipated I would be. Mulling on it but it felt very male-centric in a way that could have been very different? The book never feels that way to me when I read it.

Just imagine writing fucking Frankenstein as a teenager while hiding from lord byron hitting on you tho. Mary was a true legend

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

I don’t mean to idolize politicians or whatever but Brad Lander is such a mensch and Zohran Mamdani is a breath of fresh air and I love that we get to have this moment and the community of engagement they are building on coalition, clarity, and respect.