sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every time I talk to @karnythia.bsky.social I wind up logging into BlueSky like "What the hell are you talking about???" Y'all, i just feel like there is no answer to Mikki's question.

That's me! NO SHAME! *laugh*

Pals, I am so hype to have TWO stories on Ellen Datlow’s complete recommendation list for Best Horror - and also to be have the list be Stephen King and then me thanks to how the alphabet works. 😆 If you read either/both of these stories, I hope you love it/them.

I wrote my first published novel to the Carnivale - I'm still so into that show. And Clancy Brown. But that's been true since the Kurgan.

A gorgeous fairy tale poem and a discussion about writing in English and Finnish with Sara Norja! www.juliarios.com/in-winter-a-...

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

There's one critique of ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA I need to respond to: a medieval lesbian having a strap isn't anachronistic. There's a lot of purposeful anachronism/timey-wimey shit in ISLE, but the strap isn't one of those things.

Well, I have not finished my fabric cataloging but I have made a great big dent and also proven to myself most thoroughly that I gotta sew like eight pairs of pants stat if nothing else.

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Spending today cataloging some of my fabric on ThreadLoop. It’s very satisfying even as I am confronted with just how much fabric I have acquired over the last five years. Whew. I have so much sewing to do. Also I really gotta finish my Indyx closet, too. Obviously I long for organization.

One of the last two days I can really try to beat the USPS monster, so yes, another thread of gifts. Free US Shipping over $25. Queer made, with love. Or spite. Both. Inspired by Sinners. Onyx and pearl with a handmade ceramic. $65.20 www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

In the dark of your heart, there is a summer, a brightly lit secret, a creature of beautiful burning, flame-smart and foolish, a desire to be and become, so what are you doing? No more standing still, standing small, no more sweetness and sidelness, it's time to forgive the fall. #TinyPoem

A car just passed down my street with Last Christmas at full volume. I fear he plans to eliminate the entire city by the end of the day.

Jason is one of the most generous people I know.

If you can, please donate to help one of our regular contributors in this time of need.

I love when you ask an autistic person for something and they're like STAND BY and you know you're about to get the absolute best resources available.

I enjoyed this in much the same way I enjoy elaborate fan theories attempting to reconcile incompatible episodes of Doctor Who, but also in the way I enjoy old investigative reports about shady banks in Miami.

Also, the Lebanon Hanover show was EXCELLENT.

Back in my early 20s I thought I never got approached in clubs because I was fat. Sometimes i snap a selfie that even now reminds me of the actual reason: man, in a club I straight up just look like a bitch most of the time. 😆😆😆

I guess it's Prime Day(s) again, so here are some options if you'd rather not help Jeff Bezos grow even richer. 🧵 First, a couple of Starter Packs of Indie Bookstores to support. (If you are or know of an indie bookstore w/ a Bluesky account that's not listed, let me know.) go.bsky.app/DZdrHhm

BEE FORTRESS

Chotiner interviews Janeway

Just a reminder. Hat tip to @bornmiserable.bsky.social for the excellent shirt.

Lessons from the recent past, can give us inspiration for the battles to come. “The neo-Nazis just kept coming in groups over and over. We were far outnumbered, but I watched countless antifa youth risk their lives, one by one, to fight back.” itsgoingdown.org/antifa-saved...

some more helpful reminders from 2016 me who knew more than i do now #reruns

All my coworkers live in Virginia and ask me the most ridiculous questions about living in DC “Is it bad in your neighborhood?” “Is it weird on the metro?” “Can you even go out at night?” The number of nights I have staggered half cockeyed across this city the misinformation is very real

YESSSS!! DO THE THING, FRIENDS AND COMRADES!!! Such an awesome opportunity.

Your friendly neighbourhood author, after turning in the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy:

I am always such a sucker for mycelial networks, as in this @clarkesworldmagazine.com story by @lchanwrites.bsky.social : clarkesworldmagazine.com/chan_08_25/

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue Stripe feeling the pressure ACLU put out a statement CBC covered all this What you are doing is WORKING You are getting RESULTS KEEP CALLING KEEP WRITING WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

remember to be kind to yourself fuckface

you know you're fucked when the entire internet is putting their differences aside to work together for a common goal. when you got bluesky, reddit, twitter and 4chan all working together you have no shot at this ending well unless you back down completely

190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my! We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...

go read the original thread + as I told a friend recently while discussing this:

"...child-welfare workers are effectively punishing families, particularly Black families, because they are poor. The problem intensified after Clinton-era welfare reform... There are now major U.S. cities where 60% of Black children have had some form of contact with child-welfare officials."

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

The reality is: disability comes for almost all of us. 1) Be it an accident that reduces our ability to do things compared to before the injury.2) simply the aging process that gets all of us if we didn’t pass away prematurely. What should we do? Have more compassion and help each other a lot more.❤️

I must not pick up my phone. Distraction is the creative project killer. Checking socials is the little-death that derails all focus. I will remain on task. I will keep my pencil to paper and allow the urge to pass over me and through me. When the urge has gone, only the project will remain.

The dog will be far more emotionally fulfilling in your life than any person who says the words IT'S JUST A DOG, so we're clear.

I am not trying to yuck anyone's erotic yums, but the idea of being a normal person in a universe where people are scenting and biting and soulbonding and going into heat is so terribly funny to me.

Morning commute: audio book is surprisingly good - maybe I can finally pay attention to audio books now!!! Downside is I cringe every time the narrators get to a vaguely sexy part. Felt like every car around me (my sunroof is always open) heard them say nipple. *facepalm*

Oh my god, look at this tattoo... Look at it!

Every six months or so we do sex scenes discourse and so I must remind you: every time you complain about unnecessary sex scenes I add another one and make it more fucked up than the last.

"I always wanted a happy ending, & I always wanted the femme to rescue the butch."