The idea that creative writing has *recently* become an impractical dream is bonkers. I've had that dream for over two decades. I've got news for you. It has never been practical. Such concerns are not why writers write.

I met a moose on the road, and told folks at the gas station so they’d have a heads up. The clerk asked if I was sure. “Lady, maybe I’m not from here, but only a moose looks like a moose.”

As usual, the best breakdown of what’s going on in AI frontier oddities & what it means 🦞

A little light day off reading

our local paper has the best obit I've seen in a while

I think Bluesky's biggest upside will be for sports content creators who want to network with others in the business (and gain exposure to get better jobs).

@404media.co do you have a guide of sorts to digital security I could use to help my rural neighbors? When to not use Facebook, how and when to turn off FaceID, etc.

The best part of going out dancing is all of it

The song of our people: may Jim Cantore not land in your town

on this Monday-est of Mondays, needed to read this. "You’ll never regret building relationships with people, or being generous with your knowledge in ways that remind others that you’re great at what you do."

This damn book took me 6 weeks to get through but was my fave read of 2025

2026 Energy✨😂🫶🏾

quiet holiday with just us girls 🌱🐾

Happy solstice 🌱❤️

I said out loud “WOW, that’s hot.” One more cleaning and chopping, adding tadka to one jar.🌶️🌱 Made a blended yogurt dip with that, and it’s still pretty spicy!

Bit windy today in the high country

Give me your movie and show recommendations (other than Pluribus) please

Salt water fermented green chile experiments 🌶️🌱

West Point cadet & sophomore safety: www.espn.com/college-foot...

Army/Navy game uniforms (and choir!), top-notch: www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-foot...

lucky to have the holidays with my best girl

TOOL! But also, who dresses everyone for these video game awards? Give me a gig finding clothes that fit everyone.

Nuzzi v Lizza would hit so hard if either of them could string a sentence together

Is it me or does Flea’s band kinda swing? youtu.be/TmyjzvQv5bA?...

Don’t use @hootsuite.com, BTW.

Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards with mirthshouting music and wildflapping pennants of joy.

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A little pricey to buy, but www.publiccollectors.org/ParsonsBread...

more space weather

lil space weather

Electric blanket for winter meditation is clutch

when will Schumer make Hajj

Dorianne Laux

it’s fun that fans of both teams want to die right now

so many trips to the vet this year and yet, here we still are

Top 10 tweet for Día de Muertos

Yapping Brecht again this morning with @andymatic.bsky.social

cone of shame pumpkin at the vet

Morning swell Acrylic on a textured canvas. Now at The Fiona Dane Gallery, Craster

love to get ready for work by crying a little

My outlaw friends came to town and judged the new restaurant’s welding (not as good as they’d have done)

love to have two articles in my back pocket to send people who panic about any particular topic. @anildash.com: www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... and Jaron Lanier: www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Evergreen student critically injured during school shooting leaves hospital, tells supporters: “I’m still alive!”

Image from an 18th-century pattern book consisting of 36 ink drawings showing precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the #Buddha and Bodhisattva figures. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-tibetan-book-of-proportions

I won second place at W+K’s pie bake off with this.

…are you sure?

Starting to spot writers using LLM-speak the way I can spot who’s using addy

on the chile roasting rig