Pediocactus simpsonii, our Mountain Ball Cactus, blooming now off Button Rock trail #nativeplants 🌿

With Bondi out, he's gonna have to start firing men soon. Tulsi? You in danger, girl.

Seeing a lot of “we went to the moon instead of funding healthcare” takes and want to note it is a false dichotomy. The US could easily do both, but the politicians and people who finance them have chosen to make Americans suffer. And they avoid paying taxes to make it harder to help Americans.

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

What kind of Bartleby the Scrivener ass government is this

feeling like we're in some of those weeks where decades are happening

What the fuck are we doing here man

Okay, internet, I’m on the plane to Seattle. @lasrina.bsky.social is in charge until I get back! May the Line be with you all.

Please remember when you swim in the ocean: 200 meters below you, there is a layer of fish that stretches all around the world. It is so dense, that when it was discovered during WWII it scared the navy so bad they bombed it. This is the ocean's thin inner shell of fish [🧵]

ICE is still kidnapping people in NYC. Here's a call for rent support for families affected by an ICE abduction in Queens. Shared to me by a trusted friend. Please feel free to donate if you're moved and able.

I had to check if this was real, given it's April 1st. It is real.

PokemonGo peeps! There are Mimikyu out for the April Fools event! (This post is not a prank, I would never joke about Mimikyu.)

Voting closes in a matter of hours! Show some love for your favorite stories from last year!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Off to Norwescon in the beautiful Pacific Northwest! The Line will provide.

Yessssssss 🙌🙌🙌🙌 Jewish belief in right to abortion for the WINNNNN

Looking into April like… 🪶 🌵

Hey gang, from today until April 30th, Juniper Books is gonna be donating a portion of sales of the fancy Sworn Soldier editions to Trans Lifeline!

Long day, but on the bright side, finally ID’d a plant that popped up all over one bed that was stumping both me and Native Plant Guy. It was only in one bed and he said it didn’t feel like a weed. It was a native sundrop! I planted one last year, thought it had died, but it had reseeded like whoa.

“Surely Ursula Vernon probably needed a break from writing more gruesomeness after that last part,” I thought. “Maybe I’ll just finish the chapter while I eat lunch,” AND THEN THE FUCKING SQUIRREL ENTERS THE SCENE

What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell. Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

Do you know how much more weird shit would exist if we weren't constantly terrified of where the next dollar comes from? I'm driving around in second gear all the time.

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

This is also why abolishing ICE does not go far enough. The entire department must be dismantled because by and large, ICE is just one tentacle of the sea monster.

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

For the record, when someone is expressing concern about their neighbor who just went away in an ambulance is not the time to post a microfiction about how they didn’t have insurance and picked food over medicine, and then go “But I’m just a little guy!” when told how insanely inappropriate it is.

Oh, give me the mysterious how-the-hell-does-it-work alien and the people trying to figure it out all day long.

this claim originates from a badly written article extrapolating from a paper the author misread. as a result I expect to see the 9C/16F figure bandied about everywhere now.

Oof. The nice lady who lives up the road just got taken away in an ambulance that was moving slow and didn’t have the lights on. Family didn’t follow, just cried. That’s…not a good sign.

Publishers, call me: I can have three sample chapters of my future bestseller “Neighbors Are Allowed To Be: A Self-Help Book for Dogs” on your desk by the weekend

this is the way

graphic novels do count as books and being mad at your kids for liking them more than prose books is how your kids learn to hate reading

"Jane why would you say that large scale troop operations tend to leak, don't you know our military is full of silent professionals" Our military is full of dumbass E3s and E4s who like to go to strip clubs.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly the best television show ever, is not about spaceships shooting lasers at each other, it is about a man who represents the best of us trying to teach his robot son to be human while debating whether humans even deserve to exist with his best frenemy, God.

Average union soldier memoir: "at first I was like I signed up for this war, but is it really worth it? Then I saw the reality of chattel slavery and I had to be physically restrained from slaughtering every white southerner I encountered"

I got you some native spring ephemeral wildflowers today because you deserve it <3

Mad props to both her and the photographer.

It is absurdly nice out today. I’m sitting in the garden drinking tea and feeling generally pleased with life. NOTE TO ANYONE ABOUT TO DO THE OUTRAGE THING: My husband hasn’t joined me and I picked up like five pounds of dog poop first, so I earned this one.

The only street trees I know where males are deliberately planted to avoid fruit are ginkos. You do not want ginko fruit rotting on the sidewalk, although it might start to smell better if it rots.

there it is, all 7 continents

We just had an underwhelming breakfast at the new restaurant in town. KEVIN: Those were white people huevos rancheros. ME: Damn. KEVIN: TOURIST white people. ME: SAVAGE. Not wrong, though.

Devoured this one - some most excellent horror, with a surprising tenderness too. Eeeeewwwww. @tkingfisher.com remains undefeated. Also I’m glad that I don’t live in her brain unless I want to.

after the no kings march we popped in to the local bookstore as you do and were greeted by a happy stack of @tkingfisher.com

Hey, birder peeps…anybody good at sparrow ID?

Apropos of a largely unrelated discussion…you know how there’s always someone saying they’re gonna reinvent a genre? Can anybody think of an example of a genre *actually* being reinvented? I’ve got Tolkien, Star Wars, and, if I’m being super generous, Lovecraft.

Please enjoy thirty seconds of a very soggy meadowlark enjoying the pond.

this is insanely cool, one of the best things i've recently encountered online

because of ethics in game journalism

OMG THIS CHOCOLATE BABKA @scifantasy.bsky.social @kithrup.bsky.social I did not truly believe until now.