Be kind This timeline is fucky enough as it is

'He's tiny! It's blue!' Charles Darwin Foundation scientists discover a new species of octopus nearly 1,800 metres (5,900 feet) down on the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands. No bigger than a golf ball, the blue octopus has stubby little arms with only one row of suckers u.afp.com/SRvN

I wrote a book based on a dream I had of being shown dragon fetuses hanging off a tree like seed pods or bats by my grandmother. The recreation of the dream is the first chapter, which is an excerpt on this page:

Ferrari is up on Netflix - never got to see it, time to change that - adam driver, and the story of one of the most famous car brands ever? ...yeeee. film study time.

Therapy.

Morning rain birb. I need the peace.

PSA that authors never get tired of hearing nice things, especially for new releases!

One of the greatest things in the arts is working with others and then getting to bring one of your fave artists ever onboard to a project (in another medium) you've been working on so now you get to work together on that too. <3

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

We have model contract language ready to use, and we recommend writers include these clauses in their contracts.

I have 5 more days to get 200$ to cover a bit more so I can make it to next paycheck. Then I have to figure out how I'm gonna make another 500$ for the electric and car. I don't know how I'm gonna do this. If anyone has anything, please help. PayPal.me/panediting

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Random normal Hollow in the Bleach universe existing - something that can be killed by a low level character with just their sword, not even an ability. The OP chosen one Ichigo born with all the abilities seeing the scrub hollow: GETSU MY FUCKING OP MAX ABILITY TENSHO! Hollow: u fuckin w0t m8?

“The restoration of "the natural order" – in which the dominance of white people in America is preserved and protected – requires ruining the economy.” 1000x’s this.

Hey, folx: an excerpt from my forthcoming novel, DEAD END BOYS has just gone up on my Patreon. Support and check it out! tinyurl.com/mwjahtr6 #afrosurrealism #afrofantasy #neworleans #darkfantasy

Puts this here

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Me too, buddy. Me too.

THERES A SLICE OF LIFE MAG? SINGAL BOOST

We recorded this the day I got to see the Lorwyn frogs! In person!

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

If you're slumped over in public with: a mug of root beer, sour gummy bears, a half eaten bag of trail mix, mountain dew at ...past 10 pm, and what looks like just bobba in a can...thats it, not even all the tea, just the milk sugar and the balls...? ...im leaving you to your fate. You did that

So...you're destroying the water on my fucking planet so my fucking email im already sick of and is unoptimized garbage cuz of the forced ai -slop you already hork on us will now...SPEAK TO ME? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY-NOT!? I have enough stupid things voiced to me in a day. I don't need the emails--

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

Tis true.

Anyway, vote @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social so I can stick bugs to her and take pictures of the process for posterity.

If you only have time to read one article, read this one.

Randomly stopped by the Chapters in Gloucester and signed a copy of INK & SIGIL and A CURSE OF KRAKENS, so if you are in the Ottawa area, there you go!

Begging magazines to not fire their social media managers.

A bit about me: I'm a multimedia investigative reporter at the intersection of democratic backsliding and environmental justice. I founded @thexylom.com, the nonprofit, worker-led news outlet y'all know and love. We are the only Asian American-run news outlet covering the health and climate beats:

Foo KING Re LEASE DA FILES!

"This is not embracing the future, it's being harvested by the future"

Lmao I hope all the big pubs are paying attention. Fucking dopes selling out their 100 year old brands for the Anti American Pedo President. Gonna be out of work soon enough.

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

I am not on TikTok. I will never be on TikTok. This bethcato2 account is impersonating me and direct messaging writers in an effort to sell marketing services. Any account pretending to be me on TikTok is fraudulent.

Pssst. That thing you’re afraid of writing? Write it.

Bout to watch the roast of kevin hart but only skip to the segment of katt williams. not sure what that says about: -me -my enjoyment of hart or not -katt willams and my feelings there but i am excited as a mofo to watch katt work on this bit too. :)

Things that get people to stop emailing you This email could have been a duel of pistols at dawn... ...I never got a reply?

Hello yes @ecatherine.com 's story NACRE made my HAIR STAND ON END which is good because that means it is dry and the ocean hasn't taken it (hasn't taken me) (taken what is owed) SO GOOD

hey, y'all, hey! we really need a new-to-us vehicle but need help getting the down payment together. please share and/or donate! gofund.me/a2e427b01

Tired listener hobo in a fantasy world?

Witnessed little girl getting wrong drink her: x_X dad: and what do we do when something unexpected happens? her: inhales: :SCREAMS!: Him: o.0 ...i suppose that's one way to share your--:Screaming intensifies: her: :finishes: Better! :D ...starts sipping wrong drink with delight and skips once

Can we just start fist fighting billionaires for their fortunes? 1 - entertaining 2 - perfectly dystopian for the times 3 - entertaining AF! 4 - fair...ish 5 - cool as fuck method of redistribution (you gotta admit) 6 - imagine the spectacle 7 - we'd probably beat their asses handily 8 - we'd do -

...hnng, the things I would write to be able to fund this restomod project I just found. A freaking NON RUSTED Jaguar E-type V12! Where's the gif of the hyperventilating chonk cat? ...me right now.