had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

Glad for the workers who want to return.

If you live in a region where your local stations are preempting tonight's Jimmy Kimmel, send them an email tomorrow morning with a firm "I had no idea you were one of THOSE stations and I'm contacting your ADVERTISERS!"

So yeah, this is one of the reasons I live here.

I…uh…heh…write what I know?

Now this gives me hope for the world.

Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.

Some lovely news. The audiobook for Bee Speaker (narrators myself, Rod Hallet, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain) is on the shortlist for a British Audio Award. www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...

Anybody in #history Bluesky got anything?

*facepalm* As a general rule of life, never say to any author “I wouldn’t expect a [genre] author to know anything about [topic.]” You will, without fail, discover that a statistically improbably number of people in that genre grew up there/did their thesis on it/have one in their lap.

This month! The 30th! Alex Easton returns in WHAT STALKS THE DEEP! I know I just had another book out! It’s a lot for me, too! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson Well worth a read observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The “Unite the Kingdom” rally was organized by Tommy Robinson, a convicted fraudster with a violent criminal record, and attended by billionaire Elon Musk via video link.

I will add a tip another author gave me for those of us who need to be able to get emails—set your contact form to say [email protected]. A lot of trolls stop there because they think it’s not going to you directly and it’s no fun if they’re yelling at a publicist who doesn’t give a shit.

Gonna write some brief troll mitigation tips for you all because like any successful, happy woman on the internet, i’ve had ‘em Tips break down into two main areas: 1. Defensive tactics: how not to make it easy for them 2. Offensive tactics: fuck ‘em up 🧵:

Been pulling myself up out of a well of not feeling motivated for a few weeks now. It's amazing how much I've gotten done in that time, but it's been WORK.

Oh this explains why people are all up in my rabies thread again. This is a PSA: DO NOT TOUCH WILDLIFE. THAT MEANS YOU SHOULD NOT BREASTFEED INJURED BATS. JUST STOP. YOU DON'T WANT RABIES. RABIES IS BAD. WE HAVE MADE GREAT STRIDES WITH MANY OTHER DISEASES BUT NOT THAT ONE SO LEAVE THE BATS ALONE.

Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found! Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?

I just saw a TikTok like “the motivations of assassins don’t make sense anymore” but boy have they never. Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador.

Some more older pics - this is Permian Gangs of New York.

Doing proofs - very final go over a book before print. 90% correcting punctuation, verb tenses and echo words. 10% sudden revelations about superior wording.

Spare a thought for the Imagine Dragon's children's cancer charity The Tyler Robinson foundation - their annual fundraising gala is tonight. The Universe has a perverse sense of humor. www.trf.org

Sea of Souls

what if love bloomed on the battlefield... and they were rival rabbit women with swords...

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling. I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

This is like the sign on the wombat enclosure that tells you that if you stick your fingers in, they may get bitten. Yes, some days the wombat is in a good mood! Today, though, there will likely be biting.

Freaky and amazing!

HELL YEAH

The conditions in Gaza are untenable for the civilians who are trapped and starving there. Please give to my dear friend Tasneem, so she can feed her children and escape Gaza, and to others. ❤️ 🙏 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo @leftistlawyer.com @sesmith.lol

Clay Higgins really going for the full-throated red scare censorship tactic. He knows he's not putting his neck on the line since this would have overwhelming bipartisan support given KOSA and such.

"Don't Engage, Just Block" is praxis

Back from 6 days in Bulgaria having a wonderful time at Bulgacon and associated events. Bulgarian covers to Time/Ruin are amazing.

*snort* Do you know how many murders cops solve? Less than half, and that’s being generous and counting “arrested somebody” as “solved.” This isn’t weird, it’s dead normal.

Tapping the sign again

Particularly when you figure that anyone taking a college genetics class probably learns very early on that everyone’s a mutant.

I'm glad betweenthe two of you, you've brought up both the (perceived) moral and class elements. Classism seeps into so much, and is itself moralized. And virtue (or "virtue") is weaponized. It's so weird.

No no, you're being the perfect amount of cynical. People thought cigarettes were healthy. They still think red wine is healthy because it's bougey. Milk has to be healthy because it feels American. "Things that feel healthy can't be unhealthy" is the current policy of the DHHS.

maybe i’m being too cynical but i feel like this is only surprising to people because people think running is morally good and healthy activity. the mechanisms for so many correlations between fatness and disease are unknown as well, but no one is surprised by them because we assume fatness is bad.

YAAAAY!

In some better news...

New Mexico is the first state in the nation to guarantee no-cost universal child care. Starting Nov. 1st child care will be made available to every parent in the state, regardless of income. The average annual family savings are estimated at $12,000 per child.

Don't go looking for the photos unless you want them to take up a permanent space in your brain. Third-degree burns. But yeah, twelve people heard and saw what happened to her and did a massive WHAT!!!

The McDonald's coffee lawsuit issue sounds like one of those "Well of COURSE she was out for money!" cases...and they you see photos of the incident where a grandmother's entire lap was covered with vicious burns. She had a full extra-large serving of boiling water dumped right on her.

Furthermore, this is medical, and We! Do! Not! Practice! Medicine! On! Our! Students! This is very, very, very much a “You should talk to your doctor about that” not a “let me volunteer to be your doctor!”

The only flaw was calling him Hitler. He likes that. They should have said he looked old and feeble and was Putin’s bitch.

My state keeps being in the news for things that aren’t horrible and honestly, as an NC expat, I had forgotten what that was like.

My mother, who is not super tech savvy, asked me worriedly about the Singularity the other day because someone on YouTube with a lot of credentials said it was coming in 2030. I told her to just mentally insert “the Second Coming” for “the Singularity.” But seriously, wtf world?