🌟WRITER ANNOUNCEMENT🌟 Next writer for para/Normal Season 2! This is Scythe Liu with Episode Five: "Artistic Discipline"! Check out the link below to see a list of Scythe's works! scytheliu.portfolial.com #podcasting #audiodrama

🌟WRITER ANNOUNCEMENT🌟 Our next writer for para/Normal Season 2 is Oz Zeno with Episode Four: "Nevermind the Cabin"! You may know Oz from her incredible work as Nat on @store236pod.bsky.social! ozzenova.carrd.co #podcasting #audiodrama

I have a new baby. Baby cat is a lot more active at 2 months than baby babies. The almost 5 year old babies are very fond of baby cat.

Imagine telling on yourself to this degree. Maybe shame atrophied along with everything else he outsourced to ai.

🌟WRITER ANNOUNCEMENT🌟 Next in our lineup for para/Normal Season 2 writers is the amazing @LysanderTheNerd with Episode Three: "The Problem With Coastal Gardens"! Learn more at para-normal.lawofnames.com and about Lysander at the link below! linktr.ee/LysanderTheN... #podcasting #audiodrama

Table of contents buddies!! So excited for this episode

A Long Road Home: Volume Two print edition is now available for preorder!! www.etsy.com/listing/4511...

An interesting warning for writers: There have been ads, making their rounds on social media, advertising writing contests with large prizes. Beware-- some of these contests are tricks to get you to submit files that will then be used to train AI models (LLMs). READ THE FINE PRINT!

I fixed the latch on my office door after years of living with it broken because i brought a kitten home and needed to keep her away from my work space.

Thing i have: A book. Thing i don't have: consistent marketing Thing i might have: adhd

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my newest book? In FAMILIAR, two sisters hunt down killers and collect body parts while complicating their lives with volatile magics, bizarre visions, and a mysterious mouth in the wall. Think Junji Ito meets Little Women. ghoulish.rip/product/fami...

My little guy is injured. If you can spare anything or help get the word out, we would be eternally grateful. gofund.me/4f7526550

Please, if you can, give this post a share. Our boy Hamlet needs some help.

I am going to make a puppet

A wolf’s winter coat can be around 6 inches thick! I love how this absolute goon squishes himself up again the bars to get pets. Don’t worry, his enclosure spans across several acres and this is a wolf sanctuary where I volunteer! -Wolf Watch UK

If you’ve been dreaming about building your very own webcomic site, Ren will be your guide to the pros and cons, and demonstrating with a live how-to! Making a Webcomic Site on Sunday, May 17th @ 8pm EDT on Zoom #NIF2026 nif.cartoonist.coop/event/making...

Serra Arapaima #MerMay This solitary mermaid hunts in the waters of the Amazon basin. Her heavily armored body can grow up to four meters in length.

It would be cool if my body being in pain didn't also trigger Deep Sads but i guess it just loves a buy one get one on agonies.

My daughter is funnier than me. "What's your inner beast, kid? A squirrel, a duck? A deer with big antlers?" "No. I'm a jellybean."

Aaaa my friend made this it's so cooool!!!!

Hi Critters! Did you miss us? (It is once again finals for the Archivist who handles social media.) Our stats for last week’s episode (C4E024) will be going live tomorrow. In the interim, check out some of our C4E023 data, including some (already-useful!) loot:

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Ursula K. Le Guin

Bean was at the lit fest yesterday and told me that my art was scary to her. I told her that mommy was in charge of those monsters, and they're only pretend. She liked the art at home but in a loud venue it was too much. We're back to appreciating mommy's monsters again <3

T. Kingfisher (@tkingfisher.com) joined us for a LIVE episode at @norwescon.org in was a fascinating conversation about retellings, adaptations, and her novel WHAT MOVES THE DEAD 🐇🍄 Now we’re excited to share it with everyone! 📺 bit.ly/4e3Vj4Z 🎙️ bit.ly/4u1KKnM #whatmovesthedead #norwescon

Which T. Kingfisher book would you most like to see adapted? #tkingfisher #whatmovesthedead #inktofilm #thetwistedones #ridleyscott

Tomorrow! I am going to sell my books at the Tacoma Lit Fest at the armory from noon until 6. Today!! I am gonna fret about it as i hype myself up <3 Come peruse my wares!

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We are live! For the next 37 days, I will be trying to raise 10k for my body horror/monster movie SHE BLEEDS GREEN. As I've said many times before, this one is very very near and dear to me and I want it to be something special. Every bit helps.

With alt text, because the Butlerian will be accessible or not at all.

Been thinking a LOT about this page from "Understanding Comics," lately. I could only find this slice of it online, but it's enough to get the point across. AI "art" is the ultimate hollow apple.

"we made an environment-destroying theft machine so you can see yourself fucking a movie star" for christ's sake why can't you all write fanfic like the rest of us

hey come watch me and author Erica Sage talk horror in the pacific northwest here: luma.com/gritcitystudio 6:30 tonight! PST

I am going to be in conversation with Erica Sage tomorrow at 6:30PST about writing horror in the pacific northwest as a part of the lead in to the tacoma lit fest on May 2nd! Come drop in and here me wax rhapsodic about moss! #writing #tacomalitfest #books

Yeah I think we need to start seriously discussing UBI as the way forward from this world with fewer jobs and unchecked firings They hate it because, like unions, it reduces desperate dependence on your bosses, but I think it's the only way forward now

I am going to be in conversation with Erica Sage tomorrow at 6:30PST about writing horror in the pacific northwest as a part of the lead in to the tacoma lit fest on May 2nd! Come drop in and here me wax rhapsodic about moss! #writing #tacomalitfest #books

I’ve submitted! You should too!!!

I don't really do the whole showing up with my face on social media, but here I am impersonating one of my monsters (Winifred). Do you like monsters? Do you embrace the ridiculous? My book might be right up your street: buff.ly/gClKfSb #monsterbook #artbook #monsterart #cutemonster

Idk why i love green so much maybe it's because it'll overtake me whether i like it or not there's no choice in the PNW you will succumb to the green

a passage from my novella that I really like. (text in the alt description if its hard to read like this) #books #writing

Woah rad Governor Ferguson gave a shout out to the lit fest I'm going to be at in May! Come see me and my stack of novellas (and keynote speaker Ted Chiang??!) at the Tacoma Armory! vimeo.com/1185365443?s...

watching the Jersey Mike’s worker make my sandwich

I love this essay, not least because some colleagues and I just a few months ago went to Yestermorrow School of Design Build on a retreat to build democratic benches! “Public benches signify a commitment to public life. They’re a small article of faith in an ideal”

have you ever actually talked to a silicon valley guy? i have a bunch almost always against my wishes. they are aliens

Go read "Bold But Not Too Bold" and "Cabaret in Flames" by Hache Pueyo (@hachepueyo.bsky.social). Both horror-adjacent. The former is a lush, vibe-heavy gothic sapphic romance/mystery. The latter is a cannibal mystery/romance that's more plot-focused and political. Both are truly superior works.

Witch Hunter Robin. I was obsessed with that show. The vibes were impeccable. Also idk if Pete and Pete was all that niche, but give me that good surrealist suburbia. I can make it even weirder <3

Gender should literally just be a common thing that people *should* examine in order to have a fullness of life, even if nothing massively changes. It should be as common as developing a fashion style or a music taste. Deconstruction of societal imprint, no matter how “far” you go, is freedom.

TRUST TEACHERS. Two words that, if people actually widely believed them, would utterly reform education in this country.

I don't like how grey the new 'Natural White' Saunders Waterford is, compared to the beautiful ivory of their older stock. The difference is so startling, I'm quite seriously disappointed. All my favourite paper manufacturers have changed their recipes for the worse. I could cry.