'My three children are crying and freezing in the open cold, with no tent, no blankets, and no food. One of them is sick and shaking from the cold. I am a helpless mother watching my children suffer. We need $200 for a tent. Please help or share. 💔🙏'

So just to review, it's generic statues of Prime Ministers: Yes, but the literally irreplaceable story of the past: No. I mean, Doug Ford's developer pals gotta eat, right? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I adore this show. Time for a rewatch, I think.

Bummer. www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

We are now in the taint of the year: the holiday choda which is a holiday and isn't a holiday. A period not unlike lockdown in that few know what day of the week it is, and time loses meaning.

A swimming sea anemone is a wondrous thing. youtu.be/rYqjoiG9UIw

About a week before Christmas, I got notification that my credit card was compromised. The bank canceled my card & is issuing a new one. However, I still haven't received it & now a few subscriptions are vanishing because I don't have a credit card. Some of those subscriptions are for meds.

I was at the sold-out Fredericton premier of Braveheart. It was a brutally hot day & the AC was busted. Popcorn stuck to sweaty skin & sweaty skin stuck to chairs. The torture scene was going on & on & finally I shouted, "Kill him already so we can go home!" The audience erupted in laughter.

Odai was shot in the foot and in normal circumstances could have been treated and made a full recovery by now. But lack of treatment options has left him increasingly immobile and in pain. gofund.me/77a751af7 ❤️‍🩹🙏

Toughened, eternal, | now Tiny Tim upstirs, restored. | The strong gantry rends at his rising. | Full red glow his eyes, dire dark-sensors | of th'undying frame.

I managed a comics/games shop in the 90s. One day, a kid I'd never seen before came in & started preaching to me about how I was going to burn in hell because I sold satanic things like D&D. When he was through his screed, he handed me his resume & asked if I was hiring.

"And so, having long debated what to do about this situation, I dug a fire pit in my backyard and burned my complete set of hardcover Harry Potters." I have a lengthy and long in the works piece live this morning, from @literaryhub.bsky.social Hope you all enjoy ... lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

Getting close! The deadline for submissions to the Winter issue of Forgotten Ground Regained is January 1st.

'We are so cold🥶💔 We are so cold🥶💔 We are so cold🥶💔 Cold and rain soak my children,our blankets,tarps, and clothes💔 There is no income…and donations have stopped😢 I urgently need $300 to buy a tent for my family🙏🥶 Any help can save my children💔 Verified @mommunism.bsky.social ✅'

'My three kids are freezing in the bitter cold… Nasser, my sick son, has no blankets, food, or shelter. I feel helpless watching him suffer. We need $200 for blankets, warm food, and winter protection before things worsen. Please help or share,every share could save lives.💔'

All help for Waseem and these lovely boys deeply appreciated. They were badly affected by Storm Byron. gofund.me/35fdca7d ❤️❤️‍🩹🙏

THERE'S STILL TIME! ✅Making your list ✅Checking it twice ⁉️Wait it says "write more in 2025" If you've always wanted to do a writing residency but can't get away, spend your holiday break with us at Barrelhouse Write-in’s Imagine Cabins Writing Retreat! Sign up at www.barrelhousemag.com/writeins

Oh this tiny baby ❤️❤️❤️

The censorship of Palestinians on here is reaching new heights today. I can barely keep up with the requests before accounts get banned. Such a shame.

Dies natalis solis invicti!

'At Christmas,when candles are lit and the meaning of compassion is born my My child and I stand with weary hearts, carrying a small hope that a human hand will reach out to us A blessed and merciful Christma and thank you to every heart that chose to be a reason for saving hope'

'Everyone’s cozy, eating, laughing, opening gifts… my kids are freezing in a tent in Gaza. No food, no meds, no heat. War stole everything. This isn’t news. It’s life. If your heart even flickers, help. Share. Don’t scroll past. 💔'

Here’s more about Thomas Nast and Santa www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civi...

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

#HorrorWritersChat You placed it in a sand-packed mold. From a crucible, you poured in cherry red molten silver. The air stank of burnt meat. Now my cast-off heart is a tarnished trophy on your mantle.

#HorrorWritersChat I think I've only ever written one holiday horror story, and I wouldn't call it horror. It's about a haunted tree that takes place on All Hallows Eve. The tree's xylem is freezing, the leaves hang like scorched parchment, and when dogs pee on the trunk, it's warm. So festive.

#HorrorWritersChat Liothu'a is the tormented cleric of the goddess of vengeance. She lives a lonely life far from civilization. I'd give her cooking lessons, because it's a skill she sadly never mastered. Some day, I'll get around to writing her story. She was a LARP character I had years ago.

#HorrorWritersChat I write comedy horror, fairytale horror, ecohorror, and religious horror. Four holiday horror movie recommendations: Rare Exports, The Day of the Beast, Violent Night, and Black Christmas (1974). Trivia: a friend of mine lived in the Black Christmas house.

Money's tight? You can support me without spending a dime! Request my books at your library! The library pays for their copy so I still get paid and you get to read it for free! Best part, others can enjoy it after you! 🌈📚 #booksky

I just watched Rare Exports, which is one of the strangest Christmas movies I've ever seen. It's filled with bad daddies. Also, that ending hurts my brains. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Ex...

Happy Tibb's Eve to all my Newfie friends.

I've just finished the first draft of a fun story about Armageddon. I've tentatively called it "Rich-People Houses" and it's inspired by my childhood as a Jehovah's Witness kid preaching from door to door.

"AI" has lost all meaning. It's been used interchangeably with LLMs so much that it's often impossible to know what is actually being referenced.

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

To make @writingexcuses.bsky.social retreats accessible for more people, we have two types of scholarships: Out of Excuses (need-based) and Writers of Color. Applications are due on Dec. 31 for the 2026 retreat. I sincerely hope you'll apply to join us: writingexcuses.com/scholarships/

Just a reminder, y’all: If you love a book, especially an indie-published one, tell the world! They can always use the help. And the authors (and publishers) love hearing it🖤☠️

I dreamed I told Robert Evans from Behind the Bastards about the time my Dad inadvertently flashed the Queen of England.

I keep seeing people mention it's a slow news week, and my brain does not comprehend. How can it be a slow news week when genocide is ongoing and the Doomsday Glacier is preparing to raise sea levels by a couple feet? Not enough celebrity gossip, is that it? www.ecoticias.com/en/scientist...

Looking for someone to do a talk on the "romance of graveyards" - why our gothic hearts love them so much, any tales regarding love, death & cemeteries, etc. It’s for Writing the Occult: Love & Death which is, naturally, on 14 Feb. All online. Kicks off 1pm UK. writingtheoccult.carrd.co 🧵⬇️

For most of my childhood, I didn't have many toys. But when I was a toddler, I did have these. I beat the punching bag to death and my parents wouldn't buy me another.

As a pre-Christmas treat, allow me to explain the true significance of the famous Lady and the Unicorn tapestries at the @museecluny.bsky.social, which is the story of the unicorn's increasing disaffection with its career as a standard-bearer.

I enjoyed this strange little book.

People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.

Part 5 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg German hunting knife that's also a gun, that's also a calendar..

Last week young Nabil came close to drowning and hypothermia as the tent he was in was flooded. This week he officially passed his first school exam with excellence. Please help him stay in education. gofund.me/2f942387 @mommunism.bsky.social @pepsffk.bsky.social @gofund-gaza.bsky.social #SkyAid 🍉

Parisot (the Director) tells a story about how Tim Allen just started crying after a scene one day "I don't like these feelings i'm having." Says Tim. "I'm going back to my trailor" and walks off. There's silence for a second. "Oh my god." Says Rickman. "I think Tim just experienced acting."

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This is a turkey vulture I painted years ago. It's china paint on porcelain tile and took me about three months to finish. It's probably my favourite painting I've ever made.

'Elif moans, "I'm freezing!" Joan cries, "I'm cold!" Jude winces, "I'm shivering!" Ahmed shouts, "We're dead!" Jamil calls out, "We're lost! These are my five children, homeless because of the rain. I need $300 for them. We're suffering!"🥶🥹 Verified @mommunism.bsky.social'

Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & a 1 yo baby, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving in winter. Please help them survive (just 365 dollars raised):