When your best friend texts you “wake up, new encyclical dropped.

So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Not now, outer core!

"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

Aunt Priscilla was released from the hospital yesterday after a brief stay. She is SOOOOO grateful to the people who have contributed and shared so that she can have safe and secure housing in her community. Please share or contribute if you can!

@wxpnfm.bsky.social is on the last day of their spring fund drive with an unprecedented opportunity to get an additional $75,000 if they can reach the match goal by 7pm Eastern time. Any donation counts toward the goal. They are an amazing community radio station worth supporting. Donate at xpn.org

My pre-order of Platform Decay by @marthawells.com finally arrived in the mail today! 🎉 I guess it will be a "drop everything and read" kind of day.

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

This brought me joy.

Man, this poem by @marissalingen.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social feels so relevant for writing. You can be a novelist, short story writer, poet. You can write sci-fi, romance, horror, anything you want. Don't let anyone ever tell you what you can write or what kind of writer you are.

Intergalactic Mixtape is live and filled with excellent thoughts and opinions, and most importantly: recs. :D

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

If you see this, post a #StarTrek.

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Still thinking about this incredibly powerful healing ceremony, and how important it is to have space for grieving in public

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends.

To repeat myself: I love my neighborhood.

I visited the land of lost socks. #socks #laundromat #lostsock #art #washingmachine

🎉 Today is my birthday! 🥳 If you'd like to help me celebrate, here's a list of charities working to make the world better that could use some more support. 🫶 www.astrokatie.com/birthday

There’s a new issue of Intergalactic Mixtape! 50 issues already! 🥳 🪐📚

I’m doing a book giveaway! The winner gets: - A copy of Sidequested Book 1, a fantasy graphic novel by the Hugo nominated duo @alepresser.com and @kbspangler.com ☺️ - A pug sticker. To enter, simply repost this post! Bonus: reply with a Sidequested-themed pug doodle to enter 5 more times!

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of - new account fatigue - new app fatigue - useless upgrade fatigue - terms of service fatigue

an op-ed specifically for Juneau. the City is not perfect, but they work their asses off and don't deserve the anti-muni scorn that has lately been heaped on them. our small town will always be expensive and require high taxes to function, whatever we do.

Since it's #NationalLibraryWeek, I am going to share a cool library thing every day. Today, I am sharing "Reading Room" a project by Elizabeth Felicella, a photographer, who passed away way too early last year at 58 years old. urbanomnibus.net/2014/11/read...

May 9th! It's Alaska Robotics Mini-Con! minicon.alaskarobotics.com

#FundraiserPerk Show off your Locus love with our enamel Squocket pin, Cluso pin, and Bookworm pin! Donate to get this adorable 3 pin pack perk: locusmag.com/igg26#FundraiserPerk(link in bio)

Congratulations, Locus Award finalists! locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

She described how their perspective of "tiny Earth" encompassed not just the globe itself, but also "all the blackness around it." Comparing our world to a "lifeboat," she reached out to the audience with a final thought: "Planet Earth - you are a crew." 4/4

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

Your attention please! Vinyl Day starts tonight at Midnight. Nothing but 24 hours of analogue. Check out the schedule of our DJs and guest selectors. xpn.org/wxpn-is-spin...

perhaps none of us can predict what Trump or Iran will do. perhaps we have to continue to sit in that deep and terrifying uncertainty knowing that as individuals we control none of this. 'I don't know what will happen' is the truest truth of this moment.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Don't touch that dial!!!! Happy Saturday and thanks for listening.

I woke up to the news that Juneau broke the all-time seasonal snow record overnight. We have now reached 201.2 inches of snow for the winter. Can it please stop snowing now?

Happy book day to the brilliant and funny @amalelmohtar.com !

Our annual, seasonal viewing of Duck With Spring Onions. Oil on canvas. www.vickisawyer.com/shop/fine-ar... As glorious and medicinal as the sun.

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This is exactly how I feel about shoveling snow right now.

One week left for Hugo noms! I offer for consideration one short story about taking care of ourselves and (crucially) our neighbors, when the world is on ten kinds of fire at a time. I wrote it last December in anxious anticipation of the shitshow that was due to kick off in January. ;_;

Happy Spring from Juneau! We are coming close to breaking the all time snow record. 🎉😭 Here's hoping for more spring-like weather in our future.

"But in education, the ultimate product is not your term paper or essay or [GPA]; it’s your self. You are supposed to emerge more informed, more capable of critical thinking, more competent in your field of study. The students who begin by cheating their professors end by cheating themselves."

Surgery was unexpectedly delayed for a few days, so I'm still crowdfunding. If you have a few bucks to spare or even just a RT, it would really help.

Through March 16th, Juneau has more snow than Fairbanks and Anchorage combined. ❄️ @alaskawx.bsky.social

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novel! #SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Short Story! #SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards