Brag of the day: I'm collaborating with a woman who has done cookie monster burlesque, I have 2 friends who sing like gods and another friend who recorded covers for every track on Death of a Bachelor on recorder, with harmony.

When I was in college, me and a small Discord server of overly-online nerds wrote a bunch of songs for a musical based on the podcast Wolf 359, and if Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat decided that was something the world needed, I would get back on that horse immediately.

I love attending a little show but sometimes sitting in the dark watching stuff for two+ hours seriously unlocks my anxiety. Got home from a dance showcase & had to spend four hours cleaning my entire apartment to make the demons go away

I edit as I write, and a lot of people who like to give advice on this sort of thing have indicated that this is Bad Practice, but I've tried the other way and it doesn't work for me.

There are two wolves #writing this book right now, and one of them thinks she is writing a creepy little fantasy/fable about some wizards that stole the sun, but the other one desperately wants ecologists to think she's cool. #AGlimmerofDarkness

Did a reading of my sock puppet Batman musical, and the woman playing Catwoman has an Eartha Kitt impression, so things are going better than previously imagined.

Going to see one, maybe two friends perform this weekend, and then a table read of a play I wrote!

Why does Sam Altman look like a guy who would say "Ain't I a stinker?" unironically

Messadena historically specialized in ranching and pottery. The pottery industry has since died out but they still have...cattle with steel bones! Undead fire breathing horses! Radiation-eating mushrooms! And a giant cow skeleton who is a very good girl.

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

It's International #asexuality day and, coincidentally, I've been thinking a lot about my place as an ace writer. Although I am proud to be queer and cheerfully out to anyone who cares, I struggle with how overtly I should announce my characters as ace. 🧵

Sherlock House

This bird shops at Hot Topic

I am writing April Fools Day 'fun facts' for the library and realizing how much my sense of humor was influenced by early Welcome to Night Vale. Every joke I have ever made would be 10x funnier if read in Cecil Baldwin's voice

Gender is a performance and everyone can tell that I haven't been practicing

I keep on thinking that I should talk more about writing on here, but other than posting "did it" every time I do it, I don't know that that would entail.

I am not one to complain about linguistic shifts, but as someone who works in a library, it is odd how many Kids These Days TM you hear saying "rent" when they mean "borrow." Renting costs $! You can take stuff out of here for free!

I love alt text because my internet is slow af and I need to know whether it's worth waiting for the image to load

The nonfiction kick continues, I'm about halfway through this one now and already recommending it to people. Nature is wild y'all #booksky

If you watch a lot of high school and community theater you will discover that there are students and parents and workers and retirees who have as much star power as your favorite A lister, and they will bring down the house and then go do homework or chores. There is so much talent everywhere.

Please read and share this collection of columns by Lancaster County pediatricians regarding what's best for you child's health lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...

Line dancing is fun and I am really, really bad at it

Aah, Chopin, the age-old lullaby for cultured felines. 😸💤 #cat #chopin #piano #concerto

OK, now do humans

I'm on a nonfiction kick and may I recommend: -Mountains of Fire: author describes getting pelted by burning rocks and almost dying of dehydration with so much enthusiasm I got almost jealous -Antarctica by Gabrielle Walker: made me want to go there even tho Im a big baby who hates the cold.

It's not just sci-fi - In "computing machinery and intelligence", the paper in which Alan Turing describes the imitation game, he runs through a whole list of objections to computer intelligence, and the only one that gives him pause is that he imagines computers, unlike humans, wouldn't have ESP

Murderbot Network Effect just came back in the book drop (It was on a staff picks display--I was the staff that picked it) and now instead of closing the library I'm just looking through the first chapter and thinking about what good taste I have

Art

I read Hamlet in high school during a weird time, projected really hard on Horatio of all people, and now I have a musical about it. So uh... That one.

Phoned a friend for help unsticking an environment in the book I'm working on, and now we have radiation-eating mushrooms. Very excited about the radiation-eating mushrooms.

@apnews.com be joking

This cannot get blocked quickly enough

Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, hard boiled egg

Guess it must have snowed like crazy elsewhere in the county, but all I've seen is a sugar dusting of actual precipitation and a blizzard of inclimate weather alerts

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

The way some people in the #CriticalRole fandom talk about Aabria is so reminiscent of how people used to talk about Marisha during Campaign 1. Feels like the fandom has moved beyond the misogyny but not the racism.

Finally finished draft #9 of the script that I have been hammering at for two and a half, and I don't hate it!

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Thank you! Next?

You’ve taken your daughter to a birthday party. In the air, invisible, is the measles virus. Even if she survives, the virus may never be done with her. Elizabeth Bruenig on what measles can do to a body, to a brain, and to a family:

👀January 2026 Fiction👀 ICYMI, "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" is a short story by @czwrites.bsky.social about growing up a target but finding ways to fight back. Also, summoning demons. Read it as a ritual of transformation. havenspec.com/fiction/a-be...

Post a banger that's not in English I used to listen to this song on my morning commute every day as ritual. youtu.be/HRKTOhyMVWs?...

Kids do not belong in jail. Kids do not belong in jail. Kids do not belong in jail. Kids do not belong in jail. Kids do not belong in jail. Kids do not belong in jail.

Crazy to me when spec magazines are like, "please no vampires or robots". We've got tech bros plotting world domination and nobody's got something new to say about vampires or robots?

This is on top of the $87M facility in Berks County. $206 million in taxpayer money just for two building that will surely require millions in retrofitting, followed I guess by federal contracts to run them.

A deaf teen was violently detained by ICE for not “following orders”. He couldn’t hear their orders. They denied him an interpreter. Denied him accommodations. This is who they are. They target the disabled because eugenics and fascism go hand in hand.

I am hacking away at a script and it is driving me absolutely nuts. Keep on adding and deleting scenes. But there's a cat in it, so, we persist

Batman parody sock puppet musical getting closer and closer to reality. We have a venue and a tentative time slot.

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun