blue sky used to be a community. now every ones off in their own little private rooms talking trash & posting nasty pics. Hate to be the one to say it but group chat culture has made this web site a bastard's website

Summer has arrived and you know what that means!! (taping aluminum foil to the windows to keep out the devil)

Word of the day is panchreston - let's all overuse it until it becomes effectively meaningless

Shady Maple's donuts are overrated and their facility looks like the backrooms

This story was based on a dream I had, including most of the books being versions of Moby-Dick. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I am at Lancaster Fringe Fest this weekend and having the most fun!! And maybe by the end of it I will understand how mics work

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Bold words for a guy who sells stuff

Word of the day is phlogiston

I went down a rabbit hole learning about rice, does anyone want a big rambling thread about rice?

It's like that sometimes

I adore this doodle, he looks so smug

Rehearsing a play in one of the actors' basements, and when we're done we get to play with this cat.

Been thinking about how I need to work out more, and now the library's elevator is out for repairs. Everything's coming up me!

So im sitting here watching the "Lord of the Flies" miniseries on Netflix. And there's one point in the second episode where the boys break off into the famous military chant. We all know it. The sing-songy "sound off, one-two" type chant. Do you know where that comes from? 🧵

Slightly increase a band The Emu Wives

"It'll be okay as long as we still push through a Democratic majority." No, bitch, it will not be okay. It will never be okay that Black Americans do not have a voice and have to depend on the kindness of strangers who have shown repeatedly that they do not give a shit about us in the voting booth.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Sometimes when I'm driving somewhere I imagine what the train/bus route would look like if I had one, just to idk make myself sad

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Am I crazy or is autocomplete actively getting worse?

Symbiosis as terror, symbiosis as violence, symbiosis as survival, symbiosis as creation

Something about the stupidity of this supreme court is more infuriating than the stupidity of congress or the exec branch, all of which are so incredibly stupid

When I was a kid (from fifth grade through high school) I was on this website for kids who wrote and wanted to share their writing with each other. This was less than 20 years ago, but I can't stop thinking about how different the culture of internet safety was. 🧵

Shout out to the middle part of Pomp and Circumstance, truly an underrated part of an overrated song

Multitasking today! I'm ushering a concert but I'm also hiding from other people!

Today at #D&D, the wizard used find familiar + prestidigitation to stomach pump the rogue. It was the familiar's second time inside a digestive system that week, and she was not happy about it.

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