Today I saw three (3) different Osprey nests, all along the same stretch of river, and dang it made me happy. A healthy river with fish enough to feed three Osprey families is so honkin’ rad. It was grey and raining today so the nests were sodden, but the big birds are back in residence! #birds

If any of ye are classical music peeps, Isata Kanneh-Mason just released a turbo spiffy recording of Prokofiev’s Concerto no. 3

Preorder anywhere, of course, but we have a deal if you preorder directly from us: $3 off, a thank-you postcard from the author @jomiles.bsky.social, and a sticker! (This is a standalone, by the way, not part of a series!) hornedlarkpress.com/product/the-...

Once upon a time @totallydonna.kitrocha.com & I wrote a trilogy about book nerds in a dystopian future who just wanted to build a library but the tech bros wouldn't stop being evil so they did community organizing & crimes. They are ON SALE this month for $2.99! www.kitrocha.com/series/merce...

Folks who will be in or near Ottawa next Monday, do you have your ticket for @amalelmohtar.com's launch event yet? Looking forward to our conversation about her beautiful stories! theotherhill-lautrecolline.ca/event/an-eve...

I was doing this other thing today and as a bonus, I got to thank an author who wrote a spiffy book I liked for the story. That was cool. Here is the book and you should read it: bookshop.org/a/107403/978...

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

#1 Canadian summer destination is getting away from Poilievre

didn't see that coming, yeah

We are so happy for Hungary right now. Can you imagine how happy everyone will be when it happens

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

FUCK YES

Damn it Are the LibDems or the Greens going to change that

This is good advice!

Anyone else watching Monarch, Legacy o’ Kaiju? The monsters are rad but I just saw some super metal tombstones with lichen and stuff and it’s masterful prop work, five stars, and I too would like sculptures of screaming people on my tombstone to indicate that I’m at rest

I went outside today and you guys otter love what I saw. A thread of critters 1/

Woohoo! Yeah, are you guys grabbing this for funsies? YOU NEED SOME FUNSIES

Today I have seen otters, foxes, bears, and a killdeer. Gratuitous pics later when I can get home to edit them. But it was a dang nice day outside

At the scratch bakery. Mercy

So dang glad the astronauts are safe Can we have more human excellence please

This Artemis live feed is so rad because it’s just people going YEAH SCIENCE ISN’T THIS GREAT and other people saying HELL YES IT IS and it’s really soothing

I'm running for political office on the platform of providing 20lb sledge hammers to my constituents and allowing them to quite literally tear down everything this clownass motherfucker builds.

It’s the weekend. So why not curl up with some cozy Druids and their dogs? THE GREAT BIG BEAR is out now in print, ebook, and audio. You’ll have laugh and have fun and maybe you’ll have a snack—damn, that’s gonna be a good weekend

To relax I read Canadian news where the current outrage is one guy in Quebec who cut his maple syrup with sugar. It’s charming. US News: War Criminals and Pedophiles Run the Government and No One Is Stopping Them Canadian news: TABARNAK, THIS BASTARD IN QUEBEC WITH HIS FAKE MAPLE SYRUP MUST PAY

I hope somebody primaries the heck out of Jefferies and Schumer. In the meantime, send nuts so they’ll have some. Worst opposition ever against a criming crimer who crimes every day.

Seeing techbros steal the work of authors for AI and then spammers using AI to scam authors with a ceaseless flood of promotional emails is…really special.

Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it. ~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years. Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability. Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it. This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification

Wooo the spam lords are hard at work. Just had four new author ones drop in quick succession. One was from an AM radio station in Florida that may or may not exist (I don’t care enough to look it up) that wants me to pay to get on the air. And there was tiered pricing y’all! For the air

For evening peeps: a few hours left to take advantage of this deal! And apologies for the typo in the original post—‘Twas supposed to say “perfect opportunity” but thumbs and autocorrect changed it to poor.

This series is so good (and large) this is like.. $.02* per hour of enjoyment *PS I'm bad at math

Today there’s a one-day flash sale of A PLAGUE OF GIANTS in Ebook—perfect poor to dive into the Seven Kennings trilogy! Just $1.99 to get into a (gasp!) completed epic fantasy trilogy with giants & krakens & all sorts of critters that’s anti colonial and anti authoritarian, etc! Check it out, eh?

We should read more Actively attack the TBR pile and swear it will be defeated

This is such a sweet book!

It can be disorienting when someone wants to fact-check you on a piece of fiction you wrote ten years ago and they drop a comment like you were just talking about this with them ten minutes ago *I post about yummy noodles* Comment: “Sorry, werewolves don’t work like that.” Whut

Gratuitous dönüts Like I don’t even know what kinds some of these are But there’s maple bacon and Cinnamon Toast Crunch and carrot cake and matcha and salted caramel and cookies and cream and yeah the dönüts are mëtäl

CAT WITH A DOG STICKER

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Blessed are they who preorder So glad these are arriving and folks are enjoying!

Come on then, and remove him.

Spend a little time with my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Available today! Bugs in the physics! Status reports in the form of food! Finding a family! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Tra la la my book came out today *dances* Tra la la that orange shitgibbon is ruining everything and Republicans are letting him *throws out hip*

I am here for messaging that the THREAT alone - regardless of if it's carried out or walked back - should end his presidency. The die is already cast. You cannot wield the power that man has and say that kind of shit.

Glad to see some folks saying it because I was seriously wondering what it would take if it wasn’t this.

Did the math on gas right now where I’m at in Canada and it works out to $8.39 a gallon Wheeeeee

Woohoo! New Iron Druid stories out today! Get thee to thy favorite bookmonger and enjoy! And let your Iron Druid peeps know it’s out, eh?

So I’ve been geeking out on moon stuff all day but hey, if ye care: my new collection of Iron Druid stories comes out tomorrow. It’s called THE GREAT BIG BEAR AND OTHER STORIES OF THE IRON DRUID CHRONICLES, and if you want to snag the preorder special, only hours remain to do so:

Dang I cannot wait to see all the pics that the astronauts took during this flyby.

THREAD. Substack is evil. I can't emphasise this enough. Their line that anyone can leave easily & take their subscriber list with them is bullshit. I left & it cost me a large sum of money. It forced me briefly back onto Substack to try to clear up the mess... tomcox.substack.com/p/an-explana...