Part one of our energy-efficiency house overhaul is complete! We've removed our gas cooktop, ducted gas heating, evaporative air conditioning, and the electric hot water tank. Replaced with an induction cooktop, ducted reverse cycle air-conditioning, and an energy efficient heatpump. Next up: solar!

Like tarot cards, witchy things, feminist rage (think Taylor's "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" & Fleetwood's "Silver Springs."),& mythology? You can preorder (worldwide) my poetry collection coming out in July @clashbooks.bsky.social. Links below, plus Inkwood: www.inkwoodnj.com/item/Ta5ktKU....

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

This book (and its prequel) is amazing!

Wisdom tooth out yesterday, house full of tradies today. Not the most relaxing start to the week 🤣

Would you like to read to poems? Are you nominating for the Rhysling, Hugos, or Nebulas? I’ve got links in thread for you! I’m really proud of the work I did last year, especially the poem I cowrote with @kambriel.com ! **does Vanna White flourish**

Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban. UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia. Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.

You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐

As a side note to this: If the cops can kill you because they believe you have a gun, then you do not in fact have the right to bear arms.

To all my Native people: keep your heads up, hair long, frybread hot, and melt some ICE.

NYC friends!!! Please come out! This is gonna be so much fun!!

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

I'm not saying to dunk on this person AT ALL but because I want this point elevated. I don't want you to be ashamed to be a white American. The history of white Americans who sided against whiteness and acted in solidarity with others has been suppressed as ruthlessly as the history of violence.

Off to see the @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social show in Canberra this evening! Early birthday present from my partner 😁

Turns out there's an all-natural, organic, GMO-free way to clean your blood, and you can do it at home! It's called "Having a liver and kidneys."

Please enjoy this video of our ageing tabby cat Smith (he's 16 this year) playing with the dangly toy on our new cat tower.

I understand completely why people have no patience for former-MAGAts. I rarely do. And that's why I shut the fuck up and let the people who do have the patience step in and continue educating them instead of taking the opportunity to attack.

I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂

Just yesterday I asked a colleague a question and he replied "Wikipedia says the answer is X. At least, that's what the AI summary in the search results says." I checked. Wikipedia said no such thing on the page the AI referenced. This partnership is going to fuck up Wikipedia's purpose entirely.

I will beat this drum forever: Mass incarceration intersects with EVERYTHING. If you care about LGBTQ+ rights, gender justice, reproductive rights, censorship, public safety--you care about mass incarceration whether or not you know it yet.

Health officials in South Carolina have confirmed 124 new cases of measles since Friday.

Us Olds need to shout to the heavens to remind everyone that ICE started in 2003. I have clothes older than it. We got along just fine without ICE before and we can get along just fine without it now.

But of course they don't. apnews.com/article/just...

First, fuck both of these fuckers, second and I know not at all the point, this is the first time I'm hearing Bovino's voice and I did not expect him to sound like a little cartoon elf man

Yes!! The language we use when talking to ourselves makes an incredible difference. Things like saying "I'm bad at this" vs "historically I've struggled with this" changes something from being a personal flaw and opens up the possibility or growth and change.

A core feature of Narrative Therapy is that we build our identities from the stories we tell and are told around/about us. If the story is "Spike's a clumsy bastard" then when I drop a glass taking it out of the dishwasher it's MY Fault, not that the glass is slippery.

This is also a really good reminder that they're absolutely going to try and come for Loving v Virginia at some point. 😕

This is absolute bullshit. "If I walk away because he's abusing me then he wins." Uh, no. You walk away. And YOU win. Staying to appease an abusive system? Especially when you can peace out with a few clicks? Yeah, this is an abuser it's actually SUPER easy to leave.

Darlings! A fresh post. I've got poems eligible for the Hugo @laworldcon.bsky.social), Nebula ( @sfwa.org), and Rhysling awards ( @sfpoetry.bsky.social). Links: @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- "Of Water, Always Seeking" strangehorizons.com/poetry/of-wa... +

Our job is to keep showing up and taking care of each other. And knowing when to pause to refill so we can go back to doing it more. Everything else is commentary.

No. "Grok" didn't restrict shit, the programmers at X did. Stop talking about the software like it's a fucking person. apnews.com/article/grok...

Needed this reminder today.

Almost didn't share this, but we need good, right? And every day this week I've realized just how much better my life is now than it was 5 months ago. Leaving is tough. God I get it. But if you can get out safely, get out. The rest of your life awaits. ♥️♥️ And it is SO much better.

I've been on meds for adhd for just 2 and half weeks now and holy crap have they worked! Task initiation, focus, task switching, impulse control, and time-blindness all improved. I'm much better at "maintenance" tasks (washing hair, exercising, stretching afterwards) or doing a thing when I see it.

My partner's father once described the flu as: "You spend a week wishing you would die, and then another week afraid you won't." Get your shot.

That is clearly a list of women who have rejected you, but ok buddy whatever you say

Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Bullying is not consequences. Bullying is when a cohort or someone with a position of power unfairly targets you with persistent harmful actions/behaviors that are outside the social norm of conflict. When someone doesn't like you because you're an asshole, that's consequences.

"We will be monitoring this delicate situation to make sure there is no unnecessary loss of innocent oil” chaser.com.au/world/ally-l...

Script to call your reps. Because this is not okay.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

@dancingofpens.bsky.social Happy birthday!

So. Without a declaration of war. Without an act of congress. The US government appears to have attacked a foreign capital and abducted their head of state. Every single member of the military involved in this operation may have participated in an illegal order.