Thread. Also, it would be helpful if more people would stop and THINK THINGS THROUGH for like FIVE MINUTES before vexing the rest of us with their thoughtless reactions. You cannot talk about food and restaurant culture without also talking about immigration. They are deeply connected

Going to be putting in a print order this weekend! They'll be heading to me, so I can sign them and send it off. Any other prints ordered by then get signed too! Usually it just goes straight to the person who gets a print, but this one's for something local. fallenlights.net

and she arrived 3 minutes later… 2/3

but turned right around to leave, with him dashing after… Opossum romance is complicated😄 3/3

So, he sauntered into the yard tonight… 1/3

A extract from Frank's chapter in EWSY...

This crow (who I subsequently let out, although he didn't seem too panicked about his predicament) is called Frank. When we moved into our bungalow, the previous tenant told us about him, and that, if you didn't put out scraps for him, he would hurl himself against the kitchen window...

... Nothing much happened for the first six months we were here, then in March last year he began his campaign of extortion. I got the feeling that he was a little disappointed that, unlike our predecessors, we are vegetarians, but he seemed to enjoy the food we left him...

... But I felt he wanted something more, wanted to be acknowledged in some other way. "Okay," I thought. "I'm going to put you in my new novel." So that's why Everything Will Swallow You has a crow called Frank in it. At first I thought he'd have a minor role, but as the book went on, his presence..

... grew in importance & in the end Frank gifted me my favourite closing chapter to any book I've written. This photo was taken on Thursday, the day Everything Will Swallow You went to press, and I find it hard to see that as a coincidence. "Okay," Frank seemed to be saying. "Payment time."

Also massive apologies to my other half for shouting "Oh my god, what are you DOING out there?" at her before realising that it was a crow, not her, in the living room.

... So what I'm saying here isn't "DON'T ever strike a deal with a corvid to enhance your art." I'm just saying think about it very carefully first, as there WILL undoubtedly be consequences, farther down the line. Ask yourself, "How much do I want this?" And then - only then - make your decision.

Standard morning. Got up, made a coffee, found a crow in the living room, striking theatrical poses and showing off to the other birds who have to make do with living outside. There is a story behind this...

Nebula nominations are about to close, and Aurora nominations are about to open, so it seems like I should post this again -- if you are reading for awards, I'd really love for you to consider The Drowned Man's Daughter for best novella. Thank you for your time!

317. #photography Manistique East Breakwater Lighthouse against an early morning.

316. Petrified Wood #photography #fossilfriday

yeah but at least Marie's suggestion was more appealing. "let them eat liver" just sounds like Tuesdays on the elementary school cafeteria calendar

Laughing my head off MAGA jerks were all omgawd LED light bulbs are so ick! Democrats made your toilets wimpy! Gobment's trying to nanny you! ... now they're telling you to shut up and eat your liver

It really is incredible how they're just Marie Antoinetteing themselves and don't seem to understand where that leads

LLM-generated text not only can’t evaluate the real-world truth of a claim, but its existence makes it way harder for any of us humans to do that evaluation, because the ratio of text that accurately describes the real world as observed by humans to text that doesn’t is shifting rapidly.

Just got another one out of the quarry but then we lost it around Portland & Franklin in south Minneapolis. ICE is very active today, respond accordingly!

Definitely feels like we are gonna start to see a lot of Video and Moore reporting rolling in about the ramp up again today in the city by federal secret police bsky.app/profile/liam...

The reason you aren’t hearing as much about what’s happening here is both because national media has left and because federal forces are targeting observers and independent journalists in an attempt to shut down all ability to report on how hard we are getting hit. It’s counterinsurgency.

It’s really important for people to understand that this morning across the metro at nine different locations federal forces did pre-Dawn militarized raids to arrest people for using their first amendment right to protest and are trying to charge them with federal crimes using the klan act.

And mind you all of this is happening while our elected leadership both of the city and state level are telling the world and us that none of this is happening and that there has been a draw down and forces, and that ice has left the city. These are lies and we need to hold leadership accountable.

@klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov This is an American journalist being arrested IN HER HOME part of a sweep of journalists Where are you?

It isn't over Not in the slightest

Minneapolis Right now Looks as if they are basically just arresting all the journalists they can lay hands on

Rachel golioski Brixton Hughes (independent journalist), Ariel Hauptman (Da Woke Farmer's wife), and Danielle Matthias. The federal government is attempting to clean up and tie up loose ends by shutting down anyone and reporting on what continuing to happen here

At least 9 additional people have been arrested this morning in the church protest case regarding Cities Church. Their hearing is at the US Federal Courthouse in St. Paul today at 1:30pm. They arrested: Monique Cullars Doty, Satara Strong-Allen, Cheryl Persigehl, Amelia Hansa, Jarmel Perry,

It’s very Clear that federal forces were waiting for the media frenzy around Minneapolis to die down so they could continue their reign of terror without nearly the same kind of pushback or concerned that they may end up in a shootout with residents. It’s always been counter insurgency nothing more

federal forces are ramping up activity again in the city I’ve heard of multiple abductions and attempted abductions in the southside already this morning and It’s only 10 AM here. The feds have not left Minneapolis they’ve just changed their tactics to be more stealthy and aggressive.

This is a seismic victory. The Green Party are the alternative to the Labour Party AND Reform. youtu.be/6yoo56xYCsg?...

I've taken the paywall off this piece I wrote about the wonderful art my mum and dad have been making in their 60s and 70s, which is also about the general (underacknowledged) concept of late-blooming creativity. I hope a few of you might find a moment to read it: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

139. Laura Kinsale, For My Lady’s Heart Committing to the bit, but very briefly today... The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to…

okay, i understand that folks are worried about the election. here is how we fight for its integrity: local and state elections- they are all on the same damn ballot. your ballot can not be invalidated for ONE candidate and not the rest! local politicians aren’t going to be disenfranchised!

So independent testing for gut bacteria is not yet reliable www.medpagetoday.com/gastroentero...

i really, really, hope democratic party leadership pays attention here Nobody wants imitation right wing candidates

The big question about all of this is, why does the world need Labour to solve all of this? For the sake of Labour? Or the country? Why waste time rooting out the McSweeneys that took it over. Just go over to the movement that already believes this stuff… inherently

My painting TIDAL WETLANDS

Hillary Clinton delivers a blistering address on Epstein files to ‘clown show’ committee

The trickle is turning into a firehose. (Good to see The Guardian crediting Roger Sollenberger for his independent journalism.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My favorite genre.

This is a fine potato

the global far right all running the Trumpist post-election playbook is not an encouraging trend what is encouraging is that an anti-Reform coalition mostly held here, and Labour got their asses handed to them by Green as the base revolted against their Tory Lite platform

There are two types of Trump II appointees. Guys you haven't heard of because they're 23 year old groypers, and guys you vaguely remember from some scandal revealing poor moral character.

Yes bsky.app/profile/pink...

Please yes

104 in February It's early days yet www.wired.com/story/data-c...

Gas boom = Increased CO2