Finally a Large Language Model I can get behind

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

Bird on a Tree by Pablo Picasso, 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137305

Slightly diminish a book: The Penultimate Unicorn

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

I’m excited!

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Universal Art by Joaquín Torres-García, 1933 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137590

And I’m mad about it

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

To celebrate Hemlock and Silver coming out tomorrow, my pal Larisa and I made you ✨THREE✨ T. Kingfisher bingo cards! Try your luck with Hemlock and Silver, or whichever @tkingfisher.com book you happen to be reading next! www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/08/18/t...

This concludes my Year of Diana Wynne Jones! What a ride. www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/08/11/a...

Apropos of absolutely nothing read North Continent Ribbon

This is now my standard set of authorial disclaimers: 1) No, not everything in my fiction is something I want/believe. 2) No, that sex scene isn't gratuitous, and that's not what "gratuitous" means. 3) No, I cannot stop people from blowing up the moon.

if a company came out and was like "we will not shove AI down your throat, we will not redirect funds towards AI, and we will just make sure this thing you use keeps working the way you like it" I think I would give them a lot of money

Check it out! You can be Mycroft, having tea quietly in the Diogenes Club.

I told her goodbye (I need to run an errand).

Scritches for the pug.

The year of reading all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books is wrapping up! This takes us through the final books published during her lifetime. www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/07/03/a...

I post this comic every 4th, it's one of my faves. Keep fighting!! ❤️

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 01,1947

Every piece of vampire media I've encountered I'm like "This is good but it could have been grosser"

Excited to reach this entry in @rosemarymosco.com ‘s Birding Dictionary ON THE ACTUAL DAY!

The mascot for the Czech pavilion at the Osaka 2025 Expo is René, a creature of crystal glass, born in the fiery furnace of a glass factory in Bohemia.

I WILL HATE ON CUOMO FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, I WILL NOT RANK CUOMO ON LISTS THAT DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH NEW YORK POLITICS -- GROCERY LIST? CUOMO UNRANKED. TO DO LIST? CUOMO UNRANKED. BESTSELLER LIST? CUOMO SURE AF UNRANKED.

North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher is shortlisted for the Ursula K Le Guin Prize this year and I am here to tell you, it is SO GOOD. So good! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 17,1954

I really like the next horror novel by @chucktingle.bsky.social coming out from @torbooks.bsky.social in August! www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/06/17/l...

Same prayer, it is too late for me to Learn Things now

PLEASE GET THIS MAN IN OFFICE NYC (and don't rank cuomo)

No one PROMPTS like Gaston Thinks big THONKS like Gaston No one’s prose deserves so many PLONKS as Gaston

People who rank Cuomo hum in public.

“Don’t rank Cuomo” chant broke out at the No Kings march down Fifth Ave.

Every handmade sign with the letters getting too small on one side is 1000% better than the ones that use hideous AI. Stay safe, and hand-make, friends!

My Newbery-honor book, A Snake Falls to Earth, has been challenged…but not because of its contents. From the link below: “Despite the book’s lack of sexual content, violence, or vulgar language, it became a target due to the author, Darcie Little Badger, identifying as asexual.” Bruh. What a world.

I've started getting books of poetry from the library and reading them "dipshit style" (I read the poems one after another without thinking too hard or analyzing them). it's great i am reading so many poems, numerically speaking

Me to everyone I know this week, trying to be casual: oh heeeey are you watching Murderbot? Here's why you'd love it.

Anyway, don't rank Cuomo.

they’re called WHAT

There are a few spaces left for the talk I'm giving tonight about what authors can do to help their career before signing an agent or landing a book deal. It's free to attend (even if you're not part of the Orange County Library System) but you have to register: attend.ocls.org/event/13350654

I am slowly reaching endgame here, mere weeks away from the the posthumous era of my yearlong readthrough of all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/06/03/a...

It does suck that "AI" now means both generative AI (boo hiss) and a whole basket of incredibly useful machine learning techniques.

All proceeds from my @topa.to store in June go to the Institute for Bird Populations, @instbirdpop.bsky.social! Times are tough for nonprofits, and monitoring bird populations is more important than ever. Show your support with a tasteful print or tasteless mug. topatoco.com/collections/...

Love this series! One of my new favorites!

Some fabulous new graphic narratives this season, including ones by Kit Anderson and George Takei! www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/05/20/g...

I don't know if NYC folks listen to some author/energy wonk creature above your own judgment, but ... for Mayor: 1. Rank @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social first. 2. Rank @bradlander.bsky.social second. (or reverse those two if you feel like it) 3, 4, and 5: Rank three someones who aren't Andrew Cuomo.

This book is out now, and I just want to note that it is a REALLY fun read. It's a magic boarding school book from the POV of a teacher, and starts with the protagonist filling out a risk assessment form before teaching a class on summoning a demon.

This is an opportunity for me to reshare one of my favorite jokes from the Kids Write Jokes workshop & their old Twitter account: Why did the crab go to prison? Crimes.