Had a great time reading at BSFS tonight. It was good to see so many friends and to talk about the Shelter Trilogy to such a large audience! www.interstellarflightpress.com/sheltertrilo...

If your child is smiling down at their phone, they may be watching an old Turkish shoe shiner brush a cat.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

Fuck, the lurkers support him in emails.

Refilled the birdfeeders yesterday, checked the mailbox in the evening, took my morning pills at the kitchen counter... nothing like reenacting the life of someone who's passed to make you question everything.

Slowly starting to return to baseline here. I have to say? I love my friends and feel so incredibly supported by you all, both online and off. Thank you all for your sympathies. <3

How was your day? I'll bet mine was worse!

I feel pretty confident in saying at this point that you’ve fallen for another white man with a vocabulary and no conscience, and help is available

I feel like all the people telling me how smart Gavin Newsom is also told me how smart Elon Musk was ten years ago.

I don't believe in any sort of divination, but if I did, it would be tempting to try to read social media like tea leaves. I'd be real suspicious of the fact that in the last 24 hours, I've run across three different Starship Troopers memes and two people using the word "immiserate".

Important things require the big screen. It is known.

...well, this just feels like an excessive number of sirens.

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It's noon on Monday and already shaping up to be an 'if WWX can survive the Burial Mounds to take revenge on his enemies then you can survive this' kind of week.

Community matters, even when things are bleak. Andrea Blythe interviews Meridel Newton on THE SHELTER TRILOGY, a cozy post-apocalyptic novella series. magazine.interstella...

Sometimes candy bar is potato?

I honestly feel like that’s the lesson of the Trump era the country is gonna take the longest to learn. like oh okay so we have been lionizing the founding fathers for 250 years and it turns out they didn’t do their ONE JOB. they didn’t Mad King-proof ANYTHING! first Mad King crashed the system!!!

Hanks shelves

this opus is for all of you, like me, whose mental image of the Butlerian Jihad is something like this

Y'all, it snowed *yesterday*.

At Interstellar Flight Mag, it's a duo-IFP interview! Andrea Blythe interviews Meridel Newton on THE SHELTER TRILOGY, a cozy post-apocalyptic novella series. magazine.interstella...

I am having the weirdest day. In a good way. But weird.

"We are floating in space and paying tax." -my coworker, who will remain anonymous

It's the 11th of March. On this day in 2020, Tom Hanks announced he had COVID and suddenly the media started taking the pandemic seriously. On this day in 2011, a 9.0 earthquake shook the east coast of Japan, the tsunami wiped out whole villages, and a nuclear plant started melting down.

There's a masters thesis to be written about Star Trek and the female characters who get along with Klingons across the decades.

One of my favorite geology facts, that I tell my friends over and over, is that glaciology is the deadliest field of geology. Even more deadly than volcanology, and that's a field where you might end up interacting with fresh lava!

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

Not to mention Joss Whedon and Adam Baldwin are both misogynist pricks and I never want to see either of them or anything they work on ever again. Sigh.

I just used a website's own PDF button to pull an receipt for my manager, and the PDF included the stupid AI chatbot in the corner, which covered the total amount charged and made the whole document completely pointless. I have... no words.

We are at #awp26 this weekend! If you see our managing editor Holly make sure you pitch her something weird. She likes that. 👽

Greg Davies: Simple task - walk into the underworld, grab Eurydice, don't look back. Alex Horne: Absolutely. Want to see Orpheus doing *almost* that?

So here is some utter ridiculousness. About a week ago, I discovered the existence of the Zack Event line of blind box ball-joint dolls. Seen here: www.kikagoods.com/products/zac...

Jumpscared by Matt Mercer's voice in a political commercial. Does that count as an endorsement?

This is so fucking cool. An absolute love letter to animation from a group that's been doing it longer than most.

I have been awake for less than an hour and I already have three new reasons to be mad at my government.

just an FYI that my Asimov's novella from last year, "The Chronolithographer's Assistant', is currently up on their website in its entirety: asimovs.com/wp-content/u...

Please please please leave a public comment about this!! Also @darkskyintl.bsky.social is out there doing important work!! Follow them and learn what you can do to keep our skies dark at night

I could never get over the fact that "Nevertheless, she persisted" was originally a Mitch McConnell quote. I don't care how fun and ironic it is to reappropriate things, I don't want his words on my T-shirt, sorry.

My friends have all been very sweet and listened to me be sad about my cat a lot, but the thing is, I'm sad about her *all the time* and you can't be sad at your friends all the time because then they stop wanting to listen to you.

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

HAPPY EVERYTHING TODAY

...so I think we just found some original Far Side art by Gary Larson when cleaning out my dad's office? At least, so far as I can tell, there aren't any prints of this piece available online, and it's professionally framed and matted, and it doesn't have a print run number or anything?

I hang out with some of my friends from high school on a regular basis, and I'm an honorary aunt to my elementary school best friend's kids. That said, I think this is a pretty recent phenomenon made possible by the internet, and previous generations tended to let most friendships go with distance.

The ice is melting so quickly out there that the runoff sounds like a gentle spring rain. I am choosing to see this as a good omen.

You may be proud of your home state, but are you "Dar Williams wrote a song about my Congressperson" proud of your home state?

Ohmygod, they brought the insufferable DC motorcade to Milan.

Just because there's been so much horrible stuff happening lately, I'm going to take a moment to appreciate today as a good day: -played a fun new character in a MotW game last night -got a Kickstarter reward in the mail -royalty payment came in -get to play my favorite flying rogue tonight

Now available for booksellers, reviewers, and librarians: Book Two of Meridel Newton's Shelter Trilogy. As the newly elected leader of Osto, Amaya Bly has her hands full after a hard winter drained resources and strained the population's tolerance for dark days. www.netgalley.com/ca...

Someone mentioned the Black Parade in my periphery, so now I am obligated to listen to it on repeat for the rest of the day. Sorry, I don't have a choice, those are the terms of the contract.