Could someone with a bigger following than mine repost this? It seems to me that most people are less than aware of the depths and consequences of the ongoing cuts at NASA. If you are in the DC area, now is your chance to speak up for #science #space #budget

Venus likely has big fat lava tubes! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC-DPS2025...

Don't forget I'm having an Author Event on Thursday evening! 7pm South Euclid / Lyndhurst branch library. Books available from Mac's Backs. Andrei will be there, will you?  https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13765521

Tuesday, why do you gotta be like you are? All I want to do is read books and drink tea. In bed.

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Shanah Tova to those peeps who celebrate!

Now available for pre-order from Space Cowboy Books - One Way & Other Stories by Miriam Allen deFord with an introduction by @reasie.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/197/978196...

New story sale! Look for my tale of Whovian love and space exploration, "For the Love," to appear soon in The Daily Tomorrow. In serial format! Excelsior! https://www.thedailytomorrow.com/

I got a 3d scan of my head at GDEX!  Trying to find the name of the folks that did it, but I don't have the email anymore. boo.

"I would like to have a candied conversation." I know it's a typo, but now I'm showing up with gumdrops, and you can't stop me.

Arbitrary achievement! My 100th published short story! It's a weird little one, too. https://www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-library-of-teeth/

I got capricious and wrote an abecedarian: www.nightshadesmag.com/at-the-libra...

Excited to announce that a favorite story of mine, "Knit Three, Save Four," about knitting a spaceship, will be re-produced by Escape Pod!

I'm so grateful to have online friends who are around at the drop of a pixel to pick me up when I'm feeling down. <3

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Our entire criminal justice system in this country is built on a lie. We lie to ourselves that the way to stop crime is to keep doing what we're doing, even though it doesn't work, so we do it more, and more, as if the problem were scale.

Once again, racial profiling. Police will continue to test this theory that following their prejudices will lower crime until ... forever? It's the combination of dumb and evil that rankles. thelandcle.org/stories/cont...

I am so, so tired.

In other news, the mermaids are back at the Fine Arts Garden Lagoon!

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Okay, actually, Tuesday is bringing it pretty hard. Never, ever turn your back on Tuesday.

Are my Tuesdays bad because I make them bad? Should I celebrate the wins? Tuesday... you weren't AWFUL. This time.

This timeline is making me mute the word "Kirk" when I'm a Trekkie.

I said "oo teapot" and then I read the description and am excited to announce the re-naming of my teapot collection.

"The Traffic Stop" was sitting in my "Hiatus" folder. It had 28 form rejections and I gave up on it. Then Jean-Paul asked me if I had any flash for his podcast, and LO! https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spacecowboybooks/episodes/2025-09-15T06_27_39-07_00

If I could stop adding things to my to do lists, maybe I could actually finish one? ... this is like how the best functioning part of any program is the bug-producing part, huh?

Simultaneous Times podcast episode 91 is live! Featuring stories by Todd Sullivan & @reasie.bsky.social with music by Phog Masheeen & TSG. www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa...

Next Thursday, 9/25, I'll be at the Cuyahoga County Public Library South Euclid/Lyndhurst Branch to talk about ALL THE THINGS: writing a sequel, hard sf, short stories, etc 7pm Green Road https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13765521

I am so exhausted I punked out halfway through the afterparty, but Literary Cleveland's Inkubator was, as always, epic! Nyla, you were right about not biking in. I have done it before, but this year... I'm just a lot more tired.

Elites promote the idea that small businesses = capitalism because it causes business owners to align their values and ambitions with the very same people who are often exploiting them. The select few small business owners who become elites are valorized to perpetuate this identification. 3/x

“The subject of the book is its form. I wanted to see if structure could perform some of the role of plot.” - Katie Kitamura at #inkubatorcle

I both want to end capitalism and get weepy when local small businesses close. I suppose I just want to end BIG capitalism.

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

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After losing the bluetooth earphones that I inherited with my office 4 years ago (they had a wire connecting them together) lost over a year ago... I have finally broken down and bought myself a pair of ear pods. EEK. I feel so decadent spending this much on myself. (They were $24).

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On the Blog: How was Dragon Con?  https://www.marievibbert.com/omgxyz-dragon-con/

The only love that competes with my love for my husband.

Advice for social media: Post one brag, one blog, one bling. That is if you post a promotional message (brag), also post content (blog) and something unrelated but cool (bling) before you promote again. If your feed is 100% promo, why would I follow? I get ads anyway!

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Time for a new pin-able post. I just can't get enough of these two covers! https://www.marievibbert.com/novels/

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Tuesday, you creeping weakness of age.

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OMG! It's Inkubator Week! Excited to teach! Did you know we're the largest free literary conference in the US?? https://inkubator.litcleveland.org/  #CleInk25

Rushing off to GDEX (video game development conference in Columbus, Ohio) the weekend after Dragon Con while simultaneously grading papers was... not the smartest thing, but either I'm building endurance from this constantly-conning, or I'm recovering? See everyone at Cleveland Inkubator Saturday!

It is abruptly sweater-weather in Northeast Ohio. I demand a warning next time, or at least a free latte.

In all my panicked day-job (ack start of semester) side-hustle (ack start of semester) and going to ALL THE THINGS, I failed to announce two short story sales:  "At the Library of Teeth" -500-word Abecedarian- will appear in Night Shades "The Traffic Stop" SF flash- will appear in Simultaneous Times

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If my students knew how often I'm googling grammar rules before I explain them... because "I know this is wrong because it sounds wrong" don't cut it.