I genuinely love this. Astronauts, like kids, know that you do not leave your stuffies behind.

A big construction project is set to start today on my street, lasting until next month. Guess when my book edits are due?!

How do you write two, contracted novels with romance in the plots when you don't have any romantic love in your life?

The public library close to me is doing a genealogical society lock-in. You stay at the library late at night after closing, eat a potluck, and have access to research materials. I love a library community event!

I’d missed this one, from last month. Students know they are being cheated. “The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.”

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

I did not spend years being told that as a poor teen mom I was responsible for the downfall of society to be told that having *fewer* poor teen moms is the downfall of society. Teen moms can’t win!

Bunni the pallid bat's senior portrait. 🦇 #bats #arizona #cuteanimals #wildanimals #schoolpicture

“Studies suggest youths are more empathetic and less narcissistic than in the past, as well as more open-minded and inclusive. Drug use is down, youth violence has dropped and teen pregnancies have declined.” It’s almost like panic abt kids’ wellbeing serve existing adult demands for control.

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

do you need another moment of calm?

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m having trouble concentrating today!

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

This is a tiny, tiny problem compared to ...all this... but I find Aldi's newly redesigned website nearly impossible to navigate. 😬

Just got an automatic text from my kid's school and my heart seized for a moment. It was just notifying families that the phones and internet are down, but every parent knows what I feared. What a world we live in. Heartbreaking in a million daily ways.

Eclipsed Moon, with Venus, from #Artemis II. The subtle color in the corona is beautiful.

Wild and a great example of why AI can’t replace humans in media. Generative AI can’t make these kinds of logical connections or do this kind of research. For this, you need a nerd (complimentary).

Somehow I'm expected to function at work after crying over Carroll and the astronauts.

Last time I checked with my older relatives, data center hate was a major topic. They are admittedly New Deal style Democrats, but it sounds like their Republican friends mostly feel the same way. The only people who like the idea of data centers are the ones trying to build them.

Hey New Yorkers! Your Freed to Read Act still isn't law yet! Please sign this open letter so we can get the bill over the finish line: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Every major US newspaper that covered this super positive cancer news ran it w/ a headline like “Young Women Gettinv Cancer More! What’s Killing Them?” Distorting higher *detection* into higher cancer rates, to turn bad news into good & make clickbait. This is why we need to #ShareGoodNewsToo!!

Hello, @marchxness.bsky.social friends! I decided instead of doing “Poetry Month,” I’m doing “Songs that Talk About Other Songs Month,” and if you want to come share favorites or just chat music, I’d love the March Xness to slide into April Ridiculousness. open.substack.com/pub/katiedar...

In case you're wondering if it's snowing in Ohio, it is.

Many years ago my best friend from high school received chocolates and a card that read Happy Eater! And we could not for the life of us figure out if it was a misprint or not. Anyway, for decades we have messaged each other Happy Eater this morning. Happy Eater to you too! Eat lots!

happy birthday to 'Carrie', published April 5th, 1978 📚

The thing about LLMs is that they are an averaging out of language, and some of the constructions that are LLM tics ("not just x—but y!") are that because they were already overused, especially in marketing copy. LLMs just accelerate the process of cliché formation.

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

The very obvious evil shit being done directly in our faces is part of my frustration with people committed to conspiracy theories.

Contrary to the stenographic, credulous accounts from our major newsrooms, the U.S. Forest Service is not being moved. It is being destroyed. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

I’m collecting cool famous people against AI like Pokémon.

Here we go again. Here we go still.

So, here's a cool thing I'm a part of. A ton of Science Fictioners read out each entry on Ursula K. Le Guin's famed blog. I'm so glad it's finally getting a broadcast schedule. Trailer here:

I've seen a few April Fool's Jokes today. None of them have been mean-spirited. But also none of them are funny. They are just a vaguely uneasy reminder of a time before every federal agency was constantly lying to us and our news media were directly guided by outright fascists.

Um, no AI will ever be used to create my April Fool's jokes. Sadly, lots of wildlife groups ARE using AI to create these jokes and it's obviously counterproductive to their core mission.

Look at me, texting people back.

Hey just a reminder to brands, groups, and news organizations: It's really not a good time to make an April Fool's Day joke.

You can't hurt me anymore. I drove through a tornado in Cleveland during rush hour.

You can add a tornado to the list of things I've experienced since moving to Cleveland. That list also includes a total lunar eclipse, 85 mph winds, Bigfoot, and a meteor which shook my house. I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE THAT LONG.

It's only white men who can say things like this bc by virtue of his story being heard, he is making a point. A statement is being made every time a book is published, even if it's only: this is the person who was paid and allowed to tell this story, permitted to do the "sole job" of entertaining.

Every day, I wake up and hope that when I read the news, it will be normal and that the most controversial thing that I will see during the day will be something like "Cheetos and Mountain Dew have partnered up as flavour besties to bring you Baja Blasted Ranch Corn Chips" but instead, (1/487)

While we were laughing about false springs, everyone forgot about false summers

Weird for an administration that doesn't read

I regret to inform you that running 30 minutes a day DOES make feel better, HOWEVER I have Long COVID so it also makes me feel WORSE.

Hey, I'll be presenting at the Midwest Climate Summit tomorrow, TUES 3/31 at Case Western Reserve University, the Tinkham Veale University Center in Cleveland. Hope to see you there!

couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"

Since self-promo sucks balls and we hate it... let's do some selfless promo! What are the cool things that others are making and putting into the world? I'll start. Morsel is Carter Keane's debut and it's creepy folk horror in Ohio! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

I started staying up way too late when I became a parent, because it was the only alone time I had.

Here’s the thing re: teaching at colleges/universities where ChatGPT use is being thrust upon us and our courses: I know what lack of consent feels like

A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.