If anyone else is missing #NaNoWriMo this year, our wee Scottish writing group is keeping the tradition alive, with write-ins, a strong #writingcommunity, and a Quest to keep everyone going to their 50,000 words. Free to join; come say hi. discord.gg/FNW4XNa5 #Scotland

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

The Oxford comma, ladies and gentlemen.

The timeline right now looks like an Ewok party after the Death Star exploded

Today is World Frog Day!

This is how I feel about Sandman Episode 6, with the addition that it wouldn't have been my award, but an award for everyone who made it. That the episode was deemed mysteriously ineligible just makes the 2023 Hugo Awards feel shady.

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Although we're all making fun of DeSantis's humiliation, we shouldn't forget that his anti-vax crusade — in service of his doomed run — probably killed thousands of people

A delightful conclusion to months of watching Ron DeSantis just absolutely eat shit in every possible way

Farewell DeSantis. I thought his concession speech was beautiful:

😂😂 @ottoenglish.bsky.social

It was less than nine years ago, a day Brad and I will never forget. We must teach the history so we never go back.

Getting suspicious that the reason the world is so bad for everyone right now is because we all ignored the chain emails in 2005 & didn't forward them to 10 of our closest friends.

A cat is a celebrity for your apartment

German Word of the day is “verschlimmbessern”, the act of making things worse by endlessly changing them around to make them better. Which is what I am doing to the text I am writing right now.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

ernest hemingway's writing process was fascinating. whenever he got stuck, he would pick up his switch and play a game of rocket league, but it usually wasn't a ranked match. instead he'd play in casual mode, or even offline against bots, so he could quickly put it down should an idea come to him

"Conservatives" have been waiting 160 years to vote for a racist who already lost an insurrection.

Americans will use anything but the metric system.

If we could could only see cats in zoos we'd be like "OMGGG THEY'RE LIKE TINY TIGERS AND PANTHERS I WANT ONE SOOOO BAD" but since we see them all the time we tend to take them for granted. Don't make that mistake. Marvel at your tiny tiger every day.

I was kind of wondering why even with the Substack contrarian boys and half the NYT political desk working on it they could not find a single child who was rushed into gender surgery in a country of 330 million. turns out:

Having a very lazy day and not #writing. Here’s a #caturday photo of Samwise.

Bluesky needs more chess chat. 😔 The tournament in Wijk aan Zee starts today and I think the only conversations are about the XR protests against the Tata Steel sponsorship. Anyway, Ding over Nepo by a half-point, probably.

Called it

It's like on Parks and Rec when they revealed Jean Ralphio had a sister exactly like him

The final line of this still gets me every time it does the rounds again. A true classic.

The best secret Santa gift I ever received (and one of the best gifts period) was this art print that is so accurately within my nerdy venn diagram overlap area it is shocking. #LotR #Mario

Wait, hold on, I think I have the answer.

Slowly trying to turn this clusterbùrach of notes, sprints, and rough scenes into a readable draft. And melting into a despairing morass. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing

Oscar Wilde: [wearing sunglasses & tight black crewneck T, smoking cigarette] hey Poe: new look, oscar? Wilde: that's right, jerkface Poe: Whoa oscar Poe: that's uncalled for Wilde: too bad hockeypuck!!

Tonight is the first of our #NaNoWriMo region’s four launch events. We take this event seriously. 😂 Delighted and honoured to return as ML for Glasgow and the West of Scotland for a fourth year. I have most of a plot, half an outline, and the best #WritingCommunity in the country. I’m ready. ✍🏻🥂

Pizza delivery should be free if you’re a little sad.

Hello! I’m a Scottish writer, and #NaNoWriMo ML for the West of Scotland. Current WIPs are contemporary magical realism and a murder mystery. Other things: F1, Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, chess, Destiny, books, Scottish independence. The cat is called Samwise. #WritingCommunity