Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

[I'm in this picture and I don't like it.]

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

Should anyone else also be running super late on nominnations, my subterranean sci-fi novelette, "Riftwork" is eligible! Published July 2025 as part of the Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls Who Invent and Imagine anthology. Because we need more neurospicy female rep in SFF.

at every event, someone (usually a woman, usually a parent) asks me how I do it. this is why I'm very, very clear that i have a career for the same reason most men with kids do: my spouse keeps me and my children alive.

Free spoon has been acquired! It's a fun spoon. Certainly worth trying weird pizza soup for. The pizza soup is...not an abomination? Without the weird pepperoni chunks, it would be an entirely acceptable pre-packaged tomato soup. If we were more of a soup household, I'd try their other flavors 🤷‍♀️

Dredge is also on sale on Steam til 3/18! 🎣 I don't get anything for telling you that except the satisfaction that someone else might suffer the same scare I did from what looked like an innocent [spoiler] but was really a murderous [spoilerspoiler] 🐙 store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/...

good night, sewers. good night, streams. good night, operations and maintenance teams. good night, settling tanks. good night, stream banks. good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too. a good night for us means serving with care. good night, sewers, everywhere.

New Tunesdays With Maurer is up! The Dredge OST by David Mason Writers: Need music to embody a sense of sneakily ominous isolation? For the odd little town where...something's not quite right. Gamers: Need a fishing game where some of the fish might just be eldritch abominations? Look up Dredge

9 y.o. seems to find it physically painful to leave a store with a single dollar of spending money left in his pocket, so we don't go to Target except in emergencies. Like forgetting about a friend's birthday party that is tomorrow I think I know where all his savings will be going this year...

There *is* some good in the world, and I will be getting a free spoon after all (a light green one!) Would apologize for calling the soup an abomination, but the jury is still out on that (waiting to eat it with the spoon. Because it seemed appropriate).

fine, here is one full hour of our cake cam with a lo-fi beats track for whatever

Thoughts on a New Hampshire afternoon. Slushy snow in December is annoying. Slushy snow in March, when you already have a 3-4' wall of snow surrounding the driveway and it just slides off the shovel in big clumps when you try to throw it on top of those walls? That's just rude. At least it's 50*?

Purchased this abomination at Aldi, partly because I was intrigued by the offer of a free spoon with purchase. Turns out they're pretty nice spoons. But it requires a Walmart receipt for the offer 😭 I have sent them a sad email, so we will see what happens.

Applications for my upcoming Short Story Cohort are due on Thursday, March 5. You'll join an intimate group, receive critique (including from me), build your short story writing skills, and write and polish pieces for submission. Learn more and apply here: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...

Finally got around to reading Robert Jackson Bennett's *The Tainted Cup* and am loving it so much. Though I have to admit it's slightly concerning how much I relate to Ana. Like. Padded trunk to lock oneself into to think properly? Is that available to buy somewhere? Or do I have to make my own?

I always forget how fun aquarium visits are. 🐙🐧🐢🦭

Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?

New Tunesdays With Maurer is up! This week, I took a little trip to Stardew Valley (musically, anyway) to hide away from all the snow in my driveway. www.patreon.com/posts/tunesd...

Was going to crochet a gift for a friend's new little girl, but remembered the scraps of pink/purple/teal dino fabric I had in the fabric stash. So, I dug out the sewing machine and went back to the patchwork pillow tradition Now, to start thinking about quilts for another friend who's due soon

Good News! My Patreon is finally up and running! www.patreon.com/cw/CWMaurerW... Come check out Tunesdays With Maurer if you're ever on the hunt for some new writing music! And if you have a favorite soundtrack for writing or making art to, please tell me about it! 🎶

Temperatures were slightly above freezing, so we went to see what was going on at the beach. (Got to see many dogs out for walkies, which is always nice) Winter coastlines are quite something.

I've been part of this winter's cohort, and it's been such a great experience. Would highly recommend!

Just really enjoying the amount of overlap there apparently is between the @scalzi.com and @neorsd.org fan bases. Am I surprised? No. Is this venn diagram crossover likely to get more circular as the conversation goes on? Probably.

We are playing Dredge for Gaming Club in March. Make sure to get this great game on sale now to be ready! :)

not a molecule of executive functioning to be found in my entire being today

🎮 FREE STEAM GAME 🎮 Thanks to @heavylunchco.bsky.social -- I’m giving away a Hermit and Pig Steam key 🐷 How to enter: ✔ Follow me ✔ Follow @heavylunchco.bsky.social ✔ Like this post ✔ Comment 🐷 🔄️Reposts are not mandatory but encouraged! ⏰ Winner picked Feb 5. Good luck!

Our tree has become a "How many bluebirds can you find?" puzzle while the little puffballs wait for me to refresh the mealworm supply.

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

NWS still talking 12-18 in. for us. BUT, they now add: "And given how dynamic the system is, thundersnow is a possibility, cue the excitement!" We'll do one better! We'll cue Jim Cantore reporting from Plymouth in 2015: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezcl... So we're still at 4 Slices/High.

in a world of social networks churning with artificial slop trends, we prefer to be your social network trusted for actual slop treatment.

16-Part Epoxy xkcd.com/3194/

As a chronic overthinker, honestly this could be a shift in a helpful direction 😂

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet. Most animals when its 18*F out: "Nope." Appa: living his best life.

Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...

A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one… A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

He's not sleeping. He's just resting his eyes.

I get to celebrate Caturday this week, as we had one of the neighborhood wanderers stop by to scope out the small rodent situation in our upper yard. The dog was...not pleased, so I went out to shoo the kitty away, only to have him/her rub against my legs and flop down for scritches. #caturday

Traditional Halloween Eldritch Horror game was delayed a week because of kid activities, but snacks and tea have been served, and it's time to watch the world fall into chaos. But the board game version, so it's fun Lovecraftian chaos.

959 semi-coherent words for my NaNo day by 7AM, brought to you by my brain refusing to sleep from 2-5AM. Im sure those will be fine when I go back to look at them. In the meantime, I am taking a nap.

A plus of living in an old New England town is that the mill buildings house all sorts of fun businesses and workspaces. Like the women's club/co-work/makerspace I got around to joining so that I can write without laundry threatening from the next room. 10/10 Autumn sky through old window views.

My wind ensemble does a costumed fall concert every year, which I love because I *usually* go with slightly obscure nerdy costumes, and they're more likely to recognize them in that crowd. I don't think that will be an issue this year. This year we're gonna be ✨️Golden✨️ 💃🎶

Dear house sparrows currently fighting over the nest box in our yard. Maybe late October in New England is not the most reasonable time/place for this? Best of luck to ya, though.

A little behind schedule this year, but we finally started day 1 of our annual Over the Garden Wall watch yesterday. It's the kid's second time watching it, and it's so fun to see him recognize things he didn't notice the first time or to get excited about scenes/quotes he knows are coming.

I fear I reveal my roots by saying taylor ham, egg, and cheese on a plain bagel; salt, pepper, no ketchup This whole post is gold if you are in the subcategory of humans who have strong feelings about bagels.

In today's episode of "The local thrift store needs to get someone with basic book awareness (or Google search skills) on their shelving team" : Found a copy of @pdjeliclark.bsky.social's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins next to the picture books on the kid shelves. (1/2)

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Garden green beans are still going strong, but kiddo is pretty tired of them Today's strategy: turn "green bean/ground beef tart" (GBx2 plus onion, cheese, herbs on puff pastry on sheet pan) into a "pizza pocket" (same things but folded up in pizza dough, then dip in marinara) Bets on how it goes?

9 y.o. got a birthday gift from a friend. The parents apologized, but I don't know any better forms of harmless, mildly annoying entertainment that will only survive a week anyway He hasn't gotten the "prank" part, but there's been a lot of joyful running around yelling "Here comes Mr. Fartyman!" 💨