Not to be dramatic, but I've spent the past few months grappling with how I went to school next to a nuclear waste dump. The radiation exposure likely caused my parent's brain tumor and my immune disorder. I can't help but be angry at how society failed us and exposed generations of people to this.

Immune system failed me again 😭

Me to my cat when she can’t even kill a fly

Marriage as told through Spotify DMs:

Currently reading (listening to): Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space. #BookSky 📚💙

It's that time of year!

At least she is beautiful?

Haven’t posted one of these in awhile but currently reading (via audiobook since I’ve had a nonstop migraine these past few days!) Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen.

I am allergic to the idea of having a “natural” hair color.

My entire teens and 20s was people telling me what I should do to be “successful” which has only led to me being 30 and hating my career. So I’m firmly discounting advice from people now. Vibes only!

What if I packed up and spent five weeks in the Himalayas to focus on ceramics?

O and I are watching the Brooks Falls at Katmai National Park livestream and we’re yelling at the bears catching fish like this is a sporting event.

Okay, gotta be real: my Ember mug, which keeps my coffee/tea at my desired temperature?? Most unnecessary thing I own that's I use every single day. This skeet brought to you by me forgetting my tea for thirty minutes.

Sunt așezat. Angajații teatrului sunt speriați și vor să plec pentru că „încă nu e decembrie”, dar eu sunt prea așezat.

The only thing I’m going to really miss about Sweden is my proximity to a Costco

Ada Loveland, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton are the patron saints of programming for good reason. Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".

Conceptually, I know what a kilometer is. In practice? Absolutely no idea.

i suppose i love this life in spite of my clenched fist. — andrea gibson

absolutely delighted by this news 😍

Happy one year to @underbellypress.bsky.social and the launch of issue 4 ! Delighted to be in this issue with many other wonderful voices

Can't believe my flash 'FLOUR CHILD' received second place (!?!?!) and to see 'RECONNECTION' was shortlisted in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 100-word writing competition. Deeply honored and proud to be in a list with so many writers I admire ❤️ newwriters.org.uk/competitions...

Look what arrived in the mail yesterday! So excited to be part of the @natflashfictionday.bsky.social anthology and to dig in to all these works 🤩

Can't believe my flash 'FLOUR CHILD' received second place (!?!?!) and to see 'RECONNECTION' was shortlisted in the @newwritersuk.bsky.social 100-word writing competition. Deeply honored and proud to be in a list with so many writers I admire ❤️ newwriters.org.uk/competitions...

Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.

So excited that my manuscript “The Last Seven Days of Harper Bălan” is a GRW Prepublished Maggie Award for Excellence in Women’s Fiction finalist!

I hung out with a bunch of kids ONCE and now my immune system has absolutely failed me. If you need me, I’m napping on my couch.

So excited that my manuscript “The Last Seven Days of Harper Bălan” is a GRW Prepublished Maggie Award for Excellence in Women’s Fiction finalist!

I have a story coming out in Underbelly Press 💛 I can’t wait to share it with y’all

The coolest and smartest person I know has a law review article out!! An incredibly timely piece about international law and children’s rights. Go read!

I was wondering why people were looking at me weird while walking the dog. I have red paint from the watercolor I was working on smeared all over my face.

Wow wow wow - that first paragraph! This was such a great read 🤩 Love this @sagreene1.bsky.social

Actually I enjoy trying to find and discover myself in hell. Become a writer

They’re judging.

My Kindle died and I'm definitely reacting like a normal person about this.

I hate Josh Hawley so much, but the people in the QTs celebrating Missourians suffering? You can eat shit. (But also fuck Hawley for supporting a coup, voting to cut FEMA funding, and propping up this tyrannical regime!)

"My inheritance is a coffee-stained couch" by Alice Lyon @wordsbyalice.bsky.social is today's 75-word #story on Paragraph Planet paragraphplanet.com

Bravo, România! Europa este viitorul nostru 🇪🇺 🇷🇴

Today is the first time in my life where I am rooting for Sw*den. Bara Bada Bastu the song you are...

Thank you for your kind words 🥹🥹🥹

My favorite place on the internet is the @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness group. What do you mean I get to interact with so many lovely people?

I waited 14 months for a publisher to issue a contract with a "no AI" clause (it had to be all lawyered, whatever). I'd do it again. I'm not agreeing to AI covers, audio, translations, blurb, anything. We stand together or we fall apart.

Author Spotlight #16: Alice Lyon (wordsbyalice.bsky.social) and their flash fiction story, "1 p.m. on a Sunday." Read their piece here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/1-p-m-on-a-s... . . . #litmags #authorspotlight #mentalhealth #flashfiction

This is disturbing… a single ChatGPT query uses 10x more energy than using a search engine. One 100-word email drafted by ChatGPT-4 uses about a water bottle’s worth of H2O, and enough electricity to power 14 LED lightbulbs for an hour.

So, so, so beautiful! Go preorder your copy!

Sometimes I remember I went to high school next to a nuclear waste dump, and I mean next to as in the gym teachers made us run up and down the sarcophagus stairs.

Today feels like a good day to get back into The X-Files.