Warning to anyone who uses Apple Music: IT IS REALLY EASY TO ACCIDENTALLY DELETE A WHOLE-ASS PLAYLIST. Your weeks of work, curating, adding, removing... gone. In a second. Forever. Ask me how I know. 🫠

Me, a few minutes ago: "Why, surely whatever is in the HWA newsletter can't be THAT bad." Oh yes. It can be that bad. What the actual fuck, @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social?

Please hate gen AI even harder. You can do it. I believe in you. Do it for the planet. Hate the lazy, slop producing, environment killing, water draining, participation trophy seeking, poser creating, loser machine. Do it for humanity.

I have three cats, spanning all three of the basic genders: Male, female, and calico.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Don't let the Ai discourse discourage you aspiring writers out there. Art is valued by its rarity, and the rarest thing in the world is the talent of a single individual. What can be mass produced for cheap has little value. You are an original. A one of a kind. A bespoke wonder. Never forget that.

I feel like I'd watch any crossover between two slasher franchises where the respective final girls have a rivals-to-lovers sapphic subplot. I'd watch the shit out of that.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d ago

Name 2 film franchises that need a crossover film.

Today is a recovery day, because I pushed too hard yesterday. I did manage to get dressed, and I'm wearing a retro 50s-style dress with a kind of poofy skirt, with petticoats underneath. My little floof cat, Apollo, has decided to burrow at my feet in the petticoats, and it's the cutest thing ever.

Post root-canal, the numbness is wearing off, and my teeth are sore, and I can't stop thinking about the fact that they're withering and dying because someone methodically scooped out their innards and replaced them with cement, and soon they'll be dead corpses hanging from the roof of my mouth.

I found Scarleteen when I was in college in 2004, a tiny Evangelical teen feeling shame for wanting to masturbate. They do SUCH GOOD WORK on this subject. Maybe you're an exvangelical who struggles with feelings of shame and impurity like I did. This is a really, really good resource.

Scarleteen@scarleteen.com · last wk.

Seen people talking about “sex addiction” and “porn addiction"? These are not real medical diagnoses. Dr. Amy Marsh explains, with information for people who are concerned about the role of sex and porn in their lives. www.scarleteen.com/read/sex-s...

I have a double root canal today on my two front teeth (thanks to getting my teeth knocked out by a tennis racket when I was 17) so I regret to inform you all that I have no time or energy for global existential dread today. You may all carry on as normal. Thank you.

Had a stress meltdown today because I couldn't open my dresser drawer to get a shirt out (my wife had kind of jammed the clothes in because she was in a hurry to get it done.) Then I realized: this is WAY better to stress about than everything ELSE there is out there. Now I'm in a great mood.

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

Ken Jennings out here with another peak observation

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm so old I remember when "US signs nuclear pact" was generally good news.

Sounds like a good neighbor for Tate, to me. The cannibal abuses flesh. Tate abuses flesh. At least the cannibal has the good grace to wait until they're dead, first. Sounds like they've got a lot in common.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hope someone puts this to music, but right now I can’t stop laughing.

me online: i'm too offline for these people me offline: i'm too online for these people

Gonna put this simply: My day is better because yall create. Either as illustrators, writers, coders, musicians, voice actors, performers etc. Whether you have a large multimedia project or just a little lore for your OCs you keep for yourself. The world is better because you create. <3

I've been catching up on classic horror because I wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid. Today: Event Horizon. I wasn't expecting to like it based on the effects at the start. But damnit, I had a great time. Rest in peace, Sam Neill. You never did defeat Lawrence Fishburne, but that's okay.

I don't know if this is the best. There's a lot of great out there. But the one that's been in my head the last few days is If there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart intact, they didn't do it right (Hozier, "All Things End")

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

Adrian needs help keeping a roof over their head, even temporarily. I know times are tough all around and money is tight, but even a little bit helps. Imagine what we can do if we all contribute a little bit to keeping our neighbors safe and healthy. chuffed.org/project/1652...

Housing Support for a Black Trans Person!

April 14th, 2026 update: Hello--life has been a whirwind these last few months so, I'm putting an update here for transparency as well! I haven't found employment yet which means I still need to crowd...

chuffed.org

Multnomah County Library has asked me to be a part of their "What's in My Bag?" video series, much like Amoeba Records does, but with books in the library. Of all the cool things that have happened in my writing life, this is ABSOLUTELY one of the coolest. What an honor. I love the library so much.

As a part of my continuing quest to offer palette cleansers to this shit box of a world, everyone look at Apollo! He's the best floof boy to ever exist.

Apropos of nothing, my rural grocery store has started stocking my favorite brand of yogurt again after five years off their shelves. (I'm so excited. Anyone who knows rural shopping can tell you it's impossible to find some things without at least an hour's drive.)

Our trans friends are not expendable. They are not "acceptable" collateral damage. And no one who votes for Republicans will vote for a dem over them abandoning trans rights. HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ALWAYS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. So do it, politicians. Do the right thing. That's the whole playbook.

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 2w ago

in the wake of Amy Acton's anti-trans turn in Ohio, I will re-up this @bostonreview.bsky.social essay where I make the case that abandoning trans rights is BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base w/o winning over a single new voter... www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

So, you see, smoke travels in both directions and every other direction What matters is that we help each other and tackle climate change as humankind www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Smoke from U.S. wildfires affecting air quality in B.C.

Wildfires south of the border are responsible for “much” of the smoke that has prompted an air quality warning in one region of B.C., according to officials.

ctvnews.ca

I am so sorry for all the devastation in your beautiful home. My home is on fire, too. I love you, Canada, and I hold your people and land in the highest esteem. I hope you're okay.

@iamthe1nonly1.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sending much love to our 🇨🇦 Canadian 🇨🇦 neighbors from a Sane American in Seattle, Washington!!

Earthbound Farms is sold in my store really commonly here on the West Coast. Look up the label, avoid the brand altogether, and save your ass from explosive levels of shit.

Victorious Bleue@victoriousbleue.bsky.social · 3w ago

Taylor Farms also owns and runs Earthbound Organics, which is available in nearly every grocery store across the US

Motherfucker, I live in Eastern Oregon. I am surrounded by at least a hundred fires burning in my area alone. To use the Christian parlance, remove the plank in your own eye before examining the speck in that of your neighbor. www.frontlinewildfire.com/oregon-wildf...

Live Oregon Fire Map and Tracker | Frontline

Use this live Oregon wildfire map and tracker to keep up to date on active Oregon wildfires and fire activity across the state.

frontlinewildfire.com

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3w ago

Trump says he is going to increase tariffs on Canada due to the wildfires

Just a reminder that if you enjoy any of my art, I have a site with a lot of prints (and even some original paintings) for sale :) ⬇️ stinasdemons.bigcartel.com