happy There Will Come Soft Rains Day to all who celebrate!

Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

periodical reminder to check out Bleeding Hart Studio on Etsy for all your beaded necklace and earring needs! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... :) Shipping a little slower than usual, but we're still open for business! SOME EXAMPLES ~

Every time I get my hair cut in a NYC barbershop I’m astonished at how gay it is possible for one person’s hair to look it’s delightful 😁 now I just need to get the bleach and black streak redone

today's WTF, Subway Ad moment: someone actually thought "moomoo" was a good name for an actual real-life serious company that deals with real-life actual people money, not dollhouse currency how the actual fuck anyone can seriously say "I work for Moomoo" without wanting to die escapes me

so did anyone else know they have a post-exposure prophylactic antiviral for the plague www.xocova.com THIS IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL

just saw the Iris van Herpen show at the Brooklyn Museum and holy shit it’s amazing (don’t like the shoes but practically everything else blew my mind)

so for the record Cafe Boulud's French restaurant week menu is ENTIRELY worth it strongly recommend the saucisse volaille provencale, would go back to try the pate en croute chocolate tarte fantastic but could have been half the size for its richness 😁 😁 😁 SO GOOD

hey @wiswell.bsky.social I just mainlined DRAGON in one afternoon and it is absolutely glorious, you are awesome and you should feel awesome <3 you had me from practically the very first page and you stuck the hell out of the landing, -well done-.

omg it's raining ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE GROUND ...living in the desert changes your normal <3

today's travel PSA is due to the fact that the foil wrapping on expensive chocolate bars is radiopaque I was selected for Extra Screening because they saw a big blank rectangle in my carry-on which could have been Suspicious, and in fact had to open the foil and reveal the Lindt within for scrutiny

SHOP UPDATE So @byzantienne.bsky.social and I are spending several weeks in NYC this summer, and I don't feel like shutting down the shop for that long, so it's coming with us <3 Shipping will be slower than usual until mid-August, but I'll be open starting July 15 (and making new pieces!)

was this individual trying to turn into a Bit from the original 1982 Tron or was that just how you max(x) your look(s) regardless, nailed the Darwin, no notes

AkivaMCohen@akivamcohen.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm sorry, but this was his max?

REMINDER -- everything on Bleeding Hart Studio is 25% off through Friday! Get your earrings, your single-strands, your three-strands, and your MASSIVE STATEMENT PENDANTS while they're on sale! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... I want some of this rock to go to other people, I have too much of it 🖤

Fellow authors: without context, what's the first line of your current WIP? 1: On the deeds it was called Wincanton's Bargain. 2: From the nearest station it took two standard weeks of travel to reach the Valaros system: four individual jumps, and full sublight acceleration between jump points.

Benjamin C. Kinney@benjaminckinney.com · 4w ago

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? (WIP #2): "You've forced me to be a truth-teller, so here's my truth: I regret nothing."

hey, who remembers rear-projection TVs and how they were supposed to be the shit but were, in fact, shit recently I learned that the largest consumer CRT tv was only 43 inches so Weird Al had it DOWN with Frank's magnificent groundbreaking model <3 imagine the electron gun for that one

25% off SHOP-WIDE SALE at BLEEDING HART STUDIO! So we're moving to New York this fall and I want to move some of the shop inventory! I'll be running several moving sales over the summer, so keep an eye out! 25% off the ENTIRE STORE this week through Friday 10 June ❤️ www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

in other news we just saw a (probably AI) video of a giant boat consuming a smaller boat via a sort of hatchway in its side me: omg look my wife: CANNIBOAT me: *dissolves in mirth* marry a writer, y'all

anyone out there know why tf Santa Fe air quality has gone comprehensively to shit over the course of the day? White haze nearly blocking out the mountains completely. Some kind of fallout from Colorado fire? Second Coming? Mystery Smog?

y'all excommunicated like he said y'all would be god, it's so sweet to actually witness consequences <3 <3 <3

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · last mo.

Holy crap, il Papa is DONE.

the only view on modern catholicism I'm familiar with is Alice Thomas Ellis which is to say I have a peculiar set of things I know and do not know about current schismatic activity <3 but two popes USED to mean twice the stunning eccesiastical art and architecture, not like that's true today

me: doop dee dooo, looking at blue-green-teal gem options since I don't want to pay for Montana sapphire for a ring internet: hey did you know YAG comes in paraiba and it's cheap bc lab, here's a huge trillion that just sold me: HOLY SHIT, I SEE THE LIGHT

FINALLY! All my stock of new glass bead necklaces is up on Bleeding Hart Studio -- if you didn't get a chance to snag one at 4th Street Fantasy, now's your opportunity. Czech glass in all kinds of colors and finishes. The best thing? They're stackable <3 www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

oh, shoes. every now and then I get motivated to write about shoes, because they're slightly holy, and they matter, and that they came with you on your various journeys also matters. I wrote a story for my MFA thesis that was just about shoes. perhaps it is time to do it again, years later. <3

that moment when you actually turn a corner in Trying to Play Your Damn Guitar from "how is this so impossible" to "hey, this hurts less than it did last time I tried, plus my fingers can remember wtf they're supposed to be doing even if they can't do it" is kinda cool

this is stunning, I've never seen linocut used for this sort of image

womensartbluesky.bsky.social@womensartbluesky.bsky.social · last mo.

'#Summer tree glow' Linocut by contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt

I think the only reasonable option is a portable AC with the hose sticking out the window, given what we have to work with I swear when I was a kid 80+ degree temperatures were rare and exciting in summer, it meant you could not freeze on the beach

hello, expat brit here the UK doesn't have window units because THE WINDOWS AREN'T THE RIGHT SODDING SHAPE TO PUT THEM IN majority of suburban windows are side-hinged and don't open all that far, there is no way you can stick an AC in there also we never needed them before you're welcome

Current situation: have ordered laptop, should arrive tomorrow. Now pushing hard on July rent so I am not living on pure stress. Postal changes mean I may need to rejig prices but am holding off for now. oishiny.etsy.com Heatwave kicking my arse, but on we go! #Handmade #ShopSmall

To do this I would need about 2 sales per day. Which feels like an impossible ask, but I am pushing on. I will have a couple more netted labradorite pendants for you tomorrow. In the meantime, I have a great many spirals listed!

Jack - Oi, Shiny!@oishinythings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m torn between "This is an impossible goal" and "But you *need* to do this to get back on your feet." So, marking the spot - currently at 1703 sales. If I can get 40 sales over the next 3 weeks, that should cover July rent *and* replace my dying laptop before I turn 40. oishiny.etsy.com #Goals

2 new labradorite showstoppers up, wrapped and ready to glow! oishiny.etsy.com #HandmadeJewelry #ShopSmall