Mrs Fringe
@mrsfringe.bsky.social
Writing, reading, cooking and not sleeping
Such an amazing shot 😍
@Above96th@above96th.bsky.social · 5d agoWhile birding in eastern Colorado, I saw these birds flying toward me. I fired off a few shots but never expected any to turn out. Well, I was wrong! A pair of Greater Yellowlegs! I've certainly never gotten these birds in flight! 😎😎😎 #Yellowlegs #Colorado #birdsseenin2026
I know many readers want a likable protagonist, but imo interesting is > likable. Can be both, obv, but if I have to pick one, I'm going with interesting.
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 6d agoSo your protagonist is a terrible, badly behaved person–but you still want the audience to like them (or, at least, root for them)! @jdnicoll.bsky.social suggests five strategies for making a morally bankrupt protagonist seem likable...
As someone who is very deeply into preservation and archival work of media, this ain't it. It is one thing to have back-ups of media that is no longer easily purchased or long out of print but these are recently published, actively sold works that are directly tied to the writers and artists' income
Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · 2w agofriends, please: don’t use transreads dot org they claim to support trans authors, but take our entire texts, post them for free, fundraise off it, and have the gall to claim it’s about preservation they are literally taking money from trans creators and make it harder for us to keep creating
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
Forbes@forbes.com · 3w agoTaylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.
Want to familiarize yourself with some Kaleidotrope writers and discover other things they've written? Then be sure to check out one or both of these starter packs! go.bsky.app/5CJe9db go.bsky.app/EPXSb3K
Dipper Pines Presses Start Button in Gravity Falls
Alt: Dipper Pines Presses Start Button in Gravity Falls
static.klipy.com
The Summer 2026 issue of Kaleidotrope has now gone live at www.kaleidotrope.net, and if I do say myself, it's out of this world!
HHS confirmed on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states. This story was originally published by @stateline.org.
Federal Health Agency Cancels Most of its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Grants
Teen birth rates have fallen dramatically in the past 20 years.
rewirenewsgroup.com
I was out early on this gray, overcast morning and spotted Cedar Waxwings catching insects at Central Park's Pool. I love how atmospheric this shot is! 🥰🥰🥰 #Waxwings #CentralPark #birding
I have been trying and failing to recreate the pastelitos de guayaba Husband’s godmother used to make. These things were divine, and the recipe died with her. The pastry was a cross btw pie crust, cookie, & shortbread 😭
Where you'll see a rare bird. Thanks to @ryanfm.bsky.social's newsletter for teaching me about the Cabanis's ground-sparrow that lives behind the walmart
Tried to listen to my own Radio 2 episode to make sure it's okay and that I didn't say dumb things, but ended up bailing after the first sentence. Just can't listen to my own voice I'm afraid 😆 Anyway, here is the obligatory share. open.spotify.com/episode/6Plz...
'The Girl With A Thousand Faces' by Sunyi Dean
The Radio 2 Book Club · Episode
open.spotify.com
Today, for the first time since Husband died, I went and did something just because I enjoy it.
Premee Mohamed wins a 2026 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire! The French edition of The Annual Migration of Clouds and We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed has won the 2026 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in the Nouvelle/Novella étrangère category!
Premee Mohamed wins a 2026 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire!
The French edition of The Annual Migration of Clouds and We Speak Through the Mountain by Premee Mohamed has won the 2026 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in the Nouvelle/Novella étrangère category!
maassagency.com
Egregiously fake agency alert (this "person" is part of the Nigerian AI marketing scam industry) www.mcdonaldgroup.company
McDonald Literary Group — Literary Agent · Book Marketer · Book Publicist
Full-service literary representation, book marketing, and book publicity for fiction and non-fiction authors.
mcdonaldgroup.company
![ijbol adjani ✅
@onbeinganangel
loved her work but this is really disappointing. i
hope she can clear this up
Benji @WrnrWrites [redacted]
To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the
opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein
Your Text is AI/GPT Generated
100%
AI GPT*
It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that
almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of
being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered
dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-
extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hnpt7ns2lecdujegbi6qkqqm/bafkreieghmvj7f4exbd7ff54vytavzczleoxj5uwxhld6vf5owzuamruqq)
I was in Central Park on Sunday, not taking photos, didn’t even have my camera, and today I realized this gorgeous photo of an indigo bunting appeared on my phone’s camera roll. Someone airdropped by mistake? #centralpark #birds
🎉🎉
N. K. Jemisin@nkjemisin.bsky.social · 3mo agoTHE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...
Mifepristone access will remain available. SCOTUS kept its stay in place today, blocking the Fifth Circuit ruling that would have cut off telehealth, mail, and pharmacy access to the abortion pill. Read more 👇 rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/05/14/s...
SCOTUS Blocks Lower-Court Restriction on Abortion Pill Access
The Supreme Court ruled that the FDA's rule letting providers prescribe mifepristone via telehealth and allowing pharmacies to dispense it will remain in effect. Here's what this means for abortion pi...
rewirenewsgroup.com
this has to be the funniest Mother's Day cartoon I've ever seen.
Amy McEuen, Ph.D.@mceuen.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com
JOHN FOGERTY: I wanna know, have you ever seen the rain JAMES TAYLOR: okay, you’re not gonna fucking believe this
Wow, must be great fun to be an editor at HarperCollins, knowing that the "content" you work on and publish will be used by the Big Bad Machines to put you out of a job and damned soon too.
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 3mo agoGross. (From Publishers Lunch newsletter)
Peek-a-boo, I see you! A stunning Scarlet Tanager peering down from the top of Central Park's 'magic' tulip tree. Birders call it magic because it attracts so many warblers, tanagers, orioles and grosbeaks every year. #Tanager #CentralPark #birding
Breaking news! Here’s a gift link to read a dozen stories for free: kaleidotrope.net
PSA for writers of time travel or 80s fiction. These were not soft & fuzzy days of yore in big cities = people left their doors unlocked. In fact we had things called police locks: much stronger/more complicated than standard locks. Love, Someone who was there, & just giggled through an episode
the two-year anniversary of The Originalism Trap is now one month away and I have sold 5,970 books! that smooth 6,000 mark looks so close and achievable! if you haven't gotten a copy yet or told your people to do so, please let this be a nudge 😅 🙏🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 4mo agounreal to realize that, in about 2 months, it'll be 2 years since The Originalism Trap came out I've sold 5,925 copies so far, which is probably pretty good for a Black girl nobody had ever heard of writing a book about the Constitution? hope I can hit 6K! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...