the other problem with reading good stuff is that i go look at my own drafts and sigh. however. this does not make the words go. so. we must persevere. (i put three sentences into the draft tonight. it's not much. but they're mine)
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30s, she/her, queer, polyam. Writer, weather nerd, day dream believer. 1/5 of Space Fruit Press, get our books on kindle or @ spacefruitpress.com
"The power to incinerate cities in a single blow, long ascribed only to gods, was now an option for the species that invented bloodletting, the cholera belt, and the electric tablecloth." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...
Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set
The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.
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CTV National News: More than 60,000 forced to flee wildfires in Washington state - Hundreds of homes near Spokane, Washington have been engulfed in flames as catastrophic wildfires force 60,000 people evacuate. Joy Malbon reports.
CTV National News: More than 60,000 forced to flee wildfires in Washington state
Hundreds of homes near Spokane, Washington have been engulfed in flames as catastrophic wildfires force 60,000 people evacuate. Joy Malbon reports.
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Loving a baseball team means learning who all the new guys are once the trade dust has settled and it also means owning jerseys for guys you thought we'd never trade who now play for another club.
i feel like if i do the correct behaviour (put on the sunscreen), i should not have to suffer the undesirable consequences (have sunburn).
Ink sketch of a waffle yaga. Seagull feet bc dumpstercore. Sketch w inks
Waiting for the corn in my garden to tassel so it starts growing ears feels interminable. At least other ppl started theirs sooner so i can have it now.
LOVE IS REAL AND WHAT GREAT A DAY TO PROVE IT. LETS TROT
Dark Side of the Moon but from the perspective of my six year old self listening to it for the first time lying on the basement floor in the dark.
Stop Calling Me Frank@stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 5d agoYou have a month to write a 33 1/3 book about the album of your choice. Which record are you going to write about? (No previously covered albums allowed; new shit must come to light: see below.) (For all books in the series: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3) (H/t @monostich.bsky.social
Reading @kateheartfield.com's newsletter this morning and nodding my head vigorously in agreement regarding this notion of Jello prose. What an apt descriptor.
It can be Fall in your heart, even if it's not in the calendar. Get spooky and cosy - check out Catherine Fletcher's STICKS AND STONES, a queer M/M paranormal romance - available here: mybook.to/W0XZ
honestly i think buckaroos consider a daily gratitude practice to be some overwhelmingly difficult thing and really it is just this. very nice work bud
Dust on Both Sides@dustcollector.bsky.social · last wk.This is probably silly, but every now and then I stop and look at things like viaducts, shopping carts, chickens eating corn, or cats rolling there and back in sunlight and think how incredibly unlikely all of this is in the grand scheme of things. We could've been a barren ball of rock.
See also the known population of freshwater dolphins. Critically endangered due to their incompatibility with zebra mussells, seeing one is considered an omen of good fortune for any freighter crew.
James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w agoIt's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
Partner and i are headed up to my parents' place for a couple of days and i keep wondering why so many construction crews are working on the weekend? (It's Thursday)
Read The Last Place They'd Look by Catherine Fletcher, an alien-human science-fiction adventure romance story. Get your copy here: mybook.to/2UdZ6Xv
That nap where you immediately fall into REM and wake up after 30 minutes of a dream where you keep trying to take your headphones off but there's always another pair of headphones.
An improvement in the air here this evening; instead of fire, it now smells of cow shit.
Right. Taylor Farms supplies McDonalds, Wendy’s, Starbucks, Chipotle, Subway, Burger King, Walmart, Costco, Trader Joe’s, Aldi and so on. Any of them could have contaminated lettuce. Just because taco bell got unlucky and was traced first doesn’t mean all the headlines should refer to them by name.
So the brand name you need to be wary of until the recall is complete is Taylor Farms.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w agoExclusive: Investigators have linked shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell restaurants by Taylor Farms as a potential source of contamination in the outbreak of a parasitic illness that has sickened thousands in United States.
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
Facing criticism over firefighting budget, Ford says the province will spare no expense to keep Ontario safe, vows to build as many jails as needed to keep fire contained.
i love regulations. let's put regulations back. let's make more regulations. i wanna regulate stuff just to feel alive