WHAT WHAT WHAT?! 😱 Aw shit man...one of my favorite singers. He was amazing in 'The Commitments' and 'Cyrano' (2021-a GORGEOUS film with amazing music) Okay, 2026 can officially bite my ass. 🤬 #RIPGlenHansard www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIYp...

Glen Hansard@glenhansard.bsky.social · 2w ago

With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard in the early hours of this morning. We are still dealing with the shock of it all, so we kindly ask that the privacy of Glen’s family, colleagues and friends is respected at this difficult time. . Photo by Mikolaj Rotowski

If you're at DinoCon today, come see my art at the exhibition if you're interested! Tonight 8PM-11PM at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Library All my prints are signed on the back and will be available for purchase #DinoConUK #paleoart

Went to the movies last night. VERY disappointed to see an ad for the library bookstore in Carson City, #BrowersCorner, that was nothing but #AISlop images. You'd think a LIBRARY, a building stuffed to the gills with material from HUMAN creatives, would never stab authors in the back by using #AI.😠

Loving the superhero look. 😁

✺ 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍 ✺ @ ASC@mothsprout.bsky.social · last mo.

✷ Falconry Hoods ✷

The Butlerian Jihad rages on… Publishers, Authors File Class Action Lawsuit Against Google www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Publishers, Authors File Class Action Lawsuit Against Google

Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, as well as author Scott Turow, are looking to block the tech giant from engaging in alleged copyright infringement of millions of texts to develop ...

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Many people are rushing to block the buildout of AI data centers in their communities. “The number of active opposition groups more than doubled from 396 at the end of 2025 to 833 by the end of Q1 2026, now spanning 49 states,” a study says.

The fight against AI data centers is just beginning

Buildout and backlash.

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Haven't gotten to this stage yet, but I'm willing to bet the answer is 'Aw heck no'. 🙃

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · last mo.

My third novel drops tomorrow. In case you were wondering, three books is not enough for the nerves to not entirely eat you alive! I am stress-packing and watching my buddy play Resident Evil 2. Authors, did the nerves ever go away?

IN MY DEFENSE, THEY WERE ON SALE. I thought I was safe, going to get chicken feed. We have here a Lavender Easter Egger and another Russian Orloff, both pullets. We'll pick names in a bit. And yes, they are both VERY yelly. So #Chickam will continue for another 3 weeks. #NoWillpower #MorehensDisease

#Chickam is done for this year! We took pictures of the chicks, gave 'em a wing trim and tossed them into the small run. Tonight they'll go in the coop with the flock, and tomorrow run with the adult birds. I realize that I haven't posted baby chick pics either as yet...

Come see the violence inherent in the system as our old pal Thumbling returns but with a big, big surprise. We cap off Season 6 with talk of lactating males, developmental trauma, and rare Grimm unfinished business. brothersdimm.com/episode/youn...

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Come see the violence inherent in the system as our old pal Thumbling returns but with a big, big surprise. We cap off Season 6 with talk of lactating males, developmental trauma, and rare Grimm unfin...

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For the last day of #Chickam 2026, we'll have the chicks in the brooder box, hopefully providing entertainment exploring various goodies. Today is also picture day, then the dreaded wing trim so the little darlings don't fly over the fence and get themselves in trouble.🙄

Head's up! #Chickam will end tomorrow, June 30th. We'll get some pics before the babies get a wing trim and are tossed out into the flock for good! Thanks everyone for watching, your support has made all the difference during a very tough time for the kid and I. You're the best! ❤️🐓

Seeing the same energy from library folks saying "we don't have time and AI helps." Then how did you do it 3 years ago? And do you really think "doing more with less" is a viable strategy?

Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I don't have any patience for the "but we're poor" argument for bands using AI for posters and publicity. Try to think back to roughly 3 years ago when you somehow coped without it.

Hey, I'm back! My old computer died a spectacular, LOUD death, and it took time for my amazing computer tech ❤️ to get the new one up & running. Hopefully all is back to normal now...

EEE I'm in the latest issue of Geist! My story "It Got Worse and I Moved to Canada" is one that's VERY close to my heart and I'm so happy to be included in this Canadian literary magazine. www.geist.com/subscribe-on... #Canada #Toronto #LitMag #CNF #Memoir

NAMES!!! In order of hatch: #12 (light blue egg) Sassafras #7 (Bantam egg) Boom #9 (dark green egg) Loofah #16 (medium brown egg) Artemis #6 (bantam egg) Thing #Chickam

All five #Chickam chicks are looking great! We'll be naming them this morning, and moving the two still in the incubator to the brooder box soon. When we move them I'll be able to evaluate the last 4 eggs for pips. I know #13 is pipped. 🥚🐣🐤😃

IT'S #CHICKAM TIME! Join us to watch some cool chick action! forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

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WE HAVE PEEPING! Two, possibly three chicks are chirping. The eggs just now went into lockdown, where I move them to the bottom of the incubator and stop turning them--their signal to HATCH! No pips yet... #Chickam

UPDATE: The status of #Chickam is uncertain for this year right now. Husband is in hospital. The kid and I will try to run it, but if we can't be here, the hatch may not happen, or will happen under a broody hen, so not visible. If a broody hen hatches the chicks, I'll try to get the camera on her.

#Writing two short #stories using the same large set of characters with complex backstories... Doing research today on them and uh...I've for *sure* bitten off more than I can chew, here. 😁😬

In conclusion, if the publishing industry could just get over their weird fear of the word “comics” that would really help my brain out a lot, thank you 👍

Anyone with young Donut Squad fans in Oxford, get along and check out the window of the Bodleian shop at the Weston Library. I made a cool thing! If I do say so myself.

Really bummed about Bon Bon's eggs being duds. BUT--since we cooped Truffle, our new bantam Cochin roo, with the girls who laid #6 & 7, at least those bantam eggs will have a bantam Cochin daddy! So my two surprises MAY just pan out! 😃🐣 Next is the May 2nd hatch! Banty eggs WILL pip 1-2 days early!

Candling tonight: #1, 2, 4 & 5 (all Bon Bon's) were duds. #8 is so dark-shelled, I'm unsure (it stays in). TOTAL EMBRYOS: 9 eggs! (if #8 hatches it'll be ten) #6, 7 (both Bantams), 9, 10, 11 (Enzyme's), 12, 13, 14 & 16. Nine (or ten) embryos out of 14 eggs is really good for high altitude hatching!😀

#5-7 bantam eggs will have Brick, Luna, Bobo, or Basil for moms. The other eggs are mystery moms, although blue and green eggs are from our Easter Egger/Americaunas mix hens. The brown eggs (#14, 15, 16) are a true mystery! UNFORTUNATELY, clumsy me broke 2 eggs: #3 & 15, 🤬leaving a total of 14 eggs.

Candling for the #Chickam eggs is done! 😀 I'd set 16 eggs in the incubator. 7 bantam eggs all fathered by Truffle, a new bantam Cochin roo (#1-4 are from Bon Bon, a new banty Cochin hen). And 9 full-size eggs fathered by Mjolnir or Yeti (#8 dark brown from Nyx, #11 light blue from Enzyme).

Both Dart and Moose are broody, and may be recruited as #Chickam moms! Moose (Salmon Faverolle) is only 1 year old so may not be the best choice. Dart is older, has a slender build & isn't floofy at all--but FIERCE, & gets excited when the kid shows her the eggs in the incubator.

In two days I'm candling the #Chickam eggs to see how many embryos we have! 😀🐓🐣 Have to say, I'm NOT impressed with this #Vevor incubator. Can't adjust it by 1/2 degrees, the fan cycles on/off (screws up humidity), & that thrice-accused exposed fan are SERIOUS downsides. Have to go 1 degree too hot.