“How do I know,” she said at last, “that you are what you seem to be?” “You don't,” Said he. “I don't know what I seem, to you.”
Eric Woldry (he/him) 🌈
@woldry.bsky.social
Librarian, cat papa, husband, invisibly disabled, ancient theater kid, AuDHD gaymer out & proud in rural US for decades. Obsesses over historical linguistics. Author of Clueless Cabot (as André D. Michaels) & misc fantasies under way. Website: woldry.com
Remember when DOGE sent out an email to federal workers and demanded they report what they did with their week? We should do a version of that with Mitch McConnell’s staff. Where is he while his staff members are still bringing in six figures with zero transparency?
Wishing such beautiful moments for all my writer friends (and me)
Ian Nathaniel Cohen@incspotlight.bsky.social · 6h agoThat beautiful, beautiful moment when you figure out how to fix a plot hole and make your story work...
subbing "leash" for "carrier" because I always think of a pet carrier Our MMC in this hockey short story takes his sister's dog out to the dog park:
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 8h agoThe #WIPSnips word for August 5th is “carrier” (Sorry y’all The scheduled post failed.) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt
I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They come to you alive, and they say things. They walk out of death into the dreams.
For every $1 spent on public libraries, the community receives almost $6 in benefits Real, B., Balazs, S., Davis, A., & Oltmann, S. M. (2026). Return-on-Investment in Public Libraries: A Study from the State of Kentucky. Public Library Quarterly, 1–30. 10.1080/01616846.2026.2711582
god bless the richmond sex shop that finally agreed to replace their "controversial" mural of a woman feeding her beaver....with a woman playing with her cat. be the malicious compliance you want to see in the world 🙏 www.axios.com/local/richmo...
Richmond's controversial beaver mural is coming down
New owners are replacing the decade-old Taboo artwork with a less controversial cat mural.
axios.com
Cane users too. I got up from my seat recently at a social event and left my cane behind to go use the restroom. When I came back, someone was holding it up, asking who it belonged to. When I claimed it, a friend (half-jokingly) called me a faker.
Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · 4h ago
Have they considered not being bigoted shitwipes?
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 6h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
There is a four-tier ranking: * The Grand Pantheon—major forces of the universe: love, death, war * Godlings—less fundamental: twilight, plague, volcanoes * Daimones—servants to the other gods, carrying out their tasks * Tutelars—localized divine spirits of rivers, hills, etc. #MythAugust 5
Prof Emily@professoremily.bsky.social · 14h ago#MythAugust 5 Today is about hierarchy! Who ranks highest or lowest among your gods/spirits/whatever? Is there a consensus about this ranking? As usual, interpret the question as loosely as you need to to fit your specific worldbuilding, and feel free to skip if it's not relevant to you! 😊❤️
Entertainment. Don't mean whatever IP farm the studios are churning out, but the fact that almost any creator now has few if any barriers to self-publishing. Not just written works, but also movies, documentaries, talk shows, comics, music, and a lot more can all be self-published easily.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Follow Mike. You'll be glad you did.
mike@staykinduniverse.swifties.social · 12h agoits only wednesday
Writing a book: First you're going to go quietly mad for a few years. You're going to make a private precious thing that only you know about. It's delicate, introverted and lonely work. Ok? Good so now PUT IT OUT THERE FOR EVERY PERSON TO SEE!!! NOW SELL IT!!! MARKET THE PRECIOUS SECRET BABY!!!!!!
Nice line from Jessicaoutofthecloset on instagram: “Moral panics end, queer community doesn’t.” Survive. Fight and survive.
Today, shamefully, government guidance comes into force that trans people should be segregated or forced to use facilities that don't match their lived gender. It's important for businesses and organisations to understand that this is guidance, not a requirement. So don't obey.
Today in Libraryland: Theatrical makeup classes, percussion craft session, the Summer Reading Challenge, storytimes, digital support volunteers, registrars appointments, pensioner bus pass applications, online ancestry resources, free books, wifi, no rush required, and a coffee #librarylife
For now at least (till the Supreme Court manages to unreason itself out of a precedent) I'm legally married to another man—which was nigh unthinkable 40 years ago. Diagnostic measures & treatments for many #autoimmune disorders have markedly improved. And HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
*Me happily researching images around folklore and coming across something that, from a distance, looks cool and I'd like to know more* Pinterest *Sighs and closes laptop*
TEA ALERT: This morning's #tea is Golden Monkey. Please refrain from flinging inappropriate substances.
We're navigating this at my workplace. Faculty are scrambling to figure out ways to encourage authentic engagement and discourage AI use. Students who answer polls largely say they're opposed to AI use, but there is strong reason to suspect many of them still use it.
@carpenter22.bsky.social · 9h agoAI detectors are out www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
Y'know, call me idealist, but I tend to think society works better when it's *not* being arranged solely for the benefit of a small cadre of weird bigots who're obsessed with what's between other peoples' legs. Y'know?