Mine is usually “fun characters and an interesting setting followed by months of not knowing what the plot is” so, kind of? I’m jealous of the great first line though, hang on to that magic! 😂

Ok update I’ve been informed by my husband this isn’t NEW slang, it’s been around for a while, and also he laughed at me, so I think the answer is I just don’t know slang. 😅

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

I’m on board with Moby Dick as cosmic horror. 🐋

lol I don’t know that one either! maybe I’m just bad at slang 😬😞

a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it Alt: a rainbow and a star with the words "the more you know"

FYI: I’ve been informed by a reliable source (my teen) that there’s a slang term where “smash” means to have sex. This is news to me!

This was discovered when I asked my kid if he was going to “smash a bunch of people in the Smash Bros tournament” and his response was “whoa.” 😅

is starbucks coffee named after battlestar galactica or moby dick

A VERY LARGE pinkish tardigrade on green mossy surface, all from cake.

Another shot of the cake, plus info tags.

Gotta show you this tardigrade cake I saw at the American Museum of Natural History.

This Tiny Arachnid With a Black Bunny Head Is Totally Real, We Kid You Not The natural world is a strange and wonderful place.

Today the 12yo has declared it Bunny Harvestman Awareness Day!

Let your feelings about arachnids be tempered with the knowledge that some inexplicably and adorably have bunny ears.

We need more baby goats 🐐 ♥️

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions.

We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇

A startled looking rabbit nestled among greenery growing against a garage wall.

The bun in question when I startled him during his nap the other day.

It’s my yard! Chickens and a bun.

As an editor and publisher, I'm very disturbed by the trend of putting submitter's work into AI detectors without their consent or knowledge. I can tell you this is happening at a lot of major magazines. I don't care if the detector is supposedly not using data put into it. you must gain consent.

guys, this is how you lose the time war

mockup cover of an anthology called [RECORDED], showing an old fashioned film camera with colorful glitch overlays, and a skull vaguely visible in the background; smaller text says "edited by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor"

'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️

mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho

📢 Casting call 📢

Hi, we're looking for a female narrator for our new game!

No VA experience neeeded, and no accent preference. Must have access to ok mic, like a home podcasting setup.

Paid gig, of course.

Would love to hear reading samples in your natural voice:

hi@calligramstudio.com 🙏❤️

Kaleidotrope will be open to fiction and poetry submissions three times this year:

🔹 April 19-25
🔹 July 19-25
🔹 October 18-24

Any stories or poems submitted outside those windows will unfortunately not be considered.

The Lounge exists in our heads and in our hearts - and in various places on the internet. If it were a physical place there would be an ominous ticking sound as the big clock labelled "Submission Period" moves inevitably towards midnight Eastern Time (UTC−04:00) and it closes.

A greenish-gray tree frog huddled on a white painted windowsill.

Lily of the valley, delicate white bell-like blossoms among wide green leaves.

Some white apple blossoms tinged with pink clusters on branches among dark green leaves. A green plastic fence can be seen around the tree.

Bare branches with some bell-like pawpaw flowers ranging from yellow-pink to maroon, and some skinny leaf tips protruding out of the branches in various places.

Spring snapshots from the yard: smol tree frog friend on the windowsill, lily-of-the-valley, apple blossoms, and pawpaw flowers.

Oh no. 😞 just one thing after another. I guess better now than in August when it’s 90s? 😬

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this.

In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications.

Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

Two hours??? Ouch. 😞

A small white box holding a silver bee pendant with intricate lacy wings and an amber stone as the body, and two smaller silver bee earrings with amber pieces as head and body of each. A silver chain trails out of the box from the pendant.

A woman’s right hand with a silver dragon-shaped ring on the middle finger. The dragon’s tail is downward and head is pointed toward the nail, and it looks like it’s embracing the finger with its wings.

Ahhh my bees arrived!! (Not the real ones; the ones I ordered from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social.) They are so gorgeous!

also behold my chonky dragon friend!

i'd never seen this before, absolute GOLD www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftU5...

I feel the Rice Truck Saga is in the same category as the Tom Holland “Umbrella” post; when it crosses my feed I have to share.

A long wooden 2x4 plank is stretched across two sawhorses. Hanging from the plank are three lavender-painted beehive boxes (each 4 sides with no top or bottom, plank is threaded thru the open parts so they are hanging sideways.) A fourth lavender box is to the left on a low table; this one has a bottom on it and a divider in the middle.) Only the outside walls of each box are painted

A long wooden 2x4 plank is stretched across two sawhorses. Hanging from the plank are two light yellow-painted beehive boxes (each 4 sides with no top or bottom, plank is threaded thru the open parts so they are hanging sideways.) Another yellow box is to the left on a table; this one has a bottom on it and a divider on the middle.) Only the outside walls of each box are painted.

Finally got around to painting our beehives, at least the base coats! Still need another coat of yellow and then some designs. 😎 less than two weeks till bee move-in day!! 😱

Yikes, I hope it heals up soon. Back pain is the worst. 😞

A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections: Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again." Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired." •.. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged. Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." ... Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately. "The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

One of these frogs is a mid-2nd millennium BC Egyptian amulet made of carnelian. The other is a strawberry-flavoured chewy sweet.

Which is which?

🏛️📷Cleveland Museum of Art
🏺 #AncientBlueSky