I sometimes finding eavesdropping on people at the bar/cafe helpful. 😂

Boo, sorry. KU really has a stranglehold.

Endearingly Cringe sometimes hits the spot!

(I see a lot of people going "cringe" about what used to be called sincerity, so it's often a matter of taste.)

I wrote enough as a child that at age 13 I stopped in the middle of the epic-fantasy-with-Celtic-mythology-influences I was writing because I could tell it was derivative. And then I wrote something that was, if not good, at least more original.

Anyone who visited the following locations during any of the listed dates and hours may have been exposed: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s Customs federal inspection station in the international terminal arrivals area, and lower level international bag claim area, on April 12, 2026 from 7:50 - 10:30 p.m. FastMed Urgent Care (2827 Smith Ave. Baltimore, MD), on April 14, 2026 from 5 - 8 p.m., and on April 17, 2026 from 12 - 3:30 p.m. Sinai Hospital’s emergency department main waiting area and pediatric emergency department, on April 17, 2026 from 3:30 - 7:10 p.m.​

Maryland! Measles exposure: health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

If your library has Libby or Hoopla, I think I got it from one of those.

Not really a super-hero comic, but the color of Kara's avatar has reminded me, so: did anyone else read the old (not MG reboot) Amethyst Princess of Gemworld?

This was a brief pop-in but I did mention @ember-energy.org's new report showing demand for gas is seeing weakening growth particularly in Asia - Australia's main customer

We want a managed transition, not a chaotic painful one. Tax helps achieve that!

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Even if they were 50% of the population they're sure not buying 50% of the books, and especially not my weird gay shit.

I definitely get that. I basically wrote nothing (except in my head) for the years I was taking care of my mother. A lot of people used to take up writing in retirement, but...are we expecting to able to retire? 🫠

More romance than thriller, but Smash and Grab by Maz Maddox is a paleontologist and a dinosaur-shifter on the run from violent fossil thieves.

No time like the present!

Too late

(but best wishes for your Monday also)

NO I do not want push notifications.
I don't want any notifications.
I will check my email and messenger when I choose to.

If you have the old computer still there's a hard drive cradle that you can potentially use to hand-retrieve files.

I think this one is trapped in a zoo. "If only I were free to go on a face-eating binge like my cousin," he's thinking.

Image of cover of TC Parker's Saltblood, with the text: BLACK MIRROR, WITH CRYPTIDS FIVE STARS ~ SCREAM MAGAZINE

Cover image of Brennan LaFaro's The Denizens, with the text: REST IN PEACE? NOT IN THIS TOWN.

📢 2-FOR-1 HORROR BOOKS ALL WEEKEND! 📢

Grab @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's small town zombie epic THE DENIZENS from the digital Batstore this weekend... and get @tcparker.bsky.social's dystopian isolation horror SALTBLOOD *absolutely free*!

It's a steal!

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A pink background decorated with rainbows and dashed lines in the colors of the lesbian pride flag. The text reads, “Lesbian Visibility Week Bundle; 94 sapphic & lesbian books for $40 USD; 4/20 - 4/26; exclusively on Itch.io”

Hello BlueSky.

Do you like lesbians? Of course you do. You're on BlueSky.

You can get 94 sapphic and lesbian books for just $40 all week next week. It includes Kotov Syndrome and Woodpusher, as well as many books more famous than mine. I am very excited to get it.

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One of my favorite historical anecdotes that I hope really happened.

My roomie from NJ went to a different SUNY for grad school. I visited her at both! Jersey seemed nice except for clogged traffic of summer visitors. Don't think I've ever had any beef with anyone from NJ or NY.

I just want headphones that easily connect to my computer and play music. How do I stop them making phone calls for me.

Was it Crouton who shut Triscuit in there?
That seems peak brotherly.

I should try that! Although my desk aperture is narrow, which is part of the problem of me not moving enough -- I end up whacking my knee.

Puppy

New issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social dropped today and I’m super excited for y’all to meet Puppy: bendinggenres.com/puppy/

I see people learning in the park near where I live, so I assume it's not expensive (no one around here has money lol)

What I should have done
but instead I read supernatural mystery manga all day.

Same, although sometimes the happy ending is strictly for the protagonists. "Aquatic monster lover ate my enemies" is happy, fight me.

Me! And other authors including my friend @elliethomas.bsky.social who writes historical romance.

Housing Not Handcuffs - Louisiana advances bill to funnel homeless people into forced treatment and unpaid labor This bill requires homeless people to pay for the very treatment they are forced into. And if the person cannot pay the cost of treatment, this bill requires them to perform unpaid labor for the…

BREAKING: Louisiana has advanced one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country. It would force homeless people to choose between jail and involuntary treatment, make them pay for it, and if they can't pay, force them to perform unpaid labor. buff.ly/d6rXj5h

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