VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Toad dances around his clean house, feather duster and watering can in his hands. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

“There,” said Toad. “Now I feel better. I am not in the dumps anymore.”

“Why?” asked Frog.

“Because I have done all that work,” said Toad.

Using a Newsletter Platform for Serial Fiction - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association by Angelique Fawns. Find out how the search for a publishing platform that feels sustainable led to sharing serial fiction and creating a stronger connection with engaged readers.

This week on Planetside… Posting fiction in installments builds a writing habit that readers return to week after week. Learn more from “Using a Newsletter Platform for Serial Fiction” by @angeliqueauthor.bsky.social , read by the author: www.sfwa.org/2026/04/14/u...

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

There are horseshoe crabs decorated with cherry blossoms. It feels soft and spring-like.

Cherry blossom horseshoe crab 🌸

A set of screenshots from DEEP SPACE NINE. An old Klingon throws his arms around Dax and shouts "Curzon, my beloved old friend!" Dax returns the hug and says "I'm Jadzia now." The Klingon grabs her shoulders, smiles, and says "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

participation trophy

Sweet, my alma mater! I heard William Stafford give a reading at the spring lit festival there back in the day, so you’re in good company — and they are lucky to have you.

if you have the artist’s info, would you please share it? I have a couple of family members who also need this card

more info about the tree at www.rainforestresort.com/spruce-tree....

A huge, somewhat scraggly, thousand-year-old Sitka Spruce, in bright sunshine against a blue sky, with an adult human standing at the roots for scale. “The tree is the World’s Largest Spruce with a circumference of 58 feet, 11 inches, diameter of 18 feet, 9 inches and 191 feet tall for a total of 922 AFA points.”

Things feel grim, so here’s a very large, thousand-year-old tree with me standing next to it for scale

“Warning the participants that they might be exposed to misinformation by the AI didn’t temper the persuasive effect either.”

“Interestingly, the people in the study didn’t tend to think the AI autocomplete suggestions were biased or to notice that they had changed their own thinking on an issue in the course of the study…”

AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs

I’m sure this is fine www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-a...

I mean, he doesn’t look any *more* like an underdone potato than in any of his other photos

Tonight at 6pm (ET) is Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine's Spring Contributor Reading Event featuring 9 readers from our Spring 2026 Issue

Use this link to join the reading:
meet.google.com/zfn-zkry-vjx

So the junior employees will continue to use AI to generate code without necessarily understanding how it works, and then the senior employees will try to fix it? How will the junior employees ever get better at writing code? Won’t this devastate the productivity of the senior employees?

Amazon calls engineers for a “deep dive” internal meeting to discuss "GenAI"-related outages Recent AI-assisted coding errors have caused multiple Amazon website and app outages, prompting new safeguards and review processes.

Anyone else see the problem here?
“What safeguards are in place, Amazon plans to ‘reinforce.’ Namely, senior engineers will be called upon to review the GenAI-assisted production changes prepared by junior employees.” thenewstack.io/amazon-ai-as...

That’s great news!

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

a deeply personal interdisciplinary intersectional natural history-memoir-cultural studies mashup I could (and probably will) read all day.

Just started reading “Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival” by Maria Pinto and it’s fantastic —

Even if you don’t normally read kids’ books, I highly recommend taking a look at #KidLitArtPostcard today just to get a hit of beauty, joy, and whimsy

I’m chipping in from PDX! If others are looking to donate, give the actual donation page a second to load — I’m hoping the lag means lots of donating happening now 💸

What if your spreadsheet skills were essential to the resistance

from 2019

because, like, what are the Earthside folks gonna do about it? But that means there are really EIGHTEEN names total. Well, the readers don’t need to know them all…right?

Me, earlier today: why there hell did I start writing this sci-fi SHORT STORY with NINE ships in it? They are generation ships, so the inhabitants basically renamed them all as soon as they were outside the VanAllen belt

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Of course they did. “Won’t someone think of the wealthy business owners???”