Not for a couple of hours.

Yeah. The 1918 Flu. Sigh.

The zones are exhausting for me. Don't let them talk you into trifocals, would be my advice. The mid-range is narrow & with all the activity on a computer screen now, it may give you headaches.

I wasted a fortune when I went in for computer glasses. I will go back in a few weeks, and ask again.

Unbroken: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy An anthology of SF&F stories from Brandon Sanderson & Peter Orullian, Christopher Paolini, Seanan McGuire, Matt Dinniman and many more.

The UNBROKEN fantasy anthology launched today on Kickstarter.

36 writers, 4 artists.

Proceeds benefit writer & musician Peter Orullian whose family has been hit hard by medical costs.

I contributed a short story, "Legends," set in an entirely new universe.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...

*raises hand*

What, you think air pollution is killing you? Well, the air is fine, you'll just have to cope. -- carrion guy, probably

Mask vending machine at JFK

So great to see JFK airport still has mask vending machines, which have 3M Auras!

Yay! Conga rats!

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That's our guess.

His account probably looks fine unless you use any of Skywatch's watch lists. They do honor takedowns, and I don't think they have ever gone after anyone on a whim.

Paul's at work, but maybe Skywatch will see this and remove the HIDE.

Our friend @princejvstin.com sends a warning--

? @skywatch.blue has seen Paul's enthusiasm for so many friends being nominated for a Hugo? And has slapped a Hiding Label on all his posts, saying Engagement Abuse/Hacking.

It says 3 more days. So, unless it was a setup, careful on Hugo shares!

I haven't posted this exact photo yet (or at least I don't think so)
It's from the epic once in my 20 years in Alaska, Bold PINK Auroras!!
Nov 11th 2025

Phone Camera no edits.

#PinkMon
#alaska
#nightsky
#auroras
#beautiful
#coloraday

Yes.

But I'm trying to move anyway because my health doesn't like the air quality here, so that may be cheating.

Is this a dark fantasy type of work I can get for me, or is this a horror poetry collection I am getting to horde like a dragon until it is worth zillions and I auction it for charity?

Michael Damian Thomas

Fabulous news, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael Damian Thomas is a finalist for the Best Editor-Short Form Hugo Award! buff.ly/1K10weZ

Congratulations to all the Hugo Award finalists! www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/

Best Fancast A Meal of Thorns, presented by Jake Casella Brookins Eating the Fantastic, hosted by Scott Edelman Hugo, Girl!, presented by Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson Octothorpe, presented by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe Worldbuilding for Masochists, presented by Marshall Ryan Maresca, Cass Morris, and Natania Barron 370 ballots cast for 198 nominees. Finalists range 31-69.

Have you heard the good news? What an amazing honor for Eating the Fantastic to be nominated for a Hugo Award along with five other amazing podcasts to which you all should be listening. Thank you! And if you've yet to taste Eating the Fantastic, here's where to take a bite. pod.link/1083737796

My poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods, comes out in exactly three months!

...WHAT.

*ahem* You can preorder worldwide, and instructions are below if you'd like a signed copy!!

If you like witchy things, tarot cards, mythology, and feminist rage, this collection is for YOU!

a scrungly Hawthorn now watches over my doomscroll

It's my book birthday!! Go grab DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL anywhere!

Oh, I bet they go after young men with their jeans pulled halfway off and underwear or more visible. The Legis designed this bill to be versatile.

Ohio used to be a place I considered retiring. But when they went after trans folks, I knew they were off the list. :(

This is the time you bill as "Chief Cuddler" and "Cat Furniture."

In Pursuit of Understanding the Crash What Post-Exertional Physiology Tells Us About ME/CFS

Boosting this critically-important article on #MECFS and its cardinal feature, #PEM, post-exertional malaise.
In Pursuit of Understanding the Crash by Todd Davenport. open.substack.com/pub/likeanno...

And Lyme. And Bartonella. And the protozoan diseases. And Lone Star, and the cocktails of ME/CFS and other things. . . .

We have millions of us out there, hanging on. Only a fraction know why we are ill. Took me 19 doctors to find one who ran a different test. :(

When you think of some of the incredible things he's survived, is this stance irony, or doesn't he think his genetics helped him survive?

I hope to leave a gene swatch just to spite him.

This would be horrific no matter what it was referring to. But "cleaning up the risk pool" by eliminating vaccines just means you kill a bunch of people WHILE ALSO creating a whole new "risk pool" of people with post-viral issues.

Well, I:

--Did three at-home lab tests. Froze one set.

Fed birds #1

--Sent back questions on an estimate for work.

--Paid two bills.

--Ate breakfast.

Progress!

Now, correspondence.

--No, wait. . .turn on oven, toss meat in to roast.

--Feed birds #2

--Then correspondence. #Working

He wants me dead? Fuck him. I dedicate this morning’s colonoscopy to the Resistance.

Me using my sneaker to lift the lid on a tiny toilet.

Hey I won an upgrade to my train ride home and it comes with an itty-bitty toilet and a bed and what wait hang on we got nominated for a what—

Voters say they feel confused and misled on Virginia's redistricting vote Contradictory election mailers, conflicting TV ads and vague wording on the ballot have Virginia voters saying that the campaigns on either side of the redistricting vote are muddying the waters.

www.npr.org/2026/04/20/n...

"I grant you one wish," the magic fish said.

"To eat my mother's pancakes again, just like when I was a child."

"Are you sure?"

"You think it frivolous?"

"No. But to grant it I must send you back to the child you were, with no adult memories."

"Would my life change?"

"You ask that every time."