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Saber very much wanted to get on the kitchen counter to sit by the open window last night
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Saber very much wanted to get on the kitchen counter to sit by the open window last night
I don’t feel safe anymore
December 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I don’t feel safe anymore
Logan believes I ought share my lunch with him…I disagree!
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Logan believes I ought share my lunch with him…I disagree!
Me, working at my desk, when Logan starts barking.
Me: *pulls up security app and opens front door camera feed *
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: There’s nobody there!
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: There’s a truck on the other side of the street!
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: Here, go chase kibble
Logan: 😋🥰🤐
Me: *pulls up security app and opens front door camera feed *
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: There’s nobody there!
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: There’s a truck on the other side of the street!
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: Here, go chase kibble
Logan: 😋🥰🤐
October 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Me, working at my desk, when Logan starts barking.
Me: *pulls up security app and opens front door camera feed *
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: There’s nobody there!
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: There’s a truck on the other side of the street!
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: Here, go chase kibble
Logan: 😋🥰🤐
Me: *pulls up security app and opens front door camera feed *
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: There’s nobody there!
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: There’s a truck on the other side of the street!
Logan: BORK BORK BORK
Me: Here, go chase kibble
Logan: 😋🥰🤐
But why do you want to sew when you could pet me instead?
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
But why do you want to sew when you could pet me instead?
Saber hunting bubbles 🫧
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Saber hunting bubbles 🫧
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Okay, time to put my brain on standby and go Torgue things up in Borderlands4. Hope everyone enjoys their Friday night, and remember:
Finding joy in the face of tyranny is also a form of resistance. Don’t be afraid to take time to recharge your batteries.
Finding joy in the face of tyranny is also a form of resistance. Don’t be afraid to take time to recharge your batteries.
September 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Okay, time to put my brain on standby and go Torgue things up in Borderlands4. Hope everyone enjoys their Friday night, and remember:
Finding joy in the face of tyranny is also a form of resistance. Don’t be afraid to take time to recharge your batteries.
Finding joy in the face of tyranny is also a form of resistance. Don’t be afraid to take time to recharge your batteries.
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PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX
August 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX
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I trust steak tartare from a food truck with no refrigerator in August more than Ghislaine Maxwell
August 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I trust steak tartare from a food truck with no refrigerator in August more than Ghislaine Maxwell
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Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what?
I’m running for California State Assembly!
Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
I’m running for California State Assembly!
Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
August 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what?
I’m running for California State Assembly!
Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
I’m running for California State Assembly!
Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
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Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
August 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.
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ICYMI! PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb
August 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
ICYMI! PLEASE REPOST! Poets! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26! Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki can't wait to read your poems!!! buff.ly/9AyStcb
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This is tied up in the idea that in the United States there are no poor people, there are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires (to quote Steinbeck). The right in the US has done very well in selling the myth of the American Dream, and mostly to the detriment of those dreaming of it.
It is extremely frustrating to talk about something like a wealth cap tied to 100x the minimum wage over a lifetime career, and people’s kneejerk reaction is “but what if that affects me?” and I can promise you that you aren’t making $180million (to use California as an example)
August 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is tied up in the idea that in the United States there are no poor people, there are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires (to quote Steinbeck). The right in the US has done very well in selling the myth of the American Dream, and mostly to the detriment of those dreaming of it.
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Something I noted a couple of times here today at GenCon is that I think it's important for publishers to invest in "midlist" and/or newer authors because the cash cows at the top can die, stop producing, or blow up in scandals, and if you don't have a stable of writers to step up, you're screwed.
Publishing is not an industry, I’d say, that has any sort of aftercare. If your debut flops or soars, if you go from frontlist to mid-list, if you are on prize lists or not. It’s a crapshoot. And part of the issue is supply and demand. There are 80+ books to choose from below. No one can keep up.
‘Richard Osman made £10m, but I got £250 last year’: How much money novelists really make
The big hitters of the literary world draw headlines for their book deals. But the reality of writing fiction for a living is an altogether less lucrative existence
inews.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Something I noted a couple of times here today at GenCon is that I think it's important for publishers to invest in "midlist" and/or newer authors because the cash cows at the top can die, stop producing, or blow up in scandals, and if you don't have a stable of writers to step up, you're screwed.
At the vet for Saber’s annual checkup, he is not amused.
July 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
At the vet for Saber’s annual checkup, he is not amused.
Logan is disappointed that I came home smelling of Wendy’s, and yet, he has no Wendy’s.
July 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Logan is disappointed that I came home smelling of Wendy’s, and yet, he has no Wendy’s.
Working on altering a project so we can avoid digging or boring too close to endangered tortoise burrows (25’ is absolute closest we can be), and it’s slightly annoying, but knowing we’re saving SIX turtle burrows/allowing endangered wildlife to flourish feels a million times better 💕
July 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Working on altering a project so we can avoid digging or boring too close to endangered tortoise burrows (25’ is absolute closest we can be), and it’s slightly annoying, but knowing we’re saving SIX turtle burrows/allowing endangered wildlife to flourish feels a million times better 💕
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i’ve worked in tech for a long time and “how can we send pushes in a way that won’t make people shut them off entirely” is something we think about that texas apparently doesn’t
Apparently Texas sends mass “Blue Alerts” to phones every time a cop is in danger.
And a lot of people are so understandably sick of it that they’ve *turned emergency alerts off entirely*, meaning that they aren’t getting actually-useful notifications.
www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/f...
And a lot of people are so understandably sick of it that they’ve *turned emergency alerts off entirely*, meaning that they aren’t getting actually-useful notifications.
www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/f...
July 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
i’ve worked in tech for a long time and “how can we send pushes in a way that won’t make people shut them off entirely” is something we think about that texas apparently doesn’t
I’m terrified of what’s to come. But right now I’m holding my sleeping toddler in my arms, listening to his steady breathing, and promising I’ll do whatever I can to keep him safe…and leave him a world worth living in.
July 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I’m terrified of what’s to come. But right now I’m holding my sleeping toddler in my arms, listening to his steady breathing, and promising I’ll do whatever I can to keep him safe…and leave him a world worth living in.
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he's right and he's right to say it
June 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
he's right and he's right to say it
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The Big Beautiful Betrayal lowers incomes for nearly 100 million working families, raises mortgage costs, and takes funding from rural hospitals — all while giving massive tax breaks to the wealthy. This isn’t the bill for you and we must reject it.
June 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The Big Beautiful Betrayal lowers incomes for nearly 100 million working families, raises mortgage costs, and takes funding from rural hospitals — all while giving massive tax breaks to the wealthy. This isn’t the bill for you and we must reject it.
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This picture will be in history books. The first of its kind.
BREAKING: US Marines deployed to Los Angeles have carried out the first known detention of a civilian, the US military confirms.
It was confirmed to Reuters after they shared this image with the US military.
It was confirmed to Reuters after they shared this image with the US military.
June 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This picture will be in history books. The first of its kind.
Thank goodness! Now we just have to keep it going so my son can take advantage when he’s in school, then keep it going more so all the other kids have a chance, and then longer so THEIR kids have a chance…
ICYMI: Yesterday the Florida Senate agreed to 100% funding for accelerated education programs — these are the AP/IB/AICE courses in Florida public schools that were originally facing a 50% cut. This is all thanks to your amazing advocacy.
June 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thank goodness! Now we just have to keep it going so my son can take advantage when he’s in school, then keep it going more so all the other kids have a chance, and then longer so THEIR kids have a chance…
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this is excellent — straight talk from a meteorologist who spells out in clear terms what effect all these senseless cuts are having
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
this is excellent — straight talk from a meteorologist who spells out in clear terms what effect all these senseless cuts are having
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Watch this. All the way through.
Resistance is everywhere, and this is solid public education about the impact of DOGE and their chainsaw cuts.
Resistance is everywhere, and this is solid public education about the impact of DOGE and their chainsaw cuts.
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Watch this. All the way through.
Resistance is everywhere, and this is solid public education about the impact of DOGE and their chainsaw cuts.
Resistance is everywhere, and this is solid public education about the impact of DOGE and their chainsaw cuts.