Miri Baker (soup mode)

I sold $16K in Pokémon cards and it fucking sucked aftermath.site/pokemon-card-s...

ICYMI: my last short story of the year is out at Adventitious!! "Starfall" is a love letter to Transistor and This is How You Lose the Time War. it has sapphic talking swords and bittersweet determination in the wake of a multiversal threat. ⚔️Read it here: www.adventitious.net/stories/star...

I am so glad that I got to reference this for Legitimate Academic Purposes, given that it has lived rent-free in my head for the past six years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOo...

"Invite only"

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

I've previously been published in F&SF, but all the drama around contract terms under the new ownership makes me really reluctant to submit to any of these magazines. I really hope they start taking more sensible legal advice and offering more normal contracts--to everyone.

this looks like Baby's First 3D-Printed Widget

actual hot take: y'all, generally speaking, are not interested in supporting BIPOC and queer authors when they are not writing about Hurt and Trauma because it's not educational to you. even if the books have BIPOC and queer casts and are in new settings.

What the

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

"The Democrats don't have any income" is going to haunt me, I think.

if my research is right, I THINK she's the youngest grandmaster, period

Miss Elyse, my Curse of Strahd OC, I'm so excited to play her! #anonbeadraws #digitalart #myoc #elyse #Curseofstrahd #cosoc #daggerheartclank #art #illustration #mycharacter

[0011631] Migrant "opposed to life", attacks other migrants immediately

Oh look, it is brainlike! Must be intelligent 🤔

These people love the whole "but it's brainlike" but never for a moment think that's an utterly unscientific claim without minimally some definition. Superficial appearances matching and this being seen as something deep is core pseudoscientific knowledge. More below.

I love the Menacing Sun Jug

nominating for the Bsky Threads of All Time listing

The universe has granted us a perfect skeet.

Finally some good video game news www.gamespot.com/articles/bli...

THAT'S JUST YURI and as such I already own the wig

this is wrong on a fundamental level

whats up? its a gnarly short short dark fantasy story out today: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

rip annie dillard

A joke that, like many good jokes, has a core of truth (too many of y’all suck at mentorship and other forms of paying forward)

Enjoyed this post, especially this line: "doing finance bro shit in artistic spaces closes more doors than it opens."

Thirteen Years Ago Today: The first appearances of Marriott Carpet Camouflage at #DragonCon THE LEGEND BEGINS

“Bad news for publisher HarperCollins: The book-buying subset of MrBeast fans appears to be vanishingly small. Two people close to the project say The Most Dangerous Games is on track to be a historic bomb…”

at the very least, let us share these precious few moments of grief before he bleats something horrible and ruins it

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com