FALL BACK
(INTO SEASONAL DEPRESSION)

A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle

Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.

Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.

Peter Fonda saw Pablo Picasso paint. I know this because he told me when we were in a Thomas the Tank Engine movie together.

Yes, it’s as surreal as it sounds.

I booked mine, and then missed the first appointment. I think that should have qualified me for a diagnosis right then and there.

The sunk cost fallacy is just that—a fallacy. It’s okay to change the things that aren’t working for you, from jobs, to partners, to gender.

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🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

... I didn't even know B was an option 🤯

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

An accidental Locked Tomb post.

I do think the world needs some kind of wacky hijinks crossover story between Launchpad "never met a plane I couldn't crash" McQuack and Scott "my secondary mutation is surviving plane crashes" Summers. #X-Men #DuckTales #nonsense

Hey fellow eldest daughters: time to text all our family members to remind them to get their COVID boosters and flu shots.

Haha please do 😤 Tell him I'll replace all his pizza with party pizza forever if he doesn't reconsider his stance.

Excuse me RUDE 😡

road sign: DO NOT USE STORROW right in front of the exit for Tufts University

welcome to boston, sep. 1 edition:

This is exactly what angers me the most about the spread of AI, that it'll put so many kids off creating art, writing stories, making music, etc.

Art thrives when new voices are added to the choir.

YAAAAAAAAAY 🥳 *bangs spoon on table* ART ART ART ART

AAAAARRRRRRT 🤩🤩🤩

“I remember you telling me that! And then [story details], right?”
★★★★★

“You told me this story already.”
★☆☆☆☆

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

🎶 Ther ys a place biyonde the wyrmhole
A place onlye to loveres knowne -
The brave, the hopeful, the lost, the worthye,
Peraventure me and thee!
Will not thou wende wyth these fooles and dreameres
To the planete we calle home?
We hope we wil greete thee soone
On Sanctuarye Moone 🎶

Gonna be here most of the day. Come join me?

Large crowd with signs

Large crowd with signs

TOMPKINS COUNTY SAYS NO KINGS!!!

Moira Quirk is my favorite ever audiobook narrator, she does SUCH a phenomenal job with this series!

I won't be watching the first episode until Tuesday so no spoilers plz but I can't waaaaaait!!!

On the subject of AI-read audiobooks. Just no. As an author I want my work to be interpreted by a human performer who can bring an added dimension to it. As a narrator, I *know* my reading adds to the words as written. As a reader/listener...

Non mihi prima haec rodeo

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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I only picked it up because it was on the 2021 NPR Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy list, a magical gang war story *really* didn't seem like my thing. I was so very wrong. It took me over a month to write up my review of the last book bc I just wasn't ready to say goodbye to the characters 😭

I usually never feel this way about books, because I really enjoy the experience of re-reading, but as of last year, I do have an answer. Jade City (and sequels) by Fonda Lee. If I could entirely excise that book from my memory and read it fresh, I'd do it in a heartbeat. It's SO good.