Wishing the happiest of birthdays to two former guests of Eating the Fantastic — Nick Mamatas and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam! Why not celebrate this historic date by getting to know them both better as we chat and chew on Episodes 136 and 232 of the podcast? pod.link/1083737796
Sent this to lawyers in my family, and you made their day. :)
Every now and then I have to teach a (not internet connected, not AI) spell checker a word it does not know. Today it was 'ossuary'.
I guess Kid Rock wasn’t available to fill all of the slots left by everybody who canceled their performances once Trump slithered in.
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
"wife material" sounds like a bucket of assorted organs
My more usual pattern is to get to two thirds or three quarters and discover a completely different end than I thought I was writing toward, lol. At least we have a process? :P
As someone who also recently did this, it's incredibly liberating. Go go you!
Baking tip from my Romanian grandmother-in-law - f you're making anything with nuts, buy them whole and chop them the day you use them. There's less surface to oxidize, they won't have time to oxidize, and they will taste a hundred times better.
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
I'm going to be reposting this signing every day this week.
This Friday! Powells (Beaverton)!
They got mad at Mamdani for living in a normal apartment, and now they’re mad at Wilson for existing in a transit-friendly city. Apparently politicians are actually supposed to be [checks notes] out-of-touch, wealthy elites?
this is genuine psychological warfare and it seems to happen to every professional woman at some point:
The 1st instalment of my 1st serialized short story has landed in people's inboxes care of @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! If you want to read "A Road Less Taken" over the course of this week, sign up! You'll get access to previous instalments too. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
It's my experience that most QHs carry enough Arabian in them to have OPINIONS about a lot of things, and most strongly about who are their people. <3
I consider it a sign of how screwed up people are about human bodies that men can donate used tee shirts, but women can't donate bras.
Today's advice from your Goth Auntie:
Drink some water, take your meds, and take a short break from all social media.
Look for ways you can help. If you're making donations, don't forget homeless shelters and food banks.
The ominous music in the distance IS getting more ominous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Stop slouching, drink some water, take your meds.
-Resting IS productive. May all of us remember and believe that.
-The Thing in the Walls is going to audition tonight for the ghostly choir, and is very nervous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
It's freakin' BRILLIANT. People need to know!
See the list! Go to the things near you!
GO BUY THIS.
Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
The writing scams are everywhere and they prey on writers hoping to put their words in front of readers, and for that reason alone every one of these scammers should be on the kissing end of a roundly swung shovel
mysterywriters.org/scam-alert/
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
War torn Portland (2025) 😞
I'm always sad to miss another year of SPX but I had a great time at local SFF convention Armadillo Con here in Austin! (the 4-H horse book was a freebie from a series of excellent horse primer panels with @saraamueller.bsky.social !)
Again, like… These fucking people need to be forced to watch an animal dying of rabies. They need to understand what an absolutely demonic virus this is, it is indescribably horrible, I’m a fucking horror writer and I have a hard time even thinking about it for too long
