T.L. Trent

The nearest food bank is almost 2 hours away by car. That is...not good for people up here in the mountains who might get snowed in. I am now sad that the old Catholic Church in the valley that recently closed and was selling off all its commercial kitchen equipment couldn't be repurposed.

I’ve set up a recurring donation with mine. Even $5 a month can help a lot—usually way more than we, who don’t buy in bulk, could buy in equivalent.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

It is really good! Very binge-worthy!

An aside: Finally got to see BLUE EYE SAMURAI (on Netflix) this week (while donating platelets). Totally earned all the accolades. I adored it. Mizu is a delightfully effed-up character. Can't wait for the 2nd season! Note: Strictly NOT for kids, in case you weren't aware.

Donate to Help Zig Replace His Beloved Galileo, organized by Clarence Young I'm not someone who gets attached to things a lot, but I liked my car. I fit in it… Clarence Young needs your support for Help Zig Replace His Beloved Galileo

Oh hey! An opportunity to help the radiant @zzclaybourne.bsky.social get some wheels back, after his were sadly smushed.

gofund.me/60734e64d

I miss Pat so much. I wish I had not been so shy when I first met her.

So sorry I keep forgetting to check in here. Back from Japan (what a dream!) and now Life is crashing down all around us. Guess I should take up ballroom dancing. Will keep me occupied while I starve, right? *sigh*

I'm tired, y'all. So tired. I honestly am looking forward to being in a place (Japan) where I can understand very little of what people say, have no concept of politics (ok, so I do know a little), and am not constantly worrying about what's going to happen next.

@jayewells.bsky.social !!! Your fingers come from their cloaca!!

Book 4 of Murderbot.
Exit Strategy by @marthawells.com ❤️
"Always have an exit strategy, that was rule number one when interacting with normal people" 🤣 SecUnit is every neurodiverse person 👏 #booksky #book #crochet #craft #murderbot

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement  - The Authors Guild Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

Currently contracting with an amazing artist for new covers for the first 3 upcoming books and, even though my wallet is crying, I am SO EXCITED.

These animals are not just a symbolic treehugger cause. They serve a practical purpose, helping to keep other wildlife populations in check, which in turn helps control the spread of diseases in deer and elk. They shape the landscape by preventing deer from stripping plant life from riverbanks.

And then, MAGIC. <3

Beautiful fox wedding going on, with the sun shining through the rain and silvering all the ponderosa. Earlier, the sunflowers were bowed down with hail.

Oh dear gods, what a dream job!

Everyone has until Tuesday 9/19/25 to submit any public comment to the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule rollback. Read what that could mean for you, and how to comment, here. ⬇️

Joined our local Firewise group as a means of doing something positive in our community. As the NM State Forestry person said, "It's not 'if', it's 'when' wildfire will happen here," so we're doing our best to be prepared. Esp. in light of federal cuts of staff and $$.

I'm also reading this one to try to understand the background (and underground) of AI. We definitely need much more regulation!

The monsoon is monsooning, the sick son is coughing, and I have work to do--editing, anthologizing, revising, teaching. Here we go!

I was going to get a COVID booster tomorrow, but was asked to hold off for 2 weeks to see if the pharmacy would in fact get the new vax in. When I asked if they knew whether they would really get it, I could basically hear the pharmacist throw their hands up in the air. "I guess we'll find out!" 🙃

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

And this is how they get control of education. No thank you.

Bubonicon was good, if a little hard at some points. It's hard when you're new in a community, you don't yet have a new book out, and people aren't sure of you. I'm not trying to be BFFs or horn in on anyone's scene; I just want to be part of a community of writers, yanno? I adore talking shop.

I think if I do Bubonicon again next year, I'll stay at the hotel. Daily 3hr roundtrips were exhausting. And I was late to my panel one day because the traffic was terrible.

I mean, I didn't *entirely* listen obviously, but being told not to write because I'd starve or being told not to write what I loved because it was "beneath me" or "vulgar" definitely delayed my progress and clouded my choices.

I would have defied my parents and applied to colleges for writing/English from the start. I would have worked with the local Yale representative (YALE!) who wanted to help me apply because he felt my writing was so strong. I wouldn't have listened to all the naysayers telling me not to write.

It was really well-done. Thank you.

I'm imagining endless data centers running on human battery cells, the AIs chattering eternally to themselves...Oh wait. I think we already did that in the Matrix.