A. Bastedo is ✨Resenting Deadlines✨

Take them in remembrance that Christ died for you, and feed on him in your hearts by faith, with thanksgiving.

Republicans using AI to generate videos of them doing bad things to Americans to hurt their feelings reminds me of when I was ten and mean kids would show me pictures they drew of me dying. They're basically the same people but the mean kids put in more effort.

WHEN YOU SPEND $61M ON YOUR OWN BIRTHDAY MILITARY PARADE (photo of a sparsely occupied field) WHEN A DAY IS DEDICATED SOLELY TO TELL YOU WHAT A DICK YOU ARE (SO SO SO many people)

a close up of a woman 's face with red hair Alt: a close up of Kate Bush, looking around for something off camera in a music video that my brain can’t bother to place at the moment

Local writer sits down to write only to find himself nearly an hour later 97% of the way through Kate Bush’s Wikipedia page.

Now to find some more time for more words.
#amwriting

Y’all pumped about joining in trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored?!

If you measure your success and faithfulness as a Christian by your ability/power to force cultural change ... your faith is based on Caesar, not Christ.

Christ commands us to point to what is better and will be in Christ's kingdom via sacrificial example, not cultural control.

Marie? Marie is that you? After all these years?

#nokings

Try and frame this as “hating America,” you fascist pootyheads

🇺🇸 #TODAY #NoKings #Washington #DC 🇺🇸

#NoKingsDayOct18th #WeThePeople

Chanting “USA! USA!” at what Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson called a “hate America” protest. 14th St, Washington DC

The Declaration of Independence:

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

"Who is this king of glory? The LORD of Hosts, He is the King of Glory" (Psalm 24) is the principle by which I understand and support the No Kings protests

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

I am bigly winning

btw: the point of the trump admin joining bluesky is to make you afraid, worried, and anxious

all this data was already public. nothing is actually different in that regard. keep having fun. don't be dumb. block & move on.

cis folks, raise your vigilance level for trans people as assholes show up.

It’s just utterly mind-blowing to me that you could let THIS get between you and your faith. What kind of faith even is it that point?

Trick question. It isn’t.

homer simpson is sitting in a chair with his mouth wide open Alt: homer simpson in a nightshirt, shrieking like a small child

Local author checks his weekly progress

#writingcommunity #SFF

Folks, Apex is one of the best magazines in the game these days. We need them. I've pitched in, let's get them fully funded.

Prime coziness: a black cat, almost chocolate covered in the rays of sun, curls up in a sunbeam divided up into narrow bands by the blinds, his head rolled to the side, green eyes brilliant.

Coziness prime

#catsofbluesky #cats

You haven’t spent enough time today thinking about how cute Cheetahs are.

Wife still pregnant. Book still unfinished.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

#writingcommunity

Especially if you're a weird/cosmic horror author, but actually if you're any kind of author, ignore any accusations or criticisms that your work is guilty of purple prose. For one thing, stylistic maximalism is awesome. For another, "too much" is a matter of taste and sensibility—and whatever counts as mainstream stylistic sensibility among readers these days can be problematic. This sensibility is a descendant of the latter twentieth century's unfortunate war on literary style in favor of the anemic, streamlined "styleless" prose of much mass market pop fiction. Additionally, the ongoing, epochal shift away from a literary, book-centric culture to a visual culture dominated by screens has blunted not only many people's readerly expectations but their actual readerly ability. In other words, if your prose seems purple, it's not your problem, it's theirs. The upshot is that you should write how you want. Say it exactly how you want to say it. If you're accused of reaching for every adjective or adverb in the dictionary and beating your ideas to death in ten words when five would be enough, take that as a badge of honor. Maybe your version of eschewing surplusage and identifying just the right word that makes the difference between lightning and a lightning bug is simply out of phase with the current culture—and that's fine.

From writer Matt Cardin (via facebook).

Actions speak louder than words

A little black cat curled up in a cat bed beneath a cradle

The paw that rocks the cradle

#catsofbluesky

My wife has entered the wandering around the house eating cold garlic mashed potatoes with a soup spoon stage of pregnancy.

Haven’t been on social media too much for updates. More or less, work and life have been too much to work consistently towards finishing the project and baby keeps giving us false alarms. We’re gonna need to see where we’re at in a few weeks.

#writingcommunity #furrywriting

Quite the bonding experience. Weirdly enough, I learned of the movie through the board game Balderdash before watching it or attempting to with my wife. She didn’t make it.