Abigail Welhouse

can a dog lick a blanket TOO much

found a tiny poem I wrote in 2020:

𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐒

"𝑉𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒." - 𝑅𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑐𝑎 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑛𝑖𝑡

The problem, though, is that we're all bad at chess.

found an old to-do list, part evergreen and part of its time:

-- get Time Warner Cable to remove weird cords from my room
-- buy more Mason jars, because they’re really cool and multifunctional
-- go through clothes and get rid of things. contemplate buying new, better things.

Polish poster for GREMLINS (1984)

Directed by Joe Dante - BOTD in 1946

Overheard the world's best conversation between a mom and daughter (about the new Wicked posters), featuring the question: "Mommy, what's a dictator?"

I saw the opt out too but when I went it to change it I was like...hmm, do I actually want to be on this website.

For what it's worth, I never got an actually good freelancing lead from it, either.

I just deactivated after the whole thing about how it automatically opted everyone in to train AI

happening now! come on in!

Sometimes it's better to feed a dog an hour early than try to explain daylight savings to him

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

regret to inform you that on Halloween, the Atlantic Terminal Bath & Body Works is already Christmas-themed

Photo of the exterior of the Postmark Cafe in Brooklyn, with a community fridge standing outside the door, covered in flyers.

Brooklynites: with SNAP benefits expiring as of today, here are two ways you can help feed neighbors: donate to CHiPS, the food pantry/ women's shelter in Park Slope: www.chipsonline.org. Or leave food in the community fridge on 6th Street between 4th and 5th avenues, next to the Postmark Cafe.

Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. November 8, 2025 Featuring: Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Less than a month away!!!!

Listen to live Lit and raise funds for @translifeline.org.

Register now at:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Pour one out for that one guy who handed out Adams flyers at the Coney Island subway station every single day

dressing for the male gaze (Santa Claus)

a black and white photo of a wrought iron gate leading to a mansion . ALT: a black and white photo of a wrought iron gate leading to a mansion .

Hallowzine.ink is that creepy mansion that dares you to stay for a night. Order it here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hal...

Hey! www.halllowzine.ink has a cool comics by @leonieomoore.bsky.social and @punkrockkris.bsky.social , poetry by @welhouse.bsky.social and @monostich.bsky.social , and so much more. Help us put issue 3 in print!!!!

We've got poems by @monostich.bsky.social and @welhouse.bsky.social in the new issue of Hallowzine.ink! Get your copy here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hal...

Hallowzine.ink III! Issue #3 of Hallowzine.ink! Stories, comics, poetry, and more for the Halloween season. In vivid black and white!!!

Can wet get 3 more backers??? Then we can do our cover reveal!!!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hal...

always humbling to have a meltdown in a literal closet (recording a song)

a black and white poster for the ridgewood manor shows a haunted house ALT: a black and white poster for the ridgewood manor shows a haunted house

Issue III of Hallowzine.ink is on Kickstarter!!! Get this collection of scary art, comics, poetry, and short fiction for the spooky season!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hal...

On Neko Atsume and Lifestyle Creep Our cats, ourselves.

Fun to look back on the oldest piece on my Medium account (written for The Billfold in 2016): "How do I stay grateful for what I have, while working as hard as possible for what I want?"

Andrew Weiss: “Lean Into the Difficulty of Thinking for Yourself” The author and librarian shares his thoughts on digital literacy and misinformation.

My newest piece for @everylibrary.bsky.social is an interview with author & librarian Andrew Weiss:

"Learning to lean into the difficulty of thinking for yourself will earn you dividends in terms of mental acuity; yet, it is so easy now to offload that effort."

first time using a hatchet but not the last 🪓

over here refreshing the Postcrossing postal monitor to find more and more countries that no longer send to the US www.postcrossing.com/postal-monit...

"high-low dresses" should be called "mullet dresses"

Rent the Runway should have a filter for "can I wear a bra with this"

my best self appears during my shift at the Park Slope Food Co-op (relaxed, jocular, vibing as I call myself the "box fairy" and deliver empty boxes to Boxzilla the Cardboard Crushing Machine)

love to go feral* when my husband goes out

* eat pretzels & nutella for dinner and pay our estimated taxes

A copy of SHARK FRENZY by John Clark, published in 1975 and full of slightly overheated prose about sharks.

This morning’s Little Free Library find, published the year Jaws came out. Many facts about sharks rendered in slightly overheated prose; he refers to the New Jersey Rogue, who killed four people in 1916, as “villainous.”