Tee.Hee.Cee

This is my fourth child getting his driver's license, and I'm still not good at it!!!

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One of my students died in an accident this weekend. He was a great person. A talented football player and a leader bound for greatness. I'm glad to have known him, and I'm heartbroken for his family, his teammates, and his friends. Holding them all in the light.

Me, too

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Please note:
1) This number is legit.
2) It is run by trans and nonbinary folks.
3) They do not call police.

Please live.

What? Enjoy heaven for real. I should probably get busy doing more good work, in my own way, too.

Oh, Jimmy Carter. What a beautiful human. I grew up Mormon, in a very Republican environment, where I was taught to dislike Jimmy Carter. Then I grew up and learned about his truly Christian, truly loving, truly inspirational commitment to his fellow humans. Thank you, President Carter.

The Guardian view on celebrity books: call them by their names | Editorial Keira Knightley and Jamie Oliver are the latest stars to write children’s books, but too often famous names hide the talents of ghostwriters

This, 100% this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pittsburgh Scanner is on bluesky so there's no reason, at all, for me to go to the dark place anymore

Just walked past the retaining wall of a church on a busy #Pittsburgh sidewalk and saw a whole bunch of individually wrapped meals and cutlery sets set out for anyone to take. No one around to hand them out. Nothing to sign or pay. Just kindness. This is good.

Apparently its Porn Bot Day on bluesky. I can't block fast enough

announcing the winner of the 2024 dzanc prize for fiction — Dzanc Books Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction: Shipikisha by Mubanga Kalimamukwento. It was selected from a pool of hundreds of manuscripts and eventuall...

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Prize for Fiction Short- and Longlist Honorees — Dzanc Books It’s been our immense pleasure to read such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees.

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Nice to wake up to some good news. My novel WAKING MONSTERS (a literary psychological and religious horror) was longlisted for the Dzanc Prize for Fiction. Congrats to the winners and every single one of you with the grit and gumption to finish a whole novel and enter. And thank you Dzanc Books :)

Everyone should have a walk-up song. Like get hype every time you get on a bus. Or enter a bank. Or the doctor's office. The produce aisle. A public restroom...

Everybody knows a set of shitty, mediocre, self-important dudes who team up in some puffed-up, offensive-joke-driven bromance with the intent of ruling the world by screwing other people over but always end up hating each other with a festering, bro-shorts, bad cologne, f-bomb passion.

I mean, the metaphor holds. It's clear why so many are fleeing the dark place for the Sky:

The X: deletion, emptiness, nothingness, cancellation, the end,

The butterfly: lightness, brightness, beauty, regeneration, rebirth, hope~

Good morning from my doggie dog, Willow, and her new bestie

OMG. Thank you bluesky for bringing back the laughs. The dark place brought me to my knees but I have some hope that it was just a flesh wound

When you realize the only choice you have is to fight, because who you are and what you love will not let you give up or capitulate, that clarity of purpose will melt the fear away.

If you're in line to make a joke about the Department of Government Efficiency having two co-chairs, STAY IN LINE.

You all might say Blue Sky, but for me it's now and forevermore bluesky rhymes with let's head to the bar and get a brewsky

Gambino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social = my first bluesky follower. Wow.

I mean, it was an honor just to be nominated. But thank you for the win.

You have to think hard about your first post on a new app. Political? Funny? Dark? Hopeful? Wise?... How do you want people to see you?