Lizzy 👻 👽 🦄 🧚‍♂️ 🦖

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically!

This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.

Saw Eric listed as recently open for q’s on query tracker recently

Authors, watch those contract clauses! After discussion with MustRead, Inc, SFWA has some recs for how to respond if you see these rights asks in your sales: www.sfwa.org/2025/04/22/w...

The Return of the Dire Wolf Colossal Biosciences has genetically engineered the first dire wolf to live in over 10,000 years. Here's what that means for other extinct species.

#DireWolves are back after 10,000 years. Are neandertals next? What about 🦖? #CRISPER #GeneEditing #wolves #dogs time.com/7274542/colo...

Huge amount of #UFO #UAP activity being reported on social media right now. Might want to keep your 👀 on the sky. 🛸

Orcas Are Wearing Dead Salmon as Hats, And Scientists Are Stumped A group of orcas off the west coast of North America has brought back a bizarre fashion trend not seen since the late 1980s: wearing a single dead salmon on their heads as if it was a hat.

“A group of orcas off the west coast of North America has brought back a bizarre fashion trend not seen since the late 1980s: wearing a single dead salmon on their heads as if it was a hat.”

Playful behavior, communication? 🤷🏻‍♂️

#scicomm
#seasonalfashion

www.sciencealert.com/orcas-are-we...
🧪 🐳 🦑 🦊

So satisfying

🫂

Ya me too haha

Ack!

Scientists confirm first lunar cave that could help shelter astronauts from the moon’s extreme temperatures | CNN After pondering its existence for decades, scientists have confirmed the first moon cave. Here’s how the structures could contribute to long-term lunar exploration.

They discovered caves on the moon. 🌕 (I wonder who has been living in them?) 👽 amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/...

I think I left the 3rd comment on your ramen salad post. 17 years ago—wow!!

A typewritten note that reads: wow! what a day on bluesky dot app! as bluesky's Lead Vibes Officer, it is our pleasure to bring you the following upgrades to help clear today's rancid vibes and get the app back in gear! this elephant: End of list.

T-Rex holding an Edison light bulb

You all. I bought the most ridiculous lamp. 😂

As a kid I picked up a library book from my fave series back then. Once I was home and started to read a postcard fell out of the book.
It was addressed to me.
From my best friend.
Who took the same book to her family’s vacation, used the postcard as a bookmark, and forgot to send it.

New To Bluesky? Here Are Some Tips (Last updated May 28, 2024) – Shortlink to this post: https://debbieohi.link/bluesky-tips Quick navigation: Book Launch threads – Bluesky Lists – Bluesky Feeds – Feed Index – Hashtags – Community even...

I keep coming across people on other platforms who say Bluesky is "too quiet" when they haven't actually been active here in months. I'm starting to post more about Bluesky on other platforms; many don't realize hashtags work now, custom feeds etc.

Feel free to share:
debbieohi.link/bluesky-tips

This is good--steps to take next.

I have a lot of trouble telling when something is AI-generated so this is really useful. Maybe it can help other authors too!

sparkly 3D YEET

A list of the feeds I've made so far (🧵):

QUERIES & SUBS

For querying authors.

Tracking: MSWL, Open to Queries/Submissions, Call for Submissions, Submissions Call, Close to Queries/Submissions

➡ https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k3opcqfbnpsly7bz754tfnmq/feed/aaamba6u65zws

Scary!

Brown and white cutie pie guinea pig with one foot up on cage

My guinea pig needs his nails cut, but he’s so wiggly and he hates it & only got one footie done

Very healthy!

I'd love to be added, too!

I created a feed aggregating posts from users w/ kidlit interests - I've added about 500 users and will be adding more. It's a easy way to find/follow kidlit people who are active on BlueSky.

If you would like to be included, let me know. #kidlitart #kidlit

Posts are in the feed for 7 days.

opossum trying to eat some kind of orange gourd or pumpkin

opossum trying to eat some kind of orange gourd or pumpkin

Hot girl summer is over. It's time for opossum autumn.

Intro to Bluesky privacy: (drawing of unlocked padlock) 1. Your Bluesky acct is PUBLIC (as of yet there is NO priovate option) 2. There are NO private messages (drawing of letters "DM" with no sign through them) (drawing of round face behind brick wall) 3. Blocks are PUBLIC (people aren't notified when you block them, but your block list info is available for public search) (drawing of snake tempting round face person saying "yesss look up who blocked you") (drawing of round face with fingers in ears) 4. Mutes are Private but... 5. Mute Lists are PUBLIC you can follow others' mute lists and/or make your own by going to Moderation --> Mute Lists

I made another page about Privacy on here, not exhaustive, but a good intro, I think :)

OMG

Yikes