Jocelyne Gregory

so we got Tâf DNA tested and her results just came back, and one test said “the animal is homozygous for the causative mutation” and I was like oh shit oh no my poor baby what’s wrong

it’s the dwarfism gene. she has two copies. they deadass told me my dog is a corgi

Welp he's now puked *four* times and still hasn't been able to poop so we're calling emergency vets and my spouse is going to take him in

Great times

Anyway now would be a cool time to toss some money at my Ko-fi, and I might open some emergency murder commission slaughts later today

Canadian friends! If you're having turkey this weekend, let me set you up for the days that follow 👇

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

A closeup (glowup) of a flamingo preening its feathers with the sun glowing on its pink back

Is it a flamingo or a flaminglow? 🦩💗 #BlueSkyArtShow #glow #glowup #Florida #Saturday #nature #photography #wildlife #birds 🐦🪶

I’m just a girl, standing in front of a cat

asking her to stop screaming at me while I shower

A female Pileated Woodpecker closeup. Adults have bright yellow eyes, so this looks to be a juvenile.

Congrats!!! That's great news!!!

Roman bronze fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back. The panther’s body features small enamel inlays, and the piece rests on display in a museum case.

A Roman fibula shaped like a panther with a human rider on its back, crafted in bronze with colorful enamel inlay.
Panthers were linked to the god Dionysus/Bacchus, often depicted as his favored mounts, suggesting a symbolic or protective function for fibulae ...🧵1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

Print copies are here! They've escaped Canada Post strike purgatory!

I'm keeping a paperback 'cause even though I cook these recipes a lot, I don't have them all memorized.

Sending 2 each to Library and Archives Canada and will scatter some among the Little Free Libraries in #NewWest.

Two bunnies stand at the foot of an old brick wall, in a forest somewhere. There is a small door in the wall, the only way through. At the top of the wall are four blackbirds, one of which has the key in its beak. The bunnies implore the bird for the key

Daily bunny no.3105 needs to ask nicely

For #FindsFriday some of the lovely objects in the Ilanz hoard from Switzerland, buried during Charlemagne's reign, in the early 790s. Gold Lombard and Carolingian coins, silver Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon and Arabic coins, as well as gold jewellery. See more here: raetischesmuseum.app/extras/highl...

A large thin bronze decoration probably for a 6th C BC warrior's shield. At the top the head of a beast with a stylised lion's head and snout, on a long neck with incised flame-like mane, emerges from a scaly circle. This serves as the body of a fierce snake (which probably wrapped round the lion's body), which extends to the top right with a long head and open mouth, with wing below lower jaw.

#FindsFriday 🏺
Bronze chimera: likely emblem (episema) on C6 BC warrior's shield w lion's head on flame-like mane + scaly fierce snake striking from centre.
From high status tomb w arms, tools, ceramics + iron wheels of chariot excavated in Melfi, Basilicata.
Now in Nat Archaeological Museum there.

For #FossilFriday some iguanodontian dorsal vertebrae with ossified tendons which would have formed a crisscross pattern. First appeared Late Jurassic associated with increased mass and quadrupedality. From #IsleofWight in the collections of @nhm-london.bsky.social.

#FindsFriday This unique carving of a woman was discovered in 1880 in a peat bog in Ballachulish near Loch Leven, #Scotland in 1880. Carved from a single piece of alder, the Ballachulish women stands 1.5m tall, has quartz pebbles for eyes and dates to about 600AD. Her purpose is unknown. #IronAge

An intrepid bunny creeps through a labyrinth or dungeon, arranged in a grid like an old videogame. There is a snake and a skull in the bunny's path, as well as a spike pit. The bunny has a small sword.

Daily bunny no.3104 does not have a map

NOOOOOOO!!! This is too scary!!! 😱

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

Some epic breakdancing moves!

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #cat #funny #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

I did figure it out, but there's a lot left unsaid (I wrote a separate novella about it because, ohmygod, what a year)

a woman is sitting on a couch in a living room with the words `` so much trauma '' written in yellow . ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch in a living room with the words `` so much trauma '' written in yellow .

Me in one sentence trying to explain to literary agents why I wrote a paranormal dark comedy to cope during a year of unexpected home care for someone who was an energy vampire, lied about their finances, and had lewy body dementia without writing a 10000 word essay about trauma and survival.

Pssst

Have you grabbed your copy yet?

Because these are some of the best damn stories you will EVER read #ChoicesAnthology

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

HWA folks! Have you recommended others' work to the Recommended Reading list for the Bram Stoker Awards? Horror writers, have you submitted your own work to the juries? Here's how! You can even click through to the full rules if you're intrepid! www.thebramstokerawards.com/submissions/

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

A giant Australian cuddle fish swims up from the Moy seafloor and looks at the camera. She is red with w shaped curious pupils

Happy world squid and cuttlefish day!!

Text your friend a squid fact. Watch a video of a cuttlefish doing something cute.
Doodle a squid and then show it to me.

The world is cruel but squid are good.

Announcement: I will reopen to unsolicited submissions for the first week of every month starting in November! I’m only looking for YA + MG fiction. I am particularly hungry for debut voices! Also: - high-stakes plots about liars, scams, etc - fresh grounded dystopian with personal stakes - smart, cutting social commentary - meta shit and big twists - multigenerational stories - anything with a unique/risky approach or voice - ugly underbellies! gallt & zacker literary agency querytracker.net/query/querybeth www.bethphelan.com

#DVpit inspired me to reopen to queries sooner than I'd planned... Starting Nov 2025, I'll be open to unsolicited queries the first week of every month! Still just YA + MG fiction... Really hungry for 🤩 debut voices... You'll be able to submit here: querytracker.net/querybeth #mswl

“Let’s do The Time Warp again…”
👯‍♀️ 🎶 #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow

And a new pope! I forgot the Pope!

a cartoon of a penguin wearing overalls and a beanie with a volcano in the background ALT: a cartoon of a penguin wearing overalls and a beanie with a volcano in the background

The Wikipedia article for 2025 is going to be wild with protest frogs, alien asteroids, multiple eclipses, artificial hallucinations, volcano eruptions, government shenanigans, video of whales eating giant squads, etc.