Katie Story

Wow didn't realize Frankenstein was written in part due to a volcanic winter.

I did something similar and it was the best decision.

I forgot about the halloween voter stickers!

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Well done!

Amorphous black cat with a wild looking gold eye looking slightly scandalized

Writing supervisor

Screenshot of Scrivener chapters: Chapter 19.5: "Oh shit". Chapter 20. "Stab him!" Chapter 20.5 "Run away!"

Revising chapters "oh shit!" thru "run away!"

Can't wait.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Nothing quite so good as when your feet are chilly and the cat comes over and sits right on 'em.

I desperately need at least $300 by the 1st.

Added another train to my life list, Vaktrack. Track Geometry Train remains my favorite though.

a dim consciousness of knowing something about me seemed slowly dawning over him

Affirmations are so important.

Writing is great. You invent a little guy, you can even make him a nice little guy. And then you shake him as hard as physically possible and give him the worst day of his life. Love it.

Kara Walker Creates Haunted Beast From Butchered Confederate Statue This is incredible: artist Kara Walker took a statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson that had stood in Charlottesville, Virginia until 2021, chopped it up, and reconstituted it into a disfigured beast. It’s

Kara Walker Creates Haunted Beast From Butchered Confederate Statue. “The result is still horse and rider, but instead of charging into battle, Walker’s horseman wanders in Civil War purgatory, dragging its sword over a ruined battlefield…” [kottke.org]

Dense crowd of protestors in front of the LED American Flag in Times Square, NYC with signs such as Hands Off.

Times Square today

are you asking enough of your brain? scrolling addiction is actually a sign you're desperate to learn new things

“My strong contention is that if you are constantly scrolling that is because your brain is crying out to learn something new, something that is hard enough for you.” So good from @naomialderman.bsky.social

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Seems to me that a fantasy author with decent politics might get some mileage right now out of dragons as ontologically evil beings whose greed deforms the very world around them but what do I know, I’m just a dumbass critic

Might need a fantasy catholicism and reformation to make a fantasy protestantism.

That's a great idea. You might check if your local rescue orgs already have something in place for at risk folks & their pets. I foster and see requests for temporary placements now and then so it seems like it might be within their usual wheelhouse to some extent.

"Many of the reenactors I met were from Massachusetts, with accents so vehement, they can be transcribed only with symbols that evolved in the lacunae of standard English orthography (“Bunkà Hill”)."

Nice chart though!

"many freshwater species and a few marine ones produce gemmules, "survival pods" of unspecialized cells that remain dormant until conditions improve; they then either form completely new sponges or recolonize the skeletons of their parents"

Discovered a new life form today: freshwater sponges

Lightly rippled water fills the bottom half of the photo, with a narrow band of dark trees on the horizon. The water reflects the orange streak of sunset above the trees.

Really chaotic in LGA terminal B gate area…3 or 4 flights boarding at once all making announcements simultaneously. 😖 They need some quiet areas nearby. Migraines have been rough this week.

Drafted a new scene tonight...kinda stressful to give my main character a panic attack. Got to go unlock my own jaw now

Hoping for a sequel...I need that Sunlight Sister lore!