AJ Aalto

I read an early copy of this and thought it was tremendous fun.

Hey! WOULD YOU LIKE SOME TREMENDOUS DINOSAUR FUN? THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU

Tech Giants Are Trying to Cover Up the Environmental Impacts of Their Data Centers Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

I keep waiting for a credible report to come out on how the environmental costs of generative AI have been overstated but every article is like "lol no it's much worse than you imagine."

Two to Avoid: Book Order Scams and Fake Reviews - Writer Beware Scammers are nothing if not inventive. As writers become wise to their techniques, they invent new ones. Here are two newish frauds that appear to be on the rise. As with most writing scams these days...

Re-upping this blog post, since I just heard from an author who hired what looked like a self-publishing service provider but actually was a ghostwriting scam, and just got hit up for $9,000 for a book order scam writerbeware.blog/2025/05/09/t...

Wearing the right perfume or cologne for what I’m writing… and I only know it’s “right” by feel or mood. Hard to explain.

How did I forget that Kevin Bacon is in Friday 13th?!

Uh, pardon me, mister man, but I still have manuscripts in progress & your services are required. You think you can escape me via Rapture? How very dare.

One of the great joys of my life was listening to/watching Hawkeye & Trapper laugh themselves silly when Col. Blake knocked soot from the stovepipe right in his face. Alan Alda has given my dad & me so many good laughs. Grateful. ❤️

Archéologie : découverte en Italie, une tombe étrusque inviolée vieille de 2600 ans dévoile ses trésors ensevelis Le 15 juillet, l’équipe de chercheurs du projet international des recherches archéologiques de San Giuliano (SGARP), dirigée par l'Université Baylor au

#Archéologie : découverte en #Italie, une tombe #étrusque inviolée vieille de 2600 ans dévoile ses #trésors ensevelis

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I have indeed, but it’s not cool to post my unfiltered likeness. At least let me put on my lipstick before I express the depth of my displeasure to the masses, eh?

By the time you’re 30 you should have perfected…

- the weird little jog when someone holds the door but you’re a bit far away
- the overly delicate apology walk when somebody’s mopping the floor
- the fake ‘oh I forgot something’ turn-around when you realize you’re walking in the wrong direction

The Marnie Baranuik Files, by @ajaalto.bsky.social (audiobook narration by Amy McFadden, who was spectacular)

I am *absolutely* biased, as I edited these goofy, heartfelt, hilariously-profane paranormal romance novels.

Buy her books! Feed my cats!

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On grief, regret, and the unpredictability of life www.skeptophilia.com/2025/08/spea...

You know, I guarantee, as someone who ran events for ten years... just fucking run WorldCon stuff through me. I can tell ya what's a terrible idea and snuff it out. Although, honestly, it's just about professional standards most of the time. How does some of this crap get out of committee?

Helpful tip: Try not to get Vicks VapoRub in your eye.

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Building the 2025 Halloween watch list. What’s your SCARIEST movie, your GORIEST movie, and your FAVOURITE scary movie?

I may or may not have had a butter tart for breakfast yesterday. Can not and will not—must not!—confirm, though if I did, I’m sure I had a perfectly valid excuse for such reckless tomfoolery.

Oh yeah. That’s the good stuff, right there.

FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.

The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope

Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.

Spinach! Raw & cooked!

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Hear me out, though. Let’s just skip ahead to fall…

Le nouveau passe-temps...

If you slop enough champagne on your fursuit, though… special dispensation!

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Is she getting birthday treats later? For example, a small fish?

Awwww. Gorgeous colouring.