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It's SO SO GOOD you guys, if you are AT ALL a fan of short fiction you need to pick this up
Friends! @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is 3-months old today. Time flies. Please consider grabbing a copy of this stellar debut. Thanks to all who have bought a copy. Really appreciate it.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
December 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It's SO SO GOOD you guys, if you are AT ALL a fan of short fiction you need to pick this up
@justthezooofus.bsky.social I loved your kinkajou episode! I volunteer at a sanctuary known for wildcats that cares for other carnivorans, including kinks. On our aggression scale (for safety protocols), they are rated the same as tigers. Thanks for so clearly explaining why they make awful pets!
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
@justthezooofus.bsky.social I loved your kinkajou episode! I volunteer at a sanctuary known for wildcats that cares for other carnivorans, including kinks. On our aggression scale (for safety protocols), they are rated the same as tigers. Thanks for so clearly explaining why they make awful pets!
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One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.
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IT'S LIVE YOU CAN BUY IT :D
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
The Butcher of the Forest Audiobook on Libro.fm
A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed.At the northern edge of a ...
libro.fm
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
IT'S LIVE YOU CAN BUY IT :D
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
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Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!
🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
The new blue sky app symbol looks like it's pretending to be AI generated.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The new blue sky app symbol looks like it's pretending to be AI generated.
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US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra!
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏
(Shop link in pinned post).
Apparently it's snailposting time. I was prepared!
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Apparently it's snailposting time. I was prepared!
Nurse: Have you fallen in the last 90 days?
Me: Uh, yes? But only because I was trying to roller skate. That probably doesn't count.
Nurse:.........No, it doesn't count.
Me: Uh, yes? But only because I was trying to roller skate. That probably doesn't count.
Nurse:.........No, it doesn't count.
September 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Nurse: Have you fallen in the last 90 days?
Me: Uh, yes? But only because I was trying to roller skate. That probably doesn't count.
Nurse:.........No, it doesn't count.
Me: Uh, yes? But only because I was trying to roller skate. That probably doesn't count.
Nurse:.........No, it doesn't count.
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Alt text added 💛
September 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Alt text added 💛
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2. Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) by alecc on iNaturalist
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
2. Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) by alecc on iNaturalist
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We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
My hatred of this English ivy has surpassed my fear of brush cutters. I am unstoppable.
August 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My hatred of this English ivy has surpassed my fear of brush cutters. I am unstoppable.
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Reminder to the reading public: if you report a book to Kindle for "typos" Amazon may yank it off publication completely and demand the author fixes the "typos". Even if the typos are vernacular English and YOU are the idiot who didn't check a big enough dictionary.
I'd like to give a big, sincere and wholehearted thank you to the reader who's just reported Copper Script to Amazon for errors including "reader doesn't know British English exists", "reader doesn't know the word 'insuperable'", and of course this. For a British book about two British people.
August 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Reminder to the reading public: if you report a book to Kindle for "typos" Amazon may yank it off publication completely and demand the author fixes the "typos". Even if the typos are vernacular English and YOU are the idiot who didn't check a big enough dictionary.
I've been on a @premeemohamed.com kick this month and would highly recommend all of it! I can't wait for The First Thousand Trees to come out 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
August 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I've been on a @premeemohamed.com kick this month and would highly recommend all of it! I can't wait for The First Thousand Trees to come out 🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛
Look at this perfect little baby ring-necked snake!
August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Look at this perfect little baby ring-necked snake!
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Full of love (and snacks). Xox
July 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Full of love (and snacks). Xox
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Not sure how much reach this will get, but I'm going to give it a try. Publishing friends, I really need to find some additional work as a copy editor or proofreader. Ideally for SFF, because that's been my bread and butter for almost a decade, but I would consider other opportunities as well.
June 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Not sure how much reach this will get, but I'm going to give it a try. Publishing friends, I really need to find some additional work as a copy editor or proofreader. Ideally for SFF, because that's been my bread and butter for almost a decade, but I would consider other opportunities as well.
This awkward little guy motivated me to finally download the Merlin app. Green heron!
July 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This awkward little guy motivated me to finally download the Merlin app. Green heron!
Saw a copperhead on my evening walk! I didn't get a good pic, but here's a throwback to the time I got bit. I took a photo for ID, and while I was at the ER, my photo app notified me that it taken the liberty of yassifying my latest pic.
July 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Saw a copperhead on my evening walk! I didn't get a good pic, but here's a throwback to the time I got bit. I took a photo for ID, and while I was at the ER, my photo app notified me that it taken the liberty of yassifying my latest pic.
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The Big Botch Bill cuts food stamps so much, it'll cost FARMERS up to $21 billion.
That's not subsidies, giveaways, or free money. That's honest to God "money from selling a product" that goes away when 42 million Americans don't have money to buy food.
That's not subsidies, giveaways, or free money. That's honest to God "money from selling a product" that goes away when 42 million Americans don't have money to buy food.
June 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The Big Botch Bill cuts food stamps so much, it'll cost FARMERS up to $21 billion.
That's not subsidies, giveaways, or free money. That's honest to God "money from selling a product" that goes away when 42 million Americans don't have money to buy food.
That's not subsidies, giveaways, or free money. That's honest to God "money from selling a product" that goes away when 42 million Americans don't have money to buy food.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation
June 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation