Vicky MacDonald Harris
@vickymharris.bsky.social
Work in: @janusliterary.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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@ellipsiszine.bsky.social @Greatlakesreview @paragraphplanet.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, @rfpress.bsky.social http://linktr.ee/vickymharris
If people see faces on Mars, pareidolia, they will see people in AI. I think it's the same brain function, for connection.
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If people see faces on Mars, pareidolia, they will see people in AI. I think it's the same brain function, for connection.
Killing me! I'm going to splurge and go with the newest big boy in town. Seamus Heaney!
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Killing me! I'm going to splurge and go with the newest big boy in town. Seamus Heaney!
The End Times has arrived. I will make apple cake from the harvest gathering soon.
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The End Times has arrived. I will make apple cake from the harvest gathering soon.
They don't deserve their children, if their first choice is this. Absolute evil. Anyone who has lost a child, yearns for a child they can't have, probably shouldn't read this.
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
They don't deserve their children, if their first choice is this. Absolute evil. Anyone who has lost a child, yearns for a child they can't have, probably shouldn't read this.
Reposted by Vicky MacDonald Harris
I'm reading some draft stuff for a thing right now and I keep thinking about how strict genre expectations ruin perfectly good storytelling.
Not the major genre conventions (HEA/HFN for Romance, a puzzle to be solved for Mystery, personal/social/global stakes/peril for Thriller, etc.). 1/?
Not the major genre conventions (HEA/HFN for Romance, a puzzle to be solved for Mystery, personal/social/global stakes/peril for Thriller, etc.). 1/?
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I'm reading some draft stuff for a thing right now and I keep thinking about how strict genre expectations ruin perfectly good storytelling.
Not the major genre conventions (HEA/HFN for Romance, a puzzle to be solved for Mystery, personal/social/global stakes/peril for Thriller, etc.). 1/?
Not the major genre conventions (HEA/HFN for Romance, a puzzle to be solved for Mystery, personal/social/global stakes/peril for Thriller, etc.). 1/?
For those following along in my holiday baking adventures, the rugelach are done. Walnut raisin. Forgot the apricot jam, but as with all baking, it's a bit of random toss of what actually occurs. Interestingly, on FB memories, the same two years ago on this day. Now back to novel revision in 10.
November 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
For those following along in my holiday baking adventures, the rugelach are done. Walnut raisin. Forgot the apricot jam, but as with all baking, it's a bit of random toss of what actually occurs. Interestingly, on FB memories, the same two years ago on this day. Now back to novel revision in 10.
The beauty of living in the Midwest is that you can attend an incredible poetry reading, get two dozen cranberry mincemeat tarts, and one cherry jam turnover with the leftover dough, all done by 8pm. The poetry was so good!
Join us next week for NAWP's incredible November reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and
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@toosiewatson.bsky.social!
Hit the RSVP link!
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November 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The beauty of living in the Midwest is that you can attend an incredible poetry reading, get two dozen cranberry mincemeat tarts, and one cherry jam turnover with the leftover dough, all done by 8pm. The poetry was so good!
My fav thing reading is when I say how did they do this? The best thing.
aesthetics is the overlap between "how did they do this" and "why are you like this"
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My fav thing reading is when I say how did they do this? The best thing.
Despite and perhaps because of my food processor fluffing flour all over me and the floor, the resulting cranberry mincemeat tarts came out well. (I added more flour, used a pastry cutter, then my hands because I have no time for pastry cutters.) Follow me for more adventures in Christmas baking.
a man and a woman sitting next to each other with the words and afterwards i get a cookie
Alt: Buffy and Giles sitting next to each other with the words "and afterwards i get a cookie." Wesley wanders the background, curious but not brave enough to get a cookie.
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Despite and perhaps because of my food processor fluffing flour all over me and the floor, the resulting cranberry mincemeat tarts came out well. (I added more flour, used a pastry cutter, then my hands because I have no time for pastry cutters.) Follow me for more adventures in Christmas baking.
Graven images.
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
Disney Channel Star’s AI App That Creates Avatars Of Dead Relatives Sparks Backlash
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Graven images.
Why can't beaten metal jewelry be a thing again?? I want to see hammer strikes on bracelets, and necklaces. Metal molded like that. Also now I guess I've got to visit Wales.
From Bronze Age Wales, the spectacular Mold Cape! 🤩
An incredible ancient feat of sheet-goldworking, beaten from a single gold ingot some 3,600 years ago!
The extraordinary embossed decoration is said to mimic strings of beads.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
An incredible ancient feat of sheet-goldworking, beaten from a single gold ingot some 3,600 years ago!
The extraordinary embossed decoration is said to mimic strings of beads.
📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Why can't beaten metal jewelry be a thing again?? I want to see hammer strikes on bracelets, and necklaces. Metal molded like that. Also now I guess I've got to visit Wales.
I started rereading WH after seeing the trailer, also started baking cc cookies for the holidays. Then I saw this beautiful thing! 💯 Now as I read, it's earworming me, and I think this is the energy going into the holidays!
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I started rereading WH after seeing the trailer, also started baking cc cookies for the holidays. Then I saw this beautiful thing! 💯 Now as I read, it's earworming me, and I think this is the energy going into the holidays!
My fav of the bunch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
My fav of the bunch.
These are the best I've ever seen, even when we lived in Winnipeg.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
These are the best I've ever seen, even when we lived in Winnipeg.
Iowa auroras ftw!!
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Iowa auroras ftw!!
Auroras, baby. Night lens, no filter.
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Auroras, baby. Night lens, no filter.
In even better memories, this was the erasure poem from the poetry club I taught in the elementary school I worked at 9 years ago. The kids picked their fav words, and erased. Also when dabbing was the thing to do. Do kids still dab?
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In even better memories, this was the erasure poem from the poetry club I taught in the elementary school I worked at 9 years ago. The kids picked their fav words, and erased. Also when dabbing was the thing to do. Do kids still dab?
In non Disney trauma, the tomato plants presumed dead, that we put in the garage, to deal with later, have little tiny tomatoes on them. We should get warmer weather in a few days, so maybe we'll put them back outside. 🍅
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
In non Disney trauma, the tomato plants presumed dead, that we put in the garage, to deal with later, have little tiny tomatoes on them. We should get warmer weather in a few days, so maybe we'll put them back outside. 🍅
My student loan was 13.75% in 1984 for a 10 year loan. It was Canada and it wasn't a massive amount, but if you are making 4-5 bucks an hour, it was a stretch to pay some months.
My first mortgage was in '89 and it was 10% - and that was a VA mortgage that was 1 point below prime. Commercial mortgages were high 12s, low 13s.
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
My student loan was 13.75% in 1984 for a 10 year loan. It was Canada and it wasn't a massive amount, but if you are making 4-5 bucks an hour, it was a stretch to pay some months.
I think Patti Smith's new book, Bread of Angels, might be the best memoir I've ever read. Saw her 2 yrs ago in NYC. This book is an angel dreaming, singing, and living poetry. Hauntingly sad but joy throughout. Read it!! Next up King Congo Powers' Some New Kind of Kick. Saw him with The Cramps.
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I think Patti Smith's new book, Bread of Angels, might be the best memoir I've ever read. Saw her 2 yrs ago in NYC. This book is an angel dreaming, singing, and living poetry. Hauntingly sad but joy throughout. Read it!! Next up King Congo Powers' Some New Kind of Kick. Saw him with The Cramps.
What isn't written in is as important as what is. This is such a great post. Last Napowrimo, someone said they saw the other side about my month's worth, and it filled with with joy and worry. What did they see?? I meant it gone, but nope, there it was. The shadow imprint remains sometimes.
New post 📰
Everything I have not written
Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/fNdsENG
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
Everything I have not written
Lesley Harrison on the silent poem behind the poem
Read the full post: buff.ly/fNdsENG
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
What isn't written in is as important as what is. This is such a great post. Last Napowrimo, someone said they saw the other side about my month's worth, and it filled with with joy and worry. What did they see?? I meant it gone, but nope, there it was. The shadow imprint remains sometimes.
In the 80s, when we lived in Ann Arbor, reading her work made me feel like I could trust the world a little more than I did. I didn't know how true the Gaia hypothesis was, didn't matter, a welcoming idea, as I gardened our four organic plots. A nice convergence of thinking, feeling, and doing.
“Living beings defy neat definition… We abide in a symbiotic world.”
The visionary evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis (of Gaia Hypothesis fame) on symbiosis and the unself www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/21/l...
The visionary evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis (of Gaia Hypothesis fame) on symbiosis and the unself www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/21/l...
Symbiosis and the Unself: Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis on How Interbeing Shapes Life on Earth
“Living beings defy neat definition… We abide in a symbiotic world.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
In the 80s, when we lived in Ann Arbor, reading her work made me feel like I could trust the world a little more than I did. I didn't know how true the Gaia hypothesis was, didn't matter, a welcoming idea, as I gardened our four organic plots. A nice convergence of thinking, feeling, and doing.
After watching Frankenstein, I've decided Elordi’s was a really great rendition, subtler than I expected, and didn't look like him at all. Didn't roar as much as Victor, who emoted, let's say. Parenting gone wrong, front and center. Visually gorgeous. Haven't read the book in a while, will soon.
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
After watching Frankenstein, I've decided Elordi’s was a really great rendition, subtler than I expected, and didn't look like him at all. Didn't roar as much as Victor, who emoted, let's say. Parenting gone wrong, front and center. Visually gorgeous. Haven't read the book in a while, will soon.
Reposted by Vicky MacDonald Harris
Were you published on Paragraph Planet during October ? Or missed someone who was? The archive is now live, so all thirty one 75-word #stories are here. Feel free to share: paragraphplanet.com/oct25archive.php
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Were you published on Paragraph Planet during October ? Or missed someone who was? The archive is now live, so all thirty one 75-word #stories are here. Feel free to share: paragraphplanet.com/oct25archive.php