I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant
06.03.2026 13:43
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I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant
Do I know anyone on Bluesky who does #WritingSprints? Say hullo!
Non-spoiler-y reaction S1 E5 a Knight of the 7 Kingdoms: my belly was tense the whole half hour.
Love that moment during work when I pull back, look at my dwindling Set Up and Wrap lists, and can see the ending clearly. Bittersweet, though. Have loved this journey. #Writing
The real world is an incredibly dark and ugly place right now, so I’m spending tomorrow in Azeroth with cookies, and Friday/Saturday writing the most ridiculous banter & plot twists I can manage. Must escape. Resilience at zero.
Rep. Raskin: “You ignored the law and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference, and jaded cruelty towards more than 1,000 victims raped, abused, and trafficked. This performance screams cover-up.”
2 dozen?! So that’s why you sound like Vader all the damn time…
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Best movie review I’ve ever seen.
Spreading @ajaalto.bsky.social love:
TOUCHED, Book 1 of the Marnie Baranuik Files, is FREE today on the 'Zon and is featured at #1 in Urban Fantasy (Kindle) and #2 in Paranormal Fantasy (Kindle), as well as hitting the top 50 Freebie in all of the Kindle Free Reads!
Buy her books!
Feed my cats!
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
IMO PM Carney's opening speech is a must watch.
For ALL countries, not just Canada.
He lays out what is happening and the solutions.
"this is not sovereignty, it's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination".
"Canada has taken the sign out of the window"
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
"Most of the literary agents and publishing executives PL reached out to for comment were not aware that Ask This Book was live–and some were not aware of it at all."
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
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."
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
www.connaissancedesarts.com/monuments-pa...
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!
