Holly Messinger

Still in the queue.

Two men filmed felling of Sycamore Gap tree during ‘mindless’ act, court hears Jury shown phone footage with sound of chainsaw and toppling tree, in trial of pair who deny criminal damage

Put em up against the wall. Fucking destructive jackals.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yknow how you think "I should make coffee bc I'll want coffee when I get to work" but you don't and the coffee shop is four-deep with people eating avocado toast and let that be a lesson to you.

Even better!

Human Authored Certification - The Authors Guild Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not...

Author's Guild is offering a Human Author Certification. A lifetime of reading science fiction should have better prepared me for this eventuality.
authorsguild.org/human-author...

If you could commission one fictional character to fix the current US political problems, who would it be?

We can upload 3 minute videos now.

YOU KNOW THE RULE

Watching Dev Patel’s Monkey Man…. It’s not great, but it’s within spitting distance. It’s not merely an “Indian John Wick” and there is a lot of political subtext that I’m not grasping, but portrayals of power, corruption, and abuse are universal. Recommended if you can stomach the violence.

Print books are about to become a luxury item/signal of wealth, again.

To do:
1. Migrate all platforms to Ghost
2. Draw and scale 12 patterns in sizes Gnat to Blue Whale
3. Scrub stovetop
4. Launch marketing plan that does not support fascism
5. Exercise
6. Finish my novel
7. Finish my other novel
8. Build my museum CV
9. Job hunt outside of museum field
10. Laundry

Museum work is checking a spreadsheet to verify how many you have of something, only to find a thing that wasn't supposed to be there, and spend 20 minutes chasing down said thing to find out it was given a duplicate number 2 years ago.

I've come to the inescapable conclusion that we all should've Just Said No to Paypal in the early oughts. I've been horribly right about a lot of things but I did not anticipate the fascist version of the penny-skimming scam from Office Space.

the whole, "don't punish the desire behavior" thing. Yup.

See above, what happened after the Taliban took over and found they had no one to run the country.

One of the things I love about the internet is how someone has already written the thing, so I don’t have to. This is also why the one-fact Wiki warriors are so annoying and dangerous: they lack context.

I once had a coworker tell me, "I'd rather run lean, and be a little late, than have all the hands we need and have people looking for work."

I thought of the long-term projects and infrastructure that wasn't getting done, and could only stare.

Anyway that company is out of business.

the comment I was responding to was not, or at least not only. The topic had expanded, in the way conversations sometimes do. Feel free to ignore me.

"they" in this example is the Press. Instead of trying to jockey for space in the oval office, they should cut off his oxygen and give their attention to people who opposing the madness.

News columns, digital pages, all the places the news is disseminated these days.

Er, not what I meant.

Agreed, I think they should fill up their space with Dem congressmen and Judges who are responding to the WH's BS and rebutting it. Obviously this is a game that's won with face recognition, give the resistance some airtime/ink/digital whatever.

The Salome Clause.

Worth reading for several reasons but I’m stealing “ecocide-plagiarism machines.”

Andy Garcia showing up in LANDMAN made me happier than anything I've seen since Carol Kane appeared in ST:SNW. His amused contempt while Tommy is telling him how the world works is everything.

Dawned on me yesterday I could totally just rewrite King Coal because no one’s read it anyway and I could do a better job than Clive Cussler.

Pish, he’d be out there flipping podiums and giving podcast sermons

This is… so likely, it makes me uncomfortable.

It’s embarrassing to be seen playing in the bush leagues by actual professionals.

4. Worked in publishing for 15 years, watched the industry crumble. In 2022 finished my MLIS, now work in a museum. Make the same salary I made in 2000, but with 2x the student loan debt.
Also Published a debut novel that never went anywhere, too broke and dispirited to write anything else.

1. To be a writer, and be an editor or maybe a translator for my day job.
2. French
3. Burned out after four years, went back three years later after working full time and writing four novels; finished as an English major with a 4.0…