Heather Monley

Yes on Prop 50 California! If you, like me, leave things to the last minute, get that ballot in today!

Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

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Like recently I met someone who seems really nice and interesting, and my fiction-writer brain immediately went "you know what would make an interesting story? If I took some characteristics of this person but gave them a sinister edge and gave the narrator a weird conflict with them."

When people talk about what's uncomfortable about writing autobiographical fiction, they usually talk about airing secrets--sharing true stuff that might be unflattering. But I feel like what's actually uncomfortable is that you take an ok person/situation and spice it up with made-up bad stuff

Re AI reading list: it's less about the new technology of AI, and more about people's apparent inability to use the 25+ year technology of giving it a Google to see if it's absolute bs or not

Oh wow, that sounds intense! I don't know what I would do in that situation!

If you zoom in on the map on tsunami.gov and click on map pins you can zoom in for more detail of where the warning applies to. Here's a screencap of the Bay Area. This applies to a LOT of people.

My name is very much out of style, but I hope one day it comes back around to be a name people give their dogs

Just came into the house doing a dramatic Kate Bush impression, forgetting that we had a plumber working in the bathroom. I hope he likes Wuthering Heights.

It may look like I'm wasting time scrolling, but actually I'm working hard to read as much of the internet as possible so I can be done with it for the rest of my life

Finding it very hard to balance the extreme feelings of rage and the feeling that they feed off our rage so I should just ignore them

I should have done it sooner, but I finally deactivated my twitter account! Feels good

It bothers me that most illustrations of narwhals show them having a horn on their head like a unicorn, when the truth--that it's actually a giant tooth--is so delightfully weird