Jenna Avery

I still haven't seen this clip, ha

Workshop for Professional Novelists - Sandusky, Ohio, 2026 | The World of Cat Rambo The Wayward Wormhole presents a workshop for professional writers with Donald Maass and Charles Coleman Finlay, September, 2026, in Sandusky, Ohio.

Oho very intriguing -- @catrambo.bsky.social is putting on a workshop for people less interested in early-career workshops and more for "I'm already published and I wish to level up with Massively Amazing Experts"!

These are so cute!

So say we all?

A photo of a crab by hydrothermal vent at the bottom of the ocean. "This creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness."

I'm trying. I'm really trying.

Yesterday I woke up without neck pain or a headache — both unfortunately common right now despite massive efforts on my part to trial and error solve them including PT and meds and all sorts of things — and I was a different person.

Today not so much.

It’s illuminating on so many levels.

I love how my brain — accustomed to seeing price tags for this administration‘s follies being in the hundreds of millions or in the billions — thought, “well at least $3 million is not THAT much” as if that is anywhere close to true in real life.

i guess i do have tr*mp derangement syndrome.

Hi everyone.

If every single one of you seeing this post considered clicking “follow” on our new account/movement, @urbantruth.bsky.social, our work would start regularly reaching a BIG audience, and that’s KEY to us having the REAL IMPACT we hope this initiative will have.

Thanks for considering!

How does moving your account solve the problem of changes at Bluesky making the user experience worse? this is the piece I’m not understanding. eg if I move to eurosky I get my account is on a different server but does that change my user experience if Bluesky itself changes moderation / algorithm?

somehow I missed this but UGH.

I’ve been using Wordpress since 2002.

Really don’t want to have to adapt now…

Though I presume you are talking about Bluesky

Not Wordpress, please, no

That does not sound promising!

I kind of love the idea of them scoping out your site all stealth like, thinking they're getting away with it

Paramount's Takeover of Warner Bros Is Turning Into an International Crisis Going to war with Iran has suddenly brought China back into the mix on the sale.

the "The Saudis and Chinese are buying up our media companies and sending american kids to die in trump's war while you overpay for gasoline" dem messaging writes itself but they'll still find a way to fuck it up

Ah, interesting! I see it there now too. I also found it in the source code for the page. It's just wild.

Here you go, everyone can use this one (it's signed by an authority)

SCREENSHOT of page source code: <div class="h-quotation"> <span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"> The constellation Norma had Normaesque constellations . . . the world's richest man was the first <b>quintillionaire</b> , formerly a decillionaire, after losing a lot of his money, and his Moira Sheareresque name was Hanksy Ronald Stump, and he pissed on the skeleton of Donald Trump. </span>

.... ah I found it looking in the page source code, but still, WTH

SCREENSHOT w/ text reading: Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org › wiki › quintillionaire quintillionaire - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Oct 8, 2025The constellation Norma had Normaesque constellations . . . the world's richest man was the first quintillionaire, formerly a decillionaire, after losing a lot of his money, and his Moira Sheareresque name was Hanksy Ronald Stump, and he pissed on the skeleton of Donald Trump.

what the heck is this preview text that does not show on the page itself?

Especially the last bit: "...and his Moira Sheareresque name was Hanksy Ronald Stump, and he pissed on the skeleton of Donald Trump."

This is so shitty and disrespectful. Marisa fought for MONTHS to get access to this information and NBC sliding in to try to scoop her is unprofessional and shameful. Seeing mainstream outlets consistently use her reporting, including her FOIA work, with no credit is galling.

I have this plan for tank tops!

BBC Audio | How They Made Us Doubt Everything | Welcome to How They Made Us Doubt Everything: The Tobacco Playbook From climate change to smoking, this is the story of how doubt has been manufactured.

“From climate change to smoking & cancer, this is the story of how doubt has been manufactured. This 10 part series will explore how powerful interests & sharp PR managers engineered doubt about the connection between smoking & cancer & how similar tactics were used to make us doubt climate change.”

I like this solution because it would end the debate over whether standard or daylight time is better and also (just for fun) match us up with India.

for me “doom scrolling” is actually just the pathological hunt for the first piece of news that indicates this whole unbearable moment is about to unravel

I’m very on board with anything that reasonably ends DST.

I wrote this thread last year during a tough time and I needed to reread it again. Maybe it might help you too.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

Fun fact, airports receive most of their nutrients from the arriving airplanes. They extend their feeding tubes or "jetways" and extract the plane milk directly from the airplane's gills.

Social Capital and the Built Environment: The Importance of Walkable Neighborhoods Objectives. I sought to examine whether pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use neighborhoods encourage enhanced levels of social and community engagement (i.e., social capital). Methods. The study investigated the relationship between neighborhood design ...

“…persons living in walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods have higher levels of social capital compared with those living in car-oriented suburbs. Respondents living in walkable neighborhoods were more likely to know their neighbors, participate politically, trust others, and be socially engaged.”

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...