“It’s still looking at me, isn’t it.”

RE: https://pouet.chapril.org/@Greguti/116841071938979684

May he spin out completely, crash, and burn.

For independent bookstore day, I wrote a guide to #Draft2Digital alternatives.

https://eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-alternatives-erotica-authors-writers-2026/

Feedback welcome since I don't know all of those platforms myself.

Stay strong, everyone 💖

#IndieBookstoreDay #IndependentBookStoreDay #writingcommunity #bookstodon #erotica #smutstodon #Amazon #Kobo #IngramSpark #itchio

If you recently moved to somewhere where a wildfire can get to your home, some advice:
Have a fireproof box with your passport, mortgage docs, birth certificates, etc. so you can grab them in a hurry, but hopefully won’t lose them if you must leave them behind.

Have a go bag with a change of clothes, basic toiletries, and if possible, a few days of any key medicines you need.

Decide now that you are OK leaving everything to burn, because you don’t want to confront that as the house goes up.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/116841842587142475

Let's everyone try n' raise the sausage.

RE: https://warnercrocker.com/2026/06/30/a-flopping-turkey-in-washington-dc/

I just realized that I keep forgetting it's almost Independence Day and the 250th Anniversary.

I know full well why I keep forgetting.

It's because I just don't care.

[ZERO] > [my level of interest in celebrating this nation]

What was founded 250 years ago was not and is not a democracy. It has always been nothing but an authoritarian empire.

So let the turkey flop!

Y'all're cute, but this wooden bench ain't gonna oil itself.

👋✌️🤘🖖💜

"About 3 million fewer people in the United States had Affordable Care Act health insurance plans in February compared with the same time last year, according to new federal data."

https://apnews.com/article/affordable-care-act-obamacare-health-subsidies-premiums-3dc9a0cd249a7622ce31e8559bfff729

#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #medicaid #USpol

@cascheranno @cholling @Richard_Littler some historians term 1963-65 the First Intermalone Period which has caused some controversy

@Richard_Littler "I found this picture of my grandfather, a former Soviet People's Commissar, standing next to Stalin, and restored it with AI!" (Before picture is just Stalin, after picture is Stalin standing next to an AI knockoff of a seven-fingered Post Malone in an asymmetrical Red Army uniform)

@ASprinkleofSage @cholling @Richard_Littler I thought 1945-65 was Midcentury Malone.

@cholling @Richard_Littler clearly ridiculous - everything earlier than 1963 is pre-Malone

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/116838333860652107

It is incredibly important that libraries not lose the trust they have earned as a place that is safe from this, where the history we preserve stays history and not hallucination.

So much for a walk...how bout a nap?
#dogs
#dogsofmastodon
#dogsoffedi

I don't know why people are surprised when they find out that successful businesses are run by fash-adjacent people. Running a business ethically is really fucking hard, believe me.

I've had to make really bad business decisions like:

+ not mixing ads and content on my podcasts
+ turning down some ad deals
+ refusing to allow invasive tracking of listeners
+ not implementing dynamic ads because of said tracking

If I was good at business shit I'd make different decisions on all of those.

The only data centre I want is a Library. Pass it on.

#library

I used to work at the zoo and one time a gorilla died of old age.

The problem was it was the only gorilla in the zoo because the zoo wasn't very profitable. The gorilla was by far the most popular attraction and they couldn't afford to go a single day without it being there.

So the zoo owner came up to me and said, “listen, for an extra hundred bucks, do you want to just put on this gorilla costume until we can afford a new gorilla?”

“Of course,” I said, “go on then.”

Pretty quickly, I became the biggest hit in the zoo. Everyone wanted to see this human-like gorilla. After about a month, the craze started to die down, but they kept pressuring me to get people's attention again. So in a desperate attempt, I climbed over to where the lions were and started hanging off the net. Suddenly a massive crowd gathered and everyone looked terrified. I could feel my grip slipping, I couldn't hold any longer. I started screaming, “help, help.” Then I fell.

The lion rushed towards me and just as I thought it was over, he leaned over and whispered, “shut the fuck up before we both get fired.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/116838612044666548

Okay, computer people. Get on this. We need you!

You know what they say? Runs out bums out. No one says that. But I must go running this evening. And I do not wanna. I should start writing these like Conan-Doyle. There are few adversaries so insidious as the quiet conspiracy between fatigue and a sultry summer evening. My reason informs me that the prescribed run remains both sensible and attainable; yet the evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of postponement. The oppressive heat hangs upon the air like an unwelcome witness, and my enthusiasm, usually so reliable an accomplice, has vanished without so much as a calling card. I conclude, therefore, that I cannot be arsed to run this evening. Damn you, Moriarty!

Bringing my cat home from her surgery I discovered this guy watching from my roof. I’ve never seen him before, so I’m imagining that he’s part of a feline monitoring agency checking to ensure post-surgical care by humans.