Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈

She's a Doll by Barbara Truelove, on sale September 8th 2026, now available on NetGalley.

She's a Doll! She's also on NetGalley.

MARCH?!

Need to start being a bird nerd. My brain is bubbles and froth.

My friends put nautical themed temporary tattoos on my arm and now I'm a sexy pirate.

Wuthering Heights review – Emerald Fennell’s adaptation is astonishingly bad Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s performances are almost pushed to the border of pantomime, while Fennell’s provocations seem to define the poor as sexual deviants and the rich as clueless prudes

Being a hater on lover day is actually iconic. Clarisse Loughrey, proving media criticism is an art form in 1000 words or less.

there is a sentient bacon, lettuce and tomato. text is: you make me BLT. believe love triumphs.

there is a handsome lobster man with large muscles. text is: pinch me… because i must be dreaming of a handsome lobster man

beautiful ankylosaurus with a skateboard. text is: are you an ankylosaurus skateboarder. because id like to rim your bowl

several living dice. text is: take a chance on me at the bisexual role-playing dice orgy

some VALENTINES DAY CARDS for the buckaroos. tag a bud who proves love

Vital Cat Update It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…

If you really want to learn about AI hype, please read about my many excellent cats

Cellular-level preservation of cutaneous spikes in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur - Nature Ecology & Evolution A juvenile iguanodontian from the Lower Cretaceous of China preserves both spikes and scales in its skin that are different from integumentary structures in either non-avian dinosaurs or extant squama...

'New Dinosaur' is the first box I'm ticking off my 2026 Bingo card and I'm so happy. Hedgehog Iguanodon, you mean the world to me. 💙

Me and my freaky little zombie wife book. 💙🧟‍♀️

She's a Doll has finally got some clothes on! No more a coverless manuscript. This book looks like a *book*.

a man with a mustache is holding his fist up in the air and says that 's my girl . ALT: a man with a mustache is holding his fist up in the air and says that 's my girl .

Feeling like a proud parent... watching my kid tackle other kids at the ballet recital.

Look who's got a little orange #1 sticker on Amazon:

In a world where big companies control most everything, it's really nice to sit in a cinema and watch people just being creative, having a blast, drowning themselves in blood.

I saw Markiplier's movie the other day, and you know what? I'm so glad this loud, beautiful internet dork got to make something he loved for fun. I'm doubly glad that it's out there in the world, making money, being fun.

I bring a 'we are six minutes away from nuclear armageddon' vibe to the party which is often unappreciated.

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …

#21 😎 That spaceship book o' mine.

So... it wasn't. But, you know, it COULD have been. The point still stands.

"Horror books have too much cannibalism."

WRONG! All other genres don't have enough cannibalism. Frankly, horror isn't even exemplary in this subject, but at least she's showing up to class.

Everyone's posting their end of year reading wrap ups, best of 2025 etc, but hell, there's still a few days left! This race ain't over until it's over. Maybe the last book I read this year will be the best.

My findings:

I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist - gregpak.net I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative “A.i.” in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a f...

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why.

gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

I am never leaving tumblr because where else can I do my science?

All the best writers in the world have (secreted away in some drawer, or cloud, or a03 account) the most terrible, corny, mccheesemo shit you've ever read... and I reckon that's beautiful.

That's 100% my fault. I thought it'd be a fun wee puzzle and didn't consider how deeply, truly unhinged the binary code sections would be in audio. 😅 I'm so glad you laughed.

Of Monsters and Mainframes is in the Goodreads Choice Awards scifi finalists AND on Waterstones list of best scifi!!

In 2022, when I started writing this goofy spaceship vs. Dracula idea, I remember thinking 'no one else will like this, this is just for me'. I'm so so glad to be proven so so wrong.

Just found out about the trio winning the nobel prize for medicine, and thank god, 'cause I needed some good news today.

Possible treatments for immune disorders, cancers, organ transplants, and arthritis? Insane. This is amazing.

People who say I should use AI instead of writing my stories piss me off so much. I have been sharpening this stick since I was wee. I ain't putting it down just 'cause you think another stick is sharper. Fuck you. I like my stick.

Why did this make me weirdly emotional? 🥲

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Was going through my photos and found some old pics of me playing in steam. I was 30 in these pics, but I've always loved playing in steam. Best part of going to railway museums: the steam.