Ashley S. Pumpkins
@truestorydesu.bsky.social
Oregonian. Somewhat human, aspiring SFF writer, cromulent book reviewer & someday librarian. AuADHD. She/Her.
Oregonerin. Etwas menschlich, aufstrebender SFF Schristellerin, cromulent Buchrezensentin & eines Tages bibliothekarin. AuADHS. Sie/ihr.
Oregonerin. Etwas menschlich, aufstrebender SFF Schristellerin, cromulent Buchrezensentin & eines Tages bibliothekarin. AuADHS. Sie/ihr.
I told myself I would watch two episodes of Stranger Things tonight and then save the next two for tomorrow.
...so naturally I binged the first three and I'm debating watching the last one right now.
...so naturally I binged the first three and I'm debating watching the last one right now.
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I told myself I would watch two episodes of Stranger Things tonight and then save the next two for tomorrow.
...so naturally I binged the first three and I'm debating watching the last one right now.
...so naturally I binged the first three and I'm debating watching the last one right now.
The necklace will turn up come Spring, I thought. As I turned toward home, the lantern light caught a flash at the base of a tree. A pair of gold eyes. I held the light up and saw a tiny dragon, shivering, it's feathers frozen stiff. Without hesitation, I slipped the poor creature into my pocket.
It's not until you've bundled inside, stomped ice from boots and burned lips on hot chocolate, that you realize you lost your necklace out there in the drifts. You suit back up, search in the waning light, but the necklace remains lost. What do you find instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The necklace will turn up come Spring, I thought. As I turned toward home, the lantern light caught a flash at the base of a tree. A pair of gold eyes. I held the light up and saw a tiny dragon, shivering, it's feathers frozen stiff. Without hesitation, I slipped the poor creature into my pocket.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Someone who actually knows, please tell me: if you have a 12-day advent calendar, what day are you supposed to start opening it? December 13? Or is it Christmas thru January 6?? I honestly don't know.
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Someone who actually knows, please tell me: if you have a 12-day advent calendar, what day are you supposed to start opening it? December 13? Or is it Christmas thru January 6?? I honestly don't know.
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
I am on my 4th phone. In order it goes:
Nokia flip phone: 2007 -2014
Google smart phone (first smart phone!): 2014 - 2017
Samsung #1: 2017 - 2024
Samsung #2 2024 - present
I use my devices until they lose the ability to turn on. That's how it should be. Planned obsolescence will ruin us.
Nokia flip phone: 2007 -2014
Google smart phone (first smart phone!): 2014 - 2017
Samsung #1: 2017 - 2024
Samsung #2 2024 - present
I use my devices until they lose the ability to turn on. That's how it should be. Planned obsolescence will ruin us.
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I am on my 4th phone. In order it goes:
Nokia flip phone: 2007 -2014
Google smart phone (first smart phone!): 2014 - 2017
Samsung #1: 2017 - 2024
Samsung #2 2024 - present
I use my devices until they lose the ability to turn on. That's how it should be. Planned obsolescence will ruin us.
Nokia flip phone: 2007 -2014
Google smart phone (first smart phone!): 2014 - 2017
Samsung #1: 2017 - 2024
Samsung #2 2024 - present
I use my devices until they lose the ability to turn on. That's how it should be. Planned obsolescence will ruin us.
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
So handwash dish day isn't til tomorrow so I was looking to make dinner that only needed one pan, so I started making Annie's Mac and cheese. Only I didn’t know at that moment that our milk has gone off 1/3
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
So handwash dish day isn't til tomorrow so I was looking to make dinner that only needed one pan, so I started making Annie's Mac and cheese. Only I didn’t know at that moment that our milk has gone off 1/3
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So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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The public could soon know who in the Trump administration knew about an alleged effort to ignore court orders barring the deportation of 137 men to a Salvadoran prison.
My write up for @huffpost.com
www.huffpost.com/entry/contem...
My write up for @huffpost.com
www.huffpost.com/entry/contem...
Judge Isn’t Done With Trump Over Ignoring His Court Order
Some high-ranking officials could be called forward to testify.
www.huffpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The public could soon know who in the Trump administration knew about an alleged effort to ignore court orders barring the deportation of 137 men to a Salvadoran prison.
My write up for @huffpost.com
www.huffpost.com/entry/contem...
My write up for @huffpost.com
www.huffpost.com/entry/contem...
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Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
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That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace!
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
Epstein survivors just demanded the release of the files in this new PSA. Watch it here.
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace!
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊
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Every reporter who speaks to republicans should be asking if they defend a President calling a female reporter “piggy”.
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Every reporter who speaks to republicans should be asking if they defend a President calling a female reporter “piggy”.
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If you're familiar with the Andrew Tate story, then you know that the link between Trump, Paul Ingrassia and the Tate Brothers is Richard "Ric" Grenell, who is currently his interim advisor for the JFK Center. Grenell has spent an exhaustive amount of time in Romania lobbying for charge dismissal.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If you're familiar with the Andrew Tate story, then you know that the link between Trump, Paul Ingrassia and the Tate Brothers is Richard "Ric" Grenell, who is currently his interim advisor for the JFK Center. Grenell has spent an exhaustive amount of time in Romania lobbying for charge dismissal.
These agates, see how they shine? They're not reflecting the lamplight, they produce their own light from within. You could light a whole theater with just a few Forbidden Coast agates. They're difficult to find, as their light can only be seen after at least eight or ten weeks in the rock tumbler.
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
These agates, see how they shine? They're not reflecting the lamplight, they produce their own light from within. You could light a whole theater with just a few Forbidden Coast agates. They're difficult to find, as their light can only be seen after at least eight or ten weeks in the rock tumbler.
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Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
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America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random: