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These people are fucking ghouls and should never know a moment’s peace for the remainder of the cold, soulless, grim lives.

One bright spot of this year: the MAJORITY of us sold more books than Olivia Nuzzi.

Cina is good people, and she keeps demonstrating this over and over again.

Don't pay submissions fees folks. Don't look at it as anything special when publishers say they're "waiving" submission fees because they shouldn't exist.

I know I’ve hit peak Dad-middle-aged when I, without warning, think the guitar riff to Dire Straits’s 1985 hit “Money For Nothing” is an absolute banger.

*Amended: “In a *Democrat* administration…” (To be clear, I’m progressive as hell and the major parties serve only their donors and speak only in lipservice, BUT Republicans know how to turn the screws on Democrats and the Democratic Party knows only how to flail with brief moments of swagger.)

lmao

Cancel streaming, get DVDs. It's fun to browse your little collection. Plus DVDs have special features.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Opening up for subs at midnight tonight assuming that I have set up Submittable correctly....

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

I did a thing today! Stopped by @vortexbooksncomics.bsky.social and saw @briankeene.bsky.social and @marysangiovanni.bsky.social, and had a blast. This constituted a mini-roadtrip for me, @ecfnj.bsky.social and @bluntlittletool.bsky.social, along with The Bug, and it was a glorious outing.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

I spent lots of time chatting with the Nazi bot on Nazi dot com and giving ad revenue to the world’s richest Nazi in order to create these screenshots that you’ll hate. Enjoy

*scrambling to get anything done at 4:30pm* hurry, please we must hurry, the darkness is upon us, the darkness takes all and ends all, it is coming, it is almost here. we can not fight it, we can not fight the ruinous dark.

We are supremely lucky and happy to work with our friends at @litvolunteerswinchesterarea Today we gifted them the comically large check (and a real one) for $11,560 from this past years #fcfcoversliteracy! Lets try to beat it next year!

they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk

In a world where cruelty is standardized by a third of the country, please step up for retail workers and food service folks. If you aren't comfortable saying HEY THAT'S NOT COOL to someone who's rude, you can talk to that worker's boss to tell them how great the worker did in the face of rudeness.

Two weeks ago (on Day 90), I made the hard decision to begin a rewrite mid-story b/c I’d written myself into a corner that I couldn’t mentally leap frog over. The first manuscript was 169 pages. I just first page 52 of the rewrite. Am I catching up? Who cares? Fuckin WRITE. #600x150 Day 105.

Day 102 of #600x150. Counting the original version of this novel with the rewritten sections, I’ve drafted 210 pages. This new version is at page 41. I recorded just the sound of me typing for a minute; don’t know why, but I liked the machine-gun sound when I played it back.

Hey, I'm going to be honest, I've had some rotten luck these last couple months. About three different projects got cancelled, so, if you need covers, pages, posters, album art, and you like my style, please consider hiring me. Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com/cover-work

the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:

George A. Romero’s CREEPSHOW was released on this day in 1982 #filmsky

Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)

Mood

48 years ago Poly Styrene performing with X-Ray Spex in November 1977 at the Marquee Club in London. Photo by Caitriona Reed #punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene #xrayspex #history #punkrockhistory

Criterion 50% off sale is live!!!

What a queen

Making one of those manifesting fire emoji things as I finalize plans to finally make it to @vortexbooksncomics.bsky.social before Thanksgiving via roadtrip with friends. Pray for me, gang, to live deliciously and pull this off. It’s rough on a teacher and solo dad.

Sandwich man leaving court

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

I was laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday, along with 70% of my incredible team. @teenvogue.com Thank you to everyone who has reached out. I am so grateful. For nearly 4yrs as Culture Editor, I was dedicated to humanizing and empowering young people. We move.❤️‍🩹🚀 Cash App: $kmcnab Venmo: @/kaitmcnab

You're laughing. Peter Cushing pulled down the curtains to let the sunlight in and it made Dick Cheney burn to dust and you're laughing.

Day 90 of #600x150 I’ve been bouncing around, partly due to necessity, partly because I’d written myself into a massive corner. I had to revise a story about Pittsburgh and being haunted for a submission deadline. I also had to contend with the fact my novel had a superfluous character I was—(1)

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

deal

Frankenstein — Bernie Wrightson

I really do adore Kelley Jones’s work.

"Sometimes surprising, often upsetting, always beautifully imagined, this is without doubt one of the year's best collections." – @timlebbon.bsky.social, Secret Lives of the Dead bookshop.org/p/books/let-...

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Just a friendly reminder: Don’t post on images of people’s faces at a protest, for fuck’s sake.