ohhh noooooo (These five are from the Big Reveal Scene where Secrets Are Spilled.)

Humberto and Imelda out there doing synchronized swimming in the Atlantic.

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

So exhausting..

It's the last few days of #SapphicSeptember, my bday month AND Bi Visibility Month! Let's celebrate! Get a copy of one of my books with Sapphic/bi characters! Rulebreaker Deep Deception The Charlotte Brody Mysteries (not Charlotte, but others) The Demon Equilibrium Blood Remains A Murderous Business

Can't wait to check this out!

I swear my spelling is getting worse as I age. I won the second grade spelling bee*, and it's been all downhill since then. * Final word: beautiful

Do you press the STOP button when you pull food out of the microwave early, or do you just pop the door open like a maniac?

If you don’t teach your students your subject, you’re not doing your job. If you teach your students to ask AI first, you’re ensuring they’ll never be *needed* for any job. You’re also guaranteeing that knowledge of your subject slowly dies. Asking ChatGPT is gaining neither knowledge nor skills.

it’s fucking insane that you can log off for a few hours and come back to find trump invaded another city in his own country

Lolol plot twist.

letting your fever and headache go unchecked to own the libs

Mornin, @thehill.com

I'm at Space Coast Pride today and there are evangelical homophobes on the street corner spewing their worldview. This is my fourth Pride event, IIRC, and the first time I've seen this.

I'm at a dive with karaoke that I've never been to before (and don't expect to return to again) that caters to a crowd older than I am. Some dude sang Piano Man, which feels like a thrown gauntlet. I can out-Joel almost anybody. Everybody brace for Scenes.

ME: hey mr. tambourine man, play a song for me MAN: *tambourine noise* ME: great

September is almost over! Last chance to get my new book, A House Between Sea and Sky, as an Amazon First Reads pick. Prime members can grab it for free; other people pay only $1.99! Full book release is Oct 1st in print, ebook, & audiobook. amzn.to/4lb2R73 [promo link]

Oh, the coffee I almost spewed reading this 🤣

Okay weather gods ... It's autumn now. I've had quite enough of your muggy honors hot temperature BS. Time to bring that to a close.

I made a noise.

Robots shirking their work duties to read poetry is getting to be a real problem.

They've lost the 9yos

I have had a massive uptick in author-targeting scam/spam emails the last two or three months. I'm curious to know if everybody has seen that same uptick (ie, author-targeting scams are on the rise overall) or if it's just me (ie, this is when I got on their radar).

So ends a 220-day streak. :-/ Daily Quordle 1339 4️⃣🟥 8️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

After traveling through Ethiopia and Guatemala, I find it ironic that those most concerned about immigrants and refugees are the least likely to take climate change seriously. 🧵 2/5

Tonight the radio station that is my subconscious decided to bring Tori Amos's "Waitress" back into the main rotation after a twenty-plus year absence.

I'm so confused about how it could be just Tuesday. This feels like an error; I'm sure I've already been working at least four days this week. Somebody should look into this.

Please enjoy this wordle art of a granny smith apple. Wordle 1,556 5/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't think it's generally fruitful to receive multiple critiques on the same work from the same reader.

One of the things I daydream about when I think about someday retiring is having the bandwidth to volunteer more for organizations in the specfic community, like SFWA and cons.

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

There's a weird flattening of our stories that happens in panels. Like I read a wistful story about my feelings about my relationship to Cuba vis-à-vis my father's, and inadvertently give the sense that I had a happy childhood or a good relationship with my parents.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

It didn't feel like I did a lot today, but I did manage to knock the most important item off of this novel's revision to-do list.

I will never like this extra inning BS of putting a runner on second base.

Ah, the daily wish to nap from 1 pm to 4 pm that has accompanied my fifties . . .

I've always been proud to have appeared in this magazine twice. Happy birthday, SH!

It's annoying how ESPN has all but given the AL East to the Blue Jays when the Yankees are just two games out with seven games left against weak teams. While Toronto still has four games left against playoff contenders with winning records.

Does it make me safer to see quotes of people on the right calling for folks like me to be rounded up? Or is it gonna be what it's gonna be whether I'm paying attention or not? (Not a snidely-intended question. Just trying to deal with my headspace.)

The VC model is the antithesis of good basic science. Basic science is best when many labs are funded over the long-term, when many different scientists pursue their own ideas. Let a thousand flowers bloom —and support them. VC investment is about relentless, exponential growth.

This one white dude was loving the hell out of my "La Camisa Negra" and singing along. I wonder if he's a stealth latine like me.

This dive bar is normally a tiny bit on the rough side, but tonight 2/3 of the dudes singing karaoke are opting for ballads. Weird.

Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

It's getting to the point where it's like once every week or two I see a post from one of my friends making the rounds as a viral screencap.

Look at academia giving me a little hope

I have never in my life met an author who feels sad about not getting royalties from you checking their book out of a library. People who write tend to be Big Picture people, and we understand that libraries are crucial to presenting books and literacy as having value in the first place.

Again Bouie from the top rope

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Ooh, I just noticed that I'm the latest meddling with Word, comment bubbles no longer appear "on the page," but on a comment pane. *frown* I have long used the amount of real-estate/blank space I am leaving as a gauge to help me not overwhelm writers I give feedback to. This change breaks that.