🙏🏾I worry too. I'm an engineer because of École Polytechnique and December 6. I was 16 years old on that day, the day a murderer walked into an engineering class saying he hated women & killed our brightest and best in cold blood. His manifesto had items that sound like the hate I receive today. 1/

💕 it’s #InternationalDayOfPeopleWithDisabilities, which is a good time to talk about disability rights and justice.

I hate giving EA credit for anything, so the rest of you AAA publishers/devs need to step it up.

"Although grief is a deeply personal experience, video games can help carry the weight. Whether it’s through distraction, escape, or catharsis, there are plenty of cases showing their impact on wellbeing." - @brainbirdo.bsky.social #GriefAwarenessWeek #GAW2025 safeinourworld.org/stories/an-i...

Generations of Navajo miners were sent underground to extract uranium for America’s weapons and energy programs. Many were never told the risks. Many never made it out alive. New from @sarahlazare.bsky.social in partnership with @workdaymagazine.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/they...

people who say this to me are not looking for permission to watch the thing or read the books. no one can stop them from doing that. they are looking for a hearty thumbs up, a pass on their guilt, but you can't stop me from thinking you're a fool who's not to be trusted

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

Oh yay, my health insurance is going up $130 a month, with no change in benefits, while we make the same poverty level wage. 🫠

#SpoonieAuthChat I don't write holiday stories, but my slice-of-life romance novel, One Bullet, did end up going into the holiday season. So there's some background holiday stuff happening, but it's certainly not a focus. Shawn and I share similar sentiments about this time of year. 😅

For the first time since 1993, the Trump admin has issued instructions *not* to commemorate World AIDS Day. Erasing our history won’t erase the epidemic. Silence = Death. Today, however, Lambda Legal honors the ongoing fight for the rights and dignity of people living with HIV. ❤️

#PPOD: The object captured here by the Hubble Space Telescope is a reflection nebula, identified as GN 04.32.8. Reflection nebulae are clouds of dust in space that don't emit their own light, as other nebulae do. 🧪 🔭 Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Duchêne

ICE’s Operation Midway Blitz has turned Chicago into a zone of fear—families hiding for days, workers disappearing from hiring sites, kids watching parents and teachers be taken. This terror is destroying lives & livelihoods.

Authors win discovery ruling in lawsuit against Open AI that could help prove willful copyright infringement (over the use of pirated datasets for AI training)

one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!

Keep resisting. 💜

"Black Friday" predates shopping deals. 🛍️ The term originally referred to the 1869 U.S. financial panic & stock market crash. Black Friday is also a 1904 novel by Frederic S. Isham, inspired by those events. 📖 Read the #publicdomain novel ➡️ archive.org/details/blac... #BlackFriday

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen — Michael Bolton (twice) Rascal Flatts Lynyrd Skynyrd Drowning Pool The Beach Boys

The Inquisition Trilogy is contemporary fantasy, so the military fights with modern hardware + magic. Sure, you armor the vehicle, but mages can add magical shields. You might get hit by a fireball as likely as a mortar. Mauled by a werecreature. Y'know, just the usual. 😅

AI is ruining my life and the lives of pretty much everyone I care about and we're way too far past the point of being lenient because 'maybe they don't know better'. I'm not screaming any louder for your fucking benefit. I'm too damn busy failing to keep my head above water.

"But Lynn," you may say, "my library's ebook selection is limited / I can't get a card that allows ebook checkout from the big city library". Friends, I hear you, and behold: www.queerliberationlibrary.org . Available anywhere in the US. Authors can donate ebooks, readers can suggest 'em.

Made some yarn from old teeshirts and decided to try crocheting a Granny Square with it. I think it didn't turn out half bad. 🧶

For people unaware and playing/streaming Where Winds Meet, it uses GenAI for NPC chat bots, and let's you import a photo of yourself and a voice clip for character creation, which I'm sure I don't need to explain why that is fucked up And no AI disclosure on Steam 🙃

An important note about #AccessibilityInGaming from PAX this year

There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!

"In a victory for trans youth and their families, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from accessing private medical records of kids who sought gender-affirming care at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)."

A judge has permanently blocked Trump's destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Really good news for libraries (and those like me, who love them! www.ala.org/news/2025/11...

It is Thanksgiving this week, which means it's a good time to acknowledge the land we live on and the Indigenous peoples it belongs to. By no means should this be the only time we acknowledge that. I live on Iroquois land, specifically the Mohawk region. (1/2)

This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard

Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.

Lookie there. Just 2 months of being on the CORRECT hormones, and my body is already back to working correctly. Well, as "correctly" as a disabled, chronically ill body can, but you get the point. Remind me why it took 3+ years to get this done? Oh, right...medical ableism and sexism. 🫠

“Ballroom isn’t just about competition or glamour; it is about survival, defiance & chosen family.”

Look, I am very small potatoes as an author. I make too little in royalties to live off them. But I can tell you the reason I got to write my 2nd book was bc the sales of the 1st were very good. That's what else you're eating into by pirating, our ability to keep writing what you claim to love.

#PPOD: Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have captured this eye-catching image of planetary nebula Abell 33. Created when an aging star blew off its outer layers, this beautiful blue bubble is, by chance, aligned with a foreground star... 🧪 🔭 Credit: ESO

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

That's terrifying shit

#PPOD: On 17 March 2023, one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites captured this rare cloud-free image of Deception Island, an active volcanic caldera located in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery 🧪

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

Frogwares deserves a lot more love than they get.

I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years