A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

For authors, librarians, booksellers, publicists, & anyone else working on or hosting author events, @penamerica.bsky.social has compiled a downloadable safety checklist. While you're downloading it, think about why we need one & what you can do to help make it obsolete in the future

Hey Florida! Our Fellow Workers with the Tampa IWW are hosting a May Day event in St. Pete!

There will be a day when cruelty isn't the rule. Where we hold one another up, and the world's sharp corners are blunted. We will build this world together, one step at a time, and the old world will fight us every step of the way, but we will win. We will win.

Interested in joining the Gainesville IWW? Join us at our next general membership meeting!

Had a really great day yesterday. Got a ton accomplished. Felt happy. Spent time with loved ones. Today? Today my body has decided it's time to be in horrible pain, feel grouchy as hell, and oversleep by several hours. Being disabled is such bullshit. Can I EVER have more than one good day a week?

Today we're making a fresh round of d20 candles - because there's only one left in the shop!

The Gainesville IWW is visiting our Fellow Workers in Jacksonville to celebrate May Day! Join us at The Walrus for an evening of music, celebration, and solidarity. We'll even have delegates available to sign you up for the One Big Union!

If you could change one thing about your job, what would it be? For bonus points: How might your coworkers answer the same question? Ask them if you can! Solidarity builds the union, and the union makes us strong.

We buy our beeswax in big three-pound blocks. Melting that much wax at a time takes forever, so when we get a fresh batch, we melt it all down into smaller pucks to make it easier to manage!

Strongly considering pitching an article to a magazine I like. Haven't done that in years. A little intimidated. 😅

I’ve said this before but I truly think that reading shit you’re not ready for is how you learn to sit with discomfort. By forbidding the next generation from pushing their boundaries, you’re doing them an immense disservice

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On April 10th, join host Iris Jay & cartoonists Maia Kobabe, Taylor Titmouse, and PomPoison as they talk about censorship, personal struggles with suppression, and triumphs in the contentious arenas of erotic comics and internet privacy. Open to the public! cartoonist.coop/calendar/

The IWW Freelance Journalists Union has launched a fundraiser in support of the Union of Journalists in Lebanon.

casual kink art is good cause it reminds us that our sexuality is a normal part of adult life and it doesnt have to be a super secretive thing, and also it's hot and normal to lounge around with your homies without any clothes on (enhanced if they also do not have any clothes on)

Sick does not equal lazy no matter what the fucking government says.

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

If you want a writer to write what you want them to write on demand, you should come prepared to pay.

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Um hello, such a cool graphic! Thank you so much!! 💜

Drawing some little greedy dragons for a skirt cuz they’re cute...#art #store

I don't really have an International Asexuality Day post preppred but if you are curious about any of my books this is a good place to start <3

Why do so many 90s sitcoms have a gay marriage episode? We're digging into Seinfeld, The Golden Girls, Friends, Roseanne, Roc, Living Single, and many more in this week's bonus video: www.patreon.com/c/mattbaume

NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again. Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup

Authors Against Book Bans has put together a script for calling your representatives and demanding they vote no on the book banning bill HR 7661. If you aren't sure who your representatives are, the script link includes a tool to find them. action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661

In the news: The Rutherford County, Tennessee library board voted 8-3 to fire library system director Luanne James after she refused to carry out their order to relocate more than 100 queer-themed children’s books to the adult section, via WTVC News Channel 9.

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Emergency rent fundraiser for our union hall! The Civic Media Center is a vital hub of Gainesville community and activism. It is a meeting space, a library, and a sanctuary for many. Please help if you can, even if it's just with a share. Venmo: CMC4EVER PayPal: paypal.me/cmc4ever

Candle Safety Rule #2: Do not add flammable items to candles or burn candles with embedded items! Adding things like paper, herbs, flowers, crystals, or oils to a candle can cause rapid changes in flame height, put off smoke, throw sparks, ignite from multiple points, or even combust.

I thought about posting something for TDOV, but, honestly, TDOV always kinda bums me out. It doesn't feel like a celebration, it just feels like a reminder of all the bad stuff. Trans people are more visible than we've ever, ever been, and meanwhile our rights are being stripped faster and faster.

Always love to see tv show fans discovering the books and finding out they like them more. Still so proud of the show of course, but the books are where it all started. Thank you for the review!

It's me and that damn book again umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

If you hate ICE you should hate cops. What we are seeing currently is an expansion of the prison industrial complex, modern slavery, that has been ongoing under cops the entire time. That is how the frameworks for these abuses are so easy to expand quickly. It's the same monster.

Happy #TransDayofVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️ Have an old piece I'm still proud of ✨

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To celebrate #AutismAcceptanceMonth, buy my book! Buy it for your friends and family with Autistic children. Buy it for your Autistic friends. Request it from your local library. Leave a positive review! Write a gushing critical review in a major publication! Get a COLOR TASTE TEXTURE tat!

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

It may take me fucking forever to finish a writing project, but I'll never use AI in my writing. What the hell would be the point? Why would anyone want to read a book I couldn't be assed to make myself?

Among Us is coming soon! It will not be lost media. Can’t say where or when yet but I'm pumped to share more as soon as I can.

Tonight... return to the most EPIC season in Dimension 20 history! Dragon Master Katie Marovitch is back for D20: On a Bus S2 - along with her people: Aabria Iyengar, Jasmine Bhullar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, & Mark Mercer Premieres 7PM ET/ 4 PM PT only on @dropout.tv 🧝‍♀️🔵🎩🪖🧶🚌

I am getting so tired of the AI book club scam emails. Got one today that tried to tell me all about how "the Queen of Cups' theme of Transgender will resonate with our unique readers!"

Trying to find the energy to do anything other than marathon video gaming has been so goddamn hard. I finished up a major project and have been feeling burnt out as hell. Oof.

Reminder: "separate the art from the artist" is about literary analysis. It means your interpretation of a work is not invalidated by the author saying "nuh-uh". It does not mean "you can consume any media without guilt". You are responsible for your choices. A misused phrase doesn't change that.

hey so our waters out, weve been unable to get a steady income for MONTHS now, and i cant even take my meds bc of the lack of water so if we could get some help. the first couple bucks may go to meeting immediate needs but we need like $300 to get the water back $Ashtheautistic paypal.me/karmorda

I will call it "Trans Rights Mountain"

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