When you get an AI-generated email about a “book group” with “1700+ members,” will all the participants in the book group also be AI-generated?

I was surprised by this beauty today first time it’s flowered the internet tells me it’s a hoya

"Statue to be reinstated"

Meow💎

Love is waiting🤍

In case you were looking for a little bit of '60s realness...✨✨✨

Okay, after looking through stacks of paper I couldn’t find the edits I’d already done on this essay, so I did the edits again, and then, guess what? Today somehow the one I edited before is right here? Yes, it would probably be easier if I could get rid of these stacks of paper, but anyway.

How many ways to say this must end.

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That classic Seattle feeling when you don't want to go back inside because what if it's never sunny again.

Black Zine Fair Coming May 9 at @powerhousearts.bsky.social organized by Sojourners for Justice Press... More soon...

Seattle, look at that moon tonight, a giant black orb with that one mesmerizing crescent leaning just above Queen Anne next to the skyline, don't you want to sing how low, how low can you go, yes, we're here together, all of us and the moon, the way she guides our eyes in that shape, how low

How it started. How it's going.

Honey, whenever you find yourself saying "I don't know why I'm arguing with you about this," STOP.

Whisk away🌠⚡✨

I bought @andreapitzer.bsky.social’s book “One Long Night—A Global History of Concentration Camps” She’ll be one of 4 panelists—with Chris Beyrer, Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, & Rosalind Rogers—on an online panel I’ll moderate, open to all Register: childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/blog/event/t...

OMG I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS💎💎💎

"My son, Saxon..." ENOUGH

Looking at the menu of this new restaurant that says it's focused on "local grains," but actually they mean pasta. Sure, pasta is made with grains, but really, what is this nonsense.

Honey, look who's arrived 🌸🌺

Exciting news! I just got a phone call from someone who allegedly wants to publicize NOBODY PASSES, which came out 20 years ago. This well-versed publicist, though, somehow couldn’t find the book online. “Is it on [REDACTED]?" "We just need some information from you, and…"

Today I'm developing a relationship with this orchid at the Volunteer Park Conservatory 💖

Excited for this virtual event at 6:30 pm Pacific on Thursday, March 26, among other things I'll be discussing the process of working on my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org in fall 2027🌺

It's cool how all the little terrors never stop.

Treehenge. #photography

OMG what a bargain!!🙃🙃🙃

What a delight and an honor!! A pleasure to be in such great company, yes, let's do this together...🎉💫🎉💫🎉💫🎉💫🎉💫🎉💫🎉

🎉🎉🎉 Enormous congratulations to @mbsycamore.bsky.social and all the other fabulous authors on this incredible list! We couldn't be happier!

Thrilled, honored, and delighted that TERRY DACTYL is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to all the finalists, and thank you to the judges @lambdaliterary.org!!💐💐💐💐Trans lit for the win, let's do this together!!💞💞💞💞

Started sobbing after reading the first paragraph of the article about Cesar Chavez's decades of raping girls and women, and it only gets worse, had to stop several times, solidarity with all the women coming forward after decades of being silenced.

Hello writers, are we all receiving almost daily AI-generated email scams about "book clubs" that want to feature us if we just pay this small fee & "publicists" who want to send us their plan but can’t even write the email & "agents" who want to represent a book that is already out, no no no NOOOO💥

Squeee!

What if we had an anti-war movement. I mean I know it wouldn't change everything, but would it change... Something?

(I almost thought Pete Buttigieg said something compelling, but then I listened further, what a relief.)

True.🔥🔥🔥

Spring is just around the corner.

...does make me pretty sad, since at this point it kind of is us against the world. Which, fine, but that would feel a lot less lonely if we actually built on the camaraderie that such a small, dedicated group of people really ought to have.

That's definitely my experience here in Seattle too. I'm just (modestly) grateful that there's at least more people here who mask indoors than anywhere else I've been in the US in the past 2+ years. But yeah, the fact that there isn't that instant recognition/kinship between strangers who mask...

Come to the Nonbinarian bookstore in Brooklyn we’re mask required and if you show up on a day I’m working and you mask without me having to ask you then you’ll immediately be in my good graces

I wish people wearing masks in public would recognize one another more, it seems to me that communal health is as much of a connection to build a counterculture as any other, but we can't build anything if we don't at least say hello to one another.

“Literally from the beginning of concentration camp history, every country that had concentration camps would argue, ‘No. These aren’t really like those other camps,’” making the claim that their regime of mass-incarceration was somehow justified on the basis of public safety, rather than cruelty"

A Seattle snow sculpture with balloons!🤍

"your body is suddenly a peculiar event"🌷

Seattle, it's been snowing all day. Yes, all day! Luckily it's not sticking to the streets or sidewalks, but we get all this crisp air and what's more fun than walking in the snow when you know it won't last, yes, I'll take it.🌨️❄️🤍❄️🌨️

Yes, it's my favorite orchid at the Volunteer Park Conservatory today, look at her 💗💛

Yes, it's magical Friday the 13th and it's snowing in Seattle, looking forward to being in conversation with Scott Broker about his debut novel THE DISAPPOINTMENT at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight, masks strongly encouraged❄️🤍❄️

Honey, it's snow snow snoooowwwing in Seattle, look at it coming down🌨️🌨️❄️❄️

A year after USAID was shuttered and funding was abruptly cut off, there has been an increase in avoidable deaths and suffering for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations. Data that might confirm that has largely vanished from public view.

So glad I put these tulips on my balcony so I can gaze at them every morning🌷🌷🌷