Proud to represent @karenattiah.bsky.social in her fight against the Washington Post

I have a great deal of admiration for Lois Lane. Not the Silver Age "Superman's Girlfriend" Lois Lane, but the bronze age version, when writers refocused on her career, on her courage and integrity. Oh, and @gwenda.bsky.social's interpretation is pretty rockin', too.

I'm reading Samantha Harvey's short beautiful burst of a novel, Orbital, for tonight's book club and it's nice to see the Earth from so far away this week. Recommended. (Late to the party, I know.)

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

When I was a kid, and still believed in Santa, I told a classmate who INSISTED that our parents were Santa that his had to do it because he was bad. I think we should play tomorrow's Rapture like this -- "Oh, yeah, it happened, you're just STILL HERE." 😈

I wasn’t sure if the cats would take to the robot litter box (friends call theirs R2PeePoop), but Stella is swanning around and her vibe is, “I have begun my world domination with a robot litter box…as was foretold.”

Thing I texted @joshaboldt.bsky.social earlier: Thanks for not letting me add a random zombie at the eleventh hour.* *Other direction is SO MUCH BETTER and y'know, used something I had set up already. GETTING THERE.

Really dug this one!

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

So I bought Mr. and Mrs. Witch, by @gwenda.bsky.social , when it came out in 2023, but I FINALLY moved beyond my nonstop Murderbot audiobook listening & am deep into this one, and GUESS WHAT? Normalize bookstore dates! (Especially if black cats are involved!)

The Gilded Heiress by @joannashupe.bsky.social!

Love this story from the great Anthony Breznican: www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

I'm going to be really honest here, friends. I am struggling. I've been out of work since June, what little income I had coming in has dried up, & the job market sucks. Anything you can spare is appreciated & literally keeps me housed. gofund.me/879fe4c84

Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower — Peter Lindbergh, 1989

Finally, FINALLY (truly) about to finish this book, bemoaning it isn't done already and @joshaboldt.bsky.social gave me the BEST pep talk and maybe you need it too: Do it because you want to and because you love the characters and want them to have peace! They are ghosts and need to be freed. 🤯😍

Opportunity here for a writer on a low income to get access to a nine week novel writing course taught by the great @silvanhistorian.bsky.social www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/break...

The perfect hobby doesn't exi...

Tonight! If you’re out gallery hopping, come see the new Lexington Writer’s Room. There’ll be cake! And art! 🖼️

Rich people, especially rich people in the media & entertainment industries right this moment: The point of having fuck you money is saying “fuck you” when it counts.

RIP to a legend

I am having one of those days where it feels like I have a brain hole -- but I'm gonna do some writing later anyway.

lolololol

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

By the way, you can in fact run a media business where people give you money for goods and services. 56k+ people give The Onion ~$100 and we give them a year of newspapers. This business didn’t exist last year in this way. People will pay for good shit. Now’s the time to break glass and go for it.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

Watching All the President’s Men and pining for journalism to save us. It’s no wonder the conglomerates and billionaires have done their best to gut it.

amen.

I'm not advising anyone else on anything, but yours truly is taking a mental health break from reading hard news until her book is finished. I can feel my soul dying as it contemplates the constant news loop of the 2016 era and that's a no from me. I will only allow my soul to be slightly foxed.

There really is a lot in there about potatoes. Also unions and associated traffic jams www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Some kind words about my story "The Lord of Mars" from Rachel Khong's wonderful newsletter about short fiction rachelkhong.substack.com/p/cold-by-as...

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

TO CLUTCH A RAZOR is out today! A funeral heist at the worst family gathering ever? Why not. Add in some monsters from Slavic folklore (and beyond)? Even better. 📚💙 Get it at your local indie or wherever you get books— here’s a link! bookshop.org/p/books/to-c...

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

It’s about to be Redford Fall. So many glorious favorites to rewatch. And such a range of them.

Today's the day that The Shattering Peace, the new book in the Old Man's War universe, is out in North America (UK, you have two more days). I wrote it to be enjoyable to new readers as well as old hands to the series. I hope you'll pick it up at your favorite bookseller!

A legend gone. RIP.

This timeline sucks

Did not get any writing done (yet!) today, but did finish that tricksy root canal and get told by Citibank that my mom's fraud case is "close to a resolution" in a way that sounded GOOD. Gonna curl up in a chair and read for a bit before I attempt productivity.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

The plan: we spend an entire award show promoting the Boys & Girls Clubs, then give them a donation of a few thousand dollars

Take that Paramount! Stephen Colbert wins best variety talk series at #Emmys weeks after CBS canceled show. "Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it...my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately."

Colbert just makes me admire him more with everything he does lately. That was great.

Oooooh all of the good people are winning

I love all the posts on my feed that just say JEFF HILLER! ❤️❤️❤️

Share your favorite covers as a timeline cleanse? Joy version -- Tina Turner's Disco Inferno youtu.be/HM-5ryTVCwE?...

"Go ahead call me a liar I went to hell And I came back on fucking fire You can call me a hot mess But this is my process"