Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

Happy pub day!

Some thoughts* on Veterans Day to my local community...if you want to thank a Vet for their service, tell them how you have served your community and others. Happy Veterans Day to those who have served and those who have paid the ultimate price for their country.

I'll play -- share the first line of your novel. (The Frame-Up, in this case!)

victor frankenstein: *saws through the thigh bone of a deceased soldier* me, his assistant: ...IS IT CAKE?

I mean I won't even spring for the brand name cross-body Bandolier case; I got a knock-off for 20 bucks and it's great (esp for concerts and the like)

Important book day alert! Always read Sarah on ANYTHING.

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

This. (I mean, half of me is convinced THEY didn't want to have to deal with flight delays personally.)

The thing is, if the ACA marketplace health plans are too expensive for people, then DUH we will not be able to buy them and the risk pool will shrink and it's very possible the marketplaces collapse... So save the arguments about how the Senate didn't really care about subsidies. They should.

Hungover Egyptologist Just Gonna Call In Cursed Today

Real busy night fixing the end of this book while sleeping fitfully and then when I took Sally out for a 3 a.m. pee, we got to shoo off a guy who was about to break into my car. It's a Monday!

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Hey Dems? Those victories? In part because you were actually DOING SOMETHING FOR A CHANGE. Please don't back down now. We cannot live this way until the midterms. You are right to fight for health care.

Asking anyone who's got energy to do so to call their Dem Senators and urge them not to back down on healthcare. 🙏 Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.

To the phones!

Fedorable

Now this is a great YA novel.

Sunday Stroll.

Thread. Fuck the racism and white supremacy of this administration run by draft dodgers and losers. True heroes lie within this thread.

Happy 3rd Publish-iversary to my first book, Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man! It has been a wild (and stressful) past three years. I didn't have as much time as I wanted to debut Viv to the world, but I'm glad there are people who love her as much as I do! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711852...

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Might I FINALLY finish this book this weekend? THAT IS THE PLAN. 💪

Please let The Lowdown have another season. There are so many more stories in the world it built! 🙏

Really bummed whenever I see a writer I admire taking a swipe at Kentucky and calling us dumb, esp when I know how similar shit-talking about where they're from would go over. How about just...don't? Signed, Yeah, We Have Lots Of Problems But Proud To Be From Here p.s. Andy would be a great prez

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all who celebrate. I hope you make a Four Seasons Total Landscake.

In better news: Throw 'em if you got 'em

My mom was taken by scammers running a variation of the grandchild scam--they even used AI to fake a voice. Someone CAME to her home, pretending to be legit. Everything will be okay, though the money they stole is unlikely to be recovered. Warn the older people you love! www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...

I've basically switched to getting my political news about America from The Guardian (I contrasted their headlines with the NYT for a week and felt so much more informed by The Guardian.) A good overview of wins last night here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

McClatchy kills its breaking news desk and Washington Bureau. Gannett tries to hide behind the laughable USA Today brand. The hedge funds are killing old, mass media. Bye. McClatchy’s Quiet Cuts www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...

He fully lapped me, y'all! I'm still two chapters from the end of mine! (Which means this week we BOTH finish our current books!)

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

locusmag.com/2025/11/worl... Congratulations winners and nominees!!

Saw a FB post from a town near where I grew up from the mayor cautioning people not to steal food and assuring them they would "get through this together." The comments section was WILD. Unbelievably surreal. This has to be it, right, the turning point? When the great leader STARVES PEOPLE? And yet.

Halloween fun with @joshaboldt.bsky.social — who am I? Answers within 18.207.115.111

Happy Halloween! We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post! www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...

It’s #FridayReads time and Halloween! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I bring you magic, vengeance, ghosts, friendship, a hurricane, and creatures from beyond the reef…and it’s all 45% off because Halloween!🎃 www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

I've been afraid to look at mine.

Working on the website that goes with my Halloween costume *twirls fingers*

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

Remember to leave a babysitter out for Michael Myers tonight!

Clay Higgins couldn't even get out of the gate for Supermarket Sweep and should Shut The Fuck Up

I maintain that every one of these people should be forced to live on SNAP for a month.

Working on the climax of my latest novel now. 91,000 words. Maybe another 5k left to finish the novel. I love this book, y'all. #writing

For our convo about @silashouse.bsky.social's mystery DEAD MAN BLUES last night, he gamely agreed we could tell ghost stories in honor of Halloween before kicking it to q&a. Really want to make all events now involve ghost stories. SO GOOD. (In Appalachia, you just grow up with them. You just DO.)

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Johan Egerkrans.

YESSSSSS I AM PUMPED