so cool to see a governor elected by a historic wave of anti-conservative backlash fulfill her mandate by [checks notes] vetoing affordable prescriptions, collective bargaining, and weed 👍

You will likely have to tap the picture to get a full view of it, but here is the start for a rather large fan art piece of Owen and Una from “The Everlasting” by @alixeharrow.bsky.social This piece has been an incredible challenge, but I am proud of the work that has been done so far.

“I think the moment you fully settle into adulthood is the moment you learned how to use professional stress to cover for emotional distress. Who could say where the depression started and the burnout began? It was convenient if you’re uncomfortable with your own feelings.” Oof, @trungles.com

At Monday’s 6pm Charlottesville city council meeting, council will act to officially permit future Swords Into Plowshares public art in the park. A show of support will help the @jsaahccville.bsky.social and our community as we move forward to make art that expresses multiracial democracy.

oh! for the special edition folks, illumicrate has done a really lovely job, as usual. on sale july 2nd in the US!

a timely reminder that progress is never handed out, like a party favor. it's won, like a battle, by people like dr. schmidt

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

a neighborhood dad apparently told his poor kid, who told my kid, that "nonbinary is fake." not sure id be throwing that word around, if i was a fucking chiropractor 🤷‍♀️

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

my youngest has seen through the cheap, maudlin marketing and spoken to the real heart of this holiday:

celebrating mother's day in the traditional fashion (making my kids watch rogue one with me)

unironically the future liberals want:

and when the right wins an election the common man has spoken; when the left wins it's activism

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

imagine overriding a popular vote solely to protect republican seats, knowing full-ass well what they're doing to the rest of the south right now. unfuckingbelievable

if you are an old school historical romance reader, i am taking you ungently by the cravat and looking deeply into your eyes when i say: read this

got in an argument with a dad at the soccer game and idk which of us was more baffled. no part of my life or character has prepared me to know this much about a sport. god never intended me to understand offsides. it's like if a cat was forced to learn piano.

Deeply demonic. This is political retaliation.

Arden just hits such a specific note of nostalgia for me-- this slightly arch, folkloric tone that i remember from McKinley and McKillip. her newest is maybe my new favorite from her??

oh it's "so hard" to use new pronouns for your kid?? wait til you hear about literally any other facet of parenting. talk to me after you've put shin guards on a 7yo who is not in the mood to wear shin guards

It's pubday for my debut picture book! Everyone come say hi to Edgar, a cat who knows his angles. With amazing illustrations by Rob Justus and published by @sourcebooks.bsky.social Kids, I hope you check out PAY ATTENTION TO ME! www.sourcebooks.com/978146423312...

oh cool 👍 i am sure my already-precarious industry will be unaffected by the rising mountain of slop 👍

this @alicecaoillo.bsky.social illustration for the everlasting is the very first piece of original art i ever bought for myself 🥹

just overheard a 4th grader telling her friend, "if you ever need to distract some boys, literally just draw an X in the dirt. they'll stop to dig it up, they can't help it" which is the only gender metric I'll be using, moving forward

sometimes writing stresses me out and then i remember it's my actual, real-life job to come up with funny names for the mules in a dystopian short story. girl calm down

the answer to "how are publishers fighting censorship?" appears to be: by censoring books themselves

cville's business class acts like our unhoused population is some kind of national emergency, meanwhile I'm alone downtown last night when a guy asks for cash, then says "no worries, and by the way your energy is beautiful."

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

look i'm not a PR guy but it does feel like this was an easy win. all you had to do was look sad and brave for 24 hrs. why are you bringing a ballroom into it

not to make everything about AI, but AI is fundamentally anti-worker. it's a tool built and bought on the promise of lowering our collective value and concentrating wealth at the top. pro-union every day, but especially today: hachetteworkers.com/open-letter/

every time a publisher's employees unionize, the future of literature gets a little brighter

So it goes with conspiracy thinking. When every action is immediately discredited as a conspiracy, we inflate our belief in the state to act and discredit the ability of individuals to act. People like to spread fear on social media because it performs well because fear spreads easily.

my 9yo, delicately: sooo...do you guys ever want to have a nice car? or are you happy with this one

watched the 2007 legal thriller Michael Clayton for the first time last night and aside from everything else it's neat to see a movie where no one, not one single character, summarizes the plot and/or stakes for the audience

OKAY WE ARE SET TO GO I got my surgery date for Operation Literally Operation Yeet The Uterus Into The Sun! May 8! (If anyone feels like donating $3 for grocery delivery and catsitting moneys -- and IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT!!! -- I will not say no! ko-fi.com/premee )

finally saw the video of an author being ""rude"" at bookcon and i fear there are a lot of unanswered questions here. like: what if we didn't demand the performance of joyful intimacy from total strangers?? and what if i smash your phone with a cartoonishly large hammer???

We’re also continuing to support local immigrant families facing emergency needs. Buy e-gift cards online and forward the confirmation email OR Purchase physical cards and email us to coordinate pickup/drop-off! Donate here: bit.ly/GroceryCardCampaign (4/4)

may we all strive to fulfill the promise of the Virginia state flag (tits out, tyrants underfoot)

as a rural working class southerner who has lived in gerrymandered red districts for the majority of my life: lol cry harder

honored, bewildered, and slightly weepy to tell you that The Everlasting is nominated for a hugo, alongside all these incredible novels 🥹

virginia. listen to me. if you won't do it for democracy, do it for spite, and if you won't do it for spite, do it for 82yo state senator l. louise lucas

🗳️Today’s the day, friends! If you haven’t voted YES yet, vote at your polling place. And remember, Virginia has same-day voter registration!!🗳️

i respect season 2 of the pitt for saying "ignoring your depression & trauma doesn't make you the sympathetic hero, it makes you a problem in the fucking workplace"

cville: verified ICE activity this morning (Monday, April 20, 2026) at the Mallside Forest Apartments at the intersection of Mallside Forest Court and Putt Putt Place. three vehicles, six agents, rifle drawn. at least one person arrested. cvilleicewatch.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/%...

it's school board night and their presentation has 58 slides. public comment will take at least an hour. board members will also have a lot to say. by my math, that means..... afternoon coffee.

2009. maine state fair. i'm 19, slightly buzzed, living in my van, fresh out of work. i have just explained to my crush that i am fundamentally, inexplicably lucky. my crush does not believe in luck. i look into the trash can and pull out two tickets for a free dinner.

of course you CAN use AI to "write" your book but you run the risk of a lethally derisive colson whitehead materializing in your office to call you a hacky motherfreaker www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...