it's actually so easy to navigate the US healthcare system. for example to get a cost estimate, just call your doctor's office! they will tell you to call your insurance, who will tell you to call the lab, who will tell you to call your doctor's office, who will tell you to call your insurance, who

Rmeinder to authors who have any ability to negotiate in contracts: make sure your audio contract precludes this.

really good writeup of the RELX/bookcon stuff, as situated in a broader media landscape where everything we love puts money in the hands of cartoon villains 🫠

man we have pretty limited screens in our house but my kids still talk about the day my husband finally beat me in mario kart the way old timey baseball guys talk about the miracle mets

"if he wins the primary will you promise to--" no! i will not promise shit!! if that worries you maybe you should be scrambling to find a candidate that doesn't repulse me on every level!!!

god bless inter-library loan 🙏 god bless my local librarian 🙏 god bless the small north dakota library who was willing to ship this rare & fairly valuable paperback they still happen to have in circulation, purely bc some lady in virginia really wants to read it 🙏

this saturday! bring your kids-- we'll have crafts and activities and at least one pokemon encyclopedia 🙏

i actually just re-read this one i liked it so much. if you ever wished the keanu reeves Constantine movie was set in rural france on the eve of the revolution--

me to my therapist:

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

we made gorgonzola bacon burgers with smashed potatoes and then watched all three hours of the 2024 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. turns out after 15 valentine's together you basically go pro

9yo has developed a recurring character he calls "The Conniving Henchman" where he hunches over and hisses things like "sire...this peasant has stolen from your most loyal servant...punish them!!" which means his sibling stole his favorite lego guy

Hopping excited to announce I'll be appearing at the Virginia Festival of the Book! March 20-22 in Charlottesville, VA. @alixeharrow.bsky.social (The Everlasting) & I will be onstage together for our panel, Whirls Through Time, on Sat, 3/21 at 12 PM www.vabook.org #vabookfest #booksky #timetravel

small potatoes in the scheme of things but SIXTY bookcon authors have signed this letter so far and i just think that's neat 🥰

just in case anyone needs reminding or a guide: reactormag.com/anyone-can-v...

noo i don't have seasonal depression ha ha it's just that i can only attain true joy when the windows are open and the sun is slanting in?? it's a different, more special & artistic condition

preemptively annoyed that everyone is going to hate the wuthering heights movie for the wrong reasons. it won't be bad bc it's horny :( it'll be bad bc her films uncritically reproduce the paranoias of the entitled, using surface-level deviance to deliver frank conservatism :(

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

nationally of course there are no consequences for anything but, locally, i am happy to report that the union successfully delivered the "find out" portion of the "fuck around" program 🙏

something we've been working on for a few days! link to the full letter: tinyurl.com/bookconautho...

did you know that if a city sewer gets blocked and you are the lowest house on the street it's possible for all your neighbors' sewage to bubble up from your basement drain. it might also be saturday night in record-setting cold so all the emergency plumbers are busy with burst pipes

cville: the school district is trying to wriggle out of the raise they negotiated for support staff (who do not make a living wage!!) AND blame the union for it. truly wild behavior.

i know the democratic party is not meeting this moment bc senator L. Louise Lucas is not yet in charge of national comms

that thing where your child won't pick out their sweater so you pick out their sweater but that sweater, upon review, does not align with their vision, so now, .05 seconds before the bus arrives, they WILL go pick out their own sweater, actually-- love that. best way to start the day

As one of the members of this parent coalition that pushed to have language about ICE put into the memorandum of understanding for cops in Charlottesville schools, I am disappointed that the School Board not only removed it at the last minute, but in the most cowardly way possible

this is truly great to see, but i do find it interesting that the cville school board recently *removed* language forbidding cooperation with ICE from their contract with the cops, on the grounds that it might draw unwanted federal attention.

imagine looking at this moment of renewed outrage against mega-rich predators and thinking yeah, it's a good time for me, a mega-rich predator, to launch my comeback

Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.

you can tell the AI revolution is going well because every CEO is begging you to use it in the same tone as the government asking good citizens to buy war bonds in the 40s

No (more😟) ICE concentration camps in Virginia! Email Jim Pattison Development to stop the sale of the warehouse on 11525 Lakeridge Pky, Ashland, Virginia to the US Department of Homeland Security. Share this action alert WIDELY and encourage others to do the same. www.jpdevelopments.com/contact

eyyyy sid sagar and moira quirk are audie award finalists for their narration of The Everlasting! congrats to the whole list!! people.com/31st-audie-a...

worst part of writing a book is that cringe phase at the beginning where you have to write shit like "what if the tree is a dragon" or "libertalia in space??" and be so sincere about it. you spend a lifetime developing a bitchy inner monologue and now you have to press a pillow over her face

bro whistles are the NICE option. do you really want to challenge 1,000 nerds with 3D printers to invent something louder and more annoying???

a plow finally made it to our street and then the plow broke down and had to get towed out. if i am slow replying to your email it's bc my kids won't be back in school until the spring thaw

Our friends at The Haven just sent a message asking for donations to support over 80 community members who are homeless that The Haven and other partners have placed in hotels during this winter weather. They need to raise $27k. Please consider donating today. www.thehaven.org/give-online

lmao of course

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

We have to defund ICE and the cops. I’m sorry. It can’t just stop with ICE. We gotta go all the way. 🤷🏾‍♀️

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

my 9yo told me about a special move in hyrule warriors and then this morning I couldn't remember the special move so he threw up his hands and said "it's in one ear and out the other with you"

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

KIDNAPPED. You don’t arrest a child. The word you’re looking for is KIDNAPPED.

in Virginia, "local law enforcement" reported a teenager to ICE. he was taken from his foster home in handcuffs and transported across state lines. this is like taking money from the joker and giving it to the riddler

having a small, tasteful scream this morning www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...

Absolute garbage. Call your reps and tell them NO BODY CAMS, NO TRAINING - ICE CANNOT BE "REFORMED." ICE OUT OF OUR CITIES, THEN DEFUND AND ABOLISH ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS. Find your reps here: reps.fyi They are giving ICE *MORE* money with these garbage "reforms." More money to HURT US.

cannot express how much i am sweating the order of the stories in this collection. it's like burning a mix for your crush except if you wrote all the songs and she gets to review them on goodreads

i am a middle aged white mom with a minivan. i live in a brick ranch and vote democrat in every election. i am the electoral equivalent of a free space in bingo. I PROMISE THIS IS NOT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AT MY KITCHEN TABLE

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