Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

It's giving QWOP

Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!" Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"

I was hooked by the drawing room scene btw Newland and Ellen at the end of book 1. 🏹 It reminded me (plot function-wise) of the drawing room scene in the middle of P&P where Darcy proposes (terribly) to Lizzy the first time.

Omg it's so accurate, I really do use Libby tags all the time! 😂 💙📚

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So disappointed. 💔 I mean, I didn't think it was going to be good news with the length of time the investigation was taking, but this is...bad. #guardsball

This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓 The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺 The facts are so good 🥺 Eels are so cool 🥺 Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net

the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond. he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.

🏹 I think I would go hungry a lot in Gilded Age New York.

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

Catching up on yesterday's reading, and I can't believe Edith Wharton invented the Madonna-Whore Complex 🏹 (I still want to constantly shake Archer)

More info about Marta Leiva, the woman I witnessed being assaulted by plainclothed men in the SLC airport last week. She has a work permit legal through 2029, mom of 4 with sick kids: www.ksl.com/article/5139... You can donate to her gofundme for legal expenses: www.gofundme.com/f/apoya-madr...

All right, I suppose I'm coming around to him if he's going to make feminist statements lol 🏹

GoFundMe for Marta, the woman I filmed being forcefully detained in SLC airport. She is a mother of four and has a work permit legal through 2029. She and her sister were given no reason for her arrest, no due process. She needs funds to help defend herself.

This has been a really rough few days. I recently learned of a controversy around our book THE PRINCESS IN BLACK AND THE PRINCE IN PINK. Some were outraged that Deseret Book carried it (a chain of bookstores in the west). Deseret Book appears to have complied to their demands and removed it. 1/

Those who have read this before, am I ever going to like Newland Archer? He's just pompous and self-absorbed and this is going to be a tedious book for me if I dislike the main character lol 🏹 At least Lovelace was a clever bastard!

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Being able to watch the World Series in the MLB app has been incredible. 1. We get the app's ads, not Fox ads. 2. We can choose the Toronto radio play-by-play audio. Not Fox commentators. No in-game interviews. 👏👏👏

Farmworkers in Oxnard, CA are harvesting marigolds just in time for #DiaDeLosMuertos. The marigold is sometimes called Flor de Muerto (“Flower of the Dead”). These flowers are thought to attract the souls of the dead to the offerings and ensure eternal peace.

Join us in reading a classic this month! 💙📚

I would be happy to let my unclaimed funds go to feed Ohioans instead Lawyers ask judge for injunction blocking transfer of Ohio unclaimed funds to Browns stadium - share.google/8FH2YmvcnLYO...

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

Does anyone know any disability rights lawyers in Ohio that are willing to rep pro bono? I need help with something and no I do not feel comfortable putting what it is online. Just message me if you know someone.

The statue Ozymandias king of kings Yes YES The statue is ruins

Lol Fox tried to go to commercial TWICE mid-1st, completely ignoring the extremely close calls that were obviously going to be challenged. #worldseries

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

SHE’S HERE SHE’S HERE I can’t I’m so in love #puppyexpress

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Golden!

This is my favorite used bookstore find of all time.

More pictures of the brilliance that is (lab manager) Aida de la Cruz with her creation.

Reading the awesome graphic novel FLIP and really enjoying it 📚💙 @ngoziu.com is this a SHINee reference?? I feel attacked lol

K-Pop Demon Hunters but make it a book cover 💖✨ I couldn’t resist illustrating the scene we all wanted to happen 🥹

Voters in Ohio continue to have their (our) rights abrogated.

Timely warning. #pleasingterror 😱

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

Separate but related: YouTube is running ICE recruitment ads on my KIDS' ACCOUNTS. To whom/how can I complain about this??

My husband has actually watched this movie more time than I have! The story and characters have depth! (I've seen the BBC miniseries more times, though, just for the record. And I've definitely read the book more.)

You didn't think I'd market this book without a Paint Ad, did you? Preorder my trans self-discovery novella Opus from your favorite bookstore. Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb 'Zon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWJ89VC Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... 📚💙💕 #booksky 🌈🚀📚

After a THOROUGHLY enjoyable book launch event for @marthawells.com Queen Demon, since Murderbot was talked about so much I wound up channeling my appreciative feelings into carving an eraser stamp of MB and ART 💛

Banned Books Week may be over but the fight for the freedom to read and the first amendment continues. I talked with author/artist Mike Curato (FLAMER) about his experiences as an often-banned creator in Massachusetts and beyond. #massfreedomtoread @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social

Love the characterization in "Oh Whistle." The Colonel is, on one hand, a complete idiot but saves the day (yes, chuck that thing into the sea!) While the esteemed learned Professor 1) blew the cursed whistle for funsies and 2) wants to improve his golf game. #pleasingterror 😱

I should not be left unsupervised with canva #writersky