Oh sweet baby Jesus. I cannot describe how quickly I want this. Shoot it into my knees. Pour it into a shot glass. Prepare it as an enema I DON’T CARE JUST YES PLEASE

Me, only with Christmas cookie sprinkles

I just learned (at the end of the day, sorry about that) that EVERY HEART A DOORWAY is apparently on sale for $2.99 today so...get on that!

2 minutes into the RR HoF Induction show and we’ve gone in hot.

The best way to cure a ‘New Year’s Eve feast from my local taqueria and too many margaritas’ hangover? Chilaquiles with the leftover salsa verde, and more margaritas. My sinuses are currently on fire. That salsa verde doesn’t get less spicy the more it sits 🔥😭🔥

Happiest of New Years! May 2026 be full of joy and blessings!

Still seeking these dice.

Yes, as always, please feel free to read my books from the library and also! if your library doesn’t carry them, please request they purchase them for their collection 🙏 My indie titles are priced the exact same for libraries as bookstores! Eg. unlike big pub ebooks, mine will fit library budgets 🤓

@margueritekenner.bsky.social can you DM me when you have a spare moment? Not too time-sensitive but I have a British contracts question for which I am g happy to reimburse as needed…

Enthusiastic second for nasal barrier sprays! These work, folks.

Minneapolis/St Paul! If you have Muslim neighbors please particularly make sure they are aware, there's a lot of halal markets on the list of affected stores.

It’s raining steadily here and temps are dropping 30+ degrees (f) to well below freezing in a few hours tonight. These are textbook black ice conditions; everyone be careful out there!

Easiest assignment ever!

Do you know how NOT difficult it is to wear a mask on an airplane? Seriously… it’s not hard, folks, and protects not only you and your family but also reduces potential vectors crossing states/countries.

Hey @dinajames.com !

So the DB and I are home from travels. The cats are thrilled to see us. However this means Gwen Kitty is determined to sleep *directly* on my head as I attempt to nap. I am not as enthralled as one might assume, but I feel bad for leaving her so cannot evict her from our bedroom as usual. *sigh*

@andrewjack.bsky.social this says we need to collab on a Pacific-based something!

This is a lovely thread and the cat was fine and came home so read on with impunity!

Finally, if you can get through the paywall this piece from earlier in the week illuminates how the experience above is just a tiny part of an industrial-scale, global, and sector-wide catastrophe of AI and citations to nonexistent papers in academic publishing bsky.app/profile/mile...

Also: boarding an airplane (especially little airports where you may have to deal with stairs along the jetway) can take a lot longer than disembarking. We always try to pre-board (note: without wheelchair) because -to copy the gate agent’s spiel- we ‘need a little extra time to get on board.’

Are there people who game the system? Odds say yes. Are there seemingly able-bodied passengers who really aren’t? Most assuredly. Is it MYOB day every day? Oh hells yes.

Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.

MMR is classified as a lifetime vaccine but antibodies can wane after several decades. For those of us who got the vaccine several decades back, a blood draw and titer test may be worthwhile to check immunity!

If you have a neighbor or loved one detained by ICE or need help with a federal agency, contact my office at (773) 799-8219.

Attention, #IL03! We have received reports of DHS agents back in our communities. Stay safe! The best way to protect ourselves is by knowing our rights and not spreading misinformation.

Also: request the book from your local library!

Paging @kristadb1.bsky.social

BTW...you can get shingles IN YOUR EYES. Imagine that.

Edge is out today! Yay!! Picture it. Chicago. Homicide cops. A tainted drug hits the streets, and bodies fall. Can Det. Harriet Foster and her team stop it? #chicagomystery #detharrietfoster

Since Bookshop.org is still offering free shipping + 20% off future orders...wanna check out my shoppe? I've got contemporary psychological thriller, crime fiction short stories, and a genre mashup series (alt history + ghosts + magic) 🤓

‘What Child Is This’ and ‘Where the River Meets the Sea’ from John Denver and the Muppets Christmas Album

Scheduled Post: Big Kobo sale is live! Solomon's Seal is 99c in eBook and just $6.99 in audio until December 1. Find sales at many other stores (Apple, Smashwords) as well, all links here: books2read.com/solomon-s-seal

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Vicunya Little blue penguin Grizzly bear Monitor lizard Flying fox

We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion. The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”. Which is why the rage. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Hey folks, my platonic murder wife--Dina "I don't rescue kittens anymore" James--has...rescued a bunch of kittens. She's paying out of pocket to vax and s/n friendlies and TNR others. Now she has four littles. Trying to get them into the overwhelmed shelter system, but can use help in the meantime.

Dina is the best people at caring for swarms of abandoned kittens, and she is drowning in them right now. Help if you can, please signal boost!

DEAR US FOLKS: Once again I am teaming up with my local bookseller, Jay and Mary's Book Center, to offer up signed (and if requested, personalized) books for the holidays. All the details are at the link. Go there and get books for everyone! Including you! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/11/h...

As someone who worked for decades with rescue Akitas, I feel this in my bones. Reactive Akitas (and they aren’t all but the odds are not in a strange dog’s favor) give no warning; they just launch. Hopefully the worst to happen would be a shredded ear but don’t count on it.

This is what I’m saying. THIS is the crew that undermined the Dem caucus and the voters?

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

As the Witch of November arrives at her usual time.

So…. First: how would the bank even qualify as borrower for that long? Second: If I buy a house at age 30 it would be paid off when I’m 80. Are you high? Third: who the heck wants a mortgage at that age? Just rent or buy something less expensive, FFS. Finally: this is a scam. Complete scam.

If you are willing to defy court orders to starve 42 million Americans, you have lost your humanity. Trump needs to follow the law and fully fund SNAP benefits.

Terrorists have taken over a building. You get to select one song to blast from speakers on a continuous loop to try to get them to surrender. Copy and quote-post with the name of the song. ‘Mickey’ by Toni Basil

Yesterday I reset the bedroom clocks, the microwave, the clock on the stove and the clock in the living room. Now if I could only figure out how to reset the clocks in the pets’ stomachs…

For those interested in the Edmund Fitzgerald, a reminder that there is a commemoration here in Detroit every November & if you can’t physically be here they livestream the ceremony on their Facebook page bc it always sells out: www.facebook.com/DossinGreatL...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...