I mean, has everyone checked their Signal app? He might have accidentally shared the top secret reason with you.

I drew a little something in Procreate to capture how I’m feeling. Obviously needs like three more waves but this captures the gist… #politics #trump #maga #gop #ai #economy #authoritarianism #climatecrisis #politicalcartoon #lgbt #transrightsarehumanrights

Ran into a troll in Issaquah. It’s right behind me, isn’t it … A shame these trolls didn’t exist when I was writing Finn Fancy Necromancy. Maybe I can work them into a future novel. #troll #fantasy #artwork #magic #fantasybooks #adventure #hobbit #pacificnorthwest

Had a blast going with friends to WET LEG last night (with awesome opening act Mary in the Junkyard). Pre-show hangout at the Pine Box, a former mortuary turned bar/ pizza restaurant. #wetleg

I LOVE getting fun surprises in my mail and email, not just junk, especially when news and social feeds are so doomscrolly. If you could use fun and creativity in your inbox, definitely subscribe to Emily Skaftun's Patreon to get her weekly postcard fiction: www.patreon.com/skaftun #amreading

Saw Chuck Tingle on Wednesday. Fun, funny, and full of love and positivity as always. His are the only horror novel readings I’ve been to, but I assume all horror novel readings are full of sparkle and energy and laughter and love, right? ;p #chucktingle #loveisreal

FIRST: I love that Washington's Secretary of State Steve Hobbs is a D&D player/GM who goes by "Happy Tracker Meow Meow." SECOND: I love that he and UW professor Jin Ha Lee are advocating ways games can be used to train folks to battle misinformation. www.kuow.org/stories/pop-... #dnd #resistance

One last timebecause I know I miss stuff on Bluesky all the time...If you're in/around Seattle, come meet @meganeokeefe.bsky.social & me at Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park) tomorrow! REALLY looking forward to geeking out about craft & stuff with Megan! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/meliss...

What's in the Trump/GOP big, ugly bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Public land sell off -Big Oil tax loopholes -Blocks state and local regulation against AI -More money for defense contractors The oligarchy's wishlist.

Selena Gomez flavored Oreos?! I know there was that whole Gweneth Paltrow’s V-scented candle. And I realize people love Yellowjackets and Hannibal and I-Zombie and all. But this just seems a bad idea to me. I mean, what if they get “the hunger”?! #selenagomez #alwayssunny

I love that people are reportedly glitter bombing a certain group of masked kidnappers so that they are identifiable without their masks. Can’t get rid of glitter! The power of sparkle!

Happy Pride!

It’s amazing how many chores I find suddenly interesting and urgent when I need to write a difficult emotional scene. #amwriting #amvacuuming #ammakingasnack #amdecluttering #amdoingdishes #ammakinganothersnack #whatwasIwriting #ohyesithinkitsdinnertimenow #amwonderingwhyicantloseweight

A current influencer trend claims em-dashes are "chaptGPT dashes" and prove AI writing, and -- YOU CANNOT HAVE MY EM-DASHES! I don't write with AI, but I DO use 527,362 em-dashes per novel. They come direct from my soul, they FEEL right -- something AI could never understand. #amwriting #writing

DoorDash is part preview of a world with replicators. Order whatever meal you want at home and zap it’s there, ready. How does anyone in Star Trek fit in their uniforms? Also computer, stop suggesting I add Dairy Queen. I said Earl Grey, hot, and I meant i… oh, fine, and one Peanut Buster Parfait.

Wonderful weekend at #Norwescon. Thanks everyone who came to my reading! So good to catch up with so many friends at the con. And thank you to the Norwescon volunteers for all your hard work and passion.

I’m sure Trump and his friends didn’t bet against the market and plan to buy up all the foreclosed real estate (or whatever finance bros do to profit on the suffering of others) before he put his plan in motion. Blue Horseshoe likes all those stocks Tariffs are tanking.

I love what Cory Booker did. I just wish I hadn’t woken up to multiple fundraising emails with the same copy/paste statement from him. It feels like it cheapened it. How cool would it have been to get emails from him saying “Here’s ten ways you can join the fight” that weren’t about donations?

Operation Bomb Atlantis is a go for 16:30. POTUS says he saw on TV that they plan to destroy the surface world. Also, he doesn’t like anything named the Atlantic right now. So just … drop some big bombs in the sea and film the explosions. Wait, “Bluesky” is the Air Force secure #Signal chat right?

Want to join the #resistance but feeling overwhelmed or not sure where to start? Here’s a day-by-day guide to joining the resistance. It doesn’t cover every possible option or issue, but will get you started at least in a manageable, healthy way. www.randy-henderson.com/resistancegu...

I ate something dodgy from the food truck and dreamed up “TOTAL Agile!” Maybe I should start an overpriced certification institute for it! (Today’s “boardom” post). #thelassoway #agile

Post Alley in Seattle is what I imagine Roman or Medieval city walls once looked like, covered in grafittied news and scandals of the day. #news

I keep saying, Elon Musk will be our Ted Faro. #horizonzerodawn

Can you believe they were working on deciphering these for years before I came on board? (Another day of me being the only person in the office…) #stargate

My favorite reaction to the Superman trailer. 100% legit.

Had bad seat luck the last couple of shows. At Cyndi Lauper, a woman kept leaning out in front of me to film the entire show. At Back to the Future, the Mountain’s brother sat in front of me. Not that it was much of a loss. It was not great. We left early. Here were my views.

Who IS that genius? I totally came across this puzzle and solved it no problem. How do you like them apples? I was definitely not just bored being in the office all alone for 8 hours while everyone else is OOO…

Dressing for the occasion, down on vaccination street.

Real talk. We need 300 new subscribers (including renewals) to keep publishing issues at our current size. If we don't get hit that number we will need to scale back the magazine size. Help us keep our size (or increase it!) over the next two weeks! apex-magazine.com/apex-blog/it...

My hair lately has been naturally forming into horns. Very mysterious. Completely inexplicable. Pay no attention.

This is legit scary. Marsha Blackburn is openly admitting that her bill KOSA will be used to drive trans people off the internet. But Democrats are lining up to support it, and LGBTQIA+ orgs have dropped their opposition. WTF WTF WTF www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-ad...

My latest newsletter is about a piece of legislation that will make the internet much, much worse for all of us — unless we fight now. buttondown.email/charliejane/... (I wrote this before I got a positive covid test. Gonna go goof off now.)

Finished revisions and sent book 1 of my queer dwarf trilogy to my agent. Now, while I wait to hear if it’s something she wants to rep, I’ve started writing short stories for the first time in almost ten years. Oh, and I’m brainstorming a humorous series as well. So we’ll see what tomorrow holds.

It's reminder time again. We have no idea who our Kindle subscribers are, but there are a lot of them. Losing those subscribers is going to be brutal, so we'll keep bringing this up. We have no choice.

Just 4 days left in the @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Kickstarter, and we're nearly to the novella stretch goal! Love longer fiction? Get a subscription or one of the other excellent rewards! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lynnemthomas/uncanny-magazine-year-10-a-decade-of-delightful-defiance

Barbenheimer weekend! Saw Barbie with barbestest friends, and wore my Misfits shirt in hopes of manifesting a crossover in the sequel. Took Dad to Oppenheimer. EXISTENTIAL DREAD … IN IMAX!!! Could have cut by 30 minutes, and included the names of the visual artists left out of the credits.

From Thursday, hanging with some sooper kewl writer peoples doing sooper kewl writer things.

This trail closed to: Patriarchy. #barbie

This is like a bad joke. This is like something out of a Roald Dahl novel.

Last night, I was PITB with Chuck Tingle! Wait, Pictured In The Bookstore. What did you think I meant?!

Another migration. Let’s see how Bkuesky works out. :)