Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

Thank you so much @helenemeyers.bsky.social & @lilithmagazine.bsky.social for lifting up my little grief-and-golem story 🩵

Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

"Morning, Jim!" "Hey, Tom."

Thank you, @helenemeyers.bsky.social and @lilithmagazine.bsky.social ✨✨✨

BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever. GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror. #QuestPit #W #YA #T #H

I'm pleased to share the latest interview about my book The Conscious Style Guide. Thanks to journalist Sophia Scolman and the Center for Journalism Ethics for bringing attention to the creativity and flexibility of conscious language. Visit KarenYin.com to learn about my other books.

This is a fun and smart book (I actually have a review of it forthcoming), so I’m guessing this lunchtime program will be a treat to be savored during these challenging times. @jwaonline.bsky.social @bethkander.bsky.social

With Hugo nominations closing tomorrow, here's one last reminder that Sargassa is eligible in the novel and Astounding categories ☀️ seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...

No way I’m drinking this OBVIOUS POISON

Anyone else watching #Daredevil and mistaking it for a documentary about American politics

Update from my 4yo's preschool on what they learned from a social worker today - idk felt relevant

Some sad news… Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of 58 years, has died. He was 82. “Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy."

Okay, an official intro-post: 👋I'm Beth 📚bestselling author & total bookworm 🎭playwright & theatre nerd 🥰mom of 2 hilarious kids 🍿film & TV nerd (it's art too y'all) 🔯one of those contemplative Jewish gals ☕gimme all the coffee & snacks 🗺️roots in the midwest & deep south; longing to live in London

Starting small with social media: In the BeforeTimes, Twitter was my literary community. Twitter got ugly, so I shifted to Instagram. I have 3k followers there now (not massive but not nothing) and it's making it hard to leave AGAIN. But Meta is (overtly) ugly. If you're in the same boat... (1/2)

I've forgotten how to do this. I used to be good at the old bird app. Now I'm like an out of shape former athlete looking at everyone sail past me here, knowing I should start stretching or something, but opting for curly fries instead.

Thanks so much for having me on! Had a blast talking code switching, Nike togas, and *checks notes* Birkin bags 🏛️

The browser searches for the current #wip are going to get me in MUCH more trouble than my last book

I don't intend this poem as sacrilegious; I see helping others as our most sacred obligation. But in a week where once again words feel inadequate & I see so many thoughts & prayers posts, my prayer is that we act. Give what we can, now; help how we can, now; advocate, always, for a better tomorrow.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

New to the neighborhood.