The goal here is to eliminate trans people's ability to exist in public. But note that it will also have the impact of being able to police anyone whose gender presentation does not match what they believe it is, because how do you even know someone is trans?

When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.

All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.

It appears libro fm is having a sale for Bookstore Romance Day. You can find all the books on sale here:

Sapphic aunt with a feckless nephew solving murders on a cruise ship in deep space — MURDER BY MEMORY is the first Dorothy Gentleman mystery novella and a short, sparkly read for summer weekends: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

friends, just finished this wonderful book and it's the perfect summer read. the epilogue made me cry happy tears because our heroines find dignity, safety & community support to make their dreams come true 🥰💖 pick up your copy today! #BookSky #romancelandia

I recently had a similar conversation was was telling them about our experience with the even what is nominally private media but owned by politicians. It poisons your politics so quickly and so completely.

Just a heads up that in addition to fake accounts popping up across social media, someone is now using a fake email ([email protected]) to mass email other writers with the intent to scam them. Please be aware that THIS IS NOT ME!! 😩 Thank you to everyone who has made me aware of this.

My favourite book festival in all the world, Open Book in Cape Town, has fallen foul of funding shortages. If you love African lit, and want to support a vital and electric and critically important festival that highlights African writers, please donate here: booklounge.co.za/product/open...

Just thinking about violence and resistance in @alyssacolelit.bsky.social’s exquisite novella Let it Shine, where a Black preacher’s daughter and a Jewish boxer join forces during the Civil Rights Era: alyssacole.com/let-it-shine/ #romancelandia #booksky

This is still on sale!

Book news!! Another thriller is heading your way in 2026! It Takes A Village is set in the wider world of When No One Is Watching, so get ready for another deep dive into corporate conspiracy and the everyday people fighting against them!!

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When one of your favorite people who wrote one of your favorite books last year wins a NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary Work! Congrats @alyssacolelit.bsky.social and One of Us Knows! If you want to pick up a copy: www.harpercollins.com/products/one... Full list variety.com/2025/film/aw...

Brilliant photographer Chandra Wicke is kickstarting her amazing project The Happily Ever After Society, which will feature interviews and photographs with some of your favorite authors as well as photo essays of scenes from your favorite romance novels! 💕 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

Drafted and deleted around five posts on how I'd appreciate it if society could collectively stop acting like memos now supersede laws. Found it hard to simultaneously express that legal fundamentals have historically only been reliable for sociopolitically dominant segments of a population anyway.

This is really good

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

Hey y'all! The FAB @rdotspoon.bsky.social is giving US a gift for her birthday! She has two book bundles up where you can pay what you want to get four AMAZING books. If you are broke, get some joyful books. If you are not, throw in some extra to pay it forward! payhip.com/RWBirthdayBo...

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My jaw hit the floor here.

for as long as I've been covering politics the chattering classes have demanded that Democrats lead on bipartisanship and it turns out that—as I've always suspected!—it's the exact quality that voters do not want in their politicians

ROMANCE FOR LOS ANGELES Fire relief auction! I'm offering up a signed bundle including HAVEN, SANCTUARY and HARBOR with a cute Harbor character postcard. 💕 www.32auctions.com/o...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

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Hey, #Philly! I’m so excited to welcome my friend Rebecca Yarros to my hometown this weekend to celebrate the long-awaited release of ONYX STORM! The event is sold out, but I hope to see a few members of my crew at the Miller Theater this Saturday. 🖤🐲💛

A bit random, but here we are. Tiana’s back on the USA Today list!

I've updated this campaign, but here's the tl;dr: everything is frozen, insurance companies are not my friends, and new meds are spendy. Also, my cat is cute. gofund.me/6bd3f24a

It's been beautiful to watch this unfold over the past years. So happy for us African readers and writers ❤️

Hey, just over 6 hours until tonight's @tbrcon.bsky.social panel on cozy fantasy with @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social, @momteacherwriter.bsky.social , @travisbaldree.bsky.social, Mariana Costa and @marshalljmoore.bsky.social! You can open up the tab right now: www.youtube.com/live/an6_1XX...

My current hyperfixation is “leftists and liberals continuing their never-ending social media bickering about who is the worst while the libertarian tech bros who control said social media sites take their places at Trump’s side during the inauguration.”

CBS is considering "offer[ing] concessions to win approval" of a merger by ***paying the President off*** in a baseless lawsuit he filed. How do you lose the rule of law? Gradually, then suddenly. Not a drill.

I cannot think of a better metaphor for America right now than the Washington Post's mission statement changing from “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”

The Alliance of Gezira and Managil Farmers has launched a We Must Plant Campaign in central Sudan to purchase seeds and inputs for 1500 families to plant inside their home compounds. You can support them here: sudansolidarity.com

Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft. thttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/british-novelists-criticise-government-over-ai-theft#img-1

Welp. Apple snuck something dirty in our phones last night. Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App TOGGLE OFF. You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡

More trope boxes are up in the shop and now I get to GO TO BED, this was a lot of photographs and photoshopping for one evening. lol (still just one of each and I may not be remaking these as the red sparkle was a bit of a PITA!) thebrokencircle.etsy.com

You can basically find-replace most of the terms in this article and it applies to everything from the games industry to book publishing and beyond. It's a problem across EVERYTHING right now. We need people who understand their business back in charge, not just people who understand "business".

If you are wondering about who to give to on this list, the orange color means they still need a lot of help. I looked to find whose GFM's were far off from reaching their goal and donated to a couple of those. We all we got, y'all. Even if you can only do $5, please do so. And share the list.

Congratulations to @alyssacolelit.bsky.social and all the @naacp.bsky.social Image Award nominees in the Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction - category. Alyssa Cole is nominated for her novel “One of us Knows.” Great books nominated. ✍🏾📚 #BlackBookSky #BookSky

As with most AI-related news, I find myself asking "what is the fucking point?" (I mean, apart from making money for tech companies.)

There is a warrant out for President Yoon's arrest. During the martial law he had a private black ops network of retired special forces that he ordered to mass murder protestors. They were called Oldboys, and were armed with hammers. Only reason it didn't happen is because all the Oldboys said no.

I've been dreading this. The company had a big downgrade in quality this year while simultaneously nearly doubting the cost of their databases. Service is intermittent and tech support is barely available.

This book is so good! Excellent Christmas world building. Even Krampus shows up.

Scrooge: You there, boy! What day is it? ChatGPT: Days were invented by the Druids in 1974

My appreciation of collards (from heritage seeds to the plate, braised, in soups, on sandwiches*, etc.) and the writing of @alexispauline.bsky.social are both well documented on here. 😂 📌 *collard and mushroom melt

Other countries like Finland are vaccinating farm workers, who are the vast majority of humans getting bird flu right now. The U.S. is not vaccinating farm workers for bird flu. The idiotic rationale from U.S. health officials is that it’s because bird flu isn’t spreading between humans yet.