Putin accused Ukraine of attacking his residence, which they deny. Who gives a shit? Russia has kidnapped their children. Bombed their hospitals. Cracked the dome over Chernobyl. Putin's residence is fair game. If you don't like it, get the fuck out of their country. www.axios.com/2025/12/29/p...

A good goal.

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

Cutest little bookstore.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

It would be excellent if Bari Weiss's coverup resulted in more people seeing this truth in the end. It would be even better if our knowledge resulted in these horrors ending forever.

Our good friend Joy Harris still needs our support in dealing with her cancer costs. She's been such a light to Romancelandia. Can you help bring her some light? Thanks. 💜 gofund.me/0c8d4cee0

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

The Match Girl - artist: thestuffedalligator.tumblr.com/post/6367759...

Feels like the enshittification of trusted news services is just part of their plan.

Might go buy a random-penguin-published book.

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The Princess Bride is my all-time favorite movie. This Rob Reiner news is hitting pretty hard.

So say we all (GenX).

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Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Ovcharenko has a question:

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

Scotland is adorable.

Is it very pathetic that even though I know they’re AI-written scams, I’m still enjoying these “I just found your book and it’s brilliant here let me review it for the low low price of a buncha money” emails?

Call them “slutty” if you wish, but my books are all sex-positive, and I’m proud of that.

Can confirm: some fluffy little chonk just scared all the birds from the feeder a minute ago.

Texas' 2025 congressional map is at the center of a legal battle, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Dec. 4 that Texas could use the new map for the 2026 primaries while that fight plays out. Use our lookup tool to see what your district looks like under the new map.

The entire U.S. population is in the low hundreds of millions (340m), meaning that according to NoemMath, nearly all of us were on track for a cocaine-related death. I am so grateful to have been saved.

Authors win discovery ruling in lawsuit against Open AI that could help prove willful copyright infringement (over the use of pirated datasets for AI training)

Tis the season now, officially.

No, on Thanksgiving I don’t want to think about what my country is doing to the world. But this is reality. I’m so sorry, world. We deserve your scorn.

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

The whole fam is here for Thanksgiving. There's cleaning and cooking and game playing and massive loud beautiful chaos. I'm in my office finishing up an editing project. I thought I wouldn't be able to work with all this activity, but I'm getting stuff done. I ... might be able to write again?

"I don’t think [Elon] has the power he thinks he has, or that a lot of people think he has, to damage Wikipedia. We’ll be here in a hundred years and he won’t." Brutal. I love it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

Today I learned that burnt lentils smell a little bit like weed. Hey, at least it wasn't the turkey! #WhoLetHerCook

@whitehouse-47.bsky.social Stand by Ukraine, they are the victims. Fuck Putin and fuck Trump. Russia is our enemy! Russians out of all of Ukraine including Donbas and Crimea.

Funny because it’s true. Sad because it’s true.

We need to stop inviting the monster to dinner and telling him he looks snazzy. Chris Murphy is right. We have already normalized too much.

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

FAFO AI might be the most 2024esque thing a human could say. But I’m okay being old-fashioned like that.

Solemn pledge to my editing clients: I will never feed your original work to Grammarly or some other AI that would use it for nefarious and thievy purposes. The only eyes on it will be mine.

I suspect Trump’s permission to vote for release of Epstein files really means his minions have finally finished scrubbing his name from said files.

Especially this one.

The comments had me rolling.

Why Trump’s self-inflicted inflation feels so much worse than Biden’s pandemic-recovery inflation. Also why it is likely to devolve rather than improve unless the SCOTUS grows a spine.

(This is true for most writers, no matter where we’re published. I used to save screenshots of messages and made a desktop collage for when my “no really I suck” internal voice got too loud.)

“Only one bed” is such a fun trope, it might even lure me to read Christmas rom.

Found this quote inspiring.

Ready for it.

This is the right energy.

I'll be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin this weekend doing a panel with @scalzi.com!

Vote. Anyway. Our government is a terrorist org. Voting is how we fight it.

We’re getting multiple reports that independents in Chester County, Pennsylvania (a Democratic-leaning area) have been left off the voter rolls. They’re being told to fill out provisional ballots, the same ones MAGA often tries to claim shouldn’t be counted.