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New episode! @krisbryant.bsky.social and @taramdscott.bsky.social share their top 2025 recs, including books by @virginiablack.bsky.social, @leewinteroz.bsky.social, @writingroslyn.bsky.social, and @clareashton.bsky.social! https://www.queerlyrecommended.com/2026/01/06/aggressively-horny-qr-124/

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Our investigation finds that Trump's actions in Venezuela and Greenland are the product of a long-running Russian influence campaign that began during his first term. Read + share the complete report. america2.news/the-russian-...

I only found out there was a Audible sale after seeing my bookscan numbers for The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet suddenly jump by several hundred 🤣 nobody tells me anything. So, grab a copy for 99 cents if you've got a US account! The narrator (Clare Corbett) does an absolutely cracking job.

there are lots of options available, we don't have to be bullied into making tech choices that are not in our best interest to use

Look at this weird cloud

One of the few newsletters I pay for. Highly worth it.

Fascinating thread on new research—my fellow Autistic, AuDHD, and ADHD folks will find this of particular interest (and likely find it reflects our lived experience): “Stimulants mimicked the effects of getting more sleep and anticipated reward, not attention.” 🧵👇🏼

Thank you, @jvrmainee.bsky.social! 💐🫶🏾 Everyone else... please join the party, read, and share my novels -- MM Romance novels featuring Black leads and set in California! linktr.ee/FrederickLSm... #BookSky #Romancelandia #BlackBookSky #MMRomance #HeatedRivalry #LGBTQBooks

The basic truth is the University of Oklahoma fired an instructor because she had the audacity to do her job while trans. Media like CNN are complicit in simultaneously pushing the anti-trans narrative and covering up the brutal outcomes of this societal purge.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

if bari weiss hadn't pulled that 60 Minutes piece it likely would've gotten very little attention, but now she's been revealed as the bowdlerizing incompetent she is. i love this journey for her.

Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.

Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

And he's an incredible guest!

Wishing y’all a mellow Winter Solstice. Found elsewhere, sharing here

Fancy a post-Christmas Regency and sapphic chill reading sesh in your pjs? Like and repost this skeet (is that really what we call them?) for a chance to win one of 3 signed copies of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! Open worldwide until midnight 23rd Dec, winners drawn on Christmas Eve.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Here's an easy script to follow for when you call them.

This is all true. And the biggest danger Vance poses is that he is a walking skinsuit for the tech bros. Peter Thiel created his career. Elon Musk is one of his biggest boosters. If Vance is sitting in the Oval, the technofascists will wield an amount of power that will dwarf anything we've seen.

Oof. Couple of these are brutal.

Today is exactly 6 months out from the pub date for my forthcoming novel. Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, MM romance out 6/16/26 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social I’m excited about this book and bringing it into the world! bookshop.org/p/books/love...

The elves have 3 days to find Mrs. Claus a new husband! A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS is now available in audiobook! 🎅🏾🤎🤶🏾 rbmediaglobal.com/au... ebook: https://amzn.to/4s22FKS

Hey romancelandia and fandom peeps! If you live in the U.S. right now you should know that KOSA (along with a slew of censorship bills) are advancing through congress right now. If you care about spicy books and/or fanfiction you should contact your reps right now and tell them to vote NO on KOSA!

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Instacart is using algorithmic pricing to charge you 20% more for your Wheat Thins.

The UK has turned into a censorious nightmare state because of transphobia

I've been neck deep in this philosophy for years. Could I stop my state from targeting trans children and their healthcare? No. We all tried, but we knew it was the longest of shots. What I COULD do was help the individual kids. Some needed material help, others emotional support. I could do that.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

She hates Albertans.

simply marvelous

I had a lot of fun reading this cute Christmas romance!

This review is unreal and what a DELIGHT to see something from Candy?!

If you want a primer on the Network State, I spent some time with a group hoping to make one this summer: www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

New episode alert! This week, @krisbryant.bsky.social recommends the new hockey show Heated Rivals and @taramdscott.bsky.social recommends a Christmas sapphic romance, Once Upon a Time in December by Alyson Root.  Listen now: https://www.queerlyrecommended.com/2025/12/09/son-i-can-see-you-qr-122/

This thread has me so fucking annoyed because this is exactly the piece that I want to read and yet here we are.

anyway one of the many reasons to support smaller publishers with a niche they do really well is they're generally publishing books they really care about rather than throwing a thousand titles at the market to see what sticks

As I have been saying... Substack isn't just a Nazi bar, it's a bar that wants to shackle the non-Nazis to the tables. Leave if you're there; don't start if you can help it. And I'm thinking of going to Patreon myself. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/top-...

I had a lot of fun reading this cute Christmas romance!

Just walk out! You can leave!

Non-Canadians, what's the most obscure place in Canada that you know a bit about, and why? Bonus points if you've been there. Double bonus points if Canadians have never heard of it. #askfedi

i cannot stop laughing at this

“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

As a mental health professional, I endorse this project.