This is really hard to read. And the thing that is sitting with me the most about it is that it has always legal and possible to do this for decades. The only thing preventing this from having been the norm was a sense of humanity. This is why we need structural reform. Not just a change in admin.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

I missed Monday Reads yesterday because I was getting my car repaired and navigating without a phone. I was reading, though! (JHEREG by Steven Brust, fun with fantasy assassins and necromancy. Narrator is witty and very in love with his wife.)

Getting even more innovative with the concept of "making clear if this is a verb or an adjective the first time someone reads the sentence." Don't know if it will catch on, frankly.

Experimenting with this really challenging new writing technique. It's called "shorter sentences."

I'm a happy fool, she's written two more novels and one was on the Orange Prize longlist! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_M...

Artists, writers, teachers, hell if you appreciate your mechanic let them know. None of us are here for long. When my sister's favorite teacher passed, I sent a few words of appreciation to all my favorite high school teachers and I think it made a difference to every one of them.

My phone is at the phone hospital getting a new battery, so I am FORCED TO TOUCH GRASS for the next few days. (I'm sending this post from a laptop but I do a lot of casual scrolling via phone, usually.) See you all on the other side!

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Happy Friday! Remember to: 1. Buy your sexy and kinky books from Smashwords 2. Call, mail a letter (physical not email; they delete emails) or otherwise bother your local payment processor: stop-paypros.neocities.org

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

We're at T minus 3 hours as I repost this if I'm doing my math right.

Guys... this feels incredible. (Smells nice, too! 🍀)

Tender Things: Stories about Dominant Women A baker’s dozen of stories about women who like to command, take what they want, and leave marks on their lucky, eager partners. Just what you want if you’re a fan of femdom, submissive men, romance or pure smutty delight. Contents include: wrestling,…

Over the next few days I want to -Get my new author website Wordpress theme working -Prepare my #Whumptober posts on Tumblr -Submit 2 stories to calls closing 9/30 -Finish editing this story nobody specifically asked for but I have a feeling about (revised from 7k to 5,250 words; 250 more to cut!)

huge W

“Exceptional Service” in Coming Soon In most of my favorite stories , orgasm is just one stop on a delicious sexual journey. In particular, I loved “Exceptional Service” by T.C. Mill, a… threesome tale with a touch of femdom that really captured (for me) the thrill of erotic surrender. –Lisbet…

Shouldn't escape anyone's notice, either, that they're fond of trying to say that trans identity is an epiphenomenon of autism

I'm not really committed to ridiculing physical features, but this gets at something I've been pondering - that many people have appearances that would be Fine if they had not made their souls into abominations I have a weird gummy smile. I also have the moral glow of not being Charlie Kirk.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Entering my periodic Pining for Shorter Romance Heroes phase. Or Taller Romantic Heroines, those are also great. My fantasy is being able to stand with both feet flat on the ground and look that handsome sucker in the eyes.

Massachusetts/Boston folks: One week from today, next Tuesday 9/30 at 7 pm, I’ll be at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge to talk about how YOU can fight book banning and advocate for the passage of a Freedom to Read bill in MA. Please join us! portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

Amending that: the As Meat Loves Salt fandom includes a lot of people with AO3 accounts and also Marlon James (who so far as I know does not have an AO3 account, but if he does, more power to him).

A source familiar with internal workings at MasterCard notes the company is paying attention to calls around the payment processor issue. These calls continue to make the company uncomfortable internally

#SaveSpeech its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well! PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS imgur: imgur.com/a/3pVupWQ more comprehensive info can be found here: stop-paypros.neocities.org yellat.money

This isn't like the average online petition btw, this is one of those things where if it gets enough signatures, the HOC absolutely must bring it to the floor for discussion. Incredibly important to get on this if you're Canadian.

Tsunahikika-chan is a rope fairy from Yonabaru, a town in Okinawa where there’s an annual tug of war event.

Incidentally this is why I can never run for public office (that and I'm not great at canvassing).

I’m gonna lib out

Shoot, forgot alt text: This is AS MEAT LOVES SALT by Maria McCann. The photo shows my library's brave, battered paperback copy on my couch. #MondayReads

#MondayReads Second time through this beautiful, painful, and compelling novel. 50 pages from the end and bracing myself. It's romantic, sensual, tragic, frightening, intoxicating. Not for everyone - heed content warnings - but I'm one of a cadre of readers devoured and heartbroken. McCann can WRITE

Regarding the 2nd paragraph, I think my local Dems office made a good start by printing a bunch of "They/Them" and "Friend of They/Them" button pins and the one flaw in the plan was how quickly the "Friend of" pins ran out.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

If the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy fails me I will resort to other measures.

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

The person in this picture is legitimately a fucking hero. That desire to learn and be better is innately human, but society scorns you for it. Fair play to her for being brave.

Suspending Jimmy Kimmel over alleged Charlie Kirk comments, only for that suspension to immediately become the free speech crisis conservatives tried to spin Kirk’s death into, is maybe the most succinct demonstration of poetic irony that I have seen in a long while.

This morning's front page @chicagotribune.com. Photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social

for that matter, I just checked out "Seven Samurai" on DVD in the restored Criterion Collection print. Eat that, streaming!

This period in time is going to produce some great judicial opinions, even though they'll likely only be worth it for the banter by the time history reaches them

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

“Curtis Evans stood directly in front of the gate with an American flag. The 65-year-old Evanston resident heard about the first protest on social media and came to represent “the ideals that our country stands for.” “None of us have ever done this before,” he said…

something I’ve been thinking about is that all our content retrieval systems are biased towards recency rather than quality which makes it extremely hard to discover old good books, movies, blog posts, etc

And if you don't have a library card, bring a piece of mail or something that can validate your address down to your local library, pay a nominal materials fee of $2-$3 (location dependent) and you're off and running.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

Pretty sure the civil rights act of 1964 polls better than every single living democratic politician and some good dead ones. The idea that you’d give up that advantage, that you’d betray CENTURIES of work by a multiracial coalition of Americans, to prove how much you like Charlie Kirk, is insane.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

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