Hey librarians and other library folks, if you're visiting ALA in Chcago later this month, I'll be doing a signing for the Stonewall Honor book The Ink Witch at booth 3612 (the Little, Brown Young Readers booth) on Sunday afternoon from 3:30-4:00! #ALAAC26

Happy Pride Month!!

Happy June! 🌈 Start Pride month off right with Stonewall Honor books THE INK WITCH by @stephcherrywell.com and HE'S SO POSSESSED WITH ME by Corey Liu! And if you're attending #ALAAC26, stay tuned for more on where and when to meet these authors and get books signed. #QueerAllYear

Beet is SUCH a great comic, but it'll break you heart because it just ENDS. ...or so I thought, but apparently they restarted it a decade later! I hope we get a US release someday.

I was concerned when what appears to be an AI-generated short story was named a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. As an advocate of literature, I decided to protest by writing my own prize-winning short story without AI johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/regionally...

Rise of The Machines

I didn't love that between the time I wrote my novel about sentient AIs and when it came out the term suddenly took on massive real-world negative connotations!

My thought going it was "it'll be a pain to learn a new OS but I just can't deal with Windows anymore" and after an hour of Linux Mint it's just "oh, this exactly like Windows before they started ruining it." No learning curve at all, it's like magically having Windows 7 back.

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

Normally I'm not wild about covers which are mostly typography. But THIS typography is SO FREAKING NIFTY!

I just pledged to this, it looks like exactly my kind of sci-fi, kind of a Becky Chambers vibe.

Man, two all-timers in the space of a month. Nice job, New Yorker cartoon editors. The idea of this one is brilliant, but the execution is maybe even more so—getting the figure in the coffin to read both ways like it’s supposed to is something.

As much as the ownership thing is a big factor, I genuinely think too much convenience turns our brains to soup and people are starting to recognise that on an instinctual level.

#starfox #nintendodirect

Today is the release day for GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN. Thank you, @ryehickman.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com for telling this story with me and making this book so incredibly beautiful. This is a book all about finding your people and I love that I got to make it with my friends.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Kubrick's ‘The Shining’ and ‘The Muppet Show’ were filming next door to each other at Elstree Studios, and that’s how Danny Lloyd got to visit and hang with Kermit in 1979.

This is awesome! Everyone I've worked with at Hachette has been so wonderful. Congratulations to you all!

Me: hm, maybe I'll give Downton Abbey a try, hopefully it isn't too dry. Downton Abbey by episode 2: we need to smuggle this corpse across the house in the dead of night so nobody will figure out that he died of a sex aneurysm.

"if i was rich i wouldnt do evil stuff, I'd just blow my money on my own projects, just ridiculous vanity stuff" oh my god you guys this whole time we've been imagining Seth McFarlane

I hate that I got this and you will too

Oh by the way: it’s real and it’s SPECTACULAR.

👀 🚨💅This is quite biiiig!! Stop!! Hibari-kun! is now available at ALL Kinokuniya US stores, and their webshop!! For us as an art first, business later kind of publisher, this is so so exciting for us! Tysm thanks for supporting Peow2!!!!

so hey, while I was completely not noticing at all, one of my favorite Euro-comics had a successful Kickstarter and is now coming out in English! Freaks Squeele is everything great about bandes dessinees, manga, and superhero comics, all rolled up in one bawdy, beautifully-drawn ball.

I love this book so much. Funny, smart, loving and clever, it's basically everything I could want in a middle grade novel. @stephcherrywell.com

Okay, this is really interesting - all about how we know that the Mario bros. are from Brooklyn even though no game states it. And I had the picture book from the article! (I had the Zelda one about Moblin's magic spear, too!)

Forgive-Me-Not by @marinscos.bsky.social. Lovely YA graphic novel romance; a princess is shocked to find out that she's a changeling, and the ORIGINAL princess has fought her way out of fairy country to drag her back "home."

After the Fall by @edashtonwriting.bsky.social. Earth is in ruins, and the remaining humans have been domesticated by aliens and are treated as pets. I blasted through this book in one go, it hooked me so much!

Huge news: the court has entered final judgement in Oregon v Kennedy (HHS trans youth care ban) and has vacated the Kennedy declaration and permanently enjoined its enforcement to target gender clinics. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Demon of Beausoleil, lovely book by @marinscos.bsky.social that I picked up because I enjoyed Belle of the Ball so much. Much more adult than Belle, but really charming and fun; it's about a cambion who gets disowned for seducing his sister's fiancee and has to make a living demon hunting. Neat!

I wouldn't go quite this far, but this (Tokyo Godfathers) is my second-favorite Christmas movie after The Muppet Christmas Carol, you have gotta watch it, it's so good.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #manosphere

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."

Maybe this is just America's thing, once every quarter-millennium we must do battle with a mad king to restore the nation's honmoon, and we just didn't know because this was the first one we got to.

Kinda fun to see one of these where we don't have to explain about the little blue spots being cities.

JUST IN: Liberals have won a decisive victory for the Wisconsin supreme court race tonight. Chris Taylor will join the supreme court, flipping a conservative-held seat. This expands liberals' majority on the court to 5-2. Why it matters: boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

@seananmcguire.bsky.social once again my habit of preordering things and then forgetting when they come out so I just get delightful surprise packages pays off! As someone who read them in the 90s, I am so thrilled that Magic novels are back.

There's that moment in so much fiction when the villain tells the hero that empathy makes them weak and it's why they'll lose, and apparently 40 percent of our country sees that and thinks, "You know, Syndrome makes some good points there."

This is what I think of every time someone is like "What do you expect the Democrats to do?"

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them “What makes a good citizen?" So 10yr old Joel Lipton wrote to Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Joel got a reply.

This is what social media is meant to be about.

Great news out of Georgia! ALL of the 15 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have died as the Georgia legislative session comes to a close. This was only possible with intense efforts from local LGBTQ+ activists. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Princess Daisy from the Super Mario Bros. movie.

> *vinyl scratch sound* > YOU'RE NOW LISTENING TO > *ornithopter flyby* > 101.19 > *explosion* > ARRAKIS FM > *thumper sound* > WHERE WE ONLY PLAY THE SPICIEST TUNES > *sandworm sound* > *sardaukar chanting* > THIS AIN'T YOUR REVEREND MOTHER'S STATION > *imagine dragons - radioactive starts playing*