listening to ten-year-old podcasts and feeling wry about everything.

It only took me a month, but I finally made a volunteer page on Stand With Minnesota. Because we are about to need a lot of freaking volunteers. Help us keep Minnesota housed!

MOAR CHEESE THREADS

going to bed instead of depression-posting, please clap

Is this the laziest and most slapdash drawing/graphic I have done to promote my book yet? PERHAPS. Nevertheless, I hope you will consider The Shabti if you're looking for a romance with a healthy dose of the heebie-jeebies this Valentine's Day!

unrelated: I really enjoyed this video breaking down Bad Bunny’s accent. I don’t find Puerto Rican Spanish the easiest to follow, and this person points out a lot of specific sound changes and elided consonants. www.instagram.com/reel/DUl_ArX...

Continued acts of care and maintenance are not capital-E Events that can be nailed down to a moment in time, so they don't fit readily into our timelines. It's simultaneously meaningful and frustrating to me (big Susan Leigh Star fan), so it's lovely to focus on them in this week's briefing!

"Sound as Resistance is a Black History Month community-curated playlist uplifting Black trans and queer artists whose work reminds us that music has always been a tool for memory, movement, and possibility." www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

when i think of my dream life, there is a lot of sleeping with an ice pack on my head.

I, for one, think it would be very cool if a self-published series got nominated! Might I also suggest: Magica Riot series by @magicariot.com Nerezia series by @clh2oars.bsky.social Don't forget self-published works when you're nominating!

A new blog post! In which I talk about the challenges of describing viewpoint characters without doing the Mirror Thing.

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I usually spend no more than $100 on groceries per week (and sometimes as little as $50) because I have organized my diet around eating the exact same cheap comfort foods every single day. i repeat: GOD IS NOT GOING TO GIVE ME A MEDAL FOR BEING STINGY AND NEURODIVERGENT.

about that wsj article: look, I’ve had a housemate who spent money on takeout instead of paying rent or utilities. it sucked. I am skeptical that my one housemate makes a cultural trend we all need to be worried about.

this might be the week for aggressive burrito time

I love the endless creativity of human resistance in the face of adversity, I fucking swear

I do want to remind folks today that I would guess at least half of the horrors people are posting about in the SAVE Act? Already law in the much of south. They know it works because they did it to Black communities & everyone shrugged and made jokes about how we voted for every natural disaster.

reggaeton is not the worst thing i have tried to mitigate the seasonal depression

instead of being useful or productive in any way i’m just going to listen to la mudanza on repeat okay

SE Michigan folks, here's a GoFundMe that's not for immigrants, but a beloved Detroit chef: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ch...

Just donated to this GoFundMe for Jean Wilson Brutus, who died in ICE custody in December. Please donate if you're able, and share if you can't: www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-j...

Abolish the DHS, prosecute ICE agents. They have abducted nearly a hundred thousand residents of the US, including naturalized and natural born citizens, and are putting them in concentration camps. This happened because "compromise" became your modus operandi when negotiating with fascists.

hugely enjoying the international commentary on bad bunny’s halftime show

this week’s lunches: soup with ginger carrot sweet potato potato and red lentils, blended. I used some chicken stock I had in the freezer, garlic powder and dehydrated onions (aggravates me less than fresh.)

shameful that @massgovernor.bsky.social has the power to end this 287(g) contract and refuses to do it Luis Perez served his time and he deserves to be with his family Massachusetts should not work with these fascists in ANY capacity

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

Stress Break, short story time! #amreading

hey folks!!!!!!!! I know there is a ton happening but things are not better in MN. www.standwithminnesota.com

Following up here, because I just learned today about an organization that we call for help when we find out a parent has been released from detention in the middle of nowhere and needs someone to pick them up/buy a train ticket. Each Step Home has volunteers who do travel coordination. ❤️

Lyda, my bestie and fellow SF/F writer, has been volunteering at a food mutual aid that has had to rapidly scale up. This is their venmo, please consider donating.

for some reason my tongue interprets 2 tsp ginger + 3 tbsp sugar as about as sweet as 5 tbsp sugar? I think it must have to do with some quotient of “total taste interest” or something.

it’s a huge bummer to be a person who now has to pay attention to the presence of various ingredients but who knows better than to trust anyone making money off flagging those ingredients as problems.

The gift link earlier in this thread should work but if you still don't want to give them clicks, here's another way to read it: archive.ph/7JtNY This stuff should not be fucking necessary and people are burning out & experiencing a hell of a lot of trauma from this. Proud AF of people. 🧵

"The complex, communitywide effort to keep Minnesotans from going hungry includes institutions like schools, churches, restaurants and food banks, but also less-expected sources like a barbershop and a sex shop. Residents have converted their living rooms, basements and garages into storage spaces."

good listening for a day such as today m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouuP...

i should buy more popcorn.

This article is well worth your time, getting at some aspects of the mutual aid going on here that we can't talk about all that much. Crimes against humanity are being perpetrated on Minnesota by the federal government. People are stepping up & doing amazing things, but JFC this is horrific.

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite is $2.99! One of my top reads of 2025! bookshop.org/a/1382/97812... amzn.to/3Meq2Rq

this one is great!

Zomromcom by Olivia Dade is $1.99! I haven't read this yet! amzn.to/4kqEUZz

Proper Scoundrels by Allie Therin is $1.99! I need to catch up on these! bookshop.org/a/1382/97803... amzn.to/4rzDcY4

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland is $1.99! I looove this alt Civil War zombie story!! bookshop.org/a/1382/97800... amzn.to/4bEcadr

Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri is $1.99! Such a great series! bookshop.org/a/1382/97803... amzn.to/4kAcKeD

incredible article about incredible work.

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*whispers* give Neon Hemlock your money plz and thank you

guess who just remembered they have a waffle maker!!!

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A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar. If you have missed this one so far, treat yourself. It's a luscious little ghost story and also a love letter to books. also I had stare at the wall for the rest of the evening after i finished it because wtf was that?! www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...