Happy Independent Bookstore Day, ❤️📚 Thank you, thank you, 🙏🏾 . When I find a book I love, it’s usually at an independent bookstore, where I can browse, touch, hunt & FIND meaty, unpredictable, unique works. Also, shout out to Afriware Books, who’s been so kind to my work: www.afriwarebooks.com

I intended to hit up my local bookstore tomorrow but tomorrow suddenly got busy so I'm going this afternoon instead.

Really enjoyed The LA Times Festival of the Book today, especially the panel with @nnedi.bsky.social this afternoon. Always cool to see a favorite author in person.

I've missed the LA Times Festival of the Book for years due to cross over with Record Store Day and Long Beach Grand Prix making it hard to leave town. But I think I'm going to go for it tomorrow. At least it'll be a day with music and literary noises in the background instead of revving engines!

no one likes historians because every time someone says “oh this is unheard of” historians are all like “well actually” and fundamentally it just doesn’t sound as impressive if you have to say “in these slightly precedented times”

Hearing from a lot of folks. It means the world to see our support continue to surge. We're going to make the California Dream real for all of the hard-working families who call our state home. Are you ready to fight alongside me? Let's go win this: XavierBecerra2026.com

I’ve known Xavier Becerra for almost 25 years and worked with him in Congress and the Biden administration. He is smart, committed and has the experience and outlook to be an outstanding and effective Governor! I hope the folks in California will take a look!

Today’s a great day to get to know more about Xavier Becerra, the most qualified Democrat currently running for California Governor. www.xavierbecerra2026.com

When Swalwell announced for governor I quietly told my husband that I didn't know why, but he kind of gave me the ick. I figured it was unfounded but now I wonder if I just have good instincts.

Can someone ask Republicans how the government can manage to automatically register people for the draft without their doing a single thing, but we need to jump through 17 hoops and pay a bunch of new fees to register to vote?

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

His reformation of the Public Service Forgiveness Program should be studied. Remember, until Biden, only SEVEN THOUSAND PEOPLE had their loans forgiven. During the Biden Presidency, More than ONE MILLION PEOPLE had their loans forgiven. And, that would have continued under a President Harris 😒

I am currently learning more about medical billing for work and however broken I already believed the US medical system to be, it is profoundly more broken than I ever imagined.

Every soft apology has come with a caveat. Every explanation redirects the blame. When questioned, he remains unwilling to take responsibility.

BREAKING: Democrats just flipped the Florida House district that includes Mar-a-Lago. Yes, Donald Trump is going to be represented by a Democrat. Our complete recap -->

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

What’s happening here is that the 30% of the country that wants, like Mike Johnson, to impose its right wing religious values on the country using state power is falsely accusing the 1.3% of the US population that is Muslim of wanting to impose their religion on the country using state power.

Ok let's do it: "Can this be a solution?" A thread.

I remember when Tulsi Gabbard was running for president she had like one issue and it was no regime change wars. Yet here she is working for this vile president who just started a regime change war. I never thought she was principled, but way to throw away your only apparent value.

He’s gone from raping school girls to murdering them.

I moved to freelancing last year because reasons. I'm finally in a job I like with a boss i love who treats me well and there are good prospects for it in the horizon but I just talked to my tax lady and man freelancing is rough on taxes.

Since the doofus in the White House and those misogynistic hockey men were making fun of the women hockey team who also won the gold and have been significantly better than the men for a good while… It’s a good time to remind menfolk it’s women who carry the gold load for the nation…

Well worth taking the time and reading this whole thread. The news simply isn't covering the breadth of this administration's lawlessness and the desperate circumstances people are facing.

Macbeth: SHIT

Bruh, there was whole war fought over shit like this and y'all gave these motherfuckers the country because you weren't "excited" or can't vote for a woman. Weak ass.

"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution

Hey everyone, when you scream at Democrats instead of Republicans you show this regime that the more they break the law, the madder you get at Democrats. Why would Republicans stop? This is win/win for them unless you start acting like they have agency. They have the WH, Congress, & SCOTUS.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

Ok Bluesky family we need to help our dear friend, Jay Perk!

You have two choices when marginalized groups inform you of harmful language. You can listen, learn, and adjust yourself to be less harmful. Or, You can say "nuh-uh" and keep harming people. Which one you choose reflects what type of person you are.

My dad's specialty has always been crepes, but he can't get around in the kitchen anymore. So I just made a ton of them, to be filled with various sweet and savory fillings and baked tomorrow morning for my parents' 55th anniversary. It was a lot. They're not perfect, but i feel accomplished.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Hanging with the family this New Year's Eve, and my sister and I started a tradition of celebrating the New Year in places we've lived or spent a lot of time, like Cape Town and London. We now seem to be following to see where we can celebrate for each time zone, so we may have a problem.

It's alternating between pouring rain, thunderstorms, and sun so we're getting a lot of Christmas rainbows today.

“Rain smacked Los Angeles. It splattered on the palm trees, sizzled on the neon, gurgled down the dirty boulevard. The town was sick. They hadn’t seen sunlight in almost a day. But I had the cure. A fifth of magic and a sack full of cold, hard joy. ‘Ho,’ I said once. It was enough.” -Noir Santa

Got a great tote bag from a local bookstore with resident golden retrievers.

I'm past 50 years old and I still get little kid excited to get prizes from the library for reading books. Plus, my local library goes hard with prizes.

Just got news that a wonderful lady who is well known in our neighborhood, used to own a restaurant, worked at the local Rite Aid before it closed, just got detained by ICE when legally reporting for an immigration check in. As always, Fuck ICE, but today, FUCK ICE especially for her.

Really enjoyed the author talk and signing with @mpmthewriter.bsky.social tonight for the last of the TIta Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries, Death and Dinuguan. Hosted by my local indie bookstore, Bel Canto Books in Long Beach it was a fun talk, with good Filipino BBQ, and cool people!

I ran into a neighbor yesterday whose relative likes to send every family member home from Thanksgiving dinner with their own fried turkey.

No such thing as “too many books.” I’m gonna read them all. Eventually.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

There were reasons behind it all, but the only thing I've eaten today is too many lumpia. And I'm not sorry.

I'm an avid reader, but never been a book club person until this year. My local indie bookstore does a great book club with interesting books, cool people, and great discussions. Just had the last one of the year and really glad I joined. This month's book was Shutter by Ramona Emerson.

77 million people voted for this. FOR CHISSAKES, GROW A SPINE- DO NOT SPEND THANKSGIVING WITH THEM.