Do I get my best ideas while I'm doing chores because my brain is in neutral and the thoughts flow freely, or is it because I wrote my first couple of novels while working retail and conditioned myself to create inner amusement during shifts? I guess we'll never know.

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Writer’s room residency application is open for @spl.org until Nov 14! If you live in Seattle and want to take advantage of the library and its collections, apply!! www.spl.org/hours-and-lo...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Philly FatCon in 37 seconds.

Come for the call-out of the NYT, stay for the drubbing of a whitepaper as an "unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff."

I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.

Do the locked plexiglass cases where they keep the deodorant also smile? Do the self-checkout lanes they put in to avoid paying people also wave? Target's never coming back.

Premonition https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19237

At least it’s Saturday and I don’t have to ruin the workplace today. My thoughts are with women working retail and healthcare and services; they carry all the weekend ruin.

post you from a different era This is me finishing my first terrible novel, 2002.

Ok so which of you are reading The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social and picturing Gwendoline Christie as Una and which are picturing Hannah Waddingham? Who plays the scribe?

Hey fellow authors! I got another one of these spam emails about book promo written by AI. I wanted to point out some of the obvious tells in case you're not sure if it's always detectable. Good news: it is!

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

I went to a low-income elementary school that was mostly brown kids and a lot of recent immigrants and one year the local police showed up to fingerprint all the students “in case we got kidnapped” so if I ever get to time travel, I go back to that day and start a riot.

Right about now, the honk shoo brother

“A viral video of the sandwich tossing made Sean Charles Dunn a symbol of resistance to Trump’s deployment of federal agents to combat crime in the nation’s capital.”

“Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another,”

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Every time I see Ross Douthat's name I remember my friend who was a classmate of his at Harvard telling me that he wrote an article for the Crimson about how knowing that the women he met on campus were on birth control made his boner sad. On sight.

At this point I assume the skeleton in Douthat's closet is one of those 40-foot Home Depot jobs that'll crush cars in the neighborhood once it starts walking. Nobody who hates women this bad doesn't have something on his hard drive that he hopes we'll never see.

If this meme makes sense to you, congratulations: you have spent your 35 to 45 years on this earth well

lol

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Do I know anyone on here who is teaching public high school in the U.S. right now? I have a brief and specific question.

Don't cross a picket line.

"Loneliness is something that evolved to tell us to seek other people."

live laugh lose the mandate of heaven

Ich bin ein New Yorker.

[Exit Clown.]

Zohran Mamdani wins! He ran on an unabashedly pro-transgender platform, stood up for the most vulnerable, as so many have pushed for the Democratic Party to abandon trans people in order to win. Major win for trans New Yorkers - he has vowed for intense resistance to anti-trans Trump policies.

hey Squad (by me and @lisasterle.bsky.social) is available for the extremely impossible to argue with price of $0 in eBook now. So if you want a place to put the anger you're feeling toward shitty men, have I got the book for you. Don't suffer bad men. Eat them. www.amazon.com/Squad-Maggie...

Rot in piss, Dick Cheney: father of the Patriot Act, architect of the disastrous Iraq war, unrepentant fascist and war criminal to the last. He may not have liked Trump but he sure as fuck put the welcome mat out for an unaccountable autocrat far right tyrant, and one came.

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

New awareness campaign

What I'm saying is if you're making comics or practicing whatever art you do, you're already winning. The arts expects you to be great in your chosen field, also be able to do promo in a vacuum, all your own admin and somehow always have money. It's not realistic. Making anything is the victory.

I'm extending by reading The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, which is so scary that I couldn't go into my own kitchen alone last night. Keep it spooky!

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

Thanks for having me, #phillyfatcon!

Of course the person whose outfit I couldn’t stop looking at turns out to be the fashion historian. #phillyfatcon

Very good first day of Philly FatCon, with bonus @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social!

The dude abides within.

Have we considered that letting a kid see a horror movie too soon sets up a good artist? Anyhow, this podcast has me, Peaches Christ, and Carmen Maria Machado talking about the first scary movie we saw, always too young.