the bad thing about The Pitt airing at 8pm (central) is that i watch it at like 8:30 usually which means I finish at 9:30 which is bedtime BUT i also...want to watch it again

🌈🎧📚 $9.99 🤑 *Sale ends in 2 days* 📖 Teacher of the Year by M. A. Wardell @mawardell.bsky.social Steamy, open-door gay romance - a kindergarten teacher falls for the divorced father of one of his students Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook

this week's starfleet academy had me crying!!! fun fact i wrote most of my next novel in the same cabin Thornton Wilder wrote part of Our Town in apparently???

Ok let’s go #ClairObscure thread starts here

one thing i miss about Old Twitter was how fun it would be for event viewing TV shows...I feel like The Pitt would've done well on like 2014 twitter.

Increased immigration enforcement in Olathe is worrying some. Students across Johnson County have staged protests against ICE, and a recent school walkout led to an altercation with pro-Trump students and several arrests.

NEW: I wrote about the real story that the outrage over the dismissal of the women’s hockey team’s achievement is distracting attention from. Also, links to all my interviews and published work this week!

I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back. It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

reminder I'll be in St. Louis this Saturday at @leftbankbooks.bsky.social to celebrate the release of Amy Spalding's IN HER SPOTLIGHT!! Come join us!! It'll be super fun and gay!!

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Im writing a grown and sexy BDSM serial over on Patreon. Come check it out! THE LAST DROP! First Chapter: www.patreon.com/post... Most Recent Chapter: www.patreon.com/post...

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

Something I wanted to say when I started this but that got lost in the writing of the thread is that... Burson is from 1972. A right to keep a driver's license once issued isn't new. This is a **knowing** piss they're taking on the 14thA wall of Due Process that is supposed to protect us.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

They're trying to break Minnesota, keep donating, keep supporting, they will not win.

Hey NYC! I'm co-hosting a fundraiser to benefit @authorsabb.bsky.social on April 29th at Book Club Bar. Come read romance with us and meet your favorite authors including @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social, @celestinemartin.bsky.social and Sarah MacLean ❤️ Tickets here: bookclubbar.com/events/46127...

Nothing more Culture Study than an entire episode on the sociology of baby names www.patreon.com/posts/151588...

"A return to a long-lost format with a poignant tale." AIPT #BlackHistoryMonth is more than just a month. It's the effort to provide hope. This special #oneshot of Lieutenant #NyotaUhura is just that. #StarTrek Deviations: #ThreadsofDestiny, at LCS! #WhatIf #MLK Stephanie Williams

After Kansas City's finance department warned of a $100 million budget deficit, city leaders made some trims to spending. But tough decisions lie ahead, as Kansas City opens budget hearings to the public this week. (@thebeacon.bsky.social)

Tensions ran high in Leavenworth, Kansas, Tuesday evening. Protesters gathered outside city hall as city leaders considered a private prison company’s application to house immigration detainees in the historic prison town.

Only 2 more items left on my wishlist, and one of them is half off! If you can help, I could sure use it.

if people want diversity in romance they've got to stop reading the BIPOC books on netgalley and actually spend money on them, instead of buying yet another special edition of the same book by a white author they already have ten copies of

Still staggers me how of all the books, I still think about TARAN WANDERER the most as an adult. Just a series of painful but necessary truths passed along with deepest compassion. Especially the apprenticeships.

Four years ago I woke up at 5 am from distant explosions. I asked my boyfriend if he heard them too, he said he didn’t and I should go back to sleep. I tried to calm myself down, went on the internet, it was silent, no news or explanations.

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

When emotions run high around books, it’s tempting to pull a title “just in case.” But constitutional rights don’t bend to pressure. We need clear policies, transparent processes, defined criteria, and appeals, not panic or politics. Due process protects students and democracy.

This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally. www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses. Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

Reading @charliejane.bsky.social's latest newsletter & thinking how sad I ALSO am not to have Charlie Jane's reviews - or any, but especially that column - in the WaPo. A great read, this newsletter. Y'all should subscribe. (ALSO THINKING @coyotemedia.org NEEDS AN #SFF REVIEW COLUMN, amirite?)

Random little things I learned from the internet.😊 The word bookkeeper has 3 consecutive double letters. Month, orange, silver and purple - nothing rhymes. Facetious has all the vowels in order. You can now return to your regularly scheduled scrolling.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

My evergreen, always-relevant, delightfully depressing essay on hockey culture. Gather 'round friends, it's going to be a *fascinating* year. www.patreon.com/posts/actual...

“Removing professionally selected materials doesn’t protect children — it undermines educators and takes away options from every family.”

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

“USPS announced that this practice was now official policy: It would no longer postmark mail automatically on the date it is received.”

New #RomanceColumn! We’ve got a screamingly funny cursed knight plus evil sorcerer queer romance, a sweet small-town bad-boy romance with a beekeeper heroine (yay bees!), and a New York-set romcom romp with a Regency cosplayer hero and screenwriter heroine (gift link): #romancelandia #booksky 💙📚

"The work is never done when you’re a demon from beneath the world." @mcflycahill90.bsky.social reviews Martha Wells' Queen Demon, the sequel to Locus Award winner Witch King!

The parallel disappearance of YA books from public libraries due to book bans and the disappearance of YA expertise in public libraries due to budget cuts, deemphasis in serving teens. bookriot.com/the-disappea...

Apparently it's real!! And available for preorder! Still not written by me though. (It does sound good!)

As companies launch an array of protein-rich products and new federal dietary guidelines advise Americans to prioritize it, nutrition experts have mixed feelings about the new emphasis on the nutrient.

btw this is a great way to practice Lent! giving up a vice gets all the attention, but taking on a virtue is where it's at.

Oh the slop continues to slop huh. who is ada hoffman. is there really a book called "ignore all previous instructions" or did someone put that into the prompt. why do we have to live like this.

I want to vote for her for national office.

obligatory reminder i have a patreon and every monday i put things on it and also sometimes on fridays or also whenever i feel like it... (Today it's a post about visual inspiration for Noah from It Had To Be Him.)

Steamy lit has the special edition of Triple Sec on sale for 50% off with the code OVERSTOCK That's $15 for a real nice hardcover steamylitbookstore.com/products/tri...

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...