Almost all of these accounts that have posts are spreading false information or racist bullshit. How pathetic. Mute or block to take the steam out of their gas cars.

I’m proud to share this: I am the only candidate for King County Executive endorsed by LGBTQIA+ organizations, including Seattle Gay News, Washington Stonewall Democrats, and The Queer Agenda Washington.

Do we just send quarterly tax checks straight to Argentina? Can we write them to ARCA or do we have to write out Agencia de Recaudación y Control Aduanero? US dollars and cents or Argentine pesos? Which way gives away more of our tax dollars for no reason? @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov

I hear we have another exodus from X, so I’d like to invite you newbies to join us over on #BookSky. Click below & pin the feed & it should appear at the top with your other feeds. You can toggle between feeds. We use the the 📚💙 emojis to guide posts to the feed. Welcome! bsky.app/profile/did:...

The purpose the small neighborhood corner demonstration serves is to not let people push the current political situation into the back of their minds as they go about their days. If their attention is grabbed by frogs and sharks long enough for them to read the signs and witness, it’s worthwhile.

We made up a map of all the donations to our hay campaign from the United States and we almost have the whole country! Does anyone from the grey states want to help us complete it?! donorbox.org/mmfs-2025-ha...

I have a tab open in my phone browser of a website with a live cam view of the abyss. I’m saving it to look at on Halloween.

@bschillace.brandyschillace.com I started THE DEAD COME TO STAY last night and already have my first question for @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social next week! (I have to figure out how to word it concisely though.)

Making banana bread like it’s 2020. Browned the butter, added a bit of fresh pineapple and a pinch of nutmeg. Who would have guessed we would still be needing comfort food five years later?

Wrote about All About Eve for its 75th anniversary this week!

Sometimes an actor can never escape a certain role which is why, at the end of last night’s WATSON, I yelled “yay! Begbie Sherlock!”

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

Re-Animated Music will open later this fall in the old Cowen Park Grocery space (1217 NE Ravenna Blvd), as former employees of The Trading Musician bring an independent music shop back to Roosevelt. A crowdfunding campaign to help with initial costs is halfway to its $40k goal.

No ceasefire at Amazon.

Not very unhinged, but: Stop reading a book if you're bouncing off of it. Stop "powering through." You're just wasting your time. You don't get a gold star for finishing books you're not enjoying reading.

There's a truth here. Even now, after all the times when I've reread LOTR, something will suddenly hit or seem fresh the next time through I've never really caught before, whenever that next time is.

It’s definitely additive. You get the general positive feeling of nostalgia, plus the comfort of familiarity, and then add in these small bits of newness/reinterpretation and it’s what makes rereading so worthwhile!

Rereading beloved books is better than reading them for the first time.

It is beyond weird that it isn't an annual tradition for Peacock to put every single Universal Monsters movie on their streaming platform for the Halloween season.

Thrilled to be on the @climate-fiction.bsky.social prize judging panel this year, this is why…

Big mug of Irish breakfast tea, one pump Torani toasted marshmallow syrup, splash of milk. Just sayin’.

Did you know Harbor seals are opportunistic predators? This means when octopus are locally abundant they become a food source for hungry seals. While the realities of nature aren’t always pretty, the interconnected relationships species maintain are essential for healthy self sustaining ecosystems.

There is no way forward for Democrats that does not involve examination, prosecution and restitution of and for the acts committed by this administration in the last 9 months, and that is going to be hard and unpleasant and, sometimes, very politically unpopular.

For no reason at all except that I’m Gen X, I just walked past my husband’s desk like this …

Between the sun coming out and this song releasing, I am in Xanadu.

Comet Lodge Cemetery has been dug up, paved over, and reclaimed more times than anyone can count. What started as a pioneer burial ground turned into a forgotten ruin before the ghosts and the neighbors demanded attention. Bess Lovejoy traces the afterlife of Beacon Hill’s most restless cemetery.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes story was published six years after Agatha Christie’s first Poirot novel.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes story was published six years after Agatha Christie’s first Poirot novel.

Of course she’s going to be fine because if we lost Jane and Dolly in the same week, there just wouldn’t be much reason to go on.

Today’s good feelings can be yours for a small donation to a lovely rescue farm.

I wrote about five (or six??) fall speculative mysteries and thrillers for @crimereads.bsky.social: SALTCROP, A MOUTHFUL OF DUST, BOG QUEEN, THE UNVEILING, and the Saga double RED STAR HUSTLE/APPREHENSION, in case your TBR needs to be a little taller!

"The stranger-than-fiction life of Sir Basil Home Thomson (1861-1938) was packed so full of incident that one can understand why his work as a crime novelist has been rather overlooked." Sir Basil Thomson's Richarson Series by Martin Edwards martinedwardsbooks.com/articles/sir...

The thrills of a good ghost story—the chills down the spine, the jump scare at an unexpected reveal, the gloomy sense of impending danger—are one of the pleasures of this season! Our October 2025 List of the Month is devoted to the Ghost Stories That Thrill Us. #ghoststories #💙📚 #Booksky

There's a lot of stupid shit happening in the world but we still decided to start a small press. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

When I worked as a chat room host on AOL (yes, it was a long time ago, thanks for noticing), I used a combination of set rules and actually getting to know the regular room users and talking through issues either them.

Your regular reminder that illegal entry into the US is a civil crime with a penalty of a fee of at least $50 and no more than $250 www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

To honor Halloween season I'll be posting some of the most charming feedback i got from my spooky books. :)

Here's the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social story for earlier today. www.seattletimes.com/education-la...

“It's that little souvenir, of a terrible year, which makes my eyes feel sore”

One my top ten books of all time by one of my top ten directors of all time. I guess I’m just gonna cry over everything today!

Doing this on the day one of the biggest champions of the natural world dies is the biggest asshole move.

STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

I put in my preorder this week. There is nothing more important right now than keeping hope alive.

In these difficult times, it’s more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to our values.

The Bigfoot Kids Book Festival schedule is here! 🎉 Take a gander and see when your favorite creators will be signing. A quick reminder that the festival (Saturday, October 11 from 10am-4pm) is at a new location this year: the Redmond Senior & Community Center!

1/6: There is no force in American politics that is more reckless and destructive than the current president of the United States.

I just had to delete a Merlin recording of a raven I heard in the yard because the recording also had me saying “oh my god it’s a fucking raven” in it. #birdsky #seattle

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

We are deeply upset with Cascade PBS execs' decision to eliminate the news operation and lay everyone off. It's been wonderful to see the outpouring of support and anger folks have shown this week. If you want to share that anger with the bosses, we'd appreciate it. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...