IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH: djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey." Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it." djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret." And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children. #PedoPrez

Also The White Bikini of Ursula Andress is the name of my next band

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

BOOK TOUR: HOMEWARD BOUND After many adventures, our heroine is at last heading home. Thank you to all the wonderful bookstores that made this happen and all the fans who came out to listen to me blather!

6th of Owltober! Olaf was missing some feathers that affected his ability to fly well enough to catch prey in the wild so became an ambassador at World Bird Sanctuary. Want to donate to WBS? worldbirdsanctuary.org/ways-to-give/ Source: fb.com/120623111273... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

It’s Banned Books Week. Let’s check in? First they banned books in schools to “protect the children.” Then they banned books in govt libraries to “stop the spread of DEI.” Then they made laws to keep LGBTQ+ and 🌶️ books out of bookstores because “it’s immoral.”

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

Somersaulting in here to be like "There are war pteranodons in THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS but those are the least of everybody's problems for most of the book" :D

If you see this post a random picture from your device without explaining it.

HEROINE: *breaks in* So what do you do? FP: I’m an engineer. HEROINE: What kind? FP: GIS, mostly— HEROINE: Oh! I’ve looked up floodplain info on that. FP: You…you’ve heard of it? HEROINE: TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR JOB FP: I can tell you how well a town’s doing by how often they update?

They’re real! Limited editions of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, available soon!

"Yes, I understand these are the pearly gates, St. Peter, but these are for the common people! Surely there's an entrance for people of quality?" www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Trump administration said today it is freezing $2.1 billion in funding for major Chicago infrastructure projects, part of a broader effort to squeeze Democratic-led cities during the government shutdown. Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought confirmed the move in a post on X.

It's Bandcamp Friday, which means all fees are waived and the musicians you love get more royalties. Streaming services like Spotify basically pay -no- royalties so this is an excellent way to support musicians. www.bandcamp.com

Oh. Oh no. No, no, no. This isn’t grabbing the third rail, it’s sticking your tongue on the third rail while dressed up as Reddy Kilowatt and playing “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC. Do not mess with the commissary.

I feel like Smaug and this post is the black arrow.

OK, ok, I need to stop being coy and self-effacing. I am DELIGHTED that my work in making lesbian history accessible for authors of historical fiction is being recognized in books that used my work. My ultimate goal is to never again hear an author of a sapphic historical say "There's no sources."

Don't call me sir, I work for a living!

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

YOU ARE VALID!! #nonbinary #lgbtq #affirmations

When someone asks you to stop calling them something, you stop. Even if you don’t think you did something wrong. Even if it was an innocent mistake. Even if you meant nothing by it. You should stop because you care about others more than you care about being correct.

"The only correct interpretation of the bible is the one that lets me do whatever I already wanted to do and reinforces my biases" —Assholes 3:16

Can you guess which buttonhole is handmade? 🧵

Hey, we know this one.

I'm pretty sure I've been in meetings with execs that went exactly like this.

I loaded a page before I noticed and could grab a screenshot, but Firefox just had an "imagine your daily commute inside Saudi Arabia's dazzling $20 gobillion metro system" on their fresh tab carousel and, like, JFC, you'd imagine a PR blitz this obvious would turn more heads.

This always sounds good until we find out who is considered toxic. Like is funding a legal campaign to erase an entire group's existence & posting triumphant selfies every time you manage to hurt them more or less toxic than the people who are hurt being upset about it? These are vital questions!

Oh Merriam-Webster! I am smitten! If it's wrong to want to take a dictionary on a date, I don't want to be right

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

In case you missed it yesterday, NEW BOOK:

There's this unwritten rule where kids will absolutely want to talk to you when you're on the phone. #comics #boumeries

Book Tour Day 2: Our fabulously hatted heroine shares a cab to the airport with a woman in town for a healthcare conference. HEROINE: Oh, are you a doctor? WOMAN: …lawyer. WOMAN: *clearly waiting for joke* HEROINE: So I write these fantasy novels about a god of lawyers and social workers…

The world is horrible right now, here's a #WIPWednesday. I finally had a few hours this past Sunday to work on a Death Rider. I think I'm going to have to paint these guys one by one.

a democratically elected congresswoman is being denied her seat because the speaker simply does not want to seat her and leadership is as unconcerned about this as they seem to be about everything else

I enjoy a well-thought-out, rule-based magic system in fiction as much as anyone, BUT I also think that we should give more props to what Terry Pratchett did in the Discworld books, where it was less about rules and more about vibes and, more importantly, what fit a given story the best. 🧵

Rowling and Emma Watson's argument is painful to watch😢 Good-hearted transgender people never intend to hurt anyone else. They just want to love who they want to love and live according to their soul's direction. Chiitan stands by the hearts of good-hearted transgender people. I love everyone

The White House told a federal watchdog office overseeing the Trump administration that it would cut off its congressionally approved funding for the upcoming fiscal year, forcing the agency to close at midnight today. This move was separate from the broader budget

IT IS TIME! RELEASE DAY IS UPON US! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored w/ Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social IS HERE! Available wherever books are sold via @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social! Thanks for shares & support! 🖤 bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

Let’s be clear about this: They summoned the top military brass home from their posts, told them the Pentagon would no longer enforce rules of engagement b/c the military’s mission was to “hurt people and break things,” and then explicitly pointed them AT AMERICAN CITIES.

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I have run up against the JSTOR wall soooo many times when doing research (mainly trying to understand references in Dorothy Sayers books). This is the coolest thing ever 🤩

Stephen is referencing one of my life's greatest achievements, when I was walking New-York-fast in New Orleans (read: PRETERNATURALLY FAST), dressed in Gothic Victorian regalia. Teenager elbows friends as I strode past & murmurs "Oh my God. That... was a LEGIT. Vampire."

I occasionally wonder how many people that scream at Bluesky ever go back and apologize once they learn that the site is complying with state-mandated laws and it was not at all Bluesky’s idea.

I love how people are acting like this is Bluesky's idea when once again, every website on the internet is going to either be doing this or geoblocking the state by next month because THE STATE PASSED A FUCKING LAW SAYING THEY HAVE TO

Whelp, just been notified that I cannot use DMs or access adult content without verifying my age due to state law. If BlueSky thinks I'm giving my personal data to a third party they got another thing coming.

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...