it will be peak 2025 if people take a quote that's explicitly about supporting trans people and turn it into a meme for the left devoid of all context

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

It's starting to look like I didn't even get an interview. The job closed last Friday & they need someone to start a week from Monday & I haven't heard anything. I'm deeply disappointed because I know I would've killed it. Trying to "their loss" through it, but failing.

What did Watson and Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin’s lab notes.

A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

Reported & blocked. The impersonator is using the account for a Book Club scam.

What happens to his empire if he dies? Does it collapse like the house of cards it is? I'm sure Tesla & SpaceX will continue on since Elon's not exactly the brains behind either, but where does the "money" go? Yes, I may wonder about things like this like they matter to me, personally.

This fall has been an extra slow one for small businesses out here, and the tea house is $3.7k shy of where we need to be to make rent before late fees hit this month. All this to say, if you have some tea shopping to do or friends to point our way today, we'd sure appreciate it!

This may be the one promise of his that I hope gets kept.

I have the most random selection of fruits right now, thanks to my produce boxes. I have persimmons (Fuyu), a pomegranate, Asian pears, Bosc pears, Granny Smith apples, & Fuji apples and I have absolutely no idea what to do with any of it. (I also have a shitton of citrus.)

Hey y’all I would be remiss if I didn’t mention I’ll be doing my first signing at a Con ever(!) tomorrow at Rhode Island Comic Con!!! and all my proceeds will be going to @trevorproject.bsky.social for LGBTQ+ youth Love to see you there!

"How can these people NOT CARE about the intimation of violence against me?!" ...Is that a serious question? Coming from y'all, of all fucking people? The people furiously masturbating to dreams of Civil War Two: Electric Boogaloo every time a brown child walks through your neighborhood?

Does anyone have recommendations for good, currently-airing sitcoms, other than Abbott Elementary?

PS: Book pirates are crapweasels; may the fruits of your labors rot and poison you.

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

My 20-minute 1-2-1 ASK ME ANYTHING slots are now live. Trialling two dates for now: 1-2pm and 7-8pm GMT on 13th and 20th Nov. These aren’t critique/feedback sessions. They’re to help marginalised writers navigate UK children’s publishing. UK only. Link to book in my bio. 💛📖 #KidLitUK

Remember, if you accidentally misgender or deadname someone, it's very easy to just say "Shit, sorry," and then say the correct name or pronoun. The two important follow-ups are to not rend your garments and make it all about you and to then also make sure you work hard on not doing it again.

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info. M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily. They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

If you wander into someone's comments to promote your YouTube or podcast or newsletter or whatever & it's—at best—only tangentially related, I'm probably gonna block you simply because that's obnoxious.

Okay. If I ever win the lottery, I'm buying this building & turning it into a hotel or something. Oh. OH. A hotel where meals are served in picnic baskets & guests get a basket of little treats at check-in. Come for a convention or retreat or similar & get themed treats.

It always sounds weird to me when people clearly pronounce the "l" in "salmon."

Part of me really loves this cover, but another part of me looks at it & screams internally because they're all crowded in on the subway & not a single person is wearing a mask. I understand why, but even one person in a mask would've been cool.

So, some of you may not know that I'm one of the best short-form writers in genre romance. Here's some of my work that clocks in around/under 10K! KICK AT THE DARKNESS: books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv IN HER SERVICE & A ROGUE'S GAMBIT: books2read.com/u/38E7YB JESSE'S GIRL (free read!): tinyurl.com/427c983n

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Lesson from last night: avoid conventional wisdom. Mamdani could have been like, "I'm just a rookie assemblyman. Should wait my turn, check in with Schumer and Jeffries to see when it's okay for me to move up." He had a better thought: "Fuck those guys."

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

💯 My Mayor! Congratulations to Mary Sheffield #Detroit

[Exit Clown.]

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Piano Neighbor (or possibly one of his students) is currently playing Tears for Fears's Mad World.

ALERT: Manny Jacinto & his cheekbones are on Dinner Time Live with David Chang if you have Netflix. (I forgot it was back & tuned in late or I would have let you know earlier.)

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

OH. MY. GODS! Please don't let this be a prank. I need this. We all need this.

Deaf and Deaf-adjacent folks, I need some help. I have a student who needs to hire a writing coach that specialises in helping folks who are primarily ASL speakers write in English. Where do I look to find one who is able to assist with dissertation-level academic writing? Does anyone know someone?

GoFundMe for Marta, the woman I filmed being forcefully detained in SLC airport. She is a mother of four and has a work permit legal through 2029. She and her sister were given no reason for her arrest, no due process. She needs funds to help defend herself.

A focus on kitchen table issues has to look like: I understand how you’re struggling, and here is how I want to make your life better. And the answer HAS to be something other than “well that guy will suck worse.”

ACAB includes people who report posts for celebrating Dick Cheney being dead.

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Teen Rogue is perfect. Incredible. Actual genius. They have to do this. (I'd prefer a co-op model, personally, not someone monied hiring everyone)

FUCK UP THE SYSTEM ALERT: Southerners on New Ground is organizing a Grocery Solidarity Network for folks in the South. You can sign up to be a grocery deliverer/funder or grocery recipient. I signed up to support Central Texans, you can do the same for your area! www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

Honestly? Beans & rice. Any kind of beans. Any kind of rice. Whatever spices you have that sound good. You can add an egg or veggies or cheese or whatever, but a simple bowl of well-seasoned beans & rice is cheap & filling on its own.

Well, shit — a killer new horror bookstore in NYC got flooded and damaged by hurricane remnants. Help is needed if you can. Please share! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

I made this for lunch today, but with garlic & ras el hanout instead of the shallots, honey, & red pepper flakes.

Teen Vogue was literally the last print periodical I subscribed to, until they killed the print edition. They've been doing the work that other periodicals were unwilling to do & I have the greatest respect for the work their team has done over the years. It's devastating that Condé Nast has caved.

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Very real kids hear all of us when we show distain, contempt, or mockery for kids like them. Please, let's be mindful of how we speak. Let's choose respect and compassion. The more we feel respect & compassion for ourselves, it can flow out of us to them. 8/

They did not turn me into man or make me attracted to women. Books do not have the power to change who we are at our core. What they can do is help us have empathy for the characters, whether they are alike us or different from us. 6/