If Absinthe was a dress.

Because I am a basic bitch who never met a cliché she didn't love, it's gotta be Kool & the Gang's Celebration, followed by Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead.

The Canadian ice dancing team is giving me big roller disco vibes in the absolutely best way.

You know, it's a good time to be reminded that we all collectively have it in our power to simply pretend Jake Paul doesn't exist and act accordingly. That is a choice we can all make together.

Also, @seanhollister.bsky.social has been hanging out with the Whistle Coven, and wrote a piece about it! The opening line is "Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan have a knack for drawing attention to a cause." Our chaos field has been immortalized. (This should be a gift link!!!)

Only about a month after opening registration, we have almost 350 independent bookstores registered for this year's #BookstoreRomanceDay. If you're in a book buying mood, why not throw some support to one of them? bookstoreromanceday.org/participatin...

I'm not as concerned about an <edit> button as some, but I am thrilled to finally have a "Drafts" option.

If you've registered for BookCon, you may want to reconsider.

Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus

If you haven't yet watched Bookish on PBS, you should do so soonest. It's everything Lynne says it is & also aesthetically gorgeous. Every relationship has depth & nuance &poignance. I loved it so, so much.

Poor Nico Gleirscher of the Austrian luge team looks like JD Vance's doppleganger.

tfw all the now independent journalists you want to keep reading all go to Substack where you won't because obvs

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

I'm having a very difficult time taking the USA luge team & their facial hair seriously. They look like dudes someone just grabbed out of the local bar the night before.

One thing I appreciate about the Winter Olympics in the age of streaming is being able to only watch the sports I'm interested in & watch them whenever I want. No cutting from luge to skiing (or whatever), just luge all morning.

Please read this whole thread. It will give you hope and strength. Food will taste better.

I'm watching the "venue feed" of figure skating from earlier today, which is supposed to be without the commentary, but I've got the subtitles for the commentary. It's weird.

Much like Soylent Green...

The next time I get excited about butter being on sale, would someone please remind me that I already have TEN POUNDS of butter in the freezer?

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I hope the middle of the store is a table of Horromance. Also, if you're nearby, you should go visit if only to make me extremely jealous.

Y'all, we just passed 200,000 whistles shipped in the first week of February. 💖 We're less than 3k away from the 500k total mark. Thanks for helping us get there. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

The pan was cooking on the counter so I didn't burn my mouth on molten cheese & I walked into the kitchen to find the elderly cat up on the counter literally standing on the pan trying to get the foil off to get to the enchiladas. She didn't succeed & the foil protected the food, but bad kitty.

It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all

Black bean & corn enchiladas are in the oven right now. I've been craving them for weeks & had all the ingredients & finally got around to actually putting them together.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

just to be clear, this also means that huge numbers of romance titles are now functionally out of print. and sure, romance has always been an ephemeral genre, but this decimates the genre in a very real way. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

This fella spends his afternoons at the track. He knows in his heart that today is the day his trifecta is going to hit.

I need to eat something for lunch but I don't want to make something for lunch. Even toast feels like too much work.

KD Casey m/m sports romance, you want this one!

I am poor. I am not, however, entitled enough to believe that my wanting or needing something is justification for keeping others poor by employing a tool built on stolen work rather than paying an artist, even if by barter/trade. I will use something "bad" I did myself rather than use "AI".

If you're an author, reader, or reviewer who would be interested in being a part of this celebration of the mass market paperback sometime on the weekend of August 14-15-16, DM me or email infoATbookstoreromancedayDOTorg.

Like “bad” art is so pure actually. In its lack of technical “skill” or expertise or whatever its just a pure expression of the need to create and express its beautiful

I think that one of the panels I want to do for #BookstoreRomanceDay this year is a celebration of the mass market paperback. So many of us got our starts in the Romance genre—whether as readers or writers—with mass market paperbacks & if they're dead, they deserve a proper wake.

doing my best to stay sane while bearing witness to the current madness. wrote a rainy day song for my new kids’ album. thought of the smiles it would bring to the faces of my wee fans. sigh.

All noodles can be drunken noodles if you’ve applied yourself properly.

So. Excited. SO! VERY! EXCITED!

Can I tell y'all a little secret? When people say "sex scenes are so hard because you have to keep track of every detail, like where was his hand last" and stuff like that, I actually think "if you're writing your sex scenes that mechanically, they're probably painful to read".

Remember: There's still plenty of time to ensure that he gets absolutely fucking humiliated in the primaries—preferably so much so that we never, ever have to hear from him again.

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

I've spent my day updating the @bookstoreromanceday.org website with all of the 300+ bookstores who have registered for this year's event thus far. It was *a lot*, but it should be easier now that I just have to add a few at a time. bookstoreromanceday.org/participatin...

‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reader Can’t Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck https://theonion.com/lord-of-the-rings-reader-cant-believe-how-long-it-taking-sam-and-frodo-to-fuck/

I don’t think we appreciate exactly how many breadcrumbs Senator Wyden leaves for the public, or how often. He’s not an alarmist either, but someone with literal decades of experience with US intelligence.

Books coverage was the only thing I cared about in the WaPo, but now that it's been destroyed & folks like Ron Charles & @charliejane.bsky.social cut loose, there's no way WaPo can ever claw its way back into my good graces until Bezos is gone.

UNCLAIMED OFFER! It's #buyastrangerabook day. People buy each other books cos they can and they are REALLY ace! And @bwianair.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the book of their choice, up to £20! So, if there's a particular book you're after, just get in touch. Uk only

All of yesterday's stress over the possibility of strangers being in my space has settled into my joints, so today's gonna be a helluva pain day. Adios to any idea of being productive.

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day! The grooviest day of all. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only.

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

I've been watching the Trivial Pursuit game show all day because it's hosted by LeVar Burton & I've appreciated his comforting presence on a high-stress day, but my gods, some of these contestants are really, really bad at trivia. And the more clueless they are, the more annoying they tend to be.