From the moment Trump won in 2024 with large gains among younger men, this attitude was almost inevitable. Remember the first things being talked about after the election? Dems got too focused on "identity politics" and drove young men away. It wasn't true, but they believed it. 1/

I am being profiled. YouTube is doing an aggression at me.

Who authorized this??? I don't like it.

Looks like it's still on sale this morning! What a time to be alive.

Just found out The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains is currently $2.99 on kindle. How long will this be true? I have no idea! But if you like portal fantasy with hiking, food, stabbings, and magical bureaucracy, now's your chance to try it for cheap! 💙📚

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

I hate the line that the Constitution is "colorblind." The reconstruction amendments gave the Constitution eyes with which to see discrimination, ears with which to hear the cries of the oppressed, and a mouth with which to speak the law against it. The Court made it a blind deaf mute for a century.

Unfortunately, "touch grass" is often genuinely good advice. Doing something Not Online once in a while is really important for being a functional person.

A week or so ago, I was looking for a couple books by an author from 10 and 15 years ago and my library didn't have them. I requested them via a library form. Today I got a notification in Libby that they purchased both titles. Asking your library for writers' books is an amazing way to support us.

The Republicans have gotten where they are because they are terrified of their primary voters, who will show up to drive them right with cattle prods 100% of the time. If you're not doing your part to make every Democrat fear being primaried for not going socialist enough, why are you even here??

It's Pride Month! Want to support some queer debut authors? Or just support your own mental health by reading some fabulous books? Well, then...

ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.

Sorry to COMMERCE ON MAIN, but The Tricky Business of Faerie bargains is a UK monthly Kindle deal. I, for one, think you should buy it! www.amazon.co.uk/Tricky-Busin...

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

A fun thing about being an author is getting a constant barrage of AI spam messages from scammers trying to steal your money. And sometimes the scam is so low-effort that they mix up your adult fantasy with hiking/stabbing/faerie trickery and food with what sounds like a very cute picture book.

I wish it would stop raining long enough to put the garden starts I bought into the ground.

Oh hey, I was interviewed! Click to learn my many secrets! 💙📚

I think it's very important to note that after this movie was finally over we watched an episode of Traitors just to end the night with something fun

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

I just like it when movies have things happening in them.

a MOST EXCELLENT COWORKER has emerged as a hero and I will be making some rhubarb crisp this afternoon.

Three new blurbs from three INCREDIBLE authors!! It is so wildly vulnerable to put your book into the hands of authors you admire, let alone to have them come back with such amazing things to say 😭🩷

tomorrow in berkeley me + portia + eric IRL, not on screens

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

No one blinks if you bring sanitizing wipes to clean off the armrests, but understanding that germs can linger in the air and not just on surfaces makes you afraid???

2 Tricky 2 Business, coming in hot. 😌

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are moving forward with their climate plan despite the loss of state support and federal funding.

Oh hey, I was interviewed! Click to learn my many secrets! 💙📚

How about some foresty #bloomscrolling on this Sunday afternoon.

oh another "I can't believe Ann Leckie, who writes about fictional AIs, doesn't like Spicy Autocomplete!!!!" My sibling in Amaat, if you actually read my books you might want to work on your reading comprehension and then try again.

I have tried to talk him out of this position and he will not be moved.

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

I can't wait to see everyone at WisCon this weekend! (And if you don't yet have plans, might I suggest registering? It's not every year that this incredible feminist SFF convention is online and accessible to all!)

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this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

One thing about me is that every single time I start a new round of edits on this book I laugh at every single one of my own jokes.

I can't believe that not buying candy when I go to the store leads to me not having candy to eat later when I want candy 😤

It's SOON BY YOU day!! Thank you so much to everyone who's already supported this book, and if you haven't read it yet, I hope you'll pick it up and enjoy! www.dahliaadler.com/soon-by-you

Pete Buttigieg was in Montana this weekend to formally endorse a ballot initiative to curb corporate money in politics. Check out my piece on Montana’s century-long battle

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Just finished “The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains ” by @reenamccarty.bsky.social and had to draw this out. This is my best guestimation at what Poppy, the main character, looks like. It's a great read and an emotionally cathartic fantasy story. #thetrickybuisnessoffaeriebargains #fanart

Another place I bravely didn't leave a book because I follow the rules.

yeah we need this in publishing for writers, copy editors, marketing folks, everybody. Sign an agreement, penalties if you break it.

Proving once and for all that Theo and I really are different people.

There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script

The article emphasizing that only seriously elderly people may get the pill because everyone else should be game to get a virus that randomly disables people of all ages is absolutely dangerous. EVERYONE needs access to this or else they will become sicker Jesus fuck

it's that time of year again. The time when people with rhubarb should give me some rhubarb because I'm tragically lacking

yesss. probably won't bite. very safe to get close, no worries

A weird thing happened during the indie romance boom in the mid-2010s: a bunch of women who did not have high earning potential on paper could abruptly start making $20k-100k a month self-pubbing romance. We watched so many marriages implode over it, y'all, when their husbands COULD NOT COPE.