I would spend so much time being bad at the piano that by the end of the year I'd probably be mediocre at the piano.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Okay, so we're supposed to accept that media is SO powerful that allowing young people to see ANYONE whose life isn't exactly like theirs will transform them into queer atheist socialists, but decades of works mocking teen moms are irrelevant and can be wished away?

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

anyway I think the lesson everyone should be learning here is that DEI was probably really fucking good for the armed forces because it meant you were hearing opinions like "hey so supply chains matter" and "yo maybe the troops should eat a food"

wild to be alive as someone pulls off the previously thought impossible to achieve Reverse Henry VIII

But sure, let’s infect kids with a virus that does this over & over every year for their entire lifespans www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

Hey, folks, anyone know some good resources - like a book - that has different coping techniques for AuDHD? I have boring autism, not the spicy combo of Autism + ADHD, but a newly diagnosed friend needs somewhere to start. Reskeets welcome!

Praise is here!! If you're interested in a book about a haunted house in Palestine that fights its occupiers, and the three generations of Palestinian women who have to put the haunting to rest, you can preorder my debut novel, Our Cut of Salt, here :) linktr.ee/deenahelm

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

Hey men ages 18-49--send me a dollar every day and I'll flip a coin and tell you if you're a winner

A week later and it's still out, who knew???

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST is a Locus Awards finalist in the category of First Novel! I can’t believe I get to write these words! Thank you so much to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all my fellow finalists across the categories. This is such a dream!

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

also “leader mad at pope for not co-signing his particular political aims” is in fairness a pretty old story. a very old story actually. like not really in the last few hundred years story

Let's bring this same energy to the US, hmm?

It's a good day to make sure you're following @romancingthevote.com because landslide elections feel good and we're going to send money to grassroots voter orgs who know exactly how the GOP cheats and how to fight it. 💕

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

me: let's read a book my brain: no, let's keep scrolling me: but we like reading brain: scroll me: and we find it more rewarding and restorative than-- brain: SCROLL!!!

again I struggle with... our information economy is so broken that I don't know if Democrats are running on "we're going to start trials on the pancreatic cancer vaccine again" but like. Shouldn't they be????

To celebrate the publication of THE TRICKY BUSINESS OF FAERIE BARGAINS, Nils chats with Reena McCarty about her debut novel: "I hope people come away with an appreciation for their own ability to imagine" Read more: tinyurl.com/tr3jwx7r @orbitbooks.bsky.social @nilsreviewsit.bsky.social

It has a normal amount of hiking.

ignore AI and it will disappear. we genuinely have the power to destroy it and we can do that just by pretending it doesn’t exist

Katie Lane, the Bozeman attorney nominated to U.S. District Court by President Donald Trump, has become the first judicial nominee of Trump's second term to be rated unqualified by the American Bar Association.

I am over on r/fantasy today answering questions about The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains (or anything else! It's right there in the name!) Come say hi!

I am over on r/fantasy today answering questions about The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains (or anything else! It's right there in the name!) Come say hi!

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

no politician should be allowed to act like it's "okay" because he swerved. he's holding the entire planet hostage in an abusive cycle. we can not normalize the idea that it is okay to even SAY this shit

The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains is OUT TODAY

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

Script.

The second book in the Invoker Trilogy is out today in the UK! @mhayinde.bsky.social A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES is out from Orbit UK (US fans, it'll be here in August from SAGA). Here's the link: store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/a-d.... So excited to have this out in the world!

Very excited for two book birthdays today! @reenamccarty.bsky.social's debut novel THE TRICKY BUSINESS OF FAIRY BARGAINS is out from Orbit and Orbit UK. Here's the PW review: www.publishersweekly.com/9780316587174

What if contract law was a fun fantasy romp? I don't know but Reena wrote a book about it, out today, so maybe we should all find out?

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

It would not hurt if you called your GOP MoCs to tell them they are legally complicit with the war crimes Trump is committing. Might not prevent armageddon, but couldn't hurt. (202) 224-3121

The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains is OUT TODAY

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

THE MOON. IN THE FUCKING SKY.

This is the last day to enter the giveaway! The book is out tomorrow! EVERYTHING IS FINE I'M FINE!!!

Please ask your library to get my book! Libraries are the best!

So ... somehow this is a think that happened Links in case you, like me, need proof: www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30... www.amazon.com/gp/browse.ht...

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

Hi. I'm gonna remind you, once again, that you can go into the accessibility options in settings and turn on the toggle that doesn't let you post without alt text.