Sitting down soon to flesh out a new #Substack essay about the conversation these books are having, both with each other and with Nick Fuentes's recent comments about how scary women are.

From now on, I want to be known exclusively as “Lil Internet“

People with Substacks should be legally required to disclose their tangentiality to the manisphere up front…

One thing I love about being a teacher on winter break is the experimentation. Just tried my hand at a homemade Frappuccino. Let’s see how it turned out.

Trying out some new recipes for family holiday gatherings #BakingSky

One thing that peeves me when non-public school teachers write about teaching is when they start by dogging “intransigent” teachers and then end by stating all the resources public schools don’t have (subtweeting the article on dyslexia practices in @newyorker.com )

As I aim toward a more thoughtful new year, I’ve got my first Substack up in a while about Woolf is helping me be more critical: #BookSky #Substack #Newsletter

The fact that Jacobi Jupe in Hamnet is nowhere on any of the Best Supporting Actor longlist predictions is insane @academyawards.bsky.social

It’s my birthday. Here’s an outline of my plans:

A singer with some grit to their voice is gonna get me every time

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

My main 2026 goal? Circling back to close more loops.

Y’all, I did a double feature of One Battle After Another and Hamnet last night, and if you’ve missed either of them, get thee to a movie theater. #MovieSky

Officially filled every row of my “Year In Reading” book cart for 2025. (Actually, I now have 3 books in a second row on the top shelf cuz I was behind on updating.) #BookSky

As a middle school English teacher, I need you to understand that (for me at least) this is an issue that district admin + publishers create. Class/grade level sets are “too expensive.” But also “students need more exposure to the kinds of short form passages on testing.”

Oh oh oh oh! Also also, Wilfred Owens “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.”

Oh, also William Carlos Williams “I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold”

“I must report failure in my assignment, principally regarding the tomato plants.” (“Vespers,” 1992, Louis Glück)

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social weak answer to @danpfeiffer.bsky.social on his croney ass statements on Cuellar was unacceptable, and he should be grilled as speaker. I need the Pod Save folks to become more aggressive interviewers of our own party.

Y’all, as a gay reader, I am sad to report that Bob the Drag Queen’s novel had to be abandoned 8 pages in.

For the last few years, my brother has given advent calendars as Christmas presents. Excited to crack open this one!

A whole message

I want author’s to take one of those “gotcha” surveys they send to politicians, and the one question I want is, “Would you consider yourself earnest?” I don’t want to read books by people who would say “no.”

I hate to start trends, but I’ve learned two things in the last week: black coffee is good and Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion is a perfect pop album.

A new episode of the pod is out today about the award winning books of 2002. Come listen to @nosferatoos.bsky.social and I talk about the automation of humans and unmasking ICE agents. Thanks, as always, to @chrisrd19.bsky.social for editing! #BookSky #PodcastSky

Wild to see how time and personalities work cuz I’m rereading a book that I read and hated just last summer and now am thinking has “book of the year” possibility for me.

It’s a sad reminder that the truth about Trump is that he just desperately wants cool people to talk to him. That desperation took him all the way to the White House this time.

My apologies to all authors, but the “Don’t get into writing unless you can’t imagine doing anything else” narrative is both untrue to history and feels very gatekeep-y.

boxd.it/bJFXoB #MovieSky

Huge year for “In Spite of Ourselves” #MovieSky

I was today years old when I learned the lyric is, “Like Kurosawa, I make mad films.”

Mental health is fun cuz you can be having a nice day off and then be contemplating calling out the next day cuz you’re just not sure about whether you have the energy

Seated for movie two.

Okay, I’m going to lodge a complaint that is neither original nor interesting: My movie started 30 minutes after the ticketed time

Next day off experience: An afternoon at the movies. First Watch: Bugonia

First day for me I’ve taken this year with the closing of our fall musical. It feels nice #TeacherSky

Holes-oween 2025 #Halloween #Costume #Holes2003

Goal Today: Princess Di drag

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Blah blah blah. Joke about Marvel’s two Quicksilvers. Blah blah blah.

Happy Atlanta Pride

Machado has received international recognition for her activism. In 2025, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." - OOP

God bless art. I love going from a room of septuagenarian nature lovers to a room of late teen/early twenties here to listen to a Broadway playwright. #DecaturBookFestival

I love nature lovers. Presenter: There’s a waterfall in Tucker Audience Member (as if it was church): That’s right! #DecaturBookFestival

Just got an hour of wisdom from Saeed Jones and Victoria Chang. So glad that the #DecaturBookFestival is looking more like its old self this year.

Important to note this 2024 quote from new TikTok America majority stakeholder regarding AI: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”

Listen, I’m really enjoying The Secret of Secrets. It’s a great Langdon book, especially after the dud that was Origin. However, I’m begging Dan Brown to just leave women out of the next one. No women would be better than his current depictions.

I want you all to know that this isn’t based on outside economists. This is based on Trump Commerce data. I don’t know why the Forbes team is insistent on simping in their headline writing when they know people often won’t click in to see the truth of reporting within the article.

I’ve been reading the essays in Edwin Frank’s Stranger Than Fiction alongside their key texts, and I’m developing a theory that male literature stopped being interesting when straight men started passing the Bechdel Test

And that’s right, she contains multitudes