If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries! If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social We're stronger together!

Here is 28 seconds of sleeping cat with little sleep noises for your calming down needs.

Let's fund some classrooms. I am specifically going to seek out funding classrooms that are looking to add frequently banned books to their collections. My goal? Let's see if we can hit $10,000 in classroom fundraising by the end of September.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

there's nothing I can say in a bluesky-length post that feels adequate right now so I'm sticking to amplifying better voices than mine & sharing resources. Get involved with or donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, they are mobilizing medical care and resources.

Oooh, this was a good one! Murky morals, machinations, class struggle, blood magic, and extremely messy queers.

btwwwwww, if you've been waiting on PAYAL MEHTA'S ROMANCE REVENGE PLOT, the paperback is out in September!! And you can preorder it now! (buy my book runwithskizzers.neocities.org ) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690564...

Milo Imagines the World: bookshop.org/p/books/milo... Sofia Valdez, Future Prez: bookshop.org/p/books/when... Pink is for Boys: bookshop.org/p/books/pink... And Tango Makes Three: bookshop.org/p/books/and-... Bathe The Cat: bookshop.org/p/books/bath...

You could buy: Homeland: bookshop.org/p/books/home... The Big Bath House: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... What Are Your Words: bookshop.org/p/books/what... The ABCs of Black History: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Sharice's Big Voice: bookshop.org/p/books/shar...

Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

🩸 Sigue la PREVENTA de «La marca de Qilwa», de @jamsternazzy.bsky.social. Adéntrate en esta novela corta de #fantasía que habla de inmigración, género y familia. La ilustración de Firuz es un fragmento de la cubierta de @evelasco.bsky.social#fantasía

DID YOU KNOW I WROTE A SPOOKY MIDDLE GRADE AND WE ARE NOW IN SPOOKY SEASON

🎃 55 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Middle Grade Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit 🎃 popgoesthereader.com/55-scary-and... #BookSky #KidLit #MGLit

otherwiseaward.org/2025/09/cele... Thanks to @edmondchang.bsky.social, @jamsternazzy.bsky.social & @genni.bsky.social for this set of recommendations for work published 2022-2023 -- more to come in future weeks! #fantasy #sciencefiction #sff #scifi #genrefiction #games #LARP #comics #graphicnovels

🩸Últimos dos días de la PREVENTA de «La marca de Qilwa», de Naseem Jamnia, y hoy venimos a presentarte a su autore: Naseem Jamnia (@jamsternazzy.bsky.social) es escritore, educadore y activista Persa-chicaguense, que vive en Reno, NV, con su marido y cuatro criaturas peludas. #fantasía #litesky

my copies came in and they're AMAZING AHHHHHHH

this is TOO CUTE!!!

back on my bullshit with my latest special interest, FUNGI

SPAIN! You can preorder the Spanish translation of THE BRUISING OF QILWA NOW!! from the wonderful @crononauta.es. My author copies just shipped and I cannot WAIT to get them and give them to my Bolivian in-laws to read. (How my 75 y/o MIL will understand the gender-neutral Spanish will be fun!)

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

Many of us recognize this is straight up Nazi propaganda. But there will be many more who don't see the direct connection. That's largely because of the 50 year Republican attack on public education and erasure of history. Make no mistake. They want to destroy public education & they are succeeding.

i’d really like to disabuse people of the notion that local/state police are somehow going to stop the feds’ terror campaign. lots of local cops already work with these same feds on task forces and in fusion centers. they are quite literally part of the same system. they are not allies.

I've been told the Authors Guild and plaintiffs in the Anthropic AI class action had no choice but to use a narrow definition of affected works. That if the group of writers hurt by Anthropic were too wide & diverse, the class action would've failed. Bullshit! 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

I am so excited to get my grubby hands on the Spanish edition of THE BRUISING OF QILWA!!

I'm honestly not sure how anyone following me wouldn't know this by now, but I am VERY EXTREMELY PRO-PALESTINE

"This was so enjoyable! In the past I’ve enjoyed Cahill’s short fiction a lot & this novella is just as good . . . Audition for the Fox is a breath of fresh air." THANK YOU @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social! And I LOVE the love for @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social's art 🦊 bookjockeyalex.com/2025/09/04/r...

Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.

The hill I'll die on is that very few books labeled "dark academia" have anything to do with academia at all and are largely written by people who have not experienced academia, and that it is instead a romanticized idea about what people think """academia""" is

Good for her, and Lisa Cook, and anyone else who plants their feet, digs in, and says "Fuck you; make me."

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

THE SUPERBLOOM HAS ARRIVED 🏵️🌹🪷🌻🌷🌼💮 @marissavu.bsky.social and the Violet Lichen team are thrilled to present the cover for ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE FICTION! 🌿 Cover Art: @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design: Mikio Murakami @ Silent Q Design

only one person has bid on the special edition of THE BRUISING OF QILWA (I only have three left) and they'd be getting it at a STEAL of $35—I'd love to bump that number much higher! Same with the annotated ARC (currently at $40). Today's the last day and we could raise so much more than we have!

At $7,200 / $40,000 goal with only five days left, you can help support #KidLit4Ceasefire families via links on my 🔗🌳 Please share the fundraiser page: 32auctions.com/WeThePeopleSummerAuction

some joy for your TL

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

the fact that there will be people who are surprised when this happens or who still believe this fuck isn't a genocidal abomination is truly something. it's not exactly like this colonial hellscape has been subtle in its aims. it's been OUTRIGHT STATED MULTIPLE TIMES

I was lucky enough that my parents paid for our $2500 wedding luncheon, and I bought my dress for $300 off Etsy (bc I compromised... sighs in nonbinary). My SIL did the photography. Honestly, we were going to elope and doing this tiny party for like 30 family members was an amazing choice

"Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality" is a sentence I can immediately recognize as something that will be seared into my brain forever

My integrity doesn’t allow book posting without acknowledging the ongoing g*noc*d* As a friend said, Never has anyone seen so many familiar names & faces (journalists, teachers, writers) obliterated on our TLs. Social media has become a digital cemetery. Here are two pics: Gaza before and now

this book is so unbelievably good, you will not regret it

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

You could learn a lot from homeless people. They've been on the frontlines of the American police state forever. And they're still here. They're still fighting back. This week: life lessons I learned from homeless folks, apocalypse edition. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/lessons-i-le...

CPD’s use of bikes as a tool of oppression is straight-up diabolical. Here’s a small-scale example.

*rubs temples* can we just... go one year without this shit. (Reasons like this is why @wiscon.bsky.social is my favorite genre convention!)

Asking for a friend: Do I have any journalists in my circles who is interested in doing a story on ICE activity in a small town with some of the highest activity per capita in its state, which local press is ignoring? Keeping it vague for now, but DM me and I can put you in touch with my contact!

Friends! In collaboration with @tachyonpub.bsky.social, Carlos & I are hosting one of their glorious 30th Anniversary Events on our Twitch TV channel! SAVE THE DATE: Oct 2, 8 PM Eastern (5 PM Pacific, 6 Mountain, 7 Central). 9 writers & editor @jhameia.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.com/e/tachyon-30...

You should hit them with this amazing video by @djolder.bsky.social which is STILL so relevant: www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gC...

Since I posted that I'm transitioning off IG to direct people to my newsletter, I've gone through to prune based on subscriber engagement (bc I'm almost at 300 subscribers and once I hit that, I have to pay a bunch more money 😅) and it has moved me DEEPLY to see just how many old friends are still