i know we have to "push back" or whatever but this administration has us saying the goofiest, most obvious shit. late night hosts are allowed to make jokes. actually, WE pay tariffs. no, that's not how tylenol works. could be solving climate change but instead we're debunking middle school rumors

i found the cure for autism it's called minding your fucking business

I'm neurodivergent and don't need to be cured. A vaccine didn't make me this way. Tylenol didn't make me this way. I just am. That shouldn't be hard to grasp. Here's my latest book.

I knew the authors of bluesky would have some solace and palatable rage for this situation. I’m just so damn tired.

Vaccines cause adults Tylenol causes pain relief Neurodiversity is good

Oh wow, looks like @premeemohamed.com woke warhammer-sky! 🧔‍♂️🔨👊

I never really liked how often American white Christian nationalism is compared to other countries like Germany or what have you because this is very old and very standard Klan speak.

70 of 2025: A dark and gloomy tale with a shining glimmer of hope under a few layers of leaves and mud - perfect for a sickbed read at the start of autumn. I love that even when the fmc is a literal toad, @tkingfisher.com can make her relatable and lovable. Perfect little fall novella! #booksky

69 of 2025. What a fantastic, anti-authoritarian, clever as hell, tightly-plotted mystery about the injured people who make the horrifying decisions that shape our worlds. And also Ana verbally eviscerating anyone on the premises. I’ll definitely be reading more @robertjbennett.bsky.social! 📚🦋

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Dessert mode: ACTIVATE Best pie: Strawberry Rhubarb Best Ice Cream: Dark chocolate Cherry Best Doughnut: glazed Best Bar: Milky Way midnight Best Cake: my mom’s cheesecake Best Other: crumbl snickerdoodle cookie

Yessssssss. For real it’s so good.

68 of 2025 I’m so glad that this is the year I finally sat down and read @emilytesh.net . I’ve wanted to read this one since I heard about the Tamsyn blurb on the cover and it did Not disappoint. It healed the person in me let down by the allegory and cishet privilege of Ender’s Game. So. fkn. good.

Is this an official tie-in for ladyknight October next month? 🤣 I really don’t need another MagSafe base, but golly I’m tempted.

Sometimes you need a picture of a dog rollying joyfully in a grassy field in the late afternoon sun

I love the authors of bsky and their responses to *gesticulates wildly at 2025* Now don’t mind me while I go back to reading @emilytesh.net ‘s queer space opera. You know. The one about dismantling fascist, colonialist structures from within and giving your aggressors the middle finger. That one.

Hey! Are you sure being on social media is what you need right now? Maybe you'd be better served by a book, a Discord call with friends, or diving face-first into a tub of chocolate pudding. If socials are right? Then great. But please be good to yourselves.

*snort* Do you know how many murders cops solve? Less than half, and that’s being generous and counting “arrested somebody” as “solved.” This isn’t weird, it’s dead normal.

Louder for the folks in back

Cannot wait to ingest this one 🤤

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

August wrap up a few days late. I read fewer books last month but I’m still well above my goal pace for the year. Very dark. Very academia. And also robot noodles 🤣

A great panel at Rose City Comic Con today, wherein my mother was in the audience so I couldn’t swear, and @scalzi.com valiantly offered to say “Fuck!” for me every time I poked him. Later, at dinner, my mother reminded me that two of her three husbands were sailors. NEVERTHELESS.

LOOK A FIASCO THAT ISNT A BLACK SQUARE : REJOICE!

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who has been refreshing Premee’s feed since the little fluffbutt disappeared 🤣 Fr tho so glad he’s back.

HES BACK HES BACK THE LITTLE FUR MONSTER IS BACK!!! (Y’all I have been somewhat unhealthily checking this bsky bc my heart couldn’t handle him being gone. Not in 2025.)

JB is a politician like the rest of them and no Chicago billionaire has clean hands but at least he’s got enough guts to call a spade a spade. Probably won’t do much good but shouting into the void is infinitely better than staying silent.

The best kinds of books defy easy categorization. We can call it horror, sure, or generic “SFF,” but it goes deeper than that (without taking itself too seriously). I had the pleasure to read an early draft of this one and can’t wait to see it here in its final form. Heartily recommended! 📚🦋📚🪐

65 of 2025. I love me a cozy joy-in-work tale and the characters here were so lovable and memorable. Like many stories of not-humans, it shines in its humanity and relatability. Also I would Delight to eat a bowl of those noodles. Definitely recommended.

66 of 2025. I regret how long it took me to finish this magnificent tome; eye-reading has been so hard this summer and I’ve been so Tired. Fitting then that I finished it with a fall nip in the air between the first and second days of September. I loved it so much, though. And the cat! Love. 📚🌈🦋📚

SIGN ME UP THIS SOUNDS INCREDIBLE

For two glorious hours I thought I'd be able to see my two favorite authors at the same time. I picked flights and hotel. Previewed public transit routes. Started adding everything to carts and choosing which cards to use... Then I found out my mom is out of town the same week and I can't go.

I’m so excited for this one to exist in the world in its final form ❤️

he LOVES his teacher this is just drama for the love of the game. careful buddy, concealing your feelings with chilly disapproval only works if you pull £10,000 a year

Oh my god. I had to stop to CACKLE at Moira using a riff on her Our Lady of the Passion (Pash, my love!) voice for @melissacaruso.bsky.social ‘s grumpy Linnaeus. Absolutely. Cackling. (This book is so good the second time around 😍)

This feels pretty great, not gonna lie. My ADHD brain is very typically bad at committing to new habits, but joke’s on it bc I actually really like reading and it’s been great to have an excuse to do it literally every day for most of a year.

63 of 2025 - I liked it, hey Mikey! And idk what cover this is, but I love the color 😂 Onwards and upwards!

THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD Y’ALL GO READ IT! (Alternately? Have Moira Quirk read it to you because 😻) Congrats, @melissacaruso.bsky.social! #booksky

Ok but this is so true though??

Very fitting that I see this in my inbox while waking up with my kiddos in the middle of the night. Can’t wait to read it (again) and spend some time in @melissacaruso.bsky.social ‘s worlds. This will be my first time reading a final copy after advanced reading an ARC and I’m stoked it’s this one!

62 of 2025 This book, y’all. This book is the perfect example of using a fantasy world to tackle real world problems under a dazzling spotlight of unflinching truth. It has such complex things to say about race and class and gender and power structures… but does so in a world with magic users. Love!

yes!! i am a huge whiny baby about writing, but--the love for the Thing is the only way you'll make a Thing worth loving!!!

and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.

This.

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

S Club 77

anyway love & victory to the curators, archivists, and librarians who are, at this very moment, thinking of creative ways to fuck up all this paperwork. "here's a list of every bone fragment on display from 1991-2015." "what do you mean that file was ALSO unreadable? hold on, i'll fax it over"

Led Blimp

Everything by Lurlene McDaniel. She was my favorite author when I was like… 8? 9? It was a lot of dead kid books decades before The Fault in Our Stars. (Omg wait is this @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social ‘s answer, too?! 🤯🤯🤯)