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I wish I knew who I stole this from

"Poor Gerald." "Yes. Shame."

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.

Tornado warning?!

I still can’t believe it that I wrote a @latimes.com 2025 Best Science Book Selection. As a #phd student. 🤯 Mama, we made it. #blacksky #Godsplan

Need a last-minute gift for the writers, editors, teachers, or college students in your life? Give them the #ConsciousStyleGuide audiobook—a friendly guide to language that promotes equity! 🎁 Buy from Libro.fm: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... 🦋 Follow CSG on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/cons...

Need a last-minute gift for the writers, editors, teachers, or college students in your life? Give them the #ConsciousStyleGuide audiobook—a friendly guide to language that promotes equity! 🎁 Buy from Libro.fm: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... 🦋 Follow CSG on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/cons...

Well, this was an exciting thing to wake up to this morning! I'm on a list of the best podcasts from women over 50 alongside a bunch of amazing women — Amy Poehler, Katie Couric, Michelle Obama, Kara Swisher, Gretchen Rubin, Mel Robbins, and more! www.theflowspace.com/lists/best-p...

What I want for Christmas is a job designing comic covers, a steady job in the animation industry where I am storyboarding and writing for TV, illustration comics and books, and other opportunities.

For decades, the FDA made it impossible to know which factory your prescription drugs were manufactured in. ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.

did you know that good copy editors check for this kind of thing did u know *stares directly into camera*

🥁🥁🥁 This month’s Conscious Language Newsletter is out, and the top three articles are… #1: Why Can’t Lawyers and Judges Just Say What They Mean?

🥁🥁🥁 This month’s Conscious Language Newsletter is out, and the top three articles are… #1: Why Can’t Lawyers and Judges Just Say What They Mean?

Thank you, @bookshop.org, for featuring my Picture Books About Wildfire booklist. After the January fires, friends asked if I would write a picture book about my experiences. But beautiful books about wildfire already exist. Please read them. The anniversary is near. Visit DiversePictureBooks.com.

If you're still looking for a gift idea [*waggles eyebrows*]…

Possibly the single greatest moment in children’s literature.

This story Carl Nassib told on RC's pod about coming out in the NFL cracked me up. His delivery is so good!

The “Indigenous Identity Reporting Guide,” by the Indigenous Journalists Association, is a living document that offers tips and strategies for approaching the topic of Indigenous identity fraud. ✔️ Download: indigenousjournalists.org/wp-content/u... Follow @indigenousja.bsky.social for more.

A quick tip on insect wings #sciart #art #insects

Be like Rob Reiner. A must read.

Examining the euphemisms and abbreviations related to gender-based violence. “If the truth makes you uncomfortable, ask whether the discomfort comes from the language, or the underlying reality.” #GBV #ConsciousLanguage #QuoteThisWoman

“The discussion about the words we use took a troubling turn: Instead of being an opportunity to engage deeply with harmful attitudes, people—predominantly white people—are instead focusing on the superficial use of words themselves.” By @sesmith.lol for Bitch Media, repub by @theflytrapmedia.com.

It's sort of impossible to really capture what Alice Wong meant to so many people (myself included) but @soleilho.com wrote something beautiful, and we gathered up a few touching memories from other folks that speak to what a brilliant star she was. Love you forever, Alice.

Just ordered a shirt:

🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.” *THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*

This is such a great resource, please consider it for the writers and writer-adjacent people in your life

NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.

Absolutely thrilled to see “The Conscious Style Guide” in Right Touch Editing’s holiday 🎁 guide. Thank you, @imaginedworlds.bsky.social, for shining a light on my work. #Edibuddies #AmReading #AmEditing #WritingCommunity #GiftGuide @consciousstyleguide.com 🎄

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🚨 OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD 🚨 It's our annual Word of the Week of the Year competition. Likes are votes, and you can upvote as many as you like. Or leave your own words in the replies. They can win, too. Listen for the winners in our live episode! Coming soon. #WordOfTheWeekOfTheYear2025

“Identifying the game being played and calling it out, so that audiences can understand why things are being said and not just that they are said, is critical to covering state-sanctioned trolling ethically and effectively.” —@whitneyphillips.bsky.social @niemanlab.org #PredictionsForJournalism2026

I’m giddy to learn that my book “The Conscious Style Guide” is on a #SilentBookClub list! 🥰 📚 Check it out in “Confessions of a Non-Reader” by Rev. J. Ruth Bartlett: bookgagabooks.ca/2025/12/01/o...

“Coverage that treats mobility devices, speech patterns or age as symbols of decline reinforces stigma, whereas coverage that focuses on how decisions are made and how institutions adapt provides useful information.” @uwethics.bsky.social #Media #Journalism #Politics

Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.

ICYMI: I spoke with CBS Sunday Morning about my book, There Is No Place for Us, alongside the families whose desperate efforts to secure housing the book follows—people working nonstop and still being pushed into homelessness.

This month’s #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is out! The most popular articles so far… #1: Travel Expert Who’s Visited 70 Countries Shares 7 Phrases Americans Should Never Say Abroad

The Stone Roses "I Want to be Adored" #LyricsPrompt day 22 "adore" www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2q...

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

Editor-in-chief used AI editing tools to insert hallucinations into stories without fact-checking or disclosure, reports @niemanlab.org. #WCGW #AmReading #GenAI #AI #Journalism

“The final product…isn’t perfect, [Kahoʻokahi Kanuha] and other Hawaiian language experts say, but it’s a successful global-scale contribution to revitalizing and normalizing a language that has endured erasure attempts amid colonization.” @apnews.com #Hawaiian #ChiefOfWar #AppleTV

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist? MAMDANI: I've spoken about-- TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

Is Editing Canadian English on your virtual bookshelf? If you write and edit in Canadian English, it should be. Get this invaluable expert ebook for just $9.99. #ECE3

“The problem, I think, lies not in what plain language is but in what some writers mistakenly believe it is.” @editorscanada.bsky.social #PlainLanguage #ConsciousLanguage

“Advocate for gender-neutral or gender-free language in the texts you work on.” @editorscanada.bsky.social Thanks for giving our free gender/sex #consciousLanguage resources a shout-out, Zanne Klingenberg! #TransDayOfRemembrance #RepresentationMatters #ConsciousStyle

Editor-in-chief used AI editing tools to insert hallucinations into stories without fact-checking or disclosure, reports @niemanlab.org. #WCGW #AmReading #GenAI #AI #Journalism

This month’s #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is out! The most popular articles so far… #1: Travel Expert Who’s Visited 70 Countries Shares 7 Phrases Americans Should Never Say Abroad

How a freelancer's suspicious pitch led an editor to dig into past work, finding inconsistencies and falsehoods, as tech makes falsifying writing trivially easy (Nicholas Hune-Brown/The Local) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

“Stop scapegoating minorities and put the focus back on the things that are really harming women.”—Member of the #NotInOurName collective (@pinknews.bsky.social) #TransAwarenessWeek @nionwomen.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️