Zombie apocalypse. Pandemic allegory. Bengali Muslim-Hindu immigrant relations. Sexual relations. KICK AT THE DARKNESS has a LOT going on for a story that clock in at 10K and costs $1.99! Buy links: books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv

They want us to feel powerless. We are not. They want us to feel hopeless. Hope is always here. Look at flowers and tress. That’s hope IMO They want us to give up. We won’t do that. We will never do that.

The President is unwell. PBS comments: “his remarks were rambling and incoherent,” in multiple appearances. The Guardian calls some of his speeches “baffling” and “weirder than ever.” Cambridge analysis says that his statements often require “translation” or annotation to make sense.

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

Enter @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's much loved fantasy world -The Elflands! Start with the story of Maia, the emperor's youngest, exiled, son as he goes from The Goblin Emperor to The Winter Emperor, then follow the continuing adventures of Elven Detective/Witness for the Dead Thara Celehar!

man, I know people hate on first person POV narratives, but I am reading two wildly different books in first person and *writing* a novel in first person and I love this POV

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Oh, & the ebook of ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR is still only $2.99 on all platforms! This is the time! It applies an ancient moral framework for accountability for harm to not only healing the harm we cause in our own lives (we're all people, we all *do*) but to institutional, systemic, national harm:

One side posted that they don't like white supremacists or Christian nationalists. The other side is threatening to kill people because they said they don't like white supremacists and Christian nationalists. Stop pretending domestic terrorists and the people they terrorize are the same.

Feels like the time to admit that I really like getting to bed before midnight. I clearly am an old and I’m good with that.

or the victims of synagogue shootings, mosque shootings, gay club shootings, abortion clinic shootings, assassinations of democrats, etc.

The democrats need to be anti-child rapists if they want to win elections, too Also anti-racist and pro-lgbtq+ rights, among other things I can't vote for someone who wants me and my friends and family dead, not anymore, not again

If you don’t want everyone to have care, to get help, everyone, you are not someone I want or will allow in my life. Homeless people, drug addicts, people with mental illness, EVERYONE.

Trying to stay up for #FullcastAfterDark. I miss that joyous community. I need people.

Hey, @charliejane.bsky.social , thank you for Never Say You Csn’t Survive. I have kept writing because of you, and the writing has helped me so much. Thank you. Looking forward to reading Lessons in Magic and Disaster as soon as @greenapplebooks.bsky.social can ship it to me!

GO, MA!!!

Lots of talk recently about the RedZone channel for college football … Well, it does exist (on radio) and starting today at noon ET you can join us on the Blitz for 12 hours of whip-around coverage 📡 Sirius XM channel 999 📲 Varsity app (free): tinyurl.com/vn7p2fef

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Ebook bundle: pay-what-you-want ($18 or more) for 9 Murderbot books and stories + 5 other Martha Wells works. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

I saw that people came in with chalk today to reinstall it guerrilla style.

Biomedical research isn't a YouTube video, you cannot hit pause for an indefinite period of time and then hit play whenever the regime wants. Samples are destroyed, labs dismantled, scientists leave...

Just bought 4 Good Game by @sarahspain.com shirts from BreakingT because I can and because they will give me joy. Sarah is the best!

What will dinner be? Who knows! I’m sure we’ll manage something.

It's what would have been Mom's 94th birthday today. I love her still, and I miss her still. I'm glad I had so many years with her in my life--she was THE BEST MOM, kind, accepting, caring, so very loving. She was a wonderful MIL and grandmother, and the world was the better for her being in it.

“Isn’t there a reason to be happy, isn’t there a reason to be happy” The song is What a Shame by Jim Infantino, Strawman CD, available on Bandcamp, not on iTunes, maybe on You Tube. The whole album is superb.

I ordered some more project bags from Stitched by @jessalu.bsky.social because they’re the BEST.

I grew up singing Tom Lehrer songs. A good thing my father did. Although having me blithely sing SMUT to my horrified religious relatives when I had no idea what the words meant (3 years old!) was not good of him.

Don’t know if what I love will work for anyone else, but I find that Steely Dan songs lift me up.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

There is no inherent virtue in home cooking from scratch, home cooking from semi-scratch, frozen meals, take-out delivery, take-out pickup, dine in fast, dine in slow. Each comes with trade offs. But don’t do the expensive thing and say it’s actually cheaper and more ethical. That’s all.

I’m excited for this! MOAR CYCLING YAY!

Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

11) it is completely reasonable to write fiction with no interest in publication (and posting things to the internet is publication.) this is exactly parallel to how it's reasonable to play in a local sports league with no intention of going pro. writing is good for you and it's worth doing.

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

Knitting and reading and walking are keeping me going.

Keep going, please. We need your support and love and strength and knowledge. We need YOU.

Bob Roll looks like Yoda and is wise as well. Love the #TourDeFrance!

I enthusiastically recommend getting, reading, & absorbing the lessons offered in @charliejane.bsky.social's 2021 book 'Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get through Hard Times by Making Up Stories.' It's a book about writing & creating that's also about living a more fulfilling life. 📚

Catching up on the #TourDeFrance on the TdF YouTube page. This is what I need this July. Thank you for the reminder on the Shutdown Fullcast, @surber.bsky.social . I used to get up early to watch the stages when it was on Versus, before too, back in the 80s when there was a weekly show on Sunday.

I’d like to learn to crochet. Any recs for a good beginner’s crochet book?

Y'all, nearly everything is goddamn terrible everywhere, but there is a single shining beacon in the dark, and it's this fight breakdown. This is 100% worth the $10/month subscription cost it takes to read, and if you need proof of that, here's the tiniest taste.

The trans healthcare ban is BACK in the bill (after the parlimentarian removed it, they put it back). Dems need to do a call and vote to remove it again. PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE AND KILL IT.

This is pretty cool, actually! Mental Health is SO important, loves! Let this be a reminder to take care of yours. ♥️

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine