for our many new friends like Amy, we are a chaotic auction of crafts, book stuff, and consultations where all of the money goes to helping voting rights! you can see 2024's auction here: auction.romancingthevote.com

It's time to start making your plans! Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026! * authors, start annotating those books * artists, start making that art * experts, start plotting your consultations Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Oof, the ten year limit is rough, bc Val Kilmer did Real Genius in 85 but also The Saint in 97. But you can't cut out Top Gun. (and if we're talking strictly 10 years it's going to be 86-95, but that covers the key years well enough I think. Sigh. Woe.)

Slightly increase a band Um. Blink 190? 🤭

LIFE RULES: Insulate your house with books to ward off evil Oppose the zombie AI apocalypse Never click on a link to the Daily Mail Use double the recommended amount of garlic Always stop to say hi to sheep And to horses too (but in a fake posh voice) I think that's more or less everything covered?

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

so key. this isn’t about purity. this is about doing what we can to collectively push back against right wing billionaires while still surviving in a deeply flawed world. bsky.app/profile/most...

None of us can cancel everything. But all of us can cancel SOMETHING. One eminently practical suggestion: Does your family have more than one Amazon Prime account? You absolutely don't need more than one! Cancel one of those tonight!

And because I haven't been explicit here, I have bipolar disorder and PTSD. I'm on the mild end of the spectrum for both so I can...exist okay without meds. But I sure as hell can't enjoy any part of my life nor be a good parent or partner without them, which is fairly important to me!

My mother refusing to take freaking Tylenol until she hurts so bad she can't walk, because, "I'm just not a pill popper," while ALSO explaining that she "self-medicates" her mental health with alcohol has really highlighted for me the absurdity of that line of thought. Store! Bought! Is! Fine!

"I just don't want to start using it as a crutch." Because crutches are, as you know, only to be used for lower body injuries if you can't just walk them off. (this is sarcasm) I will never understand for as long as I live how we developed this concept of "it's better to be unwell than have help."

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DOES YOUR BODY NEED STRETCHING?

Today's addition to the Fuck These Writers In Particular list...

we're in such an exhausting place politically where I'm suspicious that the House just did something that doesn't make me mad

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

James and the Giant Peach, no I don't remember why, it was third grade. I just remember loathing it. Also The Cay.

Thousands of young people are alive today thanks to the 988 suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth. Last year, Trump shut it down. But we fought back, and forced Trump to reverse course. This is a good step, but we still have a long way to go to make every kid in America feel safe.

Here's my tour info for Platform Decay!

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

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most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of - new account fatigue - new app fatigue - useless upgrade fatigue - terms of service fatigue

also this is gonna be my 2026 vibe. I think we're all emotionally cooked. We're all completely dysregulated. My circle on this site is heavily skewed toward unhinged posters, because I am one. I'm not fighting other folks who also want everyone to have human rights. gotta keep my powder dry.

This is the realest thing.

At dinner tonight a new friend asked what happened to the previous restaurant in the building. I said, oh it was venture capitalists. And she said, sigh, isn't it always.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

And I work with my brain. Holding an entire novel in my head was always hard, but the past few books have really been a challenge because I can walk away for 72 hours and not remember what I wrote clearly. My brain is just not writing things to long term storage reliably like it used to.

Genuinely no clue why so many people are still on substack when Ghost and Beehiiv are right there. And websites! Personal websites still exist! Just make a blog!

Spouse & son, watching me pour bourbon into a glass at 9:30pm: 😳 Me: I just remembered my kid's been dead for ten years so I'm drinking about it. The 16yo: ah. Yeah that's fair. From there it turned into us laughing hysterically for an hour at terrible grief jokes. My child is so amazing.

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The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Quick, someone tell me I don't want chickens.

And let me say at this point I think one of the best fucking skills a child can learn is their own boundaries and comfort levels and how to put down a goddamn book that crosses it, because I am so tired of encountering adults who apparently never learned that.

Elder Millennial here: we all read our mum's collection of romantic fiction as under 11s. Not because we craved salacious content, but because the internet didn't exist yet and we'd read any old shit lying around through sheer boredom.

As someone who feels like I am moving at a snail's pace right now--compared to being able to write two books and a novella or two a year a decade ago--you might wonder, have I ever been tempted to even think about using AI to speed the process up? The answer is not even fucking slightly.

I cannot wait* for Alito to file a dissent in the birthright citizenship case filled with the most hate-filled mask-off racist bullshit and then cry about how people will call him a bigot for it. * I could, in fact, do without this entirely

What it's like to be the credentials chair in two sentences: I made a playlist that tells the story of Being Credentials. Thx, Courtney, since I didn't actually notice *who* won, I just handled the numbers. 🤣 (the playlist is here link.deezer.com/s/32OYhHnQOD...)

Note: This is a thread. Please follow down the thread and you’ll get (most of?) what you’re looking for!

I don’t know, it sounded good.

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

Kyle is a former competitor and friendly acquaintance. He’s right. The lazy, fake outrage news cycles had a disproportionate role in my decision to exit broadcast journalism. The “twitter is where most real people talk” lie that infected newsrooms around 2009 and never left is a dangerous delusion.

I also want all the people who are like "well Phil Weiser hasn't done anything besides file LAWSUITS" to ask themselves if they understand what the Attorney General does.

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

This has been an issue for a few years. Please keep it in mind this year!

I need this good news.

Possibly too-niche, Xennial-coded childhood memory: Does anyone else remember the yellow bag of popcorn from Price Club that was like four feet tall? That shit was the BEST.

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO REACT TO THIS.