this book is a brutal, icy marvel

discovered so many artists via this series

highly recommended!

dreamed i was jamming on a qwerty keyboard with remote musicians for a glitch / experimental project, only by the end I was grabbing and pull-pushing pure sound around like it was silly putty, it was fantastic, can’t remember the last time I had FUN in a dream & woke up smiling, even joyful

these books are both GREAT, big queer angst and joy, you want this

through gritted teeth this morning, but still. #CelebrateWhatYouCan #ShareGoodNewsToo

Seen a lot of Frankenstein discourse, but nobody pondering whether the Creature's first outfit is a deliberate homage to Peter Hinwood's gold shorts in Rocky Horror. (I think YES)

Censoring the internet or restricting social media will not result in less queer people, it will just increase the amount of queer people who suffer needlessly before discovering themselves. Of course, for homophobes and transphobes, this is a bonus feature and not a flaw. They like us suffering.

I see that the @resist.bot web interface has been updated so I can enter my full angry screed at one go, instead of building it a sentence at a time. So that's cool.

In my first romance, Nat (she/her) and Ian (he/they) are rivals on a fundraising bike ride to fight food insecurity in their county (soft-pedaled that a bit, coz the series vibes are cozy/low-angst). Available from Itch aleewellesfiction.itch.io/spoken-for or the ‘zon www.amazon.com/Spoken-Clove...

It’s funny (not funny) how only one party is consistently able to weaponize all the procedural bullshit to advance their agenda when they don’t have a majority (or the support of the populace) my kingdom (i don’t have a kingdom) for dems who will give back as good as they’re gotten with

modern memory management seems nakedly designed to sell ram chips. how the blazes is text edit taking 117mb with one small document? i call bs. #ThingsThatAreNotActualProblems

Why stop at a 50-year mortgage? Let's go full dystopia and make it a 150 years, with your debt lovingly passed down like an heirloom of financial despair. Generation after generation, working not for wealth, but for the privilege of almost owning drywall. Why own a house, when you can haunt it?

sorry, i had to

every once in a while i have to sit and contemplate the majesty of samuel l. jackson saying he's had it with the "monkey-fighting snakes on this monday-to-friday plane" for a lil bit

if i were not already boycotting Target this would 100% make me an online-only customer at most

Stories from: Christopher Barzak, Jedediah Berry, Richard Bowes, Paul Di Filippo, Jeffrey Ford, Gregory Maguire, Lucius Shepard, Delia Sherman, Catherynne M. Valente, Marly Youmans, Greer Gilman, Lavie Tidhar, David Prill, Gavin Grant, Peter S. Beagle

what about what about guilty of "a salt"

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

hey, what if @theonion.com @bencollins.bsky.social picked up members of the ex-Teen Vogue team and spooled up/spun off a hard news site? "Marble by the Onion," or something.

This is a classic form of voter intimidation—making people feel like it’s not safe to go to the polls. It moments like this where we need to summon our courage & vote anyhow. Vote in the tradition of the people who marched in Selma to secure the right to vote.

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

not that anyone asked me but: blocking - good for users. more pleasant (& literally more healthy; rage isn't good for you) experience blocking - bad for the platform because it lowers engagement (treating "engagement" as a value-neutral currency - more is always better - was a terrible mistake)

August 2025 @teenvogue.com: We're honored to get this award for "reporting on our democracy." November 2025 @teenvogue.com: We have fired all of our staffers who report on our democracy.

Our end-of-year campaign starts today! Washington City Paper was built for moments like these: keeping our community informed when it matters most. Help us reach our $36,260 goal and power the reporting D.C. depends on:

This is an absolutely tragic gutting of one of the best politics desks in the country

giving me life today: the drum arrangement on "take it" from "hooke's law," the new KeiyaA album

One of the things I think the vibe coding stuff hasn't yet really come to terms with is junior developers and owners often think the key skill for developers is ability to write code, and principal developers know the /actual/ super power that distinguishes principals is their ability to debug.

just curious: anyone else seeing lots of posts with terms they have muted on here lately? i have many terms muted with "exclude users you follow" to limit the reposts and quotes I see, and while that worked well for a long time, now it's suddenly not

this was a fun conversation with provocative thoughts about how magic funtions in fiction, and plenty of recs to (further) expand my TBR mountain

#QueerWriters line share day - mug. For once I have quite a few. One detail I like, but I suspect may fall out in editing, is that Nykky and Danny both used to prefer tea when they were first together. They’ve both switched to coffee in the decade since they broke up—but neither knows that at first.

Hey there ! I'm featured in a new bundle on itchio from November 1st, Trans People Take on the World ! Books by 32 trans authors with trans characters, featuring fantasy, sci-fi, romance, and more! #booksky 📚🌈💜 itch.io/b/3352/trans...

"Or, at least, I thought those were the only four versions of Gaslight to pick from until a couple of years ago, when I discovered archival traces of a fifth version that had somehow vanished from the historical record."

My new little book has been in the world for a month! Jay perceives a lot of obstacles to a relationship with Derek, and he places a lot of weight on their incompatible music taste. But eventually he and Derek curate a mix for each other. And you can listen to it! on Tidal: tidal.com/playlist/219...

#QueerWritersChat 4 "The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury blew my mind as a kid

this may be related to how i wound up in my career, actually

Ready.

Want to be a real-life superhero? I've set up a virtual food drive to raise funds for Northern Illinois Food Bank. For anyone who donates before Nov. 14, you'll get thanked in THE BRIGHTEST BLAZE. Food is a basic human right. Let's lend a hand, friends. support.solvehungertoday.org/fundraiser/6...

I have watched every single Scream movie when it came out. I will not be watching Scream 7.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

If you know about the racism designed into these apps as well as the way they misfire on trans people it’s a good time to be terrified.

i don't know anything specific about how this facial recognition app was trained. but in general, they are much more accurate with white faces, and have a history of false positives misidentifying Black people as suspected felons.

hmm #HorrorWritersChat what if we always fear what we don't understand and can't control... and that used to be the woods, and sometimes still is. but now it's the slippery rectangle in your pocket or your bag, too.

#LGBTQWriteAThon 29 - Both MCs in my second chance romance pretty much saw each other's worst before their first relationship exploded. Not many skeletons left. But several of my secondary characters are trying to keep secrets from my MC couple, one another, and the world. (Good luck, 2ndary chars!)

Happy Release day to Ms. Beverly Jenkins! The final book in the Blessings series is live #BlackBookSky www.beverlyjenkins.net/books/the-bl...

If you're a queer Texas author of adult or YA fiction & you have one of your books on hand that you'd like to sign & donate to a silent auction bundle for Equality Texas, DM me? The event is Nov 15th so it would need to get in the mail ASAP, or in Austin area I can pick up. Reposts appreciated! 🏳️‍🌈

hey @woj.bsky.social have you heard this?

This would be a good time to find your local food bank and donate. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Final days for trick or treat reads!

this is an irresistible hook for me