When you come across racists complaining about Bad Bunny today, don’t forget to hit them with this: Puerto Rican literature about Puerto Rico written by a boricua. Yo sería borincano aunque naciera en la luna. Thanks and hope you have a great Sunday! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Thinking about the show Hello, Tomorrow! where a bunch of grifters roam from town to town selling timeshares on the moon. Because that's all this is - tricking people into buying something and then moving on to the next mark.

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

I’m currently reading this book, which comes out on Tuesday. Go ahead and read the description. (Short version: A satire about a dating app that matches you with a dead body.) Always fun to read something that could only have come from a person’s extravagantly strange mind.

Apropos of current discussions, this was written using my brain and my laptop and my very specific perspective on the world, not AI slop, btw

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Linda says it better than I did

Thanks, I hate it. Cannot fathom leaning on AI slop like this. There is *so much* of me in my Hazel Graves and Heather Spellman books - places I've lived, people I've met, things I've read and watched and that are important to me. How is a book a book without that? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

Just sent off my edits for 10 Things I Hate About Zombies! Oh, this one is so much fun - think a sexy Shaun of the Dead, set in Portland. 🧟 🧋 It'll be on shelves in the US and UK in September! 🌳 harpercollins.co.uk/products/10-...

We’re looking at another very big Dem overperformance tonight—in a Trump+13 district. Dem Chasity Martinez is up 61-39 with more than half the vote in. Notably, like in TX last weekend, the e-day vote has been even *better* for her than the early vote. voterportal.sos.la.gov/graphical

Did you know I launched my Patreon this month? 👀✨ Here is this month’s exclusive print that is available in my Planet Print tier starting at $10 💖 patreon.com/VeroDoodles #patreon #unicorn #alicorn #mailclub #sticker #stickerclub #dreamy #art #whimsical #magic

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Spotted these fancy bookmarks at the library - hey, that's me! Join me at Rancho Mirage Library on 23 May for Romance Book Club. :) I'll share some of the local landmarks that made it into FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR (by me, as Hazel Graves), and give you a sneak peek at the next book!

New bookshop alert! The Book Shop of Needham (MA) is having its grand opening today! And it’s packed with readers despite the “storm”. #indiebookshop #books #booksky #reading

6yo: "is twenteen bigger than twenty?"

oh dear. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The single red thread on the shrimp hats shrimp hat hat hat is so good. Shrimp hat is endless

bring back shame

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

@grundrza.bsky.social also reflects on the fact that exploiting existing inequalities between tenure track and adjunct faculty makes it easier to implement censorship. Without workplace protections, adjuncts can't refuse to teach censored books.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Olivetti Typewriter ad from 1954 - design by Giovanni Pintori. Olivetti ads are top notch mid-century design. Starting a 🧵 here. #wardsmorguefile

#amediting to 60s garage rock (as always) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCRY...

wrapping up edits on 10 Things I Hate About Zombies over here 😅

All of this, and also, it's okay to be a bit crap at something! Give it a try and have some fun with it.

three books due to go to copyedits by the end of the month

Happy #Caturday! Here are a couple of my favourite spreads from Luis and Tabitha (words by me; art by Hollie Mengert) 🐈‍⬛ 🌹 🔗 bookshop.org/a/975/978164... 🔗 www.amazon.com/dp/1641700408/

all talent really is? It's one thing that you have a knack for right away. That's all it is. it is a single pea buried in the mattresses of practice. You don't even have to have that one thing. Harping on talent is how they keep you from trusting you can do it. it's a grift.

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

*time capsule casita intensifies*

Working on video ad concepts for a client. Hope they like weird 😅

go off jack white

Winesburg, Ohio is here…✨ Stamped copies are only for preorders through February 11. shop.maudlinhouse.net#winesburg-ohio

Thrilled to announce my 5th (omg) graphic novel!!! This standalone fairy tale is part an excuse to draw lots of monsters, part the agrophobia I've developed in these pandemic years, and the rest—a story of comfort that doesn't shy away from the dark 🧡🧡🧡 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

When they say it's high concept 🤩 I've become so much better over the years at conceiving of and pitching strong concepts, and it's made a huge difference in how my work is received.

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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

just a taste of the film FISH STORY

Exciting meeting today 🤞

Yay, one more pass, and it's back to my editor! Proud of my heartwarming zombie apocalypse romcom 🥰

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yay, one more pass, and it's back to my editor! Proud of my heartwarming zombie apocalypse romcom 🥰

They're taking revenge on a child for being harmed by them.

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! kidshannon.com/jenniferl.me... #illustration #comics #covers

Not long now!

My hobby is paying more in taxes than the world's richest people