where is there a live feed of the Senate voting?

Everybody is like, yay, the Democratic Party is a big, happy coalition. But it's needed to split into separate parties for years at this point. You cannot cater to the center and expect any kind of meaningful change.

Just a reminder that if you have money to spare, now is a good time to donate to your local food bank. My local one, for example, not only feeds people, but they serve as a resource organization, helping people navigate NJ state benefits. AND they run an after-school homework help club. 1/

My 8 year old is reading a Hanukkah book that has a Trojan dreidel in it, and I'm pleased to report that not only did she get the joke, but she knew the story of Troy well enough to scream, "That's supposed to be in the Trojan War!" My work here is done. 🙂

I cannot repeat enough that in the year 2025, we should not let people go hungry in this country. It’s basic human decency to feed people.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

*quietly crumbles into dust* 🙃

Pinky and the Brain was so good. ❤️ youtu.be/GBkT19uH2RQ?...

Because life has been crazy this year, I have a simple request for all of you. 🙂 If you've published a piece of short fiction this year, please drop a link to it here. I want to read your work! I want to do a lovely, wonderful recommendation thread of everyone's words. But I'm behind in reading.

For the morning crowd. 🙂

Anyway, it's awards season? #fantasy I've published one thing in 2025, but I'm wildly proud of it! My short story, "Elephant in Winter", appeared in OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE! If you'd like to read it, you can purchase the anthology here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-enc...

I like how I couldn't be verified on Twitter for years and I STILL can't be verified on BlueSky. All of my short fiction publications, even the ones in major magazines like Nature, apparently count for bupkis. (I've heard nothing about my verification request, so I assume rejection, @bsky.app.)

Looking to start off your new year with some writing? I'm running a flash royale to encourage lots of writing. Then I give you feedback on said writing because in this house we love revision 😍 More info and sign up here:

I 100% agree with this. My town splits 50/50 for Dem/Rep almost every election.

My genealogical research is in this food documentary! And they interviewed me, so presumably, I'm in it for a tiny bit, too! 🙂 It airs on November 30th at 10 PM in the NYC area! It'll be on PBS Passport starting on November 28th! :) #genealogy www.burst-films.com/familyrecipe...

The high school musical is Chicago this year and I'm getting text updates from my kid, who's at an informational meeting about it. This is my favorite quote from the teacher so far. 😂 (I agree!)

Eeee, it’s Nov 3! Happy book birthday to me! 📖🍰

Look what I found at my local library, @mcflycahill90.bsky.social!! I checked it out to read! ❤️

I swear to god, whichever programmer at Microsoft decided that footnotes needed to be included in the hideous "add a space between paragraphs" protocol in Microsoft Word, has earned themselves a one way ticket to the Bad Place. Clearly, they've never done a research report in their life.

I'm here to report that K-Pop Demon Hunters is absolutely the hot costume for elementary school girls this year.

I’m both delighted and astonished by this. Mad respect for the Satmar.

Hello, hive mind: what are your favorite brands of diabetes socks for adults? My kid loves these, since they don't have any interior seams or poky bits. (Kid can fit in adult sock sizes just fine. 🙂)

Our local CVS pharmacy has apparently eliminated the option to talk to a human on the phone. 0/10, seriously.

Inside you are two wolves, both wolves enjoy eating pumpkin

So much this. And so many of us--if not all of us--have day jobs, too. If you miss a submission window because your day job or your family took priority? You're out of luck for a year.

My high-school kid had to take a career assessment test, and some of the recommended careers are ... let us say... not really ones I'd recommend. For example, Solar Sales Representative and/or Assessors! Also, a Wind Development Specialist! These do not fit my kid's aptitudes. 😅

There was apple picking this weekend, and apple jam was made. 🙂

Look if you're going to have strong opinions about protest and what it's about, and you should, you need to read Gandhi first. All this is already covered

Charlie Puth has been doing a series of music education videos over on TikTok, and this one about how AI is terrible at creating music is awesome. Imperfect art is what makes us human. ❤️

Hello, this is your annual reminder that not only does getting a flu and Covid shot protect you, but it helps protect immunocompromised people like me. 🙂

Harry Rée sounds awesome, but also, do you know that when you google his parents, there's an entire archival collection of their love letters? 🙂 findingaids.hagley.org/agents/peopl...

14 year old, doing a homework assignment where they have to interview an "older generation": How did you conduct research? My mom: You went to the library... 8 year old: You didn't. No one knew anything then.

I must explain that this is not accurate, particularly the part about Ellis Island. I cannot speak to the Chinese diaspora angle, but many of us have family whose names were expressed in non-Roman alphabets when they immigrated. This is a long thread, but I literally do this for a living. 1/

I have an entire collection ready to go! I spent two years trying to market it to agents. I got back a lot of rejections, many of them complimenting my writing and asking: Did I have a novel they could rep instead? Anyway, this is why my collection is still unpublished. 🙃

This dedication is made of pure awesome. It’s from Jodi Taylor’s OUT OF TIME. ❤️

Jukebox the Ghost (@jukeboxtheghost.bsky.social) has basically released a musical in album form, holy hell. Possibly a concept album, but I swear, it's a musical, and someone needs to go cast and produce this. open.spotify.com/album/3LpiN9...

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

I taught the younger two kids about Punnett squares at dinner tonight, and now, we are happily calculating the percentage of baby dragons who will be glitter dragons vs fire dragons. As one does. ❤️🐉

Not a pop culture reference, but I've told this story before: My great-grandfather was born in a small shtetl in what's now Belarus in 1888. Cars had barely been invented. He lived to see men walk on the moon in 1969 on his television set in Brooklyn. The past is rarely as distant as we think.

If you had told teenage me that my idea of fun would be trying to read a document in Polish, I wouldn't have believed you. 🙃 #genealogy

Ok, hear me out: I want a plus-size blouse that's basically a button-up shirt. Except! The buttons aren't real; I want it to look like a button-up shirt, but not have to worry about gaping, etc. Where can I buy something like this??

The ads on Hulu are so bad.

Wishing an easy fast to everyone who's fasting this Yom Kippur.

OMG. It's back. It's BACK. Don't mind me, I'm just going to be over here in the corner, shedding happy tears. ❤️

Look, I know photographers need to make money, but the only thing I want is a digital download of my kid's school photo and the option to buy an 8 x 10 print of it. That's it. No wallet photos. No 3 x 5 photos. No magnets or key fobs or custom calendars with my kid. Please let me buy just that.

I have to get lasers shot into my eyes again because my retinas hate me due to my severe myopia. I'm telling you, if your kid is near-sighted, try your hardest to get them the contacts that slow the progress of myopia. It's absolutely worth it to pay out of pocket, if you need to. 1/

I have to get lasers shot into my eyes again because my retinas hate me due to my severe myopia. I'm telling you, if your kid is near-sighted, try your hardest to get them the contacts that slow the progress of myopia. It's absolutely worth it to pay out of pocket, if you need to. 1/

When your child gets really into their religious school homework. ❤️

I love this!

A reminder that this is happening on Tuesday, September 30th, and I would love if you attended! History is awesome! ❤️ #genealogy