Shana tova u'metuka! May everyone's 5786 be relatively peaceful, and may it bring you everything you hope for 🍎🍯🐟

I'm at the Night of the Dead Poets. I'm at the Combination Reichstag Fire Black Thursday Crash. I'm at the combination Night of the Dead Poets Combination Reichstag Fire Black Thursday Crash.

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide. The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

Finally got my hands on Where Are You Really From by Elaine Hsieh Chou! Bet it's gonna be a nice and breezy— (Three stories later) ........what the fuck.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Not to brag, but I know firsthand what it's like losing a parent before you've finished puberty, so if anyone wants advice on how that would realistically fuck a kid up so that I don't go "wow your protagonist is way too emotionally stable" every five seconds HMU--

I'm not gonna directly comment on yesterday's death. I will say, to everyone wringing their hands over "political violence" always being wrong: I'm gonna need you to explain how you'd feel in 1945.

Recent-ish revelation that my girlfriend and I are just a long-running Mitchell and Webb bit. Sigh. Better update my bio accordingly

Thank you @janeciab.bsky.social for speaking with me for @literaryhub.bsky.social! We spoke about the alternate realities of the diaspora, navigating publishing as a writer of color, when I worked as a background actor, screenwriting vs. prose and more 😊 lithub.com/elaine-hsieh...

Call the banners!

People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.

updated, should work for mississippi block as well

www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/p... Lol good fucking luck

BREAKING: Dozens of Trans Advocates and Allies Stage “Bathroom Sit-in,” with banners that say “FLUSH BATHROOM BIGOTRY,” protesting bigoted anti-trans bathroom bill SB 8 #banbathroombigotry

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror

I’m featured in AP News! 🌱 I had the opportunity to discuss the impact of extreme heat and how injustices like redlining affect all of us. My organization has grown to make an impact in environmental conservation, sustainability, policy change, social justice, and innovation. #blksky #environment

May the harm you have caused be repaired by myriads who work to erase your name and eradicate your footprint from this earth in every way aka byeeee

Two things can be true: 1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings 2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed

I love being trilingual because it means I get to spot "congrats that's the worst anyone's ever done it" levels of bad French dialogue in Big 5 books that really ought to have the budget for a translator

The Montgomery bus boycotts lasted OVER A YEAR - carpooling, walking groups, job sharing, money for cabs, etc for 30,000+ Black people. That didn’t happen because someone said “let’s boycott” and the next day everyone simultaneously said “good idea” and magically stopped using the bus. 2/4

Stripe says it’s accepting payments for LGBTQ content JVA site starts working with Visa again Mastercard reportedly panicking and making Riot moderate messages The tide is turning We are going to win this Keep calling Keep writing Keep fighting You can do this

Please stop being desperate enough to publish with random small/micropresses that offer you nothing you can't do yourself, and take at least 50% of your royalties for the glorious nothing they're doing for you.

My Mc Rea from my WW2 Wip keeps insisting she's not a lesbian, meanwhile this is what she's writing in her diary addressed to a friend who kissed her once and gave her a violet shaped necklace #WritingCommunity #Snippet

Do these people ever get tired of telling people who understand history and human nature we're being hysterical alarmists, do you think?

The world should be honoring each and every one of these murdered journalists going back to Shireen Abu Akleh and before. Western journalists should've known from the start, having seen what Israel did to Shireen, that Israel was intentionally murdering Palestinian journalists. Should've spoken.

This is a great back-and-forth, and hits at why Harry Potter's imitators and alternatives and would-be replacements have failed at catching the public's imagination the same way. Putting aside the many literary criticisms you can lay at Harry Potter's feet? It's greatest selling point...

First of all, I can't be killed and will never die. Second, I want to thank everyone who spoke out on my behalf over the past day. Your support and community mean so much to me <3 I caught a 24-hour suspension. The reason Bluesky gave me for this was my wishing ill on J. K. Rowling.

Ranking book reviews on their relevancy to determining if you want to read something: 5⭐: 99% restate the blurb w/some platitudes. Worthless. 4⭐: Most are basically like 5⭐, no specificity. Proceed with caution. 3⭐: Either a fan with minor grievances or a hater with reluctant praise. HIGHLY useful.

Yeah, sure, whatever man. Hey everybody, look at this instead.

Hey, everyone. Apparently, @bsky.app suspended Gretchen Felker-Martin's BlueSky account just as her new book came out in the US. So consider posting about it to spite whoever got her suspended, or buy a copy (US: www.amazon.com/Black-Flame-...) or pre-order (UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Flame-...).

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

I found her gofundme! She's already raised 41.5k of her 45k goal for gas, vehicle maintenance, phone/internet costs (for posting the videos), food and supply drives for the community, and emergency funds in case she gets into legal trouble:

Tisha B'Av-- the holiday mourning destruction, once again– the annihilation, the desecration, of lives, civilizations, holy spaces. Another Temple is being destroyed, has been destroyed, now; we must be willing to face it, show up to our obligations to it. Traditional texts & words from today:

Well, we tried to stop the portal, but it looks like it’s opening anyway. Oh well. We open for submissions at midnight. Ish. Horror. Up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints: you may submit one of each. Don’t agonise over your cover letter. Just send us a brilliant story.

Gentle reminder to NOT upload your photo to access adult content. To not upload your ID to access adult content. Get a VPN! (free for 1 device: protonvpn.com) Don't let corporations have access to your private data and biometrics. Be ungovernable.

The way he grouped different denominations together is quite amusing. Modern Conservative Jews bear little resemblance to Orthodox ones, and Reform doesn't mean secular. Very sneaky!

In ‘Sinners’ and his music, Buddy Guy is keeping the blues alive. It hasn’t been easy. His new album “Ain’t Done with the Blues.” releases today, his 89th birthday.

As usual, Miss Rachel said it better than me.

You've collectively donated almost $14,000 from this post in just under a week! A huge thank you to everyone who's sharing and donating. I promise you it makes a difference!

This is your sign to read Rakesfall now. No longer asking

Another mobilization, Yidden, on Monday, through @truahrabbis.bsky.social A mobilization of US Jews who object to our govt's support for the policy of starvation & refusal to leverage its immense power to compel the admission of humanitarian aid. *Please do not bring flags.* they ask.

🎼 "We can show you the world..."🎼

porn & erotica deserve to exist on their own merit without needing to be justified by what may or may not happen later on to not-pornographic and not-erotic works

👉👈 still open to recs!

Looking for some non-SFF historical fiction recommendations! Comment below and I might check it out. My conditions are:

The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab. Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls. If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.

He was my son’s friend. I met him on Zoom.

I don't give a fuck if a piece of media depicts sexual violence, which is a flexible, expansive concept. Men are violent because our entire political culture enables them to be, not because 'evil' fiction corrupted them. When fascists come at you with a wedge issue you say "no," not "yes, and."