My first fruit pie attempt! Room for improvement on the looks but hopefully tastes as good as it smells

Whimsy Station is live again! I wish I had a cute pun for this, but unfortunately I do not

Read the audiobook version of Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce and really enjoyed it! The cultural touchstones interwoven with fantastical elements and Phee's personal journey through grief, regret and growth all hit so hard. I would read more of Royce's stories in this setting anytime

I've had this wishlisted for a while now, so I jumped on backing the Kickstarter. The art! The story! The *team!* Yes to all of it

I send out a periodic newsletter highlighting new self-pub & small press queer romances I think look promising. IF YOU are putting out a queer romance in 2026 for retail sale and you are (like me) NOT publishing on Amazon, please reply / DM so I can get you on my radar. Reposts very welcome. 🌈💜🌈📚♠️

I'm so so excited for the @electricsheepsf.bsky.social x @khoreo.bsky.social mashup! Read these extraordinary khōréō stories! 🧡🧡🧡🧡

RECRUITMENT FORMS ARE NOW LIVE! SEEKING TRANS WOC, BLACK WOC, INDIGENOUS WOC, AND MORE!!! SIGN UP TO GM OR RUN A PANEL HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Rainy day with an advanced copy of a delicious new book by @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social is a glorious day, and damn I needed that so badly

Impending deadline reminder!

Justice for Surya.

We are seeking more PoC applicants for TTRPGirls! *banging pots and pans* If you are a woman or femme of colour, apply now for any of the 6 incredible games we're running live in March. We want YOU to be part of our event! *scream from the rooftops* tally.so/r/Pd9a4x

Great thread that illuminates many of the ways, big and small, Bad Bunny's performance hit home for Puerto Ricans. So much joy and history and connection and love throughout.

Took Frida in for her dental appt this morning and while the 7a start is good in some ways (easier to have her not eat overnight), I was not nearly caffeinated enough to answer the very basic questions they asked me at check in

Never be shy about asking straightforwardly for a contract. Find out your deadline, what exactly is expected of you, what the pay is, when it will be paid. Asking for these things is not rude, it's a normal part of professional practice. Anyone who responds poorly is waving a red flag in your face!

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Just donated to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund, thanks to the little fire sprites! I'm donating $10 for each sprite that finds a home. Thank you! 💖

"Please don't eat the set dressing"

I've made a lot of gluten free bakes, but I've never really felt confident enough to go for a classic artisan loaf. Until today! Now I'm in the worst stage - waiting for it to cool to see if it came out well

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!

The SoCal Negro Vacationers Club is about have a fun and relaxing trip! No mess, no fuss. No problem. Right? Live soon. Twitch.tv/apochromaticunlimited

He's racist, we been knew that. That's what the conniptions over "woke" and "DEI" and immigrants and everything else has always been about. You wanna be useful? Rebuke this shit with deeds and hire us. Stand with us. Respect us and our leadership. I don't need pity or condolences. I need a job.

What they don't tell you are that a significant portion of billionaires inherit their wealth, they don't earn it. They are leaches on society who hoard wealth while the rest of us fight for scraps.

One of the many reasons to subscribe to FIYAH is that they consistently have the absolute best covers to go along with all the great stories within

"AI doesn't work" is incorrect. It functions perfectly as a plausible-looking bullshit generator used by fascists and pseudoscientists to inflict major damage on societies.

Readers: keep buying, sharing, and talking about books, esp by marginalized authors. Put in purchase requests at your library. Buy from your local bookstore. Preorders are ideal. Don't wait for the series to finish before buying. Read widely and more often. Read trad pub, small press, and self-pub.

And like it or not, that’s an insult to every single protest and movement that’s existed before. Mutual aid is not new. Legal observers are not new. Observing the police is not new. These are not groundbreaking concepts. They’re just being seen by the public in a way that might be new to them.

Our rights exist in a use-it-or-lose-it moment. If we sit down and shut up because we're afraid of what might happen, it is DEFINITELY going to happen.

"Can you separate the art from the artist" ....ennhh? I think we can't separate ourselves from the world we're in, including its art. All those things are forever evolving--art, us, world, norms etc. So we sit with contradiction & complexity. Also we yeet unrepentant, dangerous abusers into the sun.

This 2017 banger by Caroline Framke remains eternally relevant www.vox.com/culture/2017... @carolineframke.bsky.social

"well they simply couldn't hack it in the competitive world of [creative field]" Usually that's the wrong answer. the right answer is usually that they removed themselves from a site of untrammeled disrespect, danger and abuse & those who minimized their concerns & enabled all the bad shit.

There's been a culture of tolerating & enabling terrible behavior bc of 'artistic genius' for far too long It's also the basis for denying opportunities to people who have remarkable talent & aren't terrible people - money/support/publicity/contracts are not infinite resources

Kicked off this month's reading with Friday Black, a short story collection by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. This one will leave its mark on me for a long time, and I think that's the way it should be.

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Proud to be here for another Black History Month! Show some love to the Black creators who've been a part of FIYAH for the past decade: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

Newsom is a fucking terrible candidate and we deserve better. The primaries are the perfect time to demand better from Dems. I'm not giving up my rights just because some USians can't understand that no one should be getting thrown under the bus

i am saying This because efforts to make every repression moment seem "new" and "novel" and "never-before-seen" removes them from the cumulative context of state responses to other movements. you might want to claim you're "not like those protesters" (why?) or whatever but the state doesn't care

"Georgia Fort is a three-time Midwest Emmy award-winning journalist who was one of two journalists in the courtroom for the sentencing of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd." www.startribune.com/who-is-georg...

Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards, his attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement posted on social media. n.pr/4qIxx1Q

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

There is so much good, diverse high fantasy out there that I wish studios would branch out in terms of what they're adapting. The real lesson of Heated Rivalry is that viewers are eager for stories told from the perspectives of everyone other than the cisallohet white default.

Pez has been having the hardest time lately, for so many reasons. But we can help her! www.gofundme.com/f/putting-th...

This is a more direct link for Victor Manuel Diaz's fundraiser to help his mother repatriate his body to Nicaragua. The total is still only at $2,859. PayPal-friendly payment. www.facebook.com/share/p/16Cd...

Victor Manuel Diaz died in ICE custody on January 14. His fundraiser sits at $5,138 the cost to bring him home for burial is $4,750. I imagine his family needs more breathing room to grieve. I’ll match the first $200 in donations. Leave receipts below 👇 www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Physician here. Neither Bipolar 1 or 2 are known to cause rampant racism or antisemitism. Hope this helps.

A handy directory of resources, action items, and info! There are a ton of ways to get involved in protecting your local community. If you need help finding yours, check out @simkaye.bsky.social ‘s super helpful database.

Alex is a hero. I don't care about demographics. That man protected people in need at the very cost of his life and safety. He should still be alive today, but this is a wicked time and place. The way that we honor his life is to demand that ICE be abolished. Not more money. Not reform. Abolition.

May we all dedicate ourselves to our passions as much as Salvador dedicates himself to naptime

If you work for ICE, most people actually do despise you.

Fancy beans ready to head into my chili. Cooking always feels like a connection, even when it's just me in the kitchen

The Dominion of the Fallen series is an exquisite journey through diaspora, relationships to power, and how the choices we make to survive can lead to surprising changes both within and without In other words, I deeply love these books so go pre-order the new releases!