A pumpkin and chard lasagna with chipotles and Italian sausage

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

My Italian half craves the hours long lasagna construction, but my Slavic half seems unable to eyeball whatever the fuck a third of anything is An inverted pyramid of meat and cheese now sits, waiting, casseroled

GASP adorable

kind of a bummer to see so many bookstore gift guides be paid placements. I know it's super normal, and putting a real guide together is a lot of work, but damn. if you have a book gift guide that's actually curated, drop the link, ok?

Dionysus in Wisconsin is 40% off on Kobo until November 17th with the code NOVEMBER40! (In AU, CA, NZ, UK, US.) If you like books about guys walking around with a god in their head, academia, Shakespeare jokes, and magic, you should check it out.

My actual reaction to the pilot: oh they're COPS?? ugh. okay.

In Key West, the important things remain the same

I'm raising money for the Fuquay-Varina Emergency Food Pantry, a food bank that kept me fed as a kid. $1 for every $5 spent in my direct store goes straight to them! Come check it out!

crossword puzzlers! I need a new physical crossword book. I am not in the business of giving the New York Times money, so would like to avoid theirs. A 7/10 level of difficulty is my baseline. Recs?

I'm raising $ for my local food rescue @cityharvestnyc.bsky.social If you've ever enjoyed my books, especially my foodie romances, do me a favor by helping feed people in my city. Cat pic as thanks. Donate: secure.cityharvest.org/site/TR/VFD/...

NYCers: now is the time to push your council members to commit to funding our libraries. The system is only asking for a measly .5% of the city's budget! And think of all the good the library does with that tiny sliver actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Your friendly semi-regular reminder that the single greatest way to help your favorite authors is to rate and review the books you've read. Goodreads, Itch, Kindle, they all give you the opportunity to rate/review and it REALLY helps us get visibility!

When you send a long ass email to the publisher about how much you want the ARC ... and then you win a giveaway ... you end up with 2!! Oopsies 🤭 @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social

"Look, I don’t WANT the guy on my team, but Byron was bisexual and there’s nothing any of us can do about that." BIG MOOD lolsob 😂😭 shout out to @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social for sharing this terrific newsletter. very much looking forward to "A Lady For All Seasons" getting published next year 🙏✨

Drop the t fury link, king

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

My publisher is giving away A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS arcs thru Nov. 19 on GR This is your chance to read the sapphic-ish, gender bending Regency romance of your dreams EARLY. Please enter if you're a user: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Good things are POSSIBLE and we don't HAVE to settle

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

I'm on vacation but have a newsletter buttondown.com/tjalexander/...

We live in the dumbest timeline.

Learning how to make hash is a life saver. Sausage or ground meat gets cooked off, then cubed potatoes, reg or sweet, pan fry until mostly cooked, then onion, peppers, spinach whatever veg is available. Fried egg on top, cheese maybe, a lil salsa or sauce if you want. Just throw things in a pan!

Well, shit — a killer new horror bookstore in NYC got flooded and damaged by hurricane remnants. Help is needed if you can. Please share! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

Buying games is now "high fraud risk" cause people didn't wanna stick up for sex workers. Censorship doesn't stop once it takes something it finds new things to take to justify continued censoring. It echoes fascists general need to always invent new enemies.

I've just started reading an arc of this and stopped mid-sentence to say: GOD we love some confident prose. GOD. Preorder this now, ship people. "Voicey" might have lost all meaning in recent years but this is it.

This isn’t even the first time it would happen - you can literally just go back to when Eric Adams first ran for mayor, and when he got into office, to see how the media manufactured a crime wave that helped push his pro-police agenda at the expense of every other city service.

Yesterday, on a holiday where kids go door to door connecting with their community, my sweet town was terrorized by government-backed thugs. Our schools locked down. We patrolled the streets, warning vulnerable people to stay inside. Helicopters circled incessantly. ICE get out.

"Dislike button." Fucking grow up

Having never seen a single episode, should I start watching Starsky and Hutch? I feel like I need to get back to the '70s after my 90000th Columbo rewatch

Today begins Trans People Take on the World, a bundle featuring 32 books by 32 trans authors in various genres! And Garden of Rotten Roses is part of the bundle! While technically Book 2 in World Without Love, you can read it first as an appetiser! 😉 itch.io/b/3352/trans... #BookSky #Books

This rules

In my next free newsletter, I've collected a bit of a bibliography for A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS. Lots of further reading and podcast links for those interested in seeing where inspiration came from! Subscribe: buttondown.com/tjalexander

Today is the last day of queer history month, which also happens to be Halloween… so what better time is there to read The Woods All Black? An historical Appalachian gothic about queer-trans bodily autonomy and resistance ft. bash-back revenge, monsterfucking—

my wife just said to me "I know it's hard but you need to stick around because there's a new knives out movie coming and we need to see that bisexual ass man play that gay ass detective"

In my next free newsletter, I've collected a bit of a bibliography for A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS. Lots of further reading and podcast links for those interested in seeing where inspiration came from! Subscribe: buttondown.com/tjalexander

not looking for solutions to this, but feeling pretty down. Halloween has always been my favorite time of year and I'm just not feeling it this year. I think I explored fear and monstrosity too hard already in the last 10 months.

Re: the federal government attempting to ban healthcare for trans kids

Shout out to the phlebotomist who saw me coming and started doling out as many references to queer places in town as possible, I see you too

Just a reminder that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss' tenure began with significant layoffs announced by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison. Let’s make sure we remember who and why. Stop thinking this is a coincidence and start realizing the facts of who and why…

If you and your children are not ready for a particular book, that is okay. It is not okay to limit the access to books, stories, and experiences for other families. Every book is not for everyone, but every book is for someone. bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

My publisher is giving away A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS arcs thru Nov. 19 on GR This is your chance to read the sapphic-ish, gender bending Regency romance of your dreams EARLY. Please enter if you're a user: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now? Came out as bi around age 15 or 16. Started coming out as nonbinary around 2017-18 when I realized it could apply to me, late 30s. Got top surgery in 2021. I'm 41.

If you’re on Substack, plan your exit. If you’re not on Substack, start somewhere else.

Our friends @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social are gathering information about "soft censorship" happening in the US According to School Library Journal, soft censorship is a "quiet banishing that often comes without explanation." If you've seen it in your community, please respond to their survey

So true

70 years ago, a Colorado man plotted to kill his mother. How he carried it out shocked the nation. coloradosun.com/2025/10/26/c...