🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Lesbian Romance: Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Just finished COFFIN MOON by Keith Rosson (out this month) - a Vietnam vet and his niece seek the vampire who destroyed their family in this gripping dark and violent 1970s revenge talel. #ewgc

I know everything is a 5 alarm fire right now, but this is really important.

Time to mobilize on this one.

Nearly every Fri before Shabbat, I tweet: May we rage when we must and rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it.

An awful, awful gut punch in an already profoundly shitty year www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

"It is frustrating that someone who does not know the worth of what they're breaking, breaks it.” www.cbsnews.com/news/sources...

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly. Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent. You can sign up at the link below! www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

New fanvid! RADIOACTIVE, by Murderbot. youtu.be/CCuDPbIjcw0 #fanvids #vidding #murderbot

I realise that reading vast amounts of fiction, and buying about three times more than even I can read, is neither a substitute for therapy nor a solution to everything out there. However, in my defence, just fucking *look* at everything out there.

Hey, nerds, If you're missing my dude @sgj.bsky.social here in Seattle next week, he will be back for our local Seattle Arts and Lectures in Town Hall, come March of 2026. These events are open to people on a sliding scale ticket (Please donate if you can): lectures.org/event/stephe...

July Fields, 1959 by painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt

Life hack for book lovers: 😍🤣 💙📚

“Children’s books have an artistic and moral obligation to show children as they are, and not what adults want them to be”: National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Mac Barnett (l.), giving a talk in the Library of Congress booth #ALAAC25

“If you don’t believe that the picture book is real literature, then in some level you don’t believe that children are real people. And that’s unacceptable.” Thank you, Mac Barnett. #ala25.

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Last semester, I had the opportunity to take a class on costume design in fantasy, sci-fi, and supernatural film and television. And for my final project, I chose to analyze the costumes in Jem and The Holograms! ✨

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc. F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨ Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne More info below 👇

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

Posting this iconic Molly Ivins column for the zillionth time, but it is always somebody’s first time reading it:

3 books you've read at least twice... -The Westing Game -All Systems Red -How Much for Just the Planet? (Star Trek original series novel) ...and lots more; I tend to re-read faves

she doesn't seem to have a website but I will copy/paste the version I typed up out here! It's a little bit in shorthand but if anything is unclear let me know! Ingredients • 420 ml warm water • 6g instant yeast • 5g honey or sugar • 60 ml olive oil • 500g bread flour • 10g fine sea salt

If the Tonys have piqued your interest about Yellow Face, you can stream it via PBS through the end of the month

Last weekend I paired THE GIRL IN THE CREEK by Wendy M Wagner (creepy alien spores & a rural Willamette Valley community where people go missing) with THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE by Sarah Beth Durst (sweet cozy fantasy on remote island) #ewgc ...I slept easier the second night

Loved THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh. Magical British boarding school in world where magic is known, MC is teacher and administrator who is a demonology expert working w/ a small group of upper level students. Deeply immersive. #ewgc

It takes nothing away from the brilliance of this show to acknowledge that this character was often humiliated and harassed in ways we would now recognize as totally gross, and it was Swit’s job to be plausibly so above it and so hyper-competent that she wasn’t pitiable or hateable.

EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD EXCEPT ME by @djangowexler.bsky.social - bi MC - you *were* stuck in a loop where every time you died the timeline reset - somehow you broke the loop - now you can actually die - *and* you're the damn Dark Lord™️ - bawdy, tense, and surprisingly touching - sequel

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Even if conservatives didn’t constantly cause harm, which they do, the constant lying really bugs me. We actually know what the authors of the 14th amendment intended because the debate was documented. Pages 41-43 should clarify that archive.org/details/Deba...

NPR's reporting shows the contracts DOGE has terminated and spending it has frozen largely reflect policy disagreements with the Biden administration rather than waste, fraud or abuse. www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...

hey everyone, wanna watch my tv show “the middleman” on streaming with no added charges?

I feel so very good about my tax dollars paying people to check for poop in my food. Honestly, 10/10 on tax dollar use.

Me: deciding to try a new recipe, putting the muffins in the oven at 9:50 p.m. when I have work in the morning, then realizing I misread one step along with slight alterations to the ingredients I knew I had made. Me: Yeah, that all tracks... Also: More dishes. Sigh.

hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it also strips care from DACA recipients. context & guidance in the thread. none of these people can afford to pay OOP for meds now. only 2 days left!

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Social Security is not paying large sums of money to people who are over 150 years old. That finding, trumpeted by Elon Musk, turned out to be a glitch in the recordkeeping, not evidence of massive fraud. By @sengelberg.bsky.social

So I'll finish transcribing parts of this speech later but I wanted to talk about a couple things in it that makes it great.

Highly anticipating: THE LILAC PEOPLE by Milo Todd, EVERBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD EXCEPT ME by Django Wexler, SALT BONES by Jennifer Givhan & CINDER HOUSE by Freya Marske (Oct) #ewgc

ANJI KILLS A KING by Evan Leikam - a dark & propulsive debut fantasy thriller that doesn't really match the tone of the (beautiful) cover art. Orphan laundress Anji kills a wicked king in a moment of opportunity, flees, bounty hunters, monsters, plots... Compelling! #ewgc

Loved MURDER AT GULLS NEST by Jess Kidd - set in 1950s small British seaside town, a nun leaves her order to investigate the disappearance of a friend. Nora Breen's voice ❤❤❤ #ewgc

THE DEVIL THREE TIMES by Rickey Fayne is so gorgeous & good! Multi-generation story of a Black family in Tennessee who are visited by the Devil. Debut. #ewgc

Promote Far and Wide: Free for All: The Public Library on PBS Premieres April 29th raforall.blogspot.com/2025/03/prom...

I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid. www.vulture.com/article/mara...

OMG it’s happening!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 #bloomscrolling #flowers

😭😭 and a week to get accustomed. Every damn year

Kee, it was an honor to have once been a cubicle neighbor with one of @npr.org's legends. Thank you for always being game to help chase down a fact, no matter how seemingly small, because, as you taught me by example time and again, we always have the big responsibility to get things right.

An easy warm grain salad recipe: Adapted from Hello Fresh. Vegetarian & can easily be vegan-ized. Relatively cheap @ under $10/2 servings Thinly slice scallions whites (or sub shallots). Peel & cut carrots into coins. Drain & rinse a can of chickpeas Heat a drizzle of oil in a pan over med heat

THE LISTENERS by Maggie Stiefvater is fascinating- a rural luxurious resort in West Virginia re-purposed to temporarily house enemy diplomats after WWII. Fascinating time, place, characters & she's just an excellent writer. #ewgc