It's your birthday, Duane.

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

I am still in job-searching hell. If you have any leads in remote work in writing, editing, marketing, publishing, or adjacent, I would be grateful. You would not egret pointing me in the right way

I just called. Did you?

I'm proud to have an (adequately written) interlude included in this collection.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Racism. The answer is racism.

Every month I pick a theme of something to try to make each day to learn. Two months ago it was data visualization, using examples I admire, in order to tell stories about numbers that matter. This is my minimalist homage to Poppy Field, to which it owes everything, and I’ll link it below.

As a teacher of undergraduate writing--writing workshops also teach young people how to respectfully give and gracefully receive criticism on work that means something to them, an invaluable skill in any line of work.

MSU published this lovely article about my current book project and work as a Beinecke Library Fellow at Yale University this summer: “My work promotes human flourishing. How can we make good decisions? How can we empower people to get the right information?” cal.msu.edu/news/experie...

I wrote about how wealth isn’t just “more time to write,” but resource-having in a way most of us can’t even imagine lillyluwrites.substack.com/p/wealth-acc...

it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.

look disability accommodations at work or school include things like elevators, legible font choices, and screen-reader friendly design that makes applications easy to navigate quickly. your life is a lot easier even if you don't need these accommodations, and they help everyone work better.

This makes my blood boil. The government is abandoning people with AIDS YET AGAIN.

Stock photos and decorations exist for a reason, people!

Behind the dutiful façade of every eldest daughter lies a quiet rebellion.

Back in undergrad I worked at a university press. Part of my job was tracking down which of our titles had been pirated and calculating how much money it had lost the press and our authors. When someone mentions pirating a book, I remember the amount of money a small press loses and I get very sad.

DONT FALL FOR MTG’S BULLSHIT SHE IS STILL A VIOLENT ANTISEMITE WHO BLAMES JEWS FOR EVERYTHING WRONG IN THE WORLD A FULLY ENDORSES GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY

Called both my senators plus Schumer: told them not to yield to Republican bullying and to honor the sacrifices that the American people have made during this shutdown.

Literally the story of my life

Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

Looking for a writing class in January? It's the perfect time to set a resolution and follow it with a flash royale! Detail and sign up here:

One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.

Just donated to the Food Bank Council of Michigan in honor of my House Rep, Tom Barrett--a man who doesn't care that Michiganders go hungry.

I think one of the big things I've learned in my writerly life (which always has to fight for space and time with the rest of my life) is to protect the hours when I do my best writing (right after breakfast) from all other demands.

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

But it's important to remember that Trump and his true believers do not operate based on observable reality and therefore think that incredibly stupid, self destructive moves are going to work perfectly

I got vaccinated yesterday at my local Costco. No matter which covid vaccine you choose, thank you for protecting yourself and your community!

HOW is EVERYONE not epically terrified of rabies? Do they just not know about it? Like if you know about it… it kinda sticks with you…

headline in my inbox: "The War on Tylenol". Except that it isn't? It's a eugenicist war on pregnant people, blaming them and their medical caregivers for autism, which the eugenicists regard as a fate worse than death. Focusing on Tylenol hides that fact.

New publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Experts in the Clean Air Movement moved fluidly between strategies and tactics to produce instructional documents that democratize health information, building coalitions during times of public health crisis.

hive mind! help! my students are interested in reading perspectives on: pandemic's impact on learning, specifically screen time; audiobook 'reading' vs. 'eyeball' reading; whose fault are textbooks (haha! maybe a deep dive on the industry would interest them); and parenting/burnout/screens v. books

And another 🥺 while I'm here: if you're interested in pitching a review of the book or an interview with me well then you're wonderful and the best 🥹

don't forget they banned releasing the epstein files to protect child rapists and sex traffickers-- including one donald j. trump.

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Essentially, women don't just become "tradwives" because they buy into conservative thinking. They can also be forced into trad roles by an insufficient social safety net. And being forced into trad roles can lead them to become more conservative. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Which is one more thing I love about The Lord of the Rings. - The Ring *cannot* be turned towards good, and even wanting to can corrupt you - Evil is actually derivative and dumb, no matter what cool posturing it might do - It's the little, every day acts of good that are most important - Etc...

just a reminder: fascism hates comedy. humor has always been a weapon against them. none of this is unprecedented, it's the playbook.

(Excuse me, I mean "don't let the fascists win", I accidentally flashed back 20 years.) Folks, if you are not going to listen to the Black women who've been doing this for-fucking-ever, you are not going to get far in your "resistance", but let me back up her excellent points here in case it helps:

I think an underappreciated motivation on the right is how much they just don't like people not liking them. Like an absolutely massive grudge right wingers have about social media is that they very quickly realise they're unpopular on every site except the ones specifically for them.

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

I grew up with conservative parents who isolated me and censored my media. In college, my environment was so much kinder. I was allowed to ask questions. I was allowed to be curious. I weighed the evidence for evolution. I traveled. College helped me live with questions and I LIKED it