Roses are red We’re all victims of history When we say “Maybe today” It’s not really a mystery

Dota2, God forgive me. SumaiL/Universe was the best duo the scene has ever seen istfg I'll fight you about it.

Congress is VERY BUSY with proclamations, let me tell you. www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B...

What's something you loved recently? I've been in absolute disbelief at how good the cultivation web serial "Sky Pride" is. WarbyPicus has been knocking it out of the park from the beginning, and it has gotten nothing but better. Best cultivation story I've read. www.royalroad.com/fiction/1079...

Wanna feel old? Baby Shark was released in 2016. Sharks reach sexual maturity at around 10 years. The Baby Shark of the song is now Mommy Shark

At literally no point in this headline was it possible to predict the next word, 10/10 work

The maybe cruelest thing of social media is that it would be a better world if we all stopped rage posting so much, but yelling about how much Hasan Piker sucks is ten times more appealing to the crowd than gushing about the wonderful book I just read. (It's Nameless, go read it.)

The number of *blatantly* inauthentic accounts in the replies here talking shit about how noted the bigoted nepobaby douchenozzle transphobe Hasan Piker should be listened to over the Democrats who are actively protecting my rights is kind of shocking. Did the dude pay a PR firm, or is this an op?

ICYMI if you buy the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster from @libro.fm today all proceeds go to BINC which helps booksellers in need 💖 www.libro.fm/binc

No fish. Just consumer product recall emails.

I wanna be real here, living in the SF Bay Area has continued to drive home how wrong his stance is. People will be like "they're gonna shun you!" no, dumbass, they're gonna draft me onto the PTA Board and go oh wow your hair's pretty and say my style is very Miss Frizzle. Life's a joy, fuck Hasan.

The second advance review for Nameless is up! It's absolutely wonderful seeing these from people!

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Me: To stop my intrusive thoughts, I’m going to come up with the goofiest intrusive thought I can think of My brain: I gotchu My brain: Big Mouth Billy Bass singing Baby Shark Me: My brain: Me: My brain: Baaaaaby sh— Me: NO

not enough sapphics on your TBR? get 22 sapphic books for only $22!!! #booksky #QueerAdultSFF itch.io/b/3483/sapph...

I had the privilege of being an early reader of this book and holy shit y'all I fucking loved it. 10/10 queer cyberpunk storytelling with very solid character work and resonant themes. Give it a shot, #booksky . The Doc can goddamn *write*.

I had the privilege of being an early reader of this book and holy shit y'all I fucking loved it. 10/10 queer cyberpunk storytelling with very solid character work and resonant themes. Give it a shot, #booksky . The Doc can goddamn *write*.

protip if your post talking about how you were unjustly banned from bsky as a journalist anchors on how the atrocity videos that you post on main are an objectively good and important thing to post then you are actually a fucking scumbag and I'm glad bsky mods are banning you.

The thing about public power on NorCal is that it's incredibly complicated to solve and also PG&E is structurally maldesigned with regards to solving it. The corp layer is a bunch of parasites, the debt holdings make it radioactive to change, and the magnitude of infra is A Lot. But what if. 🥺

I get to take my wife dancing this Friday at the local social waltz night's Valentine Ball and it's gonna be *great*. (We'll see if I've gotten better enough at dancing that I can dance lead with her. I think I can manage it. Cross-step is slow and rotary is mirrored!) (Skirt gonna go SPINNY.)

I am incredibly excited to announce my first novel: Nameless, a cyberpunk action-adventure set in the dead cold of a January Minneapolis winter, and featuring a pair of queer women leads, thrilling action, and a cat with a prosthetic leg. Nobody survives the winter alone. Out February 11!

don't mind me, I'm just struck today by the fact that a huge number of supposedly capable and experienced journalist are incapable of critical thinking when there's a dumpster-quality news article that agrees with their priors. I feel so fucking alienated sometimes by my caring about what's true.

If your home fire escape plan isn't this good, make a new one. www.youtube.com/shorts/lS4Gt...

There are many answers but the generally appropriate one is this

"but when I, George Santos—"

istfg if someone had shown me a picture a decade ago of how much better my hair looks dyed purple and after a couple years of estrogen reversing male-pattern baldness, it would not have cracked my egg but I would have gone on hormones anyway.

The friends' kids have almost but not quite denuded my fridge of fruit, so I am clearly winning at hosting.

Shammai for my real friends, real AI for my sham friends

#Febchantment Day 8, where does magic "come from"? 1/ Yelemi magic in general comes from the soul, and is cultivated by purposeful/mindful choice and the exercise of agency, as far as anyone can tell. Nobody, including the oldest of gods, knows anything that came before that. But the System? Well.

SEND YOUR LOVED ONES THE ENTIRELY WRONG MESSAGE BY GETTING THEM A BOOK FULL OF EROTICIZED ABUSE AND TORTURE OR MAYBE ITS THE RIGHT MESSAGE I DONT KNOW WHATS IN YOUR HEART

welcome to the Resistance, Gear.

Forgive me

Only THREE DAYS until Nameless, my new queer cyberpunk novel, is out, available in DRM-free epub, paperback, and hardcover, and we're building up to its release by meeting the cast and getting some awesome musical vibes along the way! Today, Caitlyn Dahlsteadt! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKGYZ2S8

Creatives: It's been a rough day and nothing can fix it. Someone: I like that thing you created. Creatives: [happily sobbing, weeping, wailing even]

Monday lead off with a phenomenal essay from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com on how one goes from powerlessness to power. Among the points covered -Not even the Bolsheviks obtained power through violent insurrection -The goal is to take control of, and use, the state

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has officially started clinical trials! GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

HEY I KNOW SOME POSTRATS FOLLOW ME lit recs for the strategy of epistemic territory-claims as dominance strategy? "I'm going to say this thing knowing that me saying it and having it accepted as true will establish me as the source of truth for the local episteme" stuff?

Alright dancers who do spinny social dancing (for me it's waltz, rotary and cross-step), gimme your shoe recs! I've got a pair of capezio jazz slip-ons and they are brutal on my feet, that front support is too small and in the wrong place by a lot. Ideally I'd like a no/minimal-heel cute low boot?

Alright, Yorkshire, let's see how your decaf is and whether you're any less disappointing in that regard than PG Tips.

BlackMilk has an Avatar the Last Airbender collection? Motherfu-- oh never mind, my wallet just breathed a giant sigh of relief, the patterns I would want are in maxi (which is way too long on me even in heels).

Funny how hard doing Literally Anything More Than The Bare Minimum is right now. It's almost like between The Everything and the parenting and the job I'm basically tapped out. But I did a thing (booked face electro) so that's one more little thing done, I guess. Now if only I can write tonight.

Do you like fantasy? Wuxia? Want a protagonist starting at about the lowest low possible? Want maybe the best description of Daoism I have ever read? You should read Sky Pride. Right now. www.royalroad.com/fiction/1079...

My new trans-centric queer magical girl sequel novel, "Magica Riot: Full Bloom," is out in ebook, print, and audiobook formats in many places. It's big, gay, emotional, and fun! You should read it (+ the first book too)! Claire & the team deal with new threats & new friends! magicariot.com/fullbloom

Public Health! It's Relentless!

Feels like every other day I'm going "holy shit Warby [Picus] how are you so good at this" but today's update of Sky Pride was unbelievably good even relative to that, what the fuck.

"Knew what dysphoria was, didn't have it, thought that mattered" is basically the story of at least five years, maybe a decade, of me thinking I must not be trans. Well, I knew I had "social" dysphoria & wanted to dwell in the norms and tropes of the feminine. But I could do that as a guy, right??

Always watching.

This is in fact an extremely good set of demands. I'm willing to believe that there's marginally more Schumer could have asked for but you *know* the administration is going to blow their fucking tops at the thought of ICE agents having to unmask and I wish them joy of it.

I mean, like, come the *hell* on. In the ranks of “ding! Fetish unlocked” stuff this has to be up there with the game over screen from Banjo-Kazooie