i got so mad about this article that i blogged about it aftermath.site/ai-romance-n...

Whatever your feelings toward Valentine's Day, @lishmcbride.bsky.social's Necessary Whimsy column has some excellent suggestions for feel-good reads (some full of romance, some focused more on fun and friendship and maybe a few murders)! ❤️

Related hair clip hack: keeping towels on chairs at the pool/beach

this is very wise because science doesn't know why shower curtains blow in during showers, so we poor humans must make our own adaptations to cope with the incomprehensible shower magic

macgyver has a great deal to learn from you

favorite off-label use for your household items? my two are Benadryl to put me to sleep and hair claw clips to make my curtains swoop out of the way. yes I know these are both very janky for a fully-grown adult. now please tell me your janky things.

"In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so." neat. thrilled for us. every CEO in the country just popped a boner.

Any way please spend a few minutes calling your reps and yelling at them today

A state senate district in Texas swung almost +30 points and flipped blue last week. We only need to do HALF of that to elect Lemario Brown to the Georgia Senate. If you live in Senate District 18 early voting starts tomorrow 2/9 and runs through Friday 2/13. ✨Election Day is 2/17!

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

in order to make a Wuthering Heights adaptation, you should first have to pass a little quiz. the quiz will be only two questions. 1) is Heathcliff a real piece of shit, yes or no? 2) is Cathy a real piece of shit, yes or no? and if you answer no to either question then you can't make the movie.

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors! standwithminnesota.com

"But I think one reason why Heated Rivalry has hooked so many of us is that Shane and Ilya’s romance insists that queer desire and love belong at the heart of the world, not on the margins. It gets you where you live." Author @oliviawaite.com on how #HeatedRivalry presents queer life as thriving:

queer expression is taking the hit for jeffrey fucking epstein

Don't get defeatist, write support tickets, feedback, emails, let them know this shit sucks. Cancel your nitro until they reverse this.

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

hey @discord.com what the fuck is this? can you please fucking not? remember that time NOT EVEN SIX MONTHS AGO when you had a huge data breach and your users' IDs were leaked? and you think we're all gonna be signing up for more of that shit?

if we fund this good enough we get paper dolls

So this article just dropped. www.theverge.com/policy/87495...

for those of you who do not follow Sport, I have curated the three worst (?) ads from among the truly sinister and dystopian crop of Super Bowl commercials this year

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

oh cool another three and out. I'm so excited for the second half. can't wait to see a bunch more incomplete passes.

god i just feel republicans getting so angry and it’s giving me strength

at least we’re all united in our horror. none of us had to experience the Dunkin ad alone.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

these online betting commercials that keep urging you to make bets on the ongoing football game are just vividly dystopian, aren't they?

This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.

there's so much disrespect of romance writers and romance readers baked into the idea that AI-driven production of novels is 'better'. as if writing romance isn't skillful, hard and joyous work. as if romance readers aren't discerning, loyal and savvy.

I have never lost faith in the Dracula suitcase and someday my faith will be rewarded

hello! this is your neighborhood Black & Queer disabled person and I am looking for work. I am a preliminary editor and I also am a sensitivity reader. check out my profile for deets!

I almost never remember where I get book titles from, so shout-out to @readingtheend.bsky.social , whose great piece on Reactormag about romance and time loops was how I found out about Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon! reactormag.com/how-to-save-...

I'm not soliciting venmo donations today and am instead highlighting a GoFundMe for a family sheltering in place in Minnesota right now with a NEWBORN BABY. They need about $2,000 more dollars. Can people get them there? www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...

For several particular reasons today, "STET" by Sarah Gailey is extremely on my mind. STET share.google/ODadlV1br3eH...

Mirrorverse Kira is so special to me

Most Heated Rivalry coverage has been focused on what young people, particularly younger straight women, think. I cover aging and decided to ask older gay men about their thoughts. I found: A founder of what may have been the first gay hockey blog, a wedding cake shaped like a Zamboni and more.

My SFF criticism hot take is that I wish the sexy war criminal romantasy trend (which some authors are getting seven-figure advances for! there is BIG big industry money pushing this!) got a even fraction of the attention that cozy fantasy seems to when we talk about normalizing fascism in the genre

I wrote about how I'm looking forward to the day when cannabis is fully legalized so people can stop trying to sell me on it slate.com/life/2026/02...

getting drinks with my friend last night, I asked if she's seen Heated Rivalry. she screamed HEATED RIVALRY? I WATCHED IT TWICE. then as I'm paying the tab, a guy sitting at the bar said to me quietly, "I also really liked Heated Rivalry." good for her. good for him. good for all of us. God bless.

do it! treat urself! you won't be sorry!

what the fuck

HEY BITCH I drew Six of Wands this morning so I am going to be un! stoppable!

same. I'm always like TIME TO KEEP THIS MONEY IN MY COMMUNITY and I march my ass over to the place.

Devastating news. Fobazi waa a brilliant light and powerful voice in LIS. Rest in power.

Thrilled my article on the contributions of female writers to the #Wuxia genre (published recently in ArtReview's magagzine) is now on their website. The work of women writers and gender rep has been a major part of my research, which I hope to put in the upcoming book! artreview.com/there-is-no-...

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...