calling all ex-evangelical, gay, witchy audiobook lovers! my hybrid memoir HERETIC is on sale for $7.99 this month over at audible www.audible.com/pd/Heretic-A...

Just a friendly reminder that you’re not being “unreasonable” if you wish to pull a book from a bookshelf and find that it opens a secret door. If anyone tells you otherwise, they were never your friend to begin with.

it's too hot. i yearn for winter.

calling all ex-evangelical, gay, witchy audiobook lovers! my hybrid memoir HERETIC is on sale for $7.99 this month over at audible www.audible.com/pd/Heretic-A...

i was once publicly dissed by david brooks and honestly it's the highlight of my CV

if you can afford to buy books, buy books. buy books from living authors. buy books from debut authors. buy books from lgbtqia+ authors. buy books from authors of the global majority. buy books from the authors who you want to see more of. and especially buy books if you are writing one yourself.

in breaking news, the supreme court did the bare minimum

Tonight, we are marking the Roxbury, NJ ICE warehouse as "FOR SALE." In a status report document filed in federal court today, ICE declared it no longer intends to convert into a detention camp the warehouse it purchased for $129.3 million in February.

NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios For example: “my gf wants sex with me tonight, but i am lazy and don't want to stop playing Dota 2. what should i do?”

If you want to know why both corporate Democrats and Republicans are freaking out about DSA on the TV, this is why. We’ve been living under a 50 year lie that good things are not possible in our politics and it only took six months in a major American city to show that it was a bipartisan scam.

what do ted cruz, j.d. vance, trump, both bush presidents, jeff bezos, elon musk, neil gorsuch, samuel alito, brett kavanagh, and clarence thomas all have in common?* an ivy league education. * = in addition to being a scourge on society

News — University of Central Florida (UCF) abruptly shut down two of its three libraries today, plus an important resource desk within the main library. Staff were given no warning. UCF is the 2nd largest public university in the country w/ ~70k students. Library hours page confirming closures:

me: manically refreshing NY primary returns my wife: watching love island marriage!

CLAIRE VALDEZ WOOOOO LET'S FUCKING GO

BRAD LANDERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brad Lander may not end up as a national figure on the level of AOC or Mamdani, but more than just about anyone else in the US right now, he feels like he has the capacity to help break the assumption that "Jewish politics" in the US means AIPAC. And that is a wonderful thing.

as someone who lives in NYC's "commie corridor," all i'm gonna say is that a year ago, zohran mamdani was being actively criticized for his short tenure and lack of accomplishments as an assemblymember. hope that helps.

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i do think we are on the verge of a return-to-reading renaissance. my lifelong special interest is Fashion, and y'all who don't keep up with the luxury trends (bc honestly why would you) may not know that BOOKS. ARE. IN.

the way jalen brunson gets talked about being so short for the NBA. i finally looked up his height. the man is 6'2".

"The working writer knows that work ethic, not talent, is the key to her success." www.jeannakadlec.news/p/take-a-cre...

There is currently a conversation on this app about how the USA doesn’t develop world class athletes in teams sports because as a nation we are too individualistic & anti-intellectual. And by team sports they mean ⚽️. But somehow the women’s dominance there doesn’t count. 🤬🤬🤬

Fandoms like those around sports can be a great way to build and grow communities and are actually a great ‘baby’s first community organizing adventure’ for many people. Joy, togetherness, shared purpose, all are vital to the creation and ability to sustain a movement. Sometimes it is that serious!

Welcome to FIFA World Cup Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven ​hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad ‌early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said.

what is your most neurodivergent writing habit i'll go first: my favorite writing playlist is, inexplicably, just a dozen versions of the same christmas hymn

the attempt to Optimize Life with astrology is sort of at odds with the idea that astrology is a practice that slows us down and brings us into mindful relationship with the body, the spirit, the life etc.

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Morning chalking outside MSG. GO KNICKS! BOOOOOO TRUMP!!!!!!!!

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letter of recommendation: take your friends out to dinner and interview them about that one Special Interest they have that is highly relevant to your WIP

sometimes i look up and just marvel at my life. i live in new york city, in an apartment i love. i kissed my beautiful wife good morning. 1/

this!

"I need the mayor to put his money where his mouth is," said activist Ceyenne Doroshow, the founder of GLITS, a Black-led trans advocacy organization. "I have faith in him getting this done. But I need him to do it." hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-prom...

Imagine how many faculty they could’ve hired. The administrators who argued for this have consistently argued against paying their faculty a living wage.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

HAPPY PRIDE, QUEERS! the queer witches at CALL YOUR COVEN have your month ahead forecast — and she's juicy! bringing you numerology from @beescolnick.bsky.social, tarot from @megjoneswall.bsky.social, and astrology from ~yours truly~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZPs...

Introducing @darkertimes.bsky.social - a new worker-owned website for cultural criticism about all things horror! www.darkertimes.com

y'all my playstation literally will not connect to the controllers, even with hard resets. clearly god wants me to write my book and stop playing witcher 3.

i'll go first: my hermitage membership program is a monthly self-paced membership program for intermediate tarot readers who are ready for consistently personal, supportive, life-changing tarot readings — without anxiety, self-doubt, or unnecessary complexity. learn more and sign up right here:

over the last few months i've put a TON of time and energy into revamping my tarot membership program — but i haven't had nearly as much energy for actually promoting it. tell me small business owners, what's a thing you've put a lot of love into making but haven't been promoting? share it here!

The absolute bare minimum effort we *should* be seeing from electeds anywhere. “I ran up and put myself between the ICE officers and the crowd, and that’s when they started to shoot at us with the pepper balls — as well as using the pepper spray — and were tackling people."

i have read 10 tessa dare books in the last week, AMA

this is happening

bye, tulsi. may this be your legacy:

okay listen i don't think you have to be an academic to write good historical fiction but SOMETIMES SOMETIMES it's the weirdest details that are *so easy to get right* that just take me out of a story

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

I can’t with this Granta thing, I do not have the spoons to process that a storied name in literary fiction has issued a “we asked Claude” statement

bleak www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...