Ok I'm back to add another high-quality @romancingthevote.com auction item of particular interest to writers + indie pubbers: @roselerner.bsky.social is a helluva writer and this one-hour session to get you unstuck is a gem! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Heat Exhaustion vs. Heat Stroke

I'm tired of hearing about how they want to protect JT Realm*to's health by giving him more days off and then when I tune in to the game I still never see my darling Garrett Stubbs

Why am I sabotaging myself by posting about all my favorite auction items? I guess it's because I love democracy or something… obsessed with this beaded rainbow geode www.32auctions.com/organization...

OH HEY 👀👀👀 On the green slime chapter I think I wrote "this whole chapter is a highlight of my entire life"

Also--please bid on the session in the auction because VOTING RIGHTS!!! And also right now it's at like $50 which is a discount! BUT if you don't win and still want a session, I sell this service year-round for $72/hr and I love doing it, hit me up 💛 rosedoestheresearch.com

Psst!! You can bid on a one-hour brainstorming/plotting session with me!!

Good times!!

ha ha ha ha ha oh NOW he's talking about the subject matter of Dred Scott, and he's like "I'm not gonna come out and say it, but it seems to me that Dred Scott was rightly decided"

The Phillies have a home game on Thursday and it is supposed to be 102 degrees someone save these boys

I love this book!!

Holy FUCK

the most relatable Austen heroine is chaotic goth weirdo Catherine Morland who reads so many trashy horror novels that she scares herself into imagining they’re real, and it’s simply unacceptable that we haven’t gotten a modern take where she’s like a true crime podcast or vampire fanfic girlie

I'm starting a new day job tomorrow please wish me luck!!

“Alone?” said Toad. “Frog has me for a friend. Why does he want to be alone?”

How can you not be romantic about (a little girl crushing you at fantasy) baseball?

I’ve been rereading Rose’s books recently and they are just so good – full of emotion and beautifully constructed

This is awful. I've been following Scientific American on Tiktok for a while, and it has been a consistent bright spot, striking the perfect balance of education and entertainment. I have deep respect for this team, and I am aghast at their treatment.

Elon Musk promises to sue lawmaker who suggested DOGE cuts led to the deaths of 4.5 million kids

Hello Bluesky my book (my first!) comes out in FIVE WEEKS and I am once again here to ask you to preorder so that your future self gets a copy the minute it's released. I think your future self will enjoy reading about how to find a way to mourn and talk about death in better, kinder ways.

I was really planning to do a big etsy thread this week so I could have some money padding for rent before I closed up shop for the auction, but while the doc is not worried thus far, the knock on the head derailed my week a little so if you want some ebooks now is a GREAT TIME TO BUY SOME! 💖

I love this pink frog

Oh my god

UGHHHHHHHHHH and yeah, so infuriating that the entirely predictable, & incredibly dangerous, tendency towards homogenization has been so widely and blatantly ignored

sherlock put on a hamburger costume and deduced it felt all wrong for him. he was a polish sausage costume guy or he was NOTHING qwantz.com/index.php?co...

MUPPET MIDDLEMARCH

More than half of Americans say they can't afford healthcare. For the 1st time the majority of Americans told Gallup healthcare has become unaffordable to them. Over the last year 3 million more people fell into being unable to afford access to quality care or pay for visits and prescriptions.

the Buffy one is up to $725 😭 movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...

There is absolutely a scam for everyone. Yes even you. Yes I know you are paranoid and careful, and still the right offer at the right moment can snare anyone.

Just watched "Gone" (the British crime miniseries) and it was so slow moving that on the reaction shots I kept wondering if my video had frozen

i can't stop hearing "forecast to become ARTHUR" in v v serious medieval epic voice

supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony

New data out this week from the Pew Research Center looking at work-life balance for parents of children under the age of 18 shows stark gender gaps between how moms and dads perceive the split in tasks. https://bit.ly/4xyIC9q

Largest ever Roman bathhouse found in the Netherlands! With streets & houses next to it! And lots of stuff, glorious stuff! nltimes.nl/2026/06/16/l...

I’m sorry i couldn’t download this one for y’all. I hope the link lets you see it even if you don’t have Instagram. But, THIS is exactly the bullshit you get when you insist that libraries should be neutral. LIBRARIES. ARE. NOT. NEUTRAL. They are not “beige.” www.instagram.com/reel/DZornbH...

HELLO, WE HAVE A BOOK OUT TODAY! You can get Daughter of Tides in ebook for just $1.99 today and Prince of Storms for $3.99 and that's a pretty good deal for this much sexy romance about gods & monsters & how people hide many sins under the idea of "inevitable progress" amzn.to/4ot87oy

President Donald Trump’s family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president. www.notus.org/economy/trum...

Losing my mind currently so you know what time it is: distraction time! Gonna play this timeguessr.com

Coles Phillips, 1916

who in Toronto wants 8000 pounds of free Star Trek rocks because TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY readysetrecycle.net/advert/free-...

For #NationalPigeonDay, some very fancy pigeons courtesy of Emil Schachtzabel's Illustriertes Prachtwerk sämtlicher Taubenrassen (1906). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schachtzabel-pigeons

Every time I see Sal Frelick I have to look up again whether he is Jewish and then remember no he isn't

My book on grief, loss, and culture comes out next month! Want a copy with a signed bookplate, some stickers, and a pin? Hit up my friends @bookpeople.com

Writing-wise, most ridiculous moment of decade was as writer-guest for a workshop held at someone's house. During the workshop, I got a massive headache & asked for aspirin. Someone gave me aspirin after which I began to itch. "Sorry--gave u my anti-itching pills by mistake." 1/?

Reminder: as ICE just got $70 billion more (fuck ICE), we are still sending out whistles to anyone who wants them. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Have you got 5+ copies of any of your books just hanging around? Want to raise money for VoteRiders and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice? We want YOU! form.romancingthevot...

Mutual aid fund to pay bonds to free folks kidnapped by ICE in Philly organized by the New Sanctuary Movement sanctuaryphiladelphia.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mail...

A Jewish bakery in Berlin owned by Polish and Israeli immigrants has closed, saying that their employees were subject to too much antisemitic harassment to stay open. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...

If the milk is contaminated THEY USE IT TO MAKE CHEESE??????

A quoted agent: "I’ve had [rejection] responses from editors specifically citing that it’s difficult to place queer books in stores, and they’re being selective about acquiring queer stories."