The U.S. is functionally now a pariah state and must be treated as such until the cancer rotting out the heart of the White House is cut out.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

Nice and pretty unicorn. 🤦‍♀️ Just finished reading this and...SIGH!!!! SO MUCH BIODIVERSITY.🥲

If I had done something of this nature against my neighbor, promoted an attack that was biased and not founded and meant to damage him specifically for something that he did not do, I would owe him an apology. Well, these people owe him an apology.

There should be publications, or at least individuals involved with publications, who should specifically apologize to him, not as a politician, not as a former president, but as a person. They slandered a person as part of a Russian intelligence operation. They should apologize for that.

There's a lot that could be said about this on a cultural level or a political level, but we have forgotten the personal level: people owe Joseph Biden, the man specifically, an apology.

Some of my favorite books this year in no particular order. I love me some historical queers, murder mysteries, and fantasy. Hoping to read more scifi, comics, and non-European queer stories too. If anyone has recommendations that match the vibes, please share! (Title/author info in the alt text.)

In @heartlines-spec.com: "Demonology for the Lovelorn" by @writerjencrow.bsky.social "What the Birds Taught Me" by @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social www.heartlines-spec.com/what-the-bir... "Time Loop" by Prasant Atluri www.heartlines-spec.com/time-loop-by... cont. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Happy New Year's Eve, y'all!! This just in: THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY is 1.99 on Bookshop and Rakuten Kobo too! ✨ Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

In sum, despite all the obvious lying, if this piece is meant to dispel concerns about Trump's health, it actually does the opposite. This is not a guy who is taking care of himself at 79 years old. (6/6)

Finally, Trump's diet! Oh my god. The piece closes with RNC Chair Joe Gruters saying he was "shocked" to witness Trump eat "french fries, a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburger, a Big Mac and a Filet-O-Fish" in one sitting (5/6)

Trump denies what we've all seen with our own eyes -- that he regularly falls asleep during on camera events -- instead saying he's just "blinking." “Sometimes they’ll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they’ll catch me with the blink.” (4/6)

The piece doesn't directly address what's going on with Trump's black hand, but says he has delicate skin that causes him to bleed constantly "Trump said he applies makeup to his hands after he gets 'whacked again by someone ... I have makeup that’s easy to put on, takes about 10 seconds.'" (3/6)

Trump admits to taking more aspirin than his docs recommend: “They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?” What could possibly go wrong! (2/6)

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

OK. My quick attempt at "My Omelas, Right Or Wrong." 1/X Let me tell you about this incredible place, Omelas. It’s huge, folks, absolutely beautiful. Everybody’s happy. Everybody’s winning. The economy, it's fantastic, the best economy anyone’s ever seen, believe me.

This was fun for me, especially going back and seeing the post that announced the Murderbot TV show. It was a real, badly needed bright spot for me with everything else going on this year. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

I) Be stubborn. Be pigheaded. It's your art. Also read a lot. I mean, a LOT. Now, go write.

H) As I said above, execution is all. Start with a prologue if you want, start with a dream if you want. Sprinkle your story with footnotes, yank that god out of the machine, put some tinsel on your squid and place it proudly on the mantelpiece, whatever. Just aim to do it as well as you can.

G) All the "rules" of writing are subject to fads and fashions. There's nothing objectively superior about a given skirt length, or the tightness (or not) of jeans. If you're stuck on a particular era of style as the only right one, you miss out on a lot.

F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.

D1) again, this is difficult to pull off at longer lengths. But you don't get good at a thing by not doing it. E) YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT done is better than perfect. Don't worry so much about "practicing right" just practice. You can adjust as you need as you go on.

To all my friends and family...we made it out!

🐈‍⬛✨ This Laughing Yoongi of Pure Happiness has now blessed you— you will now have the best and most borafied 2026 ever 💜🥳🎉

“The secret that scientists don’t want you to know about!” 🧪

GUYS IM FROM 2026 AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. I HAVE TO WARN YOU. YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME TO SAVE YOUR FUTURE. THE YEARS BEYOND WILL BE AWFUL IF YOU DON'T HEED MY WARNING you should draw more, write more, or make more games. If you don't, consider picking up a craft!

So on Monday I came down with a bad cold and I’m still not coherent enough to really talk about this horrific shitshow of a year. (I’ve mostly been at the “shrieks in hysterical rage and points” stage.) So here’s a link to what I had come out in 2025, marthawells.dreamwidth.org/670572.html

These make me laugh 100% of the time

But my mental health was still shit. I figured this out when I heard the ultra-negative mind voice looping while I played with my baby daughter. So I made the decision to forcibly turn this car around; rehabilitating my mind included a drastic decrease in social media use. +

It turned out that one of the many cysts in my kidneys had burst. Probably from the stress and the UTI that took 3 courses of different antibiotics to beat. On top of the transplant, the nephrologist said I would need to take new meds to delay the transplant by 7 years. They cost 135 USD a week. +

First things first: the baby is fine now. She's honestly the best baby anyone could ask for. My husband and I are so in love with her. 💜 When people ask me what the hardest thing about being a mom is, I answer that it's being chronically, devastatingly ill while trying my best to mother her. +

Hello all, I'm sure some here are wondering why I've gone quiet lately. The TL;DR: I have Polycystic Kidney Disease for a long time. This year, I was pregnant and gave birth prematurely. And while dealing with the baby's NICU stay, a nephro told me I will need a kidney transplant in 4 years. +

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I guess I should plug my own upcoming novel, shouldn't I? THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS is a classic dragon rider novel... from the POV of the dragon.

Authors! Readers! The grand Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is now upon us. Use the code PREORDER25 to save 25% off basically every pre-ordered book for next year. Authors: please reply to this post with your upcoming book title, a link, and at least one cool thing in your book!

Fascinating story out of Montana in the last legislative session. If they can do it there, they can do it elsewhere.

Y'all, this is Mme. Valerie, a 19th century strongwoman who "nightly supported a full-sized cannon on her shoulder WHILST BEING FIRED" (emphasis in original). Interestingly, her show partner, strongman Prof. Attila, is described in one ad as a "Lion King," but I haven't tracked the lion part down.

Not one of those boats they retrieved any drugs. A couple victims yes, but drugs? Not. One. Murderers.

You know what's good? Books.

I thought @bostonjerry.bsky.social said this.

How about a violent, sweary necromancer with anger management issues making really horrible life choices many of which involve murdering his problem away? The Eric Carter series www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...

'We are so cold 💔😭 We are so cold 💔😭 We are so cold 💔😭 We are so cold 💔😭 We are so cold 💔😭 We are so cold 💔😭 We are so cold 💔😭 Donations have stopped… and I need to buy a tent for my family Any donation, even the smallest, can save my children’s lives 🙏'

Seafarers in the Mediterranean would inevitably include a lot of people from Northern Africa anyway. The eras of purity and segregation that racists imagine never existed.

People will say 'it's inevitable' like that wasn't how they sold NFTs & Bitcoin, your avg criminal's favorite currency. It's shitty at everything it tries to do. It's causing societal & environmental damage at a speed & scale we've never seen before. But you want a 'conversation'. Well, I don't.

I will totally take this opportunity to highlight several writers who have busted their behinds to create wonderful writing this yr incl.: @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @rsagarcia.bsky.social, @okokno.bsky.social (whose next book I'm chomping at the bit for), @hironennes.bsky.social and many others!

A lot of writers have busted their butts all year to publish great fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and journalism. Consider sharing their work today. Consider what you send people's attention to.