Do you hate facism? Wanna burn it all down? I've got a bundle of books filled with rebellion and defiance. 🌈📚💙📚 itch.io/b/3348/burn-...

There's a guy at the entomology conference who is really leaning on the chaotic side of the definition of what a "bug" is. #entsoc25

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

This is also why people who think you should ALWAYS vote Dem or NEVER vote at all? Both annoy me. Every vote happens under different circumstances. Would it have been imperfect but better if Harris had won in 2024? 💯💯 But she didn't. So now we vote based on the current situation we have. And...

With elections tomorrow, I just wanna put it out there that in a lot of places, there has never been a better time to just fully vote as far left as you can. Trump and his cronies are consolidating fascist control in everything they can touch, most of us aren't dislodging that by voting moderate

The sub call for Indigenous writers is now open! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I'm not even THAT hype of a Xmas person, but I'm spending this 1st Nvmbr w/end putting up decor. For me this is mostly just bc of ADHD: Decorating for Xmas always seems to take longer than other holidays. The later I leave it, the more it becomes just 1 more thing to juggle in an already-busy season

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

A trickortreating kid just exclaimed, with such genuine shock & delight, that we had "the good lollipops!!" And the stupid little burst of pride that gave me? I don't care if it doesn't make any sense at all, bc they are just cheap generic skull-shaped lollipops. I'm taking the compliment

A thing about having bad executive function is like. The whole thought experiment where people ask themselves oh, what if I did X instead of Y, or made a difference choice at this particular point. Just doesn't apply to me. Because all my available paths & choices were pretty much dictated by ADHD

I'm not a Midwesterner, so I recently realized that, for all it's one of the most prominent US cities? I had no real clear image of the city's vibe. But after traveling thru recently + all the impressive stories of care & community organizing? I now have *such* a high opinion of Chicagoans

The point of life is simply to exist, and to be consciously aware that your own existence/life itself is a statistically-improbable miracle. Then to spend your time in awe that you get to be alive + conscious of the miracle of life for a little while!!

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Two things can be true at once: It's both pleasantly affirming, and also sort of depressing, that I've been upping my makeup game for the last 2 days. And every time I've left the house, people have noticeably treated me nicer

Watching They Live for the first time. And apparently capitalism is real?? And also bad??? Did you guys know about this?

I don't often get fomo, but everyones posts about how good Frankenstein is, while I'm living in an area that's not showing it? It's testing me 🥲

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, here’s a favorite quote from a favorite author:

this girl Gloria who got into my local newspaper for seeing Titanic 50 times in Rome and who I have remembered since reading about her in 1998

Hearing ppl might leave bsky to go somewhere else, and. Gonna be honest, gang, I don't think I have more moves in me. If bsky goes under, I'll most likely just double down on being a Tumblr gremlin. And whenever THAT eventually ends for good, I'll probably just call it quits on social media tbh

Did you know? @bookshop.org is having an Anti-Prime Day sale wherein you can get free shipping for two days? Did you know "Magica Riot" is available in print via @bookshop.org? And that you can support a local bookstore when buying? Did you know I'd appreciate your purchase a bunch?

Today years old when I learned that the average size of a large pizza got several inches smaller in the 1990s. Chain restaurants like Domino's began selling their larges as 14", when most earlier pizza joints considered large to be 16-18". And the rest of the industry apparently downsized to match?

I went to the protest this morning at ICE facility in Broadview. Some photos if you wanna follow along. My guess is that at its height there were 300-400 people there, all protesting the inhumane treatment & illegal kidnapping of our neighbors. #broadview #iceprotest #abolishice #broadviewprotest

One of the biggest issues for me, with my particular brand of ADHD? Is that holiday seasons always manage to sneak up on me. Half the time when I want to decorate to get into the vibes, the season is partway over before I actually get around to setting things up

Get ready for the ADHD Awareness Month bundle! 22 awesome books by ADHD authors and/or featuring ADHD characters! Check it out: itch.io/b/3300/adhd-... #BookSky 🩵📚 📢📚 📦📚

As a person who loves reading weird books, I think it might help to have a weirdness scale, in the same way people use peppers to communicate a sexiness scale.

I am starting a new service where I slash the tires of expensive cars in Silicon Valley unless their owners specifically opt-out.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Being in a writers group with my top 5 favorite authors would probably save me

Having one of those neurodivergent days where I had a whole plan for myself, and then one domino in the chain got fucked up so the whole day was basically a wash. Think that means I need to eat something self-indulgent, give the cat some scritches, and then just go to bed

"Stories will contain a plethora of ambiguous statements that will mean different things to different people" and "ME ME ME ME ME" are irreconcilable concepts that can't occupy the same space so of course this keeps happening.

Starting my Halloween movie viewings off early by watching Weapons! I feel so lucky that I fell in love with horror as a genre, right as we're all living through the era of prestige horror

Not sure how many ways I can explain to other leftists that the far right is deeply embedded in gaming + uses anxieties/frustrations associated w the medium to recruit & mainstream their ideology. As much as it sucks, we need to be VERY. CAREFUL. how we engage w pop culture game discussions online

I see a lot of artists on here questioning whether they should be promoting their work in the current political climate. The answer is always yes. ART: books, music, film, painting, sculpture - all of it - is the most accessible way to communicate complex topics, ideologies and emotions.

Alright moots & general #booksky members! My YT subs feed is dead & I need booktube recommendations. Preferably mid-tier/lower-tier channels. When I watch booktube I like to be cozy & chill so please no creators who are too negative or too... loud? In the YTer way lol. Marginalized creators a plus

Oh wow!!!

Wow! Just anecdotally, this makes a lot of sense to me. I'm prone to getting sick at the drop of a hat + staying sick longer than other people. But, knock on wood, I've still never caught covid, even when my spouse had it. And I take claritin daily for allergies. (Mild response to the boosters, too)

Opinion| Could releasing the Epstein files cause autism?

wait I'm sorry it's rapture day AND bi visibility day?? talk about now you see me, now you don't

Being a millennial is wild because 1990 was 10 years ago, but also 2015 was 5 years ago

yikes, my "require alt text before posting" setting had been turned off too! check on yours if you haven't lately. it's under Settings / Accessibility.

"Slose heads a committee that purposes to suppress the obscene plays performed in public kemmerhouses [places designated for sex] here. Slose opposes them because they are trivial, vulgar, and blasphemous. To oppose something is to maintain it." -The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K le Guin, 1969

Always wanna be cautious not to read something into a book thru my own current lens, while missing the intended context. But an interesting sub-theme of Left Hand of Darkness seems to be how "perversion" & "vulgarity" are primarily *governmental* concepts. Intrinsically tied to govt power & control

Happy Bi Visibility Day 2025! It's Bi Visibility Day, and we're celebrating as we do with books starring bi main characters! For even more recs, check out past years' posts! Young Adult Wish You Weren’t Here by Erin Baldwin All’s fair in love and Color War. Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At…

I didn't take paracetamol when pregnant (it upsets my stomach), but mysteriously my child was still born autistic. I can't imagine why... 😂

“Why tylenol?” Because it’s the pain medication that pregnant people can take. That’s it. That’s why.

Listen: Queer ppl gotta stop boosting stereotypes/gate-keeping bisexuals, especially bi's married to the "opposite" gender. The more we're rightfully seen as queer in the mainstream, the more it challenges cishet's belief that there's a clean safe line between "us" & "them." And the safer we ALL are

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

The siren song of an old project I shelved a couple years ago is calling my naaaaame~ I'm taking this as sign I need to finish it

Started reading my first Ursula K Le Guin today! I don't know why I expected it to be dry and hard to get into. But I'm enjoying it a lot, especially the writing style