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spent yesterday gallivanting through rainy new york city and saw two shows for flan’s birthday. as i predicted, i spent today in bed, with a combo cold/migraine. worth it! this is why i took the entire weekend off work.

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Protect Philly from Predatory Data Centers. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

best first paragraph in literature imo

i’ve seen some queues in my time, but the broadhurst theater is the gnarliest

Here's the full text of HR 7661 (it's very short) which threatens to cut federal funding to any public school in the US which offers programing or books which mention "gender dysphoria or transgenderism" www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

HR 2616, text below, just passed today in the House. Now it's time to call your Senators & tell them to vote NO ON HR 2616/S 2251 (and the very similar bills: HR 2617 & HR 7661 which aim to ban all trans books from every public school in the country!) www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I had to reread this several times because I could not understand how “trans student dies by suicide” = “this lawsuit is obviously no longer relevant” but I forgot we live in hell :)

y’all ever shazam a song blasting in a coffee shop so you know which artist to avoid

applied for tuition assistance for a beginning drawing class, and i am literally tearing up from anxiety. how am i actually going to GO to this class if i get in.

"You shouldn't support Palestine. They would kill you for being trans!" say the people who want to kill me for being trans in the United States.

I honestly don't give a fuck what you think about Harry Potter, but I give MANY fucks about who you choose to empower with your spending. So empowet these authors recommended by my friend @rachaelconrad.bsky.social instead

i met molly crabapple today at work and did not play it cool at all. she was so sweet. i love her work so much.

opera!!!! opera achieved!!!!!

digging this cool new street art in philly 👁️

I loved this book and would like more people to read it.

polyamory is good actually because my partners can talk to each other about dense nonfiction & interest in geopolitics and say things like “it’s a work of polemic” and i can be on the couch with the cat posting about them on bluesky

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today is Indie Bookstore Day! Be kind to your booksellers today. Otherwise, may you be cursed with your favorite series being printed in varying trim sizes, and may all of your novels at home be magically updated with a book-to-film movie poster cover, with a sticker you can’t pick off.

good evening! our hot water heater corroded and i cried about it for an hour! hope you’re all doing great

source call out for a Guardian story: I am pretty sure a lot of progressive/leftist Christians follow me... if that's you and you're involved in faith-based organizing and mutual aid right now, please get in touch over Signal @ lex_mcmenamin.68

IMAGINE a Manhattan with no gay bookstores, it would be AGAINST NATURE and not in the gay way If you live in NYC, or care about gay bookstores, please consider helping @juliewbach.bsky.social and @hivemindbookstore.bsky.social keep @bgsqd.bsky.social running

people are often taking things out of context or are a little trigger-happy, but the journalists on here sure do love to circle the wagons to tell the trannies to calm down and make *that* the big issue as fast as humanly possible 👍

really great how the end result of today's events, on TDoV, is a bunch of people publicly calling gay and trans people mentally ill and sending harassment directly to their accounts for telling a guy his poorly written post was poorly written

8-1. would love to hear the democratic party dead-enders spin this one for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

look i texted but i was so right i'll abbreviate here... this discourse? recession indicator

i will not get into the l*ndy w*st discourse. i cannot. i am working on How To Not Get Sucked Into Overwhelming, All-Consuming Emotional Spirals in therapy, and when i start to talk about the way people are intentionally(?) misreading the book, i start to rant/yell/elevate my blood pressure!!!!

m night shyamalan’s bit is “how can i make this movie about philadelphia” which as someone who also makes everything about philadelphia i must respect

i am taking a six-week lit class called “queering the family” and tonight was the first session and it was so! fun!!!

“It is not irrational for a legislature to encourage citizens to appreciate their sex and not become disdainful of their sex by refusing to fund ⁠experimental procedures that may have the opposite effect.” It was, in fact, irrational.

What does an audiobook mean to me as a deaf author? Check out the process by which we record the sound of sign language to put beneath the spoken narration. (click to open video and see full size/text)

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “It’s not something we have in stock, but we can definitely order it for you.”

my cat is extra groggy tonight from her usual dinner gaba and monthly flea meds and it is making me v anxious

survived the week! mostly

absolutely maniacal week at work and it’s almost funny.

made it through 60% of this decent fantasy audiobook. just started it over. i am not retaining anything these days and kept getting frustrated about missing stuff

This is very well done and also I need everyone to read IDLEWILD by James Frankie Thomas.

do you live in or near philly? do you love poetry? we have two incredible (free!) events coming up at h&h real soon, and i’d love to see ya there.

You can't put anything into words; they are already full; you can only ask them to occur in an order and then notice how they respond to each other and you.

sinners in the hands of a hangry god

do you live in or near philly? do you love poetry? we have two incredible (free!) events coming up at h&h real soon, and i’d love to see ya there.

Without downloading any new pics describe your gender

thinking of the guy out there, whoever he is, who is most certainly working on a time machine to get us outta here

what if instead of every writer having an individual premium substack we had lots of writers working together for one publication. you might have editors, too, and designers. and only one regular fee, instead of seventy billion! wonder who will invent that. sounds like it’d be good

This is amazing.

watched this for the first time tonight

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.

i watch sex and the city the way my dad watched a football game. on my feet, pacing, bellowing. oh come the fuck on!!! he was wide open are you fucking blind!!!