Happy birthday Wendy Carlos 🎂 📷 Leonard M. DeLessio, 1979 "For me, she’s a hero. Not only is she a pioneer in electronic music, but she’s also a pioneer of living with grace, courage, & personal conviction in the modern age." - Jonny Pierce

If you know me, you know I am a big fan of Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator ouevre. Prey is one of my favorite movies. I have been looking forward to Badlands all year. We’re seeing it tonight!!! I have already taken my migraine meds and I have my earplugs. I am gonna ENJOY MYSELF.

brando sando loves the word “tensely.” a character just used the word “insultability.”

west philly friends, please keep an eye out for my friend’s cat! maybelle is a lil indoor lady! she’s 15! she should be cozy at home so let’s find her!

Today is also release day for Ravishing by Eshani Surya. She is a debut novelist who wrote a gripping but emotionally resonant novel about big tech, chronic illness, and the lengths we will go to, to escape ourselves and fit in. bookshop.org/a/112057/978...

if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare

did you know that most independent booksellers do not get healthcare through their jobs and navigate insurance markets on their own? do you know most independent booksellers don't make a lot of money? anyway for no particular reason here's a reminder to donate to BINC: bincfoundation.org

solidarity forever with the Quirk Union; zero solidarity, respect, or understanding for management’s decision to ratfuck the entire staff (union and non!) out of their livelihoods.

i did this as a little treat to myself

here’s my mom’s dog dressed up as a snowman

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

Philly 🔔 (And all of PA): ✅ Tuesday, November 4th ✅ Polls: 7AM-8PM ✅ Yes to retention for state Supreme Court judges ✅ Check what's up w/ your school board before you go. Candidates for school board can cross-list as both Rep. and Dem. ✅ Some ballots in PA will be double-sided. Flip that puppy over!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

had a great time at a wedding and saw so many cool wonderful friends from Back Home™️ and am playing dnd tonight like some kinda social butterfly 🦋

This is how you blurb

A reminder that according to Fetterman's own former staffers, Fetterman had a meeting with J-Street president Jeremy Ben Ami in which he told Ben Ami that he believes Arabs are like a "carton of sour milk" and that we should get back to killing. "Kill them all" Fetterman is reported as having said.

finished two highly anticipated 2026 page-turners today! books!!!

Baek Sehee, the author of I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI has passed away. She was 35. The Korean organ donation authority reports that Sehee saved five lives through her donation of her heart, lungs, liver, and both kidneys.

unfortunately for him @hqburger.bsky.social will be subject to a rant about our store’s malfunctioning card reader when he stops in today

made two long-procrastinated phone calls and a thorough round of chores, please clap

brandon sanderson audiobook is to my ears what law and order svu marathon is to my eyes

at long last started THE ART OF LIBROMANCY by Josh Cook and my god it is so good and i’m just two chapters in

This is of niche industry interest, but here goes: The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%. Why does this matter?

going to start calling Pottstown “Ptown” sorry to any other Ptowns out there

I'm the guy tabulating whether you are "not surprised" by some act of political monstrosity. keep it up, you're doing great work and everyone wants to hear about it

For @electricliterature.com, I wrote about milk, marketing, and making art (or boobs, books, and being a product): electricliterature.com/artists-shou...

lots that hits home in this (been thinking a lot lately about the lack of Big Press for any of the trans authors who put out work in the last year) and found myself especially sad at the lamentation for the now gone Catapult Magazine, which was a vital space for so many of us

only managed to go to a place i haven’t been in a long time that’s literally on my street but it was a nice visit. now i am back home with my cats.

I only want to sleep and watch horror movies. If you see me doing something other than sleeping or watching horror movies, please know that I am awash in resentment.

feelin especially frustrated w/ myself for not taking advantage of living in An Amazing City and am going to go somewhere i’ve never been tomorrow. it will probably be a coffee shop, but i gotta start somewhere.

been coloring in Drawn Jawn, a Philly-themed coloring book, every night to Chill Out

this is the type of writing you add when your paper is due but you haven’t hit the required page count

Ready to preorder the small press short story collection with this cover RIGHT NOW.

a blur of fur whom i adure

Lilith sends thoughts & purrs to all transgender persons who are being so alarmingly, unconscionably scapegoated by the rightwing GOP, more vilified (for political reasons) than actual criminals. we all know why--

pondering the miracle of @huuuuuuutch.bsky.social’s existence!!!

life comes at you fast

for those of you who haven’t heard: because i am a trans person who thinks i have a right to exist, believes transphobia contibutes to adverse health outcomes, and uses the word “cisgender” to describe people who aren’t transgender, the h*rit*ge foundation thinks i should be labeled a terrorist

ah they all just think being personally unpopular is the same as being oppressed lmao

Compartmentalization

the new conjuring movie was great, sorry haters

i miss 48 hours ago when i did not know who this man was

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

my cat and i ended up having a sweet bonding experience while at the vet together. we got in lots of cuddles. she is ok, just itchy and overgrooming a whole bunch. i really love my cat.

my partner Luke dropped his first run of single-needle stitch selvedge jeans! he’s been working on this pattern for years, and it’s so so good. long live Garlic Head Denim! www.instagram.com/p/DN58ZQljZa...

my work meeting fell through so i am stubbornly spending time in the bathroom, just as i would’ve if i’d stayed home

forcing myself to rest for the length of a buffy episode with the help of my buddy here

quick q, has anyone figured out how to have a job and keep up with friends and keep a semi-clean house and have time to rest and run errands and care for your pets and care for yourself and sometimes have fun

philly book crawl SUCCESS 📚📚📚