Reminds me of NYT big spread on an "author" who "made six figures" using AI to upload 200 romance novels, a plan so successful she is no longer doing it, but has a system to sell you... And never once mentioned ethics even while said author used pen names because readers hate AI.

And our children and their children will reap the whirlwind.

Remember, TFG has said nearly every day that the war is over.

Let’s Fall in Love … ♥️

Once again, not a drag queen. Not a trans person.

Romance authors: "Everything is awful, but love is the only thing that will save us from ourselves."

Perhaps in the not distant future this will be repurposed/edited by the entire Internet. People lost their jobs for saying less than this about a Nazi.

Not a drag queen. Not a trans person.

Once again, saying NOTHING is as political as saying SOMETHING. Absence of pride flags is as political as the presence of pride flags. Not picking a side *is* picking a side, you can pretend it isn't, but face the people being targeted by the government that you just erased.

yet the war is "over" - he keeps saying that

Yes and. Step back from believing that if you don't track ALL of it you're failing. *Choose* where your attention goes. *Resist* being manipulated into numbness and inaction. But also, watch everywhere you go for random acts of kindness. Be a random act of kindness. Good people are still there.

This book and her work changed my life, and the lives of every woman, whether they know it or not, seeking genuine treatment for reproductive health versus placation, skepticism, and placebos. "In so much period pain your lips are blue and you might faint? That's not a thing. Lose weight."

Grifters gonna grift and liars are gonna lie. What's missing is actual CONSEQUENCES for grifting and lying.

This is mostly sound advice IMO, but I disagree with the translation of “You should smile more.” (Translation: “You’re so depressing.”) When directed at women, translation is: "I expect you to be appealing to me. You exist so I can react to you." And the men who say this, yes, they really mean it.

IMO, the big tech bros have been hiding this research any way they can while taking heed from it for their own families. I know that several admit that they severely limit screen time and social media overall for their own kids.

The depths of their venality knows no limit. Think I'll watch Deadpool and Beekeeper tonight.

Go make a newcomer's day - check out their book!

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Loving this for Oz as well. His video informercials for his own name and brand on taxpayer dime are maddening. May that he's doing so come to the attention of the orange one, who cannot tolerate this. See Noem, Kristi.

Absolutely fascinating. One takeaway and not a shocker. While management might think their average employee should be replaced or augmented by AI, they have made no effort whatsoever to augment or replace their own jobs with AI.

I get the appeal of dark romance. However - I will DNF and likely DNF the author too if the "dark" is ideation of r8pe as a way to keep women in line. Just saw a sample that included it. Hard red line. No. No. No. I will never understand women who don't see their own blood in those waters.

How would anyone know the attacks would happen? They planned it behind black curtains in the middle of Mar-a-lago. So I guess all these millions of dollars were made by sheer luck. Not military intelligence data that was stolen, sold, or traded for a piece of the action.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Thrilled to see @victoriastrauss.com of Writer Beware quoted extensively by NYT's Dan Barry piece today about the massive AI-boosted scams aimed at authors. It's a story she broke FOUR months ago. Welcome to the party, NYT.

I keep hearing a Natasha Romanoff voice in my head saying, "So that's your play? Cruelty to those who need help, but don't look at our boss's list of the big time fraudsters he's pardoned?"

They can't steal what we stole!!

Again, the elimination of women's and feminist studies in the name of protecting women and girls from "the trans" was never about that. Never. TERFs were and are tools of the patriarchy that wants to end all forms of accountability for toxic men. Effing tools.

It. Was. Never. About. Trans. Women. In. Sports.

#lesficfri "Delicate" From short story (getting longer by the minute) in progress called "Lost and Found."

HOW EXCITING IS THIS?!

Traumatic news: today I discovered that my coffee maker glass carafe has a crack in it. Ten years and counting of delicious coffee. It had one job and did it well. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

This is my favorite version of Wuthering Heights.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud hatch out.

Still waiting for any proof of concept for AI.

When social sharing came with recipes. (These days of course that source would be @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social ) (circa 1910s-20s, which means my grandmother is likely the one who kept this as a young wife and stupendous home baker yet-to-be.)

What we both needed tonight! #MuppetsRule

I effing SMASHED that button! (My novels are already there via my publisher, this adds my self-pubbed shorter works too!) sapphic books world, you are going to see a bunch of indies now at Bookshop.org !

Looking for a GIF of Claudius saying "Let all the poison that lurks in the mud hatch out." Because kinda of feels that's where we are.

It's laying the groundwork to continue claiming results he doesn't like are all rigged.

Landlords are at it again.

If you're cleaning up Gaiman from your collections, grab the Marian Zimmer Bradley too. I'm still surprised how many people don't know. It's very bad. Pits of hell bad.

Wanna get away? How about Scotland? This week KNIGHT OF NIGHTS is part of the @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social giveaway. Sapphic historical romance wherein the women save themselves. Books in series can be read in any order, I promise. Everything you need to know: iheartsapphfic.com/2026/02/02/2...

New sapphic celebrity romance from Catherine Maorisi!

People that believed there was an underground pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza parlor when the Epstein files drop

Books from many sapphic small press publishers and indie writers. Queer/woman owned small business.

#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/3

RIP Catherine O'Hara. Thank you Merriam-Webster for this great compilation.

OLYMPICS NERDS - my wife is one. And she has put together some cool, free stuff on her ad-free website simply because she likes to share. It includes a schedule with ALL events, color coding and in a readable sized font. Rec'd site for Milano-Cortina news, and so on! kajmeister.com/milano-corti...

Also, water is wet. I know what they meant, but "A study finds how you age is hereditary" wouldn't have made me laugh out loud The actual study on twins is fascinating.

My thought is tha a trip to the Olympics is seen as a "bonus" to certain ICE employees, plus of course Noem would go using the jet the taxpayers bought for her exclusive use. The whole junket on our dime.