My wife is rocking out to “Pink Pony Club” in the kitchen while making New Year’s Eve goose stew.

Just like every year, a friendly PSA: “Feliz ano nuevo” means “happy new anus.” “Feliz año nuevo” means “happy new year.” Wishing folks either one is nice, but make sure you’re using the one you mean.

I wish I knew who I stole this from

THE END TIMES is a post-apocalyptic novel told over 12 newspaper issues. Delivered each month to your home or email inbox. Don't miss out on this! badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...

Still in love with this review. 🖤

My wife forced Aramis to be social last night because, according to my wife, she was acting like a “vicious feral rabbit” and needed to behave. Aramis also destroyed all her new toys from Santa.

It's been 3 years since I started fundraising & over 10 that I've needed medical help w/ zero hope to get better. I'm tired. This is now increasingly urgent. Please share if you can't donate. Idk how much longer I can go on without it 💔 Donate here 👇 🩻 gofund.me/deefc833 🏳️‍⚧️💕💸

Heyyyy #booksky it’s my semi-regular reminder that Crime Writers of Color is here for your crime fiction fix! Find new reads + a speakers directory for book clubs etc. & sub to our free newsletter via crimewritersofcolor.com 🎯 Find new follows here too: @crimewoc.bsky.social &

Today you can preorder the custom-edged paperbacks of Bones at the Crossroads only at Barnes and Noble! Use code: PREORDER25 📚 Pre-orders are officially live! Link in bio! Let’s cross back into the world of Malik! In stores Jun 02, 2026!

Yay the patient came in! They were SUPER anxious, but they came in anyway! Told them I was proud of them for being brave and coming to their appointment and I made them some tea and sat down and chatted with them for a bit until they felt less overwhelmed. Hopefully that helped!

My final review of the year is of the Southern gothic horror “On Sunday she Picked Flowers” by Yah Yah Scholfield, a story about generational trauma and breaking free. diversityhorror.com/2025/12/28/o...

When I was a baby Mick Jagger played peekaboo with me and I sat on his lap. He told my mom about his baby and they talked about baby stuff. My mom did not recognize him I thought he was someone she went to school with. Don’t know if that counts as minor, but I have no memory of it.

Help us make sure we don’t have to start 2026 closed —> tinyurl.com/psafsupport

My driver’s side windshield wiper broke on my way to work and I was freaking out because it’s raining a lot and I did not want to drive home in the dark, in the rain, with one working windshield wiper. But my amazing wife drove to my job and fixed my wiper for me while I was working. 💜

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

It’s so important healthcare to make sure patients feel supported and not shamed. We had a new patient miss their appointment because they slipped up and were too ashamed to come in and they thought we’d be mad, because they’d had that experience with other providers in the past. 😢

Believe it or not, Sinners wasn't the only #blackhorror movie released in 2025! Here are 30 others worthy of your time. #horrorsky www.blackhorrormovies.com/best-black-h...

If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts. You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

With all the new #gamedev peeps on Bluesky you should check out all these Black Femme Game Developers while you're here!!! go.bsky.app/88aYGTF

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

I’m the laziest fucking idiot in the world and it’s never once occurred to me to use ai to do any task, no matter how minimal. Embarrassing future. Everything is constantly disappointing.

A Romancing the Gothic first! I have put the whole schedule for 2026 up in advance! You can already book tickets through March but you can see what's coming (and note it in your diary!) for the whole year! What a talk schedule! romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...

Had a lovely Christmas with my family (sans the two members who stress everyone out), their significant others, two of our friends, and my mom’s corgis. 💜 My wife made a Christmas goose and my brother made Bûche De Noël.

Important article, comics colleagues. Where we stand right now in this Book Ban culture war that shows no signs of abating. I've said this from the beginning: this began as a classic Comics Witch Hunt. When this started in Texas & Florida in 2021, My Friend Dahmer was one of the targeted books.

My Discord Squad is more fun than yours. go.bsky.app/LHRqUuX

My mom brought her corgi’s orthopedic dog bed with her to visit us (because he’s an old man dog). Our cat Riker immediately stole it and thinks it’s his bed now.

My dad got me a framed photo of himself for Christmas. He apparently got us ALL photos of himself for Christmas, including my brother’s girlfriend (he signed hers). WHO DOES THAT.

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

My mom’s dog is so excited for Santa Paws to come

That’s what happens to snitches, Elf

On the critic side, my job is to dig into the choices the author made - why they might have made them, the larger social/literary/historical context of those choices, & how they make me feel. I can't do that with genAI. There's no intention or perspective. It's soulless. All meaning is superfluous.

never forget that fatphobia originates in white supremacy and has propagated itself as a tool of social control and one of many tactics to divide society against itself

I brought my wife to our staff holiday party yesterday (spouses and kids were invited) and I was looking at our staff Christmas photo that was taken last night and just now noticed my wife photobombed it 😂

I fell out of bed last night and hit my face on my bedside table. My wife tried very hard to be sympathetic and not laugh at me. 😭

New episode! @anna.rose_reads and I are breaking down our favorite reads of 2025 by category. This year was stacked with great books, so we have a lot to say Listen wherever you get your podcasts

I did not need to be attacked on a Tuesday especially not Christmas eve eve

Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.

We want to make sure that you know about -- and share -- some more safe direct help resources available on Scarleteen and elsewhere, as well as some content on our site that might now or soon be particularly relevant to you if you live in the United States. (1/9)

Finally got round to finishing Lower Decks. What a glorious and brilliant love letter to Star Trek. While ST: Picard thought that all we wanted was to see the TNG crew on the bridge of the D again, Lower Decks actually cared enough to give us T’Pol and Tripp in a long happy marriage and 1/2

My wife left her cast iron skillet filled with bacon grease out as she was collecting it to make bacon infused bourbon for my brother. She stepped away for a little while and came back to discover some naughty kitten had been lick away at the grease.

Ugh, I am SO sick of white people complaining about “white guilt.” No one is asking you to feel guilty or apologize for being white! We’re asking you not to contribute to systemic racism. But apparently that’s too much to ask for. 🙄

Awwwww, my coworker brought me a blueberry donut. 💜 She’s so sweet.

Want a low-stakes challenge to motivate you to read queer? Welcome to our 2026 Queer Book Challenge on @thestorygraph.com ! We’ve got a mix of prompts that we hope will motivate you to read a diverse range of books featuring queer characters. Join us! app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal... 🌈📚 📚💙

100 BEST HORROR MOVIES & THRILLERS OF 2025 My massive year-end list is here. It’s a roundup encompassing all the best in found footage, slashers, revenge, queer horror, and more. Picks include Good Boy, Horror in the High Desert 4, and MANY MORE!!! 🔗 bsidesbadlands.com/100-best-hor...

correcting that since I half read lmao but my point still stands @bookspotlight.bsky.social got a solid one with:

Check out my review of “The Villa Once Beloved” by Victor Manibo, a modern gothic horror story set in the Philippines about the terrible crimes people will commit to obtain and maintain wealth and power. diversityhorror.com/2025/12/20/t...