Ope look at me distracted. On it.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

One of my first and only really viral tweets (I legitimately think it was the first time I got Matt Mercer to comment on anything I've done). "Don't become so enamored with a piece of media that critique of it becomes a critique of you."

I told my 60+ year old mom about payment processors limiting what people can buy or suspending accounts over buying adult books and toys. She, a rather prudish person, was horrified that they should be the morality police. Maybe get your romance book moms to send some strongly worded letters.

You guys deciding to slap NSFW work art with content restrictions makes me think you're about to debut your paid membership and the big payment processors gave you an ultimatum. You are sabotaging any success by submitting to their demands. Way to kneecap yourselves against your competitiors.

#QueerWriters “cake”

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

Public service announcement: ONTARIO SFF WRITERS PLEASE REMEMBER TO APPLY FOR THE OAC RECOMMENDER GRANT AUGUR IS A RECOMMENDER WE WANT TO RECOMMEND SFF WRITERS GET GRANTS /end

Thor: Ragnarcock (2025)

Pet alligator attack. If you read this for one reason read it for the Pet Alligator On A Mother Fucking Plane 🤣

Charlie Kirk, in the end he became a trans 🏳️‍⚧️ activist, and that is how he will be remembered.

The Last Woman on Earth by Bex Benjamin is out today! Naomi Alderman called it "the post-apocalyptic lesbian romance I didn't know I needed." KJ Charles said it's "a thoroughly enjoyable sapphic adventure with high stakes, high heels and a lot of heart." Which was extremely nice of them.

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎 You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by... Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

Here is my entry for the @augursociety.bsky.social Microfiction contest: The Sudden Cancellation of Breakfast Plans 🥞💔 #AugurMicros2025

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

I had a thread on Twitter where I talked about how people who grew up post Lawrence, fundamentally do not understand how dangerous it was to be gay, the things you had to do to stay safe.

Samorost 2 and Road Redemption are free this week in the Mobile Epic Games Store. Read on for more about these freebies: www.geekgirlauthority.com/s...

Sex is great, but what about the inescapable allure of the inclined elevator.

Canadian here: I want to provide even more reason my fellow canadians should support this petition. Firstly, the language is very clear and strict, pointing out how wishy-washy the definition of "adult content" is. It says point blank what it aims to do, and it's all things I agree with.

FELLOW CANADIANS REMEMBER TO SIGN THIS PLEASE IT IS VERY MUCH WORTH YOUR TIME. In case you need any convincing, I've got a small thread about it

My latest article.

HOLY SHIT SO MANY NEW FOLLOWERS TODAY Hi. I'm Morgan. They/Them/She. I'm a writer of sapphic sci-fi/dystopia, a developmental editor, a streamer, a merch maker, and a massive shitposter. 🏳️‍⚧️🧡🤍🩷. My stuff is on sale. Please consider supporting your local trans author and buy my stuff :D

Future historians really, really need us to do some mainstream polling to get an idea of how many people had actually heard of Charlie Kirk prior to this. Maybe filter by social media usage and political intentions?

The Heron Kings Rampant is #FREE until Monday on Kindle US: An aging alchemist & a shadowy band of rogues must hunt down fanatical nobles wielding a weapon of mass destruction in this #gaslamp #fantasy adventure! #booksky #indieauthor #steampunk www.amazon.com/dp/B0C19GWJ1W

EXACTLY THIS. When Elon fucked the algorithms to keep links off-site, my posts about new books went from thousands of likes to <100, overnight. Not wasting time on X was an economic necessity.

#WIPSnips September 21: "disagree" Nia, get off your butt and go tattle on these criminals already. What could go wrong?

#QueerPrompts September 21: Tai just wants things to go back to the way they were before the Human came on board. Safe cargo runs and nice meals have turned into bickering crewmates, pirates, explosions and people complaining about dessert.

#SciFiSeptember Day 21: A ubiquitous technology is the tester, that ubiquitous gadget to ensure food safety. Some people presume it’s just a pH checker, toxins database, and portable mass spectrometer, but it’s critical to check everything from chirality to radiation level when eating alien foods.

#SciFiSeptember 20: “Strictly controlled by every government I’d ever heard of, general-purpose synthesizers could collapse economies. Destroy entire ecosystems. Make airborne prions. They were the sort of thing that were banned by TREATIES.” Wow, good thing none of these guys are involved in THAT.

#QueerPrompts September 20: Wow, I have a lot of lazy nihilistic asshole characters! Tai would, but they're fuzzy on “environment”, being from Micapa, a carefully controlled post-industrial world where “old-growth” forests are meticulously planned and surviving megafauna managed with contraceptives.

#Septopolis 20: Like most pre-industrial cities over the centuries, most Bir Accians eat communally, or from food stalls. It's safer to bake bread under the eyes of professionals than to risk a fire in one's own home. While there are few taverns, tea houses and Nivoréan-style symposia are popular.

#Septopolis 21: People have a way of ending up in Bir Accio. They might not mean to, but then their ship's rigging catches fire. Their oxen escape. A teenager steals their fare home. Far too many down-on-their-luck cases in Bir Accio never intended to stay. At least the locals all know the story.

Finally, they’re going to install gender neutral bathrooms.

The academics I've talked to agree that Academia.edu wants to make virtual university, but I will point out that this new TOS makes it perfectly clear that everyone from me to Bill Ayers could show up on "Date My Prof". (Students: upload three original papers to unlock feature: "undress my prof"!)

You know, generated slop is changing what people thinks looks good. And it’s making commercial art look worse.

For fuck's sake, Substack is not a "news site". It's a site for nazis to post deranged opinion pieces and hate speech.

#LateNightWrite A3: Not the main character, but Cargo's green-furred ex-nun masc lesbian Thyllis would definitely post a dating profile that managed to be extremely cocky, offensive to multiple demographics, raise an alarming number of questions, and appeal more to bounty hunters than single women.

#LateNightWrite A2: Bir Accio? It's hot and it smells and they don't have public schools OR enough orphanages and unrelatedly, my wallet's missing.

"Which views, exactly?" "Oh, you know the ones"

WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #A #Q #R #SF #OV #LGBTQ

#LateNightWrite A1: My WIP is about a teenage girl whose main job is lying, her second job is parkour, with being invisible, governess, pickpocket, grifter, burglar, porcelain golem kidnapper, socialite, and demolitions expert further down the list.

If you had a coworker who was as vocally obsessed with children's genitals as Danielle Smith, you'd report them to HR and tell them to check their hard drive. It's so creepy, and the center is absolutely failing to make the right's perverse underage genital obsession the scandal it should be.

Danielle Smith is obsessed with children's genitals, and it's fucking weird and obscene and creepy, and more people need to call it weird and obscene and creepy. It's not normal for any adult to obsess over the genitals of children, let alone to make policing those genitals part of her job.

Canadians don't have rights. We have privileges that can be revoked at the drop of a hat by rightwing perverts who are obsessed with the genitals of children.

First question: describe your WIP poorly! Describe your WIP as if all you have is maybe the title and some vague vibes. Go wild! #LateNightWrite

#LateNightWrite A1: Cargo is about a cook who doesn't like judging people and whose assistant is incompetent, even more so than all their coworkers and all the other people in their life.

Hi #LateNightWrite! I'm Catherine, querying my queer sci-fi heist about alien space truckers who are bad at crimes, and working on a YA fantasy series about pickpockets who use magic and parkour to steal, and who are actually quite a bit better at crimes. I like a good group of thieves.

📢 NEW GAME ALERT 📢 I just published my entry for #109AdvChal titled "Eulogy for Nonno". It's a FREE point and click adventure / detective game, with Windows, Linux and Mac builds available. Get it here ➡️ gugames.itch.io/eulogy