I saw the summary for this and was pretty much sold on the sole fact that bounty hunter after the teen girl is not a Hot Boy but in fact a grumpy middle aged woman. More books should play with that dynamic.

Using someone's deadname on accident should cause roughly the same amount of embarrassment as calling your child by their sibling's name or saying I love you to the person taking your pizza order. Just one of those weird blips brains make because words are hard.

I mean…do I NEED a new library card with Prince on it? No. Am I going to bust my ass to try and get one? Hell yeah. www.hclib.org/prince?fbcli...

You might, uh, commemorate this event by ordering the Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories for your local library. www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...

SNAP benefits have been sent out in Washington State. Let your neighbors know, because not everybody is online. See alt text for more details. FB link is to official post is here: www.facebook.com/share/p/17mE...

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

Do they literally want mass rioting? This is how you speedrun mass rioting.

The difference between fantasy and sci fi is that fantasy books have a serif font on the cover and sci fi books have a sans serif font on the cover. This is the only rule that must not be broken.

This fall has been an extra slow one for small businesses out here, and the tea house is $3.7k shy of where we need to be to make rent before late fees hit this month. All this to say, if you have some tea shopping to do or friends to point our way today, we'd sure appreciate it!

for $2 you can make sure a kid gets a cake for their birthday for $2 more you can make sure it's got frosting

Word. Aldi's has a deal to feed 10 for $40. The Target deal is 4 for $20. Not only is Aldi's better financially, it's not run by simpering ring-kissers. corporate.aldi.us/newsroom/new...

Yeah, this was set to "Hide" in my settings. Fuck right off with that.

I’ve been an admirer of Xander’s handmade greeting cards for some time—and right now, buying one directly helps you feed a family that lost SNAP benefits. Designs are threaded after the initial post (I’m partial to the Winter Deer and Cat Tree holiday cards).

If you want a perfect example of the aging up of YA fiction to appeal to adult readers at the exclusion of teen readers, it's getting rid of any references to the specific ages of the teen characters in the Six of Crows duology. www.tumblr.com/vilecemetery...

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

Stills from redjack: the animated shorts, an ongoing series that exists because I couldn't afford to put together a team of pro animators so I did it myself. I taught myself what I didn't know. do not wait for permission if you want it in the world, get off your ass and put it in the world

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

What we know so far, 9:30pm —Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani up —Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy. —Dems sweep Orlando council —PA: Dem justices up big —Maine anti-mail vote measure down —Krasner wins

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

hey Squad (by me and @lisasterle.bsky.social) is available for the extremely impossible to argue with price of $0 in eBook now. So if you want a place to put the anger you're feeling toward shitty men, have I got the book for you. Don't suffer bad men. Eat them. www.amazon.com/Squad-Maggie...

Thanks to you all, my remote consult for top surgery was a success! Now I need to raise $1000 for a down payment by Dec 14th, so that I get a surgery date. With your help, I will reclaim my mountains ⛰️⛰️ buff.ly/ZuuVtfZ buff.ly/NU0uTkC

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

I appreciate these sentiments so much. Writing every day CAN be a thing, but for many of us, it's simply not possible. Rest is good.

Fun way to find out

Would you believe me if I told you that what anime & manga fans like are drawings

So if you are stuck while writing, go do something random. Make pancakes. Build a sand castle. Watch a documentary about emus. More often than not your brain will go: "I know precisely what needs to happen now!"

did we ever get an Asexual Movement or did that just kind of fizzle out? I know I've stepped away from the community but I literally only hear about asexuality from queer book world now. I feel there was a lot of potential to really reshape the way society frames relationships and then... nothing.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I just want to go aaaah about the cover art of my new book, by Galen Dara. It actually wraps all the way around and I heeeear it is also on the inside cover (I haven't gotten my author copies yet, but I hope to be taking pics once I can!!!).

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Recently discovered Too Good To Go, an app that shares leftovers from restaurants that you can get for a discount to help with food waste. Spent about $6 and got 6 bagels (variety), an apple cinnamon scone, a berry muffin, and piece of banana bread! tgtg.onelink.me/OGjG/w9ihbi1v

#Booksky Hey, we’re WisCon @wiscon.bsky.social’s first Vendor of the Month! Check out the newsletter for a handy coupon code! Use it on our website in November to get a discount on our books and we make a donation to WisCon! How cool is that! wiscon.net/news/e-newsl...

It's official. Food stamp funding has not gone out. I will not be posting a wishlist right now. I have food in the house. I'm okay. If you do not have food in your house, please reply with your wishlists. If you have funds, click those links. We'll see if my midlist clout is good for anything.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

If you buy clothes for clothing g drives or know people who may need warmer items, Old Navy is having a sale.

People keep saying "let's go, lesbians" but we need to also remember: let's rest, lesbians

Nyri needs less than $65 to secure anaesthesia for her dental surgery! Deadline is tomorrow -- can you help?

A reminder to people everywhere that if you see someone panhandling you can ask them if you can buy them food or supplies at a nearby store if you don't have any cash. You can just get someone a meal they got to pick, or whatever they need. It won't fix the world but it will keep someone fed.

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

this is awesome just saw gopuff is offering $50 worth of groceries per SNAP customer in november committing up to $10 million (gopuff is a delivery service for groceries, drinks, household items headquartered in philly but available all over the US)

can’t stay awake much longer but I’m still $37 away from staying housed needed in 11 hours, if a few ppl can match $15 and help me avoid waking up to ending up on the street tomorrow 🤞🏻🫡 ko-fi.com/katimcf

SO this lady who lives miles away from me in a different neighborhood filed a complaint w/the city that’s now potentially going to get my little free library & little free pantry shut down unless we can amend code to specifically protect site amenities as such pls sign my petition c.org/DRrMJb6Czq

Our general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

Today begins Trans People Take on the World, a bundle featuring 32 books by 32 trans authors in various genres! And Garden of Rotten Roses is part of the bundle! While technically Book 2 in World Without Love, you can read it first as an appetiser! 😉 itch.io/b/3352/trans... #BookSky #Books

A Mpls food shelf you can support during the upcoming surge (during a year where the number of households served has already gone up 84%) is Joyce Uptown. I love volunteering with them. www.joyceuptownfoodshelf.org/donations

“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”

They literally ruin everything they touch

Thanks to you, we're now at $202 of $375 for my dental surgery anesthesia. Help me raise the remaining $173 by November 2nd. Thank you for your generosity!

I have a headache from trying to explain to a small child that they cannot play Minecraft on the library computers if they don't know their email and password, concepts that did not exist when I was 6 and thus I have no idea how to articulate them. Fuck "digital natives," teach the fucking kids.

Nyri’s had to wait worryingly long to get this dental surgery—and what insurance she has doesn’t cover full anesthesia costs. Please chip in if you can. 💙