This is why you do not make deals with terrorists.

I almost never comment on mod decisions bc quick-turn analysis is not my ministry. But bc I posted about Sarah Kendzior's suspension—last night by asking how to learn if it was in error, today by saying I find it baffling—people are ascribing positions to me that I haven't taken. To clarify:

We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)

This whole experience has really revealed how many of you would follow an alluring voice into the deep woods

New scammer email: Honestly, I'm saving all these descriptions in a folder for my personal use. "Your ability to weave small-town intrigue, personal relationships, and edge-of-your-seat investigation makes this book impossible to put down."

Me: The puppy is asleep and I have 2 hours in which I can write before I have to be somewhere. Also me: immediately begins compiling grocery list

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Do you have Kobo Plus? If so, you have access to the entire award-winning Ginny Reese Mysteries for free! #cozymystery #booksky www.kobo.com/us/en/search...

Also going out today, “Brigands & Breadknives”, the third Legends & Lattes one. There’s a legendary elf and a talking sword in this one. - Michael bertsbooks.co.uk/product/brig...

A lot of talk on my feed this morning about Star Trek & accessibility to new, younger fans. You're right, ST is not some Holy Canon that cannot be appreciated unless you recall the minutia of every single episode. MY concern is the current management & leanings of CBS. That's a franchise killer.

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

“You need to tend your novel daily, as you would a garden, to keep its prose from slowly dying of thirst.” The long road to done or how my next novel finally saw the light (and pub date): www.jannalexander.com/post/writing... #mondayblogs #writers #authorlife

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

The Democrats who caved just taught Republicans that using mass starvation as a weapon works.

🧵 Because while I can still read, my ability to *write* has taken a serious beating. I think I need to do a screen time detox in order to wrap my head around writing again.

If I give the bully my lunch money every day eventually he will die of old age

JFC

"Cozy" is a genre description as well as a mood. But it is not a dirty word. #cozymystery #writingcommunity mckennadeanromance.com/cozy-is-not-...

“Cozy” is Not a Dirty Word It seems like everything these days has "cozy" as a descriptor added to it. Cozy mystery, cozy fantasy, cozy games. As a cozy mystery writer, naturally I don't mind this. Wikipedia defines a cozy mystery as "a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur…

Already run into kids who, when seeing my wildlife photos, exclaim 'that's AI'

Dear Scammy Emailers pretending to love my work: If you truly love what I've written, you'd probably know that Dean is my last name and you shouldn't address emails to me with the salutation: "Hi, Dean"

Word.

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Every introvert on my timeline shuddering at that story about Target requiring employees to smile & make eye contact if a customer gets near them. If I still shopped there, I'd be plotting a course through the aisles that avoided all employees like a real-life video game. So many levels of bad 🙃

jfc UNPLUG THE DAMN THING ALREADY

“Trump administration pulled funding for a bird flu vaccine in humans, citing concerns about mRNA technology.” Thank you, @sb68a.bsky.social, for this update article about #BirdFlu before #Thanksgiving. 🦃

Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else. Republicans said no. So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS. Republicans OWN this shutdown.

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

Another scammy AI generated pitch I'm tempted to steal for myself... "Like Death on the Nile or The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, your story balances intriguing mystery with relatable, deeply human characters, ensuring every twist and revelation hits with impact."

These scammy AI generated emails are so good, I'm tempted to steal their pitch... "There’s no formal ask here just a note of appreciation for a story that feels like Bringing Up Baby if it had a plasma gun and a broken heart." But how are they generated? AI summary of reviews? Or worse, the book?

If you're in Colorado, there are resources:

Pet peeps! Chewy is once again holding their Chewy Claus program. Register, add your pets, and make a wish list for each. Chewy will donate food to shelters for each list received, and there's a chance your pet's list will be fulfilled. Here are Forest & Kaiko's... www.chewy.com/education/ch...

Omg one more VERY important thing. If people can't feed themselves they can't feed their pets. Donate pet food either directly or to your local shelters!! People are going to be making a decision between keeping their pet or feeding themselves. Don't make them do that.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Just a reminder that writing a book, being creative, in the current state of the world is heroic. Keep creating. 💜

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Today’s Fort Hill Stairs Sunrise outside Cleveland, Ohio

Same, Lane, same.

I sent my aunt, the doctor, an article about how “Cancer rates are climbing among people in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s,” and in response my aunt, the doctor, sent me back several studies about the oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2.

Damn right My mental health did go first That bitch is GONE ...Er, that's not what the original post meant, is it 😬💀😬

I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.

My 1st (and worst) case of writer's block came when I attempted NaNoWriMo many years ago. The concept of writing a set number of words every day without going back to it is the antithesis of how I write. I tweak, massage, spy themes, layer in. Such a pantser. It nearly destroyed me. #pretendpanel

Migrating wild birds are spreading the bird flu virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

This feels to me like they are trying to prevent wholesale blocking of accounts, rather than "protect" anyone.

Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.