The local Military Industrial Complex™️ is making a racket today. Whatever they’re testing is rumbly.

Yes please thank you

As someone who grew up Catholic in a very rural Protestant area… yeah, that tracks 😂

What a great list, @bklynlibrary.bsky.social! It even includes a tag for Often Banned/Challenged titles. That search returns 30 titles, but many more targets are on the list. So much so that the Often tag could have scooped up at least 2/3 of the whole list. That’s no cause for celebration 😢

This thread is art

JD Vance--along with Peter Thiel--is an early investor in AcreTrader, a platform that facilitates the buying and selling of farmland to investors. Spiking farm bankruptcies could earn him quite a bit of money.

A couple months ago, @slj.com asked me to choose an upcoming title to review and interview the author to go along with my piece on notable upcoming YA titles. You can check out my questions for @aritison.bsky.social and her thoughtful answers here:

Reallllllllly do not know who my brother thinks is helping him harvest and preserve this garden because my sister in law and I only have the 4 hands between us and there are only so many hours in a day. There are like 20 different types of plants. 42 tomato plants! An ACRE-LONG ROW OF POTATOES.

Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This scene flashes through my head so very often.

I was in a workshop Friday where a super smart librarian said “AI is only trying to tell you what you want to hear” and I’ll be damned if that plus this doesn’t sum the whole thing up really nicely.

[U.S. Postal Service] Me: *hands over change of address form* Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub” Me: I live there now Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub Me: Yay

Hello! Are you thinking "hmm... what I'd like on this Friday afternoon is to hear a conversation about scary books"? Then boy are you in luck! PRH Fest recordings are live. You can listen to me ask questions and get fabulous answers about TERRIFYING stories here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKBg...

I see the Blink YA imprint has decided to double down on being absolutely awful.

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For my fellow writers and publishing people, I went long on how mad I am about nonfiction authors not getting paperbacks + the NYT moving its nonfiction paperback list from weekly to monthly. www.talkscratch.com/list-full-of...

Parents: we hate the tech Teachers: we hate the tech Local admin: we hate the tech Tech companies: here’s lots of tech! Media: whoa so much cool tech Politicians: thanks for the donation let’s get tech in schools!

I want a web-based CV, like a portfolio online where I can link to my freelance work. Is Wix the best option? Canva? Is there something better out there for this?

Winkler...Blinker...Thinker? 🤔 Tinker! Tinker v. Des Moines! Learn about a landmark case for students’ free speech with Lisa, Aaron, and Mr. Charles in episode 1 of Know Your Rights University at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oHOpzjDynY

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Good bit of rain, but not enough to overflow the creek and make it to our pond yet. Soon, I hope. Also, the bug was there first and the butterfly was a bully about it.

Rural librarianship is being gifted a tray of 18 Bradley heirloom tomato plants from a community member whose family has passed these seeds down for generations.

My therapist says: 'Don't look away' does not mean 'constantly stare at' Happy Friday. We will win.

Would be cool if “president’s in a bad mood” didn’t trigger my anxiety but I guess that’s 2026 for you

We could just ... not let them do this.

If you didn’t even lay eyes on the source then why are you citing it???

This is an excellent over view of the dangerous warming period we’ll likely be entering in the next 12 months. Share it widely. Corp news will not acknowledge this increased danger until it’s too late in order to keep markets stable. That is their sole job. open.substack.com/pub/chrisglo...

See also: Arkansas

Ahhh, the sweet background sound of legislators being argumentative in state committee meetings. There is really something wrong with me.

Turns out, I don’t need to use it to understand it and I can do my job just great without it!

Super cool.

Outside Merriam Webster's HQ. 🤣 @merriam-webster.com

This book is soooo gooood. Not an easy read, but extremely easy *to* read, like all in one sitting. Tightly written, big feelings, big questions, space for critical thinking and no being told what to think. Trusts teen readers to figure it out.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Friday evening. I’m scarfing down tater wedges outside the fanciest house in the county, about to take photos of a girl in a dress worth three car payments. Ahhhh, prom season.

🥳 This is going to be such a useful session. I’m still planing to be in attendance, just can’t guarantee it and I’m so glad it worked out like it did. Teen services forever 🫶🏻

Yesterday I learned that the head photo on the website for PEN America’s World Voices Festival is of Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, and yours truly. Hell yeah. Read Horror Movie. Read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Read House of Bone and Rain. Long live horror.

I wish my kids were old enough to watch Pulp Fiction

Heyyyyy Bay Area folks! I'll be celebrating the launch of my book Muñeca at Pegasus Books, one of my favorite bookshops since I was a Cal student. I'd love to see a bunch of you there. pegasusbookstore.com/gomez

I have never brought this up to a single person, no matter where on the political spectrum, who didn’t think this was a good idea. That Walmart parking lot is *blistering* in August.

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

Same actor … I mean woman:

#Artemis II 🚀 Mission Commander Reid Wiseman after being collected from the Orion Spacecraft “On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles”

In 15 minutes, I’ll officially be 40. Saw Charles Wesley Godwin tonight, and forgot my ID in the car so I had Xs on my hands. 😆 Fantastic show. Was my first time at The Hall, too. Definitely will go back; it’s a great size.

“Tell the world... to keep this energy going. Let's invest in togetherness.” ~Victor Glover, Artemis II crew member

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Pretty much precisely my experience yesterday morning.

Shingles vaccines make the astronauts’ bodies radiate light. Thank you for asking.