Note to aliens: sending me someone who looked exactly like a character from my book would absolutely work on me, btw. #Pluribus

Honestly wild that we regularly use the word "walkie-talkie" with a straight face. English is a majestic language.

nuremberg trials is no longer the moderate position. the scarecrow trials from the dark knight rises when bane takes control of gotham is now the moderate position

“Why do authors always—“ I’m gonna stop you right there. Because it sells books. Because it sells books! If a large group of authors is consistently doing something, it’s because it works. You can hate whatever it is, but don’t shit on authors for making business decisions.

Florence + the Machine albums as gender euphoria

Highly recommend preordering yourself a little treat in April and then forgetting about it until it arrives on your (unemployed, and therefore cutting back on book-buying) door

I think about this movie at least once every few months. It's just kind of there, in my psyche, forever.

Can we stop reducing narratives to tropes? Stories are so much more than the sum of their tropey parts. Or maybe I'm the only one bothered by it, in which case, as you were. 😊

YESSSSSSSS OMG!!

Since the timeline could use some more positivity, I'm here to say: the piri-piri chicken & smoked mozzarella raviolis from Dave's Fresh Pasta in Somerville are out of this world

“It’s not an honor to be on the forefront of social commentary that makes most people with privilege uncomfortable,” she says. A hero whose work just made us hope to be better at being human.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

Glad I made it my mission to grab this when I was in the UK over the summer because it still doesn’t look like it has a US pub date. Which is a shame, because this SLAPPED SO HARD. @ianmcdonald.bsky.social never misses.

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

As of now, the book has been on sub for a year and I've been unemployed for 2+ months. Please, universe, let me receive a Good Email.

Aurora in Somerville, MA

Kerry & Cas from the WIP. Fun fact, Cas is actually very reserved and undemonstrative most of the time. Only that weird but sweet human guy from Earth makes him smile like this :)

My health insurance is going up $300 per month next year. Could be a lot worse, but I still feel a little nauseated since, yknow, I still don't have a job. Thanks for nothing, you fucking cowards!!

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

Unreasonably excited to hear Mongolian in ep 2 of #Pluribus

Now this is how you write a couple fighting. #iwtv

I am incredibly, ravenously excited for the next season of Interview With the Vampire, but having just finished a rewatch of season 2, I also just want 8 hours of a camera following Assad Zaman. Episode 5, goddamnnn.

Proud of my city.

happy anniversary of Stupid Lake getting its name [citation needed]

Oh, and it's #n7 day?? Here, have this piece from 2023, one of the stupidest things I've ever drawn #garrusshep #masseffect

Kerry & Cas from the WIP. Fun fact, Cas is actually very reserved and undemonstrative most of the time. Only that weird but sweet human guy from Earth makes him smile like this :)

you'll definitely wanna go and make sure because turns out they had engaged the nanny locks for everything on mine

"Cuomintang" still makes me giggle uncontrollably. Also I sent this to all my friends and none of them got it, where are my Chinese history nerds at

When you recount this election day:

DING DONG, THE DICK IS DEAD!!!!

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

New awareness campaign

I have informed Kirby is the most handsomest boy who has ever lived

Lot of nightmarish stuff happening right now, but weather-wise it's been an absolutely gorgeous fall here in New England

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Our porch skeleton partied a little too hard last night

Halloween should be a multi-month season and Christmas should be about 12 hours

The thing is Usha can't even make him sleep on the couch because

Hon hon hon joyeaux ween de hallo

This egalitarian view as he describes it is probably the most profound thing I took out of my Catholic upbringing. I don't think this was actually what the Catholics were trying to teach me!! but it's how I understood it, and no take-backsies. Anyway, Stellan rules.

Happy Halloween!!!

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

The Trump administration is lying about who they are targeting in New England, and the Globe Spotlight team has the receipts.

what we need is a little app that is as graphically mesmerizing as disk defgragmenter was, but just spends 4 hours once a month going through your OS turning off every single fucking AI thing it can find

it will never not be odd that 80 percent of america lives in cities but the only real americans are the rural ones

Officially 100 pages into the first draft of the new book, WOO

Between THE WEST PASSAGE and THE STARVING SAINTS, we are living in a golden era for books about religious orders doing unspeakable things with honey.