Had a conversation with a colleague today about vampire and werewolf movies/lit and we somehow conjectured that Twilight is really just a YA fanfic of Underworld.

Saw a tow truck towing an 18 wheeler on the freeway while on my way home from work. 6 year old me was pretty stoked.

Lying in bed with a purring cat on my chest and my spouse snoring gently next to me is the middle age postindustrial trve kvlt harsh noise wall. #harshnoise #noise

AI at its peak.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Share (one of) your favourite black-and-white films.

Hey #BookSky. Can anyone out there tell me if there are any books that fit the following criteria? (Literally asking for a friend) - LitFic - Female MC 40s, unmarried, no children - Preferably POC Snarky and bad faith responses will get you blocked, so don’t do that, please 😃

It’s a good thing that Ryan Walker does a lot for the community, because it probably helps to offset that he’s doing Jack shit for the @sfgiants.com on the mound. #TogetherWereEmbarrassing #SFGiants

I’m going to make this a video at some point but I’m saying this here and being done because it’s honestly just angering and scaring and frustrating me.

If the old guard of the Democratic Party and American Liberals want to stop fascism, then they need to move to the left and be actively ANTI-fascist as opposed to passively accepting reactionary politics as legitimate discourse. Oh that AND advocating for socialism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The House Antifascist Activities Committee has an interesting ring to it. #antifa #McCarthyism #RedScare

Reading Marx teaches me cool German words like Sichselbtsgleichbleigen (self-equivalence. #BookSky #Marx

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

My guest on Writers' Block tomorrow will be writer and artist Mike Curato, discussing his new graphic novel, Gaysians. Mike has a reading and signing at Odyssey Bks on Thurs., 9/18 @7. Listen to Writers’ Block on WHMP.com Mondays at 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. #Booksky

Finished My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh. Just wow. Stunningly vivid, propulsive historical fiction. A layered narrative about national liberation, survival and the multiple ways in which one can experience love romantically, for family, and for nation. #BookSky #Palestine #SaharKhalifeh

Bruh. Watching sportsball gets me way overstimulated. 😂 #BeatLA #SFGiants #MLB

Spouse: Why did you buy three more copies of Ulysses? Me: Those are annotated guides and criticism of Ulysses. Spouse: Hold up. You’re reading three more books to understand one book? Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Spouse: 🤔😐🫤😑 #BookSky #JamesJoyce #Ulysses

Just a random Wednesday: - My San Diego Library SFF book club was cancelled because of budget cuts. 😢 - I went to the Padres game and they lost 2-1 to the Reds - Charlie Kirk was shot and killed - I ate 15 Impossible Nuggets for dinner #Random

CR: My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh. I ordered this a month ago anticipating that I’d have it done by now for a book club happening this Saturday. Welp it only arrived yesterday so I need to finish nearly 400 pages in 3 days. Fun times. #BookSky #LitFic #Palestine

IN FACT YES during World War II, the Armed Services Edition of the book, distributed to the US military, caused the formerly modestly-selling book to catapult back into the US consciousness and become a perennial bestseller, and required reading in schools. Fitzgerald was too dead to enjoy it.

😂 #BookSky wordsmarts.com/irregardless...

A bookish acquaintance once told me that they were impressed w/ the amount of nonfiction I read along with my interests in fiction to which they said “Nonfiction is like eating your vegetables. I have to do it, but I would rather not.” Looking them in the eye “I’m a vegan.” #BookSky

doctors I trust more than RFK Jr

Chubb insurance can't claim to be a "steward of the earth" while insuring methane terminals that hurt people and planet. Chubb: it's match point and the ball is in your court. 🎾 Listen to communities and stop insuring Freeport LNG NOW! #ChubbAtTheOpen #USopen

CR: Grundrisse by Karl Marx. Hilarious that after recently completing Joyce’s Ulysses this feels like a beach read. I’m likely even going to finish this book in less time than it took me to finish my journey through Dublin with Mr. Bloom. #BookSky #Marx #Grundrisse

Finished The Once and Future King by T.H. White. I was assigned this in high school and admittedly did not fully appreciate White’s poignant societal commentaries through his retelling of the Arthurian myth. Considering the current situation of world politics this is a pertinent work. #BookSky

Hello #BookSky! I’d love to hear about your biggest flex as a reader. Flex being broadly defined as any goal that was challenging or that you feel proud of. Did you hit a high books read goal? Did you read a huge dense tome or complete a long series? How about scoring a rare edition of a book?

#BookSky #WeirdHorror #HorrorLit #TenebrousPress

The last book of Weird Endless Summer Vacation, @hazelzorn.bsky.social's REEF MIND, is out next Tuesday! Preorders are shipping out as they come in, so hit our webstore to get this Eco-Body-Horror-Pocalypse novella, or any other Weird summer titles you may have missed: store.tenebrouspress.com

CR: Among Friends by Hal Ebbott. Intrusive thoughts, suspicions, betrayal. Just a nice relaxing autumn getaway in New York country house shared by two very pleasant families. #BookSky #LitFic #BOTM

Someone wrote a letter to @economist.com drawing a comparison between Captain Ahab and Donald Trump. I guess that means that the global economic system is the ocean, Trumpism’s enemies are Moby-Dick & the US is the Pequod. In 3 years hoping to be Ishmael on a floating coffin. #BookSky #MobyDick

😂 Getting blocked by a published writer because I had the audacity to draw a comparison between Dazai’s No Longer Human and Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation was not on my bingo card. They even threatened to write me an ESSAY about how “majorly wrong” I was. Bruh I can’t 💀 #BookSky

Okay, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

There’s a new book called Squat the City about using artistic endeavors to fight for housing. When I first saw the title I thought it was a book about weightlifting. I am so old and not punk anymore. 😂

Looks like dense, dark, and unhinged were the common themes for my reading in August. #BookSky #TheStoryGraph #AugustWrapUp #OtessaMoshfegh #OsamuDazai #EmilyAdrian #JamesJoyce #SallyRooney

CR: Moderation by Elaine Castillo. 20 pages in and this is already hitting so close to home for me as a Filipino who grew up in the Bay Area witnessing the rise of the tech industry. Words are not being minced. #BookSky #ElaineCastillo #FilipinoAmericanLit

#bookban #UCP

I did it guise! It took me two months, but I finally made it through Joyce’s Ulysses (My head hurts). Now onto all the study guides and encyclopedias of annotations to help deepen my understanding of the work. w00t! #BookSky #LiteraryModernism #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #PoldyBloom

Neurotypical societal norms is a set of paved roads and expectations to walk along those specific roads to reach a specific destination. Myself and the neurodivergent homies are basically walking off those set paths towards whatever destination seems right for us and folks want to hate on that.

It’s Saturday 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.

If you see this, post a robot Doraemon

My favorite genre of literature is “300+ pages where nothing happens.” CR: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney #BookSky #LitFic #LiteraryFiction

My highlight of the San Diego Book Fest. Thanks so much to @mychal3ts.bsky.social for letting me go fanboy mode. Dude is just as polite, humble, and genuine IRL as he is on the interweb. #BookSky