I say this softly: if you have nothing but despair to offer, take care of yourself for a while. Share your worries quietly, privately. We all need support. When my account sometimes goes quiet, it's because I can't post anything heartening just then. But I shine a light whenever I can.

A positive support request for your senator: Baldwin, Murkowski Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Put 988 Crisis Line for LGBTQ+ Youth into Law www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Evening walk.

I'm going to be really honest here, friends. I am struggling. I've been out of work since June, what little income I had coming in has dried up, & the job market sucks. Anything you can spare is appreciated & literally keeps me housed. gofund.me/879fe4c84

Happy 21st night of September to all who celebrate! youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk

Virginia state elections are November 4th. Virginia is our opening electoral salvo against the administration--a place where control of the State House of Delegates was decided in 2023 by just 975 votes. If you can, please join us in contributing. www.grapevine.org/giving-circl...

1989. Crumb doesn't always get it right, but he definitely knew who Donald was decades before most of us did, and publicly spoke out against everything he stood for. As a pop culture historian I can tell you that's rare to find from that era. It's pretty much just Robert Crumb and David Letterman

💊 New antibiotic class Scientists have developed Novltex, a new antibiotic with strong activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria like MRSA. It’s cheaper to make and highly effective in lab tests. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #SciComm #Antibiotics #AMR 🧪

Time for second coffee. Decaf this time.

Washed lettuce, cooked potatoes and chicken for separate purposes. Office day lunches will be potatoes with lentil/quinoa soup, at home will be salad with chicken and apple and walnuts and feta.

Steamy Couple Treats includes “The Aid Station, 1916”; “In the Cold With You”; “The Magnificent Threesome” trilogy; “Vanilla”; “Twisted Beauty”; “No Sooner Met”; “Crimean Fairy Tale”; and “8:00 PM: Appointment Tee Vee.” 💙📚 #romancelandia books2read.com/steamycouple

i need you to look at these excerpts and tell me you see what’s really going on TELL ME YOU SEE IT

Saw a very meta Rossini opera production with @camille2000.bsky.social last night and got home close to midnight (!). I don't think I've been out so late in a while.

Looking for a silent movie? I have reviewed over 770 of them from every genre and era! All organic human brainspace, typos and all, no AI, here's my index: moviessilently.com/index-of-mov...

The Artpocalypse is nigh! @hvon.bsky.social showed us around the Artpocalypse Now! Art Market this morning. We’ll be here at Starbolt in Philly until 5!

Morning walk.

Here's a weird question. Please send it far and wide because I really need an answer, it's important. I'll definitely say why later. If you're attending Columbia University, if you know or have seen their magazine Logic(s), can you confirm if an Issue 23 has been published and when? Thanks!

Bonus picture from my morning walk.

Rossini was a real one. He used to compose while in bed (or traveling, or eating). He wrote 39 operas in 19 years, then retired. Excited to hear "Il viaggio a Reims" tonight!

Witch King is on sale right now in ebook for 2.99US across various ebook retailers (I don't know if this applies to other countries.) bookshop.org/p/books/witc...

For a limited time signed and personalized books are once again available from Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley MA! Orders open through October 31st. Books ship in November. More info here: www.odysseybks.com/morgenstern

THE BEWITCHING wants to lure you into a tale of supernatural suspense this fall. Come closer. 👻 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...

psst my fellow aging Xers some catnip for you

Rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire, but don't quite win. From the ashes, they choose hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life. Also there's banter and pastries. #Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐 #sapphicseptember books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...

“I saw the sun coming out,” said Frog. “I saw the birds sitting and singing in the tree. I saw my mother and father working in their garden. I saw flowers in the garden.”

Cowboy Bebop should have been on my list of best tv theme songs, too - Yoko Kanno is an amazing composer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-D...

@azteclady.bsky.social wrote about disability: herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/m...

For any reviewer friends, ARCs of Need Me are up on BookSirens and BookSprout. Grab a copy! booksirens.com/book/VY8HF0N... booksprout.co/reviewer/rev...

Hey writer types! I'm working on a presentation about revision. Anyone have questions/problems/other stuff they want to kvetch about with the process? Anyone want to talk briefly about what your process *is*?

Join our September 25 online celebration of REBUILD, a free service that connects formerly incarcerated individuals to a therapist of color. We’ll hear from program participants and graduates, give updates about the first four years of REBUILD, and discuss ways to support and continue the program.

Medical News Today: 'Using metformin within 3 months of infection may reduce long COVID risk' 'A recent study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases explored a possible intervention that could help with the prevention of long COVID.' www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/com...

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

A Study on Magic and Crystals is a story about a princess, a necromancer and a fairy going on a roadtrip and studying magic! They cuddle a lot on the road!! Coming on October 24th! Preorder now! Or request an eARC! Preorder: maybarros.com.br/a-study-on-m... eARCs: forms.gle/MpadTKhTshki...

I wrote something about disability. #RomBkBlog

#tdih 1868 Camilla Massacre, Albany, Georgia After being expelled from elected office, African Americans & a few whites bravely marched to attend a political rally. Fired upon by whites in town, & pursued as they ran. Followed by weeks of #votersuppression 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...

Morning walk.

Rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire, but don't quite win. From the ashes, they choose hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life. Also there's banter and pastries. #Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐 #sapphicseptember books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...

The best TV theme song is the Black Panther cartoon. No notes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jogj... The rest of my top 5: Dr. Who; M.A.S.H.; The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; original Battlestar Galactica.

it feels absolutely wild to be co-founding an arts collective with everything going on right now, but I truly believe art is liberation! we need spaces where we can express ourselves, where we can learn, grow, and create as a community. please help spread the word 🙏 www.nightjarartscollective.com

Going through the proofs for MERCUTIO (May 2026!). As is tradition, give me a page number between 3 and 378, and I'll give you a non-spoilery sentence from that page.

this is extremely fucking good, man. long live sentences that run honeysuckle right over the splintering fences of your mind and paragraphs that wheel like murmurations

also if anyone has any books to recommend which you think are in conversation with Sofia Samatar or which you think might have influenced her, please share!

Rebel guerillas fight a fascist empire, but don't quite win. From the ashes, they choose hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life. Also there's banter and pastries. #Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐 #sapphicseptember books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...

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