btw this book is the only time I have ever gotten on the internet and asked an author what texture their cover had. the sensory book HAS A SENSORY COVER, pure genius

I'm not shy promoting my writing here & have zero shame of it. It don't feel bad, it feels great. I'm showing y'all my work I devote my life to so you can hear about it & help me out. I'm not high in the hierarchy of writers getting publicity, I still feel I have value so it's a joy to do it myself.

My friend is english teacher. She asks me how I with pre-intermediate level manage to read books & she has trouble with it. It's simple: she buys classics & reads to practice language, while I buy what I like & my goal is to read book itself. That's why she gets bored, while I stay until last page.

My contribution to the discussion about social media platforms is that everyone on the left should read this book www.upress.umn.edu/978081669864...

timeline cleanse

It is worth noting that advice like this overly focuses on individual effort compared to systemic changes and government policies like equal pay, higher minimum wages, affordable housing, union benefits, as well as funding for childcare, public education, and public transportation.

Bluesky's core insight, IMO: signing up is as easy as signing up for Twitter was, despite the fact that it's actually built on a decentralized and open source protocol (unlike Twitter). Of course, "most users have no idea Bluesky is very different from Twitter under the hood" also has downsides.

i have a brand and my brand is living my life in a way that everyone wonders what I'm about to do next, and no one can guess but they all know it'll probably be unhinged

cat has been reading Terry Pratchett

once again stating i have been reporting on/researching actual war criminals, right-wing extremists, and genuinely evil tech bros and companies since 2010. i am not actually a naive idiot who can be tricked into thinking an evil person isn't evil because they were pleasant to me at a conference.

So should universities like Stanford, UCSF, Hopkins take back people who have presided over an unprecedented destruction of science & public health in the US, particularly Bhattacharya, Prasad & Makary? No. When this is over, there should be no going back to the places they once called home.

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

PUT DOWN THE AI AND PICK UP A FUCKING BOOK: EPISODE 5 💙📚🧪 I present to you: "Black holes are the best laid edges in the universe!!!; or, The Edge of Space-Time is here to remind you that the universe is queer, fantastic, and out of control in the best possible ways" earrings by Ebony London

my deep dark secret that I have spent many years unpacking with my therapist is that I am, in actual fact, weirdly good at capitalism. I just try to mostly use these skills to convince people to help fund whistle covens or wacky voting rights auctions and, on rare occasions, my books. lolol

An LLM is nothing like a sewing machine, and only a dickhead who devalues textiles could even come up with that. Every single garment is handmade, from the cutting up. We have been attempting to automate for literally a century. It’s not happening. Circular knits are about the pinnacle.

Why promote my books when I can post about what I'm eating, and then people are so fascinated they visit my profile, and see my pinned post, and then buy my books. (Which is a way of reminding people to pin that promo post... a fair number of my reposts are people's pinned posts!)

ok this one reminds me that Casanova met Catherine the Great and according to his memoirs, they talked about ... calendar reform.

"Akhmatova was a bad mom who neglected her son in the care of his grandmother, what a hypocrite writing poems about missing him when she didn't visit" Akhmatova. Had tuberculosis. And spent half a year in a sanitarium. After TB killed most of her siblings!!! You can't raise a 3-y-o like that!!!

If you assume you're helpless, you will be. If you assume *everyone* is helpless, you won't even check if it's true, or if people are already fighting back, digging deep, or building new in ways you assumed were impossible! Cultivating a discipline of looking for cracks lets you unlearn helplessness

new month, same #UrgentNeed for Sonia #BlackCrowdFund #MutualAid 💸 💕 💸

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

There's different ways to talk about wins re: MN this winter, & some of the victories ought to be relished & expanded upon. It is also true that we REALLY need to remember & center what happened to hundreds of our neighbors, what conditions they've been put through, & where they are now.

They're whitewashing the projected millions of deaths as a result of the cuts to aid.

yes to everything in this thread. and man, I had real mixed feelings on Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (it was not the book for an era of no media literacy) but Sunrise on the Reaping was so exquisitely brutal in the context of this thread.

In large part because there is no way to make money here, so there simply aren’t incentives to produce a ton of clickbait, but also to an enormous extent, we’re not sloppified BECAUSE the community is overwhelmingly hostile to generated content.

If you get self-conscious about posting repeated promo, let me give you all my long-standing promo-hack, for free. (I'm not currently using it, but I will be soon! lol) This is a site without an algo, but also one that does not punish links. So what you want to do is make a strategic thread.

can we stop allowing asinine techbros to hijack language and policy around the body, ffs. Implicit in the idea of biohacking is this deeply ableist notion that you can "hack" your way out of age, disability and illness. Can we please stop.

Speaking of authors promoting books, I have a collection of flash fiction called Muneera and the Moon. It’s queer, Palestinian, folkloric, poetic. The highest praise I’ve received: it was included in the mini libraries of the Palestine solidarity movement. www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

Me, when Sergei grabbed an entire lumpia roll and would not release it.

Soon to be appearing in midterm political ads for Democratic candidates nationwide. Thanks, Darnold. 🙏

I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.

We are on a platform with no algorithm which means that we have to post repeatedly because otherwise people who weren't scrolling during the last post didn’t see it. also I spent years writing the book and will post about it as much as I damn well please lol

'Senior Army officers reacted with anger...to the news of General George’s dismissal' The reason for the dismissal? Gen. Randy George disagreed with Hegseth blocking the promotions of 2 women and 2 black Army officers. Arguably the more consequential firing today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Just feel like it’s a dick move to “well, actually,” people’s lived experiences. And regardless of whether or not one saw it live (schools kids!) or not (our parents, younger sibs), the news media played that Challenger explosion clip ON REPEAT and it was sad and traumatic.

Discreetly placed security cat. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

As the wonderful @foxrook.bsky.social got me into Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings books, I want to make sure they see this. Also, it’s beautiful. This illuminated page alone would likely draw me (if I were otherwise unfamiliar) into Assassin’s Apprentice.

JUST IN: Hegseth reportedly tried to buy defense stocks before the Iran war. If true, that’s a massive conflict of interest—profiting off decisions that send troops into danger. And we’re supposed to call that coincidence? Senators want answers. Everyone should. #iran #BlueSky #LawSky #PoliSky

c'mon folks, let's go Full Medici (Patron of the Arts) on my good writing pal and shining role model who Gits It Done on the daily and on a ridiculously skinny budget. Donate/buy something if you can, promote in any case!

Thanks to you, I was able to assemble a new work computer last year. Now, I'm fundraising for improved sound gear and other necessities for my workspace. So, if you'd like to support my work by getting me something specific, take a gander at the wishlist over at buff.ly/khgh0v0 Thanks for your help!

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

MAGA women and non-white people consistently fail to recognize that they’re always first to get thrown under the bus

You have to finish it. Whether it's a mini comic or graphic novel. You gotta. And do it again. At your own pace and with your own creative decisions of course. There's really no one right way to do it; ultimately its the way you want to do it. Also have fun! Be indulgent! And HAND BREAKS

The point is not the quality of writing. The point is the person the student became by engaging original sources, making decisions about what constituted a robust source base, understanding the limits of their methods and sources, *analyzing* things - and by crafting ideas in writing. #academicsky

Thank goodness we have @ag.state.mn.us let's re-elect @keithellison.bsky.social & keep him!

Ask people to mask at your events. Not suggest. Just make the events masked.

NYT says the word false! “President Trump on Tuesday stepped up efforts to promote his false claims of widespread voting fraud, signing an executive order of questionable constitutionality seeking to create a national list of citizens that would determine voting eligibility & restrict mail ballots”

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

This is genuinely so important. Also, TERFs aren't just alienating trans women. It's still TERF behavior to shame trans men (or nonbinary mascs) for their masculinity when they are not complicit in or benefitting from patriarchy. It's trans-exclusionary and out of touch.

Learn to Howl is my COMPLETE werewolf trilogy! Allie didn't know she was a werewolf. Now she's on a crash course to Learn to Howl books2read.com/learntohowl/ books2read.com/BayingtheMoon books2read.com/CompanyofWol... itch.io/c/5930931/le...