Look at this glorious beast. It’s Elmer, a fly river turtle and permanent resident at the fish store with his own mammoth tank. He’s got loads of fish friends and rizz for days. #turtlesky

What in The Crucible... 🤬

CBS, ABC and Disney should get the full treatment Target got. They are anti-FreeSpeech & openly pro-Fascist. Boycott them. Destroy their bottom line. See how long they can survive just MAGA viewership. Time to put your money where your love of the Constitution is. Do. Not. Support. Them.

It’s astonishing and scary to watch because generally when Trump meets resistance he eventually moves on — he doesn’t want to be seen taking the L. He tests the fences and goes away. Instead here, he tests the fences and they just… take the fences down for him.

ABC and Hulu are owned by Disney, in case you didn't know already. If the Jimmy Kimmel news freaks you out, as it absolutely should, maybe cancel Hulu and Disney+. help.hulu.com/article/hulu...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

ah, well

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

My mom keeps dinosaur figures outside to scare off raccoons who want to steal her garbage. She sent me a photo today. A large toad has found one of the dinosaur figures and befriended it. They are besties now.

Watching fish in an aquarium is nice, but have you tried watching a dog watching fish in an aquarium? #dogsky #fishsky #dogsofbluesky

Feeling seen

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Nah, I love my Jewish friends and neighbors. Cranky old pedophiles and genocide, not so much.

Mood 🍂 #booksky

if you can’t handle You don’t deserve me at my me at my

We got our dog a dog. It seems to be going all right. #dogsofbluesky

To support the Twin Cities community after the Annunciation school shooting last week, the incredible Anne Ursu is raising money to donate copies of my book Not Like Every Day: Finding Calm During School Lockdown Drills to local schools. Support, if you can, with donations or shares. #kidlit

For those of you that do the B&N preorder thing, Most Likely to Murder is eligible!

NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates. The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries

I think this very good boy watched a documentary on whales eating plankton and wanted to give it a go. #dogsofbluesky

Target’s outgoing CEO, Brian Cornell is set to become executive chair of the board. 💁🏾‍♀️ And leading a board as executive chair is lucrative, earning multi-million dollar packages when salary, bonuses, equity & benefits are all included. So in other words, keep boycotting.

In case this matters, I would like anyone who did this or anyone considering doing similar to know that this repainting meant a lot to my gay teenager.

The ghosts of his interned Japanese grandparents must be holding on to his legs.

And I just signed up for this 2-hour picture book workshop with @sandraproudman.bsky.social because a) Picture books are hard!, and b) $35 is a bargain. #KidLit4Ceasefire #picturebooks www.32auctions.com/organization...

One of the best writing workshops I ever took was with @olugbemisolabooks.bsky.social. I bet a critique would be so insightful. #KidLit4Ceasefire www.32auctions.com/organization...

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✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

LAST CHANCE! I have a webinar on Friday with @thewritingbarn.bsky.social. Join me for a deep dive into character-driven coming-of-age stories! Friday, Aug. 22 at 11am Central / 12pm Eastern... But if you can't make it live, you'll still get the recording! Just $35!

What's a peculiar, tiny joy you get from the internet? I follow a local no-kill shelter's available animals page and root for the old guys and weirdos to get adopted like I'm cheering for a favorite baseball team to make the playoffs.

Black women are being used as test subjects for the limits of abuse of power. I want people to not ignore this since this always happens and then when the abuse arrives at people's doorstep, they're surprised. CALL IT OUT NOW.

I love weird family stories, and @tanaudel.bsky.social 's in @reactorsff.bsky.social delivers: reactormag.com/in-connorvil...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s social media posts have been trending lately, and it’s all thanks to a Latina leading his digital strategy. Camille Zapata is the head of Newsom’s press office. She and her team have met Trump’s all caps posts with similar tone and cadence. www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

Everything is bananas, but take a sec and catch your breath

Yes please.

Finally read this gem this weekend and love it SO MUCH. ✨I immediately wished Lisa would teach a workshop on how to weave so much depth and history into such a fun, accessible story. I bet it makes a GREAT classroom read. #kidlit #middlegrade

Dean Cain is the Scott Baio of Supermen.

As Writer i highly recommend backwards outlining If you know where you’re at and where it ends, start with the ending incident. List everything that has to be true (location, characters, emotions etc) for that end scene to happen. Then use that to figure out the scene before Then repeat

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Quintessential summer movie 🍿

Before I quit writing last night I left myself this superduper helpful note at the end of the scene to help me jump back in today. I don't remember writing it, I'm not sure what it means, and there is no trashcan in the previous passage. 😶

#SanFrancisco, a 1-foot tsunami is not the same as a 1 foot tide. It is a wall of water in motion. It's the energy, not the height, that's dangerous. Don't go to the beach to watch this. #tsunami #LosAngeles #SanDiego, #Seattle

Anti-ICE art from Seattle, Washington. Source: @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social #radicalgraffiti #resistanceart #AbolishICE

Looking for excellent writing tips, esp #KidLit writing? Follow @cherylklein.bsky.social on Bluesky. I also recommend Cheryl's book on writing for young people, THE MAGIC WORDS. #WritingSky

this is so shameful oh my God

A bright spot of hope in dark times. news4sanantonio.com/news/local/a...