Another month and while I’m slowly digging my way out of a financial hole, I still need a little help to cover the rest of my rent, electricity, and health insurance. I don’t know what I would have done without the help I’ve already gotten 💖 ko-fi.com/A356F63/goal...

Almost every GoFundMe is a failure by the US government. Housing and healthcare shouldn’t be a popularity contest.

Survey alert! Dear Romancelandia: I’m doing a research study on podcasts about romance fiction and readership engagement! If you listen to/watch any podcasts about romance fiction, can you please complete this voluntary and anonymous survey? Thank you! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

One of the pleasures in life is being known as having knowledge that might help folks and they ask... because any nerd will tell you sharing knowledge is one of their fav things to do. Brought to you by (another) power outage & requests for backup power info: susankayequinn.com/2024/11/back...

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

I think it’s really weird that my neighbor is mowing his backyard at 10:45 pm. Fortunately, it’s a small backyard.

This is a slave bounty . It’s a slave bounty It’s run exactly like we did escaped slaves and railroad workers

Read for a Cause: 12 Essential Trans Books for the Trans Rights Readathon - Loud In The Margins loudinthemargins.com/books/read-f... #booksky #transbooks #lgbtq

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

I am alarmed by the trend I’m seeing in romance books to have the safe sex talk while getting hot and heavy and then opt not to use condoms. I hate it so I decided to roundup some favorite recent books with condoms used in m-f relationships 1/10

This is so excellent!!

This week's Wednesday snippet comes from A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence, which is out in ebook and paperback: books2read.com/honeymoonGrave #romancelandia

I come from generations of women who worked - teachers, nurses, farmers. One of my great grandmothers moved her entire family in with her sisters who were “spinster school teachers” when her husband was too ill to work and became a teacher after he died. We have always worked.

me, a broken record: if you are a comfy coastal lib or blue-stater who is not directly funding housing assistance for people who need to leave abortion-hostile geographies, i don't want to hear shit about "wHy Don'T tHeY jUsT moVe"

It's always a great day to support the work The Handbasket does, but today is an especially great day. www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

Y'all, this is my brother in law - he's doing better! He's at home! But there is so so much healing left to do because brains are delicate things that don't take well to being scrambled. If you can spare anything to help, I'd be so grateful. <3 I know shit is rough for everyone.

This one is a Blue Sky Special. Everyone keeps asking us if they can just buy the tiny freebie turtles (or multiple of the tiny freebie turtles) so now you can buy a Tiny Turtle Army in mystery colors! They all hatch from a cute randomly colored egg! thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4466...

They’re still lying to us. www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

One of the things I know I’m going to find in a Falon Ballard book is messy characters. The push pull between Allegra and Cord is so good. Both of them are constantly explaining why they can’t get into a relationship with the other while also finding excuses to spend time together.

The audiobook for Adele Buck’s Fake Flame is out today. Moniqua Plante’s narration is warm and friendly, perfect for this thoroughly adult romance. Buck quietly invites the reader to consider the performance of romance vs authentic connection.

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

What happened in Kansas is *exactly* why you need to get rid of Newsom at the primary. He will not protect trans people. He will not protect homeless people. He will not protect anyone.He considers outside of the cultural norm. ... that's Republican shit.

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades. In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

My law firm and I are fighting DOJ in court over in every one of the first 25 lawsuits it filed to gain access to your sensitive voting data. We will do the same in these next five. This is the most important fight right now and I intend to win. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I know it's been All Whistles All the Time over here, but since I now have so many cool comic book folks following me, gonna just put this right here in case any artistic folks want to start planning for @romancingthevote.com in July!

We had $18k in rent requests come in just today (so far). We’re anticipating needs at our neighborhood school to be over $100k again this month, but this time donations are WAY down. We don’t have enough money to cover everyone. Please help us keep our neighbors w/ young kids from being evicted!

Come on guys!! Please don’t stop sharing KONG! He has a rescue wanting to pull this precocious puppy! I NEED AN EAST COAST FOSTER! Please save his life! Repost him! #dogsofbluesky

I’m excited about Emma Barry’s next book, You, Me, & the Conspiracy. Peep that Oxford comma in the title 😍. Out November 10. Perfect as a treat after working hard to get out the vote for the midterms.

I just think it’s weird that in the past few days two different male presenting people (going by names and profile pics) have immediately defaulted to accusing me of calling them racist. Maybe they were confessing? Most likely, they didn’t like a woman challenging or correcting them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

At long last! Not that anyone was waiting! A new newsletter. Someone else's 2025 tumblr project inspired me, so I have a cooking project this year. Also, some current reads (shoutout to #bsbookclub):

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

I'm going to highlight a few of our printer wishlists tonight! (As always, if you hate amazon, please visit linktr.ee/WhistleWishl... for different ways to help!) This first wishlist belongs to a printer in Minnesota AND has protopasta on it, so win/win??? www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

I want to help Marie complete her utter domination by getting her the resources she needs. If we could print her tens of thousands of red cards, I have faith that she would distribute them ALL. So help us help Marie. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-whist...

Minneapolis is still occupied even if national media has looked away. Moon Palace is still running a book drive for Spanish language books. Help out by buying a few. (And skipping the coupon)

I am listening to Natalie Naudus narrate Mindy Hung’s The Glowing Life of Leeann Wu and I had forgotten how funny this book is.

Three days, slightly under $3k to go in order to fund WHAT ELEGANT STARS, a space opera & fashion anthology that I am deeply, deeply excited to write for ... if it gets funded. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Speaking of whistles... it's just a countdown now to see how many hours it takes us to cross 750,000 whistles. Shortly after that we'll cross 500,000 for February. When @courtneymilan.com told me we were going to ship half a million in February I was like "lol ok" but I should not have doubted her.

Me admiring my tightly plotted week calendar, sure it will lead to amazing productivity. Here comes @queerlyace.bsky.social with @kitrocha.com Prince of Storms is Read Now on NetGalley. Farewell calendar! Hello anticipated read. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

I picked up Jackie Lau’s The Professor Next Door again for a project I’m working on. I remember it as one of my favorite of Lau’s books, but I had forgotten just how fantastic it is. It’s hot, emotional, and fun. Go read it, or read it again.

honestly if you want to do something book-ish to support us, nothing gives us more joy than requesting our books at your library. (and also, you know, supporting your library!!!) also I mean, what better tribute to the Mercenary Librarians. 💓💃

I was lucky. My ideation came after I stopped taking a med (at dr’s direction) and was spending the weekend with friends. They hid the knives, managed my sleep meds, and kept me safe.

Also, @seanhollister.bsky.social has been hanging out with the Whistle Coven, and wrote a piece about it! The opening line is "Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan have a knack for drawing attention to a cause." Our chaos field has been immortalized. (This should be a gift link!!!)

One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.

I can’t wait to get my hands on the physical book (March 31). And yes, I will acquire the audio too, because it is such a good listen. And now I have to wait until 2027 for the second book. Link to my full review posted below.

this is a crucial point

When is Maggie the Undying book 2 coming out? I am screaming (complimentary)!

The advance listener copy of Ilona Andrews’s This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is 21 1/2 hours long. I’m 45 minutes from the end and I’m going to go back to the beginning and listen to it again. I need the physical copy in my hands.

In 2020 @totallydonna.kitrocha.com & I started a trilogy about 3 book nerds (w/ superpowers) who just want to build a library for their community but shitty tech bros suck so they have to keep doing crimes. Tor was kind enough to put book one on sale for $5.99! www.kitrocha.com/book/deal-wi...