Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

Favorite reads of 2025. @johnpicacio.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social @alixeharrow.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @svartjagr.bsky.social @mhayinde.bsky.social @daanis.ca @nghivo.bsky.social @weyodi.bsky.social @mosesoseutomi.bsky.social @aparnaverma.bsky.social

I fucking love this post so much you can't understand, I quote it whenever I can

Babysitter.

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HO!

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday

I really do not care if the guy who has raped kids is from my political party. My moral philosophy is that you don't rape kids, and there is nothing you can do that earns you a get-out-of-raping-kids-free card.

It’s my birthday today so you have to share my stupid lil newsletter. That’s the law. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

This week, I turn 43, in a time where Mar-a-Lago face is dominating the headlines and I’m increasingly confused about what aging even looks like. www.patreon.com/posts/146014...

Remember, under the Trump administration, you can celebrate the birth of Jesus; it’s legal now. But also Mary and Joseph would have gone bankrupt delivering our Lord and Savior. Just before they got kidnapped by ICE agents. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

Dingus of the week. Read it and weep. www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu

A headline for the ages! (And an interesting story to boot)

In her new book “Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies,” film critic @kristenklopez.bsky.social says “I want people to look at movies, past and present, more deeply” ... and that's **always** my jam We talked! Gift 🔗

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

I read the Cheryl Hines book so you don’t have to www.patreon.com/posts/144407...

Ahem @lilyvalley.bsky.social

Now for some sports news... (this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)

COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️

Not a kangaroo court, a hamster tribunal www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

If you like cute cats with stupidly brilliant names, photographed amongst very pretty Oxford architecture, this article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is for you: oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

Agreed.

Here is my argument that the pundits are wrong. You absolutely can run a socialist in middle America and win. www.patreon.com/posts/143343...

Temu Kristi Noem was back at it this week www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

I wrote about my IUD hell and how everything feels so hard even when it shouldn’t be www.patreon.com/posts/142830...

@lilyvalley.bsky.social Came across this on @annaleen.bsky.social page and thought you might be interested.

It’s time to reclaim frogs. In 2016, frogs were a symbol of alt right hate, now they’re being used as satire against authoritarianism. www.patreon.com/posts/best-w...

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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The man who looks like a non-denominational youth pastor seconds from being discovered on Grindr wastes all of our time this week lyz.substack.com/p/too-sauced...

Cool. "Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days" interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...

If you need a break from your Tuesday menty b, or if you just want to learn more about the weird shit I get up to in my free time, have I got a distraction for you! An whole doc about The Galbatross Project, female bird science, and our quest to triumph over some toddlers www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

Please someone fire me for these jokes. I’m so tired. lyz.substack.com/p/dictators-...

ICYMI. Here's the glorious cover for The Sourdough Compendium (3 mosaic collections: Sourdough, Bitterwood Bible, Tallow-Wife). Pre-order links are here titanbooks.com/72850-the-so... not all are working due to circumstances beyond my control but B&N, Waterstones and the 'zon have preorder pages.

In 2019, I interviewed Charlie Kirk. I asked him about TPUSAs funding and he got mad and ended the interview. lyz.substack.com/p/the-day-i-...

Baby's first trilogy finally together. 😊

Look at our gal--so freshhh! The majesty, the jewellery, the braids. The authority, the defiance, the gaze. The casual step-on-me energy. Esheme hive, rise--this is our time!

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Mythopoeic Award-winning and -nominated poetry and short fiction from @theodoragoss.bsky.social! SNOW WHITE LEARNS WITCHCRAFT: mythicdelirium.com?page_id=7173... IN THE FOREST OF FORGETTING: mythicdelirium.com/our-books-10... SONGS FOR OPHELIA: mythicdelirium.com/our-books-11...

Wow.

Not a lot we can agree on these days, but Dustin Burrows being a weasel is one of them. lyz.substack.com/p/focus-on-b...

This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)

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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

Okay I wrote about it. lyz.substack.com/p/we-are-tra...

My publisher released four of my novels with new gorgeous covers by the great Yuko Shimizu. They’re calling it the LaValle Quartet though each book stands alone. Just look at these things! They’re in bookstores now. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/LVQ/t...

Boosting once again. I've got a little over a month to go before the procedure and at the moment, I've acquired a few more symptoms that put how many doctors I'd need present up in the air