On TikTok, I gave away a custom spicy short story to a random follower when I reached a certain milestone number of followers. Would something like that interest the #booksky community? Is 1k too ambitious of a goal? 🌶️📚

Fellow PA residents! Dave McCormick is holding telephone town halls on April 29 and May 14 at 7pm. Let’s join together and remind the senator of our constitutional rights! RSVP here: outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/i...

Are you into food play? Possibly (or definitely) bisexual? I think you’ll like my book 🥰 Free chapter of my debut #spicyromance novel on coroladerosa.com ❤️‍🔥🌹 #booksky

#spicyromance lovers, check out coroladerosa.com for a free chapter of my new book— coming soon! 🌹 It’s a couple-to-throuple story featuring food play. 🍰 Get ready to get messy. #booksky #tbr #writersky #bisexual

NEW: DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED. @makenakelly.bsky.social with the scoop www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

Come see us this week at @awpwriter —We will be at booth 1057 with our titles as well as $2 used books, & we’ll be hosting author signings all three days ✨ If you’re a QP author that will be here & didn’t check in about an author signing, reach out & we’ll add you 🥰

happy #MAYHEM Day to all who celebrate. paws up! i am cringe but i am free 🖤🌈❤️‍🔥 so far loving Vanish Into You and Zombieboy very much 🧟‍♂️

everyone always talks about the multiple drinks thing (#bipride) but what about the multiple napkins thing like when you used a napkin but it isn't really dirty and then you grab another one because you forgot you had a 25% used one and then your surface is covered in napkins

so one of my favorite things about my paid substack tier is that it’s basically just made up of friends who want to support me & my writing so i send them the silliest most unhinged embarrassing content and it’s so freeing and fun

doom scrolling the past couple weeks has been so bad for me and my writing 🫠

thinking about this p much since i first reposted. currently #amreading Tropic of Cancer. enjoying it but also feel unsure whether i fully “get it” and have actually lol’ed over a sentence i basically did not understand at all at least once

On (Pantry) Stock & (Kitchen) Timers, an experimental, hybrid collection of poetic essays, by Jen Schneider is now available for preorder! This hybrid work uses lists to simultaneously subvert and make sense of day to day mundanity. ✨ link in bio

I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:

opening the document to see if i can remember what the hell i was writing and attempt to jump back in #writersky

what you can expect as a free subscriber to my #substack is pretty much: self-promotional posts and some snippets of paid posts paid subscribers: access to my more embarrassing thoughts & the chance to support a non-famous writer sorry? nataliedepaz.substack.com

this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

what could a bunch if teenagers possibly know that could know that… you know what, i might stay off planes for a minute

this has been on my mind lately. too real

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

We’re open for manuscript subs! We are fee free, we accept all genres, and take submissions through Submittable. We’re most interested in the weird, uncomfortable, unstable, & offputting, especially when it encompasses our mission statement to amplify marginalized voices.

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

🚨 The Trump admin is going strip parole from everyone who came through the CHNV program who hasn’t yet applied for another status. Could be over 100,000 people. It’ll make them undocumented, with no work authorization, and they’ll be sent notices starting removal proceedings. They came here legally.

okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

weaponized incompetence has taken on a whole new layer of meaning

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

"For science purposes, 'women' are likewise defined as large reproductive cells encased in sexy hourglass meat globs."

something a little different from me! i was on a brand new podcast called I Can’t Hustle Any Harder than This talking about how digital products aren’t as easy of a side hustle as some might try to make them seem check out the video here: youtu.be/hUEQavG51C0

watched the clouds go by today in awe then got a news update that he’s sending undocumented migrants to fucking guantanamo

always feels good to go to an open mic and be in community with the other local poets and artists 🥲 @poetrylounge412.bsky.social

someone on tt recommended subscribing to the library of congress and that has helped me keep up with the scary bills being introduced. there are currently at least 4 that try to ban #abortion: HR7, HR722, HR 629, and HR78 pls look them up and call your reps. and this is just one issue ❤️‍🩹

#ootd from yesterday 🖤 #vintage nightgown from Jackie Whoa Vintage styled for goth night at Brillobox. and yes i took my hot chocolate on the dance floor 🥰 #stylesky

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AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."

if you're in the #pittsburgh area, here are some phone numbers you may find useful to have your concerns formally documented. John Fetterman’s phone number 202-224-4254 Dave McCormick phone number 202-224-6324 Summer Lee’s Phone Numbers 202-225-2135

i have talked to writers about how looking up synonyms gives us imposter syndrome. but then there’s also this thing about feeling like a synonym isn’t *my* word, like it’s not well-worn by me, i don’t have the right relationship with that synonym i need to get to know it first, connotations and shit

everyone should read books that make them feel kinda stupid. read stuff with words you gotta look up, it's good for you.

blogging takes a lot of energy (for me) and i feel guilty about not posting to my #substack enough but i’m currently handwriting a draft in my journal: Why I Love #Smut 🤓 (so many reasons) #booksky

last night when i got home and realized who wrote the cover blurb for #onyxstorm the tears just started welling up all of a sudden 🥹 @rebeccayarros.bsky.social 🐉 @christopherpaolini.bsky.social

Multiple UFW union offices received this in the mail this week. Thanks for reaching out!

is there a bluesky-specific name for #bluesky posts ? i keep calling them “tweets” 😅 should they be butterflies ? wing flaps ?? flutters ??? 🦋

had a lovely time at @riverstonebooks.bsky.social’s happy hour release party for #onyxstorm 🥲 needed this bright spot today 🖤

thanks for the warm welcome bluesky 🦋 a bit about me: i’m a poet with my first full-length collection forthcoming from @querenciapress.bsky.social this year. i also write romance (pen name pending) and have my first novel in the works to be self published 💖

seeing the dumpster fire that was “keep politics out of booktok” taught me that reading isn’t enough. critical thinking needs to be taught, needs to be practiced. #booksky

This is the cowardice of The New York Times. Legacy media is failing.

gratitude journaling to help with anxiety level one million