Here is an obituary for Alice Wong from The Sick Times, a publication aligned with disability rights and disability activism, if you are looking for an alternative to reading the nyt one: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

But also these #SmallJoys

Reading on a Saturday night 📚 #BookSky #SmallJoys

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Psst if you are a Goodreads user, you can now mark my next novel, Mercutio, as want-to-read, if you are so inclined. My favourite of my books so far.

Tag yourself. I’m the Pope— cornered by a rando telling me their book idea, for which they’ll split “the profits” 50/50 with me if I do the writing

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

I dunno, man. Seems pretty wild to write an extensive piece like this and only give a cursory mention of why so many people "declined to be interviewed." The man has sued so many people for even just TWEETING about the case. But I still gotta listen to CanLit elites play the victim? C'mon.

How cool! So excited to hear Sandra’s new podcast!

I made a thing! that plays music! with me introducing my new #podcast! @multitudespodcast.bsky.social ! #SmallJoys except they're actually BIG 😃 and coming soon to a podcast player near you ✨

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

One of the great moments of this was Adam West's phone book entries:

Dear San Antonio, but ESPECIALLY Black San Antonio, or, anyone else who wants solid healthcare for birthing people round that way, my midwifery sib Shiphrah is launching her practice and could use your support (and a few specific items).

Y’all, I am so excited to cohost this one with @shaunduke.net 🌟 I won’t have cookies, but I will have tea and a long list (!!) of appropriately writer-nerd questions 🤓

And we're 1 hour from go time for tonight's #podcast. We'll be joined by Martha Wells for a riveting conversation about Queen Demon! Join us at 7 PM Central on Twitch. We promise it'll be fun! Bring cookies. twitch.tv/alphabetst...

Head on over and support this Canadian small press by clicking "NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH" (right hand side of the pretty mushrooms). It won't be launching until 2026, but it helps ye ol' algorithm to smash the button. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

COVER REVEAL! Behold GODFESTATION, my Appalachian weird horror novella, out August 11, 2026 via @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social. Art by Danika Corall. Read more and see the cover art here: jendiagammon.com/202... #horror #books #coverreveal #2026books #horrorbooks

I made a thing! that plays music! with me introducing my new #podcast! @multitudespodcast.bsky.social ! #SmallJoys except they're actually BIG 😃 and coming soon to a podcast player near you ✨

Science fiction with magic-wielding Fae... or fantasy with futuristic tech? (yes) If you haven't yet, I'd love for you to read my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social story from earlier this year!

Would you like to read a story formatted as a series of Goodreads reviews about a mysterious author and his YA book series, queerness, and a friendship that spans decades?

DYINGGGGGG (Watch both ⬇️⬇️)

Wake up, babe, new overlords just dropped

I for one will welcome, etc. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2560607...

I know disabled people already know this, but...it's because we kill ourselves trying to function in an ableist world which demands that we look/work as "normal" as possible. Being "high functioning" just means we don't ask for help or even basic requests like scheduled breaks or recovery days/time

A fun way to spend a few minutes today

World's most contagious falsehoods See all 70 bit.ly/IIB-Mythconc... data & sources bit.ly/KIB_Mythconception

Bamboozle is such a great word. So apt here. The NYT is much like a gangrenous shuffling monster that also continues to sport the occasional pleasant face or a perfectly tailored suit. Mostly, it's decomposing into rancid liquified goo.

The New York Times successfully keeps bamboozling people because they still do some pretty good reporting, sometimes on things the GOP doesn’t like, even - but if you look at their overall body of work over the last 10 years, a very clear picture of their agenda emerges.

Baby, would I ever!!! Congrats @oliviawrites.bsky.social and @lenikauffman.bsky.social on another fabulous collaboration! 🌟

Maybe you'd like to see the amazing cover for WORLD'S OKAYEST ORACLE (RELUCTANTLY) SEEKS DEMON, my book about an infamously underpowered oracle saving the world alongside the uptight demon who helped ruin her life 20 years ago? AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/WOOamz Other links: go.oliviadade.com/WOOprh

Takes me back to a 9th grade book report I did, wherein I affirmed that Dr F was motivated by a jealous resentment that he couldn’t create life aka get pregnant. At 14, coming from a conservative family, that felt wildly subversive lol

Frankenstein is everywhere right now -- but why does it still hold so much power? In our latest episode, we talk about how different people have reimagined this 200+ year old story -- and why Victor Frankenstein is the ultimate Bad Science Daddy. ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/frankenstein...

This is extremely niche for here but I clocked Ken Sim’s utter unsuitability to be mayor as soon as I saw their inane party name—“ABC”? C’mon, man, seriously? Their anodyne centrist-right platform just cemented it. I have family & friends in Vancouver; this austerity budget is absurd and infuriating

If you are passionate about Black Queer and Trans Health, you can report to @drdryden.bsky.social if selected for this brilliant opportunity! 🫂 Please share widely in the hopes of it getting onto the radar of Black or African Nova Scotian folx with a grad degree and project coordination skills! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Include Mentholatum on that list too

Yeah, let’s not forget it’s actually 5 magazines you might have to walk away from if you’re a cross-genre author.

Ahhhh it’s that feeling, lovelies, you know the one, when you’re done your workday, and that library hold you’ve had on the latest in a long-running series (#19!) has finally come in, and is only waiting on you to sync your beloved old janky ereader... Unparalleled delight.

Mystery and crime writers are also experiencing similar shenanigans—after extra long reply times—because MRM owns Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock too. This was @victoriastrauss.com's take in Writer Beware in July 2025:

This is at least the fourth story I've seen of an author having to exchange multiple emails (over 20) with this publisher to get the contract language to not be rights grabby and it's one of three where the writer walked away. I appreciate the effort and transparency but I will also say-

Great piece. Really takes me back though, to when the white boys wouldn't let me into "their" #DnD game/afterschool club cuz I was a girl. We were all 13 🙄 We started our kids at 7 and 10. They're incredible DMs now, 12 yrs on & counting: creative, funny, whip-smart, amazing sense of narrative 💅

Got a review of Bogi Takács's latest space opera, Song of Spores. This weird, fun sci-fi story is out now from Broken Eye Books. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/11/10/r...

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

What is whiteness if not a resource-depleting plagiarism robot?

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is awful in the best ways. It’s much too long, has some truly execrable dialogue, but damn those set pieces are somethin’ else. Exactly as expected and a great choice for Bad Movie Night™️

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first