This is your energy for 2026 *via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown

Have I told the story on here how I almost kicked Keith Richards out of my job?

Covering my palm with Elmer’s Glue just to peel something.

Casting my line in the dark river just to reel something

Screeching on the fiddle just to creel something

Finished our first family session of Draw Steel ttrpg. Making dinner: brown rice, lahp-cheung aka candle sausage, fried eggs, boiled lettuce dressed with sesame oil & oyster sauce, and chili radish on the side. Pondering a film après manger: The Tragedy of Macbeth, a very dramatic end to 2025, non?

I've been following Yukio Akamine online for 20 years. During this time, the world has seen Myspace and Facebook get overtaken by blogging platforms such as WordPress and Tumblr, which in turn got overtaken by social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. 🧵

I love library stats. Don’t you love library stats? Who doesn’t love library stats? 😃

Holiday chocolate cream pie how it started. how it ends

If you see this, post a random fact about yourself I hate white chocolate

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

okay let's do a thread of FUN ONLY, no-stress, low-stakes New Year's Resolutions that are designed not to make you become a Better™️ Person™️ but purely to increase the amount of happiness in your life in 2026 I'm going to learn Polish folk embroidery and I want to DM at least a one-shot of something

This sentence has been caught in my teeth for days, chewy and true and hard to live up to— We're given so many chances to sell out [everything]. Good to remember it's not an imperative.

Black Nerd Probems won a Hugo Award in 2025! Will & Omar founded the site but this is a collective of writers, authors, streamers, editors, and more that keep this thang thangin'. 1/

fwiw #yeg it is prime snowball and snow creature conditions out there

'Saishoin Temple in Snow, Hirosaki' - Kawase Hasui, 1936. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

Yes, as always, please feel free to read my books from the library and also! if your library doesn’t carry them, please request they purchase them for their collection 🙏 My indie titles are priced the exact same for libraries as bookstores! Eg. unlike big pub ebooks, mine will fit library budgets 🤓

There's more to say about this open letter, unfortunately, but bear with me, because I think it's important. For example, this response in the File 770 comments by SFWA board member Jonathan Brazee. In essence, Underwood gives cover to SFWA and vice versa. But both their positions are crap. 1/?

“claims of “AGI” are a cover for abandoning the current social contract. Instead of focusing on the here and now, many ppl who focus on AGI think we ought to abandon all other scientific and socially beneficial pursuits and focus entirely on issues related to developing (& protecting against) AGI.”

Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

Thinking of how I can trick romance authors into promoting their books with a one sentences description of what actually happens again. We gotta ease off the trope only vibes. WHAT HAPPENS!

Update: I emailed the opt-out address listed on their website and got a reply. But, I never. Should. Have. Had. To. Opt. Out. I’m so tired of these tech companies & their entitlement. DoorDash putting small restaurants on their apps w/o permission, AI scraping our sites, & now this? It’s exhausting

Since I have been reminded of it, allow me to share one of my very favorite threads of the past year:

Still at $25/$285, we can get an electrician for tomorrow afternoon, but only if we can pay them. cash.app/$grrlintersect venmo.com/u/grrlinters... www.paypal.me/dgrrl39

Heyyyy #booksky it’s my semi-regular reminder that Crime Writers of Color is here for your crime fiction fix! Find new reads + a speakers directory for book clubs etc. & sub to our free newsletter via crimewritersofcolor.com 🎯 Find new follows here too: @crimewoc.bsky.social &

BlueSky! I’m looking for webcomic recs for my book club! Caveats: –MUST be free (or at least, a solid first chunk is free) –Must be properly online, not thru a library service (audience is in US & UK) –SF, fantasy, or horror for adults preferred, although other genres/YA considered

Hi friends! Nap Comix will return on Tuesday 6th January and the update schedule will change to every Tuesday+Thursday. This is due to me getting a couple other comics projects done and getting the Nap Comix book ready to ship this Summer. Thank you so so much for your support. Much love, Rachael xx

GODFATHER FROM HELL has risen from the grave! Earlier this year, we had to make the difficult decision to stop individual issues of our infernal neo-noir thriller but in 2026, @thevaultcomics.bsky.social will publish the entire story as an OGN with a new cover by @piusbak.bsky.social (1/3)

#ThePackingList is live! 12 brand new stories of grown-up characters doing their best to get away from it all, only to have life & love catch up with them. 100% of net proceeds from this limited-time antho will be donated to sexual & reproductive health care organizations. books2read.com/u/b69J7W

Years ago I wiped all amazon links from my website. I’ve now unpublished my indie titles there for good (bc: “Ask This Book” feature🙄) For now please buy my books via Kobo or Bookshop: bookshop.org/shop/SG_Wong or borrow from libraries 🤓 All titles can be ordered from indie bookshops too 📚 #booksky

I don't know what the library staff did in this video, so I don't want to comment on this specifically. But all library workers need ICE training. We need to resist. We should be putting our voices and bodies to work. Book displays are not enough.

Delroy Lindo is on a long list of actors long overdue for an Oscar nomination. He might finally break that ceiling with his role in Sinners. We caught up to talk about Ryan Coogler's "brilliant" epic, and, as always, he has some keen observations to share

shocking that we live in a world in which you can rick roll someone and THEY DON'T EVEN GET IT

Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Quel surprise!

I’m usu a shy weirdo abt these but: • I helped raise $61k+ for the Trans Law Center w/ an online auction in March! • I cancelled a book contract instead of writing a book I’d hate • I finally started prep on a podcast from a 2018 idea lol; @multitudespodcast.bsky.social launches Jan 14th! 🤓

Every year around this time I do the same thread and it has been a lot of fun. Tell me something you did in 2025 that you're proud of that you want everyone to know about. Did you write a book? Did you get a promotion? Did you survive the year? I want to spend the end of the year celebrating you.

Today only, Automatic Noodle e-books are on sale for $2.99 on all platforms! Grab one while they're still hot and chewy! bookshop.org/p/books/auto...

Dunno who needs this but here’s your irregular reminder to clean your shower head(s).

I remember qting Weng at the time: That is one of the saddest things I’ve ever read. Also: do NOT fucking do this

#GVerse Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright roasting Judi Dench for getting all the roles is genuinely the best thing you’ll see today.

If you want to get some books while you're doing it, our shop has some bundles and some out of print ebooks you can't get anywhere else! ko-fi.com/kitrocha/sho...

AID REQUEST: a local friend left an abusive marriage to protect her non-binary child from an unsafe situation. They were doing their best but got side-swiped & are now 3 months behind on rent. Their rent is only $900/mo. I'm going to pay 1. Can you help with the other 2? ko-fi.com/kitrocha/goa...

Reskeeting for timeline cleanse (a little one)

Key advice! A tiny press in 2011 offered me my first book contract. We reviewed by phone, with written changes/explanations to come after. Publisher seemed great but on 2nd call, she got dodgy, didn’t have time for questions, her other authors never asked so many, why did I. I noped out, gladly

Heyyyyy it’s live! So excited for all y’all to listen to this great conversation with the very gracious @marthawells.com. I was so excited to ask all the things about The Rising World and also—we need a book of Rising World fashions please and thank you! 😃

Canadians, please sign! #TransRightsAreHumanRights We need compassion and community, not ideological cheats. Link to sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... More details from the petition in image, if you need it. Please sign! 🇨🇦

Heyyyyy it’s live! So excited for all y’all to listen to this great conversation with the very gracious @marthawells.com. I was so excited to ask all the things about The Rising World and also—we need a book of Rising World fashions please and thank you! 😃

It's #podcast time, y'all! Grand conspiracies, colonization, and intentions, oh my! @shaunduke + @sgwong.com are joined by the wonderful @marthawells.com for an interview about Queen Demon and The Rising World series! Audio/Video: skiffyandfanty.com/p... #podcasthanks for listening.