UPDATED! It’s Girl Scout cookie season! We've compiled EVEN MORE Ohio trans and nonbinary Girl Scouts to support. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/01/14/t...

Please, never be shy telling an author you loved their books. It’s seriously what gets us through.

This is more felony murder appropriate than most so-called felony murders.

8am on a Friday feels like a weird time to ice skate, but i did enjoy watching ppl

Tonight's circus practice was so good! Last year, my first, i felt like i struggled to do almost everything, but now i feel like routines are a stretch but not impossible to reach in three months ❤️

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

Capricon 46 is around the corner! I love this Chicago SFF convention, and this year I'm on several panels. Come say hi!

My purse can fit two books, which is everything i need a purse to fit.

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

Child exploitation content on X/Twitter sharply increased under Musk, who not only abruptly disbanded the group of volunteer experts advising the platform on child safety, image exploitation, and other abuses in 2022, but tried to blame them for the company's CSAM problem www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1...

Thinking this is wrong is not radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

a coppery wyrm in flight to cap off 2025! this was the final patron-sponsored print of the year, and a sketch I had sitting around unfinished until in a skedaddling eight hours it became a panting

Heyo! The annual Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is here! Nearly all upcoming books are 25% off... including BEING ARO, a collection of aromantic stories about love, connection, and empowerment, edited by @rosieethor.bsky.social & @madelinetheauthor.bsky.social! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/being-aro-...

A federal judge ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding cannot be cut off. The Trump administration argued that the agency’s financing structure was unlawful.

Heads up, the annual year-end free trial period for Publishers Marketplace is live. Great way to do research for those of you gearing up to query in the New Year. lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/12/a-pm...

I joined with 55 other authors to share free SFF stories this holiday season 🩵📚❄️ Snag any of these titles before Jan 1st books.bookfunnel.com/fantasyscifi...

I'm at the hardest part of this short story - titling it.

Made drinking chocolate with red wine

The Department of Justice has been publicly posting files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation since Friday. n.pr/4jfepWm

The point was never to save money. That was only ever a convenient justification for an effort to decimate the public sector and dismantle the US social safety net.

Today's home conversation: are cryptids, like bigfoot, mythology creatures, such as dragons, or are they different?

So, SFWA is very much not my circus, not my monkeys, but here are my two general thoughts right now: 1) clear rules excluding AI-created content are important to hold the line, especially for publishers who would want nothing more than to toss their editors into the drink.

You've got a lot of choices out there for good contemporary sapphic romance books. But how many of them include Amtrak details relevant to the plot because of the author's extremely neurotypical hyperfixation? Probably just one. (Mine.)

Hotez: "They picked Denmark because they administer the fewest vaccines of any Western country... depriving Americans of vaccines for meningitis and rotavirus which are major causes of morbidity and mortality of America’s children. They’ve not done their epidemiological homework."

I joined with 55 other authors to share free SFF stories this holiday season 🩵📚❄️ Snag any of these titles before Jan 1st books.bookfunnel.com/fantasyscifi...

Really trying to finish this nonfiction book before 2026, but i have to escape the house first because chores & the Internet (ahem ao3) are loud at home. But also, i got this kashmiri ginger latte & my eyes went wide because that is truly a large coffee.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

There’s a new Humble book bundle featuring a set of No Starch Press books on Hacking. For a limited time, pay what you want AND support EFF’s fight for privacy and free speech online! www.humblebundle.com/books/hacki...

Links: www.miaminewtimes.com/news/alligat... www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

It's the first day of the Advent Calendar! Don't miss it. Every day, a new LGBT book will be available, but it's only free for one day, so be sure to check in daily! www.jmsbooksllc.com/advent-calen... #mmromance #gayromance #booksky

Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/what-i...

She's gorgeous.

After the Zika outbreak ended in Brazil, many families faced a new reality: a child whose life was irrevocably altered after the mother contracted the virus while pregnant. Here's what happened next.

Do you feel a sudden sense of fear & uncertainty, as if your life is upended? That you might lose your health insurance & have to update your resume & apply for jobs in a terrible market? Did you think your job was secure only to find out it’s not? Oh no. Anyway www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...

Ug, we finally crossed 32F at a time I am outside and my asthma is starting to peek its head up. Nooooo

The Trump administration announced new efforts today to roll back key parts of the Endangered Species Act, aiming to reinstate changes from his first term that were previously halted by a federal court.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more. www.wired.com/story/a-simp...

#Booksky We’re doing our first ever ebook set and it’s up for preorder now! Get a great deal on the entire Astreiant Series for some great gay fantasy reading to end the year! Releases 12/15 and preorders are up at our site, Smashwords and beyond - queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

AI-generated evidence is already showing up in court, with parties trying to pass off deepfakes as authentic. We spoke to 5 judges about the issue, who say it could just be the beginning of how AI will upend courts. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...

Spotted around town

I have so trained myself that walk = coffee that the 12 min trip to Target in the dark still elicits such a craving. Is 6pm too late for coffee? Not really. It is also the perfect time to try the new bubble tea place

Working on pointed toes during Halloween week at the studio

The State Department said that it has revoked the visas of foreign nationals who had spoken out against Charlie Kirk. Senior officials within the department said they would move to deny or rescind visas for individuals who had criticized Kirk, this is a direct violations of the First Amendment.

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.