What if agents of the state and our government *fed* kids and didn’t fucking indiscriminately spray them with dangerous poison. How cool would that would be.

Apparently one thing you can do when you die is have yourself made into compost for your friends to use in their gardens: earthfuneral.com This is both sustainable and also metal as hell, I love it.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Afterglow is doing a pivot? Stephanie Boyd is still leading editorial but they’re asking for different manuscripts, after cancelling a bunch of contracted books not that long ago. Maybe wait to find out more info before sending your manuscripts into this maelstrom.

There's Only One Bed at Christmas is a collection of three Christmas novellas! Until November 17, you can get 40% off at Kobo with promo code NOVEMBER40 (Canada, US, UK, Australia, New Zealand).

It’s weird. You’re drinking your first cup of coffee, getting ready for breakfast, when all of a sudden your notifications blow up, so you throw some clothes on, grab your PPE, and run off to chase trouble with neighbors.

I write M/M romance but I make damn sure that there are always sapphic side couples in my books. In my upcoming Black trans demon monster romance 'A Damning Desire' I have a human sapphic side couple and then I have a non-binary sapphic side couple.

This year, salmon reached parts of the Klamath where they hadn't been seen in a century. Let the joy of the river peoples be a fitting monument to Dick Cheney's passing.

Open now! You definitely want to move fast on these, they go quick!

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Harding literally died from stress at the prospect of facing accountability for an infinitesimal slice of the corruption that happens every day in this administration.

Protect her at all costs

Fellow writers, don't do this. No state/area is a monolith, do better! I grew up in OH. Systemic problems are gerrymandered in. The fiercest folks you'll ever meet are fighting from the most under-resourced areas of the country with very little support. Also, YES! Beshear would be a GREAT prez

WHAT'S UP MASS EFFECT FANS IT'S YA BOI THE EXPANSION IS COMING HAPPY FUCKING N7 DAYYYYYYYY

Ok @stevevladeck.bsky.social has posted his longer write up. theory: she‘s pushing first circuit to move faster and trying to force SCOTUS to rule faster, regardless of which way they’re going to go, rather then sit on this for months like they could www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Given the state of the world right now, if you managed to write even twenty words this week about people being tender, or in love, or having rampant sex, or leading each other to a fade-to-black bedroom, I am proud of you.

If I were going back in time to tell my previous self when the US truly collapsed, it is when the President of the United States asked the Supreme Court to starve millions of citizens against every law of decency and morality and Congress—and the conservative majority said yes.

GUYS GUYS GUYS there are beautiful handmade hats and blankies but ALSO! @oliviawaite.com made a BEADED OCTOPUS? AND IT IS AMAZING?!?!?! www.32auctions.com/organization...

just finished uploading photos to the auction site, check it out!! www.32auctions.com/bundled2025 everything looks so beautiful! (don't forget to view the site logged in if you want to be notified when bidding opens)

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

rosen is one of the moderates who sincerely wants a bipartisan deal, her being this angry is a good indicator of where they’re all at

Seattle, if you want Wilson to win, here's a great chance to help her out!

The guy delivering my cozy Christmas sweater caught me in the middle of charming the hummingbirds, but he wouldn’t think things were so Disney Princess around here if he knew I was doing so as a break from plotting multiple (fictional) murders.

I've come across a fascinating gay newsletter from the 1930s called "The Guiana Hobby Club," ostensibly a publication for stamp collectbors. But something might catch your eye in the "Membership List." You see all those letters and numbers? Well ...

Seattle's mayoral race will end up quite close; that could make 'challenged' ballots that had some issue key to resolving the race. WA allows voters to "cure" their ballot, i.e. come in and explain or fix issues like forgetting a signature. (Not all states allow this.) Info from the county:

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

The executive branch is doing everything they can to actively try to stop hungry Americans (mostly children, seniors, and veterans) from accessing taxpayer-funded, federally-appropriated and currently available food resources. They want to hurt American citizens.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Watson was a racist who, "near the end of his life, faced condemnation and professional censure for offensive remarks, including saying Black people are less intelligent than white people"

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The Heritage Foundation has given the Emily Dickinson Museum (@emilydickinson.bsky.social) a C in its new guide to historic sites nationwide because events at the museum reportedly "celebrate abortion, homosexuality, and a whole host of progressive causes," so anyway, sounds cool, I'll be visiting

The second Dorothy Gentleman novella is out in March, but you can pre-order now! NOBODY’S BABY is a sapphic sci-fi mystery kicked off with one bone-chilling sentence: A wild baby appears! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This is our main way of getting by at the moment, so any help with this would be greatly appreciated. bsky.app/profile/godd...

Am currently scrambling for a replacement for a specific Mylan med (so far my system does not respond to any other brands), so it’s weirdly cathartic to know I can curse out Joe Manchin specifically and personally for this

Some other girls and I in our tiny Catholic elementary made a club called the Pedido Club (Wish Club) where we’d sit around and talk about our dreams and hopes for the future and when we wouldn’t let boys join the school made us disband.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

LEGO RIKER HAS A FUCKING LEGO TROMBONE

Me, in error: Reading half of “I Capture the Castle” because I mistook it for “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” and waiting for the bear to start murdering everyone

You beautiful bastards, you did it, you actually did it

Man, this shit is out of hand and someone need tell us why in the fuck we are blowing up fucking boats? This ain't the shit we are fucking supposed to be doing. Someone please explain why in the entire fuck we are just blowing up fucking people? It needs to happen now www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial. www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Sean Dunn should never have to buy his own lunch in this city again.

I called Ossoff about this yday, but I may call again today tbh. He's worried about reelection but he has to know that if he screws this up he's gonna lose us. (If your senator is one of the few listed here, please call!)

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

If you're in the area, swing by the library for tonight's program!

Violet, the widowed Countess of Cambury, has always been a proper lady. That’s why she funneled her scandalous scientific research through her best friend. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Count... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: http://www.barnesand...