A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for www.beampaints.com

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

This is the funniest thing that's ever happened on Threads.

Nuking that random person's social media account, or making them cry, or giving them PTSD, is not actually going to end porn bans or bring about socialism in America or whatever, but it's relatively easy to do, compared to those other things, so it feels like you have power. And that sucks.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Change in Headline

#NationalBirdDay Hellenistic mosaic floor panel from Pergamon depicting an Alexandrine parakeet. 🦜 The Alexandrine parakeet species is named after Alexander the Great, who is said to have brought several birds back from India.

Self-pub but my sapphic knight romance Galeas the Keen will be out this year, if you're interested in a blind butch knight seeking out the woman who seems to be the source of a cursed flood (as well as some meta commentary à la The Isle in the Silver Sea):

Hey, if you're looking for a new hobby -- especially one that's analog -- my brilliant friend @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social is hosting a learn to embroider on Zoom this weekend www.eventbrite.com/e/1977418083...

I have a brief notice in this weekend's WSJ of a new reprint edition of "Moby-Dick" with all of the iconic Rockwell Kent illustrations--something that's nice to have on the market, as previous editions can get very pricey www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

INBOX: Statement from Senator Kelly

Link to original video:

News of me: I’m retiring. I’m 67 years old and I’ve worked full-time at Tor Books for 37 of those years. Today, January 5, is my official last day. This has been in train for several months, and while it hasn’t been a secret for some time, I haven’t mentioned it on social media until now. (1/3)

okay open call, if you have an SFF romance coming out in 2026, and it's not grindingly heteropatriarchal in outlook and values, please tell me about it! I'm compiling my reading lists!

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

This is designed to have a chilling effect on all retired service members. The message is that if you speak out, you risk your retirement pay.

I mean: yes it was great and deserved better! But: baseball romance is a much smaller subgenre (recs: KD Casey, Cat Sebastian, Alicia Thompson, KT Thompson). Hockey romance, queer and straight, has been huge for years now, so the market was primed (Anna Zabo is my rec for those hungry for more.)

Wunmi Mosaku stuns for the 31st ‘CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS’. #WunmiMosaku #CriticsChoiceAwards

Reminder Masks work for flu too

Trump should immediately apologize to the Hortman Family, Governor Walz, and the people of Minnesota for his attack on the life and memory of Melissa and Mark Hortman.

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Dan Bongino’s departure leaves Comstock Act-loving, gender-affirming care-hating former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey as deputy director of the FBI. Does not bode well, especially with fetal personhood lover Josh Craddock in the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel

Going through John Darnielle’s This Year one day at a time — reading the lyrics and the explanation and then listening to the song, like a 365-day slow-motion seminar on writing, thinking, living, making mistakes, and creating. Hammering yourself against the world and seeing which cracks first.

“In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.” (Catherine Mansfield) 🎨 Eyvind Earle #wintersky

This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.

There’s no event too extraordinary for corporate media to change their approach.

RICO charges dropped against ‘Stop Cop City’ defendants. “A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a years-long conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility..." apnews.com/article/atla...

So you know what happens when a bunch of authors who write gay romance get together ? (I mean virtually for co-promo reasons.) A nice selection of gay romances to peruse, that's what. Everything from gay grumpy/sunshine to rock star, paranormal, etc!

On January 10 come join me and @seananmcguire.bsky.social at Grumble and Wine in Bremerton, WA — we’ll be talking about the latest book in the Wayward Children series, so grab your best mask and come ask us questions! www.eventbrite.com/e/seanan-mcg...

Nobody‘s Baby is the second Dorothy Gentleman sci-fi mystery novella. A wild baby appears! But fertility is supposed to be on pause on the Fairweather: Dorothy has to figure out how this happened, and prevent one of her fellow detectives from classifying the baby as a stowaway or a piece of luggage.

Highly recommend, again

Look, after what happened on CBS tonight + Semafor's reporting about NYT and WaPo? I'm putting this out there again. Publishing friends, so many of you have been so great about this - I'd appreciate another boost. Because I'm worried. 😕

Oh hey I’m in Glamour making book recs alongside @wordsiren.bsky.social @ellaceron.bsky.social @eshanisurya.bsky.social and more! Everyone preorder @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com please. www.glamour.com/story/best-b...

searching twitter while doing a warcrime is the stupidest osint ever. thank you for letting everyone know you can now manipulate the war room via hashtag

for real

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.

OH MY FUCKING GOD THEY HAVE NO PLAN

About 50 people showed up local to me at a couple of hours notice. You are not alone.

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

So this is one of the best things I’ve ever seen: Heated Rivalry if it was a 90s romcom

You know what to do folks, flood the phones: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Officially revealed: The contestants in series 21 of Taskmaster

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Take constructive action by calling your reps and telling them that you do not approve of this illegal action. Then go do something you enjoy to fuel up. In February 2025, we were all unsure of our collective power. Now we know he's weak and scared (and unhealthy as fuck).

If Congress isn’t in charge of war Then what do we have a Congress for?

It's *exhausting* seeing it all happen all over again. Makes me so angry to see so many have learned nothing in the last two decades

Jeffries and Schumer both need to be replaced.

Right? If he can do it to despised leaders he doesn’t like, he can do it to left wing democratically elected leaders he doesn’t like (and leave alone dictators he does like).

at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter