Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Well I am very surprised. WHY I LOVE HORROR is a finalist for a Locus Award. For this book to be embraced by the Horror community made me so happy, but to see it crossing into the larger "speculative" space is beyond what I thought possible. locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Love this series!

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

Why I Love Horror from @raforall.bsky.social is nominated for Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction. @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social, & @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social all have stories in Why I Love Horror nominated for Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction. Yes, Matthew is smiling.

Folks need to stop expecting military officers, even the most senior ones, to substitute for/do the job of elected legislators, whose oaths require them to impeach & removal the president when he orders illegal/unconstitutional things done.

🧐 True... Too True...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

A @libraryjournal.bsky.social starred review for DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP from @raforall.bsky.social ! "This masterpiece of storytelling is injected with a squirming worm of fear that forces readers to take a critical look at AI’s encroachment." www.libraryjournal.com/review/dead-...

Today on the blog-- @vantine.bsky.social is a published author now and it's a great article: Inclusion as the Norm: The Power of Diverse Book Displays via Lila Denning in RUSQ raforall.blogspot.com/2026/03/incl... cc: @tuphlos.bsky.social

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Public libraries are not neutral. The belief that information, resources, and stories should be freely and equally accessible to everyone is inherently not a neutral position.

Overheard in the grocery store: "My grandmother buried more men than she kept, you sure you want me to be like her?" I don't know what he did, but he might want to go ahead and move on out. Just a thought.

For those attending Wine with Writers.

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

I have a bad feeling that once the slop bubble bursts and a bunch of people who outsourced their cognition to it are left floundering, there's going to be a new wave of "I will do the thinking for you" grifters/cult leaders taking up the power vacuum.

I am sponsoring a racecar in Vermont, driven by a young woman from my town. The entire hood and back bumper have been reserved for whatever pro-library message I'll put on there. $600 total. 🏎️ I crowdsource this fun project every year. Chip in? Venmo: @iamthebestartist or DM me for other options.

On March 10, Daniel Kraus (l.) celebrated the launch of his new book, Partially Devoured (Counterpoint), at Bucket O’Blood Bookstore in Chicago. Joining Kraus was fellow author Becky Spratford (r.). (Kaye Publicity)

"To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now." - Fred Rogers In loving memory of the beloved and forever impactful Emmy/Grammy-winning television icon, minister, advocate, and pillar of true human decency on his 98th birthday.

Do you enjoy historical fiction? This is one of my my favorite authors..... #booksky www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Are you a trans person in the US looking to relocate from a high-risk state to a lower risk state? Did you know there’s a $10,000 no-interest loan you can apply for to help you do that? Link here and more info in thread below hfls.org/move-to-thri...

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

In an ideal world, the guy who controls the nukes and the village idiot would be two separate people.

Hey. You, there. The #romancewriter. Want to connect with your people? Level up your craft? Pitch your book? Join us for Spring Fling Writers Conference! Discounts > 3/10 SFSALE - $100 off regular in-person ticket SFSALEV - $75 off regular virtual ticket www.accelevents.com/e/chicago-no...

Joy is rebellion. Art is rebellion. Recovery is rebellion. Stories are rebellion.

we started as we intended to go on: fighting randos on the internet to avenge each others' honor

.99 cents today only sale! The Risk by Elle Kennedy: amzn.to/46HSsKE #booksky

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

It is hard to admit ignorance, so when one of the new recruits to the Pangalactic Bureaucracy raised a tentacle with a question, Xtrrt let them ask. "What is 'fafo quotient'?" "A Human term. Fuckaroundment over Findoutability. We stay over 2.718. Humans..." Xtrrt paused. "... hope for over 1."

I love many of these stories. Somehow, this one is especially powerful:

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

This is fascinating fun. I hit the wall at the year 1100.

This is what it means to advocate for yourself as a library and to be pro-library in all things. A letter from an Indiana library to users on how the state wants to decimate public libraries and what citizens need to do in response.

Maybe all the ladies and their pretty dresses can go somewhere and find hotter men who are either nerds and/or are trying to abolish the aristocracy and I understand I am now describing a Courtney Milan book I'm saying let's make a Brothers Sinister TV show, thank you for coming to my power point.

I actually loved the actor/actress interviews from the S3 press tour, but man. You can not make me find a boringly conventionally attractive rich boy attractive with a gun to my head, I guess. I need someone who is gonna do some crimes against the peerage to get really engaged. lol

Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word. It's just evil.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

As it's Ms. Bev's birthday—which should be a #Romancelandia national holiday—here's a few of my favorite Ms. Bev heroines! Billie, Destiny's Surrender Teresa, Wild Sweet Love Maggie, Night Hawk Jessi Rose, The Taming of Jessi Rose Kate, Topaz Spring, Wild Rain Loreli, A Chance at Love Viveca, Vivid

Happy Valentine's Day, Romancelandia. Keep offering the world love in all its forms and identities. And don't forget to love on yourself.

Measles can kill. It can disable. It can wipe out your immune system memory. It can leave children blind and deaf. It’s almost entirely preventable. The vaccine was a breakthrough that saved lives. What’s happening now is an unspeakable and unnecessary tragedy

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Hey, guess what? Smart Bitches is 21 years old today! 🍾🥂 So we're giving away custom champagne flutes because obviously. Happy anniversary to us!

Join us for our first meeting of a brand new Genre Study! We'll kick off a two-year study of Genre Blends on Thursday, Feb. 5, from 2-4 p.m. at the Elmhurst Public Library. For more info, including how to RSVP, visit arrtreads.org/event/genre-...

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