Tough call between two or three, but I’m going to have to say The Incandescent, @emilytesh.net.

Every ballpark should offer a scorecard and a pencil for less than $2. It's the best souvenir in the park and it's wild to me that a lot of MLB teams either don't sell a standalone scorecard or force you to buy a $15-20 program for it.

2025: America watches Canadian bootlegs of journalism about US concentration camps. Nothing is for sale, everything is for rent. Computers will take your job but will be worse than you at it. You make less than ever but can gamble on your credit balance. One racist ket addict gets paid $1 trillion.

This time of year is fucking hard. The holidays are a fertile ground for dark thoughts. Loneliness can drown you, even when you're surrounded by people. Take care of yourself. If you feel like you're drowning in darkness, please talk to someone. Friend, family, stranger. Anyone. You deserve love.

Oh wow. This is a great deal on book 1 of one of my favorite series of the last few years. If I didn’t already own it, I’d be all over this.

I don’t know how to identify a bad parent anymore. But sweeties, you’re doing great!

It’s absolutely true. Just saw this yesterday. Use your library! It’s good for authors, it’s good for your community!

STORY TIME! (1/5)

I remember talking to a guy who was elevated from a managerial position to a VP position. I had chewed his ass out on the warehouse floor when he blamed the staff he had assembled for missing key deadlines we had warned over a year ago he would miss because of a combo of understaffing and 300% work.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 19 "Poinsot's Dancing Cones", 2025 Physics of the gyroscope, tribute to Louis Poinsot's work. #SciArt #MathArt Traditional geometrical constrtuction (axonometry), watercolor pencils and markers on gessoed canvas board.

Never forget the entire anti-trans hype machine is built on lies. It's not "cruel truths" or "two sides." It is blatant, deliberately cruel lies. They are liars. Never give them the benefit of the doubt, because they are proven, deliberate, malicious liars.

THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July, but in the meantime you can buy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS or download my short stories free on Itchio! #WeeknightWriters www.elizmanderson.com

Working on the end. I have the pieces all stacked up and now it's just time to pull out that one wonky Jenga block and see the whole thing collapse on my poor MC. Then I gotta figure out how it all goes back together again, soooooo... we'll see how it goes when I get *there*... #weeknightwriters

I'm good, honestly. Take time to help yourself too. You've done a lot for all of us! #weeknightwriters

Make sure to take a little bit of quiet time when it's available. All five of us are home, which is lots of fun -- everyone gets along really well -- but definitely not quiet. I'll probably still get up earliest and do some weekmorning writing. #weeknightwriters

Made it to 100K words! I didn't have pie, but I did have... 100K soft peanut brittle? It's something! #weeknightwriters

All things close and personal, it's been a good week. Good time spent with family, a lot of writing, grades turned in a smidge early even. I've been taking more social media breaks and that's helped. #weeknightwriters

trans kids deserve the goddamn world and when we swing this pendulum back in the enemy’s face i hope there’s thousands of them who feel safe and supported enough to come out. liberation and justice for all. fuck the haters.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

If you've got a Democratic rep who *didn't* throw trans kids under the bus last night, call their office to thank them... And tell them to bring that same energy to voting down KOSA et al., because Republicans have made it clear they will use every possible lever to hurt trans kids.

Every tech company right now: "We've heard you loud and clear, our customers don't want AI in our products. What gave you the impression we actually give a shit about our customers though?"

Taking new browser recommendations in 3... 2... 1...

Be patient. Not everything can go at the pace I wish it could. And keep writing.

*pssssst* Hey You know that one project? That one you've wanted to write FOREVER except it's scary as hell & maybe you don't feel good enough or brave enough or strong enough? Spend 15 min on it today Keep the dream alive Even a pot on the back burner needs to occasionally be stirred

i see so much love for inclusive detective stories, nick & nora spouses, and solid whodunnits and yet i can get no traction for my series that is all that and more. can you PLEASE help people know about Viviana Valentine? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...

We're running out of good ideas. Providing food security, shelter security, and free at point of use healthcare will absolutely help us find new ones. What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?

I know the most Christ-like response to this should be, thank you for reconsidering your positions, maybe we can turn your heart the rest of the way or whatever. But lmao fuck man, we've been saying this for 40 years and he's acting like this a brand new line of thinking he just this now invented. 🤣

Frosty perch (2025) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography #birds

Centrist dems: "Our tent is so big! Huge tent! In fact we're making it *even bigger*! Room for all the vile racists! Come on in!" Also centrist dems: "Why won't anyone come into our tent?"

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

But I don’t wanna wait until May! Long Live Evil was one of the best things I read last year. I am so excited for this. The trope-bending portal fantasy I hadn’t realized I needed and now I’m hopelessly hooked.

Still shipping brains and bacteria : ) 🧪🐡🧠🦠 artologica.etsy.com

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, and you fear. You know the names of those who rule under the terrible one who knows if you’ve been naughty or nice. You fear the Reigndeer.

1. Only the rich *currently* have access to the most expensive hospital chains 2. Dunno who runs it, but it's better than lunatic insurance companies whose literal job is to deny care to people 3. This is also the current system. I am rich and have great care and I can't ever fucking see anyone

i stand by this statement every year

Finish my current project. I've got another project that's been on the back burner for years that I want to outline while I let this one rest a couple weeks, but taking a break is likely to disrupt any momentum I've built up, so... carry on! #weeknightwriters

100K Word Pie! 🥧 #weeknightwriters

The community's just been terrific. Supportive in the right ways, active, helpful, encouraging. #weeknightwriters

First draft? No, definitely not by tomorrow (yikes!) but I'm committed to finishing by the end of the calendar year one way or the other. #weeknightwriters

Still need to puzzle out the final con, but I'm not going to lose sleep over not getting the fine details yet. So much is going to change at the beginning with the next draft that I'm likely to just Belle-the-zero-draft-horse it and get to it in rewrites. #weeknightwriters

Julia here with the kitchen sink WIP of heists, cons, antifascist resistance, love, betrayal, magic lost and regained, floating cities, magical billionaire tech bros and their downfall. Haven't written a lot this week but I can still hit that 100K word mark by the end of the week! #weeknightwriters

Just remember what Octavia Butler said: Count On the Surprises commongood.cc/reader/a-few...

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

I read a pre-print study re: teaching prompting in a business comm class, with success only being achieved by prompting with exact rhetorical context and multiple rounds of specific feedback. Students don't invest that level of care in their own writing, let alone something written for them.

So much this, except even more because I am beyond 30 or 40 years old.

The High King, Lloyd Alexander. Maybe the single most formative book in my life.

#ArtAdventCalendar day 10. A common grackle sits in the reeds at Telford Lake, Alberta.

Quails, man. Cannot get over quails

A long walk home yesterday in a delightful snowstorm. I passed this person on their own walk going the opposite way. After they passed I turned and took this photograph . #ArtAdventCalendar Day 10 #Photography #Snowing #StoneArchBridge #Minneapolis

Super serious about this: please keep a list of the books, short stories, games, movies, albums, TV shows, etc. that came out this month (December) that you liked. In fact, please reply to this post with links.