It's the Fourth, and @dansinker.com and @maureenjohnsonbooks.com have a Great American State Fair to discuss! Yee haw. sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/the...

I am in my 18th hour of travel. Reality has frayed a bit. I managed to choose the longest, most complicated, and most fraught with issues route to my destination. This is what makes us Strong and Crazed.

There’s a ton of insane AI generated stuff when you look online. I get into it in the piece, but it’s really astounding. Enjoy this AI couple in matching hats walking in Costco’s RAT aisle.

Flying to Paris tonight with a fountain pen and an actual bottle of green ink.

Love to my trans friends now and always. We have to be with you and help you fight.

Hello.

ME: Getting on a plane tomorrow. Try to pack light! ALSO ME: Time to start reading this physical copy of an 800 page book.

Just got a letter about 2027 health insurance with some exciting news! It says that our monthly premium is going from $2297 a month to $2962 a month. That's...a big hike! But USA we have this you guys best in the world no notes.

Fill one with stones or pebbles so the bees can get a drink and not drown.

One of the simplest and most important things you can do in a heatwave is fill up containers of all sizes and leave them outside for the animals. Any container. Recycling. A bowl or dish. Leave them on different levels for animals small and large.

♥️ heatwave🌡 let's help strays and wildlife 🌿💛🔆♥️🔆💛🍀

Watergate is a whole subplot issue in The Velvet Knife. I guess I saw this coming.

Last day to PREORDER The Velvet Knife for 25-35% off from @barnesandnoble.com!

Just…absolutely nailing it.

Steroids make you powerful!!!

We're in good hands! Congratulations Katherine!

Here is the testimony I offered at Monday's State Board of Educatikn hearing. Under their new, proposed curriculum, the history of my family will be whitewashed behind recognition. I doubt what I said will change minds, but I'm proud to have gone there, and to have said it.

Add a pandemic and a fascist oligarchy and now many states are doing the same thing. Community based survival. One restaurant in Minneapolis completely did away with menu prices due to the ICE raids. Their restaurant, now named Post Modern Times, is thriving. / people.com/minnesota-re...

this is his gofundme btw. would encourage everyone else who can to chuck this fella a couple quid www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist...

I was sick of seeing JD Vance's memoir get all of the book coverage. So I asked a bunch of writers I know and love what recent books they think should get more attention. These are books for people who actually like to read. Please check them out! lithub.com/40-great-new...

Today! Join @maureenjohnsonbooks.com and @dansinker.com as they reflect on the pool and sour on the kraut. It's a new Says Who day! sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/pon...

I'm so fucking tired of hearing that trans kids need to eat shit. That we need to let lawless bygones be bygones. That data centers get all our water and we just need to adjust to the future. That the Supreme Court is static and we just need to sit there and not have rights.

This whole thread is worth the read.

ME: gotta get to the doctor important things to do ALSO ME: but first I gotta stop and take a picture of this bark that looks like the Babadook got speared in the eye in a joust

I woke up this morning with a fever from a sinus infection. I have been given STEROIDS and now I can PUNCH THROUGH METAL.

I am having a genuinely bonkers allergy day here in NYC. Is this happening to anyone else? If so, WHAT ARE WE ALLERGIC TO?

Are you on @netgalley.bsky.social? The Velvet Knife is open for requests for the next 48 hours. GO GO GO!

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Dreamt I was making soup with @maureenjohnsonbooks.com in her kitchen when her pager went off. “I have to take this,” she said, frowning. “My editor might be needing to talk to me about the book. That means I have to go off the grid.” “Right now?” I asked. ”During soup?” “Yes, Sean. Peace.”

I genuinely burst out laughing.

The Velvet Knife, coming September 29. Murder! Cults! Romance! Watergate!

Aside from all of the major reasons this is important, it is amazingly relevant to the plot of The Velvet Knife.

This was anonymously leaked by several Timberland Regional Library employees. Includes: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston Counties.

I have eaten the blue paint that was in the reflecting pool and which you were probably saving for July 4 Forgive me It was delicious so American and so flag

How long before RFK starts eating the peelings from the reflecting pool.

i fear we have no choice but to fill the reflecting pool with beans

OMG. (This refers to the last goal in England vs Croatia if such things interest you.)

🧵 … Hey all … I’m in search of story sources who’d want to interview for an upcoming feature about trans folks who’ve moved from red states to blue ones, especially since the last presidential election. Signal boosts appreciated.

"Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this Congressman for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing."

*puts out private eye sign* I will find Tom Kean for $5.

Today I am going to an East Village English football supporting bar to watch the England match. This is the most sportsy thing I have ever done.

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My friend Merlin has been worried about you and is checking in.

Also, today I finally bought some UV film to put on my windows because my books are getting BLEACHED TO HELL.

I took two full Hulken bags of books to our local little free libraries today and...THEY ARE ALREADY ALL GONE. SHARING BOOKS IS THE BEST.

A great piece by Sarah. Also, @flaminghydra.com is turning out to be dynamite. So worth the few bucks a month they are asking for great pieces of writing.

BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked a bathroom ban in Idaho that threatened transgender people with up to 5 years in prison for using a bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. This is a win for trans rights.

For writers and scholars in NYC: sign this open letter to remind our wonderful mayor to fund NYC's libraries fully. "New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mr. President after tonight’s extremely cool fight how about tomorrow doing sun tourism with these rad wax patriot wings only you can pull it off sir be the first

hey if the president wants to go stand beneath a big metal cage as a storm front barrels down on washington i say let him cook in every fucking sense of the phrase