Let kids be kids ❤️

Yes, I am finishing the final draft of my next book on the solar eclipse.

Me: Do you want to go to the Renaissance Festival? My teen: Do you want to buy me a full suit of armor?

I've been buying blocks of cheese rather than sliced or shredded because it's cheaper. And that's how I learned I can eat an entire block of cheese in a week.

Thank you for the shout-out, @locusmag.bsky.social 🪶https://locusmag.com/2025/09/people-publishing-roundup-september-2025/

It was an honor to edit this piece by the amazing Aashna Miharia:

THINGS YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW THAT COST NO MONEY: 1) Get a library card. If you already have one, great job. Check something out!

NEW: NIH leadership has denied the existence of a list of banned words for grantmaking purposes, but I have seen such a list circulating among staff. It has lots of words relating to gender and diversity, of course. Also things like "climate change," "vaccine hesitancy," "ethnic origin," and others.

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

I'm writing about the NEA, and was wondering if any former staff, applicants, or former recipients would like to speak to me for the article. Anonymous is OK. (I'm a former NEA recipient and applicant myself). Feel free to reach out here or DM or email.

I would like this to be the peak magnitude of scandal that is rocking our communities, not the current political catastrophes. Please and thank you.

A problem with most people thinking COVID-19 is no longer a threat is that I just had a weird loss prevention dude follow me around a grocery store (occasionally coughing) because he could not fathom that anyone wearing a face mask (despite me also using a cane)- wasn't nefarious. We're in a surge.

I told a friend this time feels like we're both losing it and have already lost it.

Quick #Sinners art, because I still looove this film

“I’m an eleven, but continue.”

In general: To better understand what it's like to be a trans man, either offline or on, I do suggest reading our books! Subscribing to our channels. Listen to our music. Watch our films. Read our newsletters. We make so much ... It's *YOUR CALL*, cis folks, whether you decide to engage with us.

Welcome to the resistance

I have a hot date tonight *with CVS for a flu shot/COVID booster. SWOON.

Don't wait until you have a book coming out to write your acknowledgments page. It's not a bad little activity (especially in moments as fraught as this one) to remind yourself of the impact of other people (so many other people!) & institutions have had on your life.

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

Everything is terrible so it probably will not surprise you that making simple copies of a document at a print store has gone up to an unaffordable price.

I'm trying to write a book like Saturday morning in fall in the mid 1990s felt, with family and friends and a community who loved me and a world that didn't seem like it was ending yet. That's how I am surviving.

New commune just dropped www.homes.com/property/101...

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Ohio friends: Does anyone know if a person can receive unemployment benefits in Ohio for being temporarily furloughed? The site has crashed multiple times for me, destroying my process on an application.

Getting lots of stories of every kind here, some of them infuriating, some of them heartbreaking, some of them darkly funny. Keep them coming. Did clients or bosses using AI change, degrade, or kill your job? Artists, illustrators, animators, actors, designers, please share: [email protected]

“Why are you wearing the badge if you’re not trans, then, sunshine?” “I used to wear a badge saying ‘Save The Whales’, but I’m not a whale either”

Age verification? Oooh, sorry, I left it in my CD wallet.

I am exhausted.

When you fully give into it, writing fiction often becomes one of the absolute weirdest ways to spend your time. (By "weird" I mean "best," obviously.)

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities.

"school shooting industry"

Look, I don’t know why this is so complicated for people When a man says violence against women isn’t a crime, they told you who they are, and you can believe it or you can explain it away, but then you know who you are, too The misogyny was always a core point

I am reading "Trashlands" by Alison Stine. Intriguing!

At least half of Colorado voters support wolf reintroduction 2 years after the animals were first released

I've been puzzling over a couple paragraphs for an hour before I realized: Oh. I just need to cut them.

I didn't win the Powerball. You can tell because I was up till 3am working on my book.

So excited for a future where only white men, fetuses, and ai have legal rights.

OK, @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social, this is perfect…

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

Every single poetry book I've read to Alec to help him fall asleep in the last few months.

Hey fellow eldest daughters: time to text all our family members to remind them to get their COVID boosters and flu shots.

Every time I log into your YouTube account, it's literally just ambience videos. --my teen

I feel like $1.5 billion is not enough

I feel like it's the 12th draft where I really come alive.

Hi, your friendly neighborhood Long COVID hauler here: get the booster if you can. Get it now.

Too bad we do not have historical artifacts to help us learn about the importance of vaccines.

A reminder: many people can't afford to move, for many reasons. Money, family, health, jobs. Most people can't afford to leave the country or even a state--even if that state is enacting deadly policies. "Just move" is not the answer. There is nothing "just" about moving for most Americans.

Listen, I know being a publicist is very hard work and I respect that work and you. But the cheerful emails that begin "hope you're having a great, relaxing..." must end. No one with any sense is having a great or relaxing anything.