Every time I look up an author of any sort and find that they don’t post on social media a lot even while they have a book coming up I am filled with hope. Maybe we can all leave Instagram one day

Visa, now with online slopping

I think if I wanted to do my part for a book subgenre that’s having trouble I’d start by recruiting a friend, minimum. Then maybe make a cheesy Neocities site for it. Start a webring. I don’t know, I’m just spitballing here.

I can’t recommend looking at birds enough, honestly

Best part of the Kickstarter apology is “f*ck the establishment”

I have questions about the use of so-called vegan leather for books that are not being answered by my infrequent new book purchases

One of my favorite hobbies is telling my dog to make good choices and then proceeding to make bad choices myself

I like how “spicy” literature is allowed but explicitly sexual content is not. Are we just going to put the open-door romance writers (for just one example) in a box and only find out if Kickstarter killed them when we open it later?

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

Okay there is something very fun about watching a video essay on YouTube where the creator has done research and made a script and set aside time and space to record but because they have a life and a family there are occasional muffled thumps in the background making stop and check my surroundings

nostalgia is a trap, but it's also true that you used to be able to buy romance novels with horny covers in the grocery store, and those WERE the days

I just found out about Clearsky, which you’d think would be a boon for me, a person who loves to follow drama and hates to see people replying to blocked posts, but that seems like SO much effort and detective work when it would be much simpler for Bluesky to just keep the lack of secrets on Bluesky

So today I checked Threads on the big computer because I’m not putting it on my phone (I am using Bluesky on my phone right now) and Threads helpfully informed me that it has direct messaging on the big computer now and showed me a message someone sent me a million years ago.

I have fantastic news: my library got more copies. Also I’m not going to get a new Kindle. I’ll buy a non-Amazon e-ink tablet first. Eventually. Maybe. This isn’t going to go the way you’d hoped, Jeffrey!

Thank goodness for a cloudy day to lull me into a false sense of security before summer

People on Threads love to complain about something but never link to it so you can't ever figure out what it is they're going on about

One thing I love to do is put a hold on an ebook knowing my Kindle will no longer be able to access the Kindle store when it’s available. Guess I’ll die

also lol at the person who put up a picture of the first page of the US Constitution and was like "this is hard to read whether you can read cursive or not" my friend it's actually incredibly easy to read what a huge self-own

Actually, I think a much bigger deal than what we’re teaching kids to write—print or cursive—is how we’re teaching them. Someone always complains, what about the lefties? Well, if you were being taught correctly. It wouldn’t be an issue. Hand below the line. No smudging. I’m not making this up.

Oh, great. The cursive discourse has started again.

i have an AI idea for investors. i want to buy a house and ay I need you to pay for it.

I was right to only lurk on bookthreads, those people love to just go on Al Gore's Internet and make claims and assertions

I have so many romance novels on my plate that I really do think I’m going to have to read some horror soon

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

I opened Libby this morning to check on my holds and all I got was this screen and I thought, Oh, I have finally been banned for being a hater

Not participating extensively in the romance community means sometimes I visit Bluesky and learn about the extent of this POV shift, and hmm. I don’t think I’ve read enough first-person romances to have a fully informed opinion, but I do have some reservations based on romance and other reading:

Do you ever see people get hyped for something that is described in the most off-putting way possible and get reminded that the world is beautiful because we are all different and we like different things

Oh my GOD. This is why you HAVE to vote people.

Me buying sheets: I would like to sort by bed size, fabric, and perhaps even...weave. The department store: What if I told you this sheet set was...one HUNDRED percent chambray? Buy buy buy! Me: You mean they didn't stop the loom and switch to sateen halfway through? Is that what that means? What?

nobody: A cold solicitation letter arriving from the mysterious Dr. Montague:

i voted today

I want to share my takes! Let’s see here: I think reality for historicals should be bent exactly as much as my personal whims deem appropriate. Anything further than that is annoying and bad.

I finally selected a book that I was told is romantasy and found it at my library and I have it on hold. Looking forward to seeing (He-Man voice) what’s going on. But later. When it’s available to me

I'm going to hold your hand as I say this: if you like classic lit more than you like contemporary literature, you need to remember that decades to hundreds of years of vetting went into it before you ever got to read it.

Every time I come to Bluesky to try to post about something inconsequential I write out a hater post and then delete it because what I don’t want is to spend my time and effort only being a hater. I don’t know what it is about Twitter-like spaces that makes me want to go the hater route;

stop making me look at those horrible men

I wish Merlin would hear the roosters around here and tell me it’s hearing chickens. They’re still birds

I have a lot to hide. Mind your business. Live in ignorance

Is Discord even going to like pay their teen council or what

In collaboration with Discord, AT&T announces plan to roll out age verification to all users and will automatically classify all unverified callers as teens for safety, ensuring that operators are always on the line listening, except when Courtney from Algebra II decides to emotionally destroy you

No Kings includes Draft Kings

This list is amazing. The “practice” option is just an aside tacked on to “pay a professional.” Poor people are only allowed one hobby and that hobby is inflating the AI bubble

Slop producer must produce more and more slop under more and more aliases in order to keep up the scam because no one wants her slop

i don't see why they can't do all the track and field events at both olympics. put a coat on

If Tumblr doesn’t come back soon I’m going to start tumbling here

Good news: I grabbed a book I already own to read soon. Great! Bad news: It's in my permanent collection so I will not be getting rid of it after

Miss Elizabeth App killed my beautiful wife OverDrive and keeps coming around my house claiming to be a perfect replacement and she will not stop reading The Count of Monte Cristo to me in the car

“we have stabilized and optimized every aspect of audio playback” Elizabeth I can’t even pause my audiobook with Apple Carplay now