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

One more thing about JQ Editions while I’m thinking about it: While I would have gone with different endpapers had I been in charge, I am not finding myself outraged about the art on the least-viewed part of the book. Maybe I’m a bad contemporary trends hater, but whatever

I am seeing some very nice covers on that JQ Editions kickstarter…

On the bright side I’m having a new fun fresh American problem and it’s just scheduling. Sign up for this and tell me about it

I love stories. I had to stop listening to my audiobook to go do my job and I spent hours eagerly awaiting my next chance to find out what a French man with locked-in syndrome was going to put in his will

hmm. i’m too tired for cognitive tests today

It’s so fun how a few years ago I was all “I’ll start with a modest graphics card when I build my PC and upgrade later. I have a ton of old games to play :)” and ever since then the tech companies have not wanted to sell me a new GPU. On the bright side, I know the games I have aren’t slop!

Every day I get closer and closer to making a Threads account

The trade paperback I checked out from the library earlier this week is still in my car because it’s too big for my little bag. AND it’s a new book so I HAVE to read it soon because it has a shorter loan period.

I saw an ad earlier in which someone asked an AI chatbot what to say to a nosy relative’s inevitable questions, and I thought, that’s the sort of thing you brainstorm with your friends about. And they commiserate with you. Talk to them! The world of these AI ads always seems just profoundly lonely.

I think sometimes about AI usage in the workplace and the way some people describe it it sounds like you’re either a) making yourself an underpaid manager of an employee who sucks or b) making yourself your own assistant. Or worse, making someone else do those jobs because you don’t check the output

I have to be honest, trying to write a book using generative AI sounds boring as hell because you have to do all the parts that suck (like editing and managing) but you don’t even get to do the fun part (writing). Why would you offload the fun parts and keep the editing? I don’t WANT to edit.

This isn’t even a hot take because I know people agree with me: trade paperbacks are too big and we NEED mass market paperbacks so we can throw them in a small bag for on-the-go reading

fetch my SMELLING SALTS goodness me what IF we lived in a world where you needed a REFERRAL to see a specialist

Still think it would be really funny if people started calling Phil Berger a yankee carpetbagger since he’s a Republican from New York

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Important update: New plan is to give this up. Doing this during November has always been ridiculous, and for me especially this year. But I did try out Reedsy, so that’s fun! Might continue with it

I will say this: “Library” is not always the answer to book piracy. Sometimes a library will never get a book, whether that’s because of Amazon restrictions on availability or library pickiness or you’re the only patron who wants it. Sometimes the answer is: You don’t get to read this book right now

@thestorygraph.com I still think this is a good idea that cannot POSSIBLY go wrong

Frankenstein (2025)

great news: this hasn’t happened so far. terrible news: i’m behind on my word count

this is still happening

Sometimes I wonder how you people see all these stuff you’re mad about and then I realize you’re not exclusively on the Following page

okay bluesky has got to be one of the dumbest social media platforms. everyone go back to tumblr where borzois get inexplicably flagged as potentially mature. it’s also stupid there but we know they aren’t doing it on purpose.