About the man and about the state of our country.

Auto correct just turned my name into Star Wars and surely now I have special powers.

This one made me cry. Painfully astute.

I didn't know Oval Office was having a worst-spoken-word-poetry-contest.

This!

Working on a new novel. It has decided to be set in 2014-2015 and I am legit excited for the music I'll be listening to for the several next years.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

An amazing offering--I love studying sentences with Nina! (And the cost-benefit is ridiculous...don't tell her she should be charging more!) open.substack.com/pub/ninaschu...

I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.

Autocorrect changed "my novel" to "my love" and, yes.

Legit the funniest best book promo video. I laughed so hard.

I'm excite for this one! "...a parallel with the way chronically ill people don’t fit neatly into the prevailing healthy-sick binary. For that reason, she says, 'it would be hard for me to write about the sick body without writing about the racialized body as well.' "

The Princess Bride!

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

"give your demons something to do." @the-big-quiet.bsky.social, I propose we should start a writer advice column.

Please believe me when I tell you: Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now. You are going to need it. And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing. The thing that sustains and nourishes you. That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others. More present. More:

“In one fell swoop, these proposals threaten every form of outdoor recreation, of natural and cultural heritage... All to pay for a tax handout. That doesn’t sound very American to me.” WATCH @heinrich.senate.gov call out Republican's attempts to sell off our public lands 👇

"...when people use A.I. in the creative process they tend to gradually cede their original thinking." So many terrible costs. All with this goal: "toward consensus." Mind control at its best.

Amazing NoVA event alert--and also, @writesloud.bsky.social and @ambersparks.bsky.social, if you two ever decide to teach this as a class online, I would sign up immediately and have multiple friends who would too!

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Disappointing is exactly the word. The writing is the work, the work is the writing.

yes please.

From my pal, @ericjedelstein.bsky.social reporting from Glendale. #NoKings

Small head-nod exchange with Charles S. Dutton in a Baltimore Whole Foods.

Crying/laughing It’s Not Going Great, but Imagine How Much Worse Things Would Be with a Woman President www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Once I thought my mouse was haunted. It turned out there was a dog hair inside, wound around the sensor.

This is so much worse than I could possibly imagine.

My nearly-finished draft is currently called BETA DRAFT Post Scrivener Debacle and was preceded by Maybe Almost Correct DRAFT.

I'm all about accepting death, but I do oppose the malicious, intentional speeding of it for all non-wealthy...

AI Company: smashes faux-cake in your face

The call is coming from inside the house.

The work is the way, in everything.

Stormy day. Finding hope in the two flocks of goslings at my local lake. They are way off in the distance, as hope feels these days.

One of my greatest prides (and joys!) in life is editing well and having others thank me for guiding them on a piece of writing.

I am a fan of humanity and humans. Libro.fm is a great alternative--humans reading books with nuance and you designate what Indie you support!

If I could only have one flower / it would be a poem.

My best offering today: my dog in the grass. Note slight grimace at me disrupting her to take a photo (again).

Of my 30 open tabs this evening, at least 10 are various thesaurus (thesauri?) sites with various words I've hunted today.

Read this assuming it was a metaphor at first...

A hoodie from the dryer is the warm hug I needed this morning.

I don't know what to say...I've tried to express my rage/hatred/despair/heartbreak multiple times. I'm outraged that a few are damaging so much for the many.

Aubrey Hirsch's work is AMAZING and deserves all eyeballs on it. She makes me feel saner in these "unprecedented times"--highly recommend pre-ordering!

"It's not left or right, it's right or wrong. Let's get into some good trouble." Thank you @booker.senate.gov 🙏

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Still going! Uplifting to hear Sen. Booker stand up for Americans.

Disruption is all they seem to understand—so that’s exactly what they’re getting. For 14 hours, @booker.senate.gov has been on the Senate floor, speaking truth within the rules. This cannot be business as usual when our democracy’s on the line. Thank you, senator.

Everybody should be watching the link below. Corey Booker it’s going line item by line item of what Americans will lose. Please listen and have a tissue in hand. He is very eloquent and direct www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

Thank you @authorsguild.bsky.social!