IT'S NEW BOOK TUESDAY let's have breakfast, make a reel, maybe write a newsletter???, and then just see what happens.

age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

I have a Vision

If you don't want to empower right-wing fascist authoritarians right now, you should call both Kathy Hochul and Tish James and tell them to suspend enforcement the SAFE act immediately Tish James ☎️: (800) 771-7755 Kathy Hochul ☎️: (518) 474-8390 bsky.app/profile/chim...

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · 2w ago

This means that it would be trivial for law enforcement to run queries to find the real-life identities of people who do things like post about ICE, or abortion, or Palestine, or being queer, or any other group they want to target.

I have now finished this and it is VERY GOOD YES GOOD I WANT SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE.

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3w ago

YES, CORRECT, GOOD JOB TEAM. WATCH MORE FASTER NOW

Our friend Celeste's health is sadly trending in the wrong direction... can you help be a part of lifting her up during this challenging time?

Celeste Pewter@celestepewter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Okay, all: a bit of a GFM update. I made a structured one-month plan with my doctor to try the public service job, but my health has actually gotten worse (sigh), so we're going to plan B. Would appreciate boosts, thank you. I genuinely wish it wasn't this expensive to be sick.

Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take

Indie writer friends, what do you use to lay out your manuscripts into book form, and is it something I, Bad At Tech And Not A Designer, could figure out? (This is for the one-off purposes of binding up a fanfic as a gift for a friend.)

Indie writer friends, what do you use to lay out your manuscripts into book form, and is it something I, Bad At Tech And Not A Designer, could figure out? (This is for the one-off purposes of binding up a fanfic as a gift for a friend.)

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness. THEMMMM 💙💙

Christina Orlando@cxorlando.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness YEAH I SAID IT. SUE ME.

First of all, true facts. Second of all, perfect alt text

sirosenbaum.bsky.social@sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 4w ago

Amazing that this man can perfectly execute both of the Great New York Expressions - Italian AND Jewish

Tomorrow is another day, and another chance to become the most haunted thing in the haunted forest north of town.

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

THE GREAT PUMPKIN PANCAKE PARTY is out in the world! This book is about food and family, and the traditions that help us become who we are. Thank you to everyone who has preordered, requested it from the library, shared it, reviewed it, or cheered it on. It means more than I can say.

I hate asking for help again, but I’m dealing with an unexpected medical issue - a rapidly growing goiter my doctor is concerned may be serious, right as I’m making a big job/housing decision. I made a GFM for medical follow-up + runway while I figure out the next step. Would so appreciate shares.

Lydia Kang@lydiakang.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey friends! Our one and only Celeste Pewter needs help after an already awful year. A new medical issue has made things tougher. Please read through her Go Fund Me for details, share and donate if you can. She’s been fighting for the good of our democracy tirelessly for years. gofund.me/4a6bcb3b5

If you're in NY, MD, SC, or UT: You have an election today. If you haven't already, GO VOTE!

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a viable basis for system of government

Tom Wilson@feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

British PM: Vacant James Bond: Vacant Doctor Who: Vacant If the King disappears in the next couple of weeks I think we may sink into the ocean.

Just, in terms of cheap metaphor, the incredibly corrupt guy who ran on “Drain the Swamp” creating a new, heretofore-unseen level of poison swamp and arresting people for going near it feels like final-season writers’ room behavior.

Man. All I want from this life is to make stuff. For my friends to be able to make stuff. For us all to live comfortably & not stress or worry about the world ending. I want to have the luxury of being able to do nothing, & be useless sometimes. Life is already so hard. We gotta lift each other up.

It’s not hyperbole that part of what kept the queer liberation movement going in the Reagan era was the partying part of the “bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and dance at night” schedule. Without joy there is no air left to fight

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

Hi, we saw you from across the bar, and we'd like to give you health care.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rep. AOC posts new photo on Instagram celebrating the Knicks alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Happy Pride y'all. 😎

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There’s a rainbow outside the Kennedy Center right now as a crowd awaits Trump’s name to be pulled off the arts venue

*has a lot of Feelings in Doctor Who Fan*

The pun is incredible and I need this book immediately.

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Torian Razner has a problem. The decrepit spaceship she bought may be the mossiest–and the bossiest–in the galaxy. Find out if she's *actually* made a huge mistake in this excerpt from Moss'd in Space, a new novel from @rebeccathorne.bsky.social!

People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jersey

New Jersey — Stand With Minnesota

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Reader, I cried. It's a star from Publisher's Weekly.

The Great Pumpkin Pancake Party by Celeste Pewter

Halloween becomes an opportunity for community-building in this kind-hearted story from Pewter and Wu, per a note based on the a...

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Happy Pride Month from your local queer children's book editor! Let's make some good queer books, and let's tell some queer authors that they're awesome!