"he's nothing but ego. if he stopped bragging he wouldn't have anything to say." --my 8yo, about another 8yo, unprovoked

i know better than to go on cville reddit, but the casual white lib condescension towards years of Black community organizing sure explains a lot about this town!

CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First@cbs19news.bsky.social · yesterday

Angry crowd at meeting over Dairy Market expansion

kids wanted to "dress up" for picture day, which apparently means, in this household, plaid flannel shirts. damning stuff

me typing "upper back pain why" into google

nothing this guy writes is worth the calories it takes to read it, but it's wild to see a man publicly admit that he thinks there are only two types of people in the world: him, and Minorities

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 3d ago

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

this book requires me to learn some late 19th century sailing jargon and idk why every single word needs to sound like something a drunk victorian would yell out his carriage window

extremely niche content but if your 7-14yo children love soccer AND guys with cool powers...... this show is For Them youtu.be/qVeikhEKaY0?...

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oh! forgot to post this here: there's a 15th anniversary edition of THE NIGHT CIRCUS coming out and i got to write an introduction for it <3 www.penguin.co.uk/books/412187...

hey if you get an email from "authoraharrow@gmail.com" it's not me!!!! it's my sloppelgänger!

motion to ban author readings unless they are willing to commit to doing funny voices for every character. exceptions will be made for authors with naturally hot voices and/or cool accents

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ideally a marriage consists of one person who is nice enough to let the door-to-door bible guys start a conversation and one person who is mean enough to get them out of it

Climate Change Denialism? Area Woman Bakes Apple Pie Even Though it's Still Hot as Shit

SURPRISE!! my first uk tour 😭

first review I've seen for this story and it turns out i was, perhaps, like everyone else: goin through it

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"The Last Archive" by @alixeharrow.bsky.social in THE SLANTWISE HISTORIES (2026) As depressingly relevant today as it would have been in 1930s Germany, but Harrow's writing, even when mournful, is full of the gritty kind of hope you feel when you resurface from being ground face-first in the dirt.

October events and appearances! Get hype for Halloween season, come see me and fellow writers like @stgibson.bsky.social and @caitlinstarling.com (and more!), buy some spooky books 👻

i love it when people disguise their strident, contrarian, frankly provocative opinions with a reasonable tone, so that when you get mad they can be like "omg calm down you're so obsessed with me." it doesn't annoy me at all and it will not turn me into a supervillain

dying to know how the team settled on "i actually do have values, but they're secret, so feel free to imagine they are good" as a defensive strategy. was someone like, okay, so imagine a cat in a box with a flask of poison and a geiger counter--

as a reader of historical romances i have to say the thing where she makes him give up his elaborate revenge plot to prove his love?? baffling. unrealistic. girl this is a group project now

we started the first lotr movie this weekend and the kids had to pause halfway through to build: the entire fellowship

excuse me @alixeharrow.bsky.social made me read this short story and now I am having FEELINGS (she also wrote about it! buttondown.com/alixeharrow/...)

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sent out a 2,800 word newsletter today. about my own work? god no. about a 2008 short story by kij johnson of course!! follow me 4 more promo tips 👍 buttondown.com/alixeharrow/...

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sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

Anyone calling the refusal to compromise on trans rights a "purity test" can get into the bin as far as I'm concerned

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

aside from everything else, it's very funny to pretend that hiring "GHOST writers" ever made you, yourself, an author. you are simply describing two types of guys who did not write a book

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2w ago

"the raw data of a novel" 🙃 The way AI evangelists talk about art is truly alien to me. (From a comment left on an article of mine.)

husband just solved a minor household problem and said "that's why they pay me the big bucks." it's not his birthday but i'm pretty sure this is the day he turned forty

update: total failure. showed up at the bus stop with three copies of the paper and riley was tolerantly amused, like a celebrity dealing with pushy fans. my own son (a traitor) ended up just reading the interview and laughing at the best lines

Nathan Alderman@nathanalderman.com · 3w ago

In our interview, Riley said they don't read C-VILLE -- though they sometimes do the sudoku or help their dad with the crossword. Hopefully they'll read it this week! We also eagerly wait to see whether @alixeharrow.bsky.social will enact her threatened turnabout:

just checking the cville school site on the very day that mr. mamdani bans AI in schools--

coverage like this is genuinely why our police chief wanted cops back in the schools. he's very good at PR and security theater! who cares about national and local statistics if you get wholesome photo ops!

KattyWren@kattywren.bsky.social · 3w ago

www.29news.com/2026/08/28/m... I see CPD has NBC29 doing their PR for them. Look, I'm glad these two are enjoying themselves giving fist bumps and 'getting to know' the kids but you don't need COPS for that. You just don't.