Ardyce Alspach
@ardyce.bsky.social
Senior Editor at UNSQ :: YA/NA/adult fiction :: Freelance writer sometimes :: Professional Nerd :: neurospicy :: opinions my own :: she/her 🏳️🌈
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I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.
hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.
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Since I have a lot of new followers, I will re-up this. Some folks just wanted to buy a couple whistles from us instead of getting 100-1000 FOR FREE (which you can do at the linktree in my bio!!!!!)
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓
February 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Since I have a lot of new followers, I will re-up this. Some folks just wanted to buy a couple whistles from us instead of getting 100-1000 FOR FREE (which you can do at the linktree in my bio!!!!!)
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓
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Think about students, renters, women who changed their names, and rural voters without easy access to records. The SAVE Act makes them prove citizenship with specific documents or lose their voice. The people already on the margins get pushed out completely.
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Think about students, renters, women who changed their names, and rural voters without easy access to records. The SAVE Act makes them prove citizenship with specific documents or lose their voice. The people already on the margins get pushed out completely.
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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If you want to help keep us in filament, this is the absolute best way to do it. Protopasta is the absolute best filament (one of my printers is on its last legs, and will only print reliably if I feed it Protopasta!) and they are aligned with the cause, which makes it even better!
If you have been waiting a super easy way to support the printing folks without giving 'zon your money, @protopasta.bsky.social stepped up with a solution! Every $20 you give them at this link helps produce 500 whistles.
proto-pasta.com/products/the...
proto-pasta.com/products/the...
"We Keep Us Safe" by The Whistle Crew
The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is proud to partner with the Whistle Crew, "a loose federation united by our love for 3D printing and community safety." Across the nation, our communities' lives are ...
proto-pasta.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
If you want to help keep us in filament, this is the absolute best way to do it. Protopasta is the absolute best filament (one of my printers is on its last legs, and will only print reliably if I feed it Protopasta!) and they are aligned with the cause, which makes it even better!
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Ah, Bad Bunny left you with questions about power outages, storms, and our hatred of colonialism? Don’t worry, I got you. I’ll show you the aftermath of a storm, take you to the beach, show you what hides under the waves. I’ll show you our magia…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
February 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Ah, Bad Bunny left you with questions about power outages, storms, and our hatred of colonialism? Don’t worry, I got you. I’ll show you the aftermath of a storm, take you to the beach, show you what hides under the waves. I’ll show you our magia…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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if you're an author attending BookCon this year (or, to be honest, any other ReedPop events, which include NYCC), and would like to add your name to the letter: forms.gle/V7m2YbcGguAY...
![TO: newyork@relx.com
ATTN: RELX CEO Erik Engstrom, Nick Luff (CFO), and Paul Ashton Walker (Chair)
Re: Immediate Termination of contracts between RELX subsidiaries and ICE
February 9th, 2026
Dear Erik Engstrom, Nick Luff, and Paul Ashton Walker,
We are some of the authors that make events like BookCon—run by your subsidiary, ReedPop—possible. Another of your subsidiaries, LexisNexis, has a $22.1 million dollar contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), supplying them with the data they need to surveil and terrorize our neighbors, friends, and families.[1] We condemn any collaboration with ICE and call for the immediate termination of all contracts between RELX and ICE.
ICE has a twenty-two year history of discrimination and abuse against immigrant communities. Under the current administration, their efforts have escalated in both violence and visibility—enabled by their partners in big data, including LexisNexis.[2]
RELX is a multinational corporation worth $40 billion, of which events like BookCon are only a small fraction. Our power is limited. But BookCon advertises itself as a place where "fantasy meets reality,"[3] and the reality is that RELX is profiting from mass terror against communities of color, including the murder of eight people this year alone. The fantasy is that a bunch of readers and authors could ignore it; we know a villain when we see one.
We, as authors, intend to honor our immediate commitments to BookCon and to our readers. If RELX chooses to renew their current contract with ICE–which expires on February 28, 2026[4]–we will be forced to reevaluate our association with all future ReedPop events.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5c65uqakb4kmnss5zgdsfego/bafkreicnq6khcuo2nkyef76ghhzvaikkm4vojnlasyxpuemjnrtmni4koa@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 5:19 PM
if you're an author attending BookCon this year (or, to be honest, any other ReedPop events, which include NYCC), and would like to add your name to the letter: forms.gle/V7m2YbcGguAY...
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All of this. I am the first of my target audience.
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
"Why would I read something someone couldn't be bothered to write" is a great refrain but I would also add as a writer "I won't write something I couldn't be bothered to read" because that's what every one of my books are: something *I* want to read.
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
All of this. I am the first of my target audience.
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
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Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Job offer!!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July.
This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!
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There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve. #Storytime
February 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve. #Storytime
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TONIGHT! I'll be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social with the brilliant @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social to talk about WINTER WHITE, retellings, love and hope in the face of trauma, the writing process, and how libraries are essential for our communities. Join us!
February 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
TONIGHT! I'll be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social with the brilliant @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social to talk about WINTER WHITE, retellings, love and hope in the face of trauma, the writing process, and how libraries are essential for our communities. Join us!
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There's still time to subscribe to the print version of THE END TIMES. We'll be shutting it down within the next few weeks or so. Digital subscriptions will stay open all year, but if you want print copies, time is running out.
badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...
badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 AM
There's still time to subscribe to the print version of THE END TIMES. We'll be shutting it down within the next few weeks or so. Digital subscriptions will stay open all year, but if you want print copies, time is running out.
badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...
badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...
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I just signed. #MedievalSky 🗃️ #Humanities
I know that these things generally make little difference, but I would advise medievalists to sign the petition to save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary. #medievalsky c.org/gGvyrHcwYt
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary!
c.org
February 3, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I just signed. #MedievalSky 🗃️ #Humanities
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Every time modems connected to the internet the signal transited through Hell for a few seconds. This was because of Al Gore performing the Ritual.
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
February 4, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Every time modems connected to the internet the signal transited through Hell for a few seconds. This was because of Al Gore performing the Ritual.
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Hey everyone!
Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!
But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.
I just resorted our list to put those on the top.
Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!
But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.
I just resorted our list to put those on the top.
Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Hey everyone!
Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!
But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.
I just resorted our list to put those on the top.
Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!
But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.
I just resorted our list to put those on the top.
Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!
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Did you just find out your favorite, super successful author is a piece of crap?
Good news! There are literally hundreds of other, amazing and vibrant writers out there who are pretty rad. Not perfect (who is?) but definitely worth your time.
Good news! There are literally hundreds of other, amazing and vibrant writers out there who are pretty rad. Not perfect (who is?) but definitely worth your time.
February 3, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Did you just find out your favorite, super successful author is a piece of crap?
Good news! There are literally hundreds of other, amazing and vibrant writers out there who are pretty rad. Not perfect (who is?) but definitely worth your time.
Good news! There are literally hundreds of other, amazing and vibrant writers out there who are pretty rad. Not perfect (who is?) but definitely worth your time.
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You should go buy this because it’s excellent.
I also just finished FAMILY PLOT and omg, @cheriepriest.com, it creeped me out so much I couldn’t put it down and then I had to read a chapter of another book to be able to sleep. And that ending? Ahh!
Buy her books.
I also just finished FAMILY PLOT and omg, @cheriepriest.com, it creeped me out so much I couldn’t put it down and then I had to read a chapter of another book to be able to sleep. And that ending? Ahh!
Buy her books.
Heads up, all you ghost-loving readers: I have happy news! You should go check it out - and while you're at it, pick up my spooky little rural mystery CINDERWICH for just THREE BUCKS. I mean, if you want to put a little dough in my pockets and/or kibble in bowls: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/happy-a...
Happy Announcements and Sweet Deals — The Haunt*
Well, we survived our first month of 2026. What do you say we call that a mulligan, and pretend that this Monday is the first of the new year? That’s what I’m doing, anyway. New year, new me. New barg...
www.cheriepriest.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM
You should go buy this because it’s excellent.
I also just finished FAMILY PLOT and omg, @cheriepriest.com, it creeped me out so much I couldn’t put it down and then I had to read a chapter of another book to be able to sleep. And that ending? Ahh!
Buy her books.
I also just finished FAMILY PLOT and omg, @cheriepriest.com, it creeped me out so much I couldn’t put it down and then I had to read a chapter of another book to be able to sleep. And that ending? Ahh!
Buy her books.
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It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
February 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
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ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org
February 2, 2026 at 5:32 PM
ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org
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A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
January 31, 2026 at 11:12 PM
A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
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If tear gas is seeping into your home or you know tear gas is likely to be deployed in your neighborhood, you can do the following:
Set up wet towels in the doorjambs and windows. Turn off your HVAC systems, and build and use CR boxes.
This isn't perfect, but it will help.
CR box guide below:
Set up wet towels in the doorjambs and windows. Turn off your HVAC systems, and build and use CR boxes.
This isn't perfect, but it will help.
CR box guide below:
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 PM
If tear gas is seeping into your home or you know tear gas is likely to be deployed in your neighborhood, you can do the following:
Set up wet towels in the doorjambs and windows. Turn off your HVAC systems, and build and use CR boxes.
This isn't perfect, but it will help.
CR box guide below:
Set up wet towels in the doorjambs and windows. Turn off your HVAC systems, and build and use CR boxes.
This isn't perfect, but it will help.
CR box guide below:
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This is a good point re: Portland today
This wasn't on federal land
It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity
It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets
Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here
It's assault
This wasn't on federal land
It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity
It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets
Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here
It's assault
People need to understand that this protest was approved by city. The fact that the public still got gassed & flash bangs shows that city does NOT have the public’s back.
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
This is a good point re: Portland today
This wasn't on federal land
It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity
It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets
Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here
It's assault
This wasn't on federal land
It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity
It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets
Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here
It's assault
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2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. Filing deadlines are coming up fast -- in most places, it's not too late to get on the ballot. We'll help you get started. runforwhat.net
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Take the next step: Look up offices you can run for
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February 1, 2026 at 2:09 AM
2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. Filing deadlines are coming up fast -- in most places, it's not too late to get on the ballot. We'll help you get started. runforwhat.net
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Prince and the Revolution
February 1, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Prince and the Revolution
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They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.
Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
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January 31, 2026 at 10:19 PM
They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.