It was a treat to design and illustrate this for @tinhouse.bsky.social Autumn online workshop! If you write speculative fiction, consider applying! Awesome faculty! <3

The thing that’s most striking about this is that they set up an e-mail account specifically for people to report on each other for any attempt to implement “DEIA or similar ideologies” and threatened “adverse consequences” for NOT reporting.

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

I’m hearing things in the attic…but too afraid to go up in it. 🫠

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for the Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD. It's on sale for 41% off. To put things in perspective, this 2 terabyte hard drive can store as much data as 15,625,000 Playstation 1 memory cards. That's a lot of Spyro the Dragon save files.
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when you stop reading "believe women" as "women never lie" and see it as "one of the foundational myths of patriarchy is that women can never be trusted" it makes a lot more sense.

I wrote an appropriately SFW story about a NSFW cucumber
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Shot from reading last night at The Writer’s Block’s Expo reading series. It’s been a while since I’ve done a reading and it was good for my soul

doctor dog treating sick cat, 15th century

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This sweet girl JillyBean was my partner’s mum’s dog. When she died in August, JillyBean became our dog. I’ve become attached to her, and her me ❤️

This echo chamber nonsense is predicated on the notion that bigotry is a valid perspective. It isn’t. Grow up! Think better!

The real trap here is that the Republicans have made defending civil rights seem like a frivolous thing and a whole lot of liberals are falling in line. Even if it was a culture war, so what? This would be a war worth fighting. What are we even doing here, people? Get it together.

I have two notes taped to the lamp beside my bed that say: no people pleasing and no disappointing myself. Visually reminding myself until it’s second nature.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

One of the populations that best knows how to handle authoritarian regimes are survivors of domestic violence. We have so much wisdom regarding this and it’s a shame that we’re almost entirely ignored by pundits.

It's okay to say 'I don't know', particularly if you don't know.

Kitty B, JillyBean, and Jackson. Never felt the power of animals during a time of grief before. It’s overwhelming how full I can feel from them in the midst of feeling empty and despairing. Grateful for the little ones!