L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🍂
@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app
SFF writer/editor. ATL/SEA. Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo/Locus Winner. Conrunner. LEGO builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. Read at Ldlewiswrites.com. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga/Titan, 4.7.2026)
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An even better look at the gorgeous Year of the Mer book 1 (of 2) cover! I gasped just about to death when they told me THEEEE Micaela Alcaino was the one doing it.
You can (and should) pre-order it wherever you pre-order your books. Out April 7, 2026. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...
You can (and should) pre-order it wherever you pre-order your books. Out April 7, 2026. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...
Lol I got a number of pen storage solutions for Xmas and am delighted (concerned) to report that I now have space for 17 additional irresponsible purchases
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Lol I got a number of pen storage solutions for Xmas and am delighted (concerned) to report that I now have space for 17 additional irresponsible purchases
There's... there's another Avengers movie?
December 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
There's... there's another Avengers movie?
Lol all of it. I am a heretic.
what is your least favorite piece of writing advice and why? 👀
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Lol all of it. I am a heretic.
This is The Obé, a custom tea blend for YEAR OF THE MER from @fridaytea.com. Available soonish and freaking delightful on a...decidedly balmy winter night. One of my favorite developments in an otherwise long year
December 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This is The Obé, a custom tea blend for YEAR OF THE MER from @fridaytea.com. Available soonish and freaking delightful on a...decidedly balmy winter night. One of my favorite developments in an otherwise long year
My ink storage situation has been...situated
December 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My ink storage situation has been...situated
The Polar Express movie still gives me the creeps
December 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The Polar Express movie still gives me the creeps
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Today's Puzzmo crossword has a clue about golf, which is an opportunity for me to repeat my position: no crossword clue should be about golf. Golf is an evil sport for sycophants and ontologically evil WASPs, and I resent being asked to know about it
December 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Today's Puzzmo crossword has a clue about golf, which is an opportunity for me to repeat my position: no crossword clue should be about golf. Golf is an evil sport for sycophants and ontologically evil WASPs, and I resent being asked to know about it
I have completed my zero draft of YOTM2 😮💨
December 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I have completed my zero draft of YOTM2 😮💨
What unfolds in the responses here is very good internet-ing
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What unfolds in the responses here is very good internet-ing
Please stop prompting me to review every product or service I get from you. My repeat business means you did a good job okay
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Please stop prompting me to review every product or service I get from you. My repeat business means you did a good job okay
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PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
It's the first day of winter and Xmas will be 75 degrees
December 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It's the first day of winter and Xmas will be 75 degrees
I only watched the last quarter or so of this Bears game but congratulations Caleb Williams good lord
December 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I only watched the last quarter or so of this Bears game but congratulations Caleb Williams good lord
Happy holidays
December 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Happy holidays
*The Nutcracker Suite plays ominously from somewhere overhead*
King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding
King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding
Rats could climb up your toilet as a result of recent flooding from atmospheric rivers, King County officials say. Enter "wet rat winter."
www.seattletimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
*The Nutcracker Suite plays ominously from somewhere overhead*
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The story seed nobody asked for.
King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding
King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding
Rats could climb up your toilet as a result of recent flooding from atmospheric rivers, King County officials say. Enter "wet rat winter."
www.seattletimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The story seed nobody asked for.
It feels like another too-much-news Friday. What are we eating for dinner
December 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It feels like another too-much-news Friday. What are we eating for dinner
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The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
Oh thank fuck
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Oh thank fuck
This feels like an easily avoided rake, gang
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This feels like an easily avoided rake, gang
I am 2.5mos away from Ledo Pizza
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I am 2.5mos away from Ledo Pizza
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For fiction fans, contributors to the latest anthology of Palestinian spec fic talk about the question: “can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?” arablit.org/2025/12/15/o...
On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with ficti…
arablit.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
For fiction fans, contributors to the latest anthology of Palestinian spec fic talk about the question: “can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?” arablit.org/2025/12/15/o...
So Mooncat has this A:TLA Bloodbender nail polish right...
a cartoon of grinch with a very angry face on a blue background
Alt: The OG Grinch doing his sinister grin
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So Mooncat has this A:TLA Bloodbender nail polish right...
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Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
Won $4 playing Powerball. Take that, doomers
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Won $4 playing Powerball. Take that, doomers