Kat Howard
@katwithsword.bsky.social
Writer of books, short stories, comics, and other things. Friend to cats and sometimes people. She/her. https://www.kathowardbooks.com/ and https://epigraphtoepilogue.substack.com/
Oh yes. This was very smart, and very hot.
"In an alternate Regency England ruled by libertine female nobles," SAY. LESS. I'm already reading and I just heard about it 2 minutes ago. #collectiondevelopment bookshop.org/a/4013/97812...
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Oh yes. This was very smart, and very hot.
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Night comes to Wit's End. A new chapter begins on SABLE: A GHOST STORY sablecomic.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Night comes to Wit's End. A new chapter begins on SABLE: A GHOST STORY sablecomic.com
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I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
I really liked this one.
"Today’s poem is one about parents and children, bedtime fears, and the ways we communicate love and safety," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1414.
Read "This dark is the same dark as when you close" by @caesura.bsky.social: bit.ly/4oXwTf4
📖: @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
Read "This dark is the same dark as when you close" by @caesura.bsky.social: bit.ly/4oXwTf4
📖: @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I really liked this one.
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The ACLU of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against ICE, Noem, and other DHS officials. Susan Tincher, who had her wedding ring cut off by ICE agents, is one of the plaintiffs in the case.
December 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The ACLU of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against ICE, Noem, and other DHS officials. Susan Tincher, who had her wedding ring cut off by ICE agents, is one of the plaintiffs in the case.
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If you're reading this and thinking, man, I wish there was a worker-owned collective of cultural critics that I could support, may I introduce you to @theflytrapmedia.com! FYI, we have gift subscriptions for that special person in your life.
www.theflytrapmedia.com/gift-subscri...
www.theflytrapmedia.com/gift-subscri...
The loss of cultural criticism and criticism as a professional field is making society manifestly worse.
Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?—Asterisk
The decline of criticism might explain the sense that our culture is stagnating. How can we bring it back?
asteriskmag.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If you're reading this and thinking, man, I wish there was a worker-owned collective of cultural critics that I could support, may I introduce you to @theflytrapmedia.com! FYI, we have gift subscriptions for that special person in your life.
www.theflytrapmedia.com/gift-subscri...
www.theflytrapmedia.com/gift-subscri...
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Call your reps. Yes, even your Republican reps. Tell them to vote to extend ACA subsidies.
Breaking news: Moderate House Republicans join Democrats to force a vote on ACA subsidies, which are likely to expire.
Speaker Mike Johnson had refused to allow a vote, provoking the strongest rebellion among Republicans from swing districts to date.
Speaker Mike Johnson had refused to allow a vote, provoking the strongest rebellion among Republicans from swing districts to date.
Moderate House Republicans join Democrats to force vote on ACA subsidies
The Senate has already rejected the plan, so the subsidies are still virtually certain to expire at the end of this year.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Call your reps. Yes, even your Republican reps. Tell them to vote to extend ACA subsidies.
I *loved* this book and this cover is perfect. Put it on your preorder list now, friends.
would u like to see a very hot book cover for a very hot book that is available now for preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/poss...
December 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I *loved* this book and this cover is perfect. Put it on your preorder list now, friends.
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Molly is so smart, so talented, and has so much experience - I can’t think of a single book-related job she wouldn’t knock out of the damn park
There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now:
I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.
I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.
December 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Molly is so smart, so talented, and has so much experience - I can’t think of a single book-related job she wouldn’t knock out of the damn park
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Helene Schjerfbeck, Fragment, 1904. Oil on canvas, 12 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. (Villa Gyllenberg / Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Helsinki), from an exhibition of the Finnish painter now on at the Met
December 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Helene Schjerfbeck, Fragment, 1904. Oil on canvas, 12 3/8 x 13 3/8 in. (Villa Gyllenberg / Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Helsinki), from an exhibition of the Finnish painter now on at the Met
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"Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah with his wife of 57 years, Larisa Kleytman, also a Holocaust survivor, when the attack began. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body."
www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...
www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...
Chabad rabbis, Holocaust survivor, 10-year-old among victims of Sydney terror attack
At least 15 people were killed when two gunmen opened fire on 'Chanukah by the Sea' event at Bondi Beach. These are some of their stories
www.timesofisrael.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah with his wife of 57 years, Larisa Kleytman, also a Holocaust survivor, when the attack began. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body."
www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...
www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...
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What an absolute banger, what a killer fit
RIP Carl Carlton, prayers to his family 🙏🏾💙🕊
🗣Open up your heart...be a lasting part of everlasting love..
🗣Open up your heart...be a lasting part of everlasting love..
December 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What an absolute banger, what a killer fit
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Thread
Oh wow what a thread
Oh wow what a thread
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Thread
Oh wow what a thread
Oh wow what a thread
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O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!
Thinking of this heroism makes me even angrier about what happened in Uvalde, about the craven political rhetoric that "only a good guy with a gun" can stop a shooting. (deleted and reposted to correct a spelling error)
Hero. ❤️
'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
archive.today/2025.12.14-1...
'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
archive.today/2025.12.14-1...
December 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Thinking of this heroism makes me even angrier about what happened in Uvalde, about the craven political rhetoric that "only a good guy with a gun" can stop a shooting. (deleted and reposted to correct a spelling error)
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“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
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I’ll never forget that one of the Parkland survivors was the granddaughter of one of the few who survived the Camden massacre in 1949.
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I’ll never forget that one of the Parkland survivors was the granddaughter of one of the few who survived the Camden massacre in 1949.
This is one part of teaching that I don't miss.
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is one part of teaching that I don't miss.
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✨✨ONE HOUR LEFT✨✨ to buy your shiny things for the holidays! All necklaces still 25% off until 1 pm MST, when I will have to shut down Bleeding Hart Studio for 2025 and get ready for my own holiday travel.
www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
www.etsy.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
✨✨ONE HOUR LEFT✨✨ to buy your shiny things for the holidays! All necklaces still 25% off until 1 pm MST, when I will have to shut down Bleeding Hart Studio for 2025 and get ready for my own holiday travel.
www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
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GOOD MORNING I AM A COZY BABY
A COZY BABY WITH A DIRECT SIGHTLINE INTO THE ETERNAL VASTNESS OF THE ABYSS
A COZY BABY WITH A DIRECT SIGHTLINE INTO THE ETERNAL VASTNESS OF THE ABYSS
December 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
GOOD MORNING I AM A COZY BABY
A COZY BABY WITH A DIRECT SIGHTLINE INTO THE ETERNAL VASTNESS OF THE ABYSS
A COZY BABY WITH A DIRECT SIGHTLINE INTO THE ETERNAL VASTNESS OF THE ABYSS
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🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
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Making draconian changes to Amercian copyright law for decades to protect Mickey and now they're -- just giving him away? Oh wait I paying $1 billion for the privilege of handing him over.
Well this ain’t good.
“Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will allow the AI platform to use its characters and properties to generate short, user-prompted social videos.”
www.wsj.com/business/med...
“Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will allow the AI platform to use its characters and properties to generate short, user-prompted social videos.”
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Making draconian changes to Amercian copyright law for decades to protect Mickey and now they're -- just giving him away? Oh wait I paying $1 billion for the privilege of handing him over.
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used to be like "ha ha how could people fall for snake oil" and now it's like "oh everyone falls for every kind of snake oil possible all the time including billionaires and politicians, just guzzling up snake oil at a horrifically alarming rate and vomiting out onto the rest of us" 🫠🙃
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
used to be like "ha ha how could people fall for snake oil" and now it's like "oh everyone falls for every kind of snake oil possible all the time including billionaires and politicians, just guzzling up snake oil at a horrifically alarming rate and vomiting out onto the rest of us" 🫠🙃
I really enjoyed Anna North's Bog Queen. Quiet, but with a lot of depth.
December 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I really enjoyed Anna North's Bog Queen. Quiet, but with a lot of depth.