Linda Holmes
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk.
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Linda Holmes
@lindaholmes.bsky.social
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Back After This by Linda Holmes: 9780593599259 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A podcast producer agrees to host a new series about modern dating—but will the show jeopardize her chance at finding real love? From the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over.....
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My next book is set in the world of podcasts, dogs, influencers and sketchy dating advice. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720444...
Started to write a WICKED: FOR GOOD intro and almost wrote "Madame Morbius." Now that is cursed.
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Started to write a WICKED: FOR GOOD intro and almost wrote "Madame Morbius." Now that is cursed.
“With your permission”
[does not allow an opportunity to give or not give permission]
[does not allow an opportunity to give or not give permission]
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“With your permission”
[does not allow an opportunity to give or not give permission]
[does not allow an opportunity to give or not give permission]
This is a very correct list, in that it looks a lot like mine would.
And if you're one of the twos of folks who then wondered, Well, what would your Top 25 all-time Hallmark holiday movies be? Well, here you go
A little off the cuff, so subject to some shifting, but feel like this pretty accurately reflects the ones that stuck with me
letterboxd.com/sleepykittyp...
A little off the cuff, so subject to some shifting, but feel like this pretty accurately reflects the ones that stuck with me
letterboxd.com/sleepykittyp...
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is a very correct list, in that it looks a lot like mine would.
Gotta love getting old. Today's drama: What the hell did I do to my big toe?
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Gotta love getting old. Today's drama: What the hell did I do to my big toe?
I saw a comment this morning from a person who was like “I pirate all my books but I want to support this particular author [it was not me] so I’m going to buy the book” and when I tell you it took all my strength not to become the worst internet version of myself.
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I saw a comment this morning from a person who was like “I pirate all my books but I want to support this particular author [it was not me] so I’m going to buy the book” and when I tell you it took all my strength not to become the worst internet version of myself.
Okay it’s time for sleeping. I really envy everybody who exists in an environment where the people are less embarrassing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Okay it’s time for sleeping. I really envy everybody who exists in an environment where the people are less embarrassing.
It just occurred to me … what if the bamboo thing is a riff on *her* writing style? It’s probably not, but it’s the only thing that would make that more troll-y.
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It just occurred to me … what if the bamboo thing is a riff on *her* writing style? It’s probably not, but it’s the only thing that would make that more troll-y.
The ghost of mortifying scandals jumps out from behind my television. “What are you doing here?” I say.
“Oh I forgot my line, wait, wait, go out and come back in.”
I go out. I come back in.
The ghost of mortifying scandals leaps out again. “Bam-BOO!”
I roll my eyes and flop down on the couch.
“Oh I forgot my line, wait, wait, go out and come back in.”
I go out. I come back in.
The ghost of mortifying scandals leaps out again. “Bam-BOO!”
I roll my eyes and flop down on the couch.
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The ghost of mortifying scandals jumps out from behind my television. “What are you doing here?” I say.
“Oh I forgot my line, wait, wait, go out and come back in.”
I go out. I come back in.
The ghost of mortifying scandals leaps out again. “Bam-BOO!”
I roll my eyes and flop down on the couch.
“Oh I forgot my line, wait, wait, go out and come back in.”
I go out. I come back in.
The ghost of mortifying scandals leaps out again. “Bam-BOO!”
I roll my eyes and flop down on the couch.
I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
dlvr.it
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
I don’t think you have to be in politics to have had the moment where you get “offered” something and you kind of sigh and say, “I’m sure it’s really mean and weird.”
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I don’t think you have to be in politics to have had the moment where you get “offered” something and you kind of sigh and say, “I’m sure it’s really mean and weird.”
I just want to say I am offended by the idea of a movie where people time-travel to 1995. That year just happened!
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I just want to say I am offended by the idea of a movie where people time-travel to 1995. That year just happened!
Sometimes I do suspect they start with the title and work backwards. www.hallmarkchannel.com/the-more-the...
www.hallmarkchannel.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Sometimes I do suspect they start with the title and work backwards. www.hallmarkchannel.com/the-more-the...
Honestly, it's giving Madeline Kahn.
i think this may be the bit that broke me bc I am picturing her self-satisfied smirk at coming up with this and it is, honestly, making me die a little on the inside
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Honestly, it's giving Madeline Kahn.
Looking forward to the launch of my new company That Lady In The Twilight Zone Movie With No Mouth.
all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Looking forward to the launch of my new company That Lady In The Twilight Zone Movie With No Mouth.
I really appreciated the different perspectives here and the respect for lots of different concerns. There is no easy answer.
Some senior living communities are caring for people with dementia alongside other residents, not segregated behind locked doors. n.pr/4r59PgR
Dementia housing without locked wards? It's a small but growing movement
Some senior living communities are caring for people with dementia alongside other residents, not segregated behind locked doors.
n.pr
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I really appreciated the different perspectives here and the respect for lots of different concerns. There is no easy answer.
I let a bunch of things irritate me today and that’s my mistake. I should have been in bed all day on my heated mattress pad with my projector stars on the ceiling and the dog lying on my feet. I have rectified this error.
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I let a bunch of things irritate me today and that’s my mistake. I should have been in bed all day on my heated mattress pad with my projector stars on the ceiling and the dog lying on my feet. I have rectified this error.
I think I’m just not going to respond anymore to foolishness about how LLMs are a true substitute for thought. It’s an utter waste of time. People who commit to that idea will find out that it’s nonsense in time, and they aren’t going to listen until then.
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I think I’m just not going to respond anymore to foolishness about how LLMs are a true substitute for thought. It’s an utter waste of time. People who commit to that idea will find out that it’s nonsense in time, and they aren’t going to listen until then.
When Brian goes to school for the day, I’m pretty sure he just spends the whole time demanding attention.
Which, in fairness, is what I was like in school.
Which, in fairness, is what I was like in school.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
When Brian goes to school for the day, I’m pretty sure he just spends the whole time demanding attention.
Which, in fairness, is what I was like in school.
Which, in fairness, is what I was like in school.
Please don’t drag me into threads where people are defending pieces of writing I’ve already said I think are indefensible. Nothing good can come of that and it usually results in them talking down to me, which I dislike.
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Please don’t drag me into threads where people are defending pieces of writing I’ve already said I think are indefensible. Nothing good can come of that and it usually results in them talking down to me, which I dislike.
It would be a lot simpler just to gather your family in one location and set a pile of money on fire. And it would make basically the same point: Look, we have so much that we literally can’t spend it rationally or even indulgently.
if we tax them more, how will they pay for all the blood cleansing, cell rejuvenation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation they need? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It would be a lot simpler just to gather your family in one location and set a pile of money on fire. And it would make basically the same point: Look, we have so much that we literally can’t spend it rationally or even indulgently.
I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.
I agree. Better to tell the truth.
November 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I agree. Better to tell the truth.
Sometimes you are just overwhelmed by the sentence, over and over, “This is so gross.”
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Sometimes you are just overwhelmed by the sentence, over and over, “This is so gross.”
No wrong time to share the wisdom of Dutch.
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
No wrong time to share the wisdom of Dutch.
I already have 43 responses to my inquiry about Brussels sprouts. This place has the juice.
If you had some good CSA Brussels sprouts, and you were not a big cabbage-family person (broccoli yuck, etc.), and you wanted to make a really good-faith effort at finding an application for these sprouts that you liked, what would you try?
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I already have 43 responses to my inquiry about Brussels sprouts. This place has the juice.