Tim Lane
@timlane.bsky.social
Author, father, nauseously hopeful.
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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That deafening silence is the collective roar of every free speech absolutist staying quiet while the government tells us what to say, what art is appropriate, who deserves to be on TV, and what books your kids can read.
September 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
That deafening silence is the collective roar of every free speech absolutist staying quiet while the government tells us what to say, what art is appropriate, who deserves to be on TV, and what books your kids can read.
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Hope you find time to read today.
August 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hope you find time to read today.
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Most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7.
from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org
from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org
Big Plastic wants you to think you can recycle your yogurt container
Those numbered labels, vetted by private interests, can be misleading.
www.motherjones.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7.
from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org
from @grist.org via @climatedesk.org
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Time to bring back the summoning circle for writers!
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That email
🕯 or acceptance 🕯
you've been
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That email
🕯 or acceptance 🕯
you've been
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July 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Time to bring back the summoning circle for writers!
🕯 🕯
🕯 🕯
That email
🕯 or acceptance 🕯
you've been
🕯 waiting for 🕯
🕯 🕯️
🕯 🕯
🕯 🕯
That email
🕯 or acceptance 🕯
you've been
🕯 waiting for 🕯
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
June 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Always right
Work matters. The hustle matters. But remember that life is super fucking short and your definition of “young” keeps shifting, so close your eyes and listen to some music. Take a walk. Read a few pages. Check on a friend. Smoke a joint. Call your mom. Love hard. Remember to live.
May 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Always right
Never do I impress my kids more than when I bake a loaf of bread
April 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Never do I impress my kids more than when I bake a loaf of bread
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federal "five second rule" now in effect.
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z
April 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
federal "five second rule" now in effect.
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Not gonna boost any of these RFK articles, but if you think autism is a problem because autistic folks won’t “pay taxes” or “hold a job”, you are just as bad as he is.
They’ll never write a poem?
I’ve worked on entire novels by autistic folks. My autistic son will grow up to read them.
They’ll never write a poem?
I’ve worked on entire novels by autistic folks. My autistic son will grow up to read them.
April 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Not gonna boost any of these RFK articles, but if you think autism is a problem because autistic folks won’t “pay taxes” or “hold a job”, you are just as bad as he is.
They’ll never write a poem?
I’ve worked on entire novels by autistic folks. My autistic son will grow up to read them.
They’ll never write a poem?
I’ve worked on entire novels by autistic folks. My autistic son will grow up to read them.
Please go get your eyes on WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by @erikaswyler.bsky.social truly special www.powells.com/book/we-live...
We Lived on the Horizon: Erika Swyler: Hardcover: 9781668049594: Powell's Books
www.powells.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Please go get your eyes on WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by @erikaswyler.bsky.social truly special www.powells.com/book/we-live...
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RIP all the characters I’ve ever loved 🪦💔
April 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
RIP all the characters I’ve ever loved 🪦💔
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After bringing back a few more like these we should totally open up a theme park. #direwolf #deextinction
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
After bringing back a few more like these we should totally open up a theme park. #direwolf #deextinction
Truly wild stuff
absolutely insanity on Fox Business. this would be a bit much even in Pyongyang.
April 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Truly wild stuff
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This thread, obviously.
The *only* things that keep me going are the feelings of personal accomplishment after completing a gargantuan amount of work, and the sense that I've created something only my specific life and mind could.
The *only* things that keep me going are the feelings of personal accomplishment after completing a gargantuan amount of work, and the sense that I've created something only my specific life and mind could.
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
March 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This thread, obviously.
The *only* things that keep me going are the feelings of personal accomplishment after completing a gargantuan amount of work, and the sense that I've created something only my specific life and mind could.
The *only* things that keep me going are the feelings of personal accomplishment after completing a gargantuan amount of work, and the sense that I've created something only my specific life and mind could.
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Is large print actually best way to read?
February 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Is large print actually best way to read?
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ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.
February 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.
Imagine being a young graphic designer at ESPN and getting this assignment. Then you just look up, stare into blank space, and reconsider everything.
February 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Imagine being a young graphic designer at ESPN and getting this assignment. Then you just look up, stare into blank space, and reconsider everything.
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🔥COVER + PUB DATE REVEAL!🔥
My new novel CLEMENTINE CRANE PREFERS NOT TO! Coming OCTOBER 14, 2025.
It's "'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' meets a hot-flashing, perimenopausal woman who’s had ENOUGH of the patriarchy."
Please hit that ♥️ button & repost! 🙏 #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #Booksky
My new novel CLEMENTINE CRANE PREFERS NOT TO! Coming OCTOBER 14, 2025.
It's "'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' meets a hot-flashing, perimenopausal woman who’s had ENOUGH of the patriarchy."
Please hit that ♥️ button & repost! 🙏 #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #Booksky
February 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🔥COVER + PUB DATE REVEAL!🔥
My new novel CLEMENTINE CRANE PREFERS NOT TO! Coming OCTOBER 14, 2025.
It's "'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' meets a hot-flashing, perimenopausal woman who’s had ENOUGH of the patriarchy."
Please hit that ♥️ button & repost! 🙏 #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #Booksky
My new novel CLEMENTINE CRANE PREFERS NOT TO! Coming OCTOBER 14, 2025.
It's "'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' meets a hot-flashing, perimenopausal woman who’s had ENOUGH of the patriarchy."
Please hit that ♥️ button & repost! 🙏 #5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity #Booksky
This exact sentiment blowing up my texts @matasar.bsky.social
I guess the Blazers are just good now
February 2, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This exact sentiment blowing up my texts @matasar.bsky.social
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Two of my favorites! Wish I could be there
Catch me at Riffraff Bookstore in Providence, RI on 1/21!!!
With K. Chess (FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER LIVED)! You might need a palate cleanser from the day before. I'm trying to pick an especially weird/fun or comedically gross section for you. If I can't decide, I'll let YOU pick.
riffraffpvd.com/events/
With K. Chess (FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER LIVED)! You might need a palate cleanser from the day before. I'm trying to pick an especially weird/fun or comedically gross section for you. If I can't decide, I'll let YOU pick.
riffraffpvd.com/events/
Events
riffraffpvd.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Two of my favorites! Wish I could be there
My people are those who fight the urge to say “do not go in there!” Like Ace Ventura Every time they leave the bathroom.
January 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My people are those who fight the urge to say “do not go in there!” Like Ace Ventura Every time they leave the bathroom.