Original Squiggle™️

With alt text for nested screenshot. Because everyone needs this bit of inspiration.

who gives a fuck dude she brags about using the money she receives to get laws passed that abuse countless actual people who exist in the real world

hear hear

All gardens are built atop the piled dead.

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Oh shit there is an all new @tkingfisher.com book up for pre-order! The hardcover edition appears to be SUPER FANCY: bookshop.org/p/books/heml...

Complaint about delivery of wrong grade of copper „object removed for study”

A Polish acquaintance went to British Museum specifically to see this tablet only to be cheated by Ea-nasir from beyond the grave

Image of a snake made of flower stems and grass wrapped around a red apple. Text: 'HEMLOCK & SILVER T. Kingfisher New York Times Bestselling Author of A Sorceress Comes to Call'

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who can flip the creepiest Snow White of all? If you said @tkingfisher.com you win the poisoned apple. HEMLOCK & SILVER is scary and full of shivery surprises. Love the main character so much. 10 of 10 stars, August 19 release. Thanks to @macmillanlib.bsky.social. #ewgc

Costco, which has come out saying it supports DEI, will make no changes to its existing programs, AND pays workers a minimum of $30/hour, is up 15% YTD.

Target, which announced it is ending all DEI programs and has a minimum wage of $15-$24/hour, is down over 4%.

Keep voting with your wallet.

That last part is the most important. These are not proclamations from on high, they are flimsy pieces of paper.

What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.

like 100 times today somebody has been like "oh yeah? well without chatgpt how am i supposed to do THIS?" and the thing is just their literal job that they are doing extremely poorly

Hello new followers! Real quick note that I may have followed you from a starter pack -- I'm going to block you pretty quick if you post genAI art or writing though, and you're getting unfollowed if you reskeet it. Nothing personal! I just hate it! :)

Winter 2025: *Dean Spade, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together, Jan 2025 *Edgar Gomez, Alligator Tears (memoir in essays), Feb 11 Emily St. James, Woodworking (novel), March 4 *Torrey Peters, Stag Dance (a novel + 3 novellas), March 11 Spring 2025: Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot (nonfiction), March 25 Vivian Blaxell, Worthy of the Event (essay), April Anton Solomonik, Realistic Fiction (short stories), April Jeanne Thornton, A/S/L (novel), April 1 Aurora Mattia, Unsex Me Here (fiction), April 1 Andrea Long Chu, Authority (essays), April 8 *Denne Michele Norris, When the Harvest Comes (debut novel), April 15 Issac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide (novel), April 15 *Niko Stratis, The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman (memoir in essays), May 6 Mac Crane, A Sharp Endless Need (novel), May 13 Harron Walker, Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman (essays), May 20

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :)

Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

Not all who wandir are lost.

Except me. Absolutelye confused about everyethinge. Have lost the path. Not sure about the destinacioun. Not even sure about the wanderinge part. Wayte, ys that a birde?

The yule worms are bursting through the frigid topsoil, wrapped in fleshy tinsel, warbling arcane carols at the moon.

Here's a helpful reminder to unclench your spleen, drink some ectoplasm, treat yourself as you would a giant cosmic squirrel.

Some rules for the new world disorder awaiting us:
1. You are not going to engage in political violence. If you do, expect it to accomplish nothing and end with you dead or in jail. Ppl positioned to engage in successful political violence and rare and you are not one of them. Be fucking peaceful.

The De Atramentis document inks are lovely and water resistant!

Here's a magpie irritated at not being able to harass me into leaving my bus stop.

It is a thing, and as a Loan Department person, it’s typically something we actively try to avoid if we can help it, only done after we’ve tried tons of other options (like asking the appraiser for better comps etc), and I wish bankers would stop phrasing it like we’re doing it for funsies

Oh! Hey! I have just remembered that a few months ago, a friend of Kevin’s solved a mystery that had been making me nuts for years! (A brief thread)

Incidentally, if people just want permission to spend a month writing the first draft of a book…

*clears throat*

I, Real Published Author With Awards And Shit, hereby give whoever needs it permission to take a month and write like the devil if they want to.

And it can be any month they want.

Pilot Prera fountain pen w/ cartridge converter! Very comfy FP (and my personal favorite), cheap for the quality, small converter for easy ink switching. I’d recommend the ink sample packs from Goulet Pens to have a large quantity of colors that won’t take up too much space (:

I have a SUPER weird grip and I have tons of fountain pens! Just use it like you would a normal pen. I hate videos like that

a very traditional 19th century portrait of Ann S. Stephens, whose influence on American popular culture is criminally overlooked

Hi. I'm Ann S. Stephens. Born in 1810 in Connecticut, died in 1886. I lived a long happy life, supported my family (and husband) as a writer for 30 years, and oh by the way I INVENTED THE WESTERN. Does anybody namecheck me? Oh, nooo. Well, pay some respect to my name, punks.

Society of People Who Have Since Childhood Idly Contemplated Becoming a Fountain Pen Guy