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So many great items up for auction for @as-king.bsky.social's Gracie's House, which helps organizations create, maintain, and protect safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in rural areas and offers resources to improve the quality of life for LGBTQ+ youth and their families! givebutter.com/c/V7Anar/auc...

Gracie's House Epic Annual Online Auction By Gracie's House

Writer friends, check out this auction for Gracie's House with many great bookish items! #kidlit @as-king.bsky.social givebutter.com/c/V7Anar/auc...

Hi again! It's me with an another installment of the last book I ever thought would get banned--my picture book about a unicorn and kitty who are pals. A quick look at what this school district bizarrely found objectionable. 1/

ICE agents in Queens, New York break down a bedroom door and point guns at a mother & her four US citizen children

They dragged the mother out by her hair while yelling at the kids to “put your hands up, stupid!”

This is tyranny

These kids are traumatized

It was warrantless and no ID was shown.

@gregandree71.bsky.social — I saw this post today and laughed so hard at the “might be Satan” part.

Well, my health insurance just more than quadrupled. It’s more than my mortgage now. For one person. Must be nice to have taxpayers pay your top-notch health insurance for life while actively making decisions that hurt them. Y’all have no bottom.

Rights Report: Week of November 3, 2025 New deals for Susan Dennard, Danielle Sullivan, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, and others.

New book deals announced for @as-king.bsky.social @studioespinosa.bsky.social @sandraproudman.bsky.social + more

It’s more per month than my mortgage.

Oh damn. It’s more than quadrupled if they take the subsidies away. Good gods.

It’s kinda fitting to wake up the morning after Halloween to find my health insurance premium doubled.

You are a rockstar, Martha. Proud to know you and support you until the end of time.

@adinaking.bsky.social is one of my favorite people on planet earth. We are sisters, really. If life was fair, someone would pay our rent for a year and provide a stipend and we’d write a wild thing together. A very wild thing.

Absolutely. I asked my 86 yo dad yesterday if he’d listened to Bad Bunny and he said he saw him on TV at some point. “He can really sing,” he said. 💜

Oh yes. Hate is at the core. But don’t the people whining about it notice that it’s a show of how uncultured they are and how they need basic elementary music education?

In my house growing up, my mom listened to a lot of Brasil 66 and Sergio Mendez, as a kid I liked Mozart, and as a teen I fell for Cuban music. A few years ago I fell for German rap. Etc. Music is universal. This Bad Bunny media obsession is just weird.

It’s all mashed up in the blender of radical self-interest. So many seasonings in this recipe.

therapyforwomen on Instagram: "Not every post, comment, or video is meant for you personally, and that’s okay.Social media has trained us to expect hyper-personal…" Not every post, comment, or video is meant for you personally, and that’s okay.Social media has trained us to expect hyper-personalized content. So when we see a recipe, routine, or opinion that doesn’t apply to us, we feel excluded.But learning to say, “this isn’t for me” without reacting defensively is growth. •••For more conversations that bring nuance back to the internet, listen to my podcast, Nuance Needed, and follow @therapyforwomen

Go read this. It’s possible to change how you think and react to other people’s content.

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Libraries provide vital access to information. Especially in times when that access is being threatened. Supporting them no matter the decibel level is where I’m at.

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Sometimes it’s hard being both hot and smart. 🤣

Just saying—if publishers all got together and gave authors a list of the email and address they would like used on the Anthropic claim form, that would come in really handy.

Pretty sure I’m not the first person saying this.

To the really nice young woman at the Ren Faire tonight with the obnoxious drunk guy in sunglasses: having to shush your boo during a public show is a red flag. And you are worth more. So much more. ❤️

Last night I had to explain emotional labor to a man. And now I’m stuck in some sort of loop.

I want an 8 foot taco.

There are times that being able to vomit on cue would be so handy.

I would like to say, again, that the press needs to be more responsible when they refer to mass murderers as “shooters.” A shooter is someone who fires a weapon. A mass murderer arrives on site with intention to murder.

This is how mass murders become normalized.

The list of teachers in this program is A M A Z I N G!!!!!

I am envious of those who can take advantage of this. What a tremendous opportunity

Prominent Kids' Authors Build a Low-Residency MFA Program Three high-profile authors have put their heads and their networks together to dream up a university program tailor-made for children’s and YA creators.

We did something awesome. 🕺
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