'Nathan Boo-goine 👻

(Is Bluesky search broken for all y’all, too?)

doomscroll break

I have an ongoing joke with my doctor that someday, were I to have a stroke, I’d probably take some tylenol and head to bed because the symptoms are pretty much what happen to me when I have a migraine. "Oh, my arm is going numb and I can’t talk and my vision is off… be back later."

I imagine it scrapes reviews and the like, and it just spits out things that match nouns well. I definitely write about *chosen* family, but… Well.

My favourite is when they get both [Author] and [Title] wrong.

I also loved the one that told me the best thing about the story was the importance of family.

Sorry. I wrote what now?

and there we have it. Gavin Newsom is exactly who we told you he was.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Tabletop Tuesday — Fowers Games Hey all! It’s Tuesday, and I’m here being all nerdy about games and things. I just came back from a two week vacation with my husband, and for said vacation, I’d packed a new game for us to try out…

Hey all! It’s #TabletopTuesday and I’m here chatting about three Fowers Games. We’ve enjoyed the Fowers Games we’ve played thus far, and picked up a new one for our vacation—Typewriter.

It has an issue, but it’s fun, especially for word nerds like us.

#BoardGames #CardGames #Games

Reinstate Link as a gesture of good will

Apologize

Hire a comms person

Hire a team of consultants

Tag in the multiple orgs who backed you

This is not hard

This is a really good read. I recommend it.

Signal boosting

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

The Supreme Court legalizing the torture of teenagers just because some Christians want it. Why do I keep writing queer books? This is why. To keep kids like I was alive.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

wild how we keep testing different types of UBI and they're all successful

it's almost like there should be universal basic income for all people

Also, another teacher used it as an example of when an apostrophe would be appropriate, so I started using the apostrophe.

In high school, I had a Russian art teacher who accidentally called me "Nathan" on reflex because he’d had another Jonathan in his life who preferred that (I think maybe it’s a common diminutive of Jonathan in Russian, maybe?), and I freaking loved it, so I took it the next time I moved schools.

Here is just my author name. It’s my original birth surname, though I legally changed it when I got married. The 'Nathan part—with the apostrophe—is often my name elsewhere "ApostropheN," but the apostrophe bit is because it’s originally Jonathan.

I never liked it. Especially hated "Jon."

Just left of centre, a neighbourhood poster board fills the frame, covered in printed posters offering language lessons and art classes. Beyond it, an older man sits on a bench, looking at the camera. Further in the distance, toward the right of the frame, are several bicycles parked in a neat row.

Danforth Avenue. Augusst, 2025
#BlackAndWhitePhotography
#StreetPhotography
#Photography
#Street
#UrbanPhotography
#CityPhotography
#TorontoPhoto
#Monochrome
#BnW
#PhotographersOfBluesky

Congratulations! :D

Flyer with ALL OFUS MURDERERS cover and text saying 'One of Kobo's Best of the Month'

I am very excited that ALL OF US MURDERERS has been picked as one of Kobo's Best of the Month!

It's out everywhere today, in e at all platforms, in print at all good bookshops (it's the BA Indie Book of the Month!) and in audio read by Sonny Archer. Have at it!

books2read.com/u/mloE7q

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

Another day when I must reconcile my opposition to our carceral justice system with my desire to see some real fucking consequences.

Tabletop Tuesday — Fowers Games Hey all! It’s Tuesday, and I’m here being all nerdy about games and things. I just came back from a two week vacation with my husband, and for said vacation, I’d packed a new game for us to try out…

Hey all! It’s #TabletopTuesday and I’m here chatting about three Fowers Games. We’ve enjoyed the Fowers Games we’ve played thus far, and picked up a new one for our vacation—Typewriter.

It has an issue, but it’s fun, especially for word nerds like us.

#BoardGames #CardGames #Games

When I first worked at the bookstore, Books in Print arrived as slides for the microfiche. It was how I looked up books to order them. That sweet slightly sea-sick feeling of using one.

And I loved programming in Basic. Writing text-based games. Yes.

I mean, it was when I was forced to watch any of them...

I had a big ol’ headache today that would not go away and now the air is finally cooling off and it’s fading at about the same rate as the temperature is dropping. Huzzah.

Most of writing is thinking about stuff while going on a little walk

The Fast & the Bi-Curious.

I’d be willing for a nine part series based on this premise.

with alt-text

I also don't understand how Link can get banned for being disruptive but Jesse Singal can't? didn't Singal join and immediately start directing cross-platform harassment towards numeroys trans users?

it all looks like incredibly uneven moderation

Link has always been a positive plus for Bluesky.

Let's be crystal clear the reason for his ban is goalpost moving because the CEO didn't like being called out for racism and bigotry.

That's it. That's literally it.