Nicole Nelson

IT FINALLY HAPPENED!! My pub day thoughts:

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#WritingCommunity #BookSky #AuthorSky

Please, please don't leverage misogyny when criticizing this person. (Or impugn children!) But "bitch" -- there are so many other ways to label his behavior; reach beyond this one.

Adam Kinzinger

An announcement from Publishers Marketplace stating that Nicole's debut novel, FAMILY LANGUAGE, will be published by Melville House in November 2026.

I am so excited to share this announcement about my novel FAMILY LANGUAGE, coming in November 2026. With enormous thanks to Michelle Capone, @melvillehouse.bsky.social, and especially @jennaschmenna.bsky.social!

So excited for this book!! (And I ❤️ Copperfield's!)

Jamboree and PCH. Not even Newport is a monolith.

*IVC

I’m not a film buff. And the question is beside the point; the celebration of the montage (with its gross lack of diversity) is what I wanted to call out. The history of racism of the film industry is why your question is a problematic challenge. Do you have suggestions?

💯 Zero women of color, pretty sure. The comments celebrating this montage — rather than seething at the very lopsided and tokenized representation — enrage me. Recognizing that the white male is nonsensically our default hero is the first step in fixing our inequality problem… we’re still not there.

Gender equality is evidently neither the dream not the reality. The patriarchy in this reel is depressing.

I am currently listening to this episode. “Thunderously stupid” in your opening monologue made me lol.

"Dazzling at" and "Sweating into" An amuse-bouche for discussion of Tom Crewe's "The Fête."

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A look at two surprising sentences in Tom Crewe's recent short story.

Yellowface?

Go, Gillian (and Jenny)! 🥳

Adam Parkhomenko again. Different day, same soft misogyny.

Lucky me; safe, for sure.

If the media covered science as reverentially as it does religion, we'd all be better off.

Sing it, sister.

Love the episode title. Outstanding content — with one gripe. The ageist banter at the beginning, reinforcing the sexist idea that women should be coy about their age rather than confident in their experience, was a bummer. Please interrogate rather than amplify ageism in the future.

Writing Direction Affects How People Map Space Onto Time What determines which spatial axis people use to represent time? We investigate effects of writing direction. English, like Mandarin Chinese in mainland China, is written left to right and then top to...

The writing direction of a culture can in fact impact how people map concepts like time and amount. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....

Why did I press the wrong button on this hotel gym bike when I wanted more resistance? The button placement was counter-intuitive (for me).

Following a hunch, I checked where the company was based. Taiwan. In Taiwan, characters are written predominantly top to bottom and then *right to left*.

Fred Wellman writes Hegseth "can scream and cry like the little bitch he is..."

Another offender (although about Hegseth).

This is such a great idea.

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💯 I have never understood why Dems haven't worked harder to internalize Lakoff's work. Harris did go with "Freedom" as a theme, but there wasn't time to drive home how her candidacy stood for freedom for all Americans. The Political Mind was published in 2008, but it reads today as prescient, alas.

FrameLab A newsletter about language, politics and your brain. Gil Durán and Dr. George Lakoff

Framelab is a great source of information about language and politics. (I have no connection to it other than subscribing.) The Framlab book club is reading Lakoff's The Political Mind right now -- members can submit Qs on chapters 5-7 before Friday for the next Zoom discussion. www.theframelab.org

Yes. I share your pain.

Dems, lamentably, have been slow to intentionally frame and usually adopt GOP frames. George Lakoff (a progressive linguist and an expert on metaphors) has written books, including Don't Think of an Elephant about political framing. (Buttigieg reportedly has studied Lakoff's work and is a fan.)

The Luntz Memo: Controlling the Narrative - The American Leader In a now infamous memo, strategist Frank Luntz advised Republicans to cast doubt on climate change by emphasizing emotions rather than facts.

Frank Luntz, serving the interests of Big Oil, advised Republicans to use "climate change" instead of "global warming" because that phrasing makes the problem sound like "a more controllable and less emotional challenge." theamericanleader.org/timeline-eve...

Thank you!