Nic Anstett

Another illustration that NYTs default position is normalizing authoritarianism. Once you accept that NYT is a deeply facist and authoritarian the paper makes sense

Openly threatening to violate home rule to prosecute Black children as adults.

I feel like there was an era in the 90s/00's when "AIIIIII!" was a common sound effect in comics for people screaming in pain. So yeah, I still read it that way and it feels fitting.

I am so ready to be an author lady hermit at Hedgebrook next week. Fingers crossed that I emerge at the end of August with a full novel draft. If I don't, please send me back into exile.

Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Riz Amed, Michelle Gomez and Cush Jumbo have all announced that every single trans life is worth less than a paycheck.

I love when 90% of my course set up becomes navigating paywalled readings

A display of new paperback releases including “The Extinction Capital of the World” by Mariah Rigg

Nic, a brunette white woman, holds a copy of “The Extinction Capital of the World” and smiles

Today I had the incredible experience of walking into my favorite indie bookstore and buying my best friend’s book!

I’m so excited to kick off Mariah’s book tour at @redemmas.org this Friday! “Extinction Capital of the World” is such an incredible collection of short fiction and I cannot recommend it enough. Hope to see you all in Baltimore!

Williams’s book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue: For non-whites, even though the mixed-race population has become the fastest-growing segment of the American demos and, in real terms, a disproportionate but statistically small and decreasing number of unarmed Black civilians were killed by police annually (typically between 15 and 25 per year from a population exceeding 40 million, according to The Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” database) — and indeed other quality-of-life markers have been equalizing for significant numbers of Black people since the civil rights movement — the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown (regardless of the specific contingencies of that case), and a high-profile slate of videotaped police and vigilante killings that converged with the proliferation of camera-equipped smartphones and the pervasiveness of social media, thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obama’s second administration. Huh? In addition to such passages, “Summer of Our Discontent” includes many distended excerpts — some spanning three pages — from not-so-obscure sources, including The Times. Midway through the book, Williams chides another writer on the race beat for propounding “an excruciatingly simplistic tale, fueled by a powerful unwillingness and incapacity to grapple with contemporary American racial and social complexity.” Regrettably, I know the feeling.

jesus christ this is an actual fisking

is Melville the Left’s Joe Rogan

I can’t stop thinking about how my friend who teaches high school English in VA told me that they are not allowed to assign homework and that all texts are read out loud together during class time. We are so fucking cooked.

Please send me cool queer fiction!

If you’re trans and you feel severely depressed rn this is probably why. Please be kind to yourself

This is one of those things that’s fucking obvious if you actually think about it for more than five seconds.

17 New Books the Goodreads Editors Can't Wait to Read in August Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we sort through a lot of books each month. Our monthly Readers' Most Anticipated Books feature is exactl...

Rather stoked to see my book, The Island of Last Things, as an editor's pick on Good Reads today, along with some iconic author faves (Miriam Toews, Helen Oyeyemi, @charliejane.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social) Yay, books! #booksky 💙📚
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Because my wife works in local government we can’t really go anywhere in town without bumping into someone she knows like this random woman just came up to us and was like “The air! The air! Climate change is ruining our air!”

It says it right there in the Declaration of Independence. Every man has a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of pussy.

Sir, men AND women want to get laid. The difference between the sexes is that women are socialized to deal with rejection better and so they don’t get angry when men don’t want to fuck them. Men are socialized to believe they are entitled to sex, and when they don’t get it, it’s the fault of women.

Do you think they make minor leagues players get caked up before they join the MLB?

I love how you’ll be in your thirties and happily married to another woman and your brain will just be like “Hey slut, here’s a dream where a dozen boys you knew from your Catholic high school are fighting over you, enjoy.”

heard a @caseyplett.com interview once where she said writing fiction rules because instead of having public opinions people get mad at, you can come up with a guy and make *him* have an opinion, then say “wow isn’t it crazy that guy said that thing? what a thing to say!”

Novels are just stories where the author gets to indulge all the mini rants and opinions they’ve never had space for before.

trying to write a novel is like being one of the kids in We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

A still from Phineas and Ferb of multiple people wearing latex costumes of Candace

Nobody told me that there was a masking episode of “Phineas and Ferb,” I’m screaming

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

Olivia Lynde is a trans femme author and has a two book series (Home Ice and Fake the Shot) that's good, cheesy fun. "Free From Falling" by E.L. Massey isn't written by a trans girl, but it has a well realized trans femme protagonist and I really enjoyed it.

development organizations years following the Effectiv brown.edu Private rimination laws, over the ten 10. t h he exception of actions to enforce this Agreement, the United States agrees not to institute any civil action or other adverse agency action against Brown, its officers, Corporation members, directors, agents, and employees (the "Brown Releasees) based on the Released Claims. The United States releases the Brown Releasees from any liability related to the Released Claims. The United States is not releasing Brown or the Brown Releases from any other liability. 11. The University will take the following steps to ensure compliance with Title IX and its implementing regulations, by providing safe and equitable opportunities and spaces for women: a. Brown Athletics facilities, the University willprovide female student-athletes with intimate facilities such as locker rooms and bathrooms strictly separated on the basis of sex. b. The University will define "male" and "female, for the purpose of all practices, policies and procedures adopted and implemented by the University for any athletic opportunity, event, competition, category, program, or activity designated for women, consistent with the definitions 3 adopted in Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and estoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government (Jan. 20, 2025), and Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men out of Women's Sports (Feb. 5, 2025). c. The University will offer women the option of female-only housing, restrooms, and showering facilities, and for these purposes will adopt the abovementioned definitions of "male' and "femalc." d. The University will ensure students have access to single-sex floors in on-campus housing, using the above-mentioned definition. 12. h University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from hi…

president.brown.edu Private BROWN 5. Addressing government requirements for "male" and "female" defnitions for athletics and on-campus housing, as well as limits on gender-affirming care As we have for decades, Brown has agreed to abide by Title IX and NCAA eligibility rules regarding the participation of transgender athletes in intercollegiate sports. We also committed that the University will continue to provide housing and restroom access in a way that allows for gender- inclusive, women-only and men-only options. The agreement also states, The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."' The University will refer affected students who seek care from Student Health Services or the University Pharmacy to area specialists. The agreement does not affect medical teaching or training, and does not apply to clinical services provided by health systems that are separate entities from Brown, such as Brown University Health and Care New England. We remain fully commited to serving the health needs of all Brown students in a manner consistent with our long- established policy of nondiscrimination, which includes sex, gender identity and gender expression. The LGBTQ Center, Student Health and Wellness Services, and other offices in the Division of Campus Life, as well as the Warren Alpert Medical School School of Public Health. the College,

Brown University is caving to Trump.

They are banning trans women from female bathrooms, dorms, locker rooms, and sports across campus. They're also cracking down on trans care for minors, though that is unlikely to be broadly impactful since it's a university.

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dude

Maybe it’d have fixed her? Maybe? Probably not?

I didn't read multiple trans femme hockey romance novels for nothing!