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On TikTok, I gave away a custom spicy short story to a random follower when I reached a certain milestone number of followers. Would something like that interest the #booksky community? Is 1k too ambitious of a goal? 🌶️📚

RSVP for a Telephone Town Hall with Senator Dave McCormick I invite you to join my next telephone townhalls, scheduled for April 29 and May 14 at 7:00 PM. Please complete the form below to reserve your spot and receive dial-in information.

Fellow PA residents! Dave McCormick is holding telephone town halls on April 29 and May 14 at 7pm.

Let’s join together and remind the senator of our constitutional rights!

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Are you into food play? Possibly (or definitely) bisexual? I think you’ll like my book 🥰 Free chapter of my debut #spicyromance novel on coroladerosa.com ❤️‍🔥🌹 #booksky

#spicyromance lovers, check out coroladerosa.com for a free chapter of my new book— coming soon! 🌹

It’s a couple-to-throuple story featuring food play. 🍰 Get ready to get messy.

#booksky #tbr #writersky #bisexual

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

NEW: DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED. @makenakelly.bsky.social with the scoop www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

Come see us this week at @awpwriter
—We will be at booth 1057 with our titles as well as $2 used books, & we’ll be hosting author signings all three days ✨

If you’re a QP author that will be here & didn’t check in about an author signing, reach out & we’ll add you 🥰

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What's happening with the Institute of Museum and Library Services after Trump's executive order The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been added to the list of government agencies targeted by President Donald Trump.

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Natalie raises a hand with her fingers crooked in a “paws up” gesture popular among Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters

happy #MAYHEM Day to all who celebrate. paws up! i am cringe but i am free

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so far loving Vanish Into You and Zombieboy very much 🧟‍♂️

everyone always talks about the multiple drinks thing (#bipride) but what about the multiple napkins thing like when you used a napkin but it isn't really dirty and then you grab another one because you forgot you had a 25% used one and then your surface is covered in napkins

so one of my favorite things about my paid substack tier is that it’s basically just made up of friends who want to support me & my writing so i send them the silliest most unhinged embarrassing content and it’s so freeing and fun

doom scrolling the past couple weeks has been so bad for me and my writing 🫠

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I think so! Yes with Tropic of Cancer sometimes I’m looking up 5 words/references/places on a page. Then I get distracted because I’m looking the words up on my phone 😂

Joyce intimidates me but I hope to get around to reading him 🫶

thinking about this p much since i first reposted. currently #amreading Tropic of Cancer. enjoying it but also feel unsure whether i fully “get it” and have actually lol’ed over a sentence i basically did not understand at all at least once

Background is messy kitchen drawer foreground is cover of On (Pantry) Stock & (Kitchen) Timers by Jen Schneider, text reads available March 21st, PREORDER NOW!

On (Pantry) Stock & (Kitchen) Timers, an experimental, hybrid collection of poetic essays, by Jen Schneider is now available for preorder! This hybrid work uses lists to simultaneously subvert and make sense of day to day mundanity. ✨ link in bio

I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:

opening the document to see if i can remember what the hell i was writing and attempt to jump back in #writersky

Natalie’s News & Musings | Natalie De Paz | Substack Here to (a)muse. Click to read Natalie’s News & Musings, by Natalie De Paz, a Substack publication. Launched 6 months ago.

what you can expect as a free subscriber to my #substack is pretty much: self-promotional posts and some snippets of paid posts

paid subscribers: access to my more embarrassing thoughts & the chance to support a non-famous writer

sorry?

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Why I Love Smut (part i)

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Opinion | DEI and Disparate Impact The next step in restoring meritocracy is to reject the theory that proportionate outcomes equal fairness.

this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

what could a bunch if teenagers possibly know that could know that…

you know what, i might stay off planes for a minute

this has been on my mind lately. too real

Opinion | There Is No Going Back The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now

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We’re open for manuscript subs! We are fee free, we accept all genres, and take submissions through Submittable. We’re most interested in the weird, uncomfortable, unstable, & offputting, especially when it encompasses our mission statement to amplify marginalized voices.

A drawing of French fries diving onto a salad from a diving board.

A pair of open legs over the Squirrel Hill Tunnel in Pittsburgh

Polka dot boxers flying out of the Mon Incline.

A car with heart-shaped exhaust crossing one of Pittsburgh’s majestic bridges.

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

Trump officials make plans to revoke legal status of migrants welcomed under Biden The DHS proposal would terminate a Biden administration program that allowed more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to fly to the U.S.

🚨 The Trump admin is going strip parole from everyone who came through the CHNV program who hasn’t yet applied for another status. Could be over 100,000 people. It’ll make them undocumented, with no work authorization, and they’ll be sent notices starting removal proceedings. They came here legally.