Amanda Nan

The Republican leaders of North Carolina's state legislature called everyone back to Raleigh to find a way to rig another US House seat for Donald Trump, but not to pass a state budget, or fund our state's Medicaid system.

Do you get it now? 🤡

Seriously considering turning my phone off for a week. My brain just needs a break and I’m afraid it’ll only happen if I physically don’t have access to the internet.

Season 2, episode 9 of Bones, the one where Bones and Hodgins are buried alive, is one of the best episodes of the whole show, in my opinion. It’s one of the few that I’ve never forgotten since the first time I saw it.

She just informed me it was *21* years.

My closest friend from study abroad is from Perth, Australia. She’s currently standing in front of City U in Hong Kong where we met 20 years almost to the day and sent me a pic.

Of course, I’m crying.

2025 better back the fuck off Dolly Parton.

LEAVE OUR QUEEN ALONE.

This makes me so fucking angry!! The double standard, the hypocrisy, the gaslighting. It’s crazy making.

And some refuse to join other platforms. I hate how fragmented it is and how the vibes are so diametrically different. Like, I wouldn’t post the same here as I do on Threads, and I follow different people on each.

New Brandi Carlile, new The Format, on top of new Lady Gaga and Hayley Williams. And Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus. AND a new Frou Frou single that sounded so much like Heap’s solo stuff.

It’s been a good year of music, for me!

Holy Roller

The Format is dropping a new album in January!?!? And a new single today!? open.spotify.com/track/34OEHE...

@phillies.com

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I am losing my goddamn MIND at this Phillies-Braves game! Everybody hits!!

@krisis.bsky.social have you listened to Mitch Grassi’s new Messer “Cuts” album yet? It has Imogen Heap vibes, so of course I’m all over it.

Hey new Pope, got a request. Figure out a way with y’all’s God to keep this man alive until Jan 21, 2029. He deserves a state funeral not organized by this administration.

"over the last several decades it evolved into a place of reflection, education, and dialogue" no it fucking didn't

The American Fever Dream podcast l had an ad for ChatGPT on this week’s podcast. C’mon, @underthedesknews.bsky.social @samisagesays.bsky.social — y’all are better than that.

I was afraid you’d say something like that! Until further proof, I’m just going to say Flanders did it first! 😄

Forgot to add — Wolf in Waiting was first published in 1995 by Silhouette Shadows. It’s been republished twice, the last time being a bundle of the trilogy.

I’ve perused fictiondb’s Harlequin series lists, but unfortunately, a lot published in the 90s were never republished for ebook. I’ve only found a few prior to WIW, but have only found single first POV with the FMC.

@stegan.bsky.social Coming to you via Fated Mates with a romance history question. I recently read Wolf in Waiting by Rebecca Flanders and was struck by how it’s in *dual* first POV. It’s led me down the rabbit hole of finding the first romance with dual first. Do you happen to know for sure?

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

I've never run a single ChatGPT prompt. Not once, not even to see what it said. I've never generated a single image, either.

And I have no regrets about this. I don't need to do it to know that I don't want to.

Vanessa Riley feeling sad about censorship. I use Canva for a lot of my graphics and sometimes I peek at new features. But this one stopped me cold. Canva flagged one of my historical fiction slides about an upcoming book as “political.” If you don’t think the political climate is affecting art, you are deluded. Art has always been political. Creativity is resistance. Storytelling shapes culture. And now design tools are cautioning us to “be careful.” When platforms label truth or history, Black history as risky, we need to pay attention.

Canva flagged one of my historical fiction slides about an upcoming book as “political.”
If you don’t think the political climate is affecting art, you are deluded.
Art has always been political. Creativity is resistance.
When platforms label truth or Black history as risky, we must pay attention.

Who needs to go sleep in tents, spends $1000s, and be with too many people when you can just watch all the Gaga content online that you can get your greedy little paws on? The playing chess with her older self was 🔥🔥🔥

I stopped using hero and heroine for this exact reason. If we're not using FMC and MMC, what *should* we be using?

and this is what he does for the swing state that *voted for him*.

Imogen Heap's "Headlock" is #45 on the Spotify weekly top 50 songs played in the USA. Was it recently featured on a tv show? How are people just now finding her!?

The thing I didn’t know I needed most in the world right now.

You don’t have to give up because people tell you too.

You have everything you need within yourself and the people who believe in you.

@quincemountain.bsky.social you are an amazing human. Thank you so much.

A man in a white parka sits next to a gray and white husky with a white strike down her forehead. She nibbles something tasty off the ground while he looks over his shoulder. Above them is the burled arch that marks the Iditarod's finish line in Nome. They did it.

They fucking did it. They mushed to Nome.

Not me sobbing at @quincemountain.bsky.social finishing the Iditarod on his own. And Pepé making it all the way to Nome, again. Not to mention fans of the team raising over $130K for various charities with Igivarod. Much of the world may be on fire, but it’s stories like these that give me hope.