fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
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fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
Book cover for Making It So by Patrick Stewart Cover is a headshot photo of Patrick Stewart, a bald white Englishman in his 80s. He wears a gray blazer and a green dress shirt. His hands are held up together, with his chin resting on them. He looks directly at the reader.
18th read:
Making It So by Patrick Stewart
If Patrick Stewart loves one thing, itβs the Royal Shakespeare Company and his time there. Stewartβs career hinged on more than just his talent and skill, and it felt like that bothered him, even as he acknowledged privileges.
3/5 stars #Booksky #Memoir
π― I also have about 75 follow ups on the it's only 30 cents more to produce a trade paperback than a mass market. π
07.02.2026 19:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Romance readers happily shell out three or four times the price of a mass market on deluxe hardcovers with colorfully stained edges on the paper or other embellishments."
No. No. I don't. I buy most of my books used.
You should be reading books by queer men if you are reading m/m romance. You should be intentionally be reading diversely when it comes to both BIPOC and trans authors.
07.02.2026 17:02 β π 63 π 20 π¬ 2 π 0It's wild in the worst possible way to me that we have an exposed, massive, ring of pedophile oligarch wealth fetish freaks who have been fucking with all our lives on multiple fronts and there are people who still think immigrants are a real problem. What are you doing.
07.02.2026 01:11 β π 23 π 10 π¬ 3 π 0*banging pots & pans* UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE FIRST 3 GAME CHANGERS AUDIOBOOKS AT THE QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY libbyapp.com/search/queer...
06.02.2026 15:34 β π 66 π 35 π¬ 0 π 1Gonna be honest, it did feel a bit like I had been going crazy, especially since even before any of these revelations, a lot of career transphobes were quite openly pedophilic, Germaine Greer self-described as a pederast "like all women of taste", and yet nobody seemed to see the red flags.
06.02.2026 22:36 β π 3004 π 1007 π¬ 36 π 13Thinking about how Harlequin started and boomed because they published romances in mass market paperback for cheap. π€
Thinking about how every major publisher ahas stopped mass market paperback publishing during a Recession and Harlequin is shutting down historical publishing. π€‘
In his latest e-newsletter Rob Saka takes credit for SAVING CURBY, the traffic safety median he personally wanted to remove since before he was elected & was ready to pay $2 MILLION to do it until he got widely ridiculed for his absurd vendetta. What an utterly shameless & pathetic laughingstock
05.02.2026 23:02 β π 118 π 19 π¬ 12 π 7I assume he saw how destroyed Nelson and Davison were in the election. How Harrell lost and how easily Rinck kept her seat. He'll be up for reelection in 2027.
06.02.2026 17:22 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Slaves. They just want slaves back.
06.02.2026 15:52 β π 16 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0If you live in Washington state please take 20 seconds to sign in PRO for our millionaire tax bill currently going through state legislature.
06.02.2026 06:46 β π 220 π 194 π¬ 0 π 1Thursday sunset from First Hill in Seattle. I was on my way to an event and really only had time to snap a quick photo from the cross walk. Turned out ok!
06.02.2026 07:04 β π 44 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks for everything you've done. π I also relate strongly as in my day job I was the one people came to (especially with the conferences I ran) and I'm still technically in the pro marketing industry, but I know the places I've been shunned because I wouldn't knowingly platform abusers.
06.02.2026 08:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0SJR8206 in the Senate Ways and Means Committee
SJR.8206 has been scheduled for a hearing in Senate Ways & Means!
Date & Time: Friday 2/6 at 10:30am
Sign in Pro by clicking on the link below (before 9:30am on Friday)
http://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=Senate&mId=33844&aId=170156&caId=28084&tId=3
All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
06.02.2026 00:38 β π 2051 π 401 π¬ 15 π 17Yeah they're pushing in wherever they can. One of my best friends lives in Newport, OR, and they keep trying to build a facility there. The community stopped it once but they're still trying.
06.02.2026 04:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Despite wide public support for the Millionaire's Tax, 30k people have signed CON on this legislation getting its first hearing this Friday, outnumbering those in the PRO column four to one. It's really easy to sign PRO - do it now!
05.02.2026 21:40 β π 86 π 73 π¬ 7 π 5Rainier Beach educators and community members are asking folks to continue to be present at the corner of Rainier and Henderson from 3:30-5 (around school dismissal time). Show up if you can!
06.02.2026 03:37 β π 58 π 16 π¬ 0 π 1I've seen teenage girls and some 20-something women in them. But no one on the masculine spectrum.
06.02.2026 04:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This concentration camp is 20 minutes from my mom's house. π¬
06.02.2026 04:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"We may not know everything [ICE plans to do in a detention center], but we know enough."
Extraordinarily clear and brave words from a resident of Arizona. All of us have the power to show the same bravery when it comes to opposing ICE in our communities.
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...
Ooh that looks so good. Adding to my TBR.
06.02.2026 02:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More confirmation today when I ran into an acquaintance neighbor who got extremely nosey when I said I'd had surgery. Turns out he'd helped one of his fellow veteran buddies through his top surgery and getting over a fear of needles by helping give T shots.
05.02.2026 05:00 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My eyebrow raised when I saw you posting about it because I assume himbos and guns don't go together
05.02.2026 04:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Too cold π₯Ά
04.02.2026 23:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0As a Seattleite and a trans person, I go out of my way to use these restrooms at SeaTac.
Also WA state law says you can use whatever bathroom *you* are most comfortable in. Not whatever the transphobic wannabe genital inspectors think you should be in.