Tessa Novak

Writers! How are we feeling about Substack? Are there any good alternatives? #writers

Oooh! Adding that to my list

OOOOOH

Donate to Urgent Help: Rent and Utilities, organized by Tessa Novak Great news! I got approved for HRSN (Health Related Social Needs) benefits, which means I … Tessa Novak needs your support for Urgent Help: Rent and Utilities

I got screwed over by HRSN and now I’m getting evicted. Can you help that not happen? Anything y’all can do, including sharing, would be amazing.

gofund.me/e266399a

They fucking hung up on me.

Almost at 3.5 hours. 4 callers ahead of me. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Been on hold with HRSN for an hour. There are still 30 callers ahead of me. Sigh.

Oh no those mf'ers HURT. Get the good drugs.

My daughter and I were arguing earlier about whether 7 is red or not (OBVIOUSLY it is) so I feel you.

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

First impression of the "liquid glass" in the iOS 26 developer beta: I hate it.

Second impression will have to wait until I've messed with it for a while.

#ios26

That was my thought, too. (Both the housing and the screaming.)

Holy crap.

a man is making a peace sign with his finger . Alt: Gif from a scene in Tge Breakfast Club in which the principal is making is making devil horns with his fingers.

Anyway I just exported all the snippets of things I had in Ulysses & it came to 666 pages in total.

Authors, are we cross-posting with BookThreads, or is that not the done thing? I MISS OLD TWITTER.

The reason generative AI is so popular with wannabe creatives is best illustrated by something every pro writer has encountered: getting pitched an idea by someone saying "You write it and we'll split the profits!" because they think the idea is what has value, not the writing. The opposite is true.

Welcome to the late diagnosis club!

Oh this is BULLSH*T.

YAY!!

When it comes to shoes, red is a neutral.

I love that halfway through the comments there is spontaneous outbreak of Monty Python

Good metaphor

Yes please.

I’ve got to have it written down.

Cory Booker is amazing. I’m staggered by his eloquence after almost 25 hours. I’m feeling something that feels suspiciously like patriotism in my shriveled little heart.

The fact that I have a fever explains many things. Mostly that I have a fever.

JD Vance says US needs control of Greenland to fend off China and Russia Vice-president criticises Denmark’s treatment of Arctic island and says it should come under US ‘security umbrella’

The Greenland thing is so bananas. Cartoon-level bananas. Then again, that can be said of pretty much everything from this administration.

BARRELING* through my to-do list

*checked off two things, shut up

So cool.