Polly Farquhar

It is a blast! Truly, the secret part of teen parenting that no one tells you!

I am surprised that no-one noticed earlier that the CEO of OpenAI is himself(itself?) a poor AI parody of a human. The name is a dead giveaway

Sam: Simulated Artificial Man
Altman: Alternative to Man

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Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

What’s it like to have two grandchildren in the Olympics? Let a literary titan tell you

⚡ #Olympics + #Booksky alert! John Irving has 2 grandkids in the Olympics! (free style skiing) ⚡ www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...

Romance novelists who are loudly anti-AI are also currently 3D printing hundreds of thousands of whistles for ICE resistance, so anyone throwing around terms like Luddite without context can go hang out in the sea.

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

Maybe he is PRIVATELY ashamed?? Doesn't matter! His name is on stuff. Don't make us say his name!

you are not ashamed of being oblivious to evil, or being a hapless, conned fool. . .then I don't think you were.

If you're Les Wexner and say in the unlikely event you are a hapless buffoon, or oblivious, or 99% oblivious, I don't know why you wouldn't say "I am ashamed. I did not see. Take my name off the buildings." B/c oblivious + hapless are not good synonyms for a hospital! (Or anything else.) And if...

while I wish we too had Consequences For Horrifying Crimes over here, Andrew and Trump are like the two most famous, powerful and well-protected men in that whole file and it’s impossible for this not to change the math completely. other men will be afraid today who weren’t yesterday

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.

WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

I love the smell of consequences in the morning.

Maybe he is PRIVATELY ashamed?? Doesn't matter! His name is on stuff. Don't make us say his name!

Fun fact: Heard a long time ago (pre2000) from an OSU prof that Wexner had been desperate to get The Columbus School for Girls to move out to New Albany, but they weren't having it. Then it was all "He's building shopping, a town, highways for his convenience" but now that tidbit hits differently.

you are not ashamed of being oblivious to evil, or being a hapless, conned fool. . .then I don't think you were.

If you're Les Wexner and say in the unlikely event you are a hapless buffoon, or oblivious, or 99% oblivious, I don't know why you wouldn't say "I am ashamed. I did not see. Take my name off the buildings." B/c oblivious + hapless are not good synonyms for a hospital! (Or anything else.) And if...

Cover of book The Moon without Stars by Chanel Miller. Doodly images of maxi pad, alien, poppy, cracked egg, etc. Center image is girl holding a book, background is 2 kids walking with backpacks. This is a fabulous book!

📚👍THE MOON WITHOUT STARS by Chanel Miller is (no surprise) an excellent, A+, 💯 of a book, just dead-on perfect for that #MG and #YA gap. Seventh-grade narrator! Read it, too, if you're a former kid, and read it if you're a writer.

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MGHub's pitch party is back! Last year 50 agents and editors joined us. 66% of our 282 authors received at least one request.

All #kidlit genres are accepted! Plus, you can join a critique group to polish your materials!

Full details and links to sign-up are on our site: mghubpitch.com

He went to church this morning and said, "No, make it bigger and with good lines, I'm going on TV."

Cover of book The Moon without Stars by Chanel Miller. Doodly images of maxi pad, alien, poppy, cracked egg, etc. Center image is girl holding a book, background is 2 kids walking with backpacks. This is a fabulous book!

📚👍THE MOON WITHOUT STARS by Chanel Miller is (no surprise) an excellent, A+, 💯 of a book, just dead-on perfect for that #MG and #YA gap. Seventh-grade narrator! Read it, too, if you're a former kid, and read it if you're a writer.

One of my teens, watching curling:

"Meh. It's like if cleaning were a sport. So much elbow grease."

Wow.

One of my teens, watching curling:

"Meh. It's like if cleaning were a sport. So much elbow grease."

When my kiddos were young, we streamed a bunch of Mr. Roger's (which I grew up on--I have an autograph of Mr McFeely!)+ the show's slow pace +depth was wonderfully...subversive. Yo Yo Ma plays for a looong time! There is a real chance to listen to it vs even S. Street was more "Here is a cello."

Shaped entire generations

#EduSKy

Gonna need people to support middle grade and YA titles bc where do we think adult readers come from!! If kids don’t have good books to read from like 8 - 12 they are going to stop reading 😭😭😭😭

Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs

Okay, actually, this was a little hard to read. Gift link. Can maybe someone take some male turtles off the island??

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s...