Amanda Rutter

Epstein knew he was a big racist

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

I love nothing better than admiring the hell out of the figure skating outfits - the designers are just something else. The ombre blue of Sakamoto's dress is stunning.

Clearly chatbots are the same needy weirdos as the techbros who created them.

"Love me! Love me! Look how great I am!"

Ahh. Being called a fat cunt while peacefully walking my dogs, clearly my favourite way to start the day.

I love all the figure skating inordinately, but will willingly watch any and all events. I do have some catch-up curling on now 😆

I have it on right now, and it's very comforting as background noise to my proofreading 😆

I am much excite about the Winter Olympics. I love the Summer Olympics, but there is something particularly special about watching so many events that seem to be new and exotic ways to flirt with death.

"Sure, let's all compete at who can go fastest down this slope on a metal tray! Head first!"

Yeah, feels weird, but only because of Winter Olympics opening ceremony tomorrow, which I'll also enjoy 😁

Happy Six Nations, to all those who celebrate 😁 Let's gooooooooooo!

At the moment my life feels like it consists of staring miserably out at the rain, then walking the dogs in the rain, then spending ages wiping them down from the rain, then changing my clothes because I got soaked in the rain, then waiting a few hours before doing it all again 😫

Over the moon to share that I’m a finalist for the @aurealisawards.bsky.social!! This is a dream come true, and I’m so honoured to be shortlisted alongside my fellow nominees!

My little debut book’s thriving out there 🥹

Against a gold background, white text: "Solaris Books on Locus' Recommended Reading List" Below, a series of book covers with white text indicating the category in which they are nominated. THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson (scifi novel) THE NEEDFIRE by MK Hardy (horror novel) THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ by Isabel Cañas (horror novel) THE TOMB OF DRAGONS (fantasy novel) and THE ORB OF CAIRADO (novella) by Katherine Addison STARSTRIKE by Yoon Ha Lee (Young Adult)

🎉 We're so excited to see SIX Solaris books on @locusmag.bsky.social 's 2025 Recommended Reading list! https://bit.ly/3ZwRhK5

Feat. @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @isabelcanas.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social and @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social

Locus Awards Voting closes 1 April.

The LOCUS 2025 Reading List header image, beneath that is the text: Novelette - Shadow Jack (Giganotosaurus 5/25) Anthology - Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C Day, Carina Bisset & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. CL HELLISEN

I am absolutely thrilled to have work included on the 2025 Locus Recommended List, alongside @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @seraph76.bsky.social @matociquala.bsky.social and many others.

Thank you, and I appreciate any and all votes!

locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

A 3D hardback of THE ORB OF CAIRADO by Katherine Addison surrounded by gold arrows pointing to white text: UK Hardback Special Edition Signed by the author Limited run Blue Spredges Foiled Design on case Foiled cover Blue Endpapers

Meet our UK Special Edition, Limited-Run, signed hardback of THE ORB OF CAIRADO, Katherine Addison/ @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's new novella within the wider world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR & THE CEMETERIES OF AMALO series!

Preorder now, available from all good booksellers https://geni.us/orbcairado

Welcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 1. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline.

In nice Monday news, very grateful to see THE SALT ORACLE on the Locus Recommended Reading List alongside a wealth of brilliant stories.

Without a US release, it's nigh impossible to get seen, but everyone can vote in the Locus Awards, so please go celebrate your favs🖤

poll.voting.locusmag.com

I am DECEASED

Stack of hardback library books: Quicksilver by Callie Hart, Idolfire by Grace Curtis, The Last Hour Between World by Melissa Caruso, The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig, The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide, Cage of Starlight by Jules Arbeaux, The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes, Katabasis by R F Huang

Hey lovely Womble. Still on The Raven Scholar (my reading has taken a dive the last couple of weeks) but went to the library yesterday and have this stack of beauties waiting for me...

Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.

Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

A paperback copy of THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER surrounded by copper objects on a teal fabric background.

🌊 🌈 Simon Jimenez's multi-award winning novel, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, is a sweeping adventure story, an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging and a love story to its blade-dented bone.

Buy now: https://geni.us/Spearcuts

3 panel comic Panel 1: A Pink Guy has spray painted the words “All billionaires are scum” on a blue wall. Pleased with his work, he looks at the reader and gives a thumbs up. Panel 2: An Orange Guy comes into shot and snatches the can of spray paint out of the Pink Guy’s hand. He looks angry and yells “Hey!” Panel 3: The Orange Guy has changed the message so it now reads “All billionaires are scumbag pedophiles. Both the Pink Guy and the Orange Guy give the reader a thumbs up.

get it right

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Golda Rosheuvel and Adjoa Andoh as the Queen and Lady Danbury in Bridgerton

These women are just absolute icons 😍

You know, when I was a kid, I thought everything would be so easy as an adult, when I could do anything I wanted.

Oh, my sweet summer child...

Oh, to be back in those halcyon childhood days...

The perfect term for the billionaire paedo ring.

Honestly, Catherine O’Hara is nothing short of iconic. Such sad news today

So I cannot tell right now whether bullet journalling is something I actually want to do, or whether it's an ADHD hobby that I will buy huge amounts for and then leave in cupboards...

I read glowing reviews by @mollytempleton.com and @hawkwinglb.bsky.social in '24 so I've had this on my radar for a while and yes - whoop - it's moving, exciting, thought-provoking, thrillingly weird and metaphorically rich. Loved it 💜 #booksky

"Dancing on the edge of horror, this dark fantasy is rich in mythic, historical, and cultural detail, all presented in poetic prose that never loses contact with reality." Jane Lindskold, New York Times Bestselling author of Fire Season Next to a 3D paperback of WHERE THE SHADOWS DWELL by L. D. Colter.

Out three weeks today - WHERE THE SHADOWS DWELL - @ldcolter.com 's standalone dark fantasy novel of perilous Mayan gods and the treasure hunters who wake them!

Thank you to @janelindskold.bsky.social for this lovely endorsement!

Preorder now (only £2.99 in eBook!) https://geni.us/whshadowsdw