Jenny Hamilton

ahahahaha please feel free to ignore me when I'm being a hater tho

she's so cute. I was at my parents' the other day, and she came over because she had successfully sounded out and read the word "carpenter" and she was so proud that she wanted to show her grandmother, my mom, how she did it

like we'll be at the pet store and she'll go up to a stranger and be like "hi, I'm Five, I am an author/illustrator. You should be careful petting the kitties because their claws are very sharp, and they scratched me."

Five is now introducing herself to people as an author/illustrator.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Strength to & solidarity with everyone participating in the general strike today. My thoughts are with everyone fighting on behalf of their neighbours, in Minnesota & everywhere.

www.standwithminnesota.com

I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.

Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’ Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations

I think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it

It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!

All love and light to Minnesota today (and every day). I am so sorry y'all have been put in this position by the fascist fucks who run our government. Your work shows the rest of us what solidarity can look like.

Broomsticks & Rocket Ships: The Starseekers by Nicole Glover - Reactor Alex Brown reviews the latest installment in Nicole Glover's Murder & Magic series.

Nicole Glover's fun new book The Starseekers takes on magic, space, adventure, and police brutality. reactormag.com/book-review-...

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.

That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

thank you so much!

hey, does anyone here have an Echo Mini, and were you able to successfully add and use a microSD expansion guy in it? we are slightly stumped as to how to make the little guy notice that it contains 256 additional GB of music storage now.

thank you!

thank you so much!!

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: December 2025 - Reactor Ten excellent works of short fiction you may have missed in 2025

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social rounds out a year of excellent short fiction recommendations with the must-read short stories of December 2025! Featuring raccoon evictions, a cursed telenovela, and the last issue of Canadian SFF magazine On Spec:

I am so beyond emotional right now, because my @khoreo.bsky.social non-fiction essay about the importance of Greek and BIPOC voices in Greek myth adaptations, the angriest thing I’ve ever written, has been longlisted in the Best Short Non Fiction category in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards.

thank you!!

yeah, it made me really happy!

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

here's the piece! I worked very hard on it!

reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

I am exTREMEly flattered and touched that someone thought my piece on reskinned fanfic was worth a BSFA nom! I'll link it in a reply and would be thrilled if anyone wants to vote for it for the shortlist. <3

I told this story to my BIL and he was like "it's like people who saw the wright brothers and the moon landing in the same lifetime"

not as good an experience as it's going to be to watch the "have you no decency" scene this evening after work, but. pretty good.

I've been introducing my bestie to Angels in America this week. Yesterday, between episodes, she nervously asked if Tony Kushner is still with us, and I got to say yes and then show her this tweet, so that's been a very good experience for me.

did u know that the romance genre can be romantic and requires skill to create

And we're gonna get more cisallohet MF romances in sports that are majority white athletes, too. We won't get more actual diverse sports romance stories.

same! and even if they never Break Out in a big way like Murderbot, it's still valuable to spend the time to cultivate a dedicated fanbase for a midlist author. goddammit. hahahahaha

this part of the thread especially!!!

and specifically: you have to invest in your authors, and in your gd midlist. Martha Wells was in these trenches for over twenty years before Murderbot happened.

whew this thread is the truth

I severely agree! "he's very hot tho" and "his father was quite mean to him" are insufficient to slake my yearning for robust engagement with power structures.