Winter is hell. Summer is hell. Homelessness is hell. Le sigh.

Happy Bastille Day

Can Of Oil | The Read Sending your man his location...

Sending your man his location this week on #TheRead

I'm always surprised by how twerk-tastic @animesickos.bsky.social 's intro music is. Silly fun times.

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Oh wow. That is way too young. Love to you and your classmates.

A square yellow-gold graphic that says “Hit the red carpet!” in brick-red text and “Lights, cameras, passion,” beneath that in blue italics. Under this header are the three book covers for Kali Decker’s red carpet novellas. Starfucker, Nepo Baby, and Spoiled Brit. They each feature a dude on a stylized background. One has slicked hair and a really ugly suit jacket, one looks like Rahul Kohli, and one is a redhead in a white tuxedo. Last but not least is a blocky brick red note that they’re on Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo.

I haven’t sold a single self-pub title this month, so here’s some shilling. Here are some dirty novellas available at Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and B&N for $2.99. I also have BAD DESIRE, a filthy age-gap Springsteen-inspired short for $1.99.

Buy links: www.suleikhasnyder.com/p/the-kali-d...

ice cream truck said "stay ready"

Chicago Should Focus on Mental Health to Keep More Teachers, Experts Say — City Bureau In the midst of a nationwide teacher shortage, mental health challenges in the classroom make teaching more difficult.

CPS teacher resignations & retirements spiked in the early part of the pandemic, & schools throughout the district are struggling w/ teacher shortages. Advocates say there should be more focus on teachers’ mental health, as well as that of their students. www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...

oooh. my bad. Thanks!

Why We Stay with Rebellious Magazine - Rebellious Magazine As we mark our Lucky 13th birthday, meet the incomparable writers and editors (aka Rebelles) who bring you Rebellious Magazine for Women.

Congrats to the wonderful femmes at @rebelliousmag.bsky.social for being 34% funded!

We are seeking corporate sponsors to help us cross the finishing line. Email editor[at]rebelliousmagazine.com.

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March is 🧡Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month🧡.

The 2nd Annual MS-ING Around Comedy Show FUNdraiser is Sunday, March 23 at the Laugh Factory. Jokes by #KellyeHoward , #LisaBeasley (aka #CorporateErin), @thefeloniousmonk.com , #ArlietaHall

TIX: www.msingaround.org

Work!

I thought time had dulled the impact of this video. That I was no longer susceptible. I was wrong.

218: Dono from Radio Free Tote Bag Goes Guesto Mode | Anime Sickos - Podcast for Geniuses Dono from the excellent podcast Radio Free Tote Bag goes guesto mode! We yammer about how getting into synth music is just an excuse to make your room look...

OUT NOW: @dono.bsky.social goes guesto mode! We discuss how getting into synths makes yr room look like where Daft Punk does their taxes, Tom & Joe answer relationship questions with their perfect brains, and Dono helps us rank some classic game mechanics. It's fun as hell folks, check this one out

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217: The Sickos Continue To Be Unemployed | Anime Sickos - Podcast for Geniuses The Sickos do a special unemployed version of Cog Talk where they do the unthinkable and wish they had an evil computer that took up half their time with awful...

OUT NOW: We do a special unemployed version of Cog Talk! Boy, it sure is hard to get a computer job these days. Time to check the news and see if there are any big societal shifts that might help out....plus, Tom yammers and yaps about The Bee Sting, a great novel by Paul Murray.

Never in my life. Can't relate. My dream is to take a 3-day nap. no food. no potty breaks. Just down on Friday and up on Sunday like Christ during Easter.

A square peach-pink graphic that says "Bollywood Confidential is back! Check out this early Suleikha Snyder series, available again after a two-year hiatus." It lists the vendors at the bottom: Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. In the middle is a mash-up graphic of the three book covers. Spice & Smoke in red with the columns of an Indian haveli. Spice and Secrets in purple with the profile of an Indian man and woman in an embrace. Bollywood and the Beast in yellow-gold with the profile of an Indian man and woman in an embrace.

They're baa-aack! It's been 13 years since the first two Bollywood Confidential stories came out, 11 since BOLLYWOOD & THE BEAST. I've grown a LOT as a writer, but they are definitely soapy Suleikha fare.

AMZ: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZFN7KW...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/series...

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Best zero-waste general store - Chicago Reader For going the next step in zero-waste shopping, it's hard to beat Lincoln Square’s Eco Flamingo, which opened in 2020.

The wonderful @kerryreid.bsky.social wrote about our zero waste store and new cafe in the #Chicago Reader.
#zerowaste #sustainableshopping
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Almost 40% of the thousands of government contracts being canceled by DOGE will produce no savings, the AP reports.

Meet Anastazia, City Bureau’s New Documenters Network Coordinator — City Bureau This former Documenter is joining our team to support and grow sites across the Documenters Network.

👋 Meet Anastazia, City Bureau’s New #DocumentersNetwork Coordinator!

Based in Cleveland, OH, Anastazia first got involved with her local Docs in 2021. Learn more about her and what she's been bringing to her role:
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The TikTok Paradox Americans watched as a piece of legislation, whose technological ramifications could not even begin to be understood by elected... Read more • Imani Barbarin patreon.com/ImaniBarbarin

New from me:

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:( Sometimes people really are unaware. smh

Walked, biked, hit the playground, and swam at the YMCA. Yesterday was a good day.

Fire Elon Musk Our democracy cannot be held hostage by billionaires. Let’s restore power to the people and demand accountability from our leaders.

I just made a @commoncause call: Tell Your Senators: Stop this hostile takeover! I advise you read the script before making this call. Them bitches answered in like 10 seconds 🫠. Anyway, I did a civic duty. www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...

Max Just Quietly Added The Most Surprising Post-Apocalyptic Movie Of 2024 'Flow' removes humans from the equation entirely — and that's why it's worth watching on Max right now.

I wrote about Flow for Inverse: www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Talking to my kiddo is like using Chat-GPT -5 (yeah, negative 5) because they just be saying anything. They read a lot and that information just gets blended up into word vomiting fake world facts.