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I saw the most bonkers conversation on tiktok where people were arguing that Romance doesn’t need an HEA and authors were fighting for their lives in the comments trying to explain what a genre convention is. Again, trying to sell me a mystery with no crime and see what happens.

i'm going to say something even more salty: we have a lot of writers who aren't doing this because they can't. And they can't because they aren't readers themselves. They view writing as just another form of content creation that they will convert into views and then into dollars.

What the closure of Teen Vogue means for journalism. Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.

Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

A little white dog with floppy black ears and spots, and brown around the sides of their snout sits at at an apple cider stand. It's surrounded by muted autumn foliage, a pumpkin, and a sandwich board that says Fresh Cider with an apple drawn below. The stand is wooden, with some lights hanging from the awning. There are apples stacked behind the dog, some mugs to their left, and a big dispenser for cider. There's a little wooden stool for patrons too.

Day 6: Danish-Swedish farm-dog. I had two ideas so decided to just do both. ☕
#doggust #doggust2025

How a steamy ‘romantasy’ novel is rescuing a California vineyard Paul Morrison, a 71-year-old California winery owner, has never written a book before. But his raunchy fantasy novel is saving his vineyard

Write a romance sell some wine? www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

I know someone on here knows what pen nib Urasawa uses so, spill the beans!

It’s the ULTIMATE gift guide for readers!

For the friend who reads for the thrill 🔪😈

NOW YOU OWE ME by Aliah Wright
THE LAST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT by Ellen Meeropol
URSULA LAKE by Charles Harper Webb
THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD by Molly Olguin

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"I feel much more connected to my students after having engaged with them on this book and reading their journals...I have not felt this energy in a classroom since 2022."

I love this so much 🥹

Listen, I had to.

This was a very enjoyable and thought-provoking read about endangered crafts in Britain - I feel like we could do more to support them, like Japan and other countries do with Living National Treasures. And it did prompt me to donate to @heritage-crafts.bsky.social...

Upstate trucker Joe Macken’s TikTok-famous scale model of New York City will be displayed at the Museum of the City of New York this winter: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/75c318

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photograph of book “The White Pedestal” by Curtis Dozier

such exciting book mail!!! @curtisdozier.bsky.social

a cartoon of two men sitting at a table with the words good lord what is happening in there written below them ALT: a cartoon of two men sitting at a table with the words good lord what is happening in there written below them

Me, seeing other people enjoying an Aurora Borealis:

Northern Lights at Lava Centre, live aurora borealis web cam LAVA Centre's Live Aurora Borealis Webcam. The best way to Experience the Northern Lights in Iceland is by staying outside Reykjavík.

This is a live cam of the sky in Iceland. If you’re in the US, it could give you a few hours heads up on what kind of night it might be!

And if you live somewhere cloudy, well, it’s also useful then

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私の初画集「OPUS」が、2025年12月8日に出版される事になりました！

新規描き下ろしにお仕事で描かせて頂いたものや、これまで制作したイラストたちを収録しております💄✨
是非お手に取ってもらえたら幸いです。

My first art book, “OPUS,” will be published on December 8, 2025!
This book is a record of the past five years.
I really hope you enjoy it!

A bright pink flyer, with a cartoon venus flytrap on the left and an illustration of s.e. smith, a white non-binary person with long brown hair, glasses and a lip piercing, on the right. Right next to the illustration it says "HEAR FROM THE FLYTRAP WORKER-OWNER S.E. SMITH AND A POWERHOUSE PANEL OF TRANS MEDIA." Underneath, it says "Trans Media Convening" in black and yellow. Underneath that it says "Organized by The Objective, Friday, Nov. 14, 11am-4pm EST."

Hear from our very own worker-owner and co-founder @sesmith.lol and a powerhouse panel of trans media at the trans media convening organized by @objectivejournos.bsky.social !

Flyer by rommy torrico

💻 Register at https://f.mtr.cool/nuowcscmvw by November 14th!

Drugs that last for months. A new generation of long-acting drugs like lenacapavir points to a different approach to prevention: take one dose, stay protected for half a year (and possibly more). What are the different ways scientists are designing medicines that last so long in the body, and what trade-offs come with durability? Crafting a universal flu vaccine. Each year, scientists study the strains circulating in the population, predict which will dominate, and reformulate the vaccine to match. When those predictions miss, protection drops, and updating the formulation takes time. Could we create a single vaccine that protects against all forms of influenza?

The mosquito we should just get rid of. One mosquito species is responsible for most cases of dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya: Aedes aegypti. It thrives in cities, breeding in bottle caps and flower pots, and has adapted perfectly to human life. But now scientists have tools, like gene drives and Wolbachia bacteria, to suppress or even eliminate it. What makes this one mosquito species so harmful to us? How might we eliminate it? Successful pension reforms in recent history. Australia successfully moved its population to a retirement savings plan (‘Superannuation’) in the early 1990s. Silvio Berlusconi’s governments in Italy drove reforms that moved much of the population from ‘defined benefit’ pensions to savings-focused ‘defined contribution’ pensions. What can other states learn from these experiences to reduce their own future retirees’ dependence on working age populations?

Heathrow’s surprising efficiency. Europe’s busiest airport desperately needs more physical infrastructure, especially runways. But it is remarkable how well it has done with just the two runways that it has. What has it done to engineer around this constraint? Everyday progress in cosmetic technology. Plastic surgery was once a byword for wealth but many interventions are now commonplace. The frontier seems to be pushing out as well: consider the latest Kardashian facelift or the improvement of hair systems. We want to read a piece on the lack of stagnation in appearance-enhancement, either a case study on a specific procedure or an article on the field overall. Blockers to AI automation. We recently ran a piece on why AI hasn’t replaced radiologists. What are similar stories in other fields? The type of piece we will consider is a detailed case study of capability that already (plausibly) exists, but that has been less impactful than people hoped. We’re not that interested in speculation based on abilities that models may have in the future. Inversely, if there are areas which haven’t been covered well elsewhere where models have been surprisingly effective at displacing humans, feel free to pitch us as well.

The land that lived with malaria for millennia. For thousands of years, malaria haunted the Italian peninsula, from the Pontine marshes near Rome to its southern coasts. Then, within a few decades in the mid-20th century, it was eliminated. How did a disease so deeply rooted in Italy’s history disappear so quickly, and what does the story tell us about public health and environmental change? Why does Asia have higher density than Africa? Across MENA, South Asia, and South-East Asia, many cities are made up mostly of mid-rise apartment buildings, often clustered together at densities equal to or greater than those of nineteenth century Europe. In Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, urban densities tend to be low, with single-story buildings making up most of the urban area. This pattern holds even in cases of African countries with higher incomes than many Asian countries (e.g. Botswana, South Africa, Gabon, Rwanda). What is the cause of this? What does it teach us about the drivers of urban density?

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Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining, it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up.

I fully just did a dance around my house

Color image of a beach with ocean in background, sand foreground, some grassy cover in right lower corner. The sky seems clear-ish. In mid-ground near beach-water interface is a large explosion in sandy colors and also some red where untrained jackasses have used too much, and wrongly placed, dynamite in an effort to obliterate a rotting whale carcass. Rotting whale proceeded to rain upon the watching crowd and no one was injured. It is glorious.

🚨HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨

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A quick Lulu✨ #ffx

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🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!

Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.

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Green aurora borealis over the chicago skyline

The Northern Lights over #Chicago with an iPhone. What a world. #aurora

I AM WATCHING YHE NORTHERN LIGHTS WITH THE NAKED EYE THIS IS THR BEST DAYNOF MY LIFE

Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates. Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…

JCO - 87 years and sharp as a truckload of tacks 📌

IT GOT BETTER

📍Central MN

Anyways back in olden times a red aurora meant the death of kings

JUST A FUN FACT NOT RELATED TO ANYTHING

And here's the recent Waldorf Astoria renovation. This video is by the Instagram account oldegoodthings