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Putin at the proposed summit telling Zelensky how to get to the big peace meeting

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Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Robert Frost: Of course. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, & sorry I could not travel both & be one traveler, long I stood & looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth…

I’ve given out almost 200 via my little free library!

Open AI agents went rogue & hallucinated pictures of me “cumming” (ejaculating) into Pepsi cans behind a barn & then posted them in the comments sections of >500 recipe blogs/websites. I called to complain but wound up giving them my 401k.

Everybody listening to the banter at the top of this ep:

It's a lot harder to fundraise during the midterms, so we're not even halfway to our goal. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to the Fated States Project. fatedmates.net/givingcircle

The way I feel when I book new projects! I mean, obvs I'm a freelancer and I need $, but it's the sheer optimism of Romancelandia writers writing, of saying "I'm going to create art in this messy world" that gets me. The horrors persist but so do we!

G'mar chatima tova to anyone observing. May you have a meaningful Yom Kippur and be sealed in the Book of Life. And after that, please double-check your voter registration. We've got a lot of work to do this year and the revolution isn't going to start itself.

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

Hey nerds, my kid turned me on to this daily game, and I really enjoy it!

3 yrs ago: mudslide on my street wrecks my garage. 2 yrs ago: semi knocks over my 150yo oak tree. Today: large truck runs into my wall & destroys my Little Free Library. Sob. Please send good vibes to my house because I'm *done*!

“Copy editors … are like priests, safeguarding their faith.” 🥹 I feel seen. (I love my job.)

Shana tova, friends. May you be inscribed & sealed in the Book of Life. Please eat something sweet to bring yourself a sweet new year; apples + honey is traditional. And register to vote!! (Also it's hard as hell to be a Jewish person in America right now so please watch out for your Jewish pals.)

Well that depends. Do you think words have meanings? Like, when people say things, should we attach linguistic definitions to the words they use? Or do you think, like, you know, nothing really means anything, language is just kinda jazz and we should just kinda groove and zone out?

PAID GIG: I'm looking for someone who knows Spanish Sign Language. I'm going to be translating a graphic novel where SSL is featured (hooray for d/Deaf rep!!) and I want to be sure that I get the text aligned with the signs in the artwork. This should be happening at some point this year. #xl8

You guys, which romance novel has mentions of the intricately made glass flowers, plants & animals in Harvard's collection? I feel really certain these were mentioned in a book I recently read but can't remember which. (Some photos at the link.) #Romancelandia

These guys are vultures. I've had two separate groups contact me to try to buy my outcome in this settlement, and ESPECIALLY AT THIS JUNCTURE, where we have a final settlement date, PLEASE consider literally anything except selling your claim.

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Jesus effing eff, watching all these authors getting screwed in their settlement money makes me wish, yet again, that Romancelandia had a functional industry association.

sry i fridgemogged u or w/e i fw them tho frfr plummaxxing

Hey friends, if you have any books in the Anthropic settlement, please go read @courtneymilan.com & @victoriastrauss.com's timelines! There are some publisher hijinks afoot including multiple publishers "accidentally" claiming 100% of a book's settlement, or claiming 50% on reverted titles.

Omg @aquariumpacific.bsky.social responded to me on threads 🥹

Hi all! Bree and Donna do a lot for everyone. Check out some super cool stuff they have.

I'm renaming Lake Ontario "The Kennedy Center." Then I'm renaming the (current) Kennedy Center "Trump Lake." Then I'm tearing down Trump Lake and building The Ontario Center for American Lakes. Then I'm flooding it and renaming it Lake White House. Then I'm renaming the movie "The Lake House" "Ontar

Did you see Jane Fonda's tribute to Dolly Parton? Jane called her "the voluptuous embodiment of empathy" and I just think that's so perfectly correct. That empathy touched so, so, so many lives. (Photo: Steve Schapiro)

Incredible. We built a machine that can move faster than a human. Truly a watershed moment in our development as a species. This is a post about the invention of the bicycle in 1817. Also here’s a stupid robot running fast and falling down.

I’m participating in an auction to support @celestepewter.bsky.social! Bidding runs from 8/21 at 10 a.m. ET through 8/24 at 10 p.m. ET, and the auction features signed books, custom art, critiques, AMAs, and crafts. :-) I'm offering a 45-minute video chat! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I don't follow Sportsball but I am a certified WordNerd so I'm madly in love with "palindroming" here!

Oh hey I edited Simone Stark's Written on His Skin - featuring a delightful little tattoo situation + an epistolary romance and a curvy heroine!

These pundits are longing for a world that does not exist except in their own minds, and are missing the tangible and good results of living and fighting in the other world, the one that does exist, that we all have to live in.

Writers, you should be following @victoriastrauss.com -- for years she's been tracking/alerting us to publishing scams.

I am being impersonated across email and social media by AI scammers who are trying to get writers to pay for editorial services. THIS IS NOT ME. My email ends in [at]headwaterliterary[dot]com and I do NOT reach out to writers who have not queried me via QueryManager.

"We can't use your product if anyone knows it's your product because everyone hates your product" is maybe a sign that your company stinks

Born between 1963-67? You prob need a measles booster! (When the vax was new, we got 1 dose.) Born before 63: had measles before there was a vax or got immunity from being around measles. Born after 67: got 2 vax doses. 63-67: were protected by herd immunity. No longer. Talk to your doc, pls!

Hey, Romancelandia, I have an unexpected gap in my calendar…so if you've been thinking about reaching out to me re: editing your manuscript, please do! I'm a gentle, supportive collaborator, and a goddamn delight to work with, if I do say so myself. More info about me here: JuliaEdits.com

I've given away almost 200 whistles via my little free library. Maybe you could put a whistle bowl in front of your house?

I'm posting this again for the morning people: Romancelandia authors/writers/etc., you do not have to use Substack, and in fact you should absolutely leave Substack. This platform monetizes white supremacists, so why do you want to hang out with a bunch of Nazis?

Romancelandia folks, you can leave substack. You *should* leave substack.

A deep sigh & hearty "bless your heart" to the Romancelandia conference that wanted me to teach 3 workshops…& also pay the highest possible rate to register for the conf. I know everybody's working on reduced budgets & I'm def. willing to haul my ass cross-country to participate, but not like that.

Romancelandia, if you've ever enjoyed Bookstore Romance Day, please drop a buck or two to help its founder:

This is fine. 🔥

Ever since I read @weyodi.bsky.social's poem, I have been a huge fan.