Justine Larbalestier

The Mortons, my first adult novel, written with @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social is now available in the UK! (Joining Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand & the USA.) www.penguin.co.uk/books/470028...

🚨NEW WORDS ALERT🚨 She doesn't care for the attention and outside noise, but she deserves a lot of it. Kiah Stokes has been an absolute monster defensively and deserves your respect. On her historic run: sports.yahoo.com/wnba/article...

Kiah Stokes had a 19% block rate, averaging above 3 blocks per game in under 20 minutes as a senior at UCONN. She is one of the greatest shot blockers in the history of the women's game. The Warden of Alcatraz.

Jumbotron just showed a sign that said "Move the Hawks game, put the women in prime time."

Aka 3:30am Sydney time. This terrible decision suits no one. Boo!!!

USIANS PAY ATTENTION!! WE BEAT META, WE BEAT YOUR BIG TECHS!! IT IS POSSIBLE!!

I haven’t slept a full night in three weeks ahead of the polls opening in Brazil today. I might be shouting into a void here, but if you can spare a few seconds to send good energy towards our elections today and for the largest country in South America to beat fascism, please do so. 🇧🇷

ICYMI, @nekiasnba.bsky.social and I reacted live to Game 3 of the WNBA Finals. How the Atlanta Dream took this one and what the Golden State Valkyries can do to try and get back in this series. www.youtube.com/live/GmzfnPE...

Well, I can see why Karl won't play his bench . . . Oh, wait. No, they were amazing too! #wnba

Hey broadcast team, instead of reminding us again that DB is 39 years old, let audiences know that Rhyne Howard and Allisha Gray helped design these Atlanta Dream uniforms and on the back of the jerseys are all the Atlanta area codes as a nod to having the city on their backs. #wnba

The responses are delicious. #wnba

Despite Meta’s censorship, we saw a 51% jump in early voting in areas with a No Kings event. @ezralevin.bsky.social joined @chrislhayes.bsky.social to explain why we need real answers from Mark Zuckerberg.

people keep introducing themselves and saying that they read rough notes. this has NEVER EVER HAPPENED TO ME before. i am so touched and grateful. also, i have no words to describe this game. something special is happening.

Word of mouth is magic!

Loved this piece by @thefrankiedlc.news about the Connecticut Sun beat writers: www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/the-connec... So much is lost when a team is dislodged. Sending the Sun to Houston is one of the worst decisions of the #wnba

I have always stood up to him and that will never change. The pedophile protector will never silence me.

Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

You have to not anguish about ethical uses of an unethical product. This is DDT. It’s poison, the people selling it know it and are pushing back hard against people trying to call it what it is. We did that, though.

“We can’t stop AI! We can’t stop progress!” My dudes, ladies, and genderqueer buddies: we have stopped using a lot of things. Especially shitty things that harm us. Remember how station wagons had backwards facing seats until they realized that’s begging for injuries in an accident?

Nothing has turned me off individualism harder than living in the USA

This fall and beyond, NYC PLAN will be continuing to demand that @mayor.nyc.gov honor his promise to fund our libraries at 0.5% of the city expense budget. Interested in joining us in our fight? Our next monthly meeting is in-person, Sunday Oct 18: email info@nycplan.org for details

While the below is true, the fastest tell is actually that no publisher is going to reach out to you to ask about your work. Ever. They just aren't.

I still remember in 2015 when Trump was gonna hold a press conference clear up all the questions about Melania's immigration issues in two weeks. And then he didn't. And the press never asked them about it again.

Today is Let Freedom Read Day. It's also the last day of Banned Books Week. We know books bans won't miraculously stop today. Whether you have 5 minutes or an hour, do one small thing today to fight book bans! bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay #BannedBooksWeek #LetBooksBe #LetFreedomReadDay

Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Meta’s LA data center will use “more than four times the electricity used to power all of New Orleans on the hottest summer day.” !!!!!!

Morning (New Yorker cartoon, by Rose Anne Prevec)

there was streaming before the big companies, and they criminalized it when it was free because it was unfair to artists, and now that it's for-profit it's legal and it's still fucking unfair to artists.

AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.

The way anti-data center messaging has permeated politics nationwide across the aisle should forever end the notion that it's just accelerated NIMBYism. People who have no data centers anywhere nearby still hate them enough to make politicians have to hate them too just to survive.

I forgot about the time change so the first #wnba semi is actually on at 5AM Aussie daylight saving time. Phew, eh?

🎯🎯🎯 #WNBA

Oof. That's 4am & 6am games for us East Coast Australian #WNBA fans. Le sigh.