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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 11d

Cool for the Summer is 20% off in paperback for Banned Book Week using code BBW25 at Bookshop! bookshop.org/a/2228/97812... (You can check out the entire great list of books to support thanks to the partnership of We Need Diverse Books here: bookshop.org/info/banned-...) 🌈📚

Cool for the Summer

Check out Cool for the Summer - <p><b>Lara finally lands the guy of her dreams, only to have her unexpected(ly female) summer fling transfer to her school, in Dahlia Adler's beloved award-winning YA q...

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 15d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 15d

Reminder this holiday season that donating to the SA sucks. Ignore the red buckets.

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 15d

The Salvation Army really is the epitome of a certain kind of white conservatism

They prey on the most vulnerable. They happily leave the sort of people they don't like to die in the streets

But they smile a lot and don't cuss and say "Jesus", so they get to be respectable

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Sep 25

Being intentional in word choice/sentence structure/etc for my autistic main character and I just know people are going to read her point of view and claim I’m a bad writer bc it’s very plain and matter of fact 🙃🙃🙃

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 15

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here to be very on brand and say Naomi Osaka’s mother is 🔥🥵

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Aug 13

I’m at the point in drafting where I need to reread the beginning so I can make sure I nail the end and, hey! This book is pretty good!!!

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John Terry @johntrterry.bsky.social · Jul 20

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place.

This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Jul 29

New books by Regina Black, Mary Roach, AND Anita Kelly today!!!!

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Jul 29

Oh god someone would have called an ambulance if I read this in public I’m p sure

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Jul 29

I’ve been quietly weeping for a half an hour as I finished listening to Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. My god.

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · Jul 27

you know i keep that thang on me (cherishing my wife)

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Jul 26

Just finished our rewatch of The Leftovers and that remains the greatest finale of all time

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Cam @abnormalamanda.bsky.social · Jul 25

Every @merylwilsner.bsky.social book is a banger and this sexy sapphic sports romance Cleat Cute is absolutely no exception. Incredible addition to my July reads

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Camryn Garrett @dancingofpens.bsky.social · Jul 21

Reminder that I'm teaching a seminar with Writer's Workshops next Monday and we still have spots open! writingworkshops.com/products/a-g...

What is Voice? A Guide to Discovering and Sharpening Your Voice

If you've ever been confused about what a writer's voice is or concerned about finding your voice as a writer, this course is for you at WritingWorkshops.com.

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✾ @djlonelygirl.bsky.social · Jul 15

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Jul 13

It was me! And I'm incredibly grateful to Felicia for educating me on Substack's issues.

My newsletter is now available through Kit, instead.

merylwilsner.kit.com/posts/update...

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Jul 13

Outraged I’m learning you’re caught up on an app and not in my text messages

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Zay The 5’6 Giant @xaviersmith.blacksky.app · Jul 9

Every word. Bar for bar. Verbatim.

All of it this feels validating seeing somebody put this in words I couldn’t.

I almost died during that year but every thing he said is exactly how I felt during that time minus fighting the virus with no insurance and when a vaccine wasn’t in existence

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Devil Wears Prada 2 cast is a murder attempt on lesbians everywhere

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meryl wilsner (they/them) @merylwilsner.bsky.social · Jul 6

I’m only vaguely here bc I lost track of most ppl but hi! And thanks!

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ak @dumplingmenace.bsky.social · Jul 3

i LOVE telling them to quit. put it on a voicemail. “hey this guy sucks and if you don’t quit you do too”

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jul 3

Good time to remind people that when you call your reps that suck you can remind the staffers that they can and should quit.

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · Jul 3

You know that you can still escape, right? Just head home and enjoy firing up the grill. Let Mike Johnson deal with the fallout. Not your problem.

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Sen ⚢ @dresdencodak.com · Jun 27

Doing a thing for a Pride thing

Sword cutting through darkness with trans flag colored flames.

Text: "Our joy is a sword"

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ak @dumplingmenace.bsky.social · Jun 12

this is unhinged behavior, also people thinking about ranking cuomo should consider why he thinks they would be convinced by this…… (hint: he thinks you’re racist)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 12

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me.

His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard.

This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

Two images of Zohran. On the left is the original from the campaign which shows a close cropped beard. On the right is a version used by Cuomo’s SuperPAC with an artificially longer, darker beard.

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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · Jun 9

Authors in Conversation: Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond

Today on the site I'm delighted to welcome Sapphic Romance authors Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond, whose newest releases (The Next Chapter and Bed and Breakup, respectively) both release this month! Here's a little bit about each book, as…

Authors in Conversation: Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond

Today on the site I'm delighted to welcome Sapphic Romance authors Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond, whose newest releases (The Next Chapter and Bed and Breakup, respectively) both release this month! Here's a little bit about each book, as told by the authors: Bed and Breakup by Susie Dumond is a second-chance romance about two ex-wives who fell in love while renovating a historic inn in a quirky spa town in the Ozarks.

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