Do I already own a thousand notebooks / planners / agendas in every size, style and color imaginable? Certainly.

But THIS notebook — this is the one that is gonna change EVERYTHING.

Ooh, what a fun idea for a podcast! I'll spread the word to the SFF readers I know 🤩

I can relate! At one point, I'd racked up ~1,000 unread books + had an extra bedroom filled with bookshelves for them. 😬 Then I moved + it felt silly to cart them around. Now I use the library. It's a relief not having to deal with all that STUFF. And also: I *love* the look of big home libraries!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this rec! This book was an absolute delight and exactly what I needed right now. And your post is what put it on my TBR! 🥰

I just finished The Rewind Files and LOVED it. 😍 So this is the BEST news ever! I'm in an online book club with a couple thousand members, so I'll do my best to spread the word to more folks 🤞

as someone who likes to collect cool or new words, you would not believe my delight just now when i discovered my e-reader saves a list of all the words i look up while i’m reading

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

"more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist."

Uhhh... this is catastrophic for democracy.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

This book was a delight! 🥰

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

Also to make an em dash all you have to do is put two dashes in a row in Word, and the program makes it for you. Wordpress too.

Anything an LLM is doing is stolen from actual writers and I'll be damned if I'll let a plagiarism machine dictate how I use language, grammar or punctuation.

I kept hoping this myth would burn itself out, but no — the idea that em dashes are a sign of AI writing just keeps spreading.

I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment into the latest Grammar Girl podcast. 🧵

APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/4kV4HbF
SPOTIFY: bit.ly/45YGCfh

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.

Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

Come what may, I will bet on us, every time, because there is no other bet worth placing. I am all in, fam. I will never stop looking for openings and aiming at them. I will never stop reaching for people and saying, “Take my hand. We can do this.” Because we are worth it.

1000 times yes.

Convinced me! On my TBR 🥰

🧵Today is Friday, July 4.
Good morning ❤️

We hold these truths to be
self-evident:
that all [people] are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
that among these are
Life
Liberty
and
the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights,

Take advantage of your 4th of July BBQ to talk to your friends and neighbors about constructive tactics to counter fascism and keep community members safe.

anyway, in the wise words of @prisonculture.bsky.social :

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.