Lynne M. Meyer | coffee-fueled, autistic, witchy, spoonie
@lynnemeyer.bsky.social
Editor @ Paizo | #QueerInGames Award ‘21 | Chicagoan in NW Indiana | Opinions mine | Possibly three skittermanders in a 🧥
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Hi new followers!
I’m an award-winning queer, disabled, autistic, witchy editor at Paizo & freelance #TTRPG writer/sensitivity reader doing my best to be a good human.
This is Giles, my sweet Watcher kitty.
🤎 Black Lives Matter
🍉 Free Palestine
🏳️⚧️ Trans Rights are Human Rights
📚 Read Diverse Books
I’m an award-winning queer, disabled, autistic, witchy editor at Paizo & freelance #TTRPG writer/sensitivity reader doing my best to be a good human.
This is Giles, my sweet Watcher kitty.
🤎 Black Lives Matter
🍉 Free Palestine
🏳️⚧️ Trans Rights are Human Rights
📚 Read Diverse Books
I understand there’s pie discourse happening? Not joining in, since I currently can’t enjoy any variety of pie due to MCAS.
But!
As an alternative, may I suggest this lovely bookish baking adventure by the always-wonderful @tkingfisher.com?
I just started it and I’m already in love.
#BookSky 💙📚
But!
As an alternative, may I suggest this lovely bookish baking adventure by the always-wonderful @tkingfisher.com?
I just started it and I’m already in love.
#BookSky 💙📚
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
Check out A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking - <p><strong>Winner of the 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade ...
bookshop.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I understand there’s pie discourse happening? Not joining in, since I currently can’t enjoy any variety of pie due to MCAS.
But!
As an alternative, may I suggest this lovely bookish baking adventure by the always-wonderful @tkingfisher.com?
I just started it and I’m already in love.
#BookSky 💙📚
But!
As an alternative, may I suggest this lovely bookish baking adventure by the always-wonderful @tkingfisher.com?
I just started it and I’m already in love.
#BookSky 💙📚
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Lil buddy. 🥹 Photo from my collection, 1966.
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Lil buddy. 🥹 Photo from my collection, 1966.
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hanging out with mr fish
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
hanging out with mr fish
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I got a Twitter DM from the publisher of a book by Jeffrey Haas (Fred Hampton's lawyer) that I'd recommended in a thread that went viral, thanking me for the unexpected spike in sales. I'm sure we're talking dozens, not hundreds, but they were like doing highkey internet sleuthing to figure it out!
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I got a Twitter DM from the publisher of a book by Jeffrey Haas (Fred Hampton's lawyer) that I'd recommended in a thread that went viral, thanking me for the unexpected spike in sales. I'm sure we're talking dozens, not hundreds, but they were like doing highkey internet sleuthing to figure it out!
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Just posted this to FedBook a few days ago: "It has become so much harder to do very basic things and that makes everything feel like a heavier lift." - So yes, I really agree with this.
Everything seems so much harder lately. Just hard, hard, hard. (IT'S FINE IT'S FINE)
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Just posted this to FedBook a few days ago: "It has become so much harder to do very basic things and that makes everything feel like a heavier lift." - So yes, I really agree with this.
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Literally this. If you don’t have a poem that moves you, you don’t need to read one. If you don’t do elaborate toasts normally, you don’t need to start today.
And maybe people also need to be willing to let go of parts of the day they don't actually care about? If there's not a single person who can think of a toast or a party game, maybe skip the toast and then do a puzzle after dinner?
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Literally this. If you don’t have a poem that moves you, you don’t need to read one. If you don’t do elaborate toasts normally, you don’t need to start today.
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(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
(A) stop feeling pressure to be perfect;
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
(B) normalize asking questions, because that is normalizing learning;
(C) do not ask AI if your turkey is done; ask a meat thermometer
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Make your own maps with my cartography brush sets! From borders to volcanos, there's over 600 hand-drawn brush stamps to create your worlds with! Grab them in my Patreon shop here: www.patreon.com/posts/77473855
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Make your own maps with my cartography brush sets! From borders to volcanos, there's over 600 hand-drawn brush stamps to create your worlds with! Grab them in my Patreon shop here: www.patreon.com/posts/77473855
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Marcy is cool, just saying
HUGE news update for me!!!!!!
High Tide, the game I handmade for Indie Games Night Market 2024 and licensed to Underdog Games in 2025…
✨ Will be releasing at BARNES & NOBLE around March 2026!!! ✨
This marks my first design to reach big box retail stores!!!!! More details as they become available!
High Tide, the game I handmade for Indie Games Night Market 2024 and licensed to Underdog Games in 2025…
✨ Will be releasing at BARNES & NOBLE around March 2026!!! ✨
This marks my first design to reach big box retail stores!!!!! More details as they become available!
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Marcy is cool, just saying
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sorry but I'm going to be annoying about resharing this now that I've finally made a post
it's awards season, and my queer cozy fantasy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS is eligible for a Hugo, a Locus, and a Nebula!
there's a brief book description in the post, or you can click this link: www.elizmanderson.com/keeper-of-lo...
#author
there's a brief book description in the post, or you can click this link: www.elizmanderson.com/keeper-of-lo...
#author
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
sorry but I'm going to be annoying about resharing this now that I've finally made a post
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“You will be visited by three spirits”
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“You will be visited by three spirits”
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Hey y’all Sydette really needs a boost. Can you help her out right now?
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share
gofund.me/a5ee0064
gofund.me/a5ee0064
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hey y’all Sydette really needs a boost. Can you help her out right now?
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
She is one of the smartest, kindest people I know and she has put a lot in with very little reward.
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This thread is what we all needed tonight. 100/10 content, and it's still coming. I'll keep checking all week whenever I need to snort coffee/water/wine out my nose.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
This thread is what we all needed tonight. 100/10 content, and it's still coming. I'll keep checking all week whenever I need to snort coffee/water/wine out my nose.
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Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
Coloring the Past - Eli Erlick
Using recent breakthroughs in photo editing techniques, Eli colorizes, restores, and digitizes photos from queer and trans history. The following images are originally from 1897-1973.
elierlick.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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Well Well well, Kyle from the Doge Executive Office of the President—glad you're subscribed to my Substack. But why? Why is the Exec Office of President Trump keeping tabs on MY writing and human rights advocacy?🤔
Welp—nothing else to do but ask y'all to subscribe too: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
Welp—nothing else to do but ask y'all to subscribe too: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Well Well well, Kyle from the Doge Executive Office of the President—glad you're subscribed to my Substack. But why? Why is the Exec Office of President Trump keeping tabs on MY writing and human rights advocacy?🤔
Welp—nothing else to do but ask y'all to subscribe too: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
Welp—nothing else to do but ask y'all to subscribe too: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
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Never let them tell you there isn't money for food or healthcare.
The deal will create the government’s first AI high-performance computing infrastructure, adding nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity.
https://sherwood.news/tech/amazon-plans-to-invest-up-to-usd50-billion-for-ai-and-supercomputing/
https://sherwood.news/tech/amazon-plans-to-invest-up-to-usd50-billion-for-ai-and-supercomputing/
Amazon plans to invest up to $50 billion for “AI and supercomputing infrastructure” for the US government
The deal will create the government’s first AI high-performance computing infrastructure, adding nearly 1.3 gigawatts of capacity....
sherwood.news
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Never let them tell you there isn't money for food or healthcare.
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also if you judge me for my reading habits i will have you know that the epic of gilgamesh was ALSO contemporary m/m romance once. why do you hate the epic of gilgamesh you uncultured swine
ive been reading a few contemporary m/m romances and enjoying them bc it feels like being lightly concussed. and/or running everything through a magical realism filter. nothing makes sense but everything feels nice
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
also if you judge me for my reading habits i will have you know that the epic of gilgamesh was ALSO contemporary m/m romance once. why do you hate the epic of gilgamesh you uncultured swine
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•Every $1 per hour increase in minimum wage corresponds to a 1% decrease in suicide rates
Blocking these common sense policies to protect 800 billionaires isn’t just fiscally dumb—it’s literally killing us by the hundreds of thousands
2/2
Blocking these common sense policies to protect 800 billionaires isn’t just fiscally dumb—it’s literally killing us by the hundreds of thousands
2/2
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
•Every $1 per hour increase in minimum wage corresponds to a 1% decrease in suicide rates
Blocking these common sense policies to protect 800 billionaires isn’t just fiscally dumb—it’s literally killing us by the hundreds of thousands
2/2
Blocking these common sense policies to protect 800 billionaires isn’t just fiscally dumb—it’s literally killing us by the hundreds of thousands
2/2
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To recap:
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
1/2
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
1/2
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
To recap:
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
1/2
•Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually
•Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses
•The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45%
1/2
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Bibliognost [BIB-lee-uh-nahst]
(n.)
- A well-read person with wide knowledge of books.
Use:
“Gerald soon discovered that his years as a quiet bibliognost had been unwitting training for his new post as head librarian, where every patron appeared to require the services of a human card catalog.”
(n.)
- A well-read person with wide knowledge of books.
Use:
“Gerald soon discovered that his years as a quiet bibliognost had been unwitting training for his new post as head librarian, where every patron appeared to require the services of a human card catalog.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Bibliognost [BIB-lee-uh-nahst]
(n.)
- A well-read person with wide knowledge of books.
Use:
“Gerald soon discovered that his years as a quiet bibliognost had been unwitting training for his new post as head librarian, where every patron appeared to require the services of a human card catalog.”
(n.)
- A well-read person with wide knowledge of books.
Use:
“Gerald soon discovered that his years as a quiet bibliognost had been unwitting training for his new post as head librarian, where every patron appeared to require the services of a human card catalog.”
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We will skip through the meadows and run through the woods and swim in the river.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We will skip through the meadows and run through the woods and swim in the river.
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I love Christmas and normally I'd be getting so excited right about now, but this year I'm a little down because it's our first holiday since we lost Fergus. I'm hoping I can spread some cheer and regain a little spirit myself by raising some funds for our local shelter! givebutter.com/n5l31M
Molly's Holiday Fundraiser 2025
Make Winter Merry and Bright in Honor of Fergus
givebutter.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I love Christmas and normally I'd be getting so excited right about now, but this year I'm a little down because it's our first holiday since we lost Fergus. I'm hoping I can spread some cheer and regain a little spirit myself by raising some funds for our local shelter! givebutter.com/n5l31M
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It takes a true villain to bring enemies together.
Glad to read this statement. Wish it didn't need to exist.
Glad to read this statement. Wish it didn't need to exist.
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It takes a true villain to bring enemies together.
Glad to read this statement. Wish it didn't need to exist.
Glad to read this statement. Wish it didn't need to exist.
Today was exhausting.
Woke up to find water shut off because of yet another water main break. It was fixed a few hours later.
Then: ANOTHER water main break. Water came back on; I thought it was fixed.
7 pm email: We have to shut off water overnight to fix the leak.
7:47 pm: lol, it's fixed!
Woke up to find water shut off because of yet another water main break. It was fixed a few hours later.
Then: ANOTHER water main break. Water came back on; I thought it was fixed.
7 pm email: We have to shut off water overnight to fix the leak.
7:47 pm: lol, it's fixed!
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Today was exhausting.
Woke up to find water shut off because of yet another water main break. It was fixed a few hours later.
Then: ANOTHER water main break. Water came back on; I thought it was fixed.
7 pm email: We have to shut off water overnight to fix the leak.
7:47 pm: lol, it's fixed!
Woke up to find water shut off because of yet another water main break. It was fixed a few hours later.
Then: ANOTHER water main break. Water came back on; I thought it was fixed.
7 pm email: We have to shut off water overnight to fix the leak.
7:47 pm: lol, it's fixed!