Shannon Sanders
@shanders.bsky.social
THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
Pediatrician: So, tell me about your diet! Do you eat fruits and veggies every day?
Kid who eats 10 lbs of grapes, a tub of pomegranate seeds, 15 carrot sticks, and a whole apple every day: Well…I don’t really eat fruits and veggies 😔😔😔😔
Kid who eats 10 lbs of grapes, a tub of pomegranate seeds, 15 carrot sticks, and a whole apple every day: Well…I don’t really eat fruits and veggies 😔😔😔😔
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Pediatrician: So, tell me about your diet! Do you eat fruits and veggies every day?
Kid who eats 10 lbs of grapes, a tub of pomegranate seeds, 15 carrot sticks, and a whole apple every day: Well…I don’t really eat fruits and veggies 😔😔😔😔
Kid who eats 10 lbs of grapes, a tub of pomegranate seeds, 15 carrot sticks, and a whole apple every day: Well…I don’t really eat fruits and veggies 😔😔😔😔
Reposted by Shannon Sanders
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
Reposted by Shannon Sanders
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 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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.
This is what I have to say about making a living as a writer
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I don't think you should take a vow of poverty to write
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November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This is what I have to say about making a living as a writer
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Three cheers for day jobs 🎉🎉🎉
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Three cheers for day jobs 🎉🎉🎉
Today is the fourth Tuesday of November. My useless superpower is that if I had a conversation with you today—about any topic at all—I now have a very clear and pretty accurate idea of what your relationship with your mother is like
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Today is the fourth Tuesday of November. My useless superpower is that if I had a conversation with you today—about any topic at all—I now have a very clear and pretty accurate idea of what your relationship with your mother is like
Work School
M Y 1/2 day
Tu Y 1/2 day
W Y N
Th N N
F Y N
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M Y 1/2 day
Tu Y 1/2 day
W Y N
Th N N
F Y N
🙃
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Work School
M Y 1/2 day
Tu Y 1/2 day
W Y N
Th N N
F Y N
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M Y 1/2 day
Tu Y 1/2 day
W Y N
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PSA: Rather than offering to watch the kids so your co-parent can go out somewhere, TAKE ALL THE KIDS OUT SOMEWHERE. Your co-parent can still leave the house if they want to! Or they can just have a quiet house!!!! I stand firm on this
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
PSA: Rather than offering to watch the kids so your co-parent can go out somewhere, TAKE ALL THE KIDS OUT SOMEWHERE. Your co-parent can still leave the house if they want to! Or they can just have a quiet house!!!! I stand firm on this
Also, cooking dinner is sometimes lined up against things like taking out the trash and car maintenance in discussions of gendered labor. The mismatch is actually hilarious. I asked my husband if he wanted to swap those duties for two weeks just for fun and he literally darted out of the room
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Also, cooking dinner is sometimes lined up against things like taking out the trash and car maintenance in discussions of gendered labor. The mismatch is actually hilarious. I asked my husband if he wanted to swap those duties for two weeks just for fun and he literally darted out of the room
She is not kidding. The actual understanding crashes on you like the Red Sea
Before you have kids, you intellectually understand they need to eat dinner every day. But you do not understand what this means. You can't. They need to eat dinner EVERY day
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
She is not kidding. The actual understanding crashes on you like the Red Sea
I was wondering why I’m bone tired at 8 pm—was it the stressful workday? Rushing to get dinner on the table? Hustling the kids through the cold rain to swim class?—and then I remembered it was today, not a week ago, that I got up hours early to fight the county registration queue before breakfast
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I was wondering why I’m bone tired at 8 pm—was it the stressful workday? Rushing to get dinner on the table? Hustling the kids through the cold rain to swim class?—and then I remembered it was today, not a week ago, that I got up hours early to fight the county registration queue before breakfast
The good news is that I got the swimming classes I wanted! The bad news is that it took an hour of waiting and refreshing my cart (on threat of losing my place in the virtual line), because of the Cloudflare outage. The worse news is that I wouldn’t get that hour back even if I hadn’t succeeded.
In 20 years they are going to be researching why middle-class suburban Millennial moms’ life expectancies have been inexplicably cut short, but no one will think to look at things like this as the culprit
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The good news is that I got the swimming classes I wanted! The bad news is that it took an hour of waiting and refreshing my cart (on threat of losing my place in the virtual line), because of the Cloudflare outage. The worse news is that I wouldn’t get that hour back even if I hadn’t succeeded.
In 20 years they are going to be researching why middle-class suburban Millennial moms’ life expectancies have been inexplicably cut short, but no one will think to look at things like this as the culprit
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
In 20 years they are going to be researching why middle-class suburban Millennial moms’ life expectancies have been inexplicably cut short, but no one will think to look at things like this as the culprit
Just saw a video of a mom cutting holes into her sleeping child’s pajamas for some Elf on the Shelf-related use and……..I was already basically 99% convinced there is no responsible, unselfish way to post video content of your minor child on the internet, and this took me to 99.9.
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Just saw a video of a mom cutting holes into her sleeping child’s pajamas for some Elf on the Shelf-related use and……..I was already basically 99% convinced there is no responsible, unselfish way to post video content of your minor child on the internet, and this took me to 99.9.
Group chats are so delicate. A group chat with up to 6 safe people can be such an oasis. Whereas a group chat with 10+ people is just a small-talky message board. When one turns into the other it’s ok to grieve a little bit.
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Group chats are so delicate. A group chat with up to 6 safe people can be such an oasis. Whereas a group chat with 10+ people is just a small-talky message board. When one turns into the other it’s ok to grieve a little bit.
It’s one thing to hope this quietly (and of course many dads discreetly enjoy this exact setup), another to reinforce your own supremacy by embarrassing your partner like this via public announcement
Pusha T and his wife Virginia are expecting a baby boy, Spring 2026. What a lovely message he wrote to her.
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It’s one thing to hope this quietly (and of course many dads discreetly enjoy this exact setup), another to reinforce your own supremacy by embarrassing your partner like this via public announcement
I also posted this on Threads, and most of the responses were opinions about stay-at-home parents, who were not mentioned at all in the post (just as they aren’t part of every household, which seems to be news to some). Also most people stopped reading at the first semicolon. Fascinating
It is reasonable for working dads to want a brief moment to relax after work; and it is reasonable for working moms to want that same thing; and it is reasonable for that not to be an option for either when young children are involved
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I also posted this on Threads, and most of the responses were opinions about stay-at-home parents, who were not mentioned at all in the post (just as they aren’t part of every household, which seems to be news to some). Also most people stopped reading at the first semicolon. Fascinating
I’m having coffee with this woman today! There are so many things I want to tell her, but I recognize that like 90% of them are just things I want to get off my chest vs. things she needs or wants to hear, and once again I really wish people would put more care into categorizing their advice!!
Someone I know is having twins and will have three under 3, just like I did a few years ago. She wants my old bouncers and a few twin outfits and has asked for very specific forms of advice. 😭😭😭😭
It’s so glorious, I see why people want to give these things unsolicited (still don’t, though)
It’s so glorious, I see why people want to give these things unsolicited (still don’t, though)
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I’m having coffee with this woman today! There are so many things I want to tell her, but I recognize that like 90% of them are just things I want to get off my chest vs. things she needs or wants to hear, and once again I really wish people would put more care into categorizing their advice!!
Good news everybody, 7-year-old neighbors still split up a set of walkie talkies and then ask each other what they’re having for dinner 🥰🥰
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Good news everybody, 7-year-old neighbors still split up a set of walkie talkies and then ask each other what they’re having for dinner 🥰🥰
I’m asking for a typewriter for Christmas
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I’m asking for a typewriter for Christmas
A thing I will personally try to be considerate about in the future (that many people are not!!!!) is that while gendered locker rooms can service dozens, the single-stall all-gender locker room at the pool is a lot of people’s only choice (including a parent alone w/opposite gender kids >5)
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A thing I will personally try to be considerate about in the future (that many people are not!!!!) is that while gendered locker rooms can service dozens, the single-stall all-gender locker room at the pool is a lot of people’s only choice (including a parent alone w/opposite gender kids >5)
Someone I know is having twins and will have three under 3, just like I did a few years ago. She wants my old bouncers and a few twin outfits and has asked for very specific forms of advice. 😭😭😭😭
It’s so glorious, I see why people want to give these things unsolicited (still don’t, though)
It’s so glorious, I see why people want to give these things unsolicited (still don’t, though)
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Someone I know is having twins and will have three under 3, just like I did a few years ago. She wants my old bouncers and a few twin outfits and has asked for very specific forms of advice. 😭😭😭😭
It’s so glorious, I see why people want to give these things unsolicited (still don’t, though)
It’s so glorious, I see why people want to give these things unsolicited (still don’t, though)
The good people of Threads found some fascinating ways to misinterpret this
It is reasonable for working dads to want a brief moment to relax after work; and it is reasonable for working moms to want that same thing; and it is reasonable for that not to be an option for either when young children are involved
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The good people of Threads found some fascinating ways to misinterpret this
It is reasonable for working dads to want a brief moment to relax after work; and it is reasonable for working moms to want that same thing; and it is reasonable for that not to be an option for either when young children are involved
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It is reasonable for working dads to want a brief moment to relax after work; and it is reasonable for working moms to want that same thing; and it is reasonable for that not to be an option for either when young children are involved
This is incredible because I scrolled through at least 3 dozen comments and every single one was from a month other than December 😭
What interesting books are being released in December?
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is incredible because I scrolled through at least 3 dozen comments and every single one was from a month other than December 😭