Suzanne Palmer
@zanzjan.bsky.social
Hugo Award-winning SF/F author, occasional artist, professional linux geek (she/her/they; ace) Repped by @awfulagent.bsky.social
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Ode to the Half-Broken
Check out Ode to the Half-Broken - <b>In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, forty years after the world nearly ended, a worn-out robot is attacked, and realizes old evils are stirring<br> <br>W...
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Just your occasional reminder that I have a new book out next April, now available for pre-order:
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November 26th, 2025
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
November 26th, 2025
Here's your occasional reminder that your self-worth is not, in fact, tied to your productivity.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Here's your occasional reminder that your self-worth is not, in fact, tied to your productivity.
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
psst, hey, @wiswell.bsky.social, you're awesome.
Also, did you hear that scientists tried to cross cheetah DNA with crab DNA? It went sideways real fast.
Also, did you hear that scientists tried to cross cheetah DNA with crab DNA? It went sideways real fast.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
psst, hey, @wiswell.bsky.social, you're awesome.
Also, did you hear that scientists tried to cross cheetah DNA with crab DNA? It went sideways real fast.
Also, did you hear that scientists tried to cross cheetah DNA with crab DNA? It went sideways real fast.
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
There’s something emotionally similar between driving along & realizing there’s a cybertruck in your midst as discovering while you’re swimming that somebody has taken a shit in the community pool. Just leaves you kinda nauseous and asking why anyone would do that .
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
There’s something emotionally similar between driving along & realizing there’s a cybertruck in your midst as discovering while you’re swimming that somebody has taken a shit in the community pool. Just leaves you kinda nauseous and asking why anyone would do that .
I suppose I should figure out how to do actual author event stuff next April when my book comes out. I think I missed getting my copy of the Official How To Author For Hopeless Introverts Handbook.
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I suppose I should figure out how to do actual author event stuff next April when my book comes out. I think I missed getting my copy of the Official How To Author For Hopeless Introverts Handbook.
November 21st, 2025
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
November 21st, 2025
Ok, stick with me here. This’ll be rambling & stupid but will definitely be of interest to at least 2% of you.
So, I have a tattoo that at some point I want to cover up. Not bc I don’t like it, & it remains personally meaningful, but bc the symbol has been co-opted by a mental health movement.
1/x
So, I have a tattoo that at some point I want to cover up. Not bc I don’t like it, & it remains personally meaningful, but bc the symbol has been co-opted by a mental health movement.
1/x
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Ok, stick with me here. This’ll be rambling & stupid but will definitely be of interest to at least 2% of you.
So, I have a tattoo that at some point I want to cover up. Not bc I don’t like it, & it remains personally meaningful, but bc the symbol has been co-opted by a mental health movement.
1/x
So, I have a tattoo that at some point I want to cover up. Not bc I don’t like it, & it remains personally meaningful, but bc the symbol has been co-opted by a mental health movement.
1/x
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Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
I really want to see the movie Rental Family but I know if I do that I will be disappointed forever that we don’t really live in a world where Brendan Fraser will just come hang out with me until I’m not sad.
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I really want to see the movie Rental Family but I know if I do that I will be disappointed forever that we don’t really live in a world where Brendan Fraser will just come hang out with me until I’m not sad.
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Free universal childcare just instituted in New Mexico.
New Mexico is first state in nation to offer universal child care - Office of the Governor - Michelle Lujan Grisham
www.governor.state.nm.us
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Free universal childcare just instituted in New Mexico.
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1. Trump's Anti-Trans HHS Report authors have been unmasked, and as someone said, "Now we know why they were previously kept anonymous."
It's a who's who of hate groups and billionaire-funded anti-trans activists.
We detail the names in our latest report.
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It's a who's who of hate groups and billionaire-funded anti-trans activists.
We detail the names in our latest report.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump's Anti-Trans Report Authors Revealed: Hate Groups and Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Activists
The majority of the “expert” comments cited in the “peer review” seem to be just as ignorant as the authors about the reality of trans people’s care.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
1. Trump's Anti-Trans HHS Report authors have been unmasked, and as someone said, "Now we know why they were previously kept anonymous."
It's a who's who of hate groups and billionaire-funded anti-trans activists.
We detail the names in our latest report.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
It's a who's who of hate groups and billionaire-funded anti-trans activists.
We detail the names in our latest report.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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there are some pictures out from the preliminary investigation into the UPS crash and holy fuck it’s American 191 all over again
there was no saving that plane
there was no saving that plane
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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November 20th, 2025
(One of those days when I shouldn’t have been left unsupervised with money.)
(One of those days when I shouldn’t have been left unsupervised with money.)
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
November 20th, 2025
(One of those days when I shouldn’t have been left unsupervised with money.)
(One of those days when I shouldn’t have been left unsupervised with money.)
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"Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions"
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions"
So, I've had a handful of occasions in the last few months where going into Target was unavoidable, and this is what I found:
1. the store is observably messier
2. the bathroom was fucking GROSS.
3. the quality & appeal of merch was lower
4. often couldn't find anything I went in looking for.
1. the store is observably messier
2. the bathroom was fucking GROSS.
3. the quality & appeal of merch was lower
4. often couldn't find anything I went in looking for.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
So, I've had a handful of occasions in the last few months where going into Target was unavoidable, and this is what I found:
1. the store is observably messier
2. the bathroom was fucking GROSS.
3. the quality & appeal of merch was lower
4. often couldn't find anything I went in looking for.
1. the store is observably messier
2. the bathroom was fucking GROSS.
3. the quality & appeal of merch was lower
4. often couldn't find anything I went in looking for.
Reposted by Suzanne Palmer
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
Just your occasional reminder that I have a new book out next April, now available for pre-order:
bookshop.org/p/books/ode-...
bookshop.org/p/books/ode-...
Ode to the Half-Broken
Check out Ode to the Half-Broken - <b>In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, forty years after the world nearly ended, a worn-out robot is attacked, and realizes old evils are stirring<br> <br>W...
bookshop.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just your occasional reminder that I have a new book out next April, now available for pre-order:
bookshop.org/p/books/ode-...
bookshop.org/p/books/ode-...
My eldest and her hubs are in Kyoto and they HAVE NOT SENT ME ANY PICS AT ALL.
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My eldest and her hubs are in Kyoto and they HAVE NOT SENT ME ANY PICS AT ALL.
November 16th, 2025
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
November 16th, 2025
November 15th, 2025
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
November 15th, 2025
TFW you drop a joke in a story where the (one word) punchline is ~2000 words after the (one word) setup and you just hope ONE person out there picks up on it because you know it's an absolute killer. #amwriting
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
TFW you drop a joke in a story where the (one word) punchline is ~2000 words after the (one word) setup and you just hope ONE person out there picks up on it because you know it's an absolute killer. #amwriting
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