Joyce Reynolds-Ward
@joycereynoldsward.bsky.social
Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Rural liberal. Dispenser of horse cookies to the fancy-stepping Marker-boi. Former special ed teacher who's forgotten more about cognitive assessment than most people knew. #SFWA
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Wow. I guess #BookTok has shown up here? Well, anyway, welcome to my new followers.
So here's how I do things.
I tend to keep my followbacks low until I get to know you as an account management tool. I use the OnlyPosts and Spec List feeds primarily.
Gotta have time to write.
What do I write? 1/5
So here's how I do things.
I tend to keep my followbacks low until I get to know you as an account management tool. I use the OnlyPosts and Spec List feeds primarily.
Gotta have time to write.
What do I write? 1/5
It's Friday night, I've just done eight book covers and put them up on itch and...I got stuff done today. Even if there weren't many words.
Oh yeah, I coached a person on book layout in Vellum.
Oh yeah, I coached a person on book layout in Vellum.
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 AM
It's Friday night, I've just done eight book covers and put them up on itch and...I got stuff done today. Even if there weren't many words.
Oh yeah, I coached a person on book layout in Vellum.
Oh yeah, I coached a person on book layout in Vellum.
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no, it’s fucking terrible for trump, lol
I don't know if it makes sense to describe what happened today as "good PR". The Fox crowd doesn't seem terribly thrilled about the meeting either.
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
no, it’s fucking terrible for trump, lol
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I feel like I called this pretty well
Also, Donald Trump has proven himself to be the world’s most influenceable man.
You can get him to promote literally anything so long as you please him.
Like this is going to make him say something hilariously socialist until people point out he’s supposed to hate socialism
You can get him to promote literally anything so long as you please him.
Like this is going to make him say something hilariously socialist until people point out he’s supposed to hate socialism
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I feel like I called this pretty well
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politics is an *incredibly* subjective game and demanding objective consistency at all times is a road to embittered madness, sometimes you have to just admit when somebody’s got game
“Managing grandpa for self-preservation” is not the same as “doing a populism.” Also, I respect the hell out of Mamdani, hate my mayor’s guts for her behavior when Trump-adjacent, and also realize that the former two are probably in tension with each other.
mamdani understood what his assignment was, which was to protect funding to the city of new york.
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
politics is an *incredibly* subjective game and demanding objective consistency at all times is a road to embittered madness, sometimes you have to just admit when somebody’s got game
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Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
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Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.
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it’s also totally unfair that whitmer got flamed for this, which is mostly about gender and only tangentially about optics management. but i don’t blame mamdani for playing his advantage, that’s his job.
mamdani understood what his assignment was, which was to protect funding to the city of new york.
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s also totally unfair that whitmer got flamed for this, which is mostly about gender and only tangentially about optics management. but i don’t blame mamdani for playing his advantage, that’s his job.
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Three thoughts on the Mamdani-Trump summit: 1) The real-estate guy/mayor conversation may be the only thing Trump really understands about government. 2) Mamdani knows how to talk to New Yorkers. 3) Mamdani benefits from being ineligible to run for president; it allows him to focus on the present.
November 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Three thoughts on the Mamdani-Trump summit: 1) The real-estate guy/mayor conversation may be the only thing Trump really understands about government. 2) Mamdani knows how to talk to New Yorkers. 3) Mamdani benefits from being ineligible to run for president; it allows him to focus on the present.
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trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
trump cheerfully and unwittingly driving a stake through every attack line about zohran is the funniest thing I have seen all year
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This was a battle of optics which Mamdani won resoundingly. If you think this was some kind of victory for "normalising fascism" or whatever, it's worth noting that MAGA influencers are crashing out about this.
*They* don't think it's a Trump victory. Don't pretend it is on their behalf.
*They* don't think it's a Trump victory. Don't pretend it is on their behalf.
if you guys are ditching mamdani after he managed to throw the entire fucking republican party into complete total chaos and disarray while they rip each other apart, got trump to admit he's a fascist on-screen, and might've got him to leave ny alone for now with one meeting....... yall, come on
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This was a battle of optics which Mamdani won resoundingly. If you think this was some kind of victory for "normalising fascism" or whatever, it's worth noting that MAGA influencers are crashing out about this.
*They* don't think it's a Trump victory. Don't pretend it is on their behalf.
*They* don't think it's a Trump victory. Don't pretend it is on their behalf.
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you CANNOT run a sustainable publishing venture if part of that sustainability is not paying the people who generate all of the content you are selling
that is simply not a success you aren’t even running a real business at that point if you are not having to pay to acquire your product concepts
that is simply not a success you aren’t even running a real business at that point if you are not having to pay to acquire your product concepts
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
you CANNOT run a sustainable publishing venture if part of that sustainability is not paying the people who generate all of the content you are selling
that is simply not a success you aren’t even running a real business at that point if you are not having to pay to acquire your product concepts
that is simply not a success you aren’t even running a real business at that point if you are not having to pay to acquire your product concepts
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if not paying your writers is part of how you “set yourself up to publish for years to come” then you’re not set up correctly
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
if not paying your writers is part of how you “set yourself up to publish for years to come” then you’re not set up correctly
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It's extremely bad for left politics that we are apparently incapable of doing the internal hygiene required to keep these vicious bullies from claiming the mantle of "leftism"
Felt the need to share my journal entry today. Don't know why. Here it is, make of it what you will.
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
It's extremely bad for left politics that we are apparently incapable of doing the internal hygiene required to keep these vicious bullies from claiming the mantle of "leftism"
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It is, in fact, the broad left’s desire to engage people as people and take their ideas seriously that leaves it open to being hijacked by these types of bullies (who, we should be clear, are bullies first, and “leftists” only aesthetically if even that).
It's extremely bad for left politics that we are apparently incapable of doing the internal hygiene required to keep these vicious bullies from claiming the mantle of "leftism"
Felt the need to share my journal entry today. Don't know why. Here it is, make of it what you will.
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It is, in fact, the broad left’s desire to engage people as people and take their ideas seriously that leaves it open to being hijacked by these types of bullies (who, we should be clear, are bullies first, and “leftists” only aesthetically if even that).
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at this point if you're a leftist I'm going to assume you're a vicious transphobe and if you want me to stop assuming this it is your fucking job to make leftism better. if your response to this is to whine and kick your feet just embrace that your heart longs for fucking GamerGate and then fuck off
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
at this point if you're a leftist I'm going to assume you're a vicious transphobe and if you want me to stop assuming this it is your fucking job to make leftism better. if your response to this is to whine and kick your feet just embrace that your heart longs for fucking GamerGate and then fuck off
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When we do Woke 2.0, can you please do the actual reading on disparate impact this time? This is Disparate Impact 101 stuff, but because it would benefit you, personally, you're ok with a system where making it easier for some people to vote than others is ok.
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
When we do Woke 2.0, can you please do the actual reading on disparate impact this time? This is Disparate Impact 101 stuff, but because it would benefit you, personally, you're ok with a system where making it easier for some people to vote than others is ok.
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Y'all "why not both?" people need to get it through your heads that election day as a national holiday prioritizes white men. You're inventing a two tiered system that benefits Republicans and calling it justice.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Y'all "why not both?" people need to get it through your heads that election day as a national holiday prioritizes white men. You're inventing a two tiered system that benefits Republicans and calling it justice.
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You might as well call for the disenfranchisement of women, given that those jobs are disproportionately held by women.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
You might as well call for the disenfranchisement of women, given that those jobs are disproportionately held by women.
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You can't simultaneously claim to care about the working class and demand the disenfranchisement of every retail, restaurant, and tourism industry worker in the country because your white collar job gives you the day off on holidays and you don't care about the people who have to work holidays.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
You can't simultaneously claim to care about the working class and demand the disenfranchisement of every retail, restaurant, and tourism industry worker in the country because your white collar job gives you the day off on holidays and you don't care about the people who have to work holidays.
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I am once again reminding people that making election day a national holiday would disenfranchise the customer service and tourism industry, who never get holidays off. It's not a progressive position, it's one that prioritizes middle and upper classes.
Vote by Mail and early voting are much better
Vote by Mail and early voting are much better
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I am once again reminding people that making election day a national holiday would disenfranchise the customer service and tourism industry, who never get holidays off. It's not a progressive position, it's one that prioritizes middle and upper classes.
Vote by Mail and early voting are much better
Vote by Mail and early voting are much better
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And because it’s relevant: if it hadn’t been for the #ACA? I probably wouldn’t have gone to the ER, they would never found the tumor in time, and I would certainly never have been able to afford the surgery, even if they had found it in time, without going bankrupt.
It’s my 6th Slimerversary!
(Backstory: 6 years ago today they yeeted a nasty tumor from my abdomen)
I may not have enjoyed this year very much, but I’m grateful to my surgical/oncology team that I’m still here.
(Backstory: 6 years ago today they yeeted a nasty tumor from my abdomen)
I may not have enjoyed this year very much, but I’m grateful to my surgical/oncology team that I’m still here.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
And because it’s relevant: if it hadn’t been for the #ACA? I probably wouldn’t have gone to the ER, they would never found the tumor in time, and I would certainly never have been able to afford the surgery, even if they had found it in time, without going bankrupt.
Gabe's family wants him back in the Family and the Martiniere Group.
Gabe isn't sure that he likes that idea.
Given the choice, he'd sooner stay on the ranch and design biobots with Ruby.
But...it's not just the Family.
The Family's patron spirit wants him there, too.
books2read.com/thecostofpower
Gabe isn't sure that he likes that idea.
Given the choice, he'd sooner stay on the ranch and design biobots with Ruby.
But...it's not just the Family.
The Family's patron spirit wants him there, too.
books2read.com/thecostofpower
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Gabe's family wants him back in the Family and the Martiniere Group.
Gabe isn't sure that he likes that idea.
Given the choice, he'd sooner stay on the ranch and design biobots with Ruby.
But...it's not just the Family.
The Family's patron spirit wants him there, too.
books2read.com/thecostofpower
Gabe isn't sure that he likes that idea.
Given the choice, he'd sooner stay on the ranch and design biobots with Ruby.
But...it's not just the Family.
The Family's patron spirit wants him there, too.
books2read.com/thecostofpower
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Maybe reporters should start treating Trump like real piggies: big, heavy, aggressive, capable of knocking down most fences. They have a nasty bite, too. Pigs are pretty scary animals.
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Maybe reporters should start treating Trump like real piggies: big, heavy, aggressive, capable of knocking down most fences. They have a nasty bite, too. Pigs are pretty scary animals.
Yep. 1980 was a huge nexus and...I doubt I'll see the recovery in my lifetime. Lived through Reagan/Bush as an adult. It's all tied to Reagan and those behind him.
wilwheaton:technofeudalism:the funny thing is that i don’t think younger people - and i mean those under the age of 40 - really have a grasp on how many of today’s issues can be tied back to a disastrous reagan policy:war o...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Yep. 1980 was a huge nexus and...I doubt I'll see the recovery in my lifetime. Lived through Reagan/Bush as an adult. It's all tied to Reagan and those behind him.
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Toss him out with Summers too
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."
Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In t...
www.wbur.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Toss him out with Summers too
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… so we do understand that anti DEI/ misogyny / transphobia is built on the idea that …..
if people who have outside social/ and cultural networks begin to participate in civic live
It’s much harder for elite predation
if people who have outside social/ and cultural networks begin to participate in civic live
It’s much harder for elite predation
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
… so we do understand that anti DEI/ misogyny / transphobia is built on the idea that …..
if people who have outside social/ and cultural networks begin to participate in civic live
It’s much harder for elite predation
if people who have outside social/ and cultural networks begin to participate in civic live
It’s much harder for elite predation