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This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

*gently pushes toward WE NEED YOUR ART*

i think we just need less of everything. less work, less new stuff happening, less being produced, less bullshit media, less technology. everything in the world needs to be like 30-40% less. except medicine. and sex.

Hello everyone who has contributed to our whistle-making efforts. Thank you for everything you have done for us.

First, we are still printing whistles: if you need whistles we will happily send you between 100-3000 for free, no questions asked.

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*gently pushes towards books by Talia Hibbert and Kennedy Ryan*

I've always boggled that writers are expected to speak in public, yet get basically no support for learning to do so. So I cheer on Jackie Kessler and Emily Sachs, who are holding a free demo for a writer-specific Toastmasters club Sunday, April 19th:

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

i also have a LOT of thoughts about it and please let me know if you decide to write about your thoughts on it because i would be very curious

Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies | Fortune Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as technology in the classroom is turning out not to be the miracle solution it was sold as.

It’s almost like WE ALL SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN fortune.com/2026/04/10/a...

more pocket-sized books. more books that fit in coats like contraband and can be taken out to avoid eye contact in any situation.

Now send JD Vance to run the publicity team for the new Harry Potter series.

*gently pushes towards GIDEON THE NINTH and LUCKY RED and the upcoming THE DUKE, which comes out later this month and that i absolutely adored*

sarah i loathe giving any health advice but maybe get your vitamin d levels checked at the end of next fall; i also suffer seasonal depression and low vitamin d turned out to be part of it and taking supplements helped take the edge off this year (tho not eradicate it entirely)

*gently pushes towards LUCKY RED and JANE STEELE and anything by Sarah Maclean*

drew it's so exhausting to have schumer as a senator

with pleasure!!! it's a sapphic romance between a cold-hearted duke and the blackmailing courtesan that steals her heart in an alternate historical britain where women have equal rights and can inherit; it has every delicious trope i love and some very engaging worldbuilding. a FANTASTIC time.

eric go down the hole.

youtu.be/3K4sVrGiZCc?...

*gently pushes towards THE DUKE, which comes out later this month and is so so good*

"sex doesn't belong in YA books"

Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

*gently pushes towards the Artemis Fowl series and IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES and CITY SPIES and the extended Rick Riordan Presents universe*

*gently pushes towards The Legend of Eli Monpress series*

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

If you yearn for something positive to do, today is also National Black Bookstore Day! The National Association of Black Bookstores has a directory so you can find a Black-owned bookstore near you! Buy a book, help a community, do something good for the world. #booksky #romancelandia

*not a 1:1 but gently pushes towards TEA DRAGON SOCIETY and the upcoming THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS*

hey go buy a book from firestorm 😘

*gently pushes towards THE SKY ON FIRE and GIDEON THE NINTH and PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE and THE JASMINE THRONE and THE BLACK TIDES OF HEAVEN*

*gently pushes towards BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL and LUCY UNDYING*

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

Readers! What is the last book you loved by a trans author? And what is something you loved about it?