Amazing news! My short, Friends with Benefits, was just selected by Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition!!!

I was talking to a friend about the Mediator series the other day!!! didn’t even realize it was in development

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

So many hugs 🧡

Free journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin! ⬇️

I regret to inform you that CNN now has the article claiming that datacenters put out more heat energy than a nuclear bomb.

So, Dune?

Supreme Court strikes Colorado ban on conversion therapy The Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy "regulates speech based on viewpoint."

The Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy "regulates speech based on viewpoint." n.pr/41zUA3Y

Is this the first ACOTAR? I haven’t gotten thru it but this line may change my mind

Not the first one to criticize the use of “the Middle East,” but journalistic institutions should list the name of countries instead of a bucket term that is supposed to evoke a reaction

I feel like reading this will break my heart

*me before I take the L on a weekend*

*me walking the streets of nyc not knowing if it will be 80 degrees or snow*

*calls her crush from college after a decade*

Virtual Book Party Roundup Q&A with Pen from Feb 28, 2026

HELLO! For those of you that weren't able to attend (and for those of you that didn't have your questions asked):

pennedbypen.beehiiv.com/p/virtual-bo...

Bad Bunny was amazing

I don’t have discord but i want to be there!!

(Bloomberg) -- US companies announced the largest number of job cuts for any January since the depths of the Great Recession in 2009, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

A friend told me she thinks the thing that’s gonna break everyone hasn’t happened yet. Idk what else is supposed to happen. We’re already past the point of no return—I’ve seen this happen before and the quicker we accept the truth, the better we’re equipped to live with the consequences

HAPPY 'FINE LINE' MONTH! Wanna read the first few chapters?

HAPPY 'FINE LINE' MONTH!
pennedbypen.beehiiv.com/p/happy-fine...

#reylo friends! #booksky #romancelandia

graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.

This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had
removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews.

In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship.

Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

Congratulations!!!! Must feel amazing!!!

Omgomgomg

"You have to create for yourself" is the “If he wanted to, he would” of the artistic world A meme-inspired rant & the beginning of a new rom-com about Slack (seriously)

This week's newsletter is here, and it's inspired by how we give sh*tty advice to each other without really looking at what the real issue is PLUS the first excerpt from my new romcom that is You've Got Mail but on Slack... You'll get what I mean

I'll NEVER stop being mad about the end of Ally McBeal.
RDJ OWES ME A WEDDING.

Me 17 days ago

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation.

This is madness.

btw i posted this on facebook, too, even though i'm rarely on the app and the first thing i saw was horrible photos of a cold sore and how to diagnose one. the algorithm gets so lonely when you don't feed it