I wonder what I teach?

Dear Professor Reena Mccarty, I recently came across your novel The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains and a protagonist shaped by both human and Otherworldly belonging

Today's email scammer had the courtesy to make me a professor. They're my favorite scammer of the week!

all of my libby holds are coming in at once and I can't handle this much pressure

any chance of my monetizing the piano slipped away when I quit lessons after the 8th grade, which is why it is my just-for-fun creative thing now.

I would spend so much time being bad at the piano that by the end of the year I'd probably be mediocre at the piano.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Okay, so we're supposed to accept that media is SO powerful that allowing young people to see ANYONE whose life isn't exactly like theirs will transform them into queer atheist socialists, but decades of works mocking teen moms are irrelevant and can be wished away?

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

anyway I think the lesson everyone should be learning here is that DEI was probably really fucking good for the armed forces because it meant you were hearing opinions like "hey so supply chains matter" and "yo maybe the troops should eat a food"

wild to be alive as someone pulls off the previously thought impossible to achieve Reverse Henry VIII

Screenshot of a 4/15/26 post from @ahandvanish on X.com: Study of neuro #LongCovid patients found pTau-181 (marker of Alzheimer's/brain injury) increased by 59% after COVID. Interestingly, levels increased more AFTER 1.5 years from infection (only 15% increased in the before-1.5 year time period). thelancet.com/journals/ebiom... 1/ Increased phosphorylated tau (pTau-181) is associated with neurologi... thelancet.com

But sure, let’s infect kids with a virus that does this over & over every year for their entire lifespans

www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

Hey, folks, anyone know some good resources - like a book - that has different coping techniques for AuDHD? I have boring autism, not the spicy combo of Autism + ADHD, but a newly diagnosed friend needs somewhere to start.

Reskeets welcome!

"Lyrical and terrifying, Helm's portrait of generational trauma will leave you aching in its wake. Our Cut of Salt is not just a powerful exploration of injustice and survival, but also a testament to the power of love." - Monika Kim, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Eyes are the Best Part

"Our Cut of Salt is the must-read of the year. Longing and rage are woven beautifully in this multi-generational family story, taking readers to the steps of a house in Haifa that they will not forget." - Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times bestselling author of She Is A Haunting

"Devastating...Our Cut of Salt rages and aches and demands your complete attention, recontextualizing the very notion of what a haunted house is...Alongside such modern marvels of horror as Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless and Tananarive Due's The Good House." - Clay McLeod Chapman, Author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Praise is here!!

If you're interested in a book about a haunted house in Palestine that fights its occupiers, and the three generations of Palestinian women who have to put the haunting to rest, you can preorder my debut novel, Our Cut of Salt, here :) linktr.ee/deenahelm

The same people who "not all men!" get really mad if survivors of sexual assault assumed that maybe not all men.

I really think this could work for me

Hey men ages 18-49--send me a dollar every day and I'll flip a coin and tell you if you're a winner

A week later and it's still out, who knew???

The thing where voters don't believe republican policies could be as evil as they are apparently extends to the republicans actually in charge of the government just mindlessly implementing them

A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST is a Locus Awards finalist in the category of First Novel! I can’t believe I get to write these words!

Thank you so much to everyone who voted, and congratulations to all my fellow finalists across the categories. This is such a dream!

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

also “leader mad at pope for not co-signing his particular political aims” is in fairness a pretty old story. a very old story actually. like not really in the last few hundred years story

Let's bring this same energy to the US, hmm?

It's a good day to make sure you're following @romancingthevote.com because landslide elections feel good and we're going to send money to grassroots voter orgs who know exactly how the GOP cheats and how to fight it. 💕

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

me: let's read a book
my brain: no, let's keep scrolling
me: but we like reading
brain: scroll
me: and we find it more rewarding and restorative than--
brain: SCROLL!!!

again I struggle with... our information economy is so broken that I don't know if Democrats are running on "we're going to start trials on the pancreatic cancer vaccine again" but like. Shouldn't they be????