It was my birthday earlier this week! Come celebrate with me with my review of an awesome toy from Lovense, the Osci 3.
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I'm about to start listening to the final book of The Expanse series, and damn, it's just all SO FREAKING GOOD, I can barely wrap my brain around it. I've been on a five month journey with these audios and I'm sad it's coming to an end.

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

Flava Flav invited all the US Olympic athletes-women- to a free event in Vegas to honor /recognize them.

All the brands who chimed in with support:

I loved this movie so much.

This is a great time to buy any of my books. Not only are two of them Olympic skating relevant, a pipe burst in my bathroom wall and flooded my basement today.

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Am I posting a toy review in the middle of the Superbowl? Yup. I have a LOT to say about AI apps and purple jackhammer dicks, and nothing to say about football.
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The New Fabio Is Claude

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.

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Hot organic fusion digging into a scene from Dance by Judy Cuevas

This Word Suitcase is about the word "deliquesce" and two (unjustly!) out-of-print Judy Cuevas historical romances

New toy review up on the blog! The Swirlii has a terrible name, but it's actually a pretty great product.
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I'm gonna say this with all the kindness in my heart: you aren't going to survive if you don't let your life have room for other things.

This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.

Tonight my store, Good Girl Books, hosted our first ever Good Boy Book Club. We were expecting maybe 5 guys, but 15 showed up—most of them strangers—to talk about a romance novel. They were a great mix of guys and from what I heard from the next room (they led it!) they had great discussions!

These are good tips on not just being eligible for being featured on FTB, but making your dong site great for customers.

Seriously do yourself a favor if you're a new shop & budget $60-$100 for a light box. Consider it as important as your first bucket of silicone. Let people SEE your pretty pours!

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.

Not a paid promotion. Just a great box cutter. We have them on multiple floors of the house.

This canary box cutter has changed our lives and the lives of everyone we've introduced it to.
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does anybody have non-police-related advice for staying safe from an abusive ex? my 2 suggestions to my friend so far were (1) try not to go anywhere alone if you can help it (2) buy a second lock for your door

(1) is not feasible. she’s a single mom with a job and she has no local community

In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

one of the things being a romance reader has taught me is that purity culture (all sex is bad) and porn culture (all sex is salacious/emotionally hollow) are just two sides of the same coin, and it's really not worth fighting with either group of people.

A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

I have known the mornings, evenings, afternoons
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons

My favorite poem.

Wearable vibrators are a mixed bag, but the Vibrosa from Honey Play Box is a pretty good time overall.
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Tag yourself, I’m the two bathtubs in the laundry room

Holiday weekend sex toy review! Take a look at the Lelo Switch.
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Yes, All Those Author Services and Book Club Emails Are Fake, and No, Don’t Send Them Any Money If you’re an author, or honestly if you just happen to be standing near an author these days, then you have probably seen a flood of emails in the past couple of months promising you that who…

Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad:

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