Today is the day! @mikechenwriter.bsky.social’s latest, THE PHOTONIC EFFECT, is in bookstores everywhere. ✨ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ph...

Sketches of two characters from The Pitt. Santos leans aggressively over a counter while Mel stands behind her sweating and wearing an apologetic smile. Santos says, “she asked for NO pickles.” Mel says, “i-, r-really, it’s fine.” hashtag mentos for life

why do I always fall for this exact ship dynamic

I don't even know if chatgpt is an app or is it on the browser or what, I have never even felt the need to find out where AI is and how to use it, it's so little of interest to me. I love creating! So why would I let someone else come eat my steak and fuck my wife etc!?

A dragon perches at the top of a pyramid shaped building in this digital painting of a modern city at night. The colors are gray and gold. The dragon is black lit with warm light. People gather on a rooftop to watch it

"Modern Dragons" launches tomorrow 🐉

A digital illustration of two japanese lesbians flirting in a queer underground bar in the 80s. One of them wears a blue jacket, the other a suit, while in the background there's liquor and a multitude of little stickers and illustrations of lesbian and queer marks.

The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here"

The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨

#queer #lesbians #illustration

Bus typo: Help us score the gift of life, DONATE BLOOB

BLOOB FOR THE BLOOB GOD!

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

Chicago Books to Women in Prison Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.

YALL.

There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!

Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.

LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org

I think this is cool and I hope more BookCon vendors and authors who can afford to do so find a way to support orgs like the NILC and mutual aid groups fighting for immigrants ♥️

Donate — Juntos

If you happen to be stuck in a line at BookCon...

Why not call your reps or donate to an org fighting for immigrants? I know we can't do much about BookCon's parent company's link to ICE, but that doesn't mean there's NOTHING you can do, period.

I rec Juntos! 🔗 www.vamosjuntos.org/donate-to-ju...

Ultimately Silicon Valley’s fatal flaw is that it has a glut of losers in a loser echo chamber and they have no idea why nobody else thinks their ideas are good and fun

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.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts University grad arrested by ICE agents last year, returns to Turkey - The Boston Globe The government and Öztürk’s legal team have jointly moved to dismiss her immigration proceedings.

“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

So much love and gratitude to my editor @jesszimmerman.com, my agent @katemckean.bsky.social, and the incredible audiobook narrator @marawilson.bsky.social!

The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller: 9781683694076 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books “Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt and Cuckoo Packed with action, humor, sex, and big gay feelings, The Z Word is the...

If you haven't had a chance yet, check it out now! Wendy is just trying to get through Pride after a horrible breakup, but when people start biting each other, she has to team up with her ex-girlfriend and their friends to save Pride... and maybe the world.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739426...

Holy shit, I just got my very first royalty payment. After close to 2 years, THE Z WORD has earned out its advance. I'm so thrilled and proud. Thank you to everyone who read, bought, borrowed, reviewed, or recommended my queer zombie apocalypse book. I love you all!

digital illustration of a woman standing in a large greenhouse surrounded by lots of green trees and plants. the sky outside is pink and the light reflects onto the floor

the greenhouse 🌿

bringing back shame and social sanction for being a bigoted asshole is good, actually

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

If you’re a Hachette author you should be talking to your editors and teams about this. If they’re using AI to counter AI, it’s still AI. And it may also be giving your work to the machine, serving it up on a contractual platter.

this looks like a damn zine fair flyer

Game Workers Conference

Grab your free tickets and learn more here: gameworkersconference.org

GWC is an entirely new game industry event, made by and for the workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed.

All conferences sessions will be available online for free, with optional IRL watch parties. See you there, and solidarity forever ✊🏽🔥

Crab, fish, net, gryphon among poppies and a shooting star. Illustration made digitally

Free Ornamentation IV. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐌

An old Life Magazine ad from 1940 animated by Studio Spud using Moho software (2D vector animation).
www.instagram.com/studio_spud

sorry, wait this is my favorite actually: my cat niece looking like she is contemplating your downfall, just absolutely seething with fury

She’s a photogenic dog but there’s only one possible answer

dogmog!!!! my god

Wait I need to put this on my TBR...