Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
A photo portrait of the author, featuring the title of her magazine profile: Crime and Compassion.
The quote: "I wanted readers to get to know these characters, to have to know them, as full, dynamic people before their many violences are revealed."
@tkiramadden.bsky.social was driven by one question for her latest book: “What does it take for someone to betray another person who is abused when they themselves have felt abused by the system?” Read Brian Gresko’s profile of Madden in our new issue: at.pw.org/CrimeAndCompassion
I have a third wolf as well
Two men together at the cinema, increasing suspicions that the famous actor is in a new relationship
Two men together at the cinema.
pulled an all nighter for the first time in at least 10 years last night. if you're ever thinking about pulling an all nighter please take it from me: don't do it
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Original landscape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Homeland No. 2602" oil on Ampersand Gessobord, 6"x6" (2026). A peaceful atmospheric landscape painting of lush green gentle slopes with a loosely painted tree in the foreground on the left, underneath a light blue sky with textured breezy white cloud formations.
I'm longing for warmer days.
Tisha Mark ©2026, Homeland No. 2602, oil on gessobord, 6"x6"
Original is available (ships when dry, approx 2-3 weeks):
tishamark.com/shop
#art #painting #SciArt #bsnm #ArtSky
Thank you for reading!
Thrilled to announce that THE SHIP OF DEATH went to auction in France and that J’ai Lu (a very cool publisher with a stellar history of SFF) will be publishing it sometime in the future!
www.jailu.com
Thought this was great. A cosmic horror novel about a cursed TTRPG!
This Great Blue Heron has chosen to winter in Central Park. I see it regularly, standing stoically on the ice--but never fishing. Hoping it is going to make it until the ice thaws! 💙🩶❤️ #Herons #CentralPark #birding
Felt like the coldest morning yet in this epic deep freeze, as you can see by how floofy this beautiful Northern Cardinal is! It's amazing they can survive this bitter weather. 🤎❄️❤️ #Cardinal #CentralPark #birding
A vaporous spirit floats up out of a deck of playing cards that’s also a source of water. The spirit has its hands out in supplication/invitational display. It wears a steel helmet with deer antlers coming out the sides.
Weird time to share art, but I’m finally allowed to share the cover of my next book, THE SHIP OF DEATH, from @harpercollins.bsky.social & Avon A. (9/29/26) Expect some other posts w/ choice blurbs and preorder links! Illustration: Peter Strain/Design: Julianna Lee. Editor @peterkispert.bsky.social
Is there an initiative to make protein bars taste worse
See the cover for HER KIND by Sophie Lefens and get the behind-the-scenes for how it was created.
The cover was designed by Mark Robinson.
debutiful.net/2026/01/26/s... @marinerbooks.bsky.social
I ventured out to Central Park early this morning during the Blizzard of '26. It was beautiful and eerily quiet, and I ran into a couple of avian buddies, including this Northern Cardinal, all puffed up to keep warm! ❄️❄️❄️ #Cardinal #CentralPark #birdcpp
HOW TO NEW YORK 'Code Blue' Nights: How Homeless Outreach Works When It's Freezing Special protocols kick into gear when the temperature is below 32 degrees. BY HAIDEE CHU I JAN. 22, 2026, 8:29 P.M.
In addition to calling 311, however, Strang also suggested several questions to pose to an unsheltered person you may know from your neighborhood: • Are you staying warm? • Can I pick you up some hand warmers or blankets? • Have you had enough to eat? • What's your plan for tonight if it gets colder? "This is absolutely about life and limb," Nugent added. "And people will freeze in the street, and we can help with that."
it’s now deadly cold in new york, and will remain that ways for days. we have a very good guide on how the city responds to unsheltered people, and how to help them, when winter gets bitter
www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/22/f...
It was the NyQuil of times, it was the DayQuil of times
american innovation continues unabated
Wrote a lot this year, most of which I’ve scrapped but both deepened my sense of the project and characters and reactivated a love of writing itself, as a practice with/for myself. Solid writing year.
Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
There’s a good workout and then there’s a workout where “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” drops on shuffle mid-set
my new favorite christmas movie
This is amazing
Hey sorry, I can't come in for my shift today, there were some omens. Yeah, like signs and portents. What? Of course they were fell, I wouldn't be calling out otherwise.
a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen
They should do MyChart Wrapped
A Manticore with the caption "I am not a toy. I am not a pet. I am not a Christmas present. I am a 400 year commitment."
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
A photo of THE END TIMES, a faux local newspaper written in the wake of an apocalyptic plague. A little white strip of paper has been placed on the upper right corner of the paper to obscure my mailing address.
99% of the world is dead. In a small Minnesota town, 1 woman writes the monthly local paper but it’s actually an epic horror story mailed to your door.
THE END TIMES.
Brilliantly conceived by @benjaminpercy.bsky.social , published by @badhandbooks.bsky.social.
1 issue in and I already love it.
