Sometimes all a girl needs is an hour in a bookshop.
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Sometimes all a girl needs is an hour in a bookshop.
cannot believe august slipped away into a moment in time once again 😭
Finished the first draft of my book! It's off to my editor! If you want to read a book about: - high school - confronting sexual trauma - 2014 Tumblr aesthetic - feminism & genderqueerness Stay tuned 👀 #writersky #booksky
Things that have changed my culinary life this year: - Papa Tony's Hot Sauce (the mango habanero is so fucking good) - weekly farm box delivery from Helsing Junction Farms - an immersion blender #cooking #seattle #washington #food
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
Literally came here to just comment "🙄🙄🙄"
We simply do not have to live this way.
We are getting close to the end of Summer Book Bingo, so I grabbed two novellas from @spl.org! My choices for "book with a flower on the cover or in the title" and "book suggested by a library worker" #booksky #reading #library #seattle #BookBingoNW2025
Randomly based on how I'm feeling in the moment 💕
so many startups are convinced the thing I want most is to record every word ever uttered around me and I cannot think of anything I'm less keen on
Found on an August morning run #poetry #booksky #seattle #running
Exaaaaactly. You get me.
I'm writing poetry about it 😭
I am working on poetry/essay about it. I'll keep you posted.
Sir.
My Humor square: the one, the one, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice #booksky #seattle #BookBingoNW2025
Having post-summer-camp blues 💙 #camping #nature #booksky
@floralashes.bsky.social just recommended your book to a big audience of climate professionals bc of your palliative activism concept 🫡 People, go read Gender/Fucking!! #booksky #climate
She can't read!!! 😭
Paradise: reading Pride & Prejudice with a tiny dog sleeping on my shoulder #booksky #dogs
I just wanna be immersed in music and words right now
'A writer cannot put himself today in the service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it' - Albert Camus
I found several!! Maybe I'll do a little library haul or review video later.
Come to the Seattle Public Library with me! ❤️📚 #seattle #booksky #library #books #reading
Book recommendations for readers who love reading about reading and writing #booksky #reading #writing #bookrecommendations
a british person just told me they’d put our meeting time “in their diary” that’s so cute i with british people were real
My choice for BIPOC Historical Nonfiction #BookBingoNW2025 #seattle
I promote the adoption of electric vehicles, but we can't trade one system of violence for another. Clearly, fossil fuels have to go, so we must work to ensure the critical minerals supply chains are actually clean, not just obfuscated by corporate sustainability statements. #climate #sustainability
Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara paints a damning picture of the horrific human rights abuses in the Congo where nearly all of the cobalt needed for rechargeable batteries is mined. The price of having a phone in your hand is paid for, literally, in the blood of children. #booksky #reading #nonfiction
Ah that's too bad! I love the smell of my older books.
Thank uuuuuu 😭
Well said! I've taken a particular interest in the classics lately bc I really want to be able to understand why they've had such longevity and what people throughout the decades and centuries have connected to through them.
i want to believe… …that the ai bubble is finally bursting
I just keep seeing evidence everywhere that so-called liberals and progressives have rapidly given up feeling responsible for remembering that people of color experience a different version of the world *because race is a thing* and have life worlds that white people are not privy to
Ugh no I totally get it. I wrote so much the other day, and I was like, wasn't I at 38K?? How is it now 36K???
Ohh thank you for this lovely compliment 😭💕
Wait, y'all haven't been saying that? 👀
We need to bring back declaring “A pox on your house” at people who’ve wronged us
Thanks for the rec!!
what if it's AI-generated music? can i bully them then? 🥺
Yes! 😍 Do you have any philosophy recommendations? I was thinking maybe to try Sartres and Rousseau (I have a bias for the French).
I am trying to be more of a rereader! Some of these I've said are my favorites since I was a teenager, but it's been so long that I don't really remember them. That's why it was such a Joy to reread Catcher this year.
I need to read more Camus. I only read The Stranger, and I should try in the original French this time. I have not read Confederacy of Dunces! Do you recommend it? Maybe I'll add to my TBR
thank uuuuu
Need more Capote!!!!
Which ones??
They did it! Someone found the factual flaw in my obviously whimsical post! I am not one for hyperbole, but they are perhaps the greatest hero in the history of the modern world.
I don't have kids, but I walked to the farmers' market with a friend and her two kids, and WOW it was stressful with two little toddlers who wanted to run in different directions. Cars are so dangerous.
My friends and I started a monthly writing workshop where we critique each other's work over lunch! Got some great feedback on my book. So exciting to see people reacting to my work and have them pick up on all the little details 💕 #writersky #booksky #writing
A cute sidewalk chalk moment 💕
We did it Joe!!! Thank you my darlings ❤️❤️❤️ 3-hundo!
Oooo 297 followers! Are there three people out there who want to make my afternoon? 👀✨💕
Fun fact—if you see women as people, sharing spaces with them becomes a non-issue.
I knew this was an issue, but wow am I learning firsthand how men don't like it when a woman / female-presenting person shares their opinions on tech & AI online. 🫠 #tech #AI #feminism #sexism #engineering
Straight people don't understand my gender isn't "boy" or "girl." It's the song "Girls" by The Dare where I am simultaneously all of the girls and also The Dare. #gender #enby #lgbtq #trans #queer
I don't think we'll be "safe" in the short term bc businesses who used to hire creatives will for sure try to replace us for something cheaper. However, I think further down the line, people will see that creative talents and communication skills will be more rare and sought after than ever.
Ooooo I'll have to narrow it down to just the titles I talked about today bc if we open up to other genres, I'll never choose. I'd say Catcher in the Rye, In Cold Blood, and Lolita!
If you invite me over, you better believe I'm pawing through your books to try to figure out Who You Are.
Tour my classic literature collection! #booksky #bookcollection #reading #classicliterature
My literal dream 😍
The Diary of Anne Frank is among books banned from school libraries in Florida. Maybe it gets boring to repeat this over and over again, but this really is literal fascism.
The road to hell is paved with people saying "That's not realistic."
The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 and today our immigrant brothers and sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.
Pretty!! I love it!!!
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social thought you might like this 😂
I really got the tech bros riled up on TikTok #AI #tech #engineering #chatgpt
I'm here to once again say that convenings and gatherings are going to be extremely important for people to organize in the coming years. If that's part of your skill-set, put those skills to use.
Tragically, a lot of people using AI also think they're lawyers now 🙃
Spreading truth in Copenhagen. #CarsRuinCities @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Get you a they/them who can do both #booksky #reading #nonfiction #fiction
Intergenerational Friendships ❤️ The Joy Luck Club #BookBingoNE2025 #seattle
Finally fulfilled a Chinese American rite of passage. Read the Joy Luck Club by @amytan.bsky.social. Here are some pictures of my beloved Nai Nai who will be celebrating 96 years this November. #reading #booksky #aapi #chinese
Here's the video btw. How I feel when someone says "AI is inevitable. Get on board or get left behind." #AI #tech #chatgpt #copilot
YALL. I MADE A TIKTOK ABOUT AI, AND THE FUNNIEST THING JUST HAPPENED. Just truly a textbook instance of "you're so close to getting it" #AI #tech #automation
One of my favorite things about Katya Zamo is that she teaches me so many words. I use "irascible" all the time now. #dragrace #lgbtq #bald
Anytime an ‘expert’ in any field advises anyone to use ChatGPT, they lose credibility tbh
My substack! I write about sustainability, politics, tech, art, literature, food, and whatever else calls to me!
Woooow she's gorgeous!!
Odd to be back in uniform in August #seattle
i’m shifting to an entirely gay guy driven economy
Oh okay!! I'm still a fan!!
You're good!! This was a reference to the fact that Taylor Swift's new orange-colored album is all over every social media platform for me.
Oh 100%. I've never been a smoker, but for some reason when I'm walking downtown, I always feel like I need a cig.
Why does waiting at a bus stop on a hot day make me want a cigarette? I've never been a smoker!? What 80s media did this to me? All of it? Lol
I'm being a little rascal today (I criticized Taylor Swift on TikTok, and the Swifties have descended on me)
Oh hell yeah I've GOT to rewatch this
Awesome!!!
wow men are really out here saying this wild shit and thinking they're correct 🙃
Oh man I just realized this conflicts with another trip next year. Darn. Would've been cool to go with a fellow Seattleite/Chinese American/writer! Is this something you do regularly? I'd be super interested another time, maybe when it's not so scary to try to leave and reenter the country.
im already tired of seeing the color orange sorry!!!!!
It's like they read 1984 and decided to use it as a manual. People are getting arrested in DC and detained at the border for thought crimes.
no literally it's so fucked up. I wrote this essay connecting loneliness, climate change, and AI.
Everyone is talking about wanting to build community, but what does that even mean, and how do you do it? An essay reflecting on community, reciprocity, and climate change. #community #sustainability #climate #friendship #art #writersky #essay
im a dog-earing, annotating, spine-breaking freak!!! #booksky #books #reading #physicalmedia
Other people have better imposter syndrome than me I bet
Whooooaa any spots left?
I'm back to posting on Substack! Give me a follow for creative non-fiction, aestheticism, ruminations on our current political moment, and literary analysis, to name a few things I'm interested in. #reading #essay #booksky #writersky #writing #substack
Good people live in Texas. Good people whose lives are increasingly at risk with every passing day of this administration. Here's my latest essay, a story I've been ruminating on today because of Obergefell v Hodges. #lgbtq #queer #lesbian #samesexmarriage #texas #obergefell #US