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lesliejanderson.bsky.social
Weird writer living beside a cemetery with two good dogs and a roomba. Author of Take This to Space and The Unmothers. she/her
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Wrote “the end” on a new novel then hit the town. I think I clean up okay. 📖🍸

NO KINGS Be safe, be smart, and give ‘em hell.

Nothing has served me so well as persistence.

Talking to a coworker when a spider started slowly descending between us on a thread. We both froze and watched it land on my desk. "Do you want me to squish that for you?" he asked. "How dare you!" I answered. "That is my assistant." Anyway, that's why I'm the weird coworker.

Jarod found one of my books in a bookstore in Canada! I still can't believe people are reading my books across borders!!

Yessss. Come to me, my cheese.

Can we get all the AIs into one room and ask them which is the fairest?

I often get Susanna Clark and Suzanne Collins confused but I love them both very very much.

Thanks to Clay McLeod Chapman for this absolutely incredible "seen in the wild." Not to spoil the blind date or anything... 🙊

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Guilt is part of writing like floppy hats are part of fishing.

Me: People are reading a thing that I wrote! Me, a different tone: People...are reading....a thing....that I wrote.

I hate when you do a sigh and it doesn't actually release any of the knots in your chest.

I'm trying to find a taupe belt for an event and all the ones that don't look like shit are $100. I feel like this is a tax on knowing the word "taupe."

When I was a kid my family would drive 12 hours to my grandparents for various holidays. The trip was a nightmare of screaming, carsickness, and nervous dog smells. BUT we always stopped at the Mars Cheese Castle on the way and I bought as much smoked string cheese as my parents allowed.

Look at me. Listen carefully. Just throw away the weird spoon.

"The heart of the sea, the sea as it saw itself" - a beach read, but make it chilling. I'm loving THE UNMOTHERS by @lesliejanderson.bsky.social

We’re constantly scolded that liberals are hurting their cause by not just letting Nazis and bigots do whatever they want and then congratulating them for it.

Sorry for stump posting on main

Nebula attendees, join the poetry committee today for a discussion of speculative poetry!

As an old school message board troll, today is like watching the greatest teams of all time go head to head in the Super Bowl.

I wish every pundit writing a "Why The Left Should Embrace Elon Now" articles today a very Step On Legos Daily.

Blind Alley No. 379

If I don’t get a fancy drink before therapy, it’s simply not as effective.

Is the world in chaos? Yes. But also I got to eat some mulberries off the tree this morning, so the universe remains fundamentally good.

Going into Friday in the US

Going into Friday in the US

*sits down next to JD Vance* Hey there, big guy. I know it can be pretty scary when the big people fight.

*sits down next to JD Vance* Hey there, big guy. I know it can be pretty scary when the big people fight.

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