These icons have saved my sanity so many times this year with their ridiculous friendliness, constant quests for belly rubs, and deep concern that my face remain VERY clean by cat standards. Here are Infrared and Ultraviolet, finishing out the year by attempting to groom each other and maybe wrestle lazily at the same time. #catsofmastodon

If you want to know all the not-so-secret references to real-life San Francisco in Automatic Noodle, I've made a handy reference sheet for you!

AUTOMATIC NOODLE

Automatic Noodle

Even after a war, some things in the bay area and san francisco have remained the same. here are some of the places and organizations that remained...

There are so many of my signed books at Noe Valley Books in San Francisco! Stop by and grab one or order them on their website! They'll ship them to you!

Noe Valley Books

Annalee Newitz

In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older and Karen Lord -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! Grab one now! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Will-Rise-Again/Malka-Older/9781668095959

I've reached the "eating the last piece of pie with my bare hands" stage of the weekend

Church Lady voice: Could it be ... GENDERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR?!

Best mustard?

Bay Area friends! Food! Trauma! Healing! All that and more with me, @npub1fz2f...sqk4 and Lee Lai, tomorrow night, 6pm at Mrs Dalloways! Free! It's all part of Lit Quake, the Bay Area's greatest book festival.

Litquake 2025: Disaster, with a Side of Noodles

View more about this event at Litquake 2025

I cannot stop thinking about this paper about how Iberian harvester ants can produce offspring of two entirely different species. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02524-8 cc: @myrmepropagandist

I keep telling myself that one of these days I'm going to learn to stop giggling when I'm speaking on panels or giving talks. But um it's been like 30 years now and I'm still doing it so .... is it possible that I'm just a lifetime giggler?