佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱

@jamteayang

specfic writer and scallion pancake stan 🥬 pro-union 🥬 quote posts and reposts are not endorsements, they're just little dopamine buttons

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Jul 8

Congrats to all these publishing unions on their wins!!! 🎉🤝 They're making the industry a better place. Be sure to follow and show your support as they head to the bargaining table: @hbgworkers.bsky.social @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social @darkhorseunion.bsky.social

Two arms with hands clasped in solidarity. One arm is labeled "Catapult workers, "Hachette workers", and "University of Chicago Press workers," and the other arm is labeled "Dark Horse workers"

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Jun 28

When I was flyering today and asked a guy holding a Pride x Nordstrom banner if he wanted to keep ICE out of Pride, he was like "no..." 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 And then I looked around and realized I was surrounded by corporate sponsors... ANYWAY happy pride!!!! 🌈 fuck ice!!

Mr krabs looking absolutely shook and dizzy

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Jun 17

🎵 im at the ecosocialist meeting, im at the No Data Center art build, im at the combination ecosocialist No Data Center art build 🎵

NO DATA CENTERS poster with an angry possum and flowers

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Jun 12

#TBT to Clara NOT approving of the little hat I made out of her fur

A disgrungled orange cat wearing a hat made from her fur. She is sitting in a box and looks real pissed

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· May 27

If you love comics and/or unions, head's up: Dark Horse is unionizing! 🥳 That makes four publishers unionizing this summer. Be sure to follow @darkhorseunion.bsky.social and sign their petition 🔗 actionnetwork.org/petitions/da...

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· May 5

Happy book bday to @jesserbest.bsky.social and You Pierce My Soul! I so loved getting to edit this and in my very biased opinion, it absolutely slaps. If sapphic dystopian YA sounds like your cup of tea, check it out! 🔗 bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

An orange tabby poses furiously next to an ARC of You Pierce My Soul.

An orange tabby is moving toward the camera, tongue licking her nose. An ARC of You Pierce My Soul lies on the table, forgotten.

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· May 4

Updating the graphic again to add @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social which is unionizing too! 🥳 We truly love to see it. Be sure to follow them and send a letter of support 🔗 actionnetwork.org/letters/were...

Two arms with hands clasped in solidarity. One arm is labeled "Catapult workers" and "Hachette workers", the other arm is labeled "University of Chicago Press workers," signifying that hot labor summer has indeed come for publishing

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Apr 27

Updating the graphic for 2026 😤✊ Follow @hbgworkers.bsky.social on here and if you're on IG, follow the Hachette and Catapult union accounts there too!

Two arms with clasped hands. One arm has text that reads Catapult workers, the other arm reads Hachette workers and the clasped hands reads UNIONIZING FOR A HOT LABOR SUMMER IN PUBLISHING

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Apr 17

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

an orange tabby cat standing in a doorway, backlit by the morning sun. Her shadow is long and terrible. She looks like she is seething with fury

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Apr 17

difficult to pick one photo, but this one of my cat niece is pretty good

Orange tabby cat sitting up with a sneer on her face

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Mar 12

Happy GDC! Hope every game worker gets to unionize because my god, the games industry needs it.

Bugs bunny wearing a tuxedo wishing all overworked and underpaid games industry workers a very good luck with unionizing i am rooting for you

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Mar 12

Too chicken to play Scarlet Hollow by myself but deeply enjoyed meeting this perfect little screaming opossum 😭♥️

Photo of a spooky visual novel game being played on a TV screen. A small possum is screaming and text options below read:

"Afraid!"

(Explore) "I friend, I no hurt!"
(Explore) "Aww, what's your name, little guy?"
(Explore) "What are you doing in my drawers?"
(Explore) "Can you move, please? I wanna put my clothes in here."

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Feb 8

someone please explain to my mom that real winners quit

Da Share Zone meme of a skeleton in a running pose. It reads:
JUST WALK OUT
you can leave!!

work
social thing
movies
home
class
dentist
clothes shoppi
too fancy weed store
cops if your quick
friend ships

if it sucks.... hit da bricks!!!
real winners quit

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Jan 29

The Publishing for Minnesota fundraiser kicks off tomorrow! 💥 If you know someone who might want a manuscript critique or publishing AMA from a professional kidlit and romance editor, send them my way! 🔗 www.32auctions.com/organization...

Social media graphic with a photo of yours truly holding a teetering stack of books. The text reads:

I DONATED:

50-page manuscript critique + 1-hour publishing AMA

to Publishing for Minnesota's fundraiser auction.

Auction opens Thursday January 29th
www.32auctions.com/publishingforMN

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Jan 27

To support the Shut Down Moshannon campaign: 🔗 Follow @ ShutDownDetentionCampaign on IG ✍️ Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/shut-down-... ☎️ Call on Clearfield county to end their contract with Moshannon: 814-765-2642 Ext. 505 📬 Send a letter: 212 East Locust St. Clearfield, PA 16830 ✉️ Email ⬇️

Tell the Clearfield County Commissioners to end the ICE contracts at Moshannon.

- Send an email to twinters@clearfieldcountypa.gov, jsobel@clearfieldcountypa.gov, dglass@clearfieldcountypa.gov, cccomm@clearfieldcountypa.gov

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Jan 10

Just took the Discord survey on implementing AI and it's basically like: "Which of these 9 terrible things do you dislike about AI? And how can we convince you to be cool with it?" Survey 🔗 discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

What, if anything, concerns you most about AI? (Select all that apply)

Quality / accuracy of outputs

Al making decisions that affect me

Bias / unfair outcomes

Data being used for training

Privacy

Environmental impact

Power concentrating in the hands of a few companies/individuals

Impact on employment

Lack of authenticity (it's getting harder to tell what's real or human-made)

Discord Research

What would make you more comfortable with Al features in Discord?

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Jan 2

spotted a very good new year's omen on my walk

Black cat doing a big stretch on someone's doorstep, looking like a long boy

Black cat doing a big stretch. Downward facing dog like

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Dec 13

Anyway, here's Miss Clara reacting to bubbles and showing off her tooth.

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Nov 9

A final update from Quirk Books Union ✊💔 Devastated that, in the three months since we unionized, management never met the union at the bargaining table -- and now the remaining four union members have all been laid off.

On October 1st, Quirk Books became an imprint of Andrews McMeel Publishing, and as a result, the positions of all the remaining union members have been eliminated. We were scheduled to begin bargaining our contract on October 2nd. We're dismayed that this has happened-we truly love the work we have done and the books we have helped create at Quirk, and the union was our effort to ensure that those books could continue being made sustainably and well.

Given the acquisition of the company and the layoffs, Quirk Books Union will no longer exist. Despite how this is ending, we greatly value the experiences we've had and the knowledge we've gained through the unionization process.

To anyone else thinking of unionizing: Please don't get discouraged! As we've learned, it's a hard fight that doesn't always end well, but we believe that unionization efforts will only serve to make publishing and labor better for all. If you're interested in unionizing, check out the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers for resources and support!

Thank you all for your support and solidarity! It's meant a lot to every one of us who has been part of this unionization process

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Nov 9

Cozy day in reading Ravishing by @eshanisurya.bsky.social ☕ Put it on your TBR for a gorgeously written novel about identity, the beauty industry, chronic illness, and trauma.

A copy of Ravishing on a throw blanket beside a curled up cat

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Oct 11

pro-labor gamechanger fans, wya

Screenshot from Gamechanger with Sam Reich saying "Congratulations, players, you've unionized." On the screen behind him is a colorful graphic that says "Congratulations! you've unionized" in stylized font

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Oct 11

friend who i was in a union with for a hot second (🥲♥️) mailed me a gamechanger magnet and i love it

Orange tabby cat covering her little face while modeling a magnet that reads "congratulations! you've unionized"

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Oct 9

Unclear how the Quirk Books imprint under Andrews McMeel proposes to publish 20-25 books per year when every acquiring editor resigned or was laid off over the summer, shortly after unionizing.

Andrews McMeel Acquires Quirk Books
By Jim Milliot | Oct 07, 2025

In an agreement with Quirk Productions, Inc., Andrews McMeel Universal has acquired all of Quirk Books' titles and IP. Under the deal, Quirk has become an imprint of Andrews McMeel Publishing, and as of October 1, AMP has assumed publication of all of Quirk's frontlist and backlist titles.

Quirk founder and publisher Dave Borgenicht has been named publisher of the Quirk Books imprint at AMP, reporting to AMU president and CEO Kirsty Melville. Sales and distribution of all Quirk titles remain with Penguin Random House Publisher Services. AMP expects to publish 20 to 25 titles annually under the Quirk imprint.

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Oct 8

ok but like genuinely, we cooked here

Two editors posed like communist lovers, holding aloft a copy of the picture book My Cabbages

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Oct 7

s-tier cat

orange tabby in the sun looking mad as hell

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Sep 24

please enjoy this relic of the 90s i found in a drawer: a pokemon watch with a flip cover that i'd pasted a picture of my guinea pig on

a faded pokemon watch featuring ash ketchum and a pokeball on the band. the watch cover has a picture of a beige guinea pig pasted on it

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Sep 24

ICYMI, the cover reveal for @jesserbest.bsky.social's next book, You Pierce My Soul, is here! This upcoming sapphic dystopian YA looks gorgeous, thanks to illustrator @klimtsonian.bsky.social + designer Elissa ✨🌈 Revealed by audiobook legend Natalie Naudus on IG 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DOv2tByDbU...

Book cover titled You Pierce My Soul by Jessica Mary Best, featuring two teen girls looking at each other longingly over their shoulders. They're in a futuristic greenhouse

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Sep 11

he's just a little guy

Picture of a very small tortoise eating a hibiscus flower

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Sep 5

In honor of #SapphicSeptember, I present for your consideration: Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best, a sci-fi YA which I would pitch as "queer Knives Out in space" and is just delightful ✨🌈 Check it out here 🔗 bookshop.org/p/books/star...

Book titled Stars, Hide Your Fires on a light green bedspread. The cover shows two teen girls looking yearningly at each other in the reflection of two knives framing a pool of blood

佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱@jamteayang· Sep 3

Anyway, this bit made me lol. Very thankful to my manager (who also got laid off 🥲) and folks in the Philly publishing community who were supportive of our unionizing. But I, too, am petty, and def took note of who in the industry fell on the anti-labor side of things. lithub.com/a-series-of-...