Nicole Zelniker
@nicolezelniker.bsky.social
🌈Author, spoonie queen, queer icon
😌Opinions are mine & probably correct
📚Repped by Daniele Hunter
🇵🇸BLM, Free Palestine, et. al
https://linktr.ee/nicolezelniker
😌Opinions are mine & probably correct
📚Repped by Daniele Hunter
🇵🇸BLM, Free Palestine, et. al
https://linktr.ee/nicolezelniker
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Durham NC holds itself up as a pro-immigrant jurisdiction. But its magistrates and judges repeatedly refer people facing low-level criminal charges to ICE when they're not required to—even for offenses as minor as a single trespassing charge. @twitterlessabe.bsky.social @indyweek.bsky.social #ncpol
Durham Judicial Officials Are Unnecessarily Putting People on ICE's Radar for Low-Level Crimes
Durham judicial officials flagged people for citizenship checks when they didn’t need to, landing some in ICE custody, INDY found.
indyweek.com
September 18, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Durham NC holds itself up as a pro-immigrant jurisdiction. But its magistrates and judges repeatedly refer people facing low-level criminal charges to ICE when they're not required to—even for offenses as minor as a single trespassing charge. @twitterlessabe.bsky.social @indyweek.bsky.social #ncpol
Quiz taken! I'm 69% Temo, 57% Ollin, and 36% Socoyote, which honestly tracks for me, I think. Has anyone else entered the schmivaway yet?
I can't wait for y'all to be able to read this incredibly special book in less than a week!
I can't wait for y'all to be able to read this incredibly special book in less than a week!
September 17, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Quiz taken! I'm 69% Temo, 57% Ollin, and 36% Socoyote, which honestly tracks for me, I think. Has anyone else entered the schmivaway yet?
I can't wait for y'all to be able to read this incredibly special book in less than a week!
I can't wait for y'all to be able to read this incredibly special book in less than a week!
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For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Is Meta using disabled people to promote its glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
www.motherjones.com
September 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM
For @motherjones.com, I looked into how Meta could be using disabled people to promote its Meta glasses to the masses. As one expert told me, “companies have used accessibility...as a Trojan horse for a tool that poses significant privacy and security threats.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hi! I wrote a fun and not-at-all horrifying short story about female rage! Check it out below!
www.theslashmedia.com/the-maze/
www.theslashmedia.com/the-maze/
The Maze
Written By: Nicole Zelniker
There are no missing posters on the walls of the bar, no indication that girls vanish from here without a trace.
www.theslashmedia.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Hi! I wrote a fun and not-at-all horrifying short story about female rage! Check it out below!
www.theslashmedia.com/the-maze/
www.theslashmedia.com/the-maze/
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for real tho, this is how you do it - 100% maximum respect
September 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
for real tho, this is how you do it - 100% maximum respect
For ALL I KNOW SO FAR bc I haven't talked about its comps recently:
📚I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST by @masondeaver.bsky.social
📚IN BETWEEN DAYS by @dancingofpens.bsky.social
📚SPIKES, DICE, & OTHER VARIABLES by @harperkinsley.bsky.social
📚THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY by @joshgalarza.bsky.social
📚I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST by @masondeaver.bsky.social
📚IN BETWEEN DAYS by @dancingofpens.bsky.social
📚SPIKES, DICE, & OTHER VARIABLES by @harperkinsley.bsky.social
📚THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY by @joshgalarza.bsky.social
What other books should people read if they like your work? #WritingPrompt
September 16, 2026 at 5:25 PM
For ALL I KNOW SO FAR bc I haven't talked about its comps recently:
📚I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST by @masondeaver.bsky.social
📚IN BETWEEN DAYS by @dancingofpens.bsky.social
📚SPIKES, DICE, & OTHER VARIABLES by @harperkinsley.bsky.social
📚THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY by @joshgalarza.bsky.social
📚I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST by @masondeaver.bsky.social
📚IN BETWEEN DAYS by @dancingofpens.bsky.social
📚SPIKES, DICE, & OTHER VARIABLES by @harperkinsley.bsky.social
📚THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY by @joshgalarza.bsky.social
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Zionists: Palestinians would throw you off a roof
The Jerusalem Post: the enemies of Judaism are either "gay or Islamist"
The Jerusalem Post: the enemies of Judaism are either "gay or Islamist"
September 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Zionists: Palestinians would throw you off a roof
The Jerusalem Post: the enemies of Judaism are either "gay or Islamist"
The Jerusalem Post: the enemies of Judaism are either "gay or Islamist"
Please feel free to follow me! I love that you're here! But follow Palestinian creatives, too!
Here are some of my fave books by Palestinian authors. For nonfiction & poetry, check out Nada Samih-Rotondo, Ahmed Tamimi, Dena Takruri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diya Abdo, & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social📚
Here are some of my fave books by Palestinian authors. For nonfiction & poetry, check out Nada Samih-Rotondo, Ahmed Tamimi, Dena Takruri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diya Abdo, & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social📚
September 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Please feel free to follow me! I love that you're here! But follow Palestinian creatives, too!
Here are some of my fave books by Palestinian authors. For nonfiction & poetry, check out Nada Samih-Rotondo, Ahmed Tamimi, Dena Takruri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diya Abdo, & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social📚
Here are some of my fave books by Palestinian authors. For nonfiction & poetry, check out Nada Samih-Rotondo, Ahmed Tamimi, Dena Takruri, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diya Abdo, & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social📚
If more people with platforms were willing to speak out the way Macklemore does, maybe it wouldn’t be so controversial. None of us are free until all of us are free, and that’s includes Gaza.
Free Palestine, now and always.
Free Palestine, now and always.
September 15, 2026 at 2:08 PM
If more people with platforms were willing to speak out the way Macklemore does, maybe it wouldn’t be so controversial. None of us are free until all of us are free, and that’s includes Gaza.
Free Palestine, now and always.
Free Palestine, now and always.
Everyone go read Espíritu RIGHT NOW📚
September 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Everyone go read Espíritu RIGHT NOW📚
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He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
September 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
He cooked Ed Sheeran on IG
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We've added new titles to our young adult's Bookshelf that deal with Fibromyalgia. For more information see www.disabilitybookshelf.com/invisible-di... #booksondisability #disabilitywriters #DisabilityBookshelf #fibromyalgia ##chronicillness @nicolezelniker.bsky.social #booksky
September 14, 2026 at 2:44 AM
We've added new titles to our young adult's Bookshelf that deal with Fibromyalgia. For more information see www.disabilitybookshelf.com/invisible-di... #booksondisability #disabilitywriters #DisabilityBookshelf #fibromyalgia ##chronicillness @nicolezelniker.bsky.social #booksky
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No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community.
Its that simple.
Its that simple.
September 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community.
Its that simple.
Its that simple.
"We will survive this together or not at all."
You can tell I write super chill, fun, not-at-all emotionally devastating books🫠
You can tell I write super chill, fun, not-at-all emotionally devastating books🫠
Share a recent snippet that you just really like :) #WritingPrompt
September 13, 2026 at 2:04 PM
"We will survive this together or not at all."
You can tell I write super chill, fun, not-at-all emotionally devastating books🫠
You can tell I write super chill, fun, not-at-all emotionally devastating books🫠
[insert something vulnerable about Shoshana and LJ and Ben healing my inner child or something]
Do I still live in NY? No. Did I fly in anyway to see this show and hang with bestie? Obviously. Perfect performance, no notes, Ali hit ✨that✨ note in Secret Comes Out and I think I ascended, etc.
Do I still live in NY? No. Did I fly in anyway to see this show and hang with bestie? Obviously. Perfect performance, no notes, Ali hit ✨that✨ note in Secret Comes Out and I think I ascended, etc.
September 13, 2026 at 2:42 AM
[insert something vulnerable about Shoshana and LJ and Ben healing my inner child or something]
Do I still live in NY? No. Did I fly in anyway to see this show and hang with bestie? Obviously. Perfect performance, no notes, Ali hit ✨that✨ note in Secret Comes Out and I think I ascended, etc.
Do I still live in NY? No. Did I fly in anyway to see this show and hang with bestie? Obviously. Perfect performance, no notes, Ali hit ✨that✨ note in Secret Comes Out and I think I ascended, etc.
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Whatever your reason for hanging on, if your mental health is bad, is good enough. Is your sole reason that you need to outlive someone as a hater? Good enough reason.
September 10, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Whatever your reason for hanging on, if your mental health is bad, is good enough. Is your sole reason that you need to outlive someone as a hater? Good enough reason.
Author dream of being in a Madeline Dyer anthology unlocked✨
B&N sale runs through Friday, and for folks who want and have the means to support an indie bookstore, I’ve got the Bookshop link in my bio.
I genuinely can’t wait to share this with you all.
B&N sale runs through Friday, and for folks who want and have the means to support an indie bookstore, I’ve got the Bookshop link in my bio.
I genuinely can’t wait to share this with you all.
September 10, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Author dream of being in a Madeline Dyer anthology unlocked✨
B&N sale runs through Friday, and for folks who want and have the means to support an indie bookstore, I’ve got the Bookshop link in my bio.
I genuinely can’t wait to share this with you all.
B&N sale runs through Friday, and for folks who want and have the means to support an indie bookstore, I’ve got the Bookshop link in my bio.
I genuinely can’t wait to share this with you all.
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Note that the Flock worker specifically told Milton, Georgia police, *without prompting*, that he would only use his first name because he didn't "want them to hear [his] full name on the 911 call when they get it."
This level of information asymmetry is dangerous for journalism and democracy
This level of information asymmetry is dangerous for journalism and democracy
"There is an irony here that they're setting up these cameras that track all of our movements, that follow everywhere we go, but when I'm trying to get video in public of him setting up a camera, he is afraid I'm following him?"
www.investigatetv.com/2026/09/08/f...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr
www.investigatetv.com/2026/09/08/f...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr
Flock worker calls police on our reporter filming them in public
YouTube video by InvestigateTV
youtu.be
September 9, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Note that the Flock worker specifically told Milton, Georgia police, *without prompting*, that he would only use his first name because he didn't "want them to hear [his] full name on the 911 call when they get it."
This level of information asymmetry is dangerous for journalism and democracy
This level of information asymmetry is dangerous for journalism and democracy
I tell my agent all the time that being chronically ill is basically just body horror🥰
What niche expertise do you have that you've incorporated into your book/wip? #WritingPrompt
September 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
I tell my agent all the time that being chronically ill is basically just body horror🥰
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I think the biggest mindfuck about the genocide in Palestine is that we're not even talking about a thin veneer of plausible deniability. The Israeli government is just composed of a group of proud right wing racists bragging about their various war crimes in the Israeli press on a daily basis,
September 8, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I think the biggest mindfuck about the genocide in Palestine is that we're not even talking about a thin veneer of plausible deniability. The Israeli government is just composed of a group of proud right wing racists bragging about their various war crimes in the Israeli press on a daily basis,
I was so psyched when the @inkedingraypress.bsky.social team asked me to blurb this book, and then even MORE psyched when I read the book bc it’s so good y’all.
I hope you’re so proud of yourself @harperkinsley.bsky.social. I truly can’t overstate how special this book is💜
I hope you’re so proud of yourself @harperkinsley.bsky.social. I truly can’t overstate how special this book is💜
September 7, 2026 at 1:50 AM
I was so psyched when the @inkedingraypress.bsky.social team asked me to blurb this book, and then even MORE psyched when I read the book bc it’s so good y’all.
I hope you’re so proud of yourself @harperkinsley.bsky.social. I truly can’t overstate how special this book is💜
I hope you’re so proud of yourself @harperkinsley.bsky.social. I truly can’t overstate how special this book is💜
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If you’re in the US, you can buy my queer, trans, dystopian book from Casa Luna Books, an online bookstore focusing on diverse voices:
casa-luna-books.myshopify.com/products/thi...
You can also get it from Pocket Dimension Books in Arkansas, or preorder it on Bookshop.org!
casa-luna-books.myshopify.com/products/thi...
You can also get it from Pocket Dimension Books in Arkansas, or preorder it on Bookshop.org!
This Is How The World Ends : Disco Barrington
Run the race. Or die. Britain is at war, isolated by a digital blockade. Dissidents run a deadly race for the public's entertainment, while the flood-ravaged country falls apart. The Cartwright family...
casa-luna-books.myshopify.com
September 6, 2026 at 6:22 PM
If you’re in the US, you can buy my queer, trans, dystopian book from Casa Luna Books, an online bookstore focusing on diverse voices:
casa-luna-books.myshopify.com/products/thi...
You can also get it from Pocket Dimension Books in Arkansas, or preorder it on Bookshop.org!
casa-luna-books.myshopify.com/products/thi...
You can also get it from Pocket Dimension Books in Arkansas, or preorder it on Bookshop.org!
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I wrote about Daysi González, a strategist who consults for the DCCC and has helped elect AOC and Gallego. She's never been undocumented, but is now preparing to go back to El Salvador if Trump doesn't extend TPS this week. How will Washington—and her clients—react? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation
Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month. She wants her own party to pay attention.
www.newyorker.com
September 6, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I wrote about Daysi González, a strategist who consults for the DCCC and has helped elect AOC and Gallego. She's never been undocumented, but is now preparing to go back to El Salvador if Trump doesn't extend TPS this week. How will Washington—and her clients—react? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
"Nicole, why did you write a book that made me cry" well first of all I probably made myself cry too so jot that down📚
September 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
"Nicole, why did you write a book that made me cry" well first of all I probably made myself cry too so jot that down📚
Anyone ever make themselves almost cry while writing? No? Just me?
What’s a scene from your book/wip where you stopped and said “I MUST calm down”? #WritingPrompt
September 5, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Anyone ever make themselves almost cry while writing? No? Just me?