SFGATE columnist Drew Magary took Tesla's infamous Cybertruck for a spin around San Francisco — and called it “a loud, lonely car for loud, lonely people.”

sooooooo, I'm in a new anthology releasing on November 4th and good news! we got a starred review in Publisher's Weekly! even better news? my story is highlighted! pre-order HOWL: An Anthology from Women in Horror ASAP. you want this antho.

Enjoy the Reformation and Halloween with the classic 95 Reese's being nailed to a door

We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life. And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Happy raid on Harper's ferry day!!! I think a good way to deal with current politics is to simply ask oneself, what would John brown do?

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Welcome new people. I was asked at dinner last night whether Bluesky was an echo chamber. I said it doesn’t matter, because what I want from social media isn’t to talk to young republicans taking a break from their group chat, but to read things I want to read but that I might have missed.

“AMONG GHOSTS is the only YA speculative fiction book I’ve seen in years with a 13-year-old protagonist. Hartman is so good at writing teens who feel like real teens.” @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social (@QueenOfRats) reviews new work from Rachel Hartman

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@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Hydration check! Have you had tea today?

The conservative project always makes much more sense when you realize it's just run by upper middle class American christian nationalist who are basically completely fine in material position but furious the entire country doesn't bow to their weird cultural preferences.

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

John Scalzi wrote a post several years ago which noted that in a societal collapse they'd be turned into "thin strips of Objectivist Jerky" and I think about that phrase a lot. whatever.scalzi.com/2010/09/26/t...

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29/ As soon as they sign the contract, the recruits are taken away to buses for transportation to their units and training camps. Many will receive only a few days' perfunctory training before dying in Ukraine within a couple of weeks of being recruited.

1/ Large numbers of elderly Russian men are being attracted by fat recruitment bonuses to join the war in Ukraine for the financial benefit of their families. "I've lived my life, we'll get an apartment for my son now, so what if I get killed?", asks one. ⬇️

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop. You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

This week's newsletter, where I run down everything you need to know before ordering DIE: Loaded from @imagecomics.com . Also, a trailer we cut for your entertainment. Plus, The Power Fantasy and me screaming at my silent phone. buttondown.com/KieronGillen...

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Announcing INSIDE THREAT, the sixth Rachel Peng book, in which our heroine reinvents disaster tourism from the ground up. www.patreon.com/posts/inside... #book #books #scifi #sff #BookSky

Yellow fever, dengue, and malaria used to be endemic to river valleys and the southeastern US. That was back in the day before we had decorative man made ponds in gated subdivisions and stagnant puddles from lawn irrigation everywhere. They'd be much more widespread now.

Ok, so this is a very big deal. Let’s thread it.

We have to penalize blatant lying, particularly by public figures. We’ve slid into a post-truth world and nothing but sheer cultural gruntwork is going to get us out.

This dogshit AI "boom" is about the denial of death. We had our time with Marilyn. It was beautiful and funny and achingly sad in the end, but WE HAD OUR TIME. We shouldn't be able to make Back to the Future 4, 5 and 6 at the push of a button because WE HAD OUR TIME. Time to grow up.

@sporadicerratic.bsky.social Hydration check! Have you had tea today?

watching the mothership #over/under solarian church speedrun the creation of indulgences in the first 4 hours of the game has me convinced this is going to be a spectacularly unhinged month of storytelling.

Gotta say, I’m suspicious of the meat vendor. There’s no good meat in Mothership…

A thread from 2018 reborn in 2025: 1/7 "Carbanak, a cybercriminal gang has stolen about $1.2 billion from more than 100 banks in 40 nations. The suspected 34-year-old ringleader is under arrest, but the whopping $1.2 billion amount remains missing."

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

Day 14: RETRO 🕹️ #SuperBatober #Inktober #inktober2025

The Fifth Season by @nkjemisin.bsky.social is also on US ebook sale for $3, and I got 6 copies of that for random giveaway. Sunshine by Robin McKinley is also on US Kindle sale for $3, and I got 6 of those for random giveaway. Sunshine is probably my favorite vampire book.

Now Everybody's Perfect is available for preorder on bookshop.org! Coming in June next year to a great local bookstore near you! bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way. linktr.ee/gildedrage

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes. “Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!” RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25 Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror “Adam in the garden…”

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?

The man who made movie poster art, well, *an art* has passed: the great Drew Struzan. Loved his work. Let's not forget how he was tasked to make a poster for The Thing in hours knowing only the premise of the original 1951 film. The paint was STILL WET when he handed it in. May he rest in peace.

I hope everyone referred to the two parts of the house as Dot and Dash.

I’ve had the pleasure of reading the new issue, and I’m of the opinion Die is @kierongillen.bsky.social ‘s defining masterpiece, his central commentary on where we are. @stephaniehans.bsky.social understands perfectly.

Tbf mass lead poisoning of young men might explain *quite a lot* of what’s been happening in recent years.

In her latest reading list, @bluejo.bsky.social sings the praises of Hilary Mantel, exciting new work by Naomi Kritzer, and the joys of romance/romantasy done right, along with some interesting but odder reads... reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...

Something that I think people need to consider is that when Pinochet lost the 1990 referendum he refused to cede power and ordered his military to rally and oppress the people. Pinochet had full unilateral control of the military with no meaningful legal checks. He wrote their paychecks.

Arthur Sze, the twenty-fifth US Poet Laureate, has written a poem about the Library of Congress. Oh my heart. 📚 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Caution: contains contains bats, black cats, cosplaying wizards, haunted houses, and Ultimate Evil kicking back with a pumpkin spice latte to watch the action go down. At #Ebooks Direct: "Not On My Patch." ebooks.direct/products/not...

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.