Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.

Many thanks to @letterboxd.social, who let me celebrate #Noirvember by creating a series of classic noir / neo-noir thematic double features cat's-cradling everything from Linda Darnell to David Lynch, from DOUBLE INDEMNITY to De Palma, from Humphrey Bogart to OJ Simpson. Give it a read:

As promised, here is the cover for Muñeca, out June of 2026! Described thusly: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

Part of what’s happening in the reaction is a bedrock belief that everything Black people do in public must actually be a plot to antagonize white people, the imagined center of our lives.

Huge thanks to @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @bloody-disgusting.com for featuring THE END TIMES! Read all about it. Then subscribe. bloody-disgusting.com/books/391650...

del Toro: ok so the thing about dr frankenstein is that he's super hot Shelley: yeah yeah that's good del Toro: so is the monster Shelley: hell yeah Barker: what about igor? Shelley: YOU FUCKING SHUT UP CLIVE Barker: ha ha ha Shelley: I'M DONE WITH YOUR IGOR SHIT

all of this! goes along with the thing that annoys me about a lot of recent books (also much editorial direction atm and seeming demand from readers (tiktok))—everyone is Good and no one is horny. and any character not being Good is a moral failing on the part of the author

White person: *several racist sentences* Black person: "That was racist as fuck" Other White Person: "Surely, they were being ironic." Don't wake up and use any of your days on earth being an OWP. Please.

Catching up on things Ive missed and all I’ll say is that if your tent allows racists and nazi under it the. Your tent deserves to and needs to be burned to the ground and a new tent erected because it always been an unsafe tent. And thats that on that.

MTG is an experiment in how little it will take for white voters to ignore red flags they’ve already clocked

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

HOT DAMN @haileypiperfights.bsky.social this book fucking rules A love song written to erotic horror featuring a baddie you just love to love to hate (or maybe not ever quite hate??), and a cautionary tale for trans adults who over-indentify with trans youth Moody, gory, gorgeous. I love it.

Promo video for The Nine O'Clock Horses & Other Stories!

They kidnapped a mayors daughter to stop police reforms

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

Someone called me a liar for saying I wouldn't buy any new games if every game suddenly had gen AI content in it, as if old games don't exist. These people are Desperate.

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PSA: if you are a cannabis grower in the United States or have been thinking about starting to grow, get any seeds you’ve been wanting to buy online before the end of the year. The new changes to the hemp laws make buying seeds online illegal again as of January 1, 2026

Success: Signed books at different Barnes and Nobles in the DMV 🎉 Failure: Forgot to take photos at the Exorcist steps while in Georgetown 🫠 sigh But nevertheless, books!

if you loved weapons yer gonna love not getting the flu

anyway ludicrous to think the right question is “how did DHS lose its way??” and not “why did we build a domestic security super agency in the first place, and who has that power served”

Seriously. Don't argue with me about the validity of your thing. Go buy the thing you like and talk about it. And I will talk about what I like. I want you to support your thing so it thrives. I'm not interested in ending your thing! I'm interested in enjoying mine. or is it you want mine to end?

Success: Signed books at different Barnes and Nobles in the DMV 🎉 Failure: Forgot to take photos at the Exorcist steps while in Georgetown 🫠 sigh But nevertheless, books!

Hey #booksky! Long time no see. Is it still mad quiet over here? 👀 I'm loving this book so far and I hope to finish it before my surgery on Friday. What's everyone else reading? #Sapphicbooks #sagasayscrew @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED. So here:

Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, which has left Palestinians starving & homeless as winter rains flood the camps. Their tent has been damaged, & they urgently need funds for warm shelter & supplies. Support has fallen a lot since the 'ceasefire':

When your enemies are fighting your job is to add fuel to the fire not yell at the people saying that it's good that they are fighting. A lot of people on this app have never been in a fist fight and it shows daily.

I'm delighted the Statue of Liberty can finally afford his top surgery 🖤

The journalists waxing nostalgic over Epstein's NYC sex trafficking parties are the same ones also freaking out about Mamdani and they're all in the fucking emails chatting with the guy a decade after his conviction.

$250 between my kids lives in hunger and shelter. My kids bodies are collapsing from lack of food, and now the cold has increased the destruction of their bodies We need food😭 We need food😭 If 10 people donate 25, we will get the amount. Verified @mommunism.bsky.social chuffed.org/project/1574...

The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the fossil gas that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense. It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

For years I had no idea why the aliens of Space Hunter M Nebula from Godzilla vs Gigan would help the Seatopians from Godzilla vs Megalon. I just assumed it was behind-the-scenes "let's get more use from that Gigan costume" But now I see: cockroach aliens, cockroach kaiju. Perfect synchronization!

Update: My event in Washington DC on Weds is no longer happening at As You Are. Instead, it's happening at the new, bigger location of Little District Books. Deets/RSVP here: littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...

I know many of us are tired, scared & angry. When you can, if you can, channel that into doing what you can to help. Every day it's more clear the only ones who are going to save us ... are us. Whenever you start to say "people should do x," it's you. You're "people." We're "people." It's just us.

One of my favourite movies genres is 'absolutely pissing it down.'

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID! WILL YOU ANSWER?

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Literally every time I've needed customer service help and it's a company that starts you off with a chatbot, I end up needing a human being. Every time. Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷‍♀️

I am in need of a new place to review horror novels, if anyone has any leads in that direction. Paid gigs only at this point, as I've already got a newsletter and a podcast where I talk about things for free.

She has not walked away from the vicious antisemitism, the gleeful racism, or the thing where she went out of her fucking way to personally harass queer and trans colleagues It really is okay to have some fucking standards.

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Hey. This is the BEST POSSIBLE SEASON to badger Visa and Mastercard into fucking off about their shitty fake-moral-panic over LGBTQ+ spending habits and content on retail platforms. Fuck ALL THE WAY OFF, VISA and Mastercard. No one wants to hear jack shit from you. You're a fucking receipt printer.

Anyway girls 💅🏻 like I was saying lol

“Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation ever studied.” Important work from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social that offers a clear explanation of why there is an intense push to change school curricula to make them more white supremacist newrepublic.com/article/2030...

Scares That Care has TWO charity events in early 2026 -- our first Women's Writing Symposium and our 6th annual AuthorCon. For more information on either event, visit the charity's website: scaresthatcare.org