REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books! You can request a copy here: forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH... I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

ah, every time an originalist is corrected on their bad history an angel gets its wings

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

PLEASE HELP! We had 7 cats and a dog and they've all been placed except 2 cats. We're moving to senior housing and CANNOT bring them. Will someone in East Texas please foster them while we keep looking? We'll send you cat litter and cat food. They're neutered and vaccinated. They're good cats!

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie. Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

For a column, looking to chat with earlyish-career workers about whether you’re struggling to focus on work/job-searching amid…well, everything else happening in the world. Would love to talk to experts, including organizers, on actions we can take at work or beyond to help. DMs/inbox always open.

Wishing everyone a good week ahead. Take care of yourselves and don't give in to the fascists.

When one of these dingdongs tells you you're wrong for hating AI, consider that you might not hate it enough. Lean into it. Find new ways to hate

Before you hit the streets on No Kings Day, join the @aclu.org’s know your rights, protest safety, and de-escalation training to take action safely and confidently. Learn how to protect yourself and your community while standing up for your rights.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

SFWA is also gathering data on impact, now that the List of Works for the Anthropic/AI settlement has been announced. Have you or any of your writer-friends been affected? Would you be comfortable sharing your experience, so that we can push for greater writer defense? forms.gle/d5jNsS6TPDka...

This. The tolerance of lying in public needs to be zero. Beginning with assholes in the media and their mealy-mouthed both-sidesism.

"The notion that people should vote against their values to support the status quo and overt corruption isn’t how a society solves problems; it’s how it normalizes them."

"Housing occupies an outsized role in everyone’s mind, but there’s a particular flavor to millennial housing distress."

Just in time to get into the Halloween spirit, I’m teaching a horror writing class with Queens Collaboratory. If you’re in NYC and want to dip your toes into writing horror, this the place to do it. Tickets are $20-$25, and spots are pretty limited. luma.com/9pzyg2tm

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

"Today’s generation of comedians prefer to use their hard-won liberties not as a weapon against the powerful, but as a license to operate free of any ethical obligations whatsoever." www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Try to be a kind person in the world. After that, be a forgetful ghost who haunts historic libraries, or a vengeful twig witch who stalks the dark heart of the forest, or something cool like that.

Folks, having a solid crew of comrades you can rely on in real life or virtually is always essential and in the coming years we are all going to need to lean on each other.

Got my new author website up and running! Same old URL, pretty new design: whatsmacksaid.com

Hate that I have to look at Altman’s stupid face in the preview, but this interview with Ed Zithromax is very much worth reading. open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

If you are concerned about the piece Eric is quoting, please read Eric's thread. Eric is a real journalist, he knows the Hill extremely well. I trust his analysis AND it matches what I'm hearing from the Hill.

My novella Death Valley Blooms is on this list! 🥰

If you see someone say "fuck cis people" or "white people caused this" and you know that you, as an individual, were not actually the problem? Just scroll on by. It ain't about you, and you don't need to make it about you.

Do you want to see a pony (not mine) dedicated to getting the grass on the other side of the fence even though he has 40 whole acres he could roam and surely find more easily accessible grass? Of course you do.

The final version is SO BEAUTIFUL, I cannot even

TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DOES YOUR BODY NEED STRETCHING?

I would encourage people to show similar skepticism toward any event-tracking project like this. Similar to the CSIS report, they are all subject to bad methodology practices. They aren't "useless" per se, but most have deep flaws in how they're compiled and coded. It's almost unavoidable.

They've lost the 9yos

Hey authors! If your first novel came out in the onslaught that was 2020, please share it here. Tell us the title and at least one cool thing about it, plus give us a link to learn more and buy it.

Hi I wrote a novella www.neonhemlock.com/books/death-...

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PSA: If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere and prone to Seasonal Affective Disorder, time to start monitoring your mental health and getting your light therapy going. (Siiiiiiiigh)

MY FRIEND HAND MADE ME A MUG isn't it so fucking cool???

Love being in a windows seat with no window, it's definitely the best part of flying /s

It's intermission at a play and someone behind me just declared "my mom's a night owl, my dad's a morning dove, and I'm somewhere between them as a permanently exhausted pigeon"

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

The AC in my car is officially caput 😭

Reminder to come hang out with me at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social today at 2pm! I have goodies to share :)

Austin folks: here’s a great resource on contacting our local ABC affiliate advertisers to holler at them about the ongoing capitulation to fascism forwrd-atx.beehiiv.com/p/standards-...

If a publisher won't commit to human editing, art and translation, the deal is not worth having. They're signalling how little they care about the final product, which comes with your name attached. This is the right place to push back. Having an agent here helps.

Okay I swear I'm going to log off and write but first I just wanted to share that SOMETIMES THE INTERNET IS STILL COOL, I was looking for the average time of sunset in Death Valley in November 2016 and FOUND IT

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer