it's incredible how prescient it was both in the scamming culture and the prevalence of predatory robots eating people's resources for fuel

Hehehe Onion at it again

"If you like something, say something"

I like all of Beth's stuff. But there's something about this novel that reminded me: man, I am glad she is alive and writing in this timeline.

Are you looking for a stack of genre-convention defying Premee-ium speculative fiction? Look no further! Come get @premeemohamed.com's military Pteranodons, REALLY messed up co-dependent friendships, searingly prescient examinations of war and pacifism, eldritch cosmic horrors and SO much more!

Currently reading this... "Instead, there is tremendous pressure to succeed from the beginning. If they fail, all bets are off, sometimes literally." I'm thankful for my indie experiences so far, they've been good...I've just jumped into the trad novel pond and well...this is relevant...

Well, Mister Newsom? We're waiting.

day 3 of my spooky season movie recommendations comedy horror category. www.patreon.com/posts/and-no...

Possibly the only good thing about Trump and his cronies being unable to just shut the fuck up.

Had a fabulous time with my friend Zach doing this interview! Zach asked fabulous questions that really let us dig into the creative process, balancing it with day job and the rest of real life, navigating life in creative industries, and some of the things I like best about worldbuilding.

so last night i realized that just a few years ago i was at least doing quite a few hours on other folks’ streams surely with some discipline and good breaks i can do at least 8-12hrs a week on my own channel again Maybe… October? I have a draft schedule now 🫣

Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the great voices in science fiction, understood that words could build new worlds. She also understood that art unflinchingly speaks truth to power. #Resistance begins with words. #UrsulaKLeGuin #screenwriting #screenplays #inspiration #DeathorStory #TruthtoPower

S/o to Marc Maron for speaking out against the fuckery though:

am i alone in thinking “[blank] is an abomination unto nuggan”* every morning when they hear the latest bs tariff announcement from trump? ------- *terry pratchett’s monstrous regiment reference

My feeling on the amount of the Anthropic settlement: is it enough? No. Is it as much as we are ever going to get? Yes.

🤨🎯💯🧐

I’m probably going to be linking to this a lot because it’s one of my favorite reviews I’ve ever gotten. (The @ writer_wells001 ID is not me.)

weird AI slop pictures of Trump that mostly seem to exist to make fun of his weight and the concept of adult diapers are just an instant trip to block town on like every possible level. 1) don't use AI 2) don't be a fatphobic shit 3) don't be an ableist shit 4) why?? what?? be better.

Between this, Medicaid cuts, no budget agreement because the GOP doesn't want to extend ACA provisions, an almost certain government shutdown and we're looking at a whole lotta dead people who can't afford their lifesaving medicines.

I was quoting Paulina Borsook before it was cool! <3

whooping cough has shown up at my kid's high school. HIGH SCHOOL. so i know the irresponsible fuckass who was relying on herd immunity is in my age group. man, FUCK you. i hope your kid recovers and doesn't infect anyone else. i hope YOU have nightmares forever haunted by the sound of that cough.

Just told my class I am doing the Butlerian Jihad

today i’ve loaded up 3 films at once. and of course it’s the cornetto trilogy! www.patreon.com/posts/its-co...

just watched the clip from six feet under about the sex dolls full of helium floating through the air and the evangelical that mistakes them for the first wave of the rapture, runs into the street, and dies when a car hits her. wow.

This conference looks very cool and, if circumstances allow, I plan to be there.

hard agree.

Today at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social , I ask @franwilde.bsky.social about her Six Books www.nerds-feather.com/2025/08/6-bo...

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Fascinating thread.

You like witches (not a question). Amazod has the witchy BREATH WARMTH & DREAM paperback at... ... 12 BUCKS! Look, it's too late in the day for cute marketing talk. Buy this. And since you'll already be on the site, buy the 2nd in the series too. Then get some new forks because you deserve it.

See how she’s TEASING ME?? Like I don’t already visit my Bookshop preorder of Year of the Mer like a kid shaking their Christmas presents?? Anyway pre-Order LD’s book so we can all wait together!

I have a list of all of the companies that advertised on one news show on KTLA today. It is so much more powerful to call the advertisers rather than the station. Let them know that you will not be using their products unless they pull their advertising. 1/

ha! my big fat list of horror comedy posts have begun!

Workers of the world unite. Anti-labor practices kill progress.

Another lovely review is here for PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE! This one is from Jenna N. Hanchey, Ph.D. and I am thrilled with it. Hope you will be too. #booksky

Let me repost this to spotlight the TWENTY Black writers whose work appears in The Black Fantastic - I know not everyone is on here but sound off if you are!

someone on instagram replied to a comment i made with: “you have a demon’s soul" and my only regret is that i can’t reply back with: “…in a metal bandaid box on my desk."

i don’t know… maybe try stop being a nazi?

We are really looking for artist. Every year I am amazed at the art that comes to this *science* museum. Please let an artist know. www.msichicago.org/education/cr...

Fuck this is so upsetting. I wrote about Bluestocking Books in my newsletter last year, bc it's an indispensable community resource and one of the last feminist bookstores standing. I hate that it ended this way. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I had a lot of fun on this panel! I’m still thinking about some of the things we discussed here. My favorite thought I had was that magic is anything that destabilizes dominant knowledge, & speculative fiction is fundamentally a question about our relationship to reality. This is why I’m here.

Happy to announce that Someone You Can Build A Nest In will be translated and released in Spain this January!

rofl even god wants the epstein files?

I am seeing the "she shoulda focused on the economy" comments and just a reminder of her stump speech: -Tax on billionaires -1st time home credit -Mid class tax adjustments -Small biz credits -Health reform w/ caretaker + RX -Food ind regs for gouging -Student loan forgiveness expansion

Well, hell, this covers just about everything I ever write. Eager to see how this anthology turns out! @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social

THIS

Whooooo this will be our second in-conversation conversation in two days, so now you can see why I was soliciting topics! Anyway you should come to this launch if you'll be in Ottawa Oct. 20. Premee's novella series is astonishing and will get under your skin like some kind of mind-altering fungus.

I actually did read the whole thing, which I don’t recommend, it gets crazier by the sentence — But he seems to forget that the Democrats in Congress are literally there because they also won elections. Some of them with much larger margins of victory than he who did not even get 50% of the vote.