the Black Panthers were right

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Having an emotional support author with a long backlist is critical to my mental health.

The Rewilding our Stories Discord's book club is reading Robert Macfarlane's Is a River Alive?, and we're in love. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a...

CBP didn’t exist until the creation of DHS in 2002 as part of post 9-11 right wing fever dream. It became operational in 2003 and effectively has been a bastion of misconduct and human rights abuses every sense. Throw the whole thing out and start over.

People saying "but if we defined 'middle class' that way there would basically BE no middle class in America!!" Me:

Going from what I thought was middle class (every American thinks they're middle class lol, but middle class isn't a number, it's an ability to afford basic needs like housing, healthcare, food, transport, comfortably without going into debt) to what is ACTUALLY middle class has been wild wake up

How dare they presume to know what would dazzle a penguin.

Capitalism has confused us on what the actual purpose of writing is. The purpose of writing isn't the product, it's the process. It's figuring out the puzzle. It's figuring out what you think. The product without the process doesn't change you. It's buying gym shoes and never going to the gym.

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There are no words for theses times but the sweet sun like dew and the red buds of maple waiting waiting. #poetry #poem #writing #nature #naturewriting #naturepoetry #resistance #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk

I’d be willing to rethink my stance on AI if it wasn’t actively killing our planet, leading to measurable cognitive decline and psychosis, being used to generate revenge porn, plagiarizing the work of millions of writers and artists, threatening to end thousands of jobs, and actually worked.

I am constantly forced to confront this at various media gatherings (at one today!) and people still talk about it mythically, hype up edge cases, and when I ask regular AI users how it has dramatically changed their everyday life they say “it’s replaced Google for me,” because it summarizes Google.

The problem is, the hype of AI is always so clearly manufactured. It’s sold as essential but mysteriously so — rarely is it portrayed as making life better; it’s sold as doing things WE want to keep doing. We want it to inventory our fridge and detect cancer, not make music and replace us at work.

New blog post about writing as resistance ✍️ #poetry #poem #writing #nature #naturewriting #naturepoetry #resistance #Appalachia #hopepunk #solarpunk entangled-worlds.ghost.io/field-notes-...

This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

Trust me, you want this! Coming May 2026: a collection of #solarpunk short stories by @tkrex.bsky.social, built off her story, A Holdout in the Northern California Wildcraft Zone, which you can read/listen to free! grist.org/climate-fict... @torystephens.bsky.social bookshop.org/a/102876/978...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

Don't practice writing to impress other people. Write to express yourself. Write to make yourself laugh, or to get something awful off your chest. Write something so weird nobody else will enjoy it--but that you enjoy, and you know it, and the page can be your psyche's confidant in that.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Cover reveal time! Announcing ALOCASIA: 99 Queer Writers on Plants and Nature, coming in early 2026 🌱💚 Cover design by @alban-fischer.bsky.social, illustrations by @lichenritual.bsky.social

The thing is, you can sit at a piano for the first time and have fun. It's actually better without a teacher. Tickle the keys. Mess around and find whatever rhythm moves you. Learning to enjoy expressing yourself--in music or in writing--is a great foundation for everything else.

I'm going to say this again in case you haven't heard this one: I was a talented writer and it did *nothing whatsoever* because I hadn't put in the work, and I put in the work for ten years (subtracting the bit where I had to quit for my mental health) to write Witchmark talent alone could *never*

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Three geniuses gaining and using their platforms without compromising their humanity or their artistic visions, and showing us just why art matters. They are changing the conversation, each one of them.

“Being anti-AI is gatekeeping!” I’m *literally* saying there is no gate. Unlike the people telling you the only way through it is AI.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

This isn't news to anyone who has followed people like @annaleen.bsky.social or @sarahgailey.bsky.social or many others for a while, but I'm glad it's getting wider coverage

"wait now you want to get rid of ALL the abusive & monstrous people???" Yes. Yes we do. There are more good people than bad in every industry, whole scads of people who'd never in their wildest dreams think of being systematically horrible & ask to be rewarded for it. Wild but true!

a little bit of hope means you want to know about the world, no matter what it's done to you

"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

There is so much good, diverse high fantasy out there that I wish studios would branch out in terms of what they're adapting. The real lesson of Heated Rivalry is that viewers are eager for stories told from the perspectives of everyone other than the cisallohet white default.

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it: Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted

Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

That gap in my resume? That’s when I was a conscientious objector to technofascism.

Mine is soft and subtle -- I hated it when I was younger. I wanted something with more force, making a greater mark in the world. I envied my brother's martial chants. But now that I am older I understand -- a writer alone in my cottage, my song charms the words from the trees.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

We are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way

"Pretti’s death will not be in vain. ICE messed with the wrong profession. We nurses will fight to abolish ICE and bring about a vision for a healthy society based on nurses’ values of caring, compassion, and community."