People on r/fantasy keep asking “Why is modern fantasy all so UNORIGINAL and BORING,” and I immediately assume they must not be reading, say, N.K. Jemisin or Vajra Chandrasekera or Simon Jimenez or Premee Mohamed or anything published by Neon Hemlock, and frankly that sounds like a them problem.

Are you registered to vote? At your current address? And when is your next election?

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

The Supreme Court wants to allow conversion therapy so that's why we have oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar this morning. The Supreme Court wanted to allow Christian people to refuse to serve queers, so that's why they issued an advisory opinion in 303 Creative v. Elenis. Everything is rigged.

The deadlands is doing some of the most interesting work in speculative fiction. I’ll be supporting this as soon as I get paid on Friday. At least you should check their work out and if you have the money (I know I know) you should support them.

This has long been my theory of BlueSky and I'm sticking by it: bsky.app/profile/sara...

FDR had a supermajority all 12 years. Vote for a Democratic Congress.

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN EXTENDED TWO WEEKS TO HIDE EVIDENCE THE PRESIDENT IS A MAJOR PEDOPHILE

Important PSA! Charcoal is a natural absorbent. Unfortunately it's quite liberal when it comes to WHAT it absorbs, meaning: it absorbs ANYTHING that goes into your stomach and gut. That includes all the active substances from ANY kind of medication you take (incl. contraceptives, vitamins et al).

People were *big* mad about banning indoor smoking. People were *big* mad about seatbelts being mandatory. People are always gonna be mad about something, if you're not willing to make people mad you're never gonna get shit done.

Step #1 - Decide that you like a book. Step #2 - Loudly talk to other people about how much you like the book and why you think other people should read it. Step #3 - Make friends with the people who agree with you. Read their books too. Step #4 - Rinse and repeat.

Reading a new @tkingfisher.com book is always a roulette wheel of “what mundane object is going to haunt my nightmares for the next five to ten business days. Mirrors. The answer is mirrors.

This is why I have such immense respect for the Tainted Cup books. You have the dual challenge of piecing out worldbuilding while also building a mystery plot that integrates well with it. Both the world and the mystery and the mystery-inside-the-world have to make sense.

It’s like, you all know that one stroad with a crossing light that is just a little too short for pedestrians unless you hustle? Good way to make sure that anyone elderly or slow can’t walk anywhere. But we can’t inconvenience the cars by making them wait another ten seconds.

It's like glitter...it's been hundreds of years and we're STILL finding Vikings everywhere 😆

remember jd vance standing in a supermarket in the egg aisle blaming biden for four dollar eggs next to a sign that said $2.99 a dozen then blamed his own kids for eating 14 eggs every morning

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

"If you keep writing transfemme stories, how will cis men who find your books relate to your characters and narrative?" Well, you see, my hope is that if there are cis men reading my books that they will remain neither cis nor men by the time they reach the story's conclusion.

An effective opposition party would have three objectives 1. Oppose this lawless administration 2. Have a plan for holding those responsible accountable 3. Offer an alternative vision Dems are completely failing on all three fronts, which is why they’re even more unpopular than Republicans

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

My question is whether I can submit my own map:

So, if we really want to tackle the loneliness problem, we need to prevent paid work from demanding so much of our time and energy that we can't (or simply don't want to) contribute to a shared project of care. Because that pressure is at the core of both loneliness and inequalities in care. 4/

Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.

it is so, so important to remember how much of the horror we are currently enduring came about because a small cohort of terminally fragile adult babies couldn’t handle being criticized on Twitter

Reading my ARC of the new @tashasuri.bsky.social book The Isle in the silver sea on my way to work and I’m so emotionally devastated I might need to call out. 🤪

Congrats to Lisa Murkowski on voting for a bill that she herself admitted was not ready in hopes that the House would change it. Now it’ll become law. She had the power to stop it, and instead chose to become complicit. That’s her legacy.

“They didn’t care who got hurt as long as they got their tax cuts and their judges” was and will always be the truest truth.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

"I am a proud Democrat who fights for people and thinks Republicans are bad and we should stand up to them": actually a very popular message, which should be a lesson both to the reactionary centrist crowd and to other leftists hoping for similar success

Maybe the establishment media should treat us like Trump voters and ask us what we care about snd want to try to figure out why mandani wiped the floor with cuomo and why it’s a blaring warning siren to establishment dems

Use of the word "pray" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied Told I “might want kids.” Told I “might meet a man who wants kids” I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

If Harris had been elected instead of Trump, there would be hundreds of thousands of children who hadn’t starved to death or died of treatable AIDS and we wouldn’t be on the verge of war with Iran. Anybody who doesn’t acknowledge this as a starting point has nothing to say worth hearing.

I just discovered this meme and I love it. Happy #PrideMonth to all my #LGBTQIA + friends!

Let’s not mince words on exactly what the MAGA movement is.

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement. The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.

RESULT: Democrats defend a legislative seat in Oklahoma (HD71) by a massive margin, 85% to 15%. This was a district that voted for Harris by 19% in November, so this is a huge shift toward Dems of 51 percentage points.

There is such a thing as the collective good, which sometimes outweighs what we may personally want to do or what might make us feel better at any given moment. it is HIGH time we acknowledged it existed again.

the fascinating thing about a man like that is that if you arrange the environment around him so that his narrative instincts align with doing righteous work, he'll be brilliant at the righteous work

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

This thread is an infinitely better explanation of Kobo's AI policy than the (really not very helpful) post the other day. The specificity is absolutely necessary.

Folks, please don’t post links to unlicensed merchandise in my mentions. I know it’s out there but I can’t do anything about it and I’d rather not see it. The only licensed merch is being sold by Worldbuilders to fund raise for charity. Link below.

“She means ‘fewer.’” - a Harvard graduate

I've never seen it so well put before.