in case anyone needs a beautiful new romantasy book to add to their library, my beloved friend @jaimeryanne.bsky.social is doing a kickstarter for the gorgeous special edition of her novel! www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

If you’re so convinced that AI stories are just fine, then start your own zine that’s just AI stuff and leave the rest of us alone.

psa for cis folks: every single "legitimate concern" about trans people (bathrooms, sports, blockers, etc) is a made up astroturf by the far right. if you buy into any of it, you are an utter chump and a useful idiot for racist pedophiles

i’m exactly one chapter into this novel and i can already tell it’s going to change my brain chemistry - go forth and get your own copy!

i’ll be at this event, join me!

Sex workers have been banging the drum that moral panics around porn are a fascist project for years and years and people on this website still go "but it's ickyyyyy it's probably baaad for socieeetyyy"

A Brief Summary of Beethoven’s Eroica Movement 1 - Extremely French Bootlicking Movement 2 - Band of Brothers Yaoi Movement 3 - Locker Room Champagne Shower Movement 4 - A Parade Where Children Wave Flags, by Steven Spielberg

can’t believe i made running my mid-30s crisis, now i have all these opinions about running, sending myself straight to time-out

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this every plantation owner should have been put to death

they should have the head coaches wearing heart rate monitors during the super bowl like they have the parents and partners wearing them during the olympics lmao

Just published an essay on this www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...

Abolish ICE. But also consider and interrogate things you may believe are default to this society, like borders, incarceration, unimaginable wealth, conditional humanity.

was going to let my SFWA membership lapse except now i have to make sure to talk about the upcoming board elections because i just know that some AI-shills are going to try to run for the open positions and soften the org’s stance on generative AI in SFF

I think this post should stop at, “tear it down.” There is no way to build an immigration enforcement agency that isn’t what ICE is. Just let go of that notion now, and we can stop thinking in circles and think about a better future.

going to come back to this post in the near future because i did mention the “big goose egg for short fiction” in 2025, but i have more to say on the subject of my relationship to short fiction and how i’m thinking about it going forward

just need $500!!

Teri is so close! let’s get her across the finish line here!

Teri is so close to departing for a writing opportunity that will further her delicious and horrible and necessary voice in the speculative fiction genre! she’s fundraising the final costs of the trip and every bit helps!

actually getting this linked this year! my year-end wrap up post! (the only blogging i do all year, lmao) www.digicara.com/blog/endings-a-2025-story

in fairness, how could an eagles/bills game end BUT in sloppy, ugly fashion (go birds!!!)

continuing to be confident in my position that earnest use of the word “debate” in the context of adults engaging with each other is an absolute disqualifier to taking the user of that term seriously

from suffering eagles fans began, and to suffering we shall return

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

I am of two minds right now. 1) I have no belief nor do I have any faith in the two party system, and 2) GOD IT FEELS GOOD TO SEE THE REPUBLICANS GET DOG WALKED AT THE POLLS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TONIGHT.

Starting tomorrow, every major news organization will be publishing thinkpieces saying that Zohran Mamdani's victory isn't signficant, and even more crucially, that it couldn't happen in a city like yours. They're wrong. It is important. And every city could have this.

i made a helpful reference

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

You don't have to get less angry as you get older. That's why you have to drink more water. It's coolant for the rage

whew that last repost is really it for me when it comes to computer sentience - way too many people way too comfortable professing they want to own another agentic personality

Luckily, computers aren't sentient. And they never will be. But the fact that people THINK they own sentient creatures and aren't troubled by that idea is... deeply worrying

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Ah so maybe the “depictions of fictional violence is the same as real violence” people and “ChatGPT should have personhood” people are maybe the same type of people

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

Looking at art as Art - something that doesn’t have to swaddle you up in emotional comfort and confirm you - gives you the chance to think about what you hold as moral and why. If you want art to agree with you all the time, you erode your ability to question the world and yourself

i should run the nfl. the tush push and taunting are all legal. who cares. let them play ball

i just keep coming back to the chasm between the excitement i felt as a kid with the ways technology could help me connect with more people directly and the demoralizing way LLM use now is abstracting away from connection by putting a chatbot between people

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

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

Firing everyone who calls a loser a loser does not make the loser less of a loser and that's what these losers don't get. They will NEVER NOT BE LOSERS

trans people aren't the downfall of civilization no matter how many monster truck show people who pivoted to blasphemous megachurch spectacles say so. they weren't right about pokemon cards or e-drugs or whatever, they're not right about this. it's a stalking horse for social domination by losers

this shit on us is a trial balloon. the spiritual equivalent of the most obnoxious motherfucker in your office will not rest until he can call the cops on you for buying the wrong shoes. they never do. cut that shit off at the pass or you're next

here's the nut of my appeal to cis people on the escalating transphobia: do you really want some college debate club dweeb who fooled a bunch of dealerships into buying him a state senate seat deciding how you dress and act and live for you

congratulations to our amazing friend @zinrock.bsky.social for being invited to panel at a con that will both fill the creative well AND is an accessible local Florida event! let’s help Teri get to this creative community! gofund.me/369353d91

well there's been a lot of bullshit today but hopefully we can at least end it with the Dallas Cowboys getting their shit kicked in on national television

seeing this cast specifically in this modeling way reminds me of reading a quantum mechanics primer and a florentine patronage letters academic book in tandem - language is a tool of positionality as well/in line with it being a tool of communication.

This! And encoded in that difference is the whole neoliberal capitalist mindset, because to the people who build these things, those objections are, respectively, (a) irrelevant to profits;(b) a forgettable externality; (c) a healthy marketing environment; and (d) the whole point in the first place

“stay in your lane” is a difficult line to hold when so many people have made it their mission in life to attain zero knowledge about how anything actually works such that they effectively have no lane to stay in when it comes to conversations requiring some degree of expertise