CITY OF BRASS x STORMLIGHT ARCHIVES “Do what you’re told and your destiny will unfold.” In a caliphate where everyone sees their divine purpose as clairvoyance, Hadi’s fate commands patricide. When he defies it, his foresight fades and his life as a rebel heretic begins. #DVpit #F #MENA #MV

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.

Excited to return to #FestivalOfMonsters at @ucscmonsters.bsky.social in October with @samlangsdale.bsky.social and @passableghost.bsky.social. Our panel, Monstrous Transformations: Bodies, Gender, and the Disruption of the Social Self, is all about body horror, ecological collapse, and St. Vincent.

Our newest episode with @longtalljodie.com joining us to talk about Tucker and Dale vs Evil is out now! Come! Hear our lukewarm horror takes! shows.acast.com/progressivel...

Being a creative in 2025 is like, okay, time to work: first, let’s have a good cry about all the cruelty we are powerless to stop in the world but not too long, don’t want to drown in despair and alright time to draw my silly little pictures now

The first long interview with the mysterious Clair Noto, one of the 1st women comics writers, who wrote the cult fave Red Sonja series in the late 1970s, and about whom little is known. She tees off on Roy Thomas, who she accuses of stealing credit, & Frank Thorne, who she detested. Juicy stuff!

Need some good news? World Central Kitchen is back up in Gaza.

It's Amazon Prime Day, which means it's yet another great day to stick it to Bezos and support indie bookstores instead! If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!

I’m so excited to see the Ironheart miniseries hit Disney+ 🩷💛🖤 1/

I’m so excited to see the Ironheart miniseries hit Disney+ 🩷💛🖤 1/

Happy Father's Day to the Mandalorian, specifically 🪐

Week 12 of Monsters and Monstrous Comics: we read the first arcs of Marjorie Liu & @sanatakeda.bsky.social's Monstress, issues #1-12, focusing on questions of embodiment and how the comic invokes its fantasy and monster tropes, many of which we've encountered previously. #comicsteaching

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem... on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running our letter! I am also incredibly proud of my amazing colleagues and comrades, who make times like these bearable. Keep loving, keep fighting. lithub.com/silence-is-c...

Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down. Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students. There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Californians can contact @padilla.senate.gov's DC office at (202) 224-2200 and @schiff.senate.gov at (202) 224-3841 to ask that they call for Schumer to resign as Minority Leader and deny Unanimous Consent for GOP legislation and nominations. No more business as usual.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

"The first guest on Gavin Newsom's podcast was Charlie Kirk" is more than enough for me to say "absolutely not" to any suggestion Newsom play any role in the future of the Democratic Party. People like him are the past, the failures, the ones who got us here.

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

Things are coming apart quickly, so a word to white folk: you’re going to have to get used to property damage if you want to survive. Getting upset protesters set an empty Target on fire & making THAT & not police murder the focus is part of how we got here.

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories. It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.

Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need

US higher education had become a world-class sector, one of the greatest strengths of this country, even with the amount of work still to be done in making it more just and equitable. But a cabal of mediocre whites, out of pure spite and belligerent stupidity, have decided to choke it to death.

We’ve been wanting to do an episode on Arabic for so long, and we finally did it! And with a good friend of mine! Check it out. And thanks, as always, for supporting an indie podcast. 🍟

It’s new episode day! We talk with Dr. Adam Benkato about Arabic! Matkunsh 7mar is transliterated from Arabic script and it means “Don’t be an asshole.” Enjoy! vocalfriespod.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

Currently 40% at the press website! utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329788/

It's another feel bad movie this week! We're talking Lyle and how being gay doesn't protect you from having a scumbag partner that sells your kid to the devil.

Come join us as we enjoy the insane logical leaps this movie makes together! Oh, and you can meet the amazing @samlangsdale.bsky.social as they help us prove queer women can be horrible partners too!

You should go buy @samlangsdale.bsky.social's book, now! It's about finding feminist superheroes in the Marvel Universe. Oh, and it has a whole chapter on @jeremywhitley.bsky.social's Unstoppable Wasp comics! utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329788/

This week @samlangsdale.bsky.social joins us to talk "Lyle" the price we have to pay for saying that we want to remake every movie, but gay. Like, then we have to remake the movie where your sinister spouse makes a deal with the devil RE: the child you're carrying. shows.acast.com/progressivel...

I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).

Yes! @samlangsdale.bsky.social’s work is superb!

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Miranda Melcher of the New Books Network about my book Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics published by @utexaspress.bsky.social You can listen to the podcast now! newbooksnetwork.com/searching-fo...

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

📣🔥 @haymarketbooks.bsky.social just made ten of its ebooks free to download to build power and fight back together. #OrganizingSky The list includes @prisonculture.bsky.social, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 👇 www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

I think this is right. Also, if anyone is looking for someone to blame, it should be focused on the people who looked exactly at what Trump was selling and said "yes."

I don’t want common sense politics. I want politics shaped by community representatives and scientists with deep systemic understanding of the problems involved, plus one politician with great communication skills to explain it to us like we’re six.