“Maddie’s phone buzzed once and she glanced down and saw the text” Thoughts and Prayers, by Meg Elison Narrator: Sofia Quintero Host: Scott Campbell Audio: Graeme Dunlop C/W: Gun violence, school shooting pseudopod.org/2026/04/24/p... This story is a PseudoPod original.

off to my first appointment with my new nonbinary primary care person at the size-inclusive LGBTQ medical clinic, please pray or send out good vibes to whatever or whoever in the universe that this place works out, it took me SO long to find it

DID YOU KNOW: The gender/sexuality spectrum is more correctly called the VISIBLE gender/sexuality spectrum, as it is limited to what the human eye and mind can process and comprehend. Bees, for example, can see ultraviolet genders, while vampire bats and some snakes can see infrared sexualities.

100/100 insight Don't let them gaslight you

I am so sick of people using "DC" as a euphemism for Trump/fascism/etc. No city hates this administration more than DC, and that's coming from a Baltimorean. DC is a city being held hostage and we owe it to our neighbors there not to conflate them with the ones who're holding them at gunpoint

Hey freelancer You're great. You aren't paid half what you deserve, and you're treated like a disposable work bot far too often. Value yourself, value what you do. Companies won't. All the more reason to give yourself all the kindness you can.

While we are at it, get rid of private equity as well. No one needs any of this crap. All it does is destroy good things everyone loves, so a handful of people can make money

Here’s one of the audition pieces I did of Jack Nicholson to get likeness approval for the 1989 Batman movie adaptation! Happy birthday to him!

I do not ever want to watch the Dance Moms reality show but the ad features the unhinged dance teacher holding a model of a human heart out to a bunch of teens and saying something like "dancers put their hearts out every day, and someone is going to (dramatic pause) STAB IT." Yes, I love her.

I endorse this proposal. It would also eliminate the various organizations "calling" the results, which is in no way official, but lot of people think it is.

Didn't surprise me in the slightest when the first move of Trump 2.0 was firing every non-white/queer face they could reach. Every achievement or victory for a marginalized person is perceived as an injustice for/theft from a white man. Quite literally.

I'm screaming. Y'all. Read the alt text. Please. 😭🤣

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

I don’t have children and one of my top 3 red button issues is that children should get free, substantial food at school

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Hugo Award Nominees @kellythompson.bsky.social and @cleanlined.bsky.social Wow!

Hey instead of the LA cops getting $3.6 billion dollars a year, and also paying out close to $400 million in settlements, here's an idea ...

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists. Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s. 2021 is here, and... 1/2

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost with a dance or get eliminated

Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing. And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.

Worth noting: CAPA21, the progressive AANHPI PAC co-chaired by the great Tamlyn Tomita, recently endorsed Becerra and Yee. capa21.com bsky.app/profile/capa...

i respect season 2 of the pitt for saying "ignoring your depression & trauma doesn't make you the sympathetic hero, it makes you a problem in the fucking workplace"

You tell them you love them, that you're there for them, tell them about good memories you've shared, hold their hand. Sometimes you don't say anything at all. Sometimes you just listen to them talk and that's the best thing to do.

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

I also think, and this might be a Take, that there’s a direct positive correlation between Money Available and How Many Flights You Take, and also a direct inverse correlation to Money Available and How Annoying It Is To Miss One. I think this is the real root

John Oliver's bit on Pittsburgh's new baseball stadium foods is extra hilarious to me, personally, because WildStorm once had a writer submit a story about a Puerto Rican hero. The embodiment of the spirit of the people, or some such thing.

Putting “manager” in nearly everyone’s job title despite not giving them any more money: so that if there’s a union, they can’t be involved in organizing it and won’t be in the bargaining unit

Once again a chance for me to post this

I am very much looking forward to both of these books.

And I'll make this plea again. Shop at indie bookstores. Boycott fucking Amazon, the worst of the worst, one of the most vile & destructive enterprises that has ever existed. If you like to shop online use Bookshop.org a consortium of indie booksellers. Just as convenient as Amazon, w/o the evil.

Happy Superman Day! I finished this at midnight so it counts :) 🦸 Read Action Comics #1! Superman, Champion Of The Oppressed!

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done. Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

I pissed some people off when I said I don't care for most classic girl's literature (Pollyanna, Anne of Green Gables, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), so, since I don't know when to quit, let's dig deeper. I always resented that the girls had to imagine adventure while the boys got to do it.

About teaching an eleven-year-old Magic: we have a How to Play Magic area in the Bibloplex (I still cannot get over the part where THEY BUILT ME A BIBLIOPLEX). A dude came in with his daughter. He already knew and enjoyed Magic, but she didn't want to learn from her dad. Kids sometimes don't.

CALIFORNIA: Those scare ads for legislation limiting medical settlements that quote the LA Times are paid for by Uber because they want to limit how much they can be sued for when they hit you with their cars. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

"What if the most powerful man on Earth was kind" is such a banger concept. Jerry and Joe were really cooking in 1938.

See these people sitting on either side of Slusser's photograph? They were in it. Adhikari found them - and now they got to see their protective goddess come home.

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

When I think about packing light, the first thing I like to eliminate is the garment that takes up almost no space, weighs almost nothing and is essential to personal hygiene

Happy #Supergirl Day! :D

There are also people who are not my enemy who I do not want to fight alongside. I don't have to. But I don't have to waste my energy fighting them either. If they're doing something useful to society over there, I can be glad it's getting done and focus on doing my own thing.

I won the LA Times Book Prize for YA literature!!!

It’s April 18! You know what that means! In 1938 the world saw the first sustained appearance I one of the single greatest fictional characters to ever exist: LOIS LANE. Some other notable great chars also appeared in that same Action Comics #1. But none quite as awesome as Lois.

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.

Today has been full of terrible smells: roof repair tar, some kind of plasticky stuff to stop leaks?, someone started their BBQ with lighter fluid and now? Skunk. I am having a bad nose day.

Overcrowding, bad (no) medical care, not enough food, filth — these are average and expected in this country’s jails and prisons everywhere. ICE detention conditions aren’t below the norm — that’s the norm. That’s what 2 million ppl and their families experience every day.

Doorman and building staff may go on strike against building owners in NYC for the first time in 30 years+ next week, and I can say that among apartment building residents, there is a 50/50 divide between "Give them anything they want" and "Give them anything they want, you assholes."

If you can't make it to one of our in-person signings, Sarah and I are doing a virtual event with Joseph-Beth Books where we'll be talking about Supergirl's Family Vacation. Sarah will be doing a drawing demo! And you'll get to ask questions too. josephbeth.com/event/2026-0...

There are plenty of women who want desperately to love a man but they deserve to feel safe in doing so.

The way he talks about this is competence porn in itself. Holy heck.