is it finally safe for me to whisper that I dislike the ending of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

I read a lot of criticism-of-criticism on here, stuff like "the big problem with cultural literacy today is how many readers think the characters in books are literally a part of them, linked through the astral plane" and I keep thinking, where are you finding these fucking people?

My book also has a MUCH better cover that deserves its own independent review

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

the most important takeaway is that Granta sucks

so thrilled to share @lytagold.bsky.social's excellent essay on jurassic park for our 'this is reality' spielberg sci-fi series. a great inquiry into what's actually scariest about it:

I wrote about Jurassic Park for @therealbradbabs.bsky.social ‘s excellent newsletter, and how the film isn’t half as scary as the existence of its zombie franchise open.substack.com/pub/thisisan...

Still not getting any calls about work. have put in 32 apps online since Monday. who knows how many of those jobs are real. Going to try to hit some places in person this week. I am down to my last $40 and having to put out the asks for May. V:@/JKNotSoBad C:$/JKNotsobad PP:@/comfortingmoo

you can also buy plants at like, home depot or many grocery stores. of course gardening won’t entirely replace food staples but it’s fun and not that expensive if you’re smart about it. don’t fall for learned helplessness posting

read @kithaggard.bsky.social's e.t. essay in our speilberg sci-fi series, in which the man is crowned as our nation's foremost child of divorce thisisanewsletter.substack.com/p/children-o...

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the actual problem with this site is that everyone is annoying

its just bizarre to me to say that bluesky is a siloed off bubble detached from real debate when everyone over here hates the president with a 30% approval and everyone over there thinks things are going so well that we have entered a 1000 year conservative reign

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

I just want to work. I just want to work!! Even fake job listings are drying up again and I'm no less burnt out. I feel disgusting. I'll keep chasing work and I'll keep fighting for a place to stand, but until that day comes, unfortunately we still very much need your help. I'm so, so sorry.

weird poster but the musical is actually great

brutal but extremely important piece from Nick Kristol www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

very smart guys on this site keep begging to have a nuanced conversation about AI. they are shocked that no one wishes to engage

Hamlet (c. 1604-1605)

The man brutalized by ICE in his vehicle (& later dragged across the ground & thrown into an ICE vehicle after he was discharged from the hospital) has been named as Chidozie Wilson Okeke, a Nigerian immigrant. An anti-ICE rally in support of him has been called for Sat. May 9:

wrote an update re: the AI psychosis mess, and how Richard Dawkins is even dumber than he appears open.substack.com/pub/lytagold...

I do not understand aggressive Platner stans. like are you getting paid? pls says yes

i don’t know why I log into this site and bombard myself with people’s incorrect aesthetic opinions

everyone around the world is fedposting

Look in the future everyone is going to have to contend with [thing I personally derive a financial benefit from that disempowers you] so please purchase [my curriculum that I profit from] and pass laws [I wrote] mandating [my thing] that also make it illegal to [not enrich me obscenely]

These nested posts and replies gave me a pang of sympathy for people who refuse to vote for the lesser evil — — but it is actually a significantly different situation from the usual challenges gritting one’s teeth to vote for a Dem. 1/6

going to start cancelling writers for having Americans in their novels. the US is a fascist state

extremely online leftists are like, “oh yeah, you and your friends took action against the fascists? that pales in comparison to my strategy, making up lies & ruining your life”

Happy May Day!!! The workers will win!! Until then Capitalism is killing me and Im still job searching. Gonna need June Rent and Money for Bills and Meds and Food. Trying to make money where I can. Moxie Picture for donations! V: @/JKNotSoBad C:$/JKNotsobad PP: @/comfortingmoo

re Platner v Collins, I’m glad I don’t live in Maine

pretty cool shout out in @bookforum.bsky.social

nothing more middlebrow than using the term “middlebrow.” oh no i’m caught too

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

reading some popular & critically acclaimed novels of the last few years and they all bravely refuse subtext. just paragraph after paragraph of description without layering, or characters saying exactly what they feel

I went to have cocktails to celebrate the giant meat grinder but then someone turned on the giant meat grinder and it was really loud and scary. and you're laughing

there’s going to be so much fuckin discourse about every white house bootlicker’s unbearable “i survived” article UNLESS we agree not to care

im fine and normal except for how I demand everybody drop what they’re doing & read Connie Willis and Tanith Lee immediately

whenever my husband says “eh it’s a perfectly cromulent pick” that’s when you know it’s a disaster folks

the Lions picking Derrick Moore!!! first Wolverine off the board!!! I am a mess of Michigan feelings!!! 😭💙💛

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watching the NFL Draft, aka the Boy Oscars

everyone wants to vote for the Democrats rn, it would be cool if they had ideas

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW RESTORE DETTERENCE

so funny to see hucksters offer paid courses on AI, as if AI wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to learn

they really need to start matching people with the jobs they want to do

i have been very, very, veeeeeeery slowly working on a book proposal about layoffs on a human level if anybody has an experience they'd like to talk about!

just a reminder to my friendly leftists & liberals on here: if you’re going to speculate about future AI-caused layoffs etc please do so on a human level, your comrades aren’t merely job numbers