now* out, unless it’s schroedinger’s paperback ❤️ love this review

@lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions is not out in paperback. Gonna re drop my review of it because it's just that good. Reading it is like having a beer with your smartest friend. Cannot recommend enough www.kevinvellum.com/p/does-ficti...

future president and senate majority leader, book it

in which I discuss suffering open.substack.com/pub/lytagold...

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Bill Ackman crashout status: blaming Sliwa

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.

Cuomo declaring himself mayor of Staten Island

make curtis sliwa mayor of cats. not nyc’s cats, all cats

it’s nine PM on the east coast and polls have closed bring me the head of andrew cuomo

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

somebody fainted bc spanberger didn’t mention what she’d do about ICE

spanberger a bit annoying but the daughters are cute

ya girl update (ya girl down bad) open.substack.com/pub/lytagold...

@lytagold.bsky.social wrote a fantastic piece that touches upon this a few years ago. They all “love” Tolkien, and none of them understand it (or, perhaps, want to Grokipedia-fy the received wisdom about it)

happy book birthday to Dangerous Fictions! it had a difficult labor, and I’ve always had a touch of postpartum lol, but I’m very happy with the results www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738575...

this is effectively the argument Boromir makes when he’s trying to justify why he should have the Ring. elon is so fuckin dumb

so it’s going to collapse, right

I’ve been busy and haven’t had much time to promote BUT the paperback of Dangerous Fictions is OUT and you can get it! at your local retailer or here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738575...

what are the steelers w e a r i n g

sexy Tshimanga Biakabutuka

the basketball gambling scandal is weird bc I literally didn’t think people got in trouble for anything anymore

like 80% of the current political landscape is explained by (primarily men in) the pmc thinking their lives are too soy and bourgeois

justin jefferson my fantasy team needs you to field all of wentz’s wild pitches

I think everybody’s going to go along with all this until the day they don’t, and then it’s going to get kinda nuts

It’s fun that this is happening after No Kings day. Trump is just a king. There’s no parliament in session and he can do whatever he wants to the royal palace. No authoritative body is willing to stop him.

the faceswapping is very racist of course BUT ALSO all the replacement faces look terrible and can’t emote! who is going to enjoy this

Doing this digital recasting is just so actually and casually racist! I mean it makes it so obvious that dumb racists ultimately plan on using AI to retrocast movies to erase diversity.

the other glaring issue with Platner is that he’s a Poster. you shouldn’t be able to unearth this many damning Reddit comments

A Canticle For Leibowitz (1959)

in Meta’s defense, they never know what they’re doing, including when they renamed the company Meta to focus on the Metaverse (remember that lol)

my theory (also re: trump/silicon valley/neofascism more broadly) is that elite culture has turned from preservation to a worship of “action” for its own sake. anything that looks like action—even destruction—is positive or at least not to be questioned

trump promises entertainment-as-politics and any entertainment product can get boring

Nero the Assassin is fun but as with most action-adventure TV, I wish it was like 155% smarter

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

lol Schumer got booed at the opera (screenshots from Frank Rich’s excellent essay on Mamdani and the failure of conventional NY Dem politics nymag.com/intelligence... )

hey sunday morning shows: don’t focus on the shit in trump’s video, ask why he’s wearing a crown and calling himself a king

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

curtis yarvin’s panicky post about fleeing the country a few weeks ago makes a lot more sense now. his god is cooked and he knows it

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

a gorgeous stranger handed me this beautiful doublesided sign at the protest today #NoKings #fuckICE

Starting to read @lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions as rec'd by @erikhane.bsky.social . Introduction does a very good job setting up the subject as worthy of time and about which interesting, new, and nuanced things will be said.

horror film: The Woman Who Liked the Vehicle

i’m back in NY zohran fix the subway please

really fun to have @lytagold.bsky.social, whose “Dangerous Fictions” you should buy (it’s in paperback today), in my newsletter today, talking about her ten favorite fantasy novels open.substack.com/pub/philipch...

here have ten of ‘em open.substack.com/pub/philipch...

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04