Simultaneously there actually is an evil master plan - today's bullshit serves a bunch of ends: misogyny, patriarchy, eugenics, ableism, classism, erosion of science - and the mouthpieces are dullards with no thoughts in their heads whatsoever, just casual violence. Extremely irritating dystopia.

Imagine the guy who sounds like the air being slowly let out of a balloon offering autism-related recommendations. Truly a mirrorworld, that.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

GenV S2 pulled in the priest from Midnight Mass (Hamish Linklater) & turned up the volume & gore. But most importantly, the way it skewers right-wing rhetoric is such a wild watch in 2025. Particularly because it predicts to a T the post-assassination response we're witnessing in real time!

For an institution supposedly invested in the work of critical thinking, there seems to be so little application of it where it matters. If you're going to give students free access to a machine that fabricates knowledge-shaped objects, aren't you naturally suggesting that knowledge doesn't matter?

When I was a youngling writer, if you'd told me that the institutional capture of meaning would be what made me most glad that I'd chosen this vocation, I wouldn't have believed it. But look at us, now, tossing words like "terrorism" into the bargain bin. Yikes.

"We come as heroes. Shining armour, arms unafraid to swing, tools of mass destruction that fit in the palm of our hands...For our freedoms! we scream, and we strike down mercilessly, bolstered by the bloodthirsty cheers of our kin." Sharing this today--why? No reason: reactormag.com/we-come-as-g...

As The Earth Dreams is featured in @thewalrus.ca Best Books of Fall 2025!!! 🤯🥹

All of this can happen in Canada and it's already begun. They have disinfo/harassment/threat/crony networks here they've been building for years. Governments are aligning. I fear Canada will wake up one day realizing it's been absorbed into MAGA fascism without anyone needing to announce annexation.

I'm interpreting the dissonance many USians feel right now as standing in the chasm between the aspirational social contract they've tried to work for & always hoped America would have (equal rights, etc) vs what America has always been & never committed to changing (supremacist, capitalist, etc).

I remember people in early 2024 claiming the numbers--back when Gaza still had functioning hospitals, when whole news cycles were committed to the outrage of claiming Israel would bomb a hospital--were inflated, & all I could think was do none of you fucking idiots understand how bombs work

Without a doubt, F.

The UN has recognized that Israel is committing & has committed genocide in Palestine. Here’s June Jordan saying I SAID I LOVE YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP in 1996 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY

Mamdani will go down in history, but not only for the reason that he's likely to win in November. It's his refusal to engage with the fascist mirrorworld's warped reality as his colleagues & other media do. His insistence on *staying here*, in the lived reality of his people, is the real triumph.

It's probably now well known amongst Ottawa SFF folks that I'll say goodbye at an event, then head out to go play a football game. After many gasps of incredulity and a few doubts that being an author & playing sports don't mix, here's some proof that, well, in this house, it kinda always has!

"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being." -- Toni Morrison. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Baby's first trilogy finally together. 😊

So many people apologizing for their handwriting lately. It's okay, folks! You can still be proud of something imperfect. Your handwriting is also not as bad as you think, I promise you! Before printed text, we got by; we are still humans, still have eyes & brains & context--we can still get by.

If you'll be at ArmadilloCon this weekend, I'll have a limited number of Prosper with Dragons decks available for purchase! Claim yours now on Kickstarter, or come by the game room Saturday Sept 13th at 6pm during the live game demo. ($20 venmo or cash!) 🐉🐉🐉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

So much of this piece about book tour events is so familiar! Whew--the stories one could tell. Was it the time in Toronto when it rained ALL DAY, unforecasted, b4 my event? Or the time in Seattle when I read to an echoing bookstore, cos it was *that* empty? 😂 crimereads.com/book-tour-we...

Yay! Now I know when to start harassing my library. ♡

The first two are on my 2025 reading list, which I am very behind on lol

I am so stoked the third book is coming soon! Loved the first two & eager to read Season of the Serpent 😄

And never forget, that pre-orders are love. Preorders are life. I highly enjoyed the first two volumes in the series, so...

Baby's first trilogy finally together. 😊

Boosting this (and the whole, very nice thread). I worked with Tiffany for about a year or so back in, what was it, 2018/19? She long set the bar for any business managers I would go on to have. Indeed worth her weight in gold; you should consider hiring her if you're looking to work with someone.

When I was a grad student in Arizona, Turning Point USA would send its members from Phoenix down to our campus in Tucson to harass queer instructors. There'd be a "harasser" following the instructor around & "asking questions," a cameraperson recording the encounter, & an "enforcer" for menace.

bask in the brilliance of this cover!

Welcome to the final reckoning. SEASON OF THE SERPENT 🐍, the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy, is out from Orbit Books in August 2026. Buckle up.

I don't really care if the future is short videos. I like words. Words have gotten me this far and I'm gonna stick with 'em for the duration

Perhaps I feel most concerned about where "Using your talents and resources to help others" ranks on the right side of this chart. A country sliding into dangerous times, and a slice of its next generation is already committed to ignoring the wellbeing of their neighbours? Well, that's not good.

The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors! Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry. Jan 2026.

If you see my face in a video (that's not an interview/podcast) and I'm smiling, laughing or being goofy *on purpose*, I assure you there's a metaphorical gun pointed at me out of frame. I'm a fun guy! A fun author even! But on video? On purpose? Lol.

Cover reveal for SEASON OF THE SERPENT in 3, 2, 1 days. And look---a tiny peek! (What do we suppose is on the cover? Wrong answers only.)

In May 2022, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Last week, Israel targeted and killed five journalists in one attack. In between those dates, Israel became the largest killer of journalists in the world.

HRB keeps you updated about events... Like this one coming up in NYC with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @suyidavies.com ! #bookevent 💙📚

A new tenure track fiction job at Oberlin, deadline of 9/15/2025. jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16771

The duality of man: It was my birthday this past week. It was also the first time I fell down the stairs. Only one of those two things is shown in this photo.

Between recent popculture imaginaries (Murderbot, Alien Earth, etc) & the technofeudalism of major global corpos, "humanlike entities" being owned as capital strikes me as a key near-future concern. First, it's been done before (see: chattel slavery) & second, many will gladly do it again.

Twisted Metal S1 is a bit run-of-the-mill but stays true to the spirit of the video game. But S2---oof. Triples down on everything that made game & show deliciously irreverent: more chaos, more freak energy, more goof. It's a big joke of a TV show that knows how to laugh at itself. Solid craic.

In my lifelong quest to watch everything Susan Wokoma has ever been in, ended up stumbling into this slept on one-season wonder with the irrepresible Matt Berry. Hilarious.

One thing you can trust Nigerians to do is pull out all the stops to celebrate the demise of a knobhead. Americans, when that day arrives (you know the day I mean), you better be out there in the streets with your dancing shoes on, popping champagne and throwing block parties.

At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel. And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory. (12/13)

As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest. The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (11/13)

Proud hAIter over here.

Took me a while, but I've discovered the secret to slipping into the correct headspace for writing in my home office: It's the lights. I need 5-6 small increments of light levels: from total darkness to three lamps on + window open + overhead light with dimmer switch, & everything in between.

Today in Authorland: - Dread-opening a manuscript attached to a bright-toned editorial email; - weeping as it lists "364 comments"; - a sigh of relief, as most are "yesss" and "so good"; - weeping again, cos that last 3-paragraph comment means rewriting half the manuscript 😭

New devices handed to me by my institution: the laptop keyboard has a "Copilot button" and the tablet's has a "Gemini button". Even more evidence that "genAI" is a spaghetti-&-marshmallows grift that needs brute-forced buy-in to hold. A useful product won't need to hold potential users hostage.