My advice to people, as it has been since the USENET days, is simply this: Everything that can be made public on the Internet one day will be made public. Say what you want and what you feel is necessary, and remember it will be found.

For the Monday morning crowd: my first-ever poetry chapbook is now available from Bottlecap Press! While Changing Lanes is a long commute, and bad weather, and eldritch horror, and moments where the sun finally comes out. 19 poems, 40 pages. Check it out!

Happy Friday -- I have *checks notes* 19 new poems for you today.

Reading contracts isn't the most awe-inspiring part of this work, but it is one of the most important. Please go read this thread up and down and remember that this stuff all matters, whether we're talking individual haiku or brick-sized doorstoppers.

Also: two (2) new poems available just this morning in Issue 2 of SpecPoVerse! One about a life trying to begin; the other about ideas trying to live after the end.

I'm a little late in posting this, but I had to dust and disinfect my promotional drum before I started the beat. New poem today at @bfbzine.bsky.social! "Citation may be required" is blank verse, and about A.I., but don't let either of those scare you.

There's a spider outside the bathroom window this morning, working on a web in the fog. It's an architectural marvel, and large enough to catch a bear. I don't know what they're procrastinating on doing, but it's working wonders.

What's better than one new issue of Worlds of Possibility? That would be *two* new issues. Check them out! (I'm in the one on the right, but this isn't Left Twix v. Right Twix -- they both look amazing.)

It's alive... ALLLLIIIVE!!!! #TheDeerIsMessedUP #horror #booksky Come check out @probablyharmless.bsky.social and my epic horror anthology—full of messed up deer! 🔥🦌 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

My villanelle "Lesson's End" (Samjoko, Summer 2024) is a finalist for the Rhysling Short Form category! You can find it at www.samjokomagazine.com/beyond-the-d... -- it's the one in the middle.

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

They're not wrong. 😇

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Dreams last night about tornadoes ripping through and narrowly missing the house. Could feel the ground shuddering and smell grass and sod falling back off the roof. But I’m not sure why Dream Me decided that “in an open doorway in the center of the house” was a good place to take cover. 🤷‍♂️

¿TRES leches? ¿En esta economía?

Share a movie scene that lives rent-free in your head.

Thank you to all the contributors in April's #Penumbric! Vekhan Sametyaza, @swpisciotta.bsky.social, @the-lettersea.com, Denny E. Marshall, Martins Deep, Janis Butler Holm, Eric Wampler, @mynachang.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Be careful where you wander and "Don’t follow the lights" in a haunting new poem by @the-lettersea.com. kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

We got you.

It really is that simple❤️ #studioghibli #ghibli #hayaomiyazaki

Me in the national security team group chat

The utter insanity of complaining posts on Brian Krebs' blog or Hacker News are too political while there are mass cuts to cyber programs, staffing, and budgets, and political destruction of threat intel sharing programs, and ongoing exposures of confidential info. infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

“Lesson’s End,” a villanelle less about magic and more about turning points, was in Samjoko Issue III (2024), made the Rhysling long-list, and I couldn’t be more thrilled! You can find it at www.samjokomagazine.com/beyond-the-d... (between two other poems of mine).

Yep, this is about where we’re at.

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

We’re building @skylight.social on #atproto to be a TikTok alternative

I've been dreading posting this because it was incredibly hard to curate, but: I made a (some of) The Best Speculative Poetry of 2024 list for people trying to get into poetry and looking for poems to nominate for awards. 💙📚 vanessajae.com/the-best-speculative-poetry-of-2024/

dont worry bud

Stories by Scientists I never asked much about writers' backgrounds or identities. But a while back one of our writers who is a librarian suggested that libraries would be interested in anthologies of stories grouped by the author's identity. Thus, the Library Collection was born - a set of seven…

Whatever we make.

Me: “Oh, I don’t write horror.” Also me:

Time for your quarterly password change

Poe’s Philosophy of Composition reminds us that the core purpose of a work is either (a) to instruct, or (b) to elicit an emotional response. Reminder: these don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

it's actually christmas eve's monster

“Tonight you will be visited by three spirits.” The spirits:

There are two wolves inside of you. Unfortunately, only one wolf is In-Network, and there’s been a disagreement between insurance and your Primary Wolf Provider, so I’m afraid they just need to eat your entrails until your PWP re-files the claim.

I’m in the bottom row, middle column. (As a bead of rain, I favor thr autumnal.)

Not doing resolutions (not yet), but I’m declutterring by unsubscribing from every promo mailing list I’ve been signed up for in the past mumblemumble years.

For the evening crowd: Awards Eligibility for poetry, and my 2024 roundup. I won’t do these in emoji, but only because I can’t figure out if 🚀 is an iamb or not. (1/2)

And for the evening crowd: ✨⭐️🌙

For the morning crowd: three stories this year on my Award Eligibility list. Threaded: the stories in emoji form (1/5)

Protip: When a security researcher is giving a talk and they say "However..." or "Unfortunately...", sit up and pay attention, because things are about to get real. #blackhatEU

They haven't invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it.

I want men in science to think about this. Think about the biases you have grown up with so much you're probably not even aware you have them. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

For the record, this would be Soul Coughing, back in the 90s.

...this is the part where I rescind the notion that I don't do horror, I guess. (Didn't even cross my mind that I'd be on this list -- neat!) 🦅 🍖 🎶

I wrote a story for, I think, the first time since March. (It’s been a Year, all right.) What I’m saying is, pie doesn’t need justification—but if it did, I earned it. 🥧