And I think liberals should stop taking the bait and ceding ground on immigration. Immigration is good. Multiculturalism is good. Free trade is good. Stop being embarrassed to say so.

Oh my

Dark-eyed Junco, a rotund sparrow with a black head, brown back, dark gray wings, and a pale bill 🪶 Happy New Year!

Brewer's Blackbird (male and female, then just the male) on the central coast 🪶 Happy New Year!

I'm sharing a new bird of Palestine every two hours on new year's eve to remind you that six families & a camp of fifteen more, still surviving famine, bombardment, displacement, rely on your help. For eight months, that's meant survival. Join in: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A student wrote "The way he asks questions reminds me of Socrates" on an evaluation once

A young man after a reading at the Strand told me he'd read my first novel aloud, alone, in a friend's house, and that after he'd finished, he felt ready to have his first real relationship. It was one of the most overwhelming and also moving compliments, honestly. I hope he's doing great.

Reposting for Andre solidarity

N.K. Jemisin's THE FIFTH SEASON is one of the books that felt like a real turning point in the genre—really enjoyed this talk with @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social about what's going on in and around this book and its ongoing legacy:

Oh yeah, that thing where we walk about second books: pre-eminent scholar of the weird @megapolisomancy.bsky.social has thoughts about Jeff VanderMeer's AUTHORITY and how the weird is more/other than ecological anxiety (though that's in there too):

Revisiting Iain M. Banks' EXCESSION with @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social, trying to get our heads around the scope of the ideas he's playing with, was a real treat. Despite many recent misappropriations of The Culture, this one has aged well: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/14/a...

Another highlight of the year was @byzantienne.bsky.social's discussion of C.J. Cherryh's 40,000 IN GEHENNA—a far-ranging, deep-diving talk on styles & themes, how the novel connects to the rest of Cherryh's work, and reflections on how craft & ideas ripple out to other writers:

AMOT picks are sometimes recent, sometimes obscure, and @andrecarrington.bsky.social's selection was the hottest off the press we've yet covered—Nnedi Okorafor's DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, a novel-in-a-novel (in a novel?) about literary fame, personal challenges, and robots:

Me explaining to bae that Merlin will ID birds incorrectly based on sound so we need visual confirmation

zohran mamdani, mr mayor, can you get my stolen swords back or at least implement a sword distribution system

Ya basta

Yesterday former Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell died. Our profile from 1997 speaks to his complicated environmental legacy. buff.ly/hjSXUpv

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

Someone needs to find out who's running the account.

I'd like to get the people responsible for this out of government

Hey hey! Congratulations @deecherrywriter.bsky.social Third story listed! #nolasky mynachang.com/2025/12/31/f...

I hope we can now be done with the handwringing about whether protestors are using good tactics or if Mexican flags are bad or whatever the fuck the liberals had their panties in a twist about

Damn, my bet was that this was published by the Bari Press but turns out it was Compact

How I’m walking out of 2025

The vast majority of the more than 2,000 measles cases diagnosed in the U.S. this year occurred in patients who were not vaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown, the CDC says.

#ShareGoodNewsToo Even if few things that work on mice transfer directly to humans, this is a huge step in us understanding the mechanism and will help enable the next leaps in research. We’re close! We’re close!

How I'm walking out of 2025

The finest pharmacists in the Klingon Empire have succeeded where others failed

reminder that caldwell’s most recent book argues that the civil rights act of 1964 was something akin to a constitutional abomination that produced a world of white subordination

So this Bey’s Billion thing got big and I don’t have much to say except: I’m not gonna appreciate her less today than when I thought she *just* had 800 or 900 million. AND I’m not gonna want the uber wealthy taxed less just bc somebody we appreciate is in that small number. Tax. They. Asses.

White dudes admit white people elected Trump challenge (impossible)

It wasn't a country, it was a political party

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Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.

I WHEEZED

this feels like a clickhole post like yes Chappell we know she was an inspiration for the song you mention her in the first line

"The crisis of the humanities has been revealed by the events of the last year to be a crisis of civil society writ large."

Most minor? Priyanka Chopra went through TSA ahead of my partner and me one time

One of the biggest advantages that Republicans have over Democrats is that Republicans control a nation-wide terrorist network and Democrats do not.

Not just the rich and that's also something to sit with.

Just naming a few living folks who regularly blow me away: @demonicgrounds.bsky.social Arundhati Roy @risawechsler.bsky.social Shin Kyung-sook @charliejane.bsky.social @tracydeonn.bsky.social @astropriya.bsky.social @profannawatts.bsky.social

This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past. Spare me her redemption arc.

ruin two bands by combining them: Fleetwood Macklemore

The greatest enemy that Zohran Mamdani faces in his mayoral tenure won't be Trump, Cuomo, or even Jonathan Greenblatt. It'll be The New York Times and other media executives that are enraged and terrified that a 34-year-old immigrant backbencher just casually showed the world they are hypocrites

My review of Jacqueline Harpman's Orlanda (translated by Ros Schwartz) is up at @locusmag.bsky.social. An effervescent gender-play romp, it's a book that could have easily devolved into gender essentialism, but instead feels to me like a powerful metaphor for transition. locusmag.com/review/orlan...

Slogging my way through the indexing for this chunky beast. Getting there... 12 chapters down, 7 to go! sunypress.edu/Books/W/Wast...

Fellas… who’s with me?!?!

ultimately a lot of these guys have the personality trait where they encounter dipshit bullying (which is what a lot of anti-masking sentiment is) and their natural reaction is to make sure the bully thinks they are cool and shouldn't get lumped in with the rejects and losers.