Wrote/revised 2k words on the solarpunk novel AND hit a PR on bench press 😤 riding that high all day

Difficult post, but past time to rip the band aid off. FIYAH is going on hiatus indefinitely, with issue #40 currently set to be our last for the time being. The mag cannot continue running at a loss, and needs time to reassess operations from top to bottom if a viable path forward is to be created.

Reminder: "doom and gloom was single most effective strategy for driving social media shares. It was also worst for motivating real-world action...People exposed to catastrophic framing were less likely to change their behaviour than those who read nothing at all. " www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What do we want? More superb short horror fiction! Very happy to report I’m now editing Sunday Scaries for @therumpus.net. A huge thank you to the great @roxanegay.bsky.social. Pro rates, no submission fee. Read more below and send us your best. Long live horror. therumpus.submittable.com/submit

So much good work happening over at Nerds!

This isn’t just about book content. It’s also a statement on what the company feels teens (predominantly female teens based on market data) should be allowed to think about - no rebellion, no anger, no desire, no engagement with the world as it is, no anything but keep sweet and obey.

If you're curious about our fanzine, we've made a PDF Hugo Voter packet book of some of our favourite articles from 2025 (with a fabulous cover by friend of the blog @dntlz.bsky.social, who I think also deserves Hugo consideration.) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wall3...

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

We, the employees at Hachette Book Group, are proud to announce that we are unionizing with Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild-CWA Local 32035, of the AFL-CIO, in order to ensure better benefits, protections, and rights for workers as well as increased equity, transparency, and agency in the workplace.

*ongoing* ceasefire

I regret to inform you that the techno fascist billionaires are continuing to do dumb horrible things. As a result, I must keep writing about them. Alex Karp edition: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Every admin assistant/secretary/staff person (who was the one who actually ran offices/businesses but we don't talk about that) who's had to do this over the years, all their work hidden from their bosses who never cared to know what they do, has feelings on this issue.

This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly. We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.

I wrote this dark academia book from the professor's POV, and at least once a year, something that happens in the book happens to me irl--which, not fun, but at least I know I did a good job capturing the toxic system!!!

Hi! A responsible title to this article would have been something like, "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calls for violent right-wing revolution against most of the American populace".

Had a great time chatting with Kimberly at Make Me Smart about #solarpunk! www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...

Pittsburgh's City Council voted unanimously this week to formally codify its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is bigger than a symbolic gesture, here's what it actually does and why it matters. 🧵

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

Things I've done this morning: call my congress reps, made a plan with friends if communication goes down, signed up for Meshcore and continued to help plan/host an upcoming Mesh workshop. Tonight, I'm seeing Bread and Puppet where I imagine I'll have a moment to feel the grief and fear with others.

Hey call me a crazy radical left wing anarchist extremist but I actually don't think anyone should have the power to threaten the world with nuclear war, even if they use calm, grammatical language to do it.

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Now that the "I don't want politics in my science fiction & fantasy" statement/opinion/complaint has come up (yet again) I'm reminded that in 2013 I wrote an essay (in defense of world building) titled "The Status Quo Does Not Need Worldbuilding" reactormag.com/the-status-q...

Great to see solarpunk in Mother Jones! www.motherjones.com/environment/...

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

A Texas school district has banned HOW LONG TIL BLACK FUTURE MONTH, along with over 1500 other books. Mine was kicked bc it's labeled for adults, which is true. But so are every one of my books, which are available in most schools. That's the only one with "Black" in the title, tho.

This week in my worldbuilding class, we are watching Sinners. Next week, we are watching Andor. I'm glad I scheduled some treats for myself because this semester has been a real test.

Had a great time reading The Saint of Bright Doors by @vajra.me in my worldbuilding class. Multiple students thanked me for assigning the book and several said they already planned to reread it after coming to the twist! A real blast!

The fact that clipping. knows about WorldCon just made me so happy.

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

really really excited that Ancillary Review will be starting its very first crowdfunding campaign in a few weeks! we're raising money to become a paying market for our hardworking writers - consider giving it a follow? www.kickstarter.com/projects/anc...

Charlie Jane makes a strong case *against* a new Firefly series. "We don't need to rehash a failed show from 25 years ago — we can create something brand new that might actually succeed."

As they deliberately attack cultural heritage sites in Iran, the US/Israel is attacking universities in Lebanon. Across the region, Israel is exporting its genocide in Gaza 2 other countries because no 1 who could stopped them from decimating the culture, identity, livelihoods & existence of a ppl

The Literary World's Prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 24,000 followers in the sky. I can't even use the Paris Review over here as my villain because I'm crushing them. We are about to surpass Lit Hub. Taco Bell is your Literary Hub now.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

I just released a long solo episode on the Israeli-US war on Iran and what it might mean for Iran, Lebanon and Israel - on @thefirethesetimes.com On all podcast apps Also available on thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/03/t... and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-2...

Dan Simmons died and I want to say that being a piece of shit racist overshadowed his amazing work but I can't because Hyperion was overrated anyway

Writer friends: are folks aware of any MFAs in creative writing (not art) where a student could study/create comics, graphic novels, etc? Looks like Ohio State might be somewhat flexible and of course Lynda Barry is at UW-Madison...

1. Yesterday, we broke the story that Kansas drivers licenses for transgender people were being immediately revoked by the state. This morning, the ACLU filed suit in state court to block that process. Thousands of trans Kansans watch with horror and hope. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The issue: St. John's University has decided that unionization is illegitimate and will no longer recognize the union. After 56 years of unionization... www.ncronline.org/news/st-john...

get your limited run ICEBREAKER merch at friendsatthetable.shop, proceeds from purchases made on our shop during february and march will go to The Immigration Law Center of Minnesota. 1312.

Hi friends, I know a bunch of you are probably getting very sick of hearing about me talk about living under occupation instead of my signature Getting Mad About Publishing Stuff but a VERY important MN community hub that is sending out thousands of bags of nourishing, culturally-appropriate foods

The hottest of hot takes: A blog post that compares a conservative backlash against abstract art in the 1920s to a more recent conservative backlash against literary speculative fiction. Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism. Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...

Read the Abstract of this New paper by Bilal and Känzig “The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global Versus Local Temperature”👇

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.

Relevant to AI writing, Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, and Sonia Sanchez noted that many want to be writers but don’t wanna write. As Morrison said, “Writing has become almost a celebrity thing in the sense that people don’t want to write; they want to be authors. And that’s quite different.”

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...