Wrapping up Let This Radicalize You with my book group tonight. This book has been a wonderful guide, and I have some of the final lines taped over my desk: "How will you practice and cultivate hope today?" "You are not needed everywhere, but we are all needed somewhere."

I've rambled about this before at the old place, but not here, so why not, let's get into what my process has eventually become over my career.

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew. “It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet." For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Stunning report.

One of my favourite things we’ve ever written. Thanks again, Uncanny for inviting us to write it and helping make it really shine.

The "spreading OUR" work around is the important part btw. We are not disposable characters. We are not artifacts of the past. We are not research subjects. We are however highly impoverished, and more likely to die by violence than to live past 65. so pony up while we're alive.

get their assess George 💪

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Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

The far right has long fantasized about killing non-white people using images of zombie hordes. Now it’s official government policy.

Publishing is a flat circle

We are producing a detailed podcast series about this whole time period in Italy. This was part of a wider movement called self-reduction, whereby workers and local working class people would choose their own prices for many goods and services, and enforce them with strength in numbers.

finally some good news

The only thing less useful than a political action you think is useless is complaining on the internet about that action. For fuck's sake, just do the thing you want to do! The people you're complaining about won't be convinced by your posts, but they might be convinced by your effective actions.

THE TERRAIN HAS CHANGED. Liberal recuperation is not in effect the same way. We are in a situation where things have potentially different meanings + effects. Yes major parade style protests are part of what got us here (and Im not personally interested) but so did posting about how much they suck.

Still fired up about yesterday's #NoKings protest in #williamsport? Keep the conversation going! Some folks are gathering at the new Sweetspire Coffee & Bakery on Tuesday, October 21, at 6:30pm for "Common Grounds." www.williamsport50501.org/common-groun...

The the powerful film #NoOtherLand documenting the brutality of occupation and settler terrorism, will be available to rent and own on major platforms starting this Monday, October 20.

The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.

Thinking about that sequence in Andor where everyone in town begins ringing bells and banging on things to create an incredibly hostile inescapable environment for the invading forces, a technique inspired by the real life history of people in Ireland doing something similar with trash cans.

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Watch this. This is what this criminal administration wants to do to all of us. Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.

You all: We won!! Note that this fight was much bigger than whether one comedian gets pulled off the air. (Kimmel is fine, but as far as I'm concerned it's not even about him.) Fundamentally, this was about whether the Trump FCC/administration could ignore the First Amendment.

Last week yall did a lot of doomering on this website, lets make a plan together to not let the fascists dictate the tenor of our feelings or the content of our discussions by simply saying something scary. This week lets don't afraid and set an example of courage for ourselves and our communities

“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

For the latest No Failure, Only Practice, I wrote about using what Robert McKee calls "cue words" to structure better dialogue. I use examples from Denis Johnson and Ursula K. Le Guin to show how cues keep dialogue efficient, understandable, and energetic. I've had good luck with the tactic lately!

Woooo!!!! From the trenches of poetry workshop in college to now working to make Williamsport a better place, I'm so stoked for Jonah!

The absurdity of "you sling words for a living, therefore you must become a video influencer" is becoming more and more salient

"Some reports, such as Reuters, reported that Nepal's Gen Z-led protests began over the government's social media ban. Many protesters rejected this characterization, emphasizing that their fight is primarily against corruption, nepotism, and the lack of accountability in political leadership."

This was a delightfully fun movie

‘Litfic is just sad academics.’ Is ‘all science fiction is ray guns and Doctor Who’ in a hat. It’s the weapon of the enemy. And the enemy isn’t litfic, it’s a cultural space that’s conditioned creatives to hate each other for centuries.

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Book Review: Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill A fantasy story with hidden depths and nuanced contemplations of deeper subjects. @princejvstin.com has our review at the blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/book...

JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I send this smile over to you

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“Fiscal crisis” has become a pretext for far-reaching changes that are not necessary so much as desired by uni leaders. “The tragedy…is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power.” ⬇️ www.chronicle.com/article/they...

Mon Mothma, student at the Chandrilan equivalent of Georgetown, taking her third shot in, like, fifteen minutes. She realizes she knows this bassline and begins slapping a Chandrilan townie on the arm, screaming, "BITCH, GET UP HERE! WE HAVE TO DANCE! THIS IS NIAMOS! THIS IS MY FUCKIN *SONG*"

Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

Hate has been emboldened in the current climate, and that means that now more than ever, TTRPGs need to remain an overtly inclusive space. Escapism, fun, and community are life support. Those 3 hours a week of rolling dice and pretending to be an elf may be the one thing that makes a difference.

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Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, warned of a more “militant” response on campuses in the fall – including possible mass strikes. “We’re going to need to politicize this fight. It’s not an economic strike on our job conditions – it’s a political strike for the future of the sector.” #DefendHigherEd

land back is the ONLY answer

People are posting ways to hit the airline, but remember YOU can help push ICE out of your community in the first place! If you can't show up on the street, your rapid response group might need more volunteers for their hotline/phone number!

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Don't forget the Raytheon sponsorship--or was that another con, I forget.

A great and important listen.

Calling all American folklorists, pop culture critics, historians, and artists! Please take a look at the call for proposals for Crossroads, a magazine dedicated exclusively to folk horror in the United States. Our first issue will be dedicated to the 1970s.

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

How are other college profs approaching the first day? This feels fundamentally different then starting the semester back in the first admin. It's my first year students in comp I'm trying to figure out how to approach on day one.

one last thing, hopefully not for you, but nevertheless: keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff. we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜

“I think it was Jon Stewart… he said the writer's job isn't to write the joke for you. The writer's job is to say something to you that makes you think of the joke.” —Pete Holmes on Mike Birbiglia's pod been thinking about this a lot. think it’s a good way of thinking about workshop & teaching