Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

Yes, this! You need to write the boring parts to learn to make them exciting, or to learn what to skip. You need to do the brainstorming because it's your own personal idiosyncratic synthesis of idea and character and theme and plot and place that makes something worth writing.

BREAKING: Court REJECTS Trump-Vance admin’s attempt to double down on unlawful grant restrictions that would push nearly 200,000 Americans into homelessness – instead reaffirming our win protecting critical solutions to homelessness.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Florida NAACP and Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, moments after Ron DeSantis signed Florida's latest voter suppression bill into law, my firm sued. www.democracydocket.com/cases/florid...

Just a note of appreciation for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's fierce devotion to the rule of law.

The @kickstarter.com for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 4 goes live NEXT WEEK, Tuesday, April 7. Early bird giveaways! Stretch goals! Add-ons! And the very best Canadian SFF all in one place! Click below for an alert when we launch. And please SHARE WIDELY--thx! #Kickstarter

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Correct on BOTH counts.

Multitasking can get people killed

It's at least eighty degrees in my office and about the same in my classroom. Wish me luck trying to keep my students awake for the next three hours...

For the first time ever, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will stream the two opening songs of the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour kickoff in Minneapolis — live and free at approximately 7:30 p.m. CT tonight!

If Trump signs an unconstitutional Executive Order to take over voting, we will sue. I don't bluff and I usually win.

There's so much going on in national politics right now that even a lot of members of Congress don't realize this book-banning bill exists and has made it out of committee. Call them. Make them realize. And make them do something about it. action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661

BREAKING: A committee led by the interior secretary voted to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which could threaten species facing extinction.

I’m also well aware that all the short fiction & non-fiction I’ve published online since I started writing long-form pieces in 1998, were definitely scraped too, yet don’t count. Yours, too. Everyone’s. These companies should all be shuttered. Which is a nice way of saying launched into the sun.

OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

It's simple: The Supreme Court says bans on medical care—and speech related to that care—are only allowed in the conservative direction. Tennessee can ban gender-affirming care as a medical regulation, matter but Colorado CANNOT regulate therapists who wish to deny patients' gender or sexuality

Today is trans day of visibility. I see and love and celebrate all my trans friends. Also, I know that in many places it's stressful or terrifying or dangerous to be visible, and whatever decisions you've made for your own safety are valid and don't change who you are.

Happy trans day of visibility! I'm grateful to get to work with some exceptional trans writers, and I always want to be helpful to trans writers finding their way in. If anyone has questions about traditional (SFFH) publishing while trans, drop them here, and I'll answer as best I can.

On this TDOV, please visit this link and tell the Mayor to make good on his fine words, fine Mt. Sinai and Langone for denying trans kids health care, and direct NYC Hospitals + Health to provide those kids care. gregpak.net/2026/03/27/t...

JUST IN: FBI agents who worked on Trump probes have filed a class action lawsuit, saying their abrupt firings violated due process and civil service laws. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NY friends!

Jackson, from the bench, says the majority's decision is "wrong as a matter of precedent, first principles, and history."

After Gorsuch announced the opinion, Jackson began dissenting from the bench. Opinion: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Wow. Giving newly graduating Marines PTSD at their graduation ceremony. Special kind of evil here.

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

Almost out of time! Vote by April 1 in the annual Locus Awards Poll & Survey to determine the winners of the 2026 awards (tickets available now)! You can vote at poll.voting.locusmag... or via the link in our bio!

As the number of people in detention climb, so have the deaths: The 33 fatalities in 2025 were the most in a single year on record since the Department of Homeland Security started operating in March 2003. Reporting w/ Allison McCann and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...

I finished reading A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker at 2.30 am last night. I'm getting to old to read this later! The novel takes place in a post-pandemic techno feudalistic world where the lock downs never ended. 4,75 stars.

If you submitted an Anthropic claim, I recommend calling them and confirming it. Their system is riddled with errors and issues. Even if you got a confirmation number, maybe check: 1-877-206-2314

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation left ICE hub Mesa, AZ, and landed in Myanmar a few hours ago. This would be the first Myanmar deportation I’m aware of since last April. The last group was immediately detained; some were tortured. Also stopped in Thailand, now airborne.

Less than two days to go! Nominations for the 2026 Le Guin Prize close at midnight tomorrow, March 31st. If you need an incentive, here's a fun fact: one lucky nominator will be chosen at random to win this gorgeous stack of books—last year's entire shortlist! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Important part of the process

From the dept of great news:

“Sperm whales live in matrilineal groups: grandmothers, mothers and daughters. Females stick together, while males set out on their own in their mid-teens… Roughly half of the whales present during the birth were not directly related to her.” We need to consider a return to matriarchy, tbh.

This is so incredibly bad it makes me want to cry. No human of the 19th century would write "However, I am most curious: might you suggest that your own time has not found the same grand spectacle." It's wrong in at least two ways! Why would railways supersede factories? It makes no sense!

Welcome again to Small Wonders Subscription Drive! Today's theme is critters - whether it lopes, creeps, crawls, or gallops, we have a story or poem for you! In the meantime you should amble on over and pick up a subscription if you haven't already: store.smallwondersma... 1/8

Thousands. Are you sure, the New York Times? Thousands?

Had a very lucid dream in which my friends and I were having a hard time getting served in a Toronto restaurant that was also having a roller disco party. I was very hungry, and there was a craft fair where everyone was selling things shaped like food, like crystal apples and potpourri.

Today, more than 8 million people came together across the country in the largest single-day protest in modern American history!

Come chat with me or one of the others for a good cause!

Massive no kings rally here in Missoula, Montana.

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

There are a million things that close on March 31, including SFWA elections and LA con program participant survey, and April 1 (locus, I think?) so I'm glad I actually internalized that the Hugo ballot nominations close tomorrow the 28th, at 3 pm Eastern, which feels very random.

The long lines at airports now falls squarely on Speaker Johnson's shoulders. The Senate unanimously passed a bill to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. But Speaker Johnson is refusing to let the House vote on it. If you miss your flight, remember, this shutdown is on him.

Death cult

Red-winged blackbird on a chilly morning 🪶