This is a very important read for authors, editors, publishers, or anyone who wants to know more about the state of the industry in the face of the AI onslaught. @bonabooks.bsky.social has done an amazing job documenting their experience and their response and we can all learn from it.

While we're talking about AI submitter Bella Chacha, mention should be made of another of her possible aliases to alert everyone out there - she is most likely also "Ferdinand Ugochukwu"

Must Read: "On Anticipatory Complicity" by @durba.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/434/arti...

::taps mic:: this on?? Hey friends! I'm so pleased/astonished to tell you that my short story, "Bone Harp Hair," will be published as part of Issue #52 of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet! smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2026/06...

I've got a story in here and I'm delighted at the prospect of a new annual SFF Best Of series!

New Korean and Japanese editions of my collection Lost Places. The covers are both terrific. I didn't get to write to my Japanese translator to apologize but I got to apologize in person to Seohyon Jung for giving her the daunting task of translating "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather."

NEWS: Federal judge in Georgia quashes DOJ grand jury subpoena seeking information about election workers who volunteered or worked during the 2020 election in Fulton County. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

See Fetterman...

Should also keep in mind that there’s literally nothing wrong with speaking ill of the dead.

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

One of my hardest-won political lessons is that it’s never, ever worth it to treat ppl as ~indispensable no matter what they do~ —bc we *see* the contributions & potential of the abusive men & we don’t get to see that in the women they drive out. We never actually get to know what we’ve squandered

FWIW, this does indeed seem to have been a Google Ads thing that they just decided to insert on the page in random places as an 'experiment'. Great work you're doing over there Google, you fucking numbnuts.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

When it inevitably comes out that McConnell hasn’t been conscious since his collapse on June 14, let’s all remember that the Senate Majority Leader and Whip said they’d talked to him the day after he got CPR and that he was “engaged” (both of them used that exact word!) and would be back soon.

God the graphics would be incredible

This is genuinely dope as hell.

I get angry when people talk about "declining trust in science" as though there weren't a coordinated effort by billionaire criminals to smear science as a way to decrease regulations, spread propaganda, and enrich themselves. Scientists are being scapegoated and we should not play along.

I think by saying "nothing is going to happen" you are basically ensuring nothing is going to happen. That sentiment is heard and understood by elected leaders who have the power and the means to make something happen.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

Chris Wright holds two degrees from MIT, so the real question is whether he’s a truly smart guy who’s now pretending to be stupid for political reasons, of if he’s just an actually dumb guy who cheated his way through school.

Oh man, putting England and Norway, our palest countries, in Miami in July feels like a cruel prank

My early prediction for England/Norway is that England just played basically a game and a half and now they have to face an actual golem, so we’ll see how that goes

The pictures of the 4 am watch party in England are impressive.

Who does England have to talk to in order to get their red card overturned for Saturday...

Eleven minutes!

Ok yeah now this is *definitely* looking like one of my Sunday league games. That’s gonna be a red on England.

This is stressful!

The Belgians are not amused and I don't blame them. There's no precedent for changing the rules during a World Cup. This is a totally unfair and unprecedented advantage gifted to the US on the eve of a knockout game.

Yes! The first eight years of my writing career were concurrent with my beloved job administering a grant for families of people with developmental disabilities, a job notable for being both a joyful reason to get up in the morning and something I could leave at the office most evenings.

Gov. Beshear should demand proof of life. If his state has lost a senator, its people deserve to know and deserve a replacement. The seat doesn‘t belong to the Republican Party.

Zimmy's response to my monthlong absence is to make sure I can't leave the couch. He's not wrong in thinking that this is what we both need.

It would appear that my husband and our steer are releasing a new album

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

That’s so unfair. It’s all incompetence.

Whoever is setting off window rattling mortars on our block immediately after a monster thunderstorm I hope the milk for your coffee is rancid tomorrow. My dogs are climbing the walls.

I am home from teaching Clarion and covered in dogs.

Transit content⤵️ "The nonprofit, founded by legendary folk artist & activist Pete Seeger in the 1960s, has a long history of activism. Seeger famously built the organization’s single-mast sailboat...in 1968, believing...if people went out on the river, they would care more about keeping it clean."

Just landed in Baltimore. I'll admit on a personal level I was worried all of that air traffic would mess with my return. I'm glad I made it in time to hold the Zim pup through the fireworks.

“Michael’s lost phone was later discovered tucked into the pocket of an unused pair of pants buried deep in his luggage. ‘How did it get there’, he is thought to have said” bsky.app/profile/treb...

The San Diego airport playlist this morning was written just for me. 10000 Maniacs "Trouble Me," "Walking on Broken Glass," "Solsbury Hill"... Me and my coffee are walking around singing (the coffee sings harmony)

My daughter has watched soccer now for a total of forty minutes in her life and she’s yelling at them from the couch: “you got up too early!! You have to sell it to the refs!!”

The first thing that sprang to mind when listening to this tale of whales learning and adapting songs to use in their mating displays was the story wind Will Rove by @sarahpinsker.bsky.social. Wonder if the pod grandparents are as protective of *their* versions of the Blue Song?

Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever

I wrote this story a few years ago only with hooking him up to immersive VR in a hospital bed. Didn't try to sell the piece; it was catharsis.

Thanks to the wonderful @lanikaps.bsky.social for taking the time to write about my ongoing Josie saga. For those of you keeping up: - I lost my health insurance today (boooo!) - I was able to maintain my benefits through COBRA (yay!) - COBRA costs $2,281 per month (boo)

I'm reading at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego tonight!

BREAKING: Pride Month Extended Indefinitely

I just met you and this is crazy but I’m selling shoes that were for a baby

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled against the Republican attack on mail-in ballots. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled in favor of a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted after the election day.