Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

I decided to prioritize graduate school beginning last fall, and as a result have submitted very little fiction and poetry this year. Still, I did have a story published in Dream Forge:

do the right thing, which is also the smart thing @allelitewrestling.com

Open Call: These Dreaming Hills horrortree.com/taking-submi... Deadline: Nov 15 Pay: $.08 per word and 3 contributor copies Theme: Stories rooted in central Appalachia dependent upon broadly defined notions of speculative fiction, written by authors with strong ties to the region #WritingCommunity

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org

This is why community organizing is an important piece in protesting: If every person who showed up to the No Kings protest last month was given a tangible task to contact their rep to vote against this, we’d have a real shot at scaring reps in places like TX.

This bill hasn't passed. The only thing that changes is you call your house representative rather then your Senate Rep! 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

brad u should primary chuck schumer

We are currently at $7,775. Let's see how far we can get in this first week. 💪🏾 Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word so far! Keep an eye out for new reward tiers in the coming weeks!

Some very kind words about my shapeshifting story “She Sheds Her Skin.” Chuffed to be in such heady company in this column!

New story out in DreamForge this month! 💫 🌊

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org Write down what you want to say and just say it. I got one full voicemail box but tried another number and was able to leave a message. Get fucking loud, Christ almighty, what are we waiting for.

It's cruel. It's an incredible escalation of their anti-trans culture war. And there is still a chance to stop the provision in the Senate, so if you have a trans person in your life you care about, I implore you - make your voice heard with your Senators. Both of them. Republican OR Democrat.

As someone who works at a company that has already done this, it's not about effectiveness, it's about power and control. They will not change until forced to by the workers. Do not waste your time trying to debate them, use your energy to organize with your coworkers in unions instead.

Saddened to hear about the passing of the truly wonderful Butch Guice. I especially loved his work during his short but beautiful run on New Mutants – his work was so fluid and human, especially when he was drawing things that weren't.

So, this is one of my favorite poems (though honestly all of Benet’s Nightmare poems are pretty dope.) Even though it’s 90 years old this year, it’s been on my mind a lot lately for… oh, no reason. For my money, a masterwork in spec, horror, and satirical poetry.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

What is the point of being human if you need a computer algorithm to express what it’s like. It breaks my fucking heart that we have become so disassociated from ourselves and the unlikely, possibly unique in the universe, gift of our consciousness that ChatGPT is an actual temptation for people.

Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.

🎮💪 #VideoGameStrike Update: The bargaining group would have you believe that we are close to reaching a deal. This is not the case. They are hoping our members will turn on each other. Read this comparison chart of A.I. proposals: ow.ly/7KvP50VgERR

The New Issue of DreamForge is live online! Issue 19 of DreamForge is live at go.dfstory.com/Anvil19 Also, we launched a whole new website this weekend. Check it out at dreamforgemagazine.com

You can read @ravenjake.bsky.social's story "She Sheds Her Skin" here: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/she-...

Congratulations to our wonderful writers @rabusby.bsky.social and @ravenjake.bsky.social, whose Nightmare short stories have been nominated for the Stoker award! bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/t...

OMG what a wild week! I’m freaking thrilled to be a Bram Stoker nominee! “She Sheds Her Skin” is the first new story I’ve had published in eight years. It means so much to know that people are connecting with it, and to be included on a list with so many other writers I respect and admire!

Purely coincidentally looked up the Rhysling nominees today and was so delighted to see “Veiling the Statues” listed there! It was a very good year for spec poetry, and I’m so honored to have made the list. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

I’m sorry, I think there’s been a mistake. I asked for bread and roses and I got bread and circuses.

“Sell your lives dear.” I’ve had this single line from John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét in my head since I read it a few weeks ago. Though his approach to retelling the Civil War is definitely a product of the time he wrote it, Benét’s language still fucking hits all the way through.

I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too? 1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there. 2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.

Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.

Congratulations to everyone on the Stoker preliminary ballot! We're ecstatic for Nightmare writers @rabusby.bsky.social, @ravenjake.bsky.social, Victor Forna (listed for short fiction) and Haralambi Markov (short nonfiction). Here's where to read their works:

So honored and honestly absolutely beside myself to have this story included on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards! I feel like as a writer I should be able to be more articulate about it but seriously, seriously, just so thrilled!

I’m currently reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow and it is so excellent. It’s dense, it’s challenging in a way that has nothing to do with the language they use (which is deeply accessible,) and it feels deeply relevant to how we perceive the current moment.

Good Christ the shoving AI down our throats and hiding it in every goddamn app like red dye 5 makes me want to never use a computer to write again.

This is a marathon, not a sprint. Don’t give up, just keep going.

We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family

I often feel overwhelmed by the amount of wrongs in the world crying out to be righted. Years ago, I decided that the best way to make change was to pick my arena and fight like hell within it and to have faith that other people would do their best in their arenas.

Look at this supermodel.

Finished my first read of 2025 and it was a good one: Stories are Weapons by Annalee Newitz. Highly recommend, especially as a companion to Filterworld by Kyle Chayka, which I read last summer.

Criterion Channel>Netflix any day. Criterion Channel is the closest you can get to walking the aisles of your favorite indie rental shop back in the day: they have blockbuster movies from all eras, classic films, little indie pictures, and quirky, curated mini-collections that change monthly.

I dreamed last night that a certain billionaire had opened an art museum and was showing me around. He had curated it himself and the art was all terrible- a lot was just portraits of him- but he was so proud of it as a reflection of his skill and taste, even though it was clear he had neither.

This is the series that proved to me that I could love romance novels, and I’ve never looked back. Truly fantastically written and researched, with queer characters you love to root for!

Submitted one last story before the New Year, and it felt pretty great to hit send before the deadline ran out. Feeling super ready to procrastinate on writing anything else for the next month.