boosting this again because honestly I am proud of this near future and very political sf story, the illustration by Juan Bernabeu is exceptional, and big shout out to the editor Oliver Dougherty for having such a keen eye.

Been a while since I did a charity stream on Twitch, but I'm feeling the urge again. Tomorrow (Sunday) 11 am to 2 pm Eastern I'll be playing "The Long Dark" -- an old game but a new fave, to benefit NY Common Pantry. Join me for giveaways and (probably) horrible death! tilt.fyi/YVoFdn7Efo

The Lotus Kingdoms series is really good, I read all three books (and didn't want to put them down) earlier this year. At this price it's silly not to get them

In any life you are given a few perfect moments, and I just bought a Dorothy Parker omnibus at @bookmoon.bsky.social then ate black cherry ice cream with my spouse at Mt. Tom Ice Cream while The Sultans of Swing played in the background, so that was one.

An alert reader let me know the whole Lotus Kingdoms series is available for $2.99 each in ebook! Also on Kobo and other platforms! www.kobo.com/us/en/series...

Robert Plant and Stephen Colbert nerd out about Tolkien youtu.be/VWFa-a5baDY?...

I'm bringing sexy back, why can't I get just one kiss?

Trump take food stamps. Trump take going home to your family for Thanksgiving. Trump take health insurance. I can't imagine any of this is gonna poll well.

Reading this now!!!

We are delighted to reveal the cover for @isabel.kim's debut novel Sublimation, a story of immigration, identity, and paradox from the author of "Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole"

The cast-iron skillet hack for reheating pizza really is a game changer. 1) heat up a large cast iron skillet 2) vegetable oil spray, just a teeny bit 3) turn down to low 3) put in 1-2 slices leftover pizza 4) cover 5) go away for 7 minutes. Crispy, gooey pizza!

Today's adventure: cats attempting to steal my beef liver supplement and making off with one pill, which then sparked a chase and a game of keep away between Duncan and Fafhrd. (Duncan won and disposed off the beef liver behind the couch in the den).

As part of reducing the carceral state, I believe judges should be empowered to change the middle names of certain white collar criminals as a consequence.

Good job, PA and NJ. Come on, California: don't be left out.

Amazing to think that NYC, a diverse and vibrant place, will have a mayor who loves her as much as so many New Yorkers do.

It's a good night.

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

Hate to be the White House ketchup scrubber tonight.

Virginia understood the assignment. Good job, Virginia!

Godspeed, voters. Get out there, do the thing, and stay a little extra situationally aware.

For some reason, just reminded of that old joke about Nancy Pelosi being the first woman to stand one heartbeat and a slow mechanical whirr away from the Presidency.

Mmmmm, cronyism. It's what's for breakfast. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

We've got you 👍

Wait, the whole Tylenol lie was just another piece of wildly illegal market manipulation and insider trading? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...

Talked to the contractor replacing our front porch. I noticed he was hammering in stakes to mark where the footings are going to go with no apparent resistance in the ground that might indicate any previous footings present. "So that was load-bearing lattice?" says I. "Oh yeah," says he.

locusmag.com/2025/11/worl... Congratulations winners and nominees!!

archive.ph/2025.11.03-1... Archive link to a very good Boston Globe editorial (not an opinion piece: they're different) on extrajudicial U.S. murders in the Caribbean.

Happy Day Of The Long Sleeps, everybody.

By the time this is over, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is gonna be one of those Zillow horror listings that get passed around and laughed at. Baby heads hot glued to the banisters. You know the ones.

Genius

Just a reminder that my story "Here Instead of There" about dirtbags squatting on a seastead, meteorology, corporate capture of government, and a beagle named Henry is available on the internet for the first time at Escape Pod this month. Links at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/140906...

Change one letter, ruin a candy Almond Goy (I originally thought of Zounds but I'd eat that in a hot minute)

Come hang out! Tonight!

if you're in the Boston area, come to @portersqbooks.bsky.social and join me and @matociquala.bsky.social for the launch party tonight at 7!

Happy book day, Max! I'll be at Porter Square Books with him tonight to celebrate! Come on out! portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-1...

🌈📚 📖 The Witch and the Wyrm By Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social "Disaster bisexual Vikings, draugr, baby dragon feeding schedules…” 🐉 Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks

Laughs at you in the second oldest established fanzine culture in the United States, (The oldest is The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) which ran a successful campaign to bring the show back after cancelation. Teenage girls, bitches

Gender is like mayonnaise. It's fine in small quantities for people who like it, but some folks just will not stop smearing it all over everything.

We're coming up on the release for DEAD HAND RULE! Come see me and @matociquala.bsky.social on launch day, Oct 28, at @portersqbooks.bsky.social - or on Nov 12 at Pandemonium! us.macmillan.com/tours/max-gl...

Happy book day, Jodi!!

Well, this is the best sentence I've read in a while. From Angel Maker by @matociquala.bsky.social/

Stand six to ten feet back from the baggage carousel and move forward when you spot your bag coming, rather than all rushing up to block access and crowd the conveyor belt.

Successful redaction.

Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? --"Grown-Up," Edna St. Vincent Millay, who understood.

Susan Stamberg, one of the greats. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

I come to you this morning to say nice things about @jedediahberry.bsky.social's KILL ALL WIZARDS, out next year, which is inventive and irreverent in ways that remind me of the work of a certain @scottlynch78.bsky.social...

They made me reach so far to touch the sign! It's a good sign, though.

You wanna follow some cool trans writers? I gotcha. go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

Happy book week to Hiron Ennis for the excellent The Works of Vermin, out yesterday. Queer inventive lyrical anticapitalist biopunk for fans of The Fifth Season, Absolution, or The Iron Dragon's Daughter. torpublishinggroup.com/the-works-of...

I'd be more impressed with Seth Moulton's decision to primary Ed Markey if Seth's platform wasn't "I'm basically Ed but 34 years younger, two steps to the right, and much more willing to throw trans kids under the bus." #mapol