The people cry out for Jarnathan

As part of my popular Never Really Grew Out Of It After All series, I am considering locating a d&d campaign to join. A good buddy and colleague runs one, but it’s not (yet) a good time to join. I have to find some other oldsters to play with in the meantime…

Je serai au stand de La Volte aux Imaginales ces prochains jours. Si vous y serez, venez dire bonjour!

Agree. It’s over, folks. There’s only one answer left.

You all know what to do.

Lotta people in tech underestimate how much we hate you and your works and everything you do

Living in a failed state sucks.

At the risk of someone saying Physician, Heal Thyself or some such, I’m going to yuck ppl’s yum and say I can’t stand the work of the p*litzer winner in poetry: it’s academic in the worst way. Bracing myself for the pile on, but honestly. Forgive me.

This suit rules

Republican voters and Republican politicians belong in jail.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

Will you sign our open letter in support? ✊

I'm not saying it was staged. I'm just taking this exactly as seriously as Trump supporters take the political violence he metes out against marginalized people.

So damn sick of the fucking racists

I thought this felt relatable

One thing I like about writing poetry is that it is impossible

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

Join me for poetry at Malaprop's in Asheville with other fine poets! Sunday April 12 (this weekend!) at 4:30pm. Hope to see you there!

All the mini T***ps were waiting in the wings to come out, the main villain just gave them permission to exercise their worst impulses and worst values.

Poetrio Reading at Malaprop's in Asheville, NC: Alexander Dickow, Christopher Shipman, Maria Garcia Teutsch, Blake Lynch: Sunday April 12, 4:30pm. Please join us for poetry!

This.

Mingus, the peak of that era of jazz, to my mind. There are a lot of other greats too, but: Mingus.

I’ve said it before and I’ll no doubt say it again. Universities are roughly 1000 years old. They predate most operating models including capitalism and have lasted for a reason. Installing insecure, helpless managers who ape business methods results in bad businesses, not good universities.

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

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“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.” @abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.

Forgive me, for I have found Sinners boring and DNF. Glad you all dug it, but I just didn’t.

As ever, a great listen. Especially glad to hear @dickowalexander.bsky.social speak more about French SF, which as he mentions he looked at for the recent SH Criticism Special - a great essay which I commend to you, especially on the subject of the different SFs available to us.

Duh of the year, mod dem pundits are assholes who don’t represent what people want. David Brooks go fuck yourself.

Yay! Many thanks to @casella.bsky.social and @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org for this fabulous conversation.

Hey #AWP26 attendees interested in French-language literary goodies: in DC there’s a bookfair shindig, the Salon du livre francophone, on March 7 (Saturday), 2-5pm, at the Ven hotel on Embassy row. I’ll be there with my books (in French, but I’ll have copies of things in English…). Come by and chat.

Join me on Saturday, March 7th at the Salon du livre francophone, where I will present my work alongside many fine authors. Info below. www.instagram.com/p/DVRrSm-lG7...

Just say no to noisome Newsom.

I’m reading from my book The Distance, and You In It (BlazeVOX, 2025) tomorrow Friday at 7pm at Green Feather Books in Norman, Oklahoma. Please come join us.

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This is actually fairly well known; hum people don’t have much overhead and administrators are idiots

Biggest present scourge on humanity? I vote techbros.

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Je serai présent le samedi 7 mars au Salon du livre francophone à Washington, DC; voir les informations au lien suivant: www.eventbrite.com/.../deuxieme.... J'aurai plusieurs de mes livres avec moi; venez les découvrir, ou simplement pour bavarder.

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants" No you don't. If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

I’m thrilled I’ll be reading some of my latest poetry at Malaprop’s in Asheville, NC on April 12, 2026. Love that shop!

If/when this ends, Democrats must make sure concentration camp prison guards don't see a dime of their pensions

Fuck you, Atlantic.

McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

YES: "Translation is the only remedy to our near-sightedness, and the mission of translation is the same as that of speculative fiction: to take the human imagination as far as it can go."- Alexander Dickow in @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... #SFinTranslation