Minor PS: if my last article about an author’s political stances led to a direct refutation by that author’s daughter, I would simply fade away from the mortification, but I guess some people lack the organ of shame.

Driveby reminder that I started making zines again, and they’re for sale in my ko-fi shop ko-fi.com/ninocipri/shop

I'm not voting for a candidate that wants fascism for trans kids, but safety for me. Don't try to sell me that you're worried about rising fascism, if you think there's enough of a safety margin to throw away the 5% to 10% of anti-fascist votes that you will lose by backing an anti-trans candidate.

With my glasses situation, and how I'm trying to move out of FL, I decided to start a GFM for both gofund.me/fd04823c3 Short version: I'm a blind, trans person who can't afford to get glasses that will actually help, or fund a move to a safe city.

My new cozy science fiction story NOW IS A KIND OF FOREVER is up @morningtransport.bsky.social www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/now-is-a-k... Get your 60-day free subscription here: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/smt2024

No it the fuck was not.

i will succeed because i am a pervert 🥳🫡

I love being a non-sports person in a sports city. I love that my neighbors are screaming/crying/throwing up on a Tuesday. I love that my coworker is beefing with our mail guy for reasons I never understand. Friends are in complete agony and I don’t know if it’s because Team did Good or Team did Bad

the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter

Didja miss BBB's May edition of our reading series? No problem -- we're serving up a fresh batch on 6/16 at 7pm @ Barrows! Hear authors @ninocipri.bsky.social @ceciliatan.com @jeffsomers.bsky.social & Seamus Sullivan read & grab a drink! It's free! More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com

If you’re “distressed” by seeing a trans person in public you’re probably too weak to go outside really.

I've been reading a lot of 80's paperback horror, specifically those huge 500+ page epics where you meet an entire town full of characters right before they're devoured / mutated / go mad, etc., so I felt inspired to paint a paperback novel cover for one that doesn't exist!

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Heeeeyyyy it's new story day! And I've got a villain's enamored minion reconsidering his life choices here, in "Ten Unsent Letters to the Dark Lord." www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ten-...

It's the latest in a series of retaliations against city officials in Festus, Missouri, who voted in favor of a proposed hyperscale data center. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)

Hi! I write and draw a weirdo, slice of life, low-stakes scifi series with my brother called HΩME. Cool people have said nice things about them! Stand-alone books, feeding a larger narrative. Long-form, serialized scifi for discerning readers. 4 books available now! Link in my profile for more!

Vale is an all-around awesome human being! Help them out if you can!

Screwed up the link yesterday! Here’s my Boots Riley profile, a splashy exposé of Oakland cocktail culture, Prince fanhood, Communism, surrealism, maximalism, non-medicated colonoscopies & the real reason Boots wears his hats: Boots Riley, Marx Brother www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Friends! An excerpt of my novel has made its way onto the Literary Hub. It's like the diner scene from When Harry Met Sally if they were both sociopath-adjacent space devils. lithub.com/plastic-pris...

New story day! “The Stars Look Away From This Vessel” is now available to read (or listen to) at @lightspeedmagazine.com 🚀 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Did you discover, as part of the Anthropic settlement, that your publisher failed to register your copyright? The @authorsguild.org is collecting information authorsguild.org/anthropic-cl... (This is a correction of something I posted yesterday w/ a significant error. Apologies for the mistake)

Thrilled that AUDIOBOOK preorders are open for The Dragon Has Some Complaints! A curmudgeonly three-headed dragon pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Written by a human (me!). With no GenAI. Narrated by award-winner Zura Johnson. With no GenAI. #BookSky

V. is a lovely person and writer — let’s help them get the glasses they need and get to a safer city.

Cis women who don't want to use the same bathrooms as trans women are free to simply not use public bathrooms. They're the ones with the issue, they're the ones who should have to find workarounds. Their creepy obsession with other people's genitals shouldn't become anyone else's problem.

Republicans just passed a Don't Say Trans bill that would also require schools to out trans students in certain situations, even if doing so would put them in physical danger. Every student deserves to feel safe in school & see themselves reflected in school curricula.

8 Democrats decided that trans people shouldn't exist in schools

If you're in the mood to support an indie bookstore today, Oblong Books will have signed copies of The Dragon Has Some Complaints at launch *and* they ship everywhere.

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

I also made a nice, normal book trailer :) www.instagram.com/p/DYhdg9eo1sx/

Preorder a signed copy (will include some yet-to-be-made merch!) at @astoriabookshop.bsky.social  astoriabookshop.com/item/mvAe9UD... ​ Add on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/books/9707bb...

COVER REVEAL TIME! Every Room a Hunger will be out February 16, 2027. illustrated by Michael Rogers, designed by Rich Deas and Beste Dogan. Preorders are open, so please please order through your local indies (library requests are also 💜). Order links and description threaded below 👇👇

ooh, exciting. i've enjoyed everything i've read by nino.

Honestly this is pretty fitting for the book

Man, I first met @ninocipri.bsky.social in the hot tub at WisCon...idek how many years ago - they were obviously great and have only gotten fucking greater. I am so stoked for this book.

Nino is someone who consistently writes books that confound, provoke, entertain, and inspire in equal measure. Enormous respect for their craft as a writer. I always look forward to their books. This will be dope.

Can’t wait for this!!!

OOOH.

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

This cover is SO GOOD

AHHHHH

I'm very excited by this. FINNA and DEFEKT were spectacular.

COVER REVEAL TIME! Every Room a Hunger will be out February 16, 2027. illustrated by Michael Rogers, designed by Rich Deas and Beste Dogan. Preorders are open, so please please order through your local indies (library requests are also 💜). Order links and description threaded below 👇👇

Storygraph users! This is my very professional post promoting the very professional giveaway for my real book for adults about a deranged dragon whose heads can’t stop arguing with each other. Damn it, I was almost normal for a whole sentence. Anyway! Here is a giveaway!

Can you believe I wrote a comic? Daniel de la Rosa, aka Florescent, is one of The Thirteen, people with abilities from Aztec legends, seeking to bring back balance to the world. Get to know Daniel and his journey through @globalcomix.com globalcomix.com/read/52a208b...

Oh hey, check out @podcastle.org ’s latest episode, out today! podcastle.org/2026/05/19/p... 🎉🥳 “Mail Order Magic” is the most personal story I’ve ever written, so it means a lot to have this audio version narrated by a friend, the amazing @tinaconnolly.bsky.social . ❤️

My Science Fiction story "Now is a Kind of Forever" will be out next Sunday @morningtransport.bsky.social. Get your 60-day free subscription to The Sunday Morning Transport here: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/smt2024

continue to be frustrated at the insistence of AI as a tool (working on my "academics need to learn what a tool actually is" pitch), and not for nothing but if you need AI to tell you what song your characters might dance to you're not actually doing the core work of creation.

please share even if you can't donate, max wouldn't have posted this at all if we hadn't pressured her into it and i promise this is genuinely an Escape from an extremely fucked up, very prolonged situation

if you have a nice office job and are mad about the LIRR strike, just nut up and say “this worker does a job I feel is beneath me personally yet makes more money than I do, and I find this infuriating”

“In the house behind the sword ferns, there was a man, and a murderer, and a stain.” New blog post! Check out my review of JAPANESE GOTHIC by Kylie Lee Baker: www.thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-ja... 💙📚 😱📚