Emceed by yours truly. If you're in the Seattle area, bring some SFFH to share, meet other local writers, and hear their marvelous works!

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

The mothership in Independence Day is said to be "550 kilometers in diameter with one quarter the mass of the moon", which would give it a density of approximately 215 grams per cubic centimeter, almost ten times that of solid osmium.

This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.

It's impossible to overstate the amount of violent evil this country has inflicted on the world and itself

new metaphor just dropped

My uber is here

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

What do you think is the best episode of The Outer Limits (1995-2002)

The age of American domination is ending. And yet if humanity dies out in this millennium, it will die in an American way and for quintessentially American reasons -- and if humanity survives it will only have been because it learned the cautionary lessons of America.

Trans people are excellent, actually

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"Gender is dress-up and we can humour the freaks who want to be different, but sex is an INHERENT UNCHANGEABLE BIOLOGICAL TRUTH" and its consequences. Many cis people fully believe themselves to be allies of trans people when they espouse this view, even as it denies us dignity and humanity.

Happy Wrath Month everyone! ✨🌈🔥⚔️

Guy next to me on the bus very studiously watching an AI slop video about how to identify reptilians hiding among us. Vast machines churning this stuff out on an industrial scale. Humans are resilient but we are not designed to withstand this.

i love being trans and i love all my trans friends

We are swiftly headed for a society in which a trans kid must undergo state mandated torture, are banned from being on line, are banned from hanging out in most public spaces, are banned from using bathrooms at school, banned from accessing the health care they need, and banned from playing sports.

This is a reminder that some schools have already begun closing girls’ athletics teams because the requirement to verify gender was too onerous. Even just a form signed by a parent confirming their child’s gender identity is a barrier beyond what boys are required to do to play sports.

Ah, it's so pleasant to know they're focused on the important issues of our times instead of squandering precious attention on such trifling concerns as the destruction of the nation and its people

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

"Trans people Always Knew" Not true! Some of us looked to pop-cultural depictions of masculinity for a frame of reference and concluded that *all* men absolutely loathe being men, and that feeling such a loathing was therefore proof we were cis.

IMO, it's not inherently wrong to work for an evil employer -- but it does come with an ethical responsibility to do a worse job than anyone else they could possibly have hired.

This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.

Pride bless us, every one! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🖤🩶🤍🤎

Sorry but why do we owe these people another generation of absolute failure? We’re moving from our baseline police state into total edgelord control faster than any other backsliders to do ever do it and they can’t even point to anywhere on the scoreboard that they tried legitimately to stop it

No, what happened was the religious right in the US, after losing on Obergefell v. Hodges, immediately changed tactics. They held huge conferences outlining their plans to roll back LGBT rights as whole by targeting trans people. They didn't skip a beat. We aren't to blame for our own oppression.

For a fiction author there can be no glory so great, no award so gleaming, no praise that so warms the heart, as unsolicited fan art

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

No one should mistake that not only did the vast majority of these defendants do *nothing but show up to a protest* but several are trans women who will now spend the rest of their lives being tortured by the state. This was targeted. This was a show trial.

So I guess what I want to express is that this is groundwork, this is the soil prepared for the seeds of mass murder to grow from, and if we're serious about not having mass murders, this kind of thing has to receive the same response we'd give a man bringing an automatic weapon into a gay bar.

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Autistic people are excellent, actually

5 things you will probably find in my books: - Apocalypse of some kind - Edible algae - Traumatized characters who love each other bad - American empire collapse aftermath - Good news, somebody saved you from certain death! Bad news, it was a villain and he did it for evil reasons

I know this week is heavy. I know you’ve lost hope in the medium of video games. I know those brighter days where technology wowed you feel far away. but open this in your browser and bask in the enduring spirit of human ingenuity and connection messenger.abeto.co

Community: Heads up everyone, there's a bad actor in our midst. Very dangerous! Avoid at all cost Me: Uh oh. Can you tell me who they are so I can be sure to avoid them? Community: No

If I wrote a[nother] guide to nuclear war survival skills, would you want to read it? Show of hands.

At first archery felt like it was about strength, proper form, hand-eye coordination. After a couple of years it feels instead like it's about feeling out the correct microsecond in which to let go, like it's more about intuition and self-trust than anything else. Don't like that. Bodes ill.

Many times a day I wonder if I made a horrible mistake by becoming a writer, like maybe I should have been a musician instead. Then I recall that being a musician also sucks ass these days, so I start to think I should have been an artist -- but right, no, that's even worse.

If you want a better world you have to become an unwelcome intrusion of that world into this one, a splinter of goodness inflaming the skin of reality. It sucks. But the world as it exists is not habitable. Even if you can only make the splinter as big as your body, still it's a place you can live.

These machines so succinctly and eloquently describe our ongoing societal collapse: they both embody and spread the malignant solipsism that toxifies every facet of American life. 🧵

Trillionaire manifested by fictional economy underpinned by howling void

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

The Authors Guild are in partnership with an AI Licensing company. They're trying to funnel members to this company in the guise of 'earning more' from their books. But even if an author is paid for a 3 year licence, their books are in the meat grinder for good. There's no way to extract titles.

Ah, the Author's Guild! They may have cheerfully allowed Anthropic to get off scot-free for stealing my book -- but in their defense, they do some really important work, such as delusionally blaming libraries for the decline in author pay.