Watching the Mamdani inauguration livestream and ordered some halal to celebrate 🥂 feeling like a historic moment

I choose to take this as a positive omen. (As named and drawn by Paul Kidby, illustrator of Discworld.)

Thanks to @dianapho.bsky.social for this incredible @erewhonbooks.bsky.social care package! Though I don’t work there anymore, I’m always a believer and huge fan of the staff, authors, and their books! Look out Spring 2026!!

INCHING there for single mom Maha's rent - 406/800 with six days to go... that means 66/day needed to keep her and her kids housed. So let's do it. 0/66 for today! chuffed.org/project/savi...

There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now: I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.

Hi! We're a small business & we'd love to get a sale today. 1st time since we set up in 2015 that we've had no traffic on #SmallBusinessSaturday It's so hard, we know everyone is spread thin. Us too. But if you like vintage / gothy stuff, everything below is still available, thanks for your time:

600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead. Quick summary by me:

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

Grab your copies from anywhere books are sold—in hardcover, ebook or audio formats—preferably from an indie bookshop, or here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790095...

Here are some snaps from Monday’s delightful launch event—my deepest thanks to @claymcleod.bsky.social for being such an insightful and generous interlocutor, and to Strand Bookstore for always supporting my work. Thank you too to everyone who came out and celebrated with us! … ⬇️

After a long journey, we have finally arrived at THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED. I’m so grateful for getting to tell this complex and horrifying Gothic tale, and especially proud as I think this is my best work to date. I hope you all fall in love with it as much as I have. … ⬇️

The great @dianapho.bsky.social initially bought DEAD RINGER for Realm & made it into something far better, I can't wait to share what became of it, releasing via City Owl Press in '26! & Beyond excited @ardyce.bsky.social acquired my forthcoming du Maurier-esque Gothic Historical RAVENFIELD HALL! 🖤

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation

I’ll be hanging with some awesome comic people today and giving the middle finger to ICE

RIP Alice Wong 🖤

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers" by Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com! You can read it here! buff.ly/HznhrfP

FIYAH: SINNERS, SAINTS AND HAINTS is out downloadable PDF & EPUB format. I’m delighted my poem Bottling Up De Evil in this w/Audrey T. Williams, Danian Darrell Jerry, Dedren Snead, R. J. Joseph, Rob Cameron, Zig Zag Claybourne, Zin E. Rocklyn & other fantastic writers fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

CBS News Exclusive: Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

Musk wants to be a Renaissance man, but he's not even a paleolithic man. Paleolithic people made art, cared for the sick, & got together to share resources & ideas. Musk would have died alone, crying that no one saw the genius of his plan to monetize hitting yourself in the head with a big rock.

This is it. This is where they have destroyed me. They took my pasta away. MY PASTA 😫

✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨ if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍🙇🏻‍♀️

dora.nyc this is OUTSTANDING. super navigatable directory for food distros, resources. and easy to remember because it’s like the explorer but also— directory of resources & aid

shoutout @johanm.bsky.social for creating this impeccable resource as SNAP benefits remain uncertain!

I am humbled and speechless (and choked up, if I'm being honest). Full video: www.instagram.com/reel/DQhrPN_... @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social @beccapodos.bsky.social H/t to @sistahscifi.bsky.social for making sure I saw this. ❤️

Ahhhhh I love it when Lynne reads my books. More silks. Check.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Word. Aldi's has a deal to feed 10 for $40. The Target deal is 4 for $20. Not only is Aldi's better financially, it's not run by simpering ring-kissers. corporate.aldi.us/newsroom/new...

NYers rn

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

It’s not the biggest story of the night but shout out to @bradlander.bsky.social for what he did in the primary & after supporting @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Having a Jewish New Yorker stand up for & alongside with Zohran (not to mention immigrants in NYC) has been so inspiring.

If you missed Zohran’s speech live, this is the link to the whole thing from PBS Newshour on YT: www.youtube.com/live/NnM_RgL... #zohranmamdani #nyc

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani. Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money. That is how we win.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch

Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, won the New York City mayoral race, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state lawmaker to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures. Follow our live coverage: reut.rs/4oUFCPL

Hizzoner the Mayor, Mr. Zohran K. Mamdami. (okay I can breathe now.) (also I think he's going to get back up solidly over 50%, look at the neighborhood breakdown of what's left to come in!) holy shit we did it.

Celebrating at a watch party. All we did was drink and eat lobster rolls and pasta until the call was made. A good welcome to Mamdani.

Delighted to learn (thx @jbarchivist.bsky.social !) that @pastemagazine.bsky.social caught The Canarviers in their latest article, along with 9 other must-reads! www.pastemagazine.com/books/fantas... @dianapho.bsky.social

For those of you who don’t know, the residents of Paterson are overwhelmingly Black and Latino. newjersey.news12.com/bomb-threats...

My final piece for @teenvogue.com politics section was a piece titled "There's a Steep Price to Ignoring Black Expertise" and boy has that come full circle. Thank you @allegrak.bsky.social and the politics editorial team for turning this Head Start kid into a Black woman who writes for the public.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.