Interview with the Vampire TV show is really good man. They’ve made a show where every male character in the ensemble is a different kind of gay little bitch

This little book won me my first Aurealis Award last night, for Best Fantasy Novella! 🥳

quite a few of my books serve up these ☺️

So excited to be heading to Melbourne on Thursday 12th March to give a talk on my new book. I’ll be talking about current conflicts over LGBT rights and how emotions shape the possibilities of social repair and law reform. Come along if you’re around! Register here: www.monash.edu/law/research...

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did my email not find you? or did my email find you too transphobic to want to reply considering my new name? — the ever-green question, it seems! transition = social anxiety x 100!

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement. Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

eating the rich is a good option because they've been fed organic all their lives and get exercise and go to the doctor. this means the meat is healthy and will taste good. stress makes meat sour, which is why the poor are not candidates for the cookpot

wow The Thursday Murder Club was pumped full of amazing actors and dramatic cinematic vibes, but entirely held up by everyone desperately handwaving over illogical plot points? and so much heavy-handed dialogue! im usually a very chill film watcher but i actually grimaced! sorry y’all, i struggled!!

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

you don’t have to put up with only a sprinkling of pineapple on your pizza! you can ask them to double or triple the pineapple so there is actually an appropriate amount!

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

we spent years setting up WorldCon 2020 then had to pivot to digital in a couple of months due to covid. It's still something that hurts a little – I'd really appreciate any support in bringing it back to the South Pacific so folks like me can actually attend in person, for once.

If you're in a position to vote on this, do the South Pacific a solid and vote for Brisbane. The last time Worldcon was scheduled down here it was 2020 in Wellington and it didn't happen in person. Will have been 18 years by 2028 since we got an accessible in-person con. Put the World in Worldcon.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

sometimes the writing doesn’t go as quickly as i want but it does go well, and i find that—having always been a very quick, obsessive writer—accepting that this is still a good outcome is one of the biggest challenges for me

Oi oi! Spread the word! A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES is now available to request on NetGalley in the UK! North American reviewers - at the moment ADOBB is labelled as “currently unavailable” but it will hopefully be back up again soon.

For fat people, that means that the gnarliest anti-fat assholes in our lives are being told, day in & day out, that their bigotry and biases are correct and virtuous. They get to reassure themselves that their bullying of fat people is somehow a service to us.

"Our focus is on reducing women in the House of Reps, but we're on track also reduce our female vote to zero too." chaser.com.au/national/ang...

Hugo Noms have opened and I want to get in quick with this: there is a fabulous and vibrant contemporary SFF novella scene and the quality is *not* disproportionately located at tordotcom, which puts out brilliant work but does not have a monopoly on it. 5 titles for your consideration follow:

Someone pointed out to me that when AI is supposed to be your servant they use female name and when it’s supposed to be the expert in everything they use male names and I can’t unsee it.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

after ten years of living in the middle of nowhere, this morning i had to STOP at the end of my driveway for TWO CARS coming one from each direction AT THE SAME TIME. this is unacceptable time to move

post a banger that isn’t in english (this one reaches into my heart every time i hear it. have plotted much tortured romance with it on—highly recommend!) youtu.be/37dGDZ0hlB4?...

If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them. There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

nothing quite like sitting here writing a scary gothicky scene and BAM! bird flies into the window so hard it gives you a heart attack (bird was fine)

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

the very obvious elephant in the room for "AI" is that even if all the negatives could be ignored or didn't exist - if it was clean, if it was ethical, if it wasn't a front for fascism - it would still be the death of humanity purely because it kills the ability to think and act for themselves.

For me, the hardest part of being broke and an artist, was accepting my point of view is valuable. The world can make you feel like you have nothing interesting to say if you can't afford a certain lifestyle. Relying on GenAI in that case is agreeing that you have nothing to say lol

The best skill you can develop to get good at anything is the ability to laugh while continuing to push yourself. If you can't have fun with your mistakes, then you will have a miserable time getting better.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Two Grammys in a row have featured insanely talented, generationally cool young women taking stands for social justice in their speeches, followed by major outlets publishing trash op-eds from boring misogynists who spend more time belittling the messengers than actually addressing their concerns.

Algorithms have failed artists, so once again I am appealing to the wealthy to go back to the practice of patronising artists so you can brag that your sicko is better than your rival’s sicko

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

this is my maybe extremely redundant and lukewarm? take, but this stems from holding art up to some expression of personal morality and then art consumption as a performance of personal morality. either way, art isn't seen as a job. bad people can still be good at their job!

When you next hear a billionaire screaming at you that trans people are a “danger to women and girls”, just remember who’s in the Epstein files. Trans people: zero. Billionaires: all of them.

Even if, in what would be by far the most conspiracy brained reveal, Epstein convinced the creation of r/pol, 4chan wouldn't have become a major political force in the world if there weren't thousands of people willing to use the platform day after day after day.

Why 16 Oscar nominations for SINNERS matters, and why you've probably never heard of the oldest written Black vampire tale in North America. Happy Black History Month to all who celebrate!

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

“i am carrying dangerous goods” it’s all the smutty books

I have been arguing since the great anti Muslim panic under Bush that conservatives are fucking weak ass fuckers. They’re goddamned scared of EVERYTHING. Muslims. Black people. Women. Drag queens. I’ve never seen a more scared ass group in my life. They’re fucking scared of WHISTLES.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I mean, a lot of this is quite directly a moral panic about social media apparently turning teenagers trans, if you dig into who's funding this push and what they're like.