Kelly Barnhill's THE CRANE HUSBAND has such a gorgeous cover, I can't get over it (the book is also very, very good)

Recently finished @strawburriez.bsky.social 's WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY, and I'm still thinking about a few weeks later. I feel like we're in a cultural moment where we're struggling to know how to protect kids. Not just how but whether, how much, which kids, against whom...

new 'reach for the stars' writer ambition unlocked lmao

hmmmm, a budget friendly way to support translations of Spanish-language speculative fiction, you say?

This articulates something I've been thinking about! There's an initiative in my state that people are gathering signatures for that would ban trans girls from little league/school sports, and if we can just manage to tie that to Trump I think we win for a generation

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

I bought a cake to celebrate the death of Dick Cheney (pineapple upside-down cake bc I’m not a huge fan of frosting; you’ll have to imagine the decorations saying ‘rot in hell, war criminal’) and when I went to post this pic I saw all the election news rolling in so now I’m really celebrating 🎉 🎉 🎉

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

I see the NYT has a retrospective on Dick Cheney's life in photos and the fact that it isn't just all the photos of torture at Abu Ghraib is another good reason to ignore the NYT forever

Become an #Accompaniment Volunteer! Stand with immigrants as they navigate court appointments and learn how immigration systems impact our communities. 📅 Wed, Nov 12, 2025 | 6 PM PST 📍 Virtual (in English) 🔗 tinyurl.com/Accompaniment-Nov2025 No one should face the system alone. #WAISN

I have a short story about this (and other local atrocities) but now that I go to look for the link I see the magazine where it was published has let the site lapse. Such a 2025 feeling. Maybe I'll just put it up on my own website...

The sub call for Indigenous writers is now open! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

this is one of my biggest gripes with activist spaces these days tbh

It's still so weird to me that the Planter discourse is about the Nazi tattoo (bad) and not the fact that he was A MERCENARY FOR BLACKWATER DURING THE FIRST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

well this sounds like a book I'm definitely going to read as soon as I can get my hands on it

Honestly if you want to do the Edgy Critique of Nazi tattoo guy it's that everyone cares about the tattoo and not the fact that this guy spent a decade murdering people in Iraq and Afghanistan and worked for fucking Blackwater because tattoos mean more to Americans Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

You're also not a sucker for believing in people. I get the sense that this needs to be stated from time to time.

Coming up in just a few hours now, @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social and Alan Boyle and I talk live about Daniel's new book Hole in the Sky (alien first contact on a Cherokee rez). That's 7 pm. Pacific, and here is a registration link for this FREE event: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

No detention center should exist. Shut Down NWDC! NWDC currently does not have clean water or air, and there are multiple women who are pregnant. Free them all! #AbolishICE #AbolishGEOGROUP #ChingaLaMigra #ShutdownNWDC #FreeThemALL

In September, we interviewed all 10 Tacoma City Council and Mayor candidates, on transit, about transportation issues. downtownonthego.com/about/news-e...

Puyallup see also: Sequim

yes please

Ope this is going off Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees. As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no. So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact. secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...

rounding up some of my most Latinx work for #LatinxHeritageMonth 🧵 1/7: "Queen of the Andes," a story about climate refugees in the Andes attempting to save the titular plant, a rare species of bromeliad, from extinction. published in @lightspeedmagazine.com and listed as notable in BASFF!

"you can't get people to participate in other modes of living by just showing them the wound and asking them to feel how much it really hurts" turns out this is true for literally every single catastrophe we're facing right now, who knew

Never forget how many more of us there are than them. Never forget how much more power we can have, when we act in solidarity and simply take it for ourselves.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day - a reminder that one person saying "No" can make an unimaginable difference.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

1/1🧵 Immigration enforcement report: WA State | July 16-31, 2025 In the last two weeks of July, the WAISN Deportation Defense Hotline received 445 calls from people documenting or verifying immigration activity in their area. Here’s what we’re seeing 👇

I just love the way he talks so dang much. That rising tone on "neighbors" 🤌

if you're interested in pop culture that actually pushes back against the erosion of freedoms, you'll get more of it from one issue of an SFF zine than you will in a year of every streaming service combined

"I’m not afraid of the fallout of last week’s news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned." open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

It’s natural & correct to love big trees. But it’s NOT natural or correct to love a few big trees in your own nbhd at the expense of housing our neighbors, fighting climate change, saving many more old trees elsewhere, growing the next gen of plants, & building a just city free from car dependence.

Wednesday! Our annual hygiene drive with @ywcapierceco to assist them in providing needed items for clients in all of their programs! YWCA has always advocated for those in our community who require housing, counseling, legal assistance, emergency shelter, and much, much more.

Public transit and science fiction!! You know you want it! Check out this incredible FREE event tomorrow, 9/16, in San Francisco. The good news is that this event will be livestreamed, so you can sign up to watch remotely at the link!

Bookshop is offering 20 percent off select titles to celebrate Latin American Heritage Month, including THE BEWITCHING and other books (The Great Divide, Pink Slime, etc). Use code LHM25 at checkout to receive 20% off. bookshop.org/lists/adult-...

I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Black people are experts on how America works. If you want to survive this country and hopefully meaningfully transform it, you’d do well to listen to us.

I keep thinking about how a couple of years ago someone walked into an apartment maybe 20 minutes away from mine and murdered a trans woman named Unique Banks and shot her mom, her boyfriend, and two other trans fems and it barely got a news story and meanwhile Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Already building up their narrative. “It prob wasn’t a trans but it COULD have been a trans. You probubly thought it was a trans at first for absolutely no reason and not at all because it’s what we’ve been propagandizing for years at this point, no it’s just cause the transes are bad.”

I don't think I've ever seen anything more Seattle lmao She better win!

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"Activists working to end ICE Air’s presence in Seattle have zeroed in on Signature’s work as a service provider for charter flights.

Over the last few months I've become fascinated with Abundance, the new nominally liberal ideology pushed by liberal stalwarts like Ezra Klein. But if you peak behind the curtain and look at the funding you discovering something horrifying: Peter Theil, the Koch Moreover, ICE must b destroyed

Thread about which books of mine I expect to be eligible for the Anthropic settlement in case it is useful to see how it breaks down for one author (who is not expert in copyright law but has read everything she can on this so far.) +

This is also very true of the RELIGIOUS right — Paula White, Lance Wallnau, Al Mohler, Sam Alito, Steve Strang, Charlie Kirk, Mike Johnson, JD Vance, Sean Feucht, Doug Wilson, David Barton, Ralph Drollinger, Eric Metaxas, the De Vos family, those relying on donations from the De Vos family, etc.

sometimes it's kind of entertaining to wake with no context memento style to discourse. everyone yelling, "show me the horny old men with an erection! name one lusty professor with a co-ed i dare you!" and you're looking around for notes and tattoos to figure out how you got here and maybe a weapon

La Resistencia did a video call with Gerson Enrique Castaneda Piche. The second person who is doing the hunger strike with Steven Antonio Chavrria Portillo.

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d have to warn writers against submitting to Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, Alfred Hitchcock’s, or Ellery Queen’s.

My review of the May/June issue of @analogsf.bsky.social for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online! locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...