This is the massive turnout for last night’s “anti regime” concert in Heroes Square, Budapest, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Hungarian elections. Tens of thousands chanted “Russians go home”. #Orban

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

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A person who holds the belief that they have impunity for their acts because of the power they hold will never truly stand up to Donald Trump, because they fundamentally share beliefs with Donald Trump, and one of those beliefs is that the powerful should not suffer consequences.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

Melania: I never cut child in half with sword. I never do this. The entire USA: what? Melania: not me.

It’s wild how much of the solution here is just “invest in humans”

“Charge your car faster than you can eat a bucket of chicken” seems like china just rubbing it in our faces now

hahahahah ahhaha haaa

Not just a friend who writes other genres, either: plenty of writers have different pen names and put out books cross-genre. Your favorite sci-fi writer might have a sideline in romance, say, or vice-versa. If you badmouth a genre to someone, you risk trashing something they love writing themselves.

Queer book: *honest portrayal of queer experiences* Some loser: "This isn't fun, you aren't comforting and cozying me with this art" Me: "It's treating you through fiction how you treat me in real life" 🤷‍♀️

This is correct.

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Oh, I could scream about this for HOURS. But suffice to say: This is what happens when large studios don't want to fund original projects, anymore. They make Scooby-Doo for the 16th time, and the hot young talents goes off, runs a Kickstarter/gets backed by Glitch, and succeeds without them.

Stop assigning romance novels as homework, thinking shitty men are going yo learn something. It’s not romance’s job to fix incels, and it doesn’t fucking work that way.

For #repostyourart prompt Light!! (Which was yesterday oops) #art #illustration

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is. Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.

I can say without hesitation that this is the HARDEST article I have ever written, but I am incredibly proud of it. If you have questions about Orion’s heat shield, given the issues with Artemis I, I hope I can provide some answers: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

I will say, to all copy-editors who come to work on my books, the CE-vs-writer hill I tend to die on is, yes, you absolutely 100% can hiss without sibilance.

When I put this on tumblr a few years ago, someone complimented me on the accurately drawn plantain (the weed not the banana) and thb I'm still riding that high

Anyone involved in STI awareness knows how "clean" is weaponized (especially queerfolk), so… no, won’t be okay with using the term as a virtue-signal for YA. Nuh-uh. No how. Do not pass go, do not throw entire groups of people under the bus in the name of pearl-clutching gatekeepers.

Mantasy? You mean the entire fucking history of the genre? Fuck out of here with this shit. In fact, we need LESS dudes in SFF. Just a hiatus on dudes writing their vision of the future for the next decade because we've done such a LOVELY job with the present.

“inspired by dog food”

This is funny as hell because Tolkien, Heinlein, Lovecraft, and Asimov wrote like one woman between them all. The people freaking out about women writing fiction are kind of doing the same thing as the people whining about no longer being able to do countdowns of child actresses reaching adulthood

Is it MANTASY or is it HIMDARK?

"men are now demanding a male-focused thing called Mantasy" - citation needed. Are we sure this isn't a joke that's escaped containment?

I have been an editor in genre publishing for thirty-five* years and "mantasy" is the single most ridiculous notion I've come across in all that time. *Oh my sainted aunts

"I'm nostalgic for how SFF used to be" Oh, yeah, lean vibrant prose telling high-concept stories dashed off with urgency by authors as familiar with Shakespeare and Homer as the latest scientific reports “no, it’s the sexism I like”

Literally a hole in the ground countries and corporations can throw bribes into

Maturity is letting other people be wrong on the internet, but let me just say: no, not all authors who self publish are doing so because they can’t get a traditional deal, and yes, the horror stories about trad *do really happen to people.*

Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed - “cognitive surrender.”

Today is day 128 of the ICE occupation of MN. This thread beautifully captures the mood here. Angry. Heartbroken. Tired. And absolutely committed to continue to show up for our neighbors.

The idea that all writers are using AI and just lying about it is not only NOT my experience with other writers, but I think that line of thinking is pure cope. We MUST be using it! I mean everyone THEY know is using it! How else do we get all this done??? Coffee. The answer is coffee & routine.

The story of our age is billionaire narcissist men who are widely known to be frauds or creeps within their industries but are allowed to destroy the world in plain sight because American media & business view rich confidently-speaking white men through an infinitely-forgiving lens of merit.

Me, Jewish: "Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a Papist." The g-damn Pope himself: "What about side by side with a Chicagoan?"

we had this already it was called “the entirety of fantasy, SF, and horror” (also I will reiterate for the thousandth time that MORE DUDES SHOULD READ ROMANCE, you are missing out)

What a weird way to tell people to stop watching your films when you could just retire, but okay.

If you can't deal with the politics of an author's writing, they you aren't the intended audience.

this is not, one way or another, sustainable

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

Impeach him, remove him or he’ll just do it again.

This is a garbage read because "When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020"? No such thing happened, you fell for an op. You quickly and readily believed conspiratorial nonsense because it was about people you already hated, and you still believe nonsense so you learned nothing from this.

It’s a great time to be a white guy who has no morals or idea what he’s doing but really needs billions of dollars for the vital programming of the Center For Shortening Your Lifespan

Am I the only one feeling like the world is being held hostage by that unhinged psycho?