So, uh, the pneumonia's not going so well.

I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

Meet the BRAVE NEW WEIRD class of 2023!👽💀 We're no stranger to @lcvonhessen.bsky.social's brilliance--their story kicked off our YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY anthology--& we're thrilled to have them back in our pages. Read our Q&A w/LC here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2024/6/...

I wrote about the 70th anniversary of Them!, a pretty effective creature feature that grappled with America's nuclear legacy in a way that was both contemplative and clumsy:

Woke up spiraling, convinced my pneumonia was getting worse again and I was going to have to be admitted and maybe even need another transplant and everything was terrible -- and then I took my anxiety meds and everything's fine. Don't forget to factor in your mental health, folks.

We're excited to welcome Thomas Ha and Naomi Kritzer to our Locus Awards reading series!! Join us as they read from their work Thursday 6/21 at 6 pm PDT. Full schedule here: tinyurl.com/locusawa... @thomasha.bsky.social @naomikritzer.bsky.social #LocusAwards2024 #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy

Bumped into this today, and it gave me joy.

Uh, holy shit. This is actually awesome. www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-p...

Finally feeling slightly better than hot-boiled shit, so a very belated update: Happy Pride, congrats to all the Stoker and Nebula winners, billionaires shouldn't exist, fuck the police, and have a great weekend!

Reminder that I am running a promotion to get The Nightmare Box into libraries! 📚 See below ...

Bump stocks have no purpose outside of mass shootings, but the Republicans on the Supreme Court believe there's a fundamental right to commit mass shootings, and now we all have to live with that while they party on billionaire's yachts and ranches.

I think about this letter from Kurt Vonnegut to a group of NYC high school students often. “Practice any art…no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”

the only good tesla

Kinda crazy that artificial intelligence needs the entire output of a nuclear reactor but actual intelligence can run on Twix bars and cocaine, for example.

hague trials needed for the people behind this. Pure evil. Also publish names. We want their names.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

From the mead halls, snake pits, and dragon dens of the north, we present some of the most epic fighters ever immortalized in song, saga, and myth! reactormag.com/five-legenda...

the CDC is again trying to limit the 2024-25 booster availability to provably immunocompromised and elderly people. they’re taking written comments through the 17th. please take a minute to let them know boosters should be available to all who want them: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...

even with COVID absent from the equation, which it isn’t, this would keep transplant recipients and people immunosuppressed from chemotherapy and other causes—and their caregivers—from being able to use the transit system safely it is thunderously illogical and cruel

Defend your joy Organize your rage

Meet the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Class of '23! BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Two is out in two weeks & we've been posting Q&A's with the contributors the past couple months. Today we talk to @amitha.bsky.social about her experimental poem "My Mother, the Exoskeleton." tenebrouspress.com/blog/2024/6/...

the good applications | patreon.com/lubchansky

TIL there are 813 billionaires in the US and that’s 813 too many

As I said in my acceptance speech: please encourage your networks and your readers to donate to the Gaza Municipality's fundraiser here: gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/6737

Maestro Joe Dante's GREMLINS was also released OTD in 1984, so happy 40th anniversary to these lil guys as well :)

A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.

I really cannot overemphasize how serious those of us who say this might be the last meaningful election are this will not be anything like his first term and they are deadly serious about eliminating any possible opposition to their theocracy inside or outside the government

Very real chance I have the flu. Getting tested this afternoon. Obviously feeling like shit, but the worst part is that I don't seem to want coffee.

Media frame is: Will Trump seek “retaliation," or won’t he? But that lets him set the terms of the debate. He is expressly vowing prosecutions *solely because* he's been held accountable to the law, meaning he'll prosecute with no evidence of wrongdoing. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/1824...

I have a surreal piece in Cosmorama out today! A woman is on trial for writing a blog post about her dream in a dystopian society obsessed with the past: cosmorama.site/fiction/drea...

People don't change much. Yet we continue to peddle 'character arcs' as the only way to write vivid characters. It's a formula with which folks can "objectively" measure the worth of a narrative. Them: "What has she learned from all this?" Me: "She hasn't learned shit. Most people don't."

"Steal the generic plagiarized average of other artists work" is the most perfect description I've heard so far

I Will Not Apologize Happy Pride, ya'll $3 Download: ko-fi.com/s/ac6c284e8c Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmo... Shirts: mxmorgan.threadless.com/mens/t-shirt...

Pride Month is well underway, so I wanted to share a thread of queer titles I've read and enjoyed recently. We all need more books on our TBR piles, right?

About a dozen copies left of each of the BRAVE NEW WEIRD hardcovers; both Vols 1 & the forthcoming Vol 2. Signed bookplates w/each. Shipping at the end of the month. Snag your copy today & dive deep into the best New Weird fiction of the year👽💀🍄 store.tenebrouspress.com

*tiptoes over, sets this down, scurries back into deep cave*

When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.

Caring about community means being careful for all of us.

Hey y'all, if you enjoyed my novel SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF OBALUFON please help spread the word. It could use a boost in sales in the US & Canada. Word of mouth, reviews, social media, bookstore + library requests, all help. Thank you! Handy link: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688459...

So... lying? You can just say "lying." They're lying.

Bob's Burgers, Futurama, Community, Scrubs ... and that's just off the top of my head. I've had TV running in the background since college, basically.

I cannot possibly express how much I love libraries. So I'm running a promotion for The Nightmare Box And Other Stories (TNBAOS), designed to get it into libraries. Details in next post (1 of 2) www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

AND THE NEWS IS OUT! I'm absolutely thrilled to have a queer pirate book coming out with Darklit Press—it's been so hard keeping that silent for weeks!