watching your abilities grow and evolve with time is one of the most rewarding feelings art can give you, and it's also part of what makes it so human and why bad art is still worth making. even the messiest thing you create has its place in your repertoire and contains some part of your spirit.

Marimar Martinez is so incredibly courageous in her quest to demand justice and transparency. We all owe her a debt.

It’s getting to be that time of the year again youtu.be/sjco86ekIlQ?...

Not without cause, she is storm-blooded.

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Which countries sent the most athletes per capita to the 2026 Winter Olympics? Liechtenstein clears the field by sending 8 athletes from a population of 40,023, meaning roughly 1 out of every 5,000 Liechtensteiners is at the Olympics. This is a deeply unserious and extremely important statistic.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

today is a wonderful day to love and support trans people and trans artists 🏳️‍⚧️

Unseen Path ✨

All these wellness grifters like Attia and Chopra showing up in the Epstein files is really no surprise to anyone who notices how the grift works, by taking advantage of innocent people through power and money, so of course they were involved with guys like Epstein

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Reaaaad this beautiful pooeeemmm

So, yes, Small Wonders has just published a brand new poem by me, "Straw Gold." Free to read here: smallwondersmag.com/piece/straw-...

This is really stirring and lovely.

Loved ones at home wait anxiously for my return.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️ More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)

LOOK AT THIS TABLE OF CONTENTS AAAAAAAAAA!!! Honestly, I kept tearing up while I was making these images. We started planning for @othersidespec.bsky.social in the summer of 2024, and… here we are. This is the best thing I’ve ever done. This is the best day. I can’t wait for March.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

aside from all that, there's another reason to avoid building one: a Dyson swarm would be easily convertible to a Nicoll-Dyson laser that could evaporate planets at galactic ranges, and anyone observing one under construction would be justified in relativistic-kill-vehicling the system into dust

I'm still processing the news. I loved this gig so much. Getting to shout about great books by especially newer authors has been one of the most uncomplicated sources of joy in my life, and I'm gonna be sad about this for a long time.

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

Sickened by today's layoffs at The Washington Post. Journalism is essential. Sharing this thread from a non-profit outlet covering DC news. Our democracy, and our communities, need work like this to succeed.

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

If you see this, share your art with clouds! #digitalart #drawing #украрт #ukrart #illustration #arttrain

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

free dril

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

The dog days are over ... but the responses to our NFL player poll are just getting started 🎶

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again saying the political response of local police depts probably worth following given Trump's efforts to federalize policing

🍃🍄Reckoning Magazine (@reckoningmag.bsky.social) is open for submissions in art, creative nonfiction, critical essay, fiction, novellas, and reviews! 🍃🍄 Open 01 Feb-31 August. Reckoning is a speculative leaning environmental justice magazine. Read about what we want here: reckoning.press/submit/

After years of being asked about it, I am finally making an oracle deck. neat!

I wrote about a bunch of AIs going off and creating their own community (in @lightspeedmagazine.com a few weeks ago) but it is such a terrible idea to go off and build this on purpose. Mini-thread. 1/

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

Okay please shit on jkr But don’t use the logic “it’s suspicious an adult wanted to make a magical world for children” Bc that’s how you get “everyone who works on media for children should be jailed” ass logic

WHOA. An amazing deal on some amazing books for an amazing cause.

GUESS WHAT we are OPEN for 2025 AFTERLIVES: The Year's Best Death Stories subs!! BUT (and this is SUPER IMPORTANT) we are asking EDITORS to send us work this time so WRITERS, be in touch with your editors and READ ON for more info: psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...

I’m an adult with the financial power to buy both a set of tiddlywinks and a game of pick-up-sticks at the same time 😤

No new pictures. Where are you at, mentally

This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."

Magical Horse Girl

Sick of this dystopian tech overlord men with no panache and bad haircuts enabling a pants shitting president and bald hitler wannabe trying to undo things that can’t be undone ass reality we are living. They are so tedious and venal. It’s galling.

From the 2025 Recommended Reading List, check out THE BLACK FANTASTIC edited by andré m. carrington www.loa.org/books/th...