I am gobsmacked? Shook?? Thunderstruck a.k.a astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak??? (thank you for like my story this much 😭)

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

How do you “come to the table” with the colonial regime that did this to you?

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…” @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th. www.32auctions.com/unboundforga... The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.

I read three books that were published the year I was born and it was…interesting! youtu.be/WVIPh7Wxf_I?...

LA WorldCon has released a statement. It's better than I expected but still not as thorough as I'd like. www.lacon.org/2025/08/21/s...

Next year's WorldCon is in Los Angeles, and the theme appears to be Westward Expansion or possibly Manifest Destiny. The guests are referred to as Pioneers and the venue as The Frontier. This year the awards were swept by Indigenous writers. The choice is stunning in its ugliness.

The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope

Hey, I have had a largely great experience at Worldcon, but the #Hugos owe @wordsiren.bsky.social an apology for forgetting to include her in the announced Lodestar nominees during the award ceremony. Kamilah deserved celebration, not this blatant disrespect.

i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age

Whoops, I let a few months go by without posting a YouTube video, but I posted one yesterday! youtu.be/YxFn4pFcMh0?...

I wonder if they’ll address doing two HP fanfic books despite saying that they would no longer platform that franchise (including announcing one edition on the same day as the JKR funded case stripping transwomen of their rights)

for anyone even remotely tempted to see how much of a trainwreck this is, let me save you the time and just link you @jemilabe.bsky.social review www.youtube.com/watch?v=1406...

In which I talk about Lovecraft, Dramione and resistance. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6rYCthH/

If you’ve ever wanted to read a book about a Palestinian haunted house that fights back against its occupiers—and the three generations of Palestinian women who are connected to it—then be on the lookout for Deena Helm’s debut! Coming to you in Sept 2026 from Tor Nightfire! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

This is a jaw-dropping lie. Check my feed for videos of ICE at Dodger Stadium trying to get into the parking lot and being blocked by the LAPD.

When ICE comes into our neighborhoods targeting our communities and hurting our leaders, we show up! United. Organized. Ready to protect families.

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of *who you want to be mayor* and if you *don’t* want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

You want to know the upcoming fantasy/Romantasy trad pub books written by black authors? Well I’ve created a spreadsheet listing all of the upcoming books so that you can plan your preorders now 🤎. Romantasy Click this link #booksky #blackbooksky #fantasy

This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.

There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

God have mercy; when will it end??!!??!!

Ebook ARC, anyone? Cosmic horror during early Harlem Renaissance. Themes are: trauma/healing, poetry, music, Great Migration, set against a rich historical background. CW - war refs, racism, gore (very little), slight body horror. Interested? Lmk by reply or by DM. #bvm, 📚😱, 💙📚, #BlackBookSky

Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes

This is my favorite kind of AI take: phrased as a dunk but immediately grants the central complaint that most people are actually making about LLMs, which is that they do not and cannot do the thing they’re widely marketed to do

I’m gonna say this a little more loudly: there is no “exception” for GenAI usage if you support artists, writers, musicians, the planet, poor communities polluted by the generators, etc. None. Your “silly little uses” are still exploiting everyone and fucking everything up. Full stop. Thread.

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

GUESS WHATS COMING SOOOOOOOON!!! #Writesky #authorsky #booksky #coverreveal

they know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers

‪Dev Patel is set to star in and direct a new revenge action thriller ‘THE PEASANT’‬ ‪The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community‬

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

1/ Palantir, a huge private surveillance corporation, is taking on an increased role w/ Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)—like finding the physical location of people who are marked for deportation. We know this from a leak of Palantir Slack chats & other internal messages.

My Indie Bookstore Day purchases from Broadway Books! They also gave me a free arc with my purchase!

BREAKING: A new Gaza solidarity encampment is being built at Yale, one year after dozens were arrested here. They demand immediate divestment from Israeli weapons manufacturing. Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway. FREE PALESTINE!

Holy shit this is such a terrible answer from the @illumicrate.bsky.social Chief of Operations/Head of Communications. Honestly saying nothing would’ve been less insulting

I wonder why I haven't seen any Bitter Root comparisons?

Anywaysssss here are two books I would recommend if you loved Sinners:

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

Finally posted a new YouTube video! Did the Get To Know My Tastes Tag created by @mynameismarines.bsky.social and @thoughtsontomes.bsky.social ! youtu.be/ik5Hh16x4Zc?...

My March wrap up! A much better reading month for me, both in terms of quantity and quality!