Y’know how mass shooters keep trying to escalate to be the biggest and worst for their fifteen minutes of fame and some kind of evil record even if they’re dead? Getting that feeling from ICE.

You know those weird people who don't seem to know how to do anything without ChatGPT even though they did just fine three years ago? That's my parents with Location Sharing.

Picked my parents up from O'hare today. It's, of course, cold here, but not...remarkably cold, really. -10 or so. My parents Did Not Have Winter Coats. Shades of every single time growing up they told me to put a jacket on because it was 65 are haunting me.

Hey APub authors who have Amazon works on the rights list--this could give you a LOT more money out of the Anthropic settlement.

For any unions participating, this is unequivocally 100% an illegal strike. Generally speaking, formal job action by unions is prohibited while a contract is in effect - strikes are only allowed once a contract expires (unfair labour practice strikes exist too but I'm trying to keep this simple)

For people asking “why isn’t there a general strike?” earnestly, and not just to be a judgmental prick

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

Walked into a door while holding a box in front of me last night (was putting the box away) so hard I have bruises today. It wasn't like I was running. Why. How. What the hell.

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

2026: the year so bad that even the Third Amendment is suddenly relevant

And we are not "centering whiteness" by honoring folks like John Brown or Viola Liuzzo. They counted the cost and laid down their lives for the struggle just like one of my great-grandfathers did. This is why we need A People's History of Humanity (Zinn) instead of the propaganda and lies.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Cost of doing business?! Your job is literally the control and prevention of diseases. It’s in your agency’s name. www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...

And you can't assign a number to "weird and interesting." You have to take risks. You have to be OK with failure. Otherwise you're publishing 10,000 titles that are vaguely similar and that's not going to work out for you long term. It's boring.

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

I've said this a couple times in interviews lately but it's annoying that the lesson publishing will take away from this isn't "invest in more specific, niche, and/or weird books that cater to an under-served readership." It'll be "MORE SPORTS" bc that's a variable they can quantify.

this part of the thread especially!!! and specifically: you have to invest in your authors, and in your gd midlist. Martha Wells was in these trenches for over twenty years before Murderbot happened.

I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague.

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

The dichotomy of being me: *walks outside when it's 20 degrees* "Oh, that's pretty warm! *snuggled under blankets in my apartment* "If it's under 70 I'm going to freeze to death.

I do think ICE kidnapping so many random white citizens based on nothing might, actually, be helping in some ways, because way, way more random white people are being affected by "My friend/kid/sister??? What the fuck???"

"Research would tell us that most ICE agents entered into these jobs in part because they want approval, and they want to affirm their masculinity in public," said sociologist Nicole Bedera. "An ICE watch works by surrounding these people ... with disapproval."

I was trying to give them a chance to respond, but it's been 15 hrs and nothing so: LA WorldCon is using genAI "art" on their website and promo materials. Given everything that went down last year (and with SWFA recently), it's pretty disheartening to see this.

“society” = “my personal bank account”

we wouldn’t be burnt out at all if we had enough income to work part time and pour more love into our writing instead of struggling to survive. companies and governments have poured billions into shitty AI, which could’ve funded countless writers.

I try to be sensitive to not proclaiming things to be new that are not new, but I’m not aware of a time when this has been the way a president talked about other countries with which we had no conflict. Certainly not in my lifetime.

“A fascist worked across borders today. Did you?”

Find something you like on Amazon, Audible, Etsy, Spotify, etc? See whether you can buy it directly from the creator first.

AI art always makes me think of the line "almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"

Douglas Adams was a true visionary for realizing that if doors could talk, that would actually be really terrible.

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Normally I just make characters left-handed because I deserve treats, but for Avel specifically it causes so many additional problems and implications that I get bonus treats for story points.

Please, never be shy telling an author you loved their books. It’s seriously what gets us through.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Got my first bag of potato chips in months. Cracked it open. The first chip out of the bag was... soggy? The second chip was almost fungal. Baffled, I explored the bag and discovered AN ENTIRE POTATO. Unsliced, brined, like a wad of seasoning juice. It had survived, and now was juicing the chips.

Yes, voting against ICE funding is the morally right thing to do. But you can be the most heartless political consultant bastard out there - cutting ICE is still the smart play. That Schumer/Jeffries are silent right now is political malpractice (and morally reprehensible, if you care about that).

Made it over to the leasing office for proof of life and apologies and thank yous (because they also apologized for calling my dad) and left a sticky note on my neighbor's door thanking them.

What's an appropriate apology gift for "I'm sorry I made people think I was dead because Door Dash delivered to the wrong address and I screen calls"?

*thinks about writing and sighs happily*

My brain on repeat today: I'm just a bill, and life is a nightmare Suffering.

Realized last night that the Kids don't have any real concept of who Steve Irwin was anymore, and I didn't even watch his show and that kinda hurts somehow.

❤️💙 his #sherliam #yuumori #fanart

America Rock is kinda dated and all, but I do kind of want it playing a loop in Congress, the White House, and the entirety of ICE right now. At the very least, it very much upholds the American mythos and ideal they’re supposed to believe in.

Tryna juice that IPO, huh?

DO YOUR PART!

I only saw this specialist once, but I will forever remember the neuro-ophthalmologist who took me out of the exam room to walk up and down the hallway to check my gait and then made a point to ask all the “are you being abused” questions there where my mother couldn’t hear. He got it.

Fuck you; make me.

Writing siblings is fun. Read/watching well written siblings is also a treat.