"So what's it say, that Latin?" Call asked. "It's a motto," Augustus said. "It just says itself." ––Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

This message hits hard.

"I want," the man said to the literary robot, "a character driven story with deep emotion, deep back story and emotional impact..." "CERTAINLY," said the literary robot. A small paper print out popped from its chest. "Hey, what's this?" "A library card, where they have works such as you requested."

Someone didn't learn from NaNoWriMo's AI implosion and it shows.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

… wild thing …

STORE: Thank you for your order! STORE: We are preparing your order! STORE: We put your order in a box! STORE: Look who has a mailing label! STORE: Your order has been shipped! STORE: Your order is in your city! STORE: Your order is nearby! STORE: Your order sees you. STORE: Turn around.

Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user? Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

The @nytimes.com Book Review selects @danielkraus.com's ANGEL DOWN for its 10 Best Books of 2025, calling it "a triumphant, unforgettable book filled with bravura writing, indelible set pieces and an urgent message." Celebrate with a 43rd Butcher Birds tee, sticker or patch from threadsofdread.com ⭐

This is why I have stopped using Gmail except as the email that I give when online shopping. My main email is Proton now. Google turned their service into a dumping ground for spam. So that's how I use it.

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

Shockingly accurate! 😈

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED. So here:

Today is Burgess Meredith's birthday, so everybody be extra careful w/ your glasses. #BOTD #FilmSky

Spydere Man, Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondry webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

me: you are the best cat ever, no cat could possibly be better my cat: swipes with claws, draws blood me: haha, just you being you

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

I asked my French publisher why they are so completist publishing all of an author's work, even novels less likely to sell. She said she sees part of her role as like monasteries in medieval times, to preserve knowledge through the dark ages. I was struck in the gut a bit by this, felt emotional.

The Lord of the Rings ys about how the worlde kan be saved by learninge, compassioun, understandinge manye languages, buildinge friendeshippes across cultural divides, and gardeninge.

The first official Call of Cthulhu audio investigation adventure, Alone Against the Tide, is now available on Sound Realms. Your investigation begins in the sleepy town of Esbury… but something calls to you from the depths. Buy here: bit.ly/4oIbJSB

Report: Americans Most Physically Active When Getting Comfy https://theonion.com/report-americans-most-physically-active-when-getting-c-1819579560/

Pls. repost and share: #OA #OER free scholar-produced resource for teachinge and readinge *The Canterbury Tales* at the Universitye level: THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

Paul Tremblay is in PEOPLE! Get a load of the synopsis - sounds riveting! Also, they call him "the celebrated author." Darn straight!

"Dammit, Phil, this meeting could have been an email." #birds #sparrows

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Congratulations to Patrick Bazile for being one of the two winners of a Strangies Award for "Best Voice" in the story, "The Alamo" on the @drabblecast.bsky.social podcast! Thank you for making the story sound so amazing! www.drabblecast.org/2023/11/23/d... (scroll to bottom of page for audio)

Apologize for retweeting the same article twice but - and I say this with no hint of irony - this is a pretext to the single largest, easily litigated lawsuit in human history. This is an egregious violation of IP law, law protected quite literally & specifically by the Constitution. Total insanity.

YES!!

Here’s some Milka Lolo art to make your Sunday a little better.

🎶...when the lights go down in the city...🎶 "lights" - journey #photography #StunDay #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKForKaraoke

200+ pages into a second draft, I'm thinking again about how the world of a novel (and the voice you write about it in) ideally gets stronger and stronger as you write. A problem I'm always thinking about: The day you're truly prepped to start writing a novel is probably the day you finish it.

Have you heard the good news? California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient. This article made my day! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

I hosted a Syrian refugee in my home for two years (via the Irish Red Cross) & it's one of the best decisions I ever made - I gained another little brother! Here's an article about people doing the same in the UK. If you have a spare bedroom, do think about it. 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980’s and how everyone looks so incredibly 80’s except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled

We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do

If this happens I am going to become the Joker

Happy National Book Day! www.essence.com/news/nationa...

Chekhov's stick.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

I generally encourage new / original horror films over remakes in any given circumstance, but I'd love to see a new Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Blob or even The Fly that worked in conversation with How Things Are Now.

Good, but it’s no -

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -- James Baldwin

Well, this is a hoot! lawrencekstimes.com/2025/07/26/s...