NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems

Just watched Center Stage for the first time in a good 15 years -- thrilled to say that movie still certifiably slaps

The nuclear codes were 1234. The Louvre security password was Louvre. Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another. At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.

Everybody loves to talk about owning the means of production but if you’re an independent artist, they say “not you.”

U👏B👏I (& I'm sure I have woker ones)

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

People think it’s funny but one of the best tests of a person and systems is how it treats three types of people : - servants - poets - children How someone feels about those people and their accountability to and FROM them is a huge statement about their beliefs

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

"The results indicate that recent [immigration] raids coincided with a 22 percent increase in daily student absences with particularly large increases among the youngest (K-5) students."

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Considering the sequel was published last month I've gotta give my firstborn some love.

'i can't believe a science fiction author doesn't like [current tech trend]' isaac asimov refused to use _typewriters_. you will not survive the winter.

We get to make things and thats like the greatest part of being a human being.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

we're getting another shutdown in February

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

thought that maybe waiting literal years to watch the third season of his dark materials would soften the blow of the ending but nope, still a fucking gut punch. there are actual tears streaming down my face as we speak.

Forget a holiday, I insist humans should hybernate during the winter

My review of "Bloodtide", by Sophie Burnham 🌈📚 #queersff #queerspeculativefiction

Fascism can't win without outlets like the NYT and WaPo continuously doing this. Please stop sending money to these outlets. The bland, white-friendly recipes and word puzzles aren't worth it. Fund @theflytrapmedia.com, or @unraveledpress.com, or any number of local independent journalists.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

I #justfinished #bloodtide by S. Burnham- it’s a book/series worth reading. If you like mayhem, intricate worlds, deep yearning, messy relationships, unlikely champions and underdogs this one is for you! (Or your brother in law!) #SFF #booksksy 📚🪐 hollysreadingescapades.blogspot.com/2025/11/nook...

A bit of a mixed bag for October but such a good trade off for two 5 star reads: ✨The Land of the Living and the Dead (phenomenal series overall) and ✨Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham (the most underhyped series to exist) What was your top read in the month of October? #booksky

in unrelated news, who's ready for a general strike?

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

Sometimes protagonists aren't able to fix the world. Sometimes they're not even able to see the problems with it. Sometimes they're just trying to survive. Sometimes they're even part of the problem. The writer isn't the society and the writer isn't the protagonist.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

battling the urge to hurt my own feelings and watch watership down

I’m getting towards the end of Bloodtide by Sophie Burnham and I’m loving that I’m cheering for the #villain from book 1 in book 2! #drama #booksky #bloodtide #newbooks #SFF

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

This person took this when they called the race

New awareness campaign

Thank you, @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @jonlovett.bsky.social & @crooked.com for speaking with me about the ridiculous and dystopian reality we’re all being forced to exist in.

It was great meeting you!

Holy crap. This is definitely the coolest thing to happen to me with these books. You're right, it's *gorgeous*

This is...not good.

Hey US and Canada folks! My Nebula, World Fantasy & Locus award nominated novel SHIGIDI will (finally!) be out in paperback on Nov 4. If you couldn't get the hardcover when it came out (understandably so!) here's your chance. Its got African gods + a succubus + a heist at the British museum!

Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism… And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas… America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.

On the way down to #WorldFantasyCon! I'm not doing official programming but come say hi if you spot me!

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Running around Edinburgh on the hunt for an emergency pair of new Blundstones before I head down to Brighton for World Fantasy Con because last night's rain informed me that my old pair BOTH have cracked soles. This is the most niche stress I've ever experienced.

I remember an economist saying famine doesn’t happen in a democracy and, well, cutting off food stamps proves what many of us have been saying about the US now.

Dutch libraries have invented an AI chatbot that can recommend books to you You know what else can recommend books to you ~a fucking librarian~

"yay!!"