Excited to be part of Boskone programming this weekend with so many others incredibly talented people. Horror, romance, libraries--so many fun topics to chat about.

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

I was already worried about current media literacy, but the number of people complaining that Green Day "didn't get political" as if they didn't play American Idiot at the literal Super Bowl.

what a shot

FUCK YEAH BAD BUNNY

With the announcement of a BG3 tv show, give me your pitches for a plot. 1. Mystery thriller where they have to hunt down the strange ox in the city after it begins murdering people.

Very excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish: www.404media.co/icezine/

If you know anybody who wants to help out a trans Girl Scout... open.substack.com/pub/erininth... @gailsimone.bsky.social @gregrucka.com

A bunch of Minneapolis authors are coming together to offer incentives for donating. If you DM me proof of donation, I’ll send you a bookplate and a piece of microfiction that is set in the word of The First Bright Thing.

It's a lot right now so here are some constructive things you can do: Save timestamped posts with facts (see @chrisgeidner.bsky.social) Donate to MN support groups www.ilcm.org Donate to @runforsomething.net Call your reps. Call volume matters. AND THEN GET OFF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE DAY

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!! My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

I think about this one a lot

It took me way too long to realize the manuscript I've been agonizing over was really about grief the whole time

All righty -- this year's writerly resolution is live, should you care to read it. The tl;dr is it's actually quite an optimistic read, so hopefully it'll give you some juice to kick open the new year and put words to stories that need to be told.

uh holy SHIT?

I am also in this issue!

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Gotta love drafting a new thing and wondering if anyone else will find it amusing or just weird

I've got a story in the latest @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social Christmas episode if you want to spend some post-holiday time with one creepy, undead Santa. www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s23...

If you're still looking for holiday gifts, might I suggest a book about a gunslinger and a snarky battle unicorn getting up to shenanigans? Land of Outcasts is available most anywhere books are sold.

The website I was using to play tetris has started displaying full- page banner ads with no clear way to close them, and additional pop-ups that didn't used to be there. We really can't have nice things, can we?

This acceptance speech for Expedition 33's music is so lovely

I do and do not have a joke about Schrödinger.

If you're nominating for awards this season, please consider my nonbinary Pygmalion story about a person who must revise themself based on others' feedback. It came out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social January 2025.

With every new Benoit Blanc movie, Rian Johnson proves himself an incredible filmmaker who also understands the moment we live in. Wake Up Dead Man is beautiful.

“Netflix is the biggest streaming service in the world. Consolidating its power over the streaming video market not only kills jobs but also raises prices and hurts the U.S. entertainment industry.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

Dan Trachtenberg and co. are out here creating some of the best Predator movies in the franchise and exceptionally cool movies in general. Badlands is an utter delight.

Y'all should read this while it's available

Everything is still very much everything, but I will take this bit of hope watching the election results come in tonight

NYT just called it for Mamdani

I'm not a huge sports fan, but I'm very glad I got to watch Messi score a goal live at least once.

I'm sure it's to drive web traffic in an age of SEO and AI summaries, but the rise in every website crafting teasing headlines while burying the key details deep in the article is making the internet even more frustrating to use than it already was.

I've got a lot of good to say about the new Frankenstein, but man, del Toro knows how to make a gorgeous movie

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Between Event Horizon and In the Mouth of Madness, I'm catching up on just how much of a horror icon Sam Neill is.

Scrolling the featured movies on a streaming platform to find a bunch of the regular titles and... Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Derrickson and @crobertcargill.bsky.social stressing me out with another movie. I just finished the Black Phone 2 and it is brilliant. From style to performances to narrative, it takes everything from the first movie and cranks the dial higher. So many thrills plus complexity and heart. I loved it.

Get Out The Thing Sinister Sinners I could debate this at length, but I'm happy with those four.

It is incredible how much I spend on streaming services only for none of them to offer the movies I'm looking for.

Watching through the Evil Dead movies for the first time, and Ash really is not having a good time here.

Got back from Stephen King's The Shining: The Opera and closed out the night eating mochi out of my freezer. Not a bad series of events

John Carpenter's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Automatic repost. 😍

If you missed the livestream with @thomasha.bsky.social last night talking about writing and Uncertain Sons, you can watch the whole thing on YouTube. It was such a fun conversation. Give it a listen and be sure to also check out his story collection for yourself.