I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Courtney is in fact speaking for me in this instance. Several is the time I would write something significant in Chapter Seventeen(ish) and then go back and add a couple of sentences in Chapter Three(ish) to make it look like I had been thinking about this plot twist all along.

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

Note: Every time he fires someone they are replaced with an even more horrible piece of shit.

I don't use AI in my writing. AI, on the other hand, steals my writing to train up on so it can do its work. The recent discourse about how writers use it but pretend they don't pisses me off. If you're using generative AI to write your stories, you are pissing me off. You. Specifically.

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

If you replace your entire workforce after each project, you’ll never grow the generational talent your studio could be known for. You’ll never be Disney, or Ghibli, or Nintendo.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

Some YA fantasy authors who to my knowledge have never funded an attempted trans genocide: Terry Pratchett Diana Wynne-Jones Garth Nix Suzanne Collins Susan Cooper Phillip Pullman Rick Riordan Pierce Brown Sheri S. Tepper V. E. Schwab Rachel Hartman Alex Pheby Alan Garner Ursula Le Guin And more!

What would your life look like with an extra $40,000 a year? That’s what inequality has cost the bottom 90%. This week, Nick & Goldy talk to @carterprice.bsky.social from RAND Corporation about the $79 trillion price of inequality. 🎧 Listen here → buff.ly/j6zrqxm

J.K. Rowling's anti-trans stance was exposed in 2019. Almost 8 years ago. Listen to queer folks! There is no excuse to be supporting this hateful author in 2026. 🏳️‍⚧️💙🏳️‍🌈

Today is the one year anniversary of DOGE's raid on the US Institute of Peace. DC Metropolitan police literally broke open doors at the institute's privately-owned building to let Trump officials bully their way in. Read about my lawsuit to retrieve the body camera footage, and what it revealed:

Favorite Line of the Night because the truth... matters. #PedoPrez

A lot of people need to go to jail if we have any hope of going back to the status quo ante.

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

It’s 2026. We really should all be questioning anthology projects with zero women in them. Not boosting them.

Compare AOC's statement to Schumer's. We desperately need to push out those ancient ineffectual Dems in charge.

The news cycle around AOC’s “gaffe” is, in my humble opinion, a clear manufacturing of a “gaffe” where there was none. But it’s indicative of the belief undergirding a lot of MSM that if one “side” is behaving badly, the other “side” must be positioned as doing something wrong, too, for “fairness”

No, go after them because they're bad for society, like arsenic in the water. A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

People always ask, "What would you do if you were born in another time period?" With my health the answer is almost always, "Die before kindergarten." Medical progress is the real deal, buddies.

They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.

Huh, I'm no political expert but "we don't want punish child rapists because the stock market is doing well" seems like bad optics.

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This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

Fuck ICE, and fuck anyone who won't say Fuck ICE.

OHHHHH THE FUCKING RIGHTEOUS, VINDICATED FURY COURSING THROUGH MY VEINS

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

It's really important to remember two things: 1. Without the First Minnesota, Gettysburg likely would have gone VERY DIFFERENTLY. They held a *crucial* section of the Union line. 2. They suffered unbelievable losses—82%!—and held. the. line. The administration are fools to think MN will fold.

Shut ICE down, remove the leadership, break DHS apart, and investigate their crimes.

I was in high school when ICE came into existence. I remember it happening. Anyone my age or older can remember a time before ICE, and it really wasn’t that different! It’s not a radical policy proposal because the department didn’t really change policy, just created a new culture of cruelty.

Renee Good was a follower of Jesus, who acted in accordance with His ministry. Jonathan Ross was a Christian who took a job completely at odds with that ministry, and called Renee Good a fucking bitch after shooting her three times in the face. Preach that sermon to see who squirms.

Here. Pass it out as needed.

Just because a lot of people are cruel, bigoted, and brainwashed doesn’t mean we have to find a “middle ground” with them or a “compromise” that satisfies some of their racist delusions. We just don’t.

Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

He does not want Star Trek. He wants to co-opt the aesthetic of Star Trek to sell his techno-feudalist futurist wet dream. Star Trek hates men like him.

This, this, this. Tired anytime someone whines that Democrats don't have any power, can affect no change. When the GOP were out of power, they ground the gears of government to a halt -- and when they got going again, they did so slowly, on the GOP's terms. (In part because Democrats were passive!)

Live your life in a way that when you die you aren't praised by Trump.