“Sometimes, when I’m stuck, I’ll pull books from the shelves and luxuriate in other people’s first sentences. It’s like taking a bite of every chocolate in the box, or wandering through a high-end hat store…” writes @delaneynolan.bsky.social, author of Happy Bad (Astra House). at.pw.org/WRNolan

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

So excited for this one tonight! Great to be back in Iowa City 🥰

At On the Seawall, I wrote about Delaney Nolan's HAPPY BAD! www.ronslate.com/on-happy-bad...

"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall bit.ly/43fQHT7

A new #cli-fi novel set in East #Texas from Astra Publishing House asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? Frances Madeson explores in an excerpt from Happy Bad and author Q&A w/ @delaneynolan.bsky.social. deceleration.news/new-cli-fi-n...

the government is giving me $10 billion because i made a phone app that reminds you to kill yourself

Our TSA delays for different reasons... New Orleans airport TSA lines briefly close as 'erratic' man strips to boxers, JPSO says www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

I loved this book, if you're free tomorrow night in Boston!

Boston! Tomorrow!

I think it's cool that I swapped a lot of texts with people last night - people outside NYC, people in the South - that just said "Zohran 🥹" His win is bringing hope to people far from New York. People in far more vulnerable places.

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality

Ah Boston: it is like someone had the vision to say "what if New York City, but colder and more racist"

Nice to be back in the city of my birth, i.e. everyone's most hated city, i.e. Boston. Have immediately started driving like an enormous bitch. I missed it here

Had so much fun at Thacker Mountain Radio Hour with @squarebooks.bsky.social in Oxford, MS! Catch it on the radio this week and snag a copy of HAPPY BAD here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327...

New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality

This is both racist and astoundingly incorrect When I had food stamps I couldn't even use them to get a rotisserie chicken, because you can't buy *hot* food with SNAP. They're very restrictive!

Israel already broke the ceasefire. Settlers have been beating Palestinians in occupied territory after the ceasefire. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

"The danger of AI is not that it will achieve consciousness & hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: ...resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness." www.thenation.com/article/envi...

"But the #AI overlords tell us with a straight face that their products, which cannot draw an accurate map of the United States, will somehow solve this crisis, if only we let them make it worse first." Always better late than never when it comes to @delaneynolan.bsky.social's print #climatechange

Missed my flight *while at the gate* because I was so absorbed in this one

Had such a fun NYC launch of HAPPY BAD at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social last night with Julia Phillips! Snag a copy here: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/happ...

Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫 www.thenation.com/article/envi...

“I do guess a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time,” Sam Altman mused. Jesus, I hate this man with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns

"The danger of AI isn't it will achieve consciousness..The end is..more stupid: The resource-intensive ad. tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness..part of a..false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion" www.thenation.com/article/envi...

WHAT A HEADLINE

Had such a fun NYC launch of HAPPY BAD at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social last night with Julia Phillips! Snag a copy here: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/happ...

"My neighbors die of heat...homes become uninsurable, as the sea rises ever faster...hurricanes...But the AI overlords tell us with a straight face that their products, which cannot draw an accurate map of the United States, will somehow solve this crisis, if only we let them make it worse first.."

Stop using AI. Stop using it NOW.

“The three gas plants that’ll power Meta’s AI data center in Louisiana are built to operate for 30 years. By the time the plants are retired, most of Miami-Dade County will already be submerged by rising seas.”

This stresses me out more than even the more immediate economic concerns - what’s going to be left *after* we ride out a recession?

i miss when AI killing everyone was a reference to a sick crossover.

All that fracked methane gas isn't going to burn itself! ☠️

"The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness. The AI hype is part of a larger, false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion. Let’s not get fooled." Read this.

The AI bubble cannot burst fast enough: "Data centers are an excuse to squeeze a few more years of fossil-fuel profits from an exhausted planet. Just as renewables seemed on track to gain permanent ground, AI arrived" to the great glee of the oil industry and to the detriment to the planet.

Excellent article “The danger of AI is not that it will achieve consciousness and hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness”

This is excellent and if you still think AI is great after reading it then 😒😔

Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫 www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Check out what I’m reading. Go buy: "Happy Bad: A Novel" by New Orleans local Delaney Nolan @delaneynolan.bsky.social a.co/68q6rQ9

“When Teresa first arrived, about a year back, she’d tried to smuggle in cocaine stuffed inside a ball of knitting yarn.” Read from @delaneynolan.bsky.social’s new novel, Happy Bad.

An excerpt of HAPPY BAD appears in @literaryhub.bsky.social today! lithub.com/happy-bad/

More fron my reporting trip to the West Bank: www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

My debut novel, HAPPY BAD, is out today! Come see me in New Orleans, New York, Chicago, wherever.

Come see me and Jami this evening, 6pm at Garden District Books!

Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b... Titles/authors in alt-text. Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comment #Booksky

Chicago

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Thought to myself "I gotta print out an excerpt for the reading tonight" and then remembered i dont ever have to do that again because it's already printed. In a book. It's a book now. I can just...read from my book. Insane

thelensnola.org/2025/10/03/t... Thanks @delaneynolan.bsky.social & @thelensnola.bsky.social for covering this. To be clear: genocides are bad for population health and influence susceptibility & transmission of infectious disease. Science is clear. International consensus: this is a genocide.