It’s always “Good Times” watching the magical realism dancing scene from #Sinners

"Musk's actions are part of a much larger campaign by a class of allied oligarchs to seize control of the entire information ecosystem. We are witnessing the birth of a fully integrated unreality pipeline."

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

“We need you(r) writing. We need you visible. Now more than ever, we need you taking up space, holding a lantern, and lighting the way.”

✨PERFORMER HIGHLIGHT: Urisawe Korean Dance and Drumming performs at 3 pm! 🎟️ Free tix at oacc.cc/event/LNY-BHM-2026 🎉 Lunar New Year x Black History Month Celebration 🗓️ Sat, Feb 7, 11 am-4 pm 📍Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland Art by Valerie Liu #Korean #Free #LNY #BHM

So excited that a new posthumously published book of speeches by #ToniMorrison is due out this month! Morrison said that she’d often #copyedit the New York Times hardcopy newspaper 😆 Wishing I could simulate her literary excellence a trillion times in AI…

“Weeks before Elon Musk officially left his perch in gov’t last spring, employees on the human data team of his artificial intelligence start-up xAI received a startling waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane content, including sexual material.” #DejaVu #regulateAI

So Be It! See To It! Celebrating 50 Years of Patternmaster. In 1976, Octavia E. Butler's first novel, Patternmaster, was published. #OctaviaButler #BlackHistoryMonth #Patternmaster #blackwriters #blacksciencefiction #wellreadblackgirl

#ChatGPT is #fascistAI

10/10 ICE protest sign

Sending #Brigid protection vibes over all thresholds ✨ A pagan goddess, Brigid symbolizes the coming spring and the melting of #ICE 🕊️

Go raibh mah agat ☘️🚪✨

Writing by hand offers a mind-action timeframe that typing cannot. Neuroscience has confirmed this. Critical thinking skill-building can exist away from computers. The classroom experience can adapt to an AI world. I have taught writing in computer labs, too. Regulated, narrow AI is good for #CNF

Year of the Fire Horse 🔥🐴🧧

True. Just last night, while Rox and I were having a walk, someone stopped me on the street to share that their dog had passed. We had a lovely moment talking about our tenderness towards our furry friends. I have beautiful moments on the streets of #Oakland every single day. Solidarity to MN 🕊️✨

“At Date My Friend, San Franciscans pitch their single friends with a slide deck in five minutes or less. The premise is simple: Instead of algorithmic matching, finding love is outsourced to those willing to stand up and insist, publicly, that someone is worth the trouble.” 😆🥰😘

THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!

huge anti ICE demo in Fruitvale Oakland now

Earlier today in San Francisco bsky.app/profile/news...

We are many, they are few

#Californians can now log ICE crimes in a state-sponsored portal: oag.ca.gov/reportmiscon... #Oakland #Fruitvale #SanFrancisco #DoloresPark

Agreed. Putting together my database of #California #candidates for seats in Sacramento and Capitol Hill is one way I sleep well at night. Posting my dataset here and on ArtistMutualAid.org ✨ 01/31/26

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

“This ‘rivers of Earth’ map . . . shows estimated discharge across river systems worldwide, lighting up continents with blue-to-green threads where water is flowing. The brighter and denser the network, the more major river reaches (and higher flows) are being captured in the estimate.” 🌎🌍🌏

“Throughout, the writers’ tone is patient and matter of fact. Done with less care, Roscher and Baeth’s work could’ve ended up dry, but they add magnificent color throughout via interviews with 20 recreational and elite trans athletes, ranging from youth athletes to middle-aged competitors.” 🏳️‍⚧️

Waxing a gibbousness 🌔

Just gonna leave this here because fuck TurboTax www.freetaxusa.com

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Alex Pretti and Renee Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy

Bruce Springsteen Responds to Minneapolis Killings With Fiery New Protest Song "I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis."

“All aboard for the [Valentraine]!” 🎶🚇🎟️🖤

Auction to benefit Minnesota - if youre an aspiring kidlit author or illustrator this is for you and its a cool way for folks to support in general. www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Fantastic interview on #writing, #revision, and the role of #art right now: #GeorgeSaunders #Vigil 🕯️

Powerful writing @literaryhub.bsky.social today. This, from Kao Kaila Yang, on preparing for the worst with her children, was a gut punch: lithub.com/letter-from-...

Out looking for buried treasure #oilpainting #art

“According to calculations by the Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez, who helped design the proposal, California’s billionaires pay approximately $3 billion to $4 billion a year in state income taxes, or less than 0.2 percent of their collective net worth of $2.2 trillion.” #BillionaireTAX

“Federal and state water managers have been following diverging rules since Trump’s first administration, when the Interior Department loosened its protections and the state sued. (Newsom has since ordered his own regulators to maximize water supplies, too.)” #California #Water #BROkers

Do what you can. Every bit counts. #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS

My writing team

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

#Californians, your calls to your reps. matter 🙂 keep up the pressure ☎️ House: 202-225-3121 Senate: 202-224-3121

Tony Thurmond: “I will sign as governor a reparations package that gives loans to Black folks who want to start a business, to go to college or to pay for a home, because having a home is the American Dream. It is slipping away, and we have to close the gap of disparity.”

"The problem is not digital technologies themselves, but the assumption that there exists a hierarchy where only they occupy the top." h/t @sven.blacksky.app www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/the-fal...

BREAKING NEWS in #California #gubernatorial #race #2026 🚨 #TonyThurmond endorsed by #Oakland Mayor #BarbaraLee 🗳️

Timeline cleanse in celebration of my sweet spaniel Roxie, who has cleared a serious chicken bone scare unscathed. Grrrl has some serious inner strength✨🐺♥️ Love you forevs, Rox

“It’s not about me,” the 78-year-old writer [Salman Rushdie] told an enthusiastic Sundance crowd, several of whom were in tears. “I think it’s about a larger thing, of which this is an example. Violence is that thing. Violence unleashed by the unscrupulous, using the ignorant, to attack culture.”