The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

Come read Emily C. Hughes' words and debate what's the best horror book to give someone over Christmas (and why it's The Library at Mount Char)

my November horror highlights column is live at @reactorsff.bsky.social! feat. @beatriceiker.bsky.social, @victormanibo.com, @peterclines.bsky.social, and more!

I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is a published novel! My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston. Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...

We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on

can bad prose be sexually transmitted

I cannot stress enough how much you HAVE GOT TO READ TILL THE END

oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

is there a name for the TV subgenre of sexy young friends living their sexy sexy lives in the big city? SATC, Girls, Insecure, I Love LA, Search Party, etc

i would rather eat shrapnel, thanks!

Olivia Nuzzi has done a valuable service to American letters. For a country full of writers deeply insecure about their own prose, her work is a balm on the troubled soul. I'd even call it a profound inspiration

hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz

Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...

Why’d they call it Erowid and not TripAdvisor

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

There are a few time-sensitive things HWA members should know about the Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List. PLEASE forgive my shouty caps and read this entire short thread before reposting/quote-posting. (1/3) horror.org/awards/curre...

my five copies of MOBY DICK, @emilyhughes.bsky.social's HORROR FOR WEENIES, @boneysoups.bsky.social THE RED SACRAMENT, HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN bsky.app/profile/rawr...

I agree that Noem should resign and be criminally charged (I mean, I’d prefer several other things, but I would settle for that) but I think it’s important to say that there’s no number of resulting arrests that would make this raid defensible or any less of a heinous moral atrocity

we implemented a movie jar (exactly what it sounds like) to randomize the process of picking what to watch. it’s genuinely great and has led to some delightful discoveries! it is, however, also how we ended up watching Come and See tonight. so.

one must imagine monica lewinsky happy

now I’m no expert but wasn’t there something pretty major in there about false idols

The thing about cruelty and inhumanity is that the limits of who is affected keep expanding and expanding until we shove it back the other way

We as a nation have really lost the true meaning of Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

KEEP HONKING I'M LISTENING TO THE HONEYED LIES OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER

pickup trucks for the average person should not have been allowed to advance past this. if you need anything bigger, you should have to provide some kind of documentation showing you have the license and need for special heavy machinery, otherwise you get the 1990 toyota hilux

what if he goes back to being normal like when a cartoon character with amnesia gets hit on the head

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

this week’s edition: a ghost that only ever made itself known to turn the thermostat up a few degrees

one of the best parts of buying a probably-haunted house is that there’s a certain type of person who will visit and IMMEDIATELY start telling me all their own paranormal experiences (and several of them are my neighbors!)

It's another layer of national degradation and moral decline to see the political media treat child rape like just another horserace issue.

huh, weird, it’s almost as though the thing where social justice movements such as metoo become uncool and déclassé just as they’re on the verge of gaining real currency & causing real change were a process that benefits the wealthy and corrupt already in power and perhaps is even engineered by them

on the one hand I understand but on the other hand it is kind of poetic that they made you use Microsoft Teams at The Hague

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

all kinds of guys in this country with too much money and no idea what to do with it and not one will pay a john goodman impersonator to follow larry summers around with his blown-up epstein emails on a placard going "is this your homework, larry? is this your homework, larry? is this your homework,

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

tfw when I'm not allowed to see the aurora borealis

BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. BLEH!!! Zhey don't love you like I love you. Baaaats baaaats baaaaaaats baaaats

Here's a piece on what sweeps do: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...

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"

remember in Watchmen on HBO when masked cops seemed so out there and provocative? that was 6 years ago.

I wrote about Chuck Schumer newrepublic.com/article/2029...

two things can be true: 1) your physical appearance is not reflective of your soul, your morality, or your worth 2) kim davis has really gotten the face she deserves

incredibly funny that Joyce Carol Oates owned Musk so hard he's started trying to post like a regular person with normal interests

okay how do you keep track of books you loan out to friends? (if you are a dedicated "NEVER LEND BOOKS" person I respect you but I do not need to hear from you rn)

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

My friend Sama'a and her family need us now as winter approaches. Gaza City is still in ruins, and food is scarce and expensive. Please give what you can. gofund.me/db56c7ce3