Me, when the “bounty-hunter/do-gooder” introduces herself in @mikechenwriter.bsky.social’s “Low Red Moon.”

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Kind of reminds me of this gem from @theneedling.com theneedling.com/2025/12/20/i...

What is “The Craft of Writing”? #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #LateNightWrite #writer #booksky #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Non-masked MN National Guard are out handing out hot chocolate, coffee and donuts to protesters. One simple act has de-escalated the situation and helped gain the trust of people. See the difference between professional soldiers and the pretend tough guys in CBP and ICE?

White supremacy requires us to remain loyal to our whiteness in order to be afforded the protections of said whiteness. You stand with immigrants, Black and brown folks? You forfeit those privileges and no longer receive those protections, and you will perhaps be shot in the street as a result

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

People might argue that ICE is not recruiting quality agents. But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy. www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

We are the shithole nation. From Caracas to Greenland to Minneapolis, we are the problem in the world, we are the source of the tragedy, we are the affront to all human dignity. This is the United States now. We are the evil.

If you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention. A woman was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis today. This should outrage us all. ICE out of our cities now. youtube.com/shorts/ecsmn...

The entire city of Burlington has been ordered to evacuate immediately, as Gages Slough is flooding into homes.

Ahem. @lucasfilm.bsky.social I think this includes you. We can wait for Ahsoka S2, Mandalorian and Grogu, Starfighter, and all the rest. It’s what Cassian would do. It’s what Leia would do. You’d have friends everywhere.

They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens

Hello, #starwarscelebration

Admittedly, I’ve been a bit behind - but @georgemann.bsky.social did an absolutely marvelous job with “Tears of the Nameless.”

Bring back humanities education to keep Americans from getting mad about French people making fun of a gay Italian man's painting by doing a dance performance based on the Greek god of partying

Giving up hope is also complying with authoritarians in advance. It’s saying that fascism is inevitable, that there is no other way to be. I know it’s hard to keep hope alive, but I hope you find a way. ❤️

I hope bartenders feel the same way about me.

computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

I know online publishing was getting rough, but I hadn’t realized things had reached the point of needing to terminate a writer who was still mourning a recently deceased parent. Anyway, looks like I’ve got some openings for freelance work.

Please Like and Share my dying microblog

A recent (and rather on-brand) piece of mine at Wealth of Geeks: wealthofgeeks.com/best-aviatio...

imagine getting this kind of opportunity as a writer holy shit

Sad to hear of Carl Weathers’s passing.

Our most recent trip to Ireland was back in November, and it's become one of our favorite places to visit. Here are some of the reasons why: wealthofgeeks.com/things-to-do...

However wide the path, there is no way through the wood that doesn't put dirt upon your boots and brush magic against your soul. – #CLNolan

My final piece from what was a pretty productive 2023! #starwars wealthofgeeks.com/bonkers-star...

Just found this old meme in my camera roll and omg the accuracy 😂😭

I just saw an aspiring writer say she uses ChatGPT “just” for her historical research and like ma’am, that’s not just unethical, it’s foolish. You’d be better off asking a Magic 8 Ball

Something like my fifth attempt at #digitalart, and my first try at a landscape. (And yes, it was following a YouTube tutorial by James Julier) #art #procreate

If you only talk about "harnessing the power" of AI and not the environmental impact, the theft in the underlying training datasets, the biases, and the continuous data grab then I am deeply suspicious of your intent and goals.

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” - Jorge Luis Borges

This reminds me of the vindication I felt for never having bought the eventually-discontinued “aquaflage” uniform when I was in the navy - only I didn’t have to wait as long.

Twitter has become Mid-World. A rotted, dry husk, empty of a once-great civilization now sparsely peopled by mutated shitlords where this one horrible guy chases you around, trying for some odd reason to make a terrible place worse.

Tonight in 1978 — The STAR WARS Holiday Special debuted on CBS. Among the (many) WTF moments: Bea Arthur as a singing space bartender. #StarWarsHolidaySpecial

An important thread.

Glad I’m not the only one. I was starting to feel weird saying I don’t have the attention span for a video when I make a living wiring and will happily spend hours reading - but I don’t have the attention span for video. Send me the summary.

Maybe it’s because I’m not gen z, but this headline is easily one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read.

Joe Rogan living every house cat's dream (three tins of fish a day, gullible people give him lots of attention, is allowed to do stupid things with no repercussions)

People do not seem to think that understanding history deeply helps with understanding present problems, and it’s fascinating to see how the erosion of the humanities has contributed to this.