Rocky Cornelius is back in a new story about friendship, three dimensional fandom hyperobjects, and trying not to die in the state of Texas!

Hail, sophonts! Today we've got a series story for you, following up on episode 941 from May 2024. "The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy" by @solarshades.club is an Escape Pod original, so go on! Witness it! What're you waiting for?

Cover reveal for my upcoming novel!

Photos in ProPublica. A mail service that helps people regain their footing—hard to get a job, hard to deal with the gov, hard to pay your bills without a stable address. Many of the folks we spoke to _used_ to be unhoused & attributed part of their current situation to the aid they got from K2C.

sempre em sembla interssant el que escriu @solarshades.club però aquest cop ha donat amb un nom per una cosa que tot just fa un temps que comencem a notar per aquí. Ell parla de "thermochauvinism" però més enllà de la paraula algunes idees senzilles però xocants… www.solarshades.club/p/against-th...

I had a conversation with the journalist and author Lizzie Wade about the origins of our bias against hot places. www.solarshades.club/p/against-th...

"The monster we’re told is just over the horizon is in fact already here, and has been for centuries, disguised as progress and the way things have to be." @solarshades.club's interview with Lizzie Wade: www.solarshades.club/p/against-th...

I've been thinking about this ever since I read it... and I think there's some deep truth to this. COVID as well broke our connection with reality, but decades of pretending the climate wasn't shifting laid the foundation for delusion-as-cope at large.

So you can preorder my novel... www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803125...

FINALLY dealt with the annoying AZ rental brick wall next to my bed. Wove them on my rigid heddle with some cotton/linen blend from my local yarn store and some stash while watching Vampire Diaries bc it’s been a summer

I wrote about how climate change might be behind our acceptance of politicians that lie to us, chatbots that hallucinate, the general unravelling of consensus reality—and what we do about it. www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

@solarshades.club connects #climate denial to the surge of reality denial we are all experiencing. www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

"inaction in the face of a terrible reality has culturally prepared us to collectively acquiesce to"(lies of all kinds)—from @solarshades.club I agree although I'd emphasize that people *demand* the lies; the reality denial is *active* for many. #climatesky www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

If we're going to make CDR work for both the climate and communities, we need to talk seriously about the scope of our civilizational project. www.solarshades.club/p/where-and-...

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Published this story in February lol lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/an-o...

Pure thermochauvinism www.solarshades.club/p/against-th...

‘The very name “solarpunk” implies that scientific breakthroughs alone won’t fix our environmental, social and economic problems.... No magical tech fixes for us. We’ll have to do it the hard way: with politics.’ - @solarshades.club Do you agree? medium.com/solarpunks/o...

when people feel the need to confess to me, a hater, how and when they use chatgpt?? as if i might grant papal dispensation for their little emails??? honey that's between you, god, and the melting ice caps good luck

You read this shit and you just wonder how this tech can be legally and widely accessible to people. futurism.com/commitment-j...

In 2015, I wrote a long essay about solarpunk politics. How has it held up? www.solarshades.club/p/the-politi...

We are in the 5 out of 6 doctors smoke chesterfields period of Gen AI-technology and we’re not going to make it out without a lot of death and destruction.

Putting together an AWP panel proposal on ‘pandemic literature’ and looking for one more potential panelist. If you’ve got something covid-inspired out or coming out, hmu!

Watching events that I lived through be completely distorted by ideologues in real time has increased my skepticism toward the average history book by about 500%.

Collecting my thoughts on what we do now that every college student is either using AI to cheat or struggling with the temptation www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-f...

@solarshades.club on AI's use by students: it lets them "skip the 'desirable difficulties' that produce real learning." www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-f...

Great newsletter: "Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad" @solarshades.club www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-f... Rocking t-shirt: aftermath.site/buy-destroy-...

L'altre dia vaig veure passar aquesta foto i a mi em va fer pensar en un dels meus imperis romans, la paradoxa de Fermi. Tenia des de fa molt temps aquest conte curt de @solarshades.club pendent de llegir i just avui ho he fet i m'ha semblat una casualitat graciosa longnow.org/ideas/the-we...

This week I wrote about faith and cosmic villainy in the graphic novel The Wicked + The Divine for the Cosmic Mystery Club www.cosmicmystery.club/p/doubt-nece...

“Centipede Station,” to me, feels like stepping into a new region of a gorgeous open world RPG where everything is monumental & mysterious. You can’t help but look around in wonder, while the quest sneaks up on you. It’s free to download until 5/6 🌿 #solarpunk susankayequinn.com/books/centip...

the key thing to understand is that the primary reason that venture capitalists turned hard right-wing is that MeToo removed the only thing they care about: the ability to rape their subordinates

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

Been toying around with a "Go broke? Get woke!" sort of thing. "Broke times make woke men" etc.

I just can’t imagine being so mentally weak that you’d allow your sense of morality to be changed because someone was rude to you online, but that’s like half the media. Half of them are like well I used to think poor people should get healthcare…but that was before PissBoner27 levied his cruel axe

The first issue of Tractor Beam is live with my new story, “The Flowers Where 580 Used To Be.” I love the way this came together & I wish more #climatefiction had the resources for stuff like this. Anyway, enjoy my first #soilremediation #solarpunk #romance! www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-fl...

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

Once you start looking, it's easy to find the folks on team #frackingpaperclips:

Increasingly, it is a mistake to think that the economy is about humans. We are becoming speed bumps in the true economy of extractive computation (the fracking-to-AI pipeline of universal paperclips). #frackingpaperclips

I'm not good at math. Is two-thirds of all global power a lot?

Everyone in Omelas is enjoying their best life — luxury, happiness, total success. There really is no place like Omelas. Gotta love it. Omelas. But these losers walking away. They want to take that away from you. But don't you worry. Only I can keep the kid in the Omelas hole. 4/X

I'll have a new story free to read in @lightspeedmagazine.com this Thursday! Check out the great stories already online today (@foxesandroses.bsky.social! @seoungkim.bsky.social! @solarshades.club! more!), or pick up the ebook to access the whole issue now.

I'm launching my new book via Kickstarter now. It follows a #moral #philosophy professor who uses a case study of a murder in a #citizensassembly on #climate to set #EthicalDilemmas for her students. The script version won the #writing climate pitchfest in 2024. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dab...

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

I'm digesting the stunning "An Omodest Proposal" by @solarshades.club, read with the perfect mix of pompous smarm + threat by @stefansecho.bsky.social. The author respects readers by assuming we know both stories referred to. This is a masterpiece.

So I wrote an Omelas response story, which is out today in @lightspeedmagazine.com. What do you think? Would you opt-in to paradise if Omelas came calling? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/an-o...

it's awards eligibility time! thank you to all of the wonderful editors who believed in my work. this is my first year putting one of these together! you can read more about my pieces and find links on my website: prioryruins.carrd.co#awards2024

So I wrote an Omelas response story, which is out today in @lightspeedmagazine.com. What do you think? Would you opt-in to paradise if Omelas came calling? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/an-o...

I finally wrote some words about how I'm not going to have the words to remember David Lynch, over at Cosmic Mystery Club: