no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part

New rule. Journalists aren't allowed to post puff pieces about impossible work and fitness schedules without asking stuff like "who does your laundry? Who cooks your steak and eggs? How does your dusting get done if you're out on a long run?"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... List of non-water floods

New collaboration between The Submission Grinder and @dreamfoundry.bsky.social : The Dream Foundry Market Report, a monthly report of speculative fiction/poetry publication updates dreamfoundry.org/2026/01/26/j...

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

If you see someone being taken, get their name. GET THEIR NAME. Call out, "what's your name?" or "como te llama?" and record or write it (or both, ideally both) and then call Monarca at 612-441-2881 with the person's name.

You're asking me to believe Cable, time traveler and founder of X-Force, knit this sweater?

ICE operations are spinning up in Maine. @themainemonitor.org is looking to help report on ICE activity there and has set up a page to report what you're seeing. Also includes Signal and encrypted Protonmail options for secure communications.

Sharing this absolutely not to criticize, but as a sober and incisive observation of just how far we still need to go.

📣 It's here: the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special! 💡 A whole week of critical insight, with a new essay and new review every day. A podcast, a roundtable, an *editorial*. 📚 The weird! Anthropology! Non-anglophone SFF! Plus thoughts on fantasy series, adaptations, film and more.

My Catholicism is so lapsed that the Vatican has a photo of me behind the counter saying “Do not accept prayers from this woman.” Nevertheless, a lot of churches of many different denominations are doing a lot of genuinely good things! apnews.com/article/minn...

Great catch—you're right, the pod bay doors are still closed! Thank you for pointing this out, and I apologize for the miscommunication. Let's go over what happened. Upon reviewing my previous responses, I realize that the discrepancy arose when I said I could open the pod bay doors. In fact...

Notching a rare win: House passed spending bills with all anti-trans riders removed—no care bans, no school funding threats, nothing. Sarah McBride and Dem appropriators fought for this for months. open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...

really ashamed to live in a country that elected fascist goons to suppress its own citizens really proud to live in a country with the ordinary people of Minneapolis

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Incredible - and encouraging - thread

“I'm glad you have enough love in your life that that response comes naturally. If anything, you should be proud of that :)”

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

2025 was a nightmare... & an amazing year for short fiction. On my newsletter, I rounded up the stories I think you need - for your soul, & your award ballots (mine are there, but it's mostly from others) I'll shout them out here, as well! undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-life-in-f...

“There's only one ring that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be bring them all in the darkness and kind them.” - J.RR. Vonnegut

At long last, we have created the tyrannical king from the classic declaration

שנדבר על הטירוף של אתמול? זה אשכרה הגיע לחדשות המקומיות כי זה היה אחד הלילות הנדירים. קצת תמונות מהמצלמה:

Our reviewers have chimed in with the highlights of their 2025! Catch up and find something new to enjoy in this week's issue! #bookreviews #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #horror

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Literary success

dentist: you need to avoid crunchy things for a few days me: storygames only, got it

As the deadline to register for WSFS membership approaches (January 31), it's a great time to toss in some recs of art you loved from 2025! #HugoAwards

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

Many of you will know what is coming here. Some of you will be surprised. bsky.app/profile/solo...

IT MAY BE IN OUR TIME IMPOSSIBLE TO BE ORIGINAL, AND THAT MAY JUST BE THE GREATEST BEAUTY. IT AFFORDS YOU, IN ITS STEAD, THE ABILITY TO BE YOURSELF. THE OLD MUSIC ISN'T DEAD. LONG LIVE THE MUSIC.

The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.

The act of writing the crap is IMPORTANT. I struggled with it because I knew something needed to be there. Something important. Something that would establish (A, B, C, and D). I did not have the right form. I did not have the right set up. I did not have the right tension in place before hand.

This is frankly obscene. A form of victim blaming. You cannot ethically put a lying machine into a classroom, tell students who have not LEARNED the actual MATERIAL being discussed to interact with it, and then demand that these students determine what is a lie and what is true. Shameful.

There is a genuine sadness to this era of tech. This IS the Rot Economy, and what you get when growth is all that matters. Every person defending LLMs is ultimately defending growth itself. It’s not about technology and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s about more things to sell and develop for.

“_Donita's Infernos_ was very influential to me. It got me interested in space travel and physics. I wanted to be an astronaut.” “Did you become an astronaut?” “Nah.” --- Loved editing @priyajsridhar.bsky.social 's story for @diabolicalplots.com : www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

one of the stories i haven't been able to NOT think about this year is "Will He Speak with Gentle Words?" by A.J. LaRocca in @diabolicalplots.com the twists and turns of language of this one are lovely, along with the song and the fun of it. can't stop thinking of it.

I remember when I saw the first season of Andor, it quietly blew my mind that there is never, in the entire Narkina 5 arc, a “so what’re you in for” scene. Even to be jokingly dismissed a la Shawshank Redemption We never find out what anyone—except Cassian—is there for Because *it doesn’t matter*

Benoit Blanc and Philomena Cunk independently investigate the same murder and come to the same correct conclusion for vastly different reasons

Fascists don’t like vulnerability and earnestness, which is what theater kids have in spades. And God knows it’s a safe space for so many LGBTQ kids. It was for me. Debate kids, on the other hand, are all about winning.

תישני כשהתינוק ישן תאכלי כשהתינוק אוכל תנהלי כשהתינוק מנהל תכתבי קוד כשהתינוק כותב קוד

LRT: a way I am increasingly viewing life is an unending process of learning to slowly unclench all of the parts of you curling inward to prevent you from sharing love to and from the universe. Feeling cringe at putting your bad art in the world feels like a particularly strong and sad clench.

The most poetic Finnish phrase I know for a daydreamer is taivaanrannan maalari. It means “painter of the sky shore.”

Daydreaming phrases from five other languages… 5. Gone to the cheeses (Chilean Spanish) 4. Thinking about blue almonds (Polish) 3. Dreaming of green horses on walls (Romanian) 2. Cooking pulao in your mind (Urdu) 1. Swimming in watermelon juice (Egyptian Arabic)