Y'know what: fair enough, that is what you were asked to do

We’ve seen what happens when powerful interests influence our courts. Our votes are the last line of defense. Register today and protect fair courts in Pennsylvania: vote.pa/register. ⚖️ #VotePA #PACourtsMatter

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN INCEL; WE NEED MORE DRUMMERS!

the biggest mistake of your life

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

A lot of y’all are not arguing about whether or not violence, in and of itself, is right or wrong, you’re arguing about when YOU believe the violence is justified. Y’all love violence. You soak in it like bath water. And while water comes in different forms, some you may dislike, it’s still water.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Something that I learned while teaching adults is that they absolutely CANNOT abide by losing face. If you are teaching someone & they feel like they are losing face, you will lose them immediately. This is what happens re: politics too. Rather than lose face, folks will triple down on wrongness.

Alternative title: “plausible deniability“

Lot of us learning about US copyright law this week. 😆 Looks like book could be copyrighted for purposes of being eligible for a suit for actual damages only as long as it was done within 5 years of pub; my last unregistered book came out 3 years ago. Relevant text: www.uspto.gov/ip-policy/co...

Thank you so much to @karinlow.bsky.social for this stunning endorsement of Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA, the first book in a new epic fantasy series Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska! Out October 2025. Preorder now: geni.us/doorsea

can confirm that every sentence in Jo Walton's review of WHAT WE ARE SEEKING is true. Smash that preorder button, chat.

Jo Walton's latest book roundup includes a lovely short review of WHAT WE WERE SEEKING:

Lots of interesting things here-- for example, young Harris voters care much more about helping others than young Trump voters. But actually the most interesting thing to me is that ALL gen Z groups rate "fame and influence" dead last.

No Kings 2 is on October 18. Sincerely hope the"where are the protest" people are organizing.

The B&N Preorder Sale is the perfect opportunity to snap up Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA! 🌊1st in a new epic fantasy series 🛶 Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska 📕 One of Reactor and Indigo's "Most Anticipated" Books of 2025 🐦‍⬛ Ft a REALLY rude Raven

On the one hand, good, and I sure hope that I get my money owed, and that we all do. On the other hand, if anyone had actually, you know, ASKED ME whether they could use any of my books in this way, I would not have said "yes you can do it for $3,000." You know, for the record.

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

Mother Jones is looking for a fluent Hebrew/English speaker who can help us fact-check some translations -- ideally someone with research/fact check/journalism experience. It would be a few hours of paid work. DM me if interested!

now I just know some SFF writer is going to read this study and write a VERY fucked up novel

If you care about housing, healthcare, voting rights, minimum wage, birth control, data privacy, corporate accountability, clean air & water, & so much more, then VOTE YES IN NOVEMBER TO RETAIN OUR JUDGES. Every statewide judge retention vote in November is for a Democrat. Vote YES on all of them!

🎉ROLL UP! ROLL UP! It's Barnes and Noble preorder sale!🎉 Until 05/09 you can get 25% off all preorders, with an extra 10% for premium members. So it's the perfect time to snap up some Solaris books from @aptshadow.bsky.social @neuvel.net @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social @authortrmoore.bsky.social & more!

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq

exhibit B with respect to attorneys and judges doing better at standing up to authoritarianism than other institutions. but shout-out above all in this case to the Miccosukee Tribe bsky.app/profile/apne...

Someone was being willfully ignorant about misinformation on tumblr, so I made you a useful new adaption of the legendary Mark Vomit propaganda garf i went through a lot of trouble to get the sega pixel art typeface to match honestly pretty pleased with the result this is what i use my degrees for

A new tenure track fiction job at Oberlin, deadline of 9/15/2025. jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16771

because I'm mad now: if anybody would like a Sexy Pirates Novel that - is 0% fic of anybody (written pre-OFMD, no less) - is grounded in real history and politics 💅 - has spice my CE called "leans erotica" 😳 3/17/2026! Cover reveal/Netgalley coming Sept. 17th. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting

THE MEMORY HUNTERS by @itsamia.bsky.social

if you need me I'll be thinking about @itsamia.bsky.social's THE MEMORY HUNTERS literally forever "touch her & you die" but make it sapphic! memory! history! fungus! Catholicism I didn't notice but should have! climate dystopia! how history is constructed & who gets to access & define it! I just!

Forget California’s Teeth Gruesome - we already have this guy More of this, please #Walz

This is the heart of everyone saying there can be no TENSION in a romance if it had to end happily. With every book release, about 5 people message me saying they skipped to the end to make sure it was going to turn out okay even though the genre was a literal promise it would. That's the job.

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

I was "a writer" for over half my life. I care deeply about storytelling and words and craft, and it was nice to be good at something. Then I became an agent and lost all interest in writing-- this is just better for me! You can be a smart, thoughtful book person without being a writer. I promise.

he literally stole an election and then passed a massive surveillance bill and set up gitmo and other black sites to disappear people into. ICE and the DHS were both created by him. literally every tool trump is now using was created or massively expanded by the bush admin.

I never thought I would see this in my life, and that they’re making it immediately generic so it’s affordable is making me want to cry

Thread. If nothing else, this is a reminder of why we need to support organizations like @concurrentseattle.bsky.social, which made us all feel welcomed and seen. And it was fun!

ICYMI, I'm got three poems in this anthology! "The Fin Stitch" - mystic koi, soul-seeking, stitchery 🎏 "elegy to a meadow" - wildflowers, field mice, freedom 🌾 "Auragami" - paper folding, stories, spellcraft 🗃️ Also: @lynnesargent.bsky.social @devanbarlow.bsky.social & more 🌈

TRANS HEALTHCARE TROLLEY PROBLEM A runaway trolley is set to roll down the empty track, saving the trans people. However, that guy over there might voluntarily walk onto the train track. Do you pull the lever, sacrificing the trans people to protect that one guy from possibly making a mistake?

THESE COVERS

Happy emergence-from-the-chrysalis-of-the-old-into-the-horrifying-new-world day to @steelhester.bsky.social !! 🦋

17. If you spend enough time learning about best practices for dog training, you will look at your own work habits and say "what the fuck am I training myself to do?"

one like, one writing opinion (void while prohibited, while supplies last).

If you are unwilling to risk being wrong, you will write boring fiction. Certainty does not permit vulnerability.

also, if you have for-pay content on itch: the best time to get your itch payout was yesterday, but the second best time is _right now_.

3. Somebody should ask me about the role of religion in North Continent Ribbon sometime.

Delete everything you possibly can without the piece becoming gibberish, down to each individual article and preposition. Look at the bones and decide what you want to add.

I just got caught flat footed on an urgent request need: YA romantic contemporaries where the kids don't end up together, but mostly just bc the timing was wrong, or somehting not bc of infidelity (as in Why We Broke Up)

#PoetryBreak Remember, ladles and jellyspoons-- The rules are made up and the points don't matter. Buffoons and brutes shape the vast majority of possibilities for us all. What are you doing, doubting that you are enough, when you could be living the fullness of your "enough" right now? #Poetry

Dr. Ursula Whitcher's "North Continent Ribbon" was nominated for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. We spoke to the Ann Arbor author and mathematician about her debut book of sci-fi tales. pulp.aadl.org/node/644386 @yarntheory.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @ursulakleguin.com