I love this story and am super happy to see it out.

Such an awesome list!! I am happy to be on it.

Please take care of yourselves and each other. That's all.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

oh hey it's pre-order sale time again at @barnesandnoble.com which makes it a great time to pre-order WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, interviews about activism, protest, and collective action, edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly

And, as always, checked the Staff Recs, and they like people I like! Look @stephanieburgis.bsky.social and @rblemberg.bsky.social (in the ABC in The Hague 😊)

Well, this is a fantastic essay, and it makes me very angry to learn that names were mispronounced - AGAIN - at Worldcon.

I heard about this from faculty at UO -- I've visited UO repeatedly, this university houses the Le Guin archives, it has a wonderful folklore program, I have great colleagues there in German and Scandinavian and Russian/East European studies and other departments, all this is devastating

I wrote a picture book about a good prefix! And @kahyangni.bsky.social is illustrating it!! It's about transportation, translation, transcription, transcendance, and...some other words too.

Cover reveal!!! Yes, at a time like this. My latest, at LGBTQ Reads! SONG OF SPORES coming from Broken Eye Books November 2025! Trans & intersex space opera! Total chaos! More! With cover art by Galen Dara: lgbtqreads.com/2025/08/11/e... Preorder here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So...

#poemoftheday is the amazing "Things for which I have not ascertained your consent" by @rblemberg.bsky.social "I was taught that the dead are ghosts, the dead are dybbuks that cling to the living to be purified by virtue—but I think it’s in reverse" psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... #poetry

Aaand an acceptance for myself and @bogiperson.bsky.social for a co-authored socioling article on topics our state legislature views as verboten

resubmitted 🫠

What I'm thinking about today:

BREAKING: Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Wednesday.

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NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

From conversations I am having, it feels like every trans/nonbinary colleague is planning to leave Kansas/this university. It certainly does not feel safe to remain. Staff have more flexibility than faculty in terms of job options and I am glad for that (I'm faculty).

Ahh amazing

Tachyon's 30 year anniversary bundle includes two of my Birdverse books - Yoke of Stars (World Fantasy finalist!) and Geometries of Belonging (Le Guin Prize for Fiction finalist!) for all your Birdly needs. www.humblebundle.com/books/tachyo...

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain.

Meanwhile, at my university.

What I'm thinking about today: Stalker is a film about people lying in bodies of water There's so much to say about this, I am literally revising an article right now, but last year I was in Estonia looking around where this film was made and -- people are lying down in bodies of water also dog

Bogi and me, on the couch right now: "Ibn Fadlan was weirded out by what he saw by the Volga." "He was really weirded out." "Did I ever tell you how Vladimir wrote a letter to his son about getting gored by various wild animals? No? Even the aurochs gored him while being almost extinct..."

sent a new story out, maybe it's time to acnkowledge that I'm having a multiday migraine even though I dunwanna

Extremely excited to see two books I edited for @tachyonpub.bsky.social among the World Fantasy Awards finalists this year!! Congrats @rblemberg.bsky.social and @samtasticbooks.com on your nominations! Shoutout to boss Jacob who's also a finalist this year!! locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...

Aaand it's public - my Birdverse novella Yoke of Stars is a World Fantasy Award finalist! locusmag.com/2025/07/2025... Congrats to all my fellow finalists @premeemohamed.com @samtasticbooks.com @leemandelo.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @tanaudel.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social <3

This is despicable. A Gofundme is linked in the comments.

Sent out two poems today, and also recorded something for the Le Guin foundation <3. I feel like hell on wheels, but at least that's something I mean... it could be hell without wheels /mutters "everything is wheel" and steps away again

This is the New York Times so the bar is buried in the ground, but it's a shameful thing to print. We're talking about Zohran Mamdani, the guy who worked to save a Yiddish bookstore, cross-endorsed with Lander and did Yiddish language outreach to frum communities. What are we even talking about?

Tyanitolkay (a visual story in 8 panels) just went up on my Patreon. This is patrons-only but you can pledge as little as $1 if you feel so inclined. www.patreon.com/posts/132271...

got rid of big balls and cuomo in one day love to see it

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

I think what establishment democrats need to understand is that most of us hate them all very much for being so persistently useless and shitty in our time of desperation and it fills our hearts with hope and joy when someone who might not be those things beats them.

...and I finished a small ART. /topples

I am weeping

I hear fireworks in Lawrence fucking Kansas. Did Mamdani win?? Please tell me yes

Mati's biofather just asked the judge "when will this end" about court-mandated child support for his disabled child he has abandoned to whit he is supposed to pay the bare minimum and is 3 years behind "when will this end" my friends when will this end 🤡

I don't know what to say about the never-ending news beyond the fact that it's absolutely doing me in physically and mentally, and I'm sure many of us are there. So let me tell you that the small pond in our back yard is helping many birds stay hydrated in this heat, and that's a good thing.

Another Sunday, another time Mati's biological father failed to call. He is supposed to call once a week. He never does that. He disappears for months, and does not understand how much he is hurting Mati. Mati doesn't talk a lot so it somehow translates into my ex thinking Mati does not notice.

as a child in the Soviet Union, I remember being dragged to attend a parade in Vorkuta - a circumpolar city in Russia, and a former gulag site. That parade was more impressive than whatever happened here yesterday. (I hated it as a child and still hate it.)

new coloring book page just dropped. chinga la migra, ICE out of LA!

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A podcast of my story "A City on its Tentacles" is out at @strangehorizons.bsky.social today! Thanks to @ranylt.bsky.social for originally publishing this story in Lackington's, and to Strange Horizons for reprinting it :) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Y’all. It’s a bundle with me, Peter S. Beagle, Patricia McKillip, and @rblemberg.bsky.social - this is the perfect #BookSky gift to give yourself today. And then share it with all your friends! 💜🦄🦋✨

NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi has been freed from detention. “We are pro-peace and anti-war,” Mohsen told a huge crowd outside court after his release. “To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”

So let's talk about the obvious inspiration for this stuff, Putin's Russia. (short thread) The distinction of "hero mother/heroic mother" started in the USSR under Stalin in 1944, and was awarded for birthing 10 and more children. The more recent development is from 2022.

On the way back from a medical appointment I saw a lone, dissheveled-looking Canada goose standing on the road by the medical center. Cars were careful to avoid it as it just stood there looking around, absolutely bewildered. Me too, dear goose. Me too