If you can't go in person to a NoKings rally, you can still: - go to a virtual one (www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...) - offer childcare to a protestor - offer bottled water/first aid to protestors - call your electeds ( 5calls.org makes it easy) - write a letter to the editor You have options!

Afro Index has finally launched! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, good for artists, animators, writers, and anyone want to learn more about Black hair! Check it out at afroindex.org 💛✨ #digitalart

We murdered four more people in the Caribbean today.

Dispatches from American airports I've received today (3/25/26) ⬇️

YEAR OF THE MER Mega-Thread since we're a couple weeks out and I kind of feel like throwing up. Book 1 of 2 is out on April 7! Available in the US and CAN from Saga: bookshop.org/p/books/year... And in the UK and wherever else they distribute in English from Titan: titanbooks.com/72438-year-o...

randomly just got this popup and I'm like lawl y'know what, that's a great question, I wish I knew

Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

_For All Mankind_ season 5 launches this coming Friday, March 27! And as usual there’s a set of one- or two-minute news clips covering the eight years or so between s4 and s5. tv.apple.com/us/show/for-... (I haven’t watched these yet.)

🐉 Prosper with Dragons is here! A co-op card game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players and dragons unite to survive disasters. Why this game? We’re bringing creative Afrofuturistic art, showcasing Black kids and dragons in a world where we are rarely seen. bsky.app/profile/pros...

Disney is reportedly exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora

ICE doesn’t belong at our airports. Our Office of Immigrant Affairs has updated guidance and you can call their legal hotline at 800-354-0365.

NEWS: The Otherwise Award is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Award: the novel "Luminous" by Silvia Park @silviapark.bsky.social Read about the winner, the Honor List and Long List at otherwiseaward.org/2026/03/anno...

🤷🏿‍♂️ I mean... "Results demonstrated that Black men, Latino men, and women of all ethnoracial groups reported levels of friendship closeness that were similar to one another after statistically controlling for friendship characteristics, communication patterns, and other respondent demographics"

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

I like this: “our moderators […] deserved the tools to be intentional with moderation, so we built in features to let them start and end moderation sessions so that they could check in with themselves before starting and choose how much work (and emotional burden) they felt capable of taking on.”

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 @sfgate.com, the West Coast's largest news site, is looking for a new tech reporter. 🧵 below on what we're looking for, or if you want a shortcut, here's the job listing: sfgate.com/careers

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I keep forgetting to do this, so I will probably be doing it a lot over the next few weeks. When _The Subtle Art of Folding Space_ comes out, Tor is sending me to a few bookstores in MA and ME!

OMG these photos of ICE agents standing around uselessly nearby the long security lines, these are brutal

I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️

Imagine that you want to contact Penguin Random House, so you visit their website. Eventually, you find your way to their FAQ, which includes a question about how to contact them. The answer to that question says “You may find address and website information […] here.” Where “here” is a link. 1/

What an incredible story: Meatpacking workers who speak 57 languages are ON STRIKE against the behemoth JBS in Greeley, CO. Reminds me of historical accounts of the Lawrence, Mass. strike of 1912, where workers spoke dozens of languages, and often sang to communicate.

The eternal question: Do I eat the last cookie now to help brace myself for doing the difficult thing, or do I save the last cookie so it can be a reward that I can give myself after I do the difficult thing?

“An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in” “Seeking gender balance, some selective schools are giving men a leg up in admission” “‘The standards were certainly lower for male students.’” (Article from 2021)

Nifty! (The pay rates are the same as for English submissions, but it’s hard to get to the English submissions page to find out what the pay rates are, so here’s a link to that page: therumpus.submittable.com/submit)

I get the impression that it’s not widely known that Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander on _Buffy_ and who died yesterday, was charged with domestic violence twice. (In 2015 and 2017.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichola...

Democrats: [Do not in fact do X to any significant degree.] Republicans: "Democrats are doing X. They must be stopped." Reactionary centrist pundits: "Why are democrats alienating Normal Americans by doing X?" Democratic strategists: "We lost because we did X. To win, we must stop doing X."

A viral video about a man named Solomon Fairfax, who earned the nickname the "Grim Reaper" of Charleston after spending years killing slaveholders, has hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. There’s just one problem: Solomon Fairfax doesn't exist

NEW: This week, the average daily population at Dilley dropped to 100 people, compared with over 900 in January. The shift follows weeks of mounting public pressure generated in part by the widespread publication of letters written by detained children. www.propublica.org/article/fami...

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

There’s this thing where people try to get the video game Doom to run on all sorts of computers and computer-like systems. Now someone has gotten it running on what I think are fuse beads. (30-sec video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzHB...

kelly marie tran, while promoting her new movie ROCK SPRINGS at sxsw, reflects on the aftermath of the harassment she was subjected to after tlj 🦁

Neat! Apple’s FaceTime video system provides a virtual ring-light (on recent Macs): “Edge Light simulates a ring light by illuminating the borders of your screen, providing a pleasing fill light when you make a video call” support.apple.com/en-us/125934

This brilliant and moving essay on disability by @adapalmer.bsky.social is one of the essays in our collection Trace Elements, out next Tuesday strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Kickstarter for “Walkable City - the Urban Planning Boardgame”. Created by Tim Fowers, designer of Paperback and Burgle Bros. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

‪Kat Abughazaleh speaks to her supporters after losing the primary. (5-min video.)

it’s just shattering and I don’t have anything profound to say about it at all

A YA graphic novel rec: _Flip_, by Ngozi Ukazu. Premise: Chi-Chi Ekeh is a scholarship student (of Nigerian descent) at a private mostly-white Texas high school. She has a crush on a formerly popular white boy, a swimmer named Flip Henderson. And then Chi-Chi and Flip unexpectedly switch bodies.

"I am now actively profiting off making people disappear.” A really interesting piece. The social dynamics that made these folks believe they weren't *already* profiting from "making people disappear" by designing jails and prisons... let's just say there's a lot to unpack here.

The database has the name, sex, birthday and Social Security number of every child in the U.S. who is the subject of a child support case. It also has the addresses of parents and kids who are domestic violence victims and receive support.

Okay, the #TransRightsReadathon auction is up, and I have an offer in there! Drumroll... I will put your pet in my forthcoming book. Name, description, personality! (Nothing bad will happen to them, I'm not a monster.)

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

On the eve of primary election day in Illinois: harihareswara.net/posts/2026/w... on Kat Abughazaleh's campaign for Congress Local media coverage, the candidate's digital media skills & strategy (especially streaming), credibility and authenticity, and more #USpol

“all that's required to live in a dream is endlessly closing your eyes” —Glinda, _Wicked_

I’m familiar with plenty of revisionist/alternate-POV “parallel novels,” such as _R&G_, _Wicked_, _Grendel_, _James_, _Wide Sargasso Sea_, _The Wind Done Gone_, and lots of Holmes- and Shakespeare- and Robin Hood- and Arthur- and Dracula- and Peter Pan- and Alice- and mythology-related works. 1/

Some fragments of thought from these first few months of 2026. matthewcheney.net/blog/the-gol...

in honor of national "dunk on marc andreessen saying ridiculous shit" day, here's the single piece of writing that has garnered me the most hate in my career! and i stand by it. techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/w...

10 days left in Kickstarter for Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game, “The officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of the Temeraire novel series by Naomi Novik” www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...