Our lovely @rsagarcia.bsky.social is still going through a hard time. Please chip in if you can, and share if you can't. Every little bit helps xxx

Folks, @rsagarcia.bsky.social needs our help to continue to deal with the expenses related to cancer treatment -- if you're in a position to d0n8, pls consider doing so, as well as boosting the signal 👇👇👇

Everyone's struggling & the world's on fire so I'm sorry to ask, but I need your help again. If you could donate and/or share my Go Fund Me campaign, it would go a long way to helping me pay for increased costs for my breast cancer treatment. Details in my update. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

Another awesome thing happened at AggieCon yesterday: I was given the Copperhead Award for contributions to Texas Fandom. It is an enormously cool piece of bronze sculpture made by artist Vincent Villafranca and I’m super happy to have it file770.com/martha-wells...

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this RIDICULOUSLY USEFUL set of HEELS reference by @GRIZandNORM!#HeelsOfTheDay #gamedev #animationdev #CHARACTERDESIGN #characters #heels

Beyond this one post, I am not wasting time on “I don’t like him, but” This is not the time to give an inch. This is an emergency. This is not reporter gets wh press credential vindictively pulled This is different and not the time for even mild fucking-around

LOL Because bestselling, award winning writers need a side hustle training the thing you think can replace them. Grok, tell me all the ways you know to say FUCK OFF, then tag Musk in your replies.

Every time y'all Millennials come for Gen X, I'll mutter "my Lord of the Flies ass generation" forever. Collectively, we were the product of Silent and Boomer adults "finding themselves." I was lucky because I grew up next door to my grandparents, and my parents were hyper responsible eldest kids.

Look at our movies. Read our books. Those only capture SOME of what it was like. It was hell growing up with some of those kids. HELL. Some were mean AF for no reason, and a few were even cruel. Adults just told us to "fight back." There was no Internet to vent on! You just had to deal with it.

Missed all the Gen X discourse yesterday, but those of us who are actually in the generation have explained this ad nauseam. We had the ultimate worst bullies and mean kids in our generation growing up, and they were never, EVER checked because adults didn't GAF. Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.

Illegally arresting journalists before releasing the Epstein Files. Falsifying Georgia voting records before releasing the Epstein Files. Tying to destroy the independence of Federal Reserve before releasing the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.

People are over-reading this. The judge dismissed the *federal* murder charges because his (alleged) actions didn’t fit within federal law. He still faces *state* murder charges because it’s usually a state crime. The feds stepped in because they were mad NY doesn’t have the death penalty.

Well, well, well.

Thanks to everyone for the kind messages. It'll be up on Sunday at The Dark Magazine.

Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

Visa announces it will allow customers to direct credit card rewards into Trump accounts. Trump is calling the move a “big deal.” Visa, the largest credit card processsor in the US, is facing an antitrust lawsuit filed under Biden's DOJ.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi, one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000.

They're seriously trying to get people to leave their jobs to soothe that fascist woman's ego, and aren't even telling anyone what the offer is? Who quits with only the promise that 'we'll pay you real good after'? Does she think everyone is as easily fooled as she is? Or that we all fail upward?

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I'm thrilled to announce my novel A Killing in Souls will be published by Dark Matter Ink!

Superb sci-fi by @andydudak.bsky.social Story Details: "Games Without Frontiers" www.infinivoxsf.com/robots-ai-5 "Salvage" www.infinivoxsf.com/hard-sf-5 "Midstrathe Exploding" www.infinivoxsf.com/space-time-1

Congratulations, my friend! I knew you'd sell it somewhere amazing! Andy's work is incredible, so do yourself a favor and go read it when it comes out. (Also, he's quite the artist. He drew himself both this gorgeous cover and my own cover for THE UNBEARABLE TASTE OF FRUIT AND WINE.)

This scam is everywhere now!

Good news for once, small though it may be.

"The Dark Lord has taken over our land. What do we do?" "Learn from the goblins." "What? Those useless little-" "Takes skill to mask rebellion as incompetence." "What?" "They know His reign will end. For now, they persist and resist." "Oh." "Also: remember every moment of joy is a victory."

👀 Judge Schlitz, the chief federal judge in Minnesota, has ordered the head of ICE, Todd Lyons, to appeal personally in court Friday and threatened him with contempt for the agency’s repeated violation of court orders. “The court’s patience is at an end.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Climate chaos across the region.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

The MAGA regime also really obviously doesn't know what to do with the fact that each time ICE murders somebody, the people they're trying to scare merely get more angry and more motivated to fight back.

The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."

Vida is a lovely person and a wonderful writer who has had a very hard go of it lately. If you could spare her a few dollars, or buy one of her books, that would be incredible. She's a new mom with a difficult diagnosis.

My sophomore novel COPE FIELD was named a Printz Honor Book today. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude to far too many people to name here. I want to say that never in my wildest dreams would I have believed this could happen, but I have always dreamed big. And you should, too.

How about we worry about the damage being done to the actual human beings ChatGPT is pushing to psychosis right now, and not the non-existent upbringing of Anthropic's plagiarism copy paste algorithm?

The world is stupid. But you can make it less stupid with a book. Perhaps my book? ⤵️⤵️

They never worried about what a truly dire fuckup killing an Alex Pretti would be because it never occurred to them that an Alex Pretti could ever exist So now they have no idea what the fuck to do. Because they don’t even fully understand what’s just happened

Fascists don’t comprehend the simple mundane courageous altruism of ordinary everyday people, because in order for them to believe the things fascism requires they believe, that kind of altruism cannot exist. If it appears, it’s only a cynical lie

It’s not IQ bullshit, it’s not an inherent thing, it’s a cognitive degradation thing. It’s how adhering to a certain kind of ideology requires that you make yourself believe things that corrode your ability to perceive and think clearly and objectively about people and how people work

One of the things that this brings me back to is obviously Umberto Eco, because the principle applies not just to war but to opposition of all kinds They can’t objectively or correctly evaluate any of what they’re up against because their worldview is hopelessly fucked

This whole thread is good shit but I would echo this in particular. A lot of libs and lefties note the highly evident stupidity of right-wing politics and jump to the conclusion that dumb people are taken in by it. But that gets the progression wrong. Right-wing politics *makes* you stupid.

I'm in @strangehorizons.bsky.social's Criticism issue with a new poem (and accompanying commentary)! Special thanks to @kateheartfield.com's novel THE CHATELAINE for introducing me to the idea of Dulle Griet. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Interview with me about Murderbot and the upcoming Platform Decay at www.space.com/entertainmen...

“The Holocaust survivor judge who issued Netanyahu’s arrest warrant” www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

I went down the football fan subreddits rabbit hole this morning, and I am utterly gobsmacked. 90+% of the content in the top threads are unabashed FUCK ICE posts, memes mocking the regime, and dudes saying how important it is to come together over something this significant.

I second everything John said here. I already knew Greg Ketter from DreamHaven Books was a good person so this really isn’t surprising, but at 70 he shouldn’t have to be walking through tear gas on a Minneapolis street to try to protect his neighbors. Abolish Ice.

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com