Hey just finished “Automatic Noodle” book by @annaleen.bsky.social and it’s delightful. I feel it’s part of a new sci-fi genre that focus on place and cozy belonging like the books by Becky Chambers. Different, wholesome. Fun read. I can recommend.

What would you do with large rice? Slice it open and stick some cheese inside, then grill it? Sort of a rice pupusa?

If you're in North Carolina next weekend (9/26-27), I'll be at the awesome @bookmarksnc.bsky.social Festival in Winston-Salem! Come say hi, get your books signed, and meet tons of amazing authors!! bookmarksnc.org/festival

Just a reminder that Writers With Drinks is happening tonight at 7:00 p.m. at Strut, 470 Castro St, SF Featuring queer romance, robots, witches, trans elders of color, and more. This will be our last show for a while, so I'd really love to see you there. It's free, donation requested. Mask up.

Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

I enjoyed @annaleen.bsky.social ’s latest column in @newscientist.com It reminded me how weird it was to go out into the real world in the 1990s, after my upbringing in a feminist bubble, to discover that the battle for gender equality wasn’t completely done and dusted! #wheresmyjetpack #feminism

Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social is here! 🍜🤖 One of my top picks for Sept: a cozy scifi novella featuring a crew of abandoned food service bots who decide to open their own noodle shop. Found family, capitalism, post-war Dan Francisco & food that'll make you feel hungry reading it! 💙📚🪐

And here's Lucy Bellwood with some INCREDIBLY useful advice for comics writers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXO1... @lubellwoo.bsky.social

I love a NetGalley approval!! Super excited for this anthology edited @older.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social. Thanks @sagapressbooks.bsky.social! I’ll be happily digging into this soon. 💙📚👀 🪐📚

Bay Area! This Friday! You do not want to miss this incredible lineup of writers, comedians, and performers. Join us! #sfba #books #booksky

The throughline between true crime doc "Unknown Number" on Netflix and Elizabeth's Gilbert's memoir about trying to kill her girlfriend is that they are both about redefining horrific abuse as love. Which, to be frank, is a very 2025 sentiment, especially among white people.

Having lived through the Twitter -> X transformation, I feel for all the TikTokers who are about to find out what it's like to have your platform transformed by ... Oracle. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is tonight! Can't wait to talk about visions of public transit from science fiction, and what we can learn from them.

There are more signed copies of Automatic Noodle at Noe Valley Books! You can grab one in person or order online!! noevalleybooks.com

Public transit and science fiction!! You know you want it! Check out this incredible FREE event tomorrow, 9/16, in San Francisco. The good news is that this event will be livestreamed, so you can sign up to watch remotely at the link!

Check out newly-launched indie pub @coyotemedia.org! As the former culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and a supporter of Coyote Media, this makes me super happy. Bring that alt weekly energy! Local news and advocacy journalism are more important than ever.

If you're like me and wish "Gilded Age" was all Peggy Scott, then you need "Our Ancestors Were Messy." @nicholehill.bsky.social spills the tea on Black icons like Ida B. Wells and Langston Hughes, with gossip torn from the headlines of Black newspapers. So good!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

And yes... I'm reading @annaleen.bsky.social's newest, Automatic Noodle. Why do you ask?

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

Judith Butler: "It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are right now, invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal and rising authoritarianism."

56% of Black kids are online *almost constantly*. Significantly more than white kids. If being online turned you fascist, Black kids would be leading the charge. If economic anxiety from price of eggs turned you fascist, Black people would be the most fascist. Stop making excuses for fascism.

Moose garden.

I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26... by @annaleen.bsky.social

My story "DISRUPTION" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social on December 2nd. Thanks to Sareena Kamath at Saga! preorder!

TFW you go to the bakery and you're like, "Oh I should buy a cookie for each person coming to dinner. That would be three cookies." And then you have to buy five cookies just for good measure. Somehow it makes sense in the moment.

Do you love public transit and science fiction? Of course you do! Now you can have them at the same time! Next Tues, 9/16, at 6pm, an astonishing panel of activists and creators are coming together to talk about the future of transit. Seriously do not miss this one-of-a-kind event. luma.com/0olo6szj

Now more than ever we need The Middleman!!

¡Chinga tu madre, Corte Suprema!

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

If you haven't read Stories Are Weapons by @annaleen.bsky.social yet I recommend that you stop what you're doing and get yourself a copy now. This is powerful stuff! bookshop.org/a/197/978132...

#LunchtimeReading : @annaleen.bsky.social 's Automatic Noodle from @tordotcom.bsky.social . When surplus robots are dumped by unscrupulous fast food restaurant owners, they create their own noodle shack. #books #livres #ScienceFiction

Dangerous automobile stunts in Canada ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Cows start with three (3) unique traits. This guide assumes the player will re-roll each cow until they give birth to one who is Slippery, Precognitive, and Bonky.

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

This also looks GREAT - w/ @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @clairegcoleman.bsky.social and others darktimesacademy.co.nz

I bet you didn't know that the first example of somebody describing an AI as hallucinating was in 1972, in David Gerrold's novel "When HARLIE Was One." Terrific book. Weird and ahead of its time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_HA...

One of the greatest inventions of the last 48 hours

If you are wondering what happened to Xena, she found a time machine and traveled to 2019 Melbourne and is now a wisecracking private detective working with a hacker to bring justice to the guilty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U58n...

This is censorship from an authoritarian regime that wants to project the illusion that they face no internal opposition or dissent. No other way to describe it.

My shelf talker for Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social here at Main Street Books in Lafayette. This is my one of my favorite reads of the year. Go find a copy and maybe some good noodles.

I'M LOSING MY MIND, THE BEST AND MOST EXCITING YHING JUST HAPPENED, BABY SNAPPING TURTLES HATCHED IN MY YARD, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW HOLY FUCK

I feel like many "important thought leaders" are missing in their "critiques" of "blueskyism" is that the point of social media is to socialize, not to glaze the powerful.

Seem to recall when the Biden admin was (misleadingly) accused of putting pressure on social media companies to change their editorial policies (most of which were rejected) we were told by a large segment of the population (and a few judges) that it was the worst violation of the 1st Amendment ever

We had a massive jubilant jam-packed event in Seattle, and now we are returning to San Francisco *even* gayer and more turbulent! Could be the last WWD for a while. Come party with us!

The horse is one of my fave characters in this flick

Excellent design aesthetics

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!