If you want to help, there's a useful compilation of places to donate to here: www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities...  🧵 #Minneapolis #LookForTheHelpers

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the FBI seized and will not share key pieces of evidence, such as Good's vehicle. Moriarty and Ellison are asking the public to submit evidence through the following secure portal. bit.ly/3Yz2CZv

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Y'all always talk about how "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie, but who here remembers that "The Poseidon Adventure" is a New Year's movie?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU7o...

Well, I feel seen.

It's that special time of year! Buttercup gets his sparkly binkie.

Willow is wondering "What's up, Hooman?" (We live in Minnesota so she is perched on a warm radiator, which has been covered in a quilt made just for her.)

Moose are ACAB

Lefse day!

It snowed here in Minnesota and my big orange boy knows where it's at. Warm on the radiator!

Reminder for Twin Cities area (MN) folks. I'll be at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater tonight. www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater/cole... It ahoukd be light and funny. A nice break from *gestures at everything *

Our pumpkins this year.

Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain!

Absolutely wild that Ralph FIennes is the lead here. Seeing this and Conclave back to back would be one hell of a double bill.

Twin Cities folks! I'm going to be at the Bryant-Lake Bowl & Theater on Sunday, November 2 at 7 pm for a really cool event. It's Cole Sarar's Sci-Fi Reading Hour where Cole pairs a SFF writer with a musician. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. (www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater)

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities. I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

Minneapolis! @kyellgold.com will be foxing around the halls of @ncgaylaxians.bsky.social this weekend (Oct. 3-5)! There'll be signings, and the pièce de résistance, another slash-fic reading w/ @lydamorehouse.bsky.social. (Last time? Kyell read his Rev Runner & Tech E Coyote slash. This time...?!)

@ncgaylaxians.bsky.social made the Twin Cities Gay Scene as the Gayest SF Convention in Town! www.twincitiesgayscene.com/editorial/sc...

Butterfly (or moth) in DC. Proving there's at least one lovey thing in Washington.

@scottedelman.bsky.social and @naomikritzer.bsky.social having a rather fishy (catfishing) moment at @capclave.bsky.social.

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Miss Shannan Paul is a comedian, host, and professional chaos-wrangler. Join us Saturday, Oct. 4 for her live show Comedy Through the Chaos: Cabaret Edition — Out & Outrageous for an evening of #fandom, inclusion, and laughs at #Gaylaxicon2025! Register at www.gaylaxiconmn.org

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Naomi Kritzer is a Locus, Hugo, Nebula, and Lodestar award-winning author. Her first duology featured a lesbian protagonist and her YA duology, starting with Catfishing on CatNet, centers #neurodivergent #queer youth. Register for #Gaylaxicon2025 at www.gaylaxiconmn.com

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Adam Stemple is an award-winning author, poet, & musician. Like many authors, his life experience is broad and odd, and it also includes 20 years spent on the road as a musician. His works range from children’s literature and YA, to #SFFH novels, poetry & music. #Gaylaxicon2025

GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Eleanor Arnason is a #Minnesota author whose work often depicts cultural conflict & change, and characters who seldom live by their societies' rules. Her novel A Woman of the Iron People won the 1992 Mythopoeic Award and the very first Otherwise Award in 1991. #Gaylaxicon2025

Feed cleanse...

I don’t know who these people are, but it’s well said.

Nghi Vo is coming to Gaylaxicon 2025! Her works have been finalists for the Locus Award and the Lambda Literary Award, and have won the Crawford Award, the Ignyte Award, and the Hugo Award. Don't Sleep with the Dead is recommended by The NY Times and USA Today. www.gaylaxiconmn.org October 3-5!

Blue Delliquanti will be one of the Invited Guests at this year's Gaylaxicon. www.gaylaxiconmn.org They drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction webcomic O Human Star. Blue is also the creator of Meal (with Soleil Ho), Across a Field of Starlight, and Adversary.

Something beautiful today.

Newest podcast: The Long Tomorrow all about cyberpunk-influencer artist, Moebius: open.spotify.com/episode/70RK...

Tonight's reading at Webber Library in NE Minneapolis with @naomikritzer.bsky.social and me. Naomi read from her new novella Obstetrix (pre-order now!) wanderingraccoonbooks.com/products/978...

I'll be a guest of honor with @naomikritzer.bsky.social at www.diversicon.org in Plymouth, MN (near Minneapolis/St. Pau) this weekend.

I last posted about this with everyone at Worldcon, so I'd appreciate a boost if you're willing as the world is noisy and full of horror, but the African SF Novels and Novellas Bundle - curated by Eugen Bacon, is still going strong at StoryBundle, and includes 2 of my novels! storybundle.com/scifi

The #HugoAward for Best Short Story goes to “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is”, Nghi Vo (Uncanny 2/24).

Naomi writes more than just guides to local elections, but I think everyone knows that by now (unless they don't).

Congratulations to @nghivo.bsky.social on winning the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for “Stitched to Skin Like Family Is”!

Congratulations #Gaylaxicon2025 atending professional and my bestie, @naomikritzer.bsky.social for her Hugo win (novelette) for "The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea." Yay, Naomi!!

Congrats to #Gaylaxicon2025 guest of honor @nghivo.bsky.social for short story,"Stitched to Skin Like Family Is."

Ward 4 in Saint Paul, MN. It's special election time! I voted, did you?

I love cool rocks! I have some to share, too!

I've been taking pictures of bugs lately (in order to keep my sanity in these trying times). Here's a great close-up I got of a grasshopper hugging a stem.

You ARE the playing field.

More great guests at #Gaylaxicon2025! There's still plenty of time to sign up and join in the fun!! www.gaylaxiconmn.org

Emma Törzs will be at #Gaylaxicon2025! Register at gaylaxiconmn.org and check out her debut novel, Ink Blood Sister Scribe, which quickly became an international bestseller and made The NY Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023. #minneapolis #LGBTQbooks #fantasybooks #booksky #queerbooks

This week on Mona Lisa Overpod, we're talking about The Matrix franchise again. I wanted to like Matrix 3 better than I did? The whole philosophy/religion thing should be my jam... yet I was wooed back with 4, despite the ham-handed meta, or maybe because of it! open.spotify.com/episode/53do...

I enjoyed this one, even though it's a tough story about surviving a stroke. A Shaky Bridge by Marissa Lingen clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_08_25/

Nghi Vo is coming to #Gaylaxicon2025! Register at gaylaxiconmn.org and read more about her novels and acclaimed novellas of the Singing Hills Cycle. Be sure to check out her latest novella, Don't Sleep with the Dead. We hope to see you October 3-5! #queerbooks #LGBTQbooks #fantasy #scifi #SFFH

I have recently gotten involved in con running for my favorite local-to-me convention, a LGBTQIA+ focused convention called Gaylaxicon (www.gaylaxiconmn.org). I'm sticking to what I know, programming, but we have some AMAZING guests coming this year and, obviously, I want the con to be a success.