If you’re canceling subscription services with giant companies with ties to terrible people, you should think about replacing them with a library card. Many library systems give you access to physical media (some of which you can’t find on streaming!) as well as other great stuff.

it’s my birthday today, what a beautiful opportunity to preorder my book! early reviews have called it “a work of striking honesty” and said its “razor-tipped essays” are “shimmering with a poet’s sensibility.” 🐳🩱🐬

under-explored benefit of being an author is sometimes someone you met on the forums for the cult classic webcomic called achewood an eon ago & reconnected with on actual social media years afterward goes and buys your book and posts about it?? a+++ would recommend

under-explored benefit of being an author is sometimes someone you met on the forums for the cult classic webcomic called achewood an eon ago & reconnected with on actual social media years afterward goes and buys your book and posts about it?? a+++ would recommend

Now reading: Post-Man by @alexicon.bsky.social

One of the most important things when it comes to controlling what happens in the future is controlling what people are allowed to imagine today.

I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story

Israeli forces bombed a residential building, causing fires to spread in an intense night of Israeli attacks on Gaza City. The army says its forces are “increasing the pace of attacks” and told hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move south.

Oh are young men lonely? Are they having a tough time?? Instead of incelism have they considered getting into DC hardcore???

I've been investigating the spread of toxic chemicals from sites under federal responsibility. After months of work, I can share this story about a Canadian neighbourhood where people didn't know they were drinking contaminated water until a professor showed up. www.cbc.ca/news/pfas-to...

New! #Crohnic by Jason Purcell (@jasonvpurcell.bsky.social) is a poetic meditation on what it means to live a medicated life, looking toward sites of nature where life and death exist side by side. Out now in Canada & the US. 👉 Read more: arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Croh...

I think about this often.

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

accidentally did that thing where a new poem meant for someone else downloaded itself into my brain & now it’s been published. please enjoy my pronoun poem:

THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND IRRESPONSIBLE. WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD???? They are going to kill so many people including children. What a FUCKED UP DECISION!

So fucking easy it is to get media traction for being transphobic. Unemployed Irish comedy writer gets a profile in the Guardian for his transphobia. Queer media does "here's JKR's response to former directors disavowal of her politics" while trans people who do anything fight for space on the page

Much happening in Alberta this week re: the book ban stuff. But don't let it slide under the radar that yesterday, two of the province's anti-trans laws (including the ban on trans women and girls from women's sports) officially went into effect xtramagazine.com/video/albert...

Loved this Pitchfork retrospective on The Tragically Hip, really thoughtful read: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

wake up babe they sold the space between the scrabble tiles

really great defector.com/butlerian-ji...

admin reveal

"AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

a person offering teens free advice on how to take their own life: a monster, immediate jail for life at best a person who owns a company that makes money off giving teens advice on how to take their own life: a genius, this will save civilization, we must give you all the money

seems wild but it’s true: the books arm of canada’s national broadcaster has seen fit to alert its readers to the existence of my forthcoming memoir in essays

seems wild but it’s true: the books arm of canada’s national broadcaster has seen fit to alert its readers to the existence of my forthcoming memoir in essays

There is also a separate Canadian case against Meta (who also used LibGen), so Canadian authors take note: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

i’m rlly anxious abt no work or money — if anyone needs copy editing / editing, plssssss lmk ! i have experience w essays & theses, film & video scripts, manuscripts (non fiction & fiction), etc!!! pwyc

Please join @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @sfdirewolf.bsky.social and @thellpsx.bsky.social with the eSims project! If you feel helpless about what is happening right now, this is one way you can help! Please help keep lines of communication open for some of the people who need it the most right now!💖❤️

Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs

my forthcoming essay collection, POST-MAN, is now available for pre-order from arsenal pulp press. it’s about gender & neurodivergence & shame & desire & friendship & loneliness. it’s me writing my heart out. check it out? arsenalpulp.com/Books/P/Post...

my mom has been a freelance translator for almost my entire life and has seen her income essentially disappear in the last two years despite, as this piece notes, no meaningful improvements in the tech. the world has just decided translation isn't something you pay for anymore, basically

my mom has been a freelance translator for almost my entire life and has seen her income essentially disappear in the last two years despite, as this piece notes, no meaningful improvements in the tech. the world has just decided translation isn't something you pay for anymore, basically

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

i asked my editor if i could include an anti-AI author’s note at the end of the book:

This is a fucking hero. Not some character in a comic book or in a film, just a union dude who risks his freedom for workers rights. Standing up to corporate and government power is definitionally heroic, especially right fucking now.

Air Canada strike: “We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said. “If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”

them: you better not be recreating your book cover out of sea glass when i get there me:

I forgot to tell you guys, to celebrate here, but my book came out on July 15 :) you can find it here or at your local bookstore or your library ecwpress.com/collections/...

We are not trivialising LLMs. Copyright theft is not trivial. Environmental damage is not trivial. Unreliability is not trivial. Risk to human cognition is not trivial. Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

them: you better not be recreating your book cover out of sea glass when i get there me:

stand up for the most vulnerable

behooves us to think with great clarity about the forcing upon society of a tool that—whatever else it does—definitely triggers dissociation, at a time when that country is set to embark on a huge wave of psychiatric confinements + work camps for the neurodiverse, unhoused, & otherwise inconvenient

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

guy who has only worked as a playwright, considering human existence: Getting a lot of theatre vibes from this...

guy who has only worked as a playwright, considering human existence: Getting a lot of theatre vibes from this...

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain