I need! SIX EGGS!

Among literally hundreds of other good things in this, you can get my little one-shot generator where drunk girls* in the tavern bathroom get together to help someone *"girls" here used for trope recognition, characters of any gender can play here! sarahloch.itch.io/solidarity-d...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

“our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Trying to finish this book feels like the Charlie Day murder wall but instead of smoking cigarettes I've got a Lebanese kofta kebab dangling from one hand and a vat of tea in the other and the cat is trying to add her 2p by sitting on the keyboard

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.

I love it when you complain about the price of food and people say "just meal prep 7 days of boiled chicken cubes!!!" because whether it works or not you are advocating for an existence that would have a medieval peasant grabbing their scythe

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Hell yes, my debut novella GRIEF EATER is now live on Barnes and Noble for pre-orders! I would greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word. Thank you! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grief-eate... @interstellarflight.bsky.social

Make your typesetter happy: avoid indenting with tabs and*especially* with spaces! Make them even happier: make sure you use ENTER when you want new paragraphs—not line breaks, I beg. That takes forever to clean up.

Y'all do realize ICE "backing down" means they're just gonna stick to terrorizin' minorities, right?

Also, you know, it's unclear whether the penalties in general for doing things legal under current law are tear gas, beatings, death, or some combination thereof. So, not much sympathy for having to bag lunch it.

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

"'We lost all trust,' a current ICE official added. 'I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.'” If an ICE official can see there being a world without ICE, there's no reason any of us shouldn't be able to do the same thing. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge says ICE has been violating court orders repeatedly — detaining noncitizens or rushing them to Texas despite judges' commands. He wants ICE's director to answer for it "personally," and could level contempt sanctions. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

📣 New novel announcement: ANNA DREAMS OF A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY is coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2028. When people ask what it's about, I say it's like SOUR CHERRY, except the haunted house is Greece, and Bluebeard is fascism. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✊ Keep writing your queer, trans, antifascist books, friends.

The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)

This is my favourite Burns Night photograph in existence “Man walking a haggis (tame)”

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

Fantastic thread. Minneapolis is embodying the true meaning of “love thy neighbour”

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

A political protester in Minneapolis was captured by ICE. They removed her bra and cut off her wedding ring. They never returned her clothes to her. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

My sense about Republicans pulling museum exhibits and censoring books and classrooms is, they're too late. The last ten years has seen mass breakthrough of marginalized narratives in popular culture. They're closing the barn doors after the horses went out, and now everyone sees them doing it.

Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people 🟢Grn - 20.5% 🔴Lab - 20.3% ⚫Ref - 20.1% 🔵Con - 15.5% baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

This is a Willow Appreciation Post. Please appreciate Willow.

Morning everybody. 157 backers for the Immortal Connections Kickstarter, my epic Chinese high fantasy work. The work is already written, edited and currently being proofed; with @travisbaldree.bsky.social booked to record the work late February. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

The last panel from @gailsimone.bsky.social and @davidmarquez.bsky.social Uncanny X-Men #19 is all we need in these trying tiresome dystopian times. Even just in spirit.

South Minneapolis, I just woke up with my eyes burning, from all the gas on the other side of town, so we need to be paying attention to this too

Today I get to unveil the UK cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! The art is by the legendary Stephen Player, who has done art for Barker and Pratchett. I adore how he shows off the different personalities of Garrodigh's heads! It comes out in the UK from @arcadiabooks.bsky.social this July!

I managed a big word day today, and I am so excited to get this book MOVING. It is also SPICIER than I expected it to be. I am OKAY WITH THIS. Genre: fantasy horror with a twist of gothic-flavoured romance between human trapped in house and the otherworldly fox-that-is-not-a-fox in the floorboards

This is Tara. She joins me every night whilst I brush my teeth and sits in this exact spot. It is our nightly routine before she gets her milseag (dessert/pudding aka Dreamies) and tucked in I always wonder if she thinks I’m purring because of the electric toothbrush

It’s been a while since I’ve written a book that took so much out of me to just get on paper. I super hope this one is worth it. I’m struggliiiiiing. 😵‍💫

“At a time when they tell you that art isn’t important, that is always the prelude to fascism." — Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein, Shape of Water)

A gorgeous fairy tale poem and a discussion about writing in English and Finnish with Sara Norja! www.juliarios.com/in-winter-a-...

Yes, please. 🙌✨

As I said recently in The Guardian: "Despite their hopes to the contrary, anti-trans campaigners have not won the hearts and minds they believed the Supreme Court would give them" So they turn to this; desperate, fascistic calls for the destruction of those they hate (framed as ideas, not people).

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

I wrote about WE WILL RISE AGAIN, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social , for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org 's 2025 Notable Books! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

This slots into a wide discussion (beyond AVs) about “can AI do XYZ”, primarily in the sense that humans have expert bias about billions of processes we perform without conscious awareness of the complexity of our day-to-day manoeuvres and accounting for infinite variables/adapting to novelty

Happy Solstice, everyone! As of three minutes ago, the wheel has turned past the zenith of the cycle. North or south, winter or summer, I’m wishing you all joy and peace.