Happy Hanukkah, Y’all! I was lucky enough to be invited to ring in the holiday again this year with a good friend, delicious food, and the new Rian Johnson film (👌).

Co-signed. I just got out of the theater and holy hell, what a ride. (PSA, since I haven’t seen it mentioned: There is a whole additional short film now after the credits. It is… bizarre.) #MovieSky #Filmsky #movies #film

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

“My Heart Will Not Be Shushed,” by Henry Normal. #poems #poetry #poem

I can't listen to the song without thinking of

“Jinglehorse” is such a great racial slur for a reindeer.

My last reads for the year (I’m going to optimistically believe I’ll finish them all) got into the library. #booksky #amreading #readingsky

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

Made me smile. #poetry #poems #poem

The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.

By @roberthack.bsky.social. #comics #comicbooks #ComicSky

A lot of contemporary cultural output is cynical IP management — a company buys an artist’s old song catalogue and orders up a biopic to try to revive interest in their new assets. www.slowboring.com/p/the-hidden...

Regarding AI and writers, it strikes me that I still haven't seen anyone mention Asimov's 1990 short story "Fault-Intolerant" (PDF p. 129), wherein he fears... this scenario! Talk about prophetic. #writingcommunity #writersky #authorsky #booksky #ai #sff s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...

FFS. I’ve always resisted making fun of A LITTLE LIFE’s cover, having heard the book is depressing and assuming that even if it *looks* like a man taking a long-awaited dump, he’s probably dying or something. Is he hell. The photo’s named “Orgasmic Man.” That dude’s cumming. #BookSky #books

The crime of genocide didn't exist until after WW2. It was something we decided was real, needed to be identified and punished. Even if we've been spectacularly bad at putting it in practise, we conceptualised it. I think it's about time for a CEO crime of murder-by-Economy.

This is the first comic I got in trouble with my parents for owning. They’d thought Spider-Man stories were a lot more kid-friendly than Carnage’s debut proved to be. 😄 #Comicsky #Spiderman

Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once. (I’ve only done this with one series—but I’ve seen it thrice.)

I stayed up late last night finishing @joe-hill.bsky.social’s KING SORROW, and barring any last-minute upset, it’ll be my favorite novel this year. Fun, emotional, epic: It’s the kind of book that makes me glad I SFF. Highly recommended. #Booksky #fantasy #horrorsky #books

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Transgender Awareness Week begins today, Nov. 13, and continues to Nov. 19. The week leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20, which memorializes people lost to transphobic violence.

This is a fun one. Give it a read! #ComicSky #comicbooks #comics #webcomics

just shared this in a group and realised it’s the anniversary of this absolute s tier tweet by @jon-snow-420.bsky.social

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A friend and I finally watched KPOP DEMON HUNTERS last night, then turned our attention to our seasonal pumpkin-carving today. We may have felt inspired. #MovieSky #Kpop #Halloween

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

PSA: New comics by THE FAR SIDE cartoonist Gary Larson! #Comicsky #comics www.thefarside.com/new-stuff

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting has so much cool stuff! It seems that they have really accelerated their digitization projects over the last year or two. americanarchive.org

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I attended Atlanta's #NoKings march yesterday with @dzgrizzle.bsky.social and his boyfriend Michael. We saw @warnock.senate.gov and @staceyabrams.com speak, which was unexpected and cool. I left feeling energized, but also obligated. Our country's sliding into fascism. We must act. #StopFascism

"The human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too." Goodnight, Se-hee. #BaekSehee #booksky #MentalHealthAwareness www.bbc.com/news/article...

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Happy Brand New Comic Book Day! I got ABSOLUTE BATMAN 12, BATMAN & ROBIN: YEAR ONE 11, ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN 11, and DEADPOOL/BATMAN. Embarrassingly, I got Marvel’s DEADPOOL/BATMAN thinking it was DC’s Morrison-written BATMAN/DEADPOOL. 🤦‍♂️ Ah, well. #ncbd #ComicSky #Batman #Deadpool #comics #comicbooks

Oh hell yeah. I feel like every attempt to relaunch the Muppets is doomed but I always appreciate the attempts—and coming off THE STUDIO I’m particularly pleased to see Rogen’s name attached. (As for Carpenter, sure, whatever.) www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We can mourn Charlie Kirk. We can send prayers to his friends and family,” writes our columnist Jamelle Bouie. “We can — and should — do all of this and more without pretending he was something, as a public figure, that he was not.”

Today’s *other* shooting was at Evergreen High School—my old HS. Mass shootings are a solved problem in every rich country but the US, entirely because of the GOP and the gun industry. If you support either, repent of your sin and demand gun control. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/10/e...

Just finished this 2022 biography of MLK—and it is excellent. It manages the rather miraculous trick of being less than 1/3rd the size of Taylor Branch’s authoritative work and still feeling more holistic. Highly recommended. #BookSky #books #MLK

Saturday morning coffeehouse writing with friends @adamvolle.bsky.social @marcmonroe.bsky.social

A very late Happy New Comic Books Day—my last! 😢 I’ve canceled my subs in advance of my move and will sell what I’ve collected. But I’ll still follow series online. Great final week. I got ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN 20, ABSOLUTE MARTIAN MANHUNTER 6, and ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN 11. 👍 #ComicSky #comics #bncd

Happy Brand New Comic Day! Batman’s the theme again, this go-round—I got ABSOLUTE BATMAN no. 11 (prob’ly the most *fun* comic I read each month) and BATMAN & ROBIN: YEAR ONE no. 10. Happy reading! #comics #batman #WeReadsComics #comicbooks #ComicSky

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

Happy New Comic Book Day. Haven’t been sharing recently, but hey, it’s a new THE POWER FANTASY issue. Best book on the market, for my money. Second TPB comes out next month. #ncbd #comics #comicbooks #WeReadsComics

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

New Books! Loki: New & Ancient Norse Tales, a beautifully bound hardcover with an awesome new story by my friend @adamvolle.bsky.social Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, by Francesca Wade (from a Goodreads giveaway). Sometimes you just need a good 400+ page literary bio to keep the anhedonia at bay.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

We go on about this male loneliness epidemic but they still won’t join my D&D group.