i coulda toldya that

challenge: demean trump & his cronies without reinscribing the logic of rape culture

I’ve been seen and attacked.

So my experience of being on the spectrum is … I don’t know when I’m funniest Because the things yall die at me saying are me being honest And the actual bits often sink like lead balloons

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

The conflation of "writing high quality literary text" with "emulating award-winning authors" says so much about how poorly our culture understands & values language and the construction of meaning.

Happy LGBTQ+ in STEM Day! I’m celebrating with the dapper Invisible Enby, who is a queer fashion metaphor for the way dark matter shapes visible matter in the cosmos. Want to learn more? Preorder my new book, where they appear! 🧪 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Print dictionaries: the original large language models 11/18/25

Alice Wong's family & friends have invited Alice's "friends, community, & her many fans to contribute to Alice's GoFundMe to continue the legacy of her work." If you are able, please consider joining me in supporting Alice's ongoing work. www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...

An attempt to write about what Alice Wong and her work have meant to me. In my grief & rage at her passing, #SuckItAbleism is the phrase I offer in place of #RIP. www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/ali...

The message on IG from Alice (posted by her friend Sandy Ho). As always, Alice blazes a path for the rest of us, fearlessly & with humor: "I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

No. No. No. Waking up to the devastating news that Alice Wong has passed. I have no words yet, except to say that Alice was a powerful force for good in the world & I loved her. I posted the below just before her passing.

May my friend @sfdirewolf.bsky.social rest in power. I will especially miss texting with her about Star Trek. We were lucky, all of us, to have Alice and her warmth and enthusiasm. www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

Can Portland's municipal government launch a Dominion-style suit against fox, I wonder?

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

Margot Robbie Barbie: hi Barbie! 👋 La Llorona Barbie: [unrelenting wail of grief] 👋

I love editing content for which I’m not an SME. The way it doesn’t stick with me is really quite lovely.

There once was a time I could manage several messaging convos at a time. These days, I’m lucky if I’m not overcome with communication paralysis when I receive a single email in need of a response. (This is only an exaggeration about half of the days.)

Pub day 👑 Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is officially here! @pantheonbooks.bsky.social A decade-long labor of love, of unearthing an archive said to be lost, building relationships with her family, interviewing those who knew her, and

Savor this moment, friends. They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Mamdani! 🥹

Regularly scheduled reminder that "don't speak ill of the dead" is an old wives tale—a general rule for not angering spirits/bringing bad luck upon oneself—not a moral or ethical mandate. Like all rules, it has exceptions, which help us identify the dead of whom we can (and maybe should) speak ill.

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD FOR THE END OF SNAP This is important. This came to me overnight through a group organizing in the PNW. Please consider adopting these strategies where you live. YOU WILL SAVE LIVES. SNAP runs out 11-1. Start a block/neighborhood channel on Signal and get to work.

icymi: saying “francs” while envisioning it’s “fronks” is fun and u shld try it.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Queer Auntie Epistemontology has entered the ac chat

Great day for this special issue on critical aunty studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

some of you have really weird red lines for who you will and won’t be in community with. it’s concerning.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

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I’ve found ways to feel joy amidst chaos. I’ve forged paths through a soul overgrown with myth to fill spirit-killing spaces neglect created.

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

this made me laugh so hard.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure. Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing. 3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes. You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Known as a surrogate mother of her community, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy leaves behind a legacy as a fierce advocate for trans and LGBTQ+ rights.

Me: I’m sapiosexual. You: Ah, attracted to smart people. Me: (putting a tap in a maple tree in full bondage gear) What?

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News! www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Pretty sure almost everyone I’ve ever known—and most of everyone I’ve never known and will never know—is more deserving of peace prize than Donald Trump. Yeah, I said it, and you can, too.

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

people don’t understand that data center resource consumption driven by AI is just like… giving a person climbing a mountain a set of encyclopedias to carry with them adapting to climate change was already a struggle, and now we have carry all this extra shit that provides no added value

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.