Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

📢Registrations are open for our upcoming event at the Italian Institute of Culture [IN ITALIANO]! Marco Caracciolo, @tinanovels.bsky.social, and I will talk about imaginary games, speculative fiction, and climate imaginaries in the wake of my latest novel :) iicvalletta.esteri.it/it/gli_event...

Had lots of fun last night at my book talk in Ghent #paardvantroje. Next up: another book talk at NOI Libreria in Milan on Friday the 30th with @tinanovels.bsky.social This one is going to be in Italian :) Join us at 19:00! >> www.eventbrite.it/e/scrivere-f... <<

Revoking admissions for a group that makes up 30% of the student body. All because you dont want Black people to attend or Black history to be taught. My God.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon theonion.com/woman-r...

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

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Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

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Look what I got in the mail! @gua-le-ni.com's latest book What We Owe the Dead - highly entertaining and equally thought-provoking! Stefano and I will be chatting about it in Milan at the end of May; in the meantime you can get your copy on @freeklomme.bsky.social's website!

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

The only piece of actual wisdom I have ever learned about US politics is "Never believe something is too stupid to happen."

lmao this made me cry real tears because it is legitimately what every day feels like right now my work is like “hey can you make a slideshow to explain this bill?” and “oops looks like the EPA no longer exists”

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once

Had the pleasure to get an advance copy, and I very much recommend reading @gua-le-ni.com's dystopian detective novel What We Owe the Dead (rad title!) when it's available next month! Preorders at www.setmargins.press/books/what-w...

The CfP for the AISNA conference is out! Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West 11-13 Sept 2025, Bergamo (Italy) Stefano Franceschini and I are co-chairing a panel on the Speculative Turn of the Frontier Myth. Send us your proposals by Feb 28! www.aisna.net/call-for-pap...

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L’università in agitazione jacobinitalia.it/luniversita-...

i don't think there's any question that there are up and coming artists out there who can make shit as transgressive and unique and personal as lynch, my worry is if the increasingly claustrophobic way things are structured now will allow a wider audience to receive it

Italy's temporary university staff is on strike today, together with many other social categories, to protest against the budget and recruitment reform our government is trying to pass💪 torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024...

Scene in a lecture hall: Me: Some saw the telegraph as a miracle. Info moving across space SO quickly! How? Reminds me of the 1st time I faxed something. My info moved SO quickly! How? I STARED at the fax machine after using it. Student: What's a fax machine? Me: [disintegrates into corpse dust]

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

Stephen King, master of the horror novel, just quit Twitter because it'd become too "dark." That's how horrifying Twitter is right now. There may never be a more perfect expression of this fact.

This place has farmers market energy and I’m here for it

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Stuck on a writing project? Here's what I always ask myself in that situation: Emily, have you considered that you might not be very good and should abandon writing altogether and move to the woods and make candles or possibly become a nun or something?

We can live without Twitter but Twitter cannot live without us. It’s as simple as that.

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