I know we're all mad about ICE/DHS but we also need to be mad about RFK Jr. He's killing -- and is setting the stage to kill -- waaaaay more people than DHS does, it's just that it happens quietly and in people's homes. Vaccine recommendations matter. Lying under oath matters. IMPEACH RFK JR

I routinely opine that the dogs are really neat and filled with puppy meat. Same applies to babies. Anything, really, made of meat.

Annihilation (2018)

Today!Me, formerly known as Future!Me: grumbles in discontent

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Our In Translation bundle benefits Global Voices Lingua! Check out our curator Emily's interview with them! lingua.globalvoices.org/2026/02/stor...

Wearing my glasses today, because I slept a lot and only have a few contacts left and don't have an eye appointment until Tuesday. The glasses are a few years old and predate the crappification of my close-up vision, so I'm either griping more than normal or zooming way in.

some people were asking what this meant. i actually said it on tumblr but here it is

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Two Neolithic sacrifices compete to improve the harvest with their blood...and find love after death in the bogs: Peated Rivalry

When I was on some road trip as a kid, my parents were convinced that a fellow diner patron was Arlo Guthrie. (I did not know who Arlo Guthrie was.) They specifically did not go over to interact because it would feel rude. The possible-Arlo Gutrie and his party paid and departed without fanfare.

I hope they include this graphic

the villains in neuromancer being a family of gross inbred rich weirdos who want to live forever in space feels a little too on the nose

Guess it's time to post this again. And remember, the block button exists for a reason.

Evergreen.

Friendship Centered SFF Just in time for Galentine's Day! This book bundle offers stories of friendship and found family. My novelette "Adamere in Swan" is in there.

Just saw this is out and at the moment I do not have the brain to fully ingest the wall of text (much less any of the stories), but I'm looking forward to clicking through later. Congrats to all on the list!

I require a pilot

We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025! This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July. Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/47f6tt48

For the folks in the back: OCR predates LLMs. HTR software predates LLMs. Digital Humanities predates LLMs. Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs. YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.

A zine for publishers As a companion to my how-to zine for newbie authors, I put out a how-to zine for newbie editors and publishers. Find it at the press's itch.io and Fourthwall shops.

Contrast this with Shirley Jackson: “The actual act of taking pen to paper…occurred on snatched time, in common spaces. Jackson’s children recall her writing in the middle of baking, perched on a kitchen stool or wedged at a folding table in the dining room.” Which takes the greater discipline?

While analyzing our 2025 submission data, I noticed that the US is now the primary producer of slop submissions (which includes fully and partially-generated/assisted/whatever). Congrats. You're #1. Happy? You should be embarrassed. Please stop. (In 2023 and 2024, the US wasn't in the top three.)

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

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

GO WATCH MUSHI-SHI

Folks, look what @literaturegeek.bsky.social made???? zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen... - Wonderful. Please spread to your folks in Philly and beyond.

How to run a fic contest: -Don’t be shocked quality varies. That’s why 1st readers exist. -Don’t say you’ll take a tenuous connection to the theme, then complain about tenuous connections. -In the winner announcement, don’t say all subs were bad & you felt embarrassed to pass any to the guest judge.

I have a negative reaction to the phrase "purity test." Very often, it's used to set up a straw man argument. It's starting to feel akin to "hysterical," "emotional," and other (often gendered) dismissal of voices.

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

You can't reform domestic terrorism. You can't reform using 5 year old as bait then shipping them across state lines to prison. You can't reform state sanctioned executions. Remember: Jim Crow was the compromise. It took us a century of fighting to undo the moderate position.

One of the projects I am very excited about in 2026 is the anthology, ANIMAL NOIR from Little Key Press. Born out of a silly Discord discussion about killer geese, a bunch of authors decided to write stories about anthromophic animals in the same city setting, New Growl. Cover reveal below!

Minneapolis, when the whistles blew.

This is why we had Jim Crow instead of truth and reconciliation after slavery ended. People are so quick to absolve anyone who pays lip service to changing their mind about human rights violations instead of letting them live with the social consequences of their words

And I know the impulse is to insist that we will need all hands on deck. And is where I remind you traitors exist. Liars exist. Words cannot be enough.

The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."

Kudos to Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books!

This isn't just near Independence Hall. It's where Washington stayed while president, kept slaves, posted bounty ads for runaways, and rotated them back and forth to VA to evade PA's manumission law. This is what it's known for, this specific location's primary historical significance is slavery.

Chris Pratt Jared Leto Mark Wahlberg Johnny Depp Brad Pitt Dwayne Johnson (There are other trashfire humans making movies, but they leapt immediately to mind.)

The Front Street Fountain in Media. They had a regular room, but the other spaces were very kid-friendly. Screens with Disney movies, kid-sized tables and chairs as well as full-sized furniture, walls of chalkboards for artwork. Food was good--better than it had to be--hot dogs, grilled cheese, etc.

This looks like an indictment. It is. But I see it as a reason for optimism. We don’t need to be exceptional to transform Americans' lives. We need to become average. The solutions exist. We see them working. We have to choose them. And that means fixing our democracy so that it delivers.

You know, many of us said the post 9/11 War on Terror measures were Orwellian bullshit at the time, from DHS to ICE. The Patriot Act was chilling as well. Some of us objected vociferously. Perhaps we didn't have the mics or the power, but we remember 2001-2005 as a terrible time in this country.

Sea witch in soft pants. (I'm mostly about the soft pants.)

So working as designed then.

An update from Must Read Magazines, plus a quite vague quote from SFWA's president. I have heard this-is-fine-I-guess chatter regarding recent contracts, but I'm still deeply skeptical of the publisher. 1/5

Given that the first season was explicitly focused on Covid and nobody ever wore a mask (except the one lady in the waiting room who was depicted as shrill and unreasonable), I'm unsurprised that the show's politics are going downhill.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

Today was Session Zero of a new D&D campaign, and I had my shit very together because I stayed up last night with the PHB and D&D Beyond. So today I was just chatting, swapping in a better Feat, and writing unnecessary amounts of backstory to share in the server.

Feeling very distracted this morning, but I still (finally) managed to set up a Fourthwall shop. Folks can now order physical zines! (I think. Haven't finished kicking the tires yet.)