Working on the punk musical at the tea shop. The vibes are contradictory, but the caffeine’s complimentary.

One of my favorite books last year has a gorgeous new cover. Congratulations, Erika!!

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Saturday thread of stuff I've published so far this year! For your reading pleasure (or displeasure if you do not like it): First up: a creepy story in @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social about how you can't go home again

Orbán concedes, Tisza gains a supermajority, Hungarian oligarchs lose procurements and market shares, AND it materially hurts right-wing fascists around the world, esp the Heritage Foundation, who’ve been using Orbán’s playbook as a guide. Congratulations and thank you, people of Hungary.

Went cow cuddling last week.

So... this takes a whole lot longer to climb out of than you might imagine. We've managed to keep things going for the time being—thanks to so many of you!—but we're definitely not out of the woods yet. Every subscription helps! Less than $2.50/month! www.brightwalldarkroom.com/subscribe/

So happy: my new trainer is neurodivergent (like me), has Ehlers-Danlos (also like me, which means she can train around my hypermobility), and is obsessed with Balder's Gate. Like, she's got a Netherese orb tattoo (along with a TARDIS and lightsabers) on her back. An Autism Acceptance month miracle.

My day: - Doomscrolled. Swore. Cried. - Reached out to loved ones - Requested 6 month scripts for meds I need to live - Called my reps, asking for them to call for removal over, not just condemnation of, today's rhetoric - Work somehow What's next? Art. Maybe some baking? A walk? Def more swearing.

The staffer I spoke with was like this. I told her we need more than condemnation of rhetoric, the world needs to see leaders calling for his removal. She said, in a very pleasant, unbothered tone that she'd pass my message along. Surreal. Like I'd expressed my preference for public transportation.

A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.

This is why I keep it out of my classrooms. This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI. This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students. We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Ah yes, Star Trek. What a famously unpolitical show.

It's such a disconnect for me that some people will throw an entire series they love dearly away for good because of a shitty final episode, season, or book, but they'll cherish a work that stuck the landing but was written by a genocidal, casually racist, bridge troll.

My heart breaks for the people of Cuba. I was supposed to be in Havana this week to meet with representatives across Latin America to find ways to push back against the American attack on Cuba's sovereignty. But it was too difficult to arrange given the worsening conditions. This is a crime.

Delighted to have a new interview about the book over at Cleaver. Many thanks to awesome Joy Manning!

This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

Javier Bardem at the Oscars: No to war, and free Palestine.

Time to remind folks again. Let's have more directors put bigger budgets, bigger concepts and faith in female cinematographers. bsky.app/profile/cybe...

FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST FILIPINA TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW.

Frankenstein director @realgdt.bsky.social in Jan 2026 on politics in storytelling, expressing better than I can what’s basically my religious beliefs

Great article in Playbill by @itsmargarethall.bsky.social on SINNERS, what makes it a brilliant musical, and the form of diegetic musicals (my favorite kind of musical).

It’s been snowing around WA since 5am. Mountain passes are shut down, flights are delayed—no one expected this. No plows were ready. No snow all winter and now right before spring, this! It’s got ‘I’ve-procrastinated-until-the-last-second-and-now-I’m-doing-the-most’ ADHD energy and I love it. #wawx

I loooooooved working with @eirinieee.bsky.social on this art. We explored so many ideas before finally finding this 'blood moon as a chalice' concept. I have plenty of web clients who just need a simple site build, but I adore the journey I get to go on with my art clients. eiriniecarson.com

I finished my latest draft of the script and sent it to the team last night! I've been at this pass so long. I'm disoriented. It's sunny outside too. And an extra hour of daylight? What do I do? I only get a week off until I get notes. It feels like vacation* *I have so many grants to do this week

May this implosion lead directly to their war crimes trials.

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

Film stuff with my sweethearts.

Orthogonal to the point, but Tolkien could really write, man

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

Apropos of nothing: a racist once bought a major studio. He persecuted actors who didn’t share his ultra-right views, tanking the studio with erratic leadership. It did hurt Hollywood. So did the McCarthy era that followed. But the medium survived. Filmmakers persisted and found new ways forward.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

This is a genuinely terrible idea which would damage the night sky & thus our ability to explore space (& also to just have, y'know, darkness & uncluttered skies), & would drastically increase the likelihood of catastrophic cascading collisions of various human-made space objects (Kessler Syndrome).

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement. Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

"Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world." 🕊️ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

And he saw ghosts! It works!!

The constant AI ads tonight have all reeked of desperation, but this is just flat out funny.

The show would’ve needed to be an hourlong to fit in all my favs but I loved the ones he did. And the production design?! Epic. What a narrative it created (an actual couple getting married! the power outages! the Liam Conejo Ramos references!) Oh and my team is winning. That’s happening too.

Strange what some folks understand as political. This was absolutely an explicitly political performance.

For more singing toilets tune into the Turning Point USA halftime show

“Magic is political.” Love this reporting by @erininthemorning.com / @transvestigations.bsky.social about what the MTG community and @tolariancommunitycollege.com are doing. www.erininthemorning.com/p/magic-the-... There’s still time to give - support @translifeline.org thru the quoted link below!

free them all

On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

This is Georgia Fort's website — the independent journalist also arrested today for covering the anti-ICE protest, along with Don Lemon. Donations to her page support her journalism — and I'm sure now her legal defense for doing that journalism.