Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

My most radical basketball take is that the NBA never wanted the WNBA to be profitable so they designed it as a write off for tax purposes… so they can give large contracts to NBA players…that is my conspiracy take of the day…

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

If you've ever seen anything w/ multiple sources making serious allegations against anyone rich or famous or both, know the smartest lawyers in the land kicked the shit out of that story for upwards of 4-6 months, or in the case of my book, A YEAR. But sure, A Guy on the Internet is more credible 🤡

A white guy threw a homemade bomb into a crowd protesting colonialism in Australia and the media have broadly reframed it in more gentle terms, eg this describing it as a "device" that was 'designed to explode'.

Being irksome should be an instant personal foul!

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

everything is so horrible, and i've called my senators, i've donated, but now i need my brain to uhhh brain better -- so please tell me about your favorite romance manga/anime -- anything rly, josei, shoujo, bl, gl, whatever, go to town. tell me about it!

Look, it's fine to love art by shitty people. It's not fine to defend their shittiness. And if they're writers, buy their books secondhand. Authors make zero money from resale of our books.

I wrote up a longer piece about scammers pretending to be me, how you can tell it's not me, and why neither I nor any other "big name" author is likely to be emailing you at all, and certainly not with obviously "AI"-generated verbiage. Please feel free to share. whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/20/r...

Indeed one of my aims for 2026 is to reclaim scrolling time with book reading time. Here is the current novel I'm reclaiming time with. It starts off rather dramatically.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Now would be a fantastic time to buy Randa Abdel-Fattah's books. They're really good! Also varied. She writes non-fiction, romance, YA. Pretty much everything.

people are withdrawing from Adelaide writers week faster than can be reported. In addition to the names listed here are Ren Wyld, Emma Shortis, and Fiona Katsaukas. Important detail: the only creative, Stephen Page, has left the Adelaide Festival board. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Yesterday I wrote to the Adelaide Festival Board to withdraw my participation from Adelaide Writers Week. Their decision to intervene in Writers Week programming and cancel the participation of author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is completely unacceptable.

As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.

Well, I was going to be on a panel at the Adelaide Writers' Festival but I'm not any more.

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.

Crowd-sourced gentle TV list docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Happy New Mayor to all my fellow New Yorkers! #nycmayor #mamdani

Dunno who needs to hear this but a fiction book is a novel. No, *you're* petty.

Oh, look a sighting of the bound galley of mine & @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social's The Mortons in the wild! (Aka Mr Scalzi's compound.) It publishes 21 July 2026.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

You don't say..... @smartbitches.bsky.social mashable.com/article/how-...

It's Clive James' best poem. Schadenfreude plus the bitter recognition that most books wind up on the sad sale table eventually. (Though books aren't remainered quite like they used to be. Audio & ebooks mean most books stay "in print" forever. Even if there's no physical copy available new.)

Ryan Coogler's SINNERS was by far the best movie I saw in 2025. Best movie out of Hollywood in years. Watch the academy give it bobkes.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

The vaccine is pretty astonishing. Just look at that green line.

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

When I went home to Mississippi last week, a Black farmer welcomed folks to pick greens from his land for free. It made me wonder whether other communities across the country were also giving back ahead of the holiday. The answer: yes, they are. capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...

My book is out and it’s about the power of archive and voice and my fellow fellows are dope as hell in it nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014906...

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

It is absolutely amazing and powerful that Zohran Mamdani said that the president isn’t taking care of Homelessness and funding genocides but its not even teh first fucking time this year an elected politician has called this out in front of a mike with a camera

good morning specifically to Claire Sharpe www.bbc.com/news/article...

It is good post because apples are amazing! Before I moved to the USA I thought there were only a few varieties of apples. When I was a kid there were Jonathans & Granny Smiths. I've now tried dozens of different varieties. Total revelation. My faves are Golden Russets but i love many others.

There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/

It is not controversial to say that billionaires should not exist. That scale of hoarded wealth & resources is bad for everyone else & for the planet. It's also really bad for the billionaires. Nothing corrupts like that ridic access to, well, everything. #nomorebillionaires

We aren’t fighting fascism for real because we don’t want to, It says something that while most of the WINNING Dems have issued speeches about representing everyone While the power ( and if you tell me it’s age based I will smack you) Is constantly claiming to tear down intersectionality

Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.

🇧🇷 In #Brazil, - Solar grew from 0.01% in 2015 to 12% in 2025 - Met its 2030 renewable target 8 years early - Installed 60 GW of solar by Sept 2025 4/7

Our weekly briefing is out, this one touching on Medicaid but mostly looking at what we’re losing in federal food safety oversight. Spoiler, it is “things that keep our food from making us sick.” unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...

What's a scam you've fallen for? Because we've all been scammed at some point. I get angriest about having believed that carbon offsets were real with tangible good effects in the real world. Not so much. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I wrote a whole-ass book about this bullshit and what's more, it's about my own father, mother, and extended family. www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/run...

Gotta love it when the leopards just straight-up eat each other's faces.

Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.

Exciting news! If you have a @netgalley.bsky.social account you can request my next novel, The Mortons. Co-written with @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social. It publishes in Canada/USA & UK, July 2026. (Still waiting on Australia/NZ, Bulgaria, France & German pub dates.) www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...