Big thx to @jbstone.bsky.social for the great review of ‘Concrete Christmas’ - that first sentence will surely go to my head

Read "Werewolf Skin" written by @jbstone.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "Marty’s werewolf skin was seen as more of a collective blessing than an ancient curse to many across the state of Idaho." tinyurl.com/2zdb6jah

So grateful to the wonderful @flashfrog.bsky.social for featuring my micro 'Gorilla gorilla gorilla' today and @mooninabucket.bsky.social for the fantastic artwork!🙏❤️ Thanks also to @smokelong.bsky.social for inspiring this one with a fitness sprint challenge a couple of years ago. ❤️

started/going energy in real time

ICYMI

ICYMI: May 1st, Our submissions call opens for our third THEMED ISSUE... Issue XII: Voices of the Modern Diaspora! Get those pieces ready! Detailed guidelines below... varietypack.net/submissions-2/

pretty incredible they've spent billions on something that can't answer "why would I want to read what happens next" beyond the fact that they spent billions on it

"Dear Unsayable Word, I put the shell of my ear against your spleen, waiting for you to take on mass." —Christine Huang 黃凱琳

Retweeting. Disclaimer: I don't do verification.

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

This is one of those things that, should Dems eventually get back into power, they will treat as business as usual and fine to do if the Republicans don't catch enough hell for it while they're in power. And they'll act like they're too busy cleaning up the R mess to stop doing it.

Omar El Akkad on language as a weapon of oppression, the power of negation, and what it means to be a writer in these polarizing times

"Being rich is not a qualification for running the government ... By gutting the NIH, Trump and his allies, many of whom don’t understand the nuances of grant writing and don’t even work in science or medicine, are holding back institutions that have made quantum leaps in both fields."

Publishers for Palestine Condemns Israel’s Ransacking of East Jerusalem Bookshop and the Arrest of Its Owners

Gather round children, and let me tell you the tale of how when I was a child, eggs were so cheap we chucked them at cars and houses

I got death threats for accurately describing GamerGate. I kept going with my work, despite the fact that I never had access to either the wealth or the elaborate security protocols of a United States Senator.

Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady in a commercial trying to solve the problem of hate.

History says we forgave the executioner. —Sharif

Pay attention.

Tomorrow is the big day for auditions for those of you who are interested in getting a role in our play performances for festival of shorts #buffalo #buffalony #play #inclusivetheaterofwny #inclusivetheater

published this story by my bud @russellbrakefield.bsky.social a year ago. if you missed it at the time, you should spend some time with it today/this weekend! if you read it at the time... you should reread! it's a gem. plus, it's got some pretty cool art from... me! 👨‍🎨

Here is a script you can use for any issue. Find your reps' # at reps.fyi or 5calls.org. Every time you see a news story that horrifies you: call, or something else about it. It matters to say what you believe. You are setting a norm.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

BIG VOUCH for Nico you can trust us to the BONE...s the bones

Teaching this tomorrow, so just reread. It's such a gem and a delight.

So beyond excited to get my copy of LUMINOUS today!!!!! Debut novel from the truly incredible @silviapark.bsky.social!!! Get your orders in NOW -- trust me, you want this gorgeous book ⚡️⚡️⚡️

seriously though! we will blurb your books we will post about them on our social media and in our newsletter we're so invested in your success--once you're in our pages you are FAMILY so don't hesitate to reach out, to ask, to send us copies 💀💀💀

Remember what happened in South Korea when their president abused his power and tried to become dictator? We need to do that here.

samsies on this one

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

The world is a nightmare but today on campus I saw a kid wearing a Mazzy Star shirt so maybe we’re on the upswing

Fixed it.

2 cents

if you're not acknowledging that we're in an ongoing pandemic and masking to protect yourself & your community, i don't want to hear about how aghast you are about the attacks on civil rights. as if the ability of sick & disabled folks to be in public is a not a civil right you are coughing on

Yesssss! Some good news for a change! Congratulations @vanessahua.bsky.social !!!!!

fuck nazi scum and all their apologists

Remember kids, it’s always morally correct to punch a Nazi :)

@strangehorizons.bsky.social is live with a secret Jan 20 special issue: Stop Surveillance Copaganda: A Collaboration with Fight for the Future strangehorizons.com/issue/20-jan...

it seems so strange to have to insist in a world saturated with WWII cultural products that maybe the best thing the US ever did in the world was help defeat fascists in Europe but apparently we have to keep insisting on it anyway

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LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees: Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations) Bar Etoile (East Hollywood) Fiorelli Pizza (Venice) Bé Ù (Silver Lake) Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood) Oy Bar (Studio City) Sunday Gravy (Inglewood) Dudley Market (Venice) LaSorted's (Silver Lake)

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

I just proofed Split Lip Mag's January issue & it is 🔥! It's got humor. It's got sex. It's got heart. And some killer lines too!

Teachers. Always teachers.