Just finished. This one was particularly great, the kind of luminous, evocative sci-fi read I love to luxuriate in. The story switches between an in-depth, thorough station-based milieu to a sensate, engulfing and verdant terrestrial alien world.

This dude is legit funnier than a lot of so-called professional comedians out there. I’m laughing and crying and laughing 🤣😭🤣

What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.

She's usually right.

I'm just going to point out that ICE is about 23 years old. It was formed as part of the response to 9/11 and was reactionary, performative, and racist from the start. Its not eternal. This is not a thousand-year Reich.

Scrolling the feed this morning I felt there was a distinct lack of serotonin, so here's my little serotonin catalyst.

But the bigger reason that you should write and make art, is that your work is someone else's respite. You don't know who they are. They may be someone in the future. But if you have escaped into a book, or a painting, or a TV show... Someone created that. You can do that for someone else.

As a coastal village, the ghost-soaked steps of Maryworth seem to obey their own tides. Instead of an ebb and flow of phantoms, they experience ascending and descending spirits. No slack stasis, but rather an equilibrium of spectres when you cannot walk them without an invisible shoving. – #CJosiffe

Re-upping this. Thanks again for making it, @ziibiing.com. www.standwithminnesota.com

There is something all of us can do to rein in ICE's reign of terror. The Department of Homeland Security is currently funded only through January 30, and the new funding bill is vulnerable. Please read more via this link and call your reps today. All hands on deck. indivisible.org/campaign/how...

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

Oh hey, looks like Libby has a built in spot to let them know what we all think of their recent announcement about allowing AI books in their systems.

My dear friend @sheilawilliams.bsky.social is ill and has been hospitalized with a brain aneurysm. She has been a rock for so many writers, and has worked quietly and self-effacingly to continue to broaden the range of voices published in Asimov's.

There is something in the fields. Strange tracks, trampled wheat, eerie noises that set the dogs to barking. Not angry barks, though. Tails wag and tongues loll as they give the "Please let me play with the friend" look. Who do they bring back when you let them go? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

Morning fam! The horrors persist, but so do we 🔥 Whether you write for resistance, love, joy, vengeance, or purely out of spite...get your words IN this week. We need em and we need you 🥰 let folks know how your WIP is going!

ICE are terrorists, criminals, murderers, kidnappers, the worst humans we have. Evil. Plain and simple.

No matter how bad our backdrop gets, let us not sink into a social default based on misery. Let's always have a healthy way to express and share joys. Let's always have ways to make each other laugh without the need to be vicious. Let's remember that a candle can light another and lose nothing.

There are some doors that you just know open onto secrets. Some doors which can't help but innately signal they are also portals to Otherworlds. 18 Brimsdown Lane is one of them. I ache to know what is behind it. I'm half-convinced it's another universe. – #MattAdams

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

I checked out the link and it's legit. If you need help, this could be a good place to start. via White Rose Resistance

Poem.

For a short fiction throwback, we recommend @catvalente.bsky.social's Hugo-nominated "L'Esprit de L'Escalier," a zombified retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice edited by @datlow.bsky.social

Scaramouche in the sun. 🌞🐈‍⬛

A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. 🤣🤣🤣

Here is a great thread of other fundraisers, Nationwide, for families whose loved ones have been killed by ICE!

A collage I made processing some personal griefs, though the public ones loom heavy, too. Not AI (ever).

A gentle reminder in your grief that Renee Good was out there to protect her Black and brown neighbors from ethnic cleansing. That is still the mission. The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.

Across the country, Americans are honoring Renee Nicole Good and mourning all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed. Hundreds of marches and vigils are planned this weekend. Please join us to say ICE Out For Good: www.mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...

A little good news today. For the first time since December 2000, the entire state of California is no longer either entering or recovering from a drought! That's 25 years of drought conditions. www.drought.gov/states/calif...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I’m joining Rep. @robinkelly.house.gov to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and will use every lever available to end the terror ICE has unleashed on our communities. Stay loud.

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

Violence is too often sloppy; it spills over. Misogynists kill a lot of men, racists kill white people, ICE in its attacks on immigrants and anyone who looks like them just killed a white US citizen. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a gun everyone is a target.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

Emergency response vigil organized by @miracmn.bsky.social tonight.

Violent paramilitary organizations are shooting civilians in the face in Minneapolis and we're just supposed to sit here doing our jobs?

Ooh. This will be amazing!

A quote from this that I very much resemble: "It is okay to be meticulous and thoughtful, to edit and revise and rethink, even in your first drafts. As long as you eventually finish them."

This instead.

Fuck their shit. Just fuck it.

Nice article about Queen Demon: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... "One of Wells’ most compelling gifts as a writer is the way she interrogates trauma, and trauma is very much in evidence in her recent works, especially in both Murderbot and The Rising World."

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Mine is Princess Mononoke, always and forever.

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡