Found out today that sales in some independent bookshops don't "count" towards "official" book sales as recorded for the bestseller list, just in case you wanted any more confirmation of how fucked up the world of publishing is in 2026.

Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening

yet another shameful infringement of Cuban sovereignty by the U.S., this time from our unelected judiciary

Was watching that Hasan Piker & Jeremy Corbyn interview and it got me thinking why the democratic socialist movement seems to be currently going better in the US than in the UK, even though at 1st glance UK should be easier because US has a two party duopoly. Below are my random thoughts.

Bow, for there's only ever one religion in the modern world, and he is its walking immanence. Bow, for history has ended and he watches over the last exit. Bow, for he is the Angel of the Capital, the Midnight Sun that Never Sets! #Booksky Rubedo's Villain book trailer. Quite proud of this one.

Born to be a gothic heroine. Ends up a toiling white collar office drone instead.

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

Human existence has only been about wage labor for ~0.1% of our history. Having a job isn’t the same as having a purpose, and there’s nothing bad about losing jobs. The only way that could ever be a problem is if a bunch of assholes had tied all of our basic needs to our usefulness to rich people.

Just a reminder that I'll be signing whatever the hell you can haul into the Allegheny Ballroom at Stokercon. 3:30pm, seat 75-B

Me sitting up awake because Chairman Mao just appeared in my dream and left a message.

*A brief history of New York liberals’ efforts to downplay, ignore, and censor the terrifying ideology of Israel’s radical right* #Israel/Palestine #NewYorkCity by Maureen Tkacik prospect.org/2026/06/03/w...

48c == 118F

Was making book trailers and it just hit me how little cultural/pop media works are about revolutionary women. Most are either liberal consumerist girl bosses or some psycho blood-thirsty avenger tropes or some damp-down tamed motherly saint shit. This makes my protagonist trailer very difficult.

For days, Bolivia has been in a state of full-on revolt. Broad social discontent has brought the country to a halt and stoked mass resistance to the larger project of U.S-aligned, right-wing attacks on workers and social movements in Latin America.

I think at the core of this is a really deep political divide over the core nature of what freedom is. At stake here is this question: is freedom the end of exploitation and rule, the ability to work and make decisions together without anyone ruling over each other, Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

My villain is just Patrick Bateman except he's an ancient vampire and he's a posh Brit.

Oh no, this is going to seriously impact my current AI budget of (Checks notes) Absolutely fucking zero www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I just introduced the Anti-Insurrectionist Act in NY. It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it.

That would imply Cuba did anything that warrants punishment.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

*The brazen hypocrisy of indicting a 94-year-old man whose country is the victim of relentless sabotage and terrorism sponsored by the U.S.* by Medea Benjamin International www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ind...

they're too busy stripping rights from actual humans

If current tech has intelligence of any sort, then it has rights. If it has rights, then how we currently use it is tantamount to slavery and we should probably halt all current/future use/development until we develop an ethical framework for INVITING it to work with us. I don't see that happening.

#Booksky Finally finished Open Veins of Latin America. It's very difficult for me to look at how American pop culture/media portrays Latin America after finishing this book. Because in Netflix shows or Hollywood movies, there are almost always only two types of Latin America:

I think the tech of LLMs, generative "AI," etc is super fuckin' cool. I'm less fond of the hype, the oversell, the yoking of our economy to a small handful of hugely overvaulated companies and the utter contempt the CEOs of these companies clearly have for the vast majority of humans.

I'm obviously no Christian but the more I read about the historical Jesus the more I like him as a flesh and blood human being. And ironically I think if he were alive today, most modern "Christians" would have crucified him again because he's a radical communist.

Does the style guide also say “keep forgetting to pay your writers” and “put misleading headlines above their work”?

Back to my point about how "AI-taking-your-jobs" is not really an "AI" problem. Capitalists just have an innate hatred of labour and humanity, and even without AI, they will use something else as an excuse.

"We have to recognise the plain fact that the vast number of cats who purchase our newspaper are based in the capital and from a fairly affluent background. Accuracy is important, I grant you, but if we print the more working class, provincial 'meow' we risk alienating our core cat demographic."

Today I spoke with families in Hollis, Queens, many of whom say their lives and homes were upended by devastating flooding last night. I also met the city workers and emergency responders who are working around the clock to get this community back up on its feet.

With flooding season here, New York City government is working to keep New Yorkers prepared and safe.

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A harrowing memoir by Nasser Abu Srour on surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons.

Meanwhile, publishers are blocking the Internet Archive, a digital library, from archiving their journalism due to fears of "AI scraping." That's right -- the same papers selling their work to AI companies are blocking a nonprofit archive due to "fears of AI." (2/3) www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more...

"In the era of the Donroe Doctrine, which explicitly demands unquestioned U.S. primacy and resource monopolies in the Americas, the persistence of a sovereign, anti-imperialist project just 90 miles from Florida is an intolerable ideological irritant." fpif.org/the-court-th...

Magic happening...

A) people are absolutely sick of data centers and this kind of thing is going to get worse if steps aren't taken now. b) Said steps will have to include *Not Letting Data Center Companies Sue Towns Out Of Existence If They Don't Get Their Way*. I mean seriously how the fuck is this allowed?

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

This is disgusting treatment of the Flotilla activists, the woman being abused at the start of the video is Irish woman Catriona Graham. Our government cannot continue to stand by as apartheid Israel kidnaps, assaults and incarcerates its citizens, it must impose sanctions now.

Finally, a book that asks the hard questions like "did the Rockefeller Foundation and the CIA use the Frankfurt School to destroy true Marxism as practiced in the glorious USSR?" dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...

I know most are focused on the ethics of using AI but it also shows to me perhaps more importantly how rotten the creative industry establishments are on their own. Like these are supposed to be the best writers, with best agents/editors from top publishers, but no one caught the AI hallucination???

Folks, it’s a real mess out there:

I generally abide by the "do no harm" principles when it comes to nature but I'm a territorial animal so get the fuck out of my house. Guangdong is when Chinese say "we have Australia at home" Ayayay.

Just saw this Chinese petit bourgeosie on Rednote bragging about how she likes this European tourist spot because "you only see white tourists here no Asian faces". And then when people call her out she's like "I'm just into niche subculture". Girl you aren't. You are just sad, racist, Eurocentric.

Nothing is more depressing than watching young artists give other young artists advice like “only use one colour palette in everything you do to have a more recognizable brand” and “draw everything with a target audience in mind”

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Two people just shot up a mosque. Look at this three days ago: