One of my favorite covers.

This website is not fun.

New @kellylink.bsky.social books are always a reason to celebrate!

not syndrome. imposter celebration. enjoying every day they don't kick you out and you get to mess around.

TFW grade school kids are smarter than the assembled brain trust of Silicon Valley

wtf?

Some news.

You really only get one chance to shoot your shot when it comes to lying on this scale. Whatever dregs of credibility they could hoover out of the FBI, they're gone. And they made such obvious fools out of the legacy media with the Kirk stuff. Those guys aren't gonna play along the same way

Hi everyone! Some news! My @writingco-lab.bsky.social class, What We Found in the Forest is back October 4th! I've also joined Writing Co-Lab to offer my coaching services as well alongside some fabulous teachers and writers! www.writingco-lab.com/coaching-and...

The New American Dream.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

I've said this before, but IMO we need to spend less time OBSERVING that Trump is engaged in authoritarian corruption and more trying to use language to build pressure to stop it. Same with Tom Homan's bribe. Yes, it was a bribe. Who can we embarrass politically for letting it happen.

A lot of things are bad. But some good things remain! Such as books. The mail brought me these in the last two days. I hadn't read anything by Kyle Winkler before, loving Enter the Peerless already (always fun to read a book where the narrator travels all around my locale). Black Brane soon!

Grasshands, by Kyle Winkler, is an outstanding work of dark fantasy. Mind-bending, time-warping, and wonderfully inventive, I love this book. It brims with unique horrors and deeply felt emotion. Looking forward to reading more from Winkler.

Here's Ep. 5 of Third Person Limited, 'Kyle winkler pt. 1 and BLOB'. www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/ep-...

Really loved this one too, struck close in a way I can't really figure out yet. As soon as I finished it, I immediately want to start and read it again, and I don't know the last time that happened with a book

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

Current reading: excellent so far @daytonward.bsky.social! Bonus: my bookmark is a STCCG card.

Pitch: aliens invade earth and the only solution is for Rupert Murdoch to expand News Corp into their media market to destroy their civilization, too.

Only 16% of you are reading for pleasure? I know there's a lot of entertainment out there, but reading can help you take yourself out of the world where everything's on a screen. And make good things happen inside you. So renew that library card & get cracking.

Fukuyama and Find Out

Why didn’t Tom Bissell write all the episodes of Andor?

Thank you! If you're not reading me, you're probably reading other supercool kickass weirdos! Win-win. xo

About halfway through Oh Pain by @bleakhousing.bsky.social. And if you like weird and you aren't reading Kyle Winkler, what are you even doing?

In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective. reactormag.com/exploring-ge...

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

19 episodes until Andor brought up the Force. Makes it better that way.

Okay, @henryholtbooks.bsky.social is not playing around with the new @danchaon.bsky.social novel 👀🎪🍿

Trans rights are human rights.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The best thing Kimmel could do right now is do what the Right does when it is deplatformed: replatform yourself on another service, go live, and dunk on the administration harder than ABC would ever have allowed him to. Go full South Park on them. Do an hour on Patel lying under oath about Epstein.

“If we’re going to live together as a family in this house, we have to let dad beat the shit out of us now and again”

Considering that comedy has been around since civilization started, I don’t think this will last long.

First night out with the new lens and ND filters. Really not sure if an ultrawide is the right lens to be doing this with, but it was fun to try.

I cleaned out my junk drawer and there was a tiny Spirit Halloween in there the next day run by homunculi.

ah, well

It's #WeirdBookWednesday AND our Kathryn Davis symposium is tomorrow! It will be a great introduction to her work. The symposium will feature 4 essays about her books AND she'll be in conversation with @kellylink.bsky.social Here's a thread of a few of her books to get you psyched!

I'm not much of a photographer but I like doing long exposure stuff at night. Basically the whole reason I got into this

A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

Since this was an Andor reference post, I would also like to point out that the score, esp. S1, by Nicholas Britell is stunning. Worth listening to on its own.

It's all a clique. Sometimes a claque.

More people need to read the shorter Bolano novels. Basically the whole state of the country can get summed up with a mixture of Nazi Literature in the Americas, Amulet, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star

there's no contradiction between "hating trans people" and "wanting to fuck trans people". have you guys heard what men think of women

Can we get a Star Wars series that’s just ppl working all these kickass analog devices with half inch jacks and knobs and switches? I’d watch 12 hrs of that shit. Just a rebel working a radio switchboard.

I just need to know why every news headline right now isn’t Holy Christ Have You Seen This Fascist Shit

See, I give myself little surprises by ordering used books online and then forgetting that I ordered them, so when they show up 12 days later, it's like someone else sent them to me. Anyway, my house is made of books.

My goal for today is to revise 60 pages. I am not confident that I will hit that mark, but I have nothing but coffee (decaf) to sustain me. That and sheer pessimism.

Reminder that interns and assistants carry the book publishing industry on their backs