Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

TOMORROW 9PM! Chicago folks, come see me perform in Novelty Pot Zine: AIR at The Bughouse Theater! Get your tickets online or at the door, I can’t wait to see y’all there!: www.crowdwork.com/e/novelty-po...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

In Chicago and free tomorrow? You could attend the first-ever journalism conference dedicated to strengthening U.S. prison journalism, led by systems-impacted journalists like @chriswblackwell.bsky.social and supported by @haymarketbooks.org, @truthout.org, @empowermentave.bsky.social, and more.

Yeah, for those of you who don’t speak corpo: this is a blow-off.

I’d read this version of Lord of the Flies.

US Atty handling it is Andrew S. Boutros, who just oversaw the Broadview 6 case--I mean the Broadview 4 case--I mean the Broadview 0 case.

Problem is, you're in charge of the big lying office, buddy.

Thinking about that time I used the transcription tool in Word for ep 1 of MURDERBOT and it not only spelt Gurathin wrong, it spelled Gurathin wrong a different way every time. I had to proofread/reformat the whole thing anyway, and it would have been quicker to transcribe it myself.

Congratulations to the Clarion West alumni and instructors recognized by the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (BASFF) for 2026! Give them a follow: @isabelcanas.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @wenyilee.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social (1/2)

“Why do I wanna watch/read something you can’t be bothered to make” is what all of this boils down to.

Everyone make like this lil guy and touch some grass today!!

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Fairly regularly I see folks asking for a book rec that’s like The Murderbot Diaries. This is always a tricky ask, because TMBD is pretty unique in narrative voice, who’s narrating, and the metafictional science fiction narrative. It’s very hard to write a send up of AND homage to a genre! however:

If you love science fiction, fantasy, and horror, there is a special @locusmag.bsky.social festival for the Locus Awards on Friday and Saturday during BABF, so be sure to check that out too! locusmag.com/2026-locus-a...

Bay Area peeps! What are you doing this weekend? Why not join me and a bunch of other amazing authors at the Bay Area Book Festival?? It's all happening in downtown Berkeley! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday! www.baybookfest.org

Seriously considering a bird feeder with a camera setup so my phone notifications can be about birds and not solely spam personal loan calls.

Why do AI people always have to use extremely weird and sexist analogies for why its good?

Rachel Carson was born 119 years ago today. Her 1962 book Silent Spring was responsible for revitalizing American interest in ecology after the consumption-driven 1950s, just as her books of the 1950s rekindled enthusiasm for marine biology. tinyurl.com/47bf62k4 #WomenInSTEM #Ecology #BioSky

It's so easy to forget that people, even elected officials, can at any moment simply choose to do the right thing.

It’s nesting season so you know what that means: BIRD DRAMA Early this afternoon I noticed this little fella had taken up a perch on some plant shelves I had been cleaning in my backyard.

Utterly deranged.

its also incredibly condescending, the arguments that disabled writers and artists cannot create or think without gAI. There are absolutely legitimate use cases as access tech, but that does not mean institutions or companies or states should be making this push to universalize gAI in everything

It’s just using a marginalized group as a tool for their own ends. It actually makes sense if you think about it because they already don’t see us as real humans so why not just turn us into a faceless non-human talking point to serve their own ends.

A symptom of ADHD I wish somehow had warned me about sooner: having loads to do (things I want to do!) and yet feeling bored as hell.

What to do if you think someone has heat exhaustion or heatstroke: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just in case you need something to make you smile.

If you are in the SF Bay Area and can show me a pneumatic tube system in action (the bigger the better), please get in touch! I am writing a story about a future pneumatic tube system and need to experience how they sound and smell and everything else.

A hilariously eerie moment in which I’m listening to Naomi Novik’s LEAGUE OF DRAGONS and deciding on an unknowingly fitting snack of tinned fish.

I’m going to hold your hand while I say this. If a marginalized person asks you to do something differently, the response is not to blow up and ask them why they’re riding your back when those guys aren’t even trying to do better. They’re asking you because they think you’re somewhat open-minded.

This thread this thread this thread I could write another dissertation on how no one has a poorer understanding of science fiction than the worst people in tech.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Chicagoans! One week from today come see @blipstress.bsky.social speak with playwright extraordinaire Shualee Cook Women & Children First Bookstore Get a copy, get another copy! Get both signed! Listen to some extraordinarily creative women be brilliant! RSVP HERE: shorturl.at/TZ0gn

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

Always buy the ALDI rose bushes.

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

More context for last repost: www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

These prosecutors who made my family’s life hell for a year are criminals. I want justice and we’ll seek it. This can’t happen again.

It's back!! The Wild Ramp Publishing Disability Justice Microgrant is back for the summer! This July, Wild Ramp will give out (at least) two microgrants to zinesters! (US only, sorry!!🙏🏿) Learn more: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

Lunes. Buenos días

Folks you can’t demand 100% perfection from a world that is on fire and everything in it is bad.

An excellent model for how to apologize, take accountability, and be transparent about their next steps. updates.kickstarter.com/an-apology-r...

This brought me joy.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.

There are a lot of wild events in this article, but this is the part I keep thinking about: “Eva [the chatbot] never got tired or bored, or disagreed.” Never disagreed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...