Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

aaaaay my car broke down and I'm full time freelance currently, meaning in my broke boy era, now would be a fantastic time to buy one of mine and @llewellynrose.bsky.social's comics or my short story ko-fi.com/A200K80

Look, maybe because of higher tariffs on generic drugs and government shutdowns you'll have to choose between heart palpitations and hunger, but be secure in the knowledge that our government is bailing out a libertarian lunatic who looks like a shady thug from a 70s UK gangster film.

Solidarity!

Voters upheld the Climate Commitment Act by a landslide last year. Today, the Supreme Court shot down a legal challenge. As the federal government is abandoning critical climate protections, Washington's leadership is needed now more than ever. This is an important win.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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Hey authors!! Check to see if you qualify for the Anthropic settlement (ie if your book was stolen to train AI). www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.

I wrote my corporate tragicomedy "The Ones at the Top Didn't Fall There" during @clarionwest.bsky.social 2021 during an apocalyptic heat wave in tech bro-dominated Seattle. I proceeded to revise it for the next four years. Thrilled to see it in print and can't wait to read everyone else's work!

‪ 🚨URGENT NEED: $35/200 I ran out of cat food and kitty litter. My senior cats require a special diet to survive. Work is scarce. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. Anything helps! 💕💸 #AuthorSky #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #HelpSky #MABoost #MutualAidRequest www.paypal.com/paypalme/amy...

Reminder that the cotton stretchy decorative spider web stuff is terrible for local wildlife (yes, even in the city).

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Spread Me, my erotic horror novella about an isolated research team and the specimen that wants to explore them back, is available everywhere you buy books. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I like those does-this-ever-happen-to-you infomercials where someone's trying to mash potatoes and then a diplodocus crashes through the wall or the potatoes burgeon with eyestalks and thousands of tiny teeth.

My name in lights!! I'm so excited!! Can't wait to read everyone else's.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

This episode features my favorite intro in the show’s history

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms. this is not hyperbole. it's right here.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."

I share the luxury belief that Robert Galbraith would better serve the cause of women's rights by burying herself under her big piles of money and never publicly speaking again.

Delighted to read this excellent short story by my friend @amandasong.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social ! Love this one flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/09...

JFC, Atlantic Monthly. Michelle Obama wanted kids to eat healthy and exercise. She wasn't bent on destroying our federal health agencies.

You know what I want but dare not ask for? Literary covers. I want to read Olga Tokarczuk's PET SEMATARY.

Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.

I look at this and I think about London. There is just no reason to be funneling the police this amount of data. So many people thrown into the prison industrial complex who can't fight effectively for themselves.

I was lucky enough to read this as an ARC. I was tickled, I was spooked, I was occasionally mildly nauseated, but the book is an absolute hoot and my favorite so far in our current fungal horror wave.

I didn’t think light would be any good today but I think a few turned out well enough to share. #rainbowwings 🌈 Those feets in the 3rd image 🥰 🪶 1 of 2

Tahini is really enjoying @johnlangan.bsky.social 's new collection LOST IN THE DARK, though hampering somewhat my ability to do so

Reminder to myself and anyone else who needs it: you don't really need to check your email multiple times a day to see what disasters have occurred. Once is plenty and you'll hear if not.

We still need some help if at all possible. Buying my fabric art or signing up for my Patreon would also aid us in getting Rilla's dental work done. Thanks so much to everyone for the support. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

I yelled at a dude in a beemer to stop blocking the bus please and thank you so I will be accepting any Working Class Hero awards you see fit to bestow

I wrote a sonnet about giving one's life to Christ in the Cracker Barrel parking lot.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

Fucking beyond parody at this point

Public discussion around the Manifest Destiny theme has already been enough for the staff to start scrubbing the LA WorldCon website. I wonder, though, how the internal bias that allowed them to think this was a good choice will shape the rest of WorldCon 2026? I'll be watching closely.

A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis. The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.

Hey, this Starmer guy is a real cunt www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...

Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)

I really enjoyed all the Hugo winners' acceptances but especially Neil Clarke's stark pronouncement of "Generative AI is theft."

People say, “if you’re not using AI to write, you’ll be left behind!” meanwhile study after study has shown severe and immediate cognitive decline in those who use it regularly. I’m still capable of reading and have a functioning brain, so who’s really being left behind here?

Had a great time, at #Worldcon yesterday, notably at the Weird Horror panel with @gordonbwhite.bsky.social , Jordan Kurella, @wnwagner.bsky.social and David Sandner, all of whom did a great job showing how expansive the genre(?) can be. Lark Su Morgan was one of the best moderators I've yet seen too

Absolutely no one’s forcing anyone to buy queer books they don’t want to buy, but quite a lot of people with a lot of power are literally banning queer books from libraries, bookstores, curricula, so maybe fuck all the way off with this slimy hand-wringing bullshit & fix your fucking hearts

Hey folks—IDK how worldcon did it, but keep in mind that panelists at SFF cons often have limited control of their panel assignments. Some cons ask people what panels they want, but many will assign people based on their own criteria. Panelists sometimes find out their schedule when it's published.