Only $130 to go on this project by some very cool authors!

Poverty is political violence. Taking away people’s healthcare is political violence. School shootings are political violence. Taking away abortion rights is political violence. Trying to destroy women’s right to vote is political violence. The destruction of trans rights is political violence.

Can we get Claude to work on student loan payments?

Congratulations to J.R. Dawson! “Six People to Revise You” is a finalist for the Best Short Story Hugo Award! You can read it here! buff.ly/hbwq504

Okay. Let's take a moment to talk about How To Be A Hugo Nominee And Come Out Of It Happy About the Honor. I realize this is relevant to like, twelve people. I don't care, those twelve people deserve my time. (You may have seen a version of this thread before. I do it every year.)

THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD by @jrdawson.bsky.social has won the 2026 Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Fiction! midlandauthors.org/contest-winn... Published by @torbooks.bsky.social & @torbooksuk.bsky.social

My dad to the dog while making a snack, “I know you're excited, so am I. But there is no need to bark. I'm not barking. No one else here is barking”

This week, on LIGHTSPEED: "Hell Is Empty" by J.R. Dawson www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hell...

The April 2026 issue of LIGHTSPEED is now available, with stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Justin C. Key, Andrew Dana Hudson, Andrea Kriz, Ashok K. Banker (a 2-part novelette), J.R. Dawson, P.A. Cornell, plus the usual book reviews and author spotlights. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/light...

If you want to see my DJ style, come to this year's Worldcon, I'll be DJing a dance there! www.lacon.org

What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell. Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

for a long time I’ve wanted to write about the “post-harry potter magical school novel” because it’s interesting to me how potter changed YA lit in such a huge way but also how completely the series has been surpassed. Honestly, looking at magic school manga is fascinating.

elizabeth warren linking to my story in the first sentence of a letter to pete hegseth is blowing my mind www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

Hoo boy, this is…yikes. The fallout from this pandemic is still coming down.

Eek! It’s Hugo time! I’d be so honored if you considered my work! My short story “Six People to Revise You” is available for free, and my book THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD is available in ebook, hardback, and audio! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

This is valuable deep reading, and I'm gratefully enriched by Liz's thoughtful effort.

I think a thing a lot of people don’t understand is that propaganda does not convince anyone of anything through argumentation. It’s about frequency, not force. You get exposed to it enough and it changes how you think.

Huzzah! Waterstones has chosen THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD paperback as part of their 25% off pre-order sale! Sapphic Hadestown, my joyful grief book is rolling back into the land of the living this summer!

The further in advance you announce your willingness to vote for a horrible person as the lesser evil, the more enthusiastically supportive of that evil you seem. Which is to say, Newsom is horror show, and preemptively declaring support in a theoretical future vote says you like his kind of horror

Congratulations to J.R. Dawson! 'Dawson's short story “Six People to Revise You” is the co-winner of the Uncanny Magazine 2025 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll! You can read it here! buff.ly/Y3xl6Ua

Nebs are closing soon and Hugos are now open! I’ve got a book that’s eligible, and also a short story I really love. You can read the short story here! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

I’d be willing to rethink my stance on AI if it wasn’t actively killing our planet, leading to measurable cognitive decline and psychosis, being used to generate revenge porn, plagiarizing the work of millions of writers and artists, threatening to end thousands of jobs, and actually worked.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Modest Maus

This is really important: ICE in #Minnesota is changing its tactics. Be aware!

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

Reading for the Uncanny Magazine Poll? Try the short story "Six People to Revise You" by J. R. Dawson! You can read it here! buff.ly/KnEAbLT

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

This thread fully explains why all the people who've been tracing anti trans movements for years are kinda insane now. It's been big. It's been widespread. It has not been subtle. And no one fucking listened to us. Possibly the most successful conservative retrenchment since WWII.

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue

Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time. Time to claim your true history.

This was kind of a difficult piece to write, given how shaky and frightening everything is here right now, but keeping Assigned readers informed of a dire situation they might not know a lot about was worthwhile. Thanks so much to @rohnkat.bsky.social and @leighfinke.bsky.social!

A good time for the pitch: if you've got some coin, toss a few into the plate of trans/queer journalists covering trans/queer stories from trans/queer perspectives, because the institutionally transphobic corporate media sure as fuck ain't going to do it.

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

100%. Stop funding them.

Here's a thing I need from you all. When we get through to the other side of things. When. I need you to now, take a coin sized piece of anger and hate, and I need you to freeze that thing. I need you to keep it cold and hard and next to your heart. So when we come through to the other side

Good.

@edzitron.com Another excellent article from the Times, “the only problem with AI is there might not be enough money in the world to make it good”

So local gem of a bookstore @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social got wrongly marked as “closed” in a database, meaning UPS stopped delivering new book shipments right at the peak of holiday shopping/hockey romance enthusiasm. But you can help! Buy a book! www.fox13seattle.com/news/seattle...

Read the whole thread

If you’re interested in resisting liberal whitewashing of the fundamentally misogynist pro-natalist cause, I think my Bookforum piece is a good place to start. www.bookforum.com/print/3102/b...

The non-apology apology has long been an irritation of mine. Moxon does a great job breaking down why it's so common.

Ooh, this is the creepiest take on a time-travel story that I've read in a long time, dark and excellent:

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.