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.

Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades. So maybe reconsider

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

Cosigning this thread. GenAI has no place in schools, and should find no quarter in our lives. The way to push back is STARVING IT. Refuse to use it, don't engage with people who do.

i’m probably better & more stably employed than i have ever been but it’s the “professional” world & what that cost me was spending my day to day with a room full of fascinating people with radically different life stories. i need healthcare, never before had stability, but that cost is *huge.*

If you’re looking for a last minute Hanukkah present, THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD has immaculate light in the dark vibes. TFBT is my Yom Kippur book. LIGHTHOUSE is my Hanukkah book. If you buy it in the month of December and send me proof of purchase, I’ll send you a free bookplate!

hi, cis folks! today, congress votes on 2 bills —HR498 & HR3492—one bans medicaid funds for providers of trans youth care; the other criminalizes that care, imposing penalties including jail. either one passing destroys lives. we need you to call & tell your rep to vote no. tap into the 🧵for more

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

God, I hope so.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! If you buy either of my books in the month of December, I’ll send you a free bookplate! Just send me proof of purchase through my DMs. LIGHTHOUSE is a winter book, a sapphic Orpheus. TFBT is a magical queer circus. Both hold hope. ✨happy holidays!!!!

BOOP THE SNOOT FOR HANNUKAH LUCK. Gurty says Chag Sameach!

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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World by @jrdawson.bsky.social - for your sisters and every dog lover in your life. This one is like hot cocoa on a very awful day.

Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places. 1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!

The normalization of this madness is so quick that we’re debating whether a second illegal strike was wrong after an initial illegal strike with no proof of any crime and we’ve already seen just random murders of fishermen normalized with the excuse they’re running drugs, which isn’t legal either.

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.