'Facebook made a presentation ... bragging that its ability to monitor users’ online lives enabled them to know exactly when teenage girls were feeling “worthless”, “insecure”, “stressed”, “anxious”, & “like a failure”. Those were optimal moments for selling.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So darn cute! Do I wish I could win? 😭 Yes I do! www.instagram.com/p/DWZNA9YAUG...

We're excited to announce that we've signed Sally! I think she's gonna be a hoot to work with 🦉🦉

One of my oldsters died last night. It was a good death: peaceful, in his sleep, age 93. He was one of the many important adults in my life: a firm, even stern, lawman who reminded me a bit of Archie Bunker and a bit of Carroll O'Connor playing Archie Bunker.

🐲📚 Perfect holiday gift for #dragon lovers! To Shape a Dragon's Breath paired with the pre-order of sequel To Ride a Rising Storm, by Moniquill Blackgoose! Epic #fantasy with #diverse voices and #anticolonial attitude! Grab both now! #FantasyBooks #DragonFantasy #IndigenousAuthors #DiverseFantasy

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🐲📚 Perfect holiday gift for #dragon lovers! To Shape a Dragon's Breath paired with the pre-order of sequel To Ride a Rising Storm, by Moniquill Blackgoose! Epic #fantasy with #diverse voices and #anti-colonial attitude! Grab both now! #FantasyBooks #DragonFantasy #IndigenousAuthors #DiverseFantasy

Wasn't the Republican Party up in arms over a former President's blow job? But fucking little girls is okay? ======================

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It's still going to need pushing everywhere, so keep the pressure on! But also, great work getting here 👏

I am on The Cozy Nook on Tuesday! I'm very much looking forward to this!! #sff #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #speculative #fiction #book #podcast #publishing #WritingCommunity #amwriting #writerslife

This is the most complete information I've seen about the Anthropic copyright settlement — dates of when things are likely to happen, what to do now, and what it all means for different types of writers. nwu.org/anthropic/

Is MAGA a fascist movement? NEW VIDEO. You tell me? www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0om...

BREAKING: Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won the special election in AZ-7 to fill her late father's US House seat. The discharge petition to release the Epstein files needs one more signature, and she's expected to sign it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

What liberals are experiencing right now is complicity; and they are not capable. So they imagine the fascism they’ve enjoyed and minimized their whole lives is the result of the uncouth man, not of decades of incrementalism ratcheting us into accepting evil as a given, lesser evil as the standard.

📚💙 🖊📜 This is the most tortured metaphor I've ever created! Shout-out for all the labored, tormented literary devices!

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I am so frequently critical of the Authoritarian Right, but I admit, I am so proud of those who've said no, this we won't support! You have restored a small part of the faith I once had. I would ask you to do the same with the Epstein information, as Mr. Kirk advocated for. It's time we know

“He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,’” Cruz quoted FCC chairman Brendan Carr. “That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’”

Turns out most of the self-righteous Right are Wonderbread Fluffernutters: tasteless white squish on the outside, synthetic white glop on the inside, and a thin layer of appropriated and emptied Brownness

The #Right sprinting to embrace #fascism so to prevent #socialism is so on-brand. They want smaller #government & no Nanny-state…until they don't, because it hurts their #feelings. Meaning they finally feel the same pain they've been inflicting or ignoring.

Who else wants to place bets on how long it takes the #RadRight and #MAGA to start comparing #CharlieKirk's widow to #RosaParks or #HarrietTubman?

It's pretty easy to cancel your Disney+ subscription, and a coordinated, national day of cancellations would send a very clear message about our values as Americans.

We now have Karl Rove to thank for defending civil liberties from Presidential overreach coming from the far right. The infinite parallel universe theory has been proven!

a bit unclear on what we are and are not allowed to say right now according to the government

For every hypocrite out there, left, right, and center. Your fucking ideologies don't give you special privilege to hypocrisy. Melissa Hortman's assassination, along with the murder of her husband, was disgusting. Charlie Kirk's assassination was disgusting.

Once upon a time, I was a person Or was it all a fairytale Did I ever reason, or ache, or love Did I ever exist, or was it all make-believe

In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

In an Era of Deep Polarization, Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

We can acknowledge the irony, discuss the symmetry of recent political assassinations, question if Mr. Kirk's own rhetoric inspired the assassin, comment on how divisiveness has turned us into a dystopic and dysfunctional society of gun-wielding avengers, but to cheer this is obscene! It's never OK!

I had no idea 90% of people are in the bottom 50% of the cultivated.

🧵 A short story - when I see police with a Black person, I stop and witness, to ensure an uninvolved account. Usually when this happens, it's evident immediately that the officer/s are dealing appropriately and with professionalism, and often with a great deal of compassion. 1/9

I represent science fiction. No, it is not dead. Pass it on.

Disgusting one, you have nothing to do with this. You're the communications, digital or non, Mr. Nokes. Since you seem to be obsessively stalking me from behind blocks in place on my social media, and since I am completely unwilling to open those blocks, I feel safe assuming you will see this.

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

Vote harder

Trump sending National Guard to liberal cities isn't protection from crime. After all - why would he spend millions of tax dollars to protect the streets & homes of his enemies? If the National Guard were serving in a protective role, he'd send them to the states that voted for him.

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PTORSTK filed in King County Superior Court this afternoon. Both the harassment and the level of unhingedness has ramped up

Hey Pol Pat, stop lying about me on social media like a whinging cunt. Don't contact my partner, clients, or industry professionals concerning me. Keep my name outta your mouth, stop harassing me, and most importantly, stop contacting people connected to me! Period!!

If he said he'd stop contacting my partner, clients, and business contacts to "expose" me, I could MAYBE see letting his 2 years of defamation go, but he'd have to stop cyberstalking and defaming me in the future, and that I don't think he's capable of.

The Republicans are not anti-crime. They are pro-control.

For anyone keeping track, I've sent @stealthygeek.bsky.social a cease & desist, yet he continues to evade both his and my blocks on social media to #cyberstalk, #harass, and #libel me. That his supporters continue to hound me instead of advising him to stop his actions speaks volumes.

So after telling me hundreds of times he's shown me all the proof I need, he publicly admits not showing me because I don't "matter" 😂🤣 I hate litigation. It's exhausting, wasteful, and tedious. The only plus is when you get someone who makes it so easy to accomplish successfully

This week on Planetside… Publishing is slow. Formatting is hard. Volunteers make it possible. @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social offers hard-earned wisdom in “Seven Lessons for My Past Self on Running a Small Press.” Part of Speculative Poetics.

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