FINALLY! US history from a Black queer perspective. I’ve been waiting on this installment for a minute. @crileysnorton.bsky.social and Darius Bost really came through and did us a solid by writing it. Happy publication day, you two! Y’all werked it and slayed! 🙌🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

So did I. I’m not a mature person, either 🤭

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

“Go back to your country”: a close read(ing) ✊🏾✊🏾

Watching @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social talk about Octavia E. Butler—master of the gray area, master of discomfort, aka my matron saint 👑—was my jam last night. 🙏🏽They reminded me that I’m long overdue for another reread of her Xenogenesis trilogy. Reading it now 1/3

The 🍉. It’s a texture thing

Absolutely adored the TV series, so when word got out that the original play it’s based on was at @huntingtontheatre.bsky.social, of course I had to go. So wonderful to see the OG vision. 🤌🏽

A story in three parts

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

In Alien Earth, a guy is typing "crew dead" on a computer and the words are reflected on his face, but they aren't reversed like they should be. For readabilty I guess. They should've used a palindrome instead, so we can still read it backwards. "Ya won, evil aliens. Is neil alive? no way"

Hadn’t realized that someone had posted this here but this really was one of my finer bangers from the old place

I legit laughed out loud at this 🤣🤣🤣

TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle

In this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, Dorian gets cruised in a park right after dumping Sibyl Vane. Save for a change of threads, not much difference between Victorian cruising and today’s variety. lol. 😏 This is from the restored, uncensored version. #HappyPride

Beacon Press has always been in the forefront of struggles for justice and freedom: anti-fascist, Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice, immigrant rights, and more. And has ALWAYS published queer/queer-affirming work. Proud to be associated with Beacon. @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social

For the last year or so, I've been scheming with some wonderful friends to--GULP--start a small press. The Kickstarter for our first book is coming this fall. You can follow along here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

It’s @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social’s publication day! 🙌🏽💃🏽 I’d like to think that if I were out during undergrad, I’d be all over queer of color theory. I’ll never know but I’m here and queer to soak it in now. Never too late. Thanks for introducing me to the work of José Esteban Muñoz, Marcos! 🙏🏽

By far, the most peaceful ASMR slasher I’ve seen. It gives an approximate idea of how Michael Haneke would approach the genre

It’s giving affirming and mind-blowing. 🤌🏽 Can’t wait for this to hit the literary runway, @blaqueword.bsky.social!

Here are some actionable suggestions if publishers want to actually help Black and Brown writers (rather than some publicity stunt that helps one or two people, gives a pat on the head to the publisher, and does nothing for anybody else). 1. Actively hire more Black and Brown people in publishing.

Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists. Ann is an author. Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct. Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.

SINNERS is an extraordinary fantastic lens through which to process (African-) American history. Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America." reactormag.com/the-devil-in...

Hell to the yes! 🙌🏽

Backed and pledged! The more Black superheroes in my life, the better. And the ones who want more Black superheroes, I see you, too. Rosarium Publishing has only 30 mins to make their goal! Come through, y’all!

Remembering Val Kilmer in Real Genius (1985). Somehow laser science got an astonishingly accurate pop culture movie. It didn’t have to accurately depict building and troubleshooting excimer lasers and yet somehow it did.

Hard same. I dissociate when the singing starts. 😶‍🌫️

“I realized in all my public speaking about Rosa Parks both how hungry people are for this fuller history and also for understanding why we get the fables we get and what political work they do.” — @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social in convo w/ @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social #BHM

Brains are back on the menu, boys

Thank you to whoever left this sticker on the treadmill at the gym! 🙏🏽 #Booksky

Goddamnit. Copilot is the new Clippy. 🤦🏽‍♂️ I feel like I’ll waste more time in online rabbit holes figuring out how to disable this ridiculous appendage than by ignoring it with all my spite.

One of the oddest and tragic chapters in Boston history. If Ayo Edebiri hadn’t mentioned it on Seth Meyers’s show, it’d still be mostly a townie story. #WeirdHistory

It's especially important to realize that at a time of water shortages contributing to the wildfires in LA, AI uses an absurd amount of water to keep its datacenters cool.

Because of the discourse I’ve seen comparing THE SUBSTANCE to it.

Thanks to CUNK ON EARTH and CUNK ON LIFE, my appreciation of Technotronic’s “Pump Up the Jam” has only increased. Doubled.

Can confirm. The disbelief on folk’s faces when I tell them my age lol

You really don't need to be religious to get this feeling of civic involvement. Whenever someone tells me they're lonely, I tell them to volunteer. Help the homeless. Build queer community. Work with seniors. Do something to help people around you. Throw a party! Make friends. No church required.

Our director Gayatri Patnaik is why AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE US is part of our ReVisioning History series. Let’s make all the noise for her, because we wouldn’t have it or the other editions without her! 🙌🏼✨ @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social

This!

What, you want me to sell you the right to have AI scrape my work? What's the offer? $2,500 a book? Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself lithub.com/harpercollin...

I think this is a good answer, and I'm glad to hear it since I love their product.

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The more I think about that Nanowrimo statement, the angrier I get. Like, they actually tried suggesting that underrepresented minorities need AI to break into publishing! Just say you think we're stupid, damn. Straight up bigotry, dressed up in SJ language, all to sell a scam.

The Fake AI bubble can’t burst soon enough!

Fuck off, OpenAI. Je lie nsi.* [* "go and eat shit" in Igbo]

It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

As always, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com has excellent advice.

I appreciate this Guardian article on RWA's bankruptcy, which points out that inclusive organizations like Steamy Lit Con have been wildly successful in the post-RWA world. www.theguardian.com/books/articl...