This morning. Praise be.

Robin Williams daughter Zelda is pleading with people to stop creating AI videos of her Dad. I’m pleading with you to stop using generative AI. It’s destructive to the environment. It’s destructive to artists. It’s destructive to humanity. It steals from us and churns out slop. Just stop.

No equivocation. Plain language. Absolute focus.

The same soul sickness that leads people to be cruel to humans is the same one that leads them to be cruel to the Earth.

Family of four in Chatham County, Georgia paid--for the lowest cost option--$559.69/ mo for insurance. In 2026, if the insanity continues, $2,131.65 / mo.

"No matter what happens with this [extreme anti-choice] bill...Republicans are giving us the exact roadmap for what they want for American women and how they want to do it." (e.g., ban abortions, certain contraception, pro-choice speech; charge providers under RICO Act; and more)

This is with two infections. What about the kids (and adults) who've been sick four, six, ten + times?

Yeah, it's fine. It's going to be totally okay for my and my neighbors' electricity and water bills to skyrocket once that (really necessary) data center near us goes online.

“The solution to migration is not chains, prisons, or missiles... God’s chosen people is all humanity.” --Colombian Pres. Urrego's U.N. speech, 9/23/2025. Robert Jones, Jr. (some might remember him as Son of Baldwin on FB) shared the full translated transcript in this post.

A damn good piece about the publishing industry. Most writers already know about this. Readers who ask published authors "when's your next book coming out?" would do well to understand the odds against us.

Mamdani connecting the dots. I learned something new about reproductive rights history. (Must be amazing to live somewhere that a candidate like this has a chance.)

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Ms. Affleck: "It is neglect of the highest order to look children in the eyes and say, 'We knew how to protect you, and we didn't do it.'" (((Not just COVID, right? Gun violence, climate collapse, etc.)))

I’ve been ordering from Maine Seaweed for years. The owner, Larch Hanson, just completed his 50th season and will turn 80 in October. They want to reach new customers for their sustainably harvested seaweed. Give them a look. theseaweedman.com

A cogent explanation.

Not sure if this is reasonable? Flip it to test it. Imagine putting up statues to honor a woman who talked about how men don’t deserve human rights, white people have poor cognitive capacities, Christians are evil, cis people are an abomination, and heterosexual people should be stoned to death.

My palate cleanser after watching masked men physically assault people. Thank you, Cats of Yore.

From Elie Mystal: "A white man killed another white man for reasons we still don’t know, with a gun I don’t think he should have had, but Black people are catching death threats. That doesn’t make sense, unless you understand how deeply racist this country is."

From Lovette Jallow: “By the time perimenopause strips away the hormonal buffer, there is no safety net waiting. The collapse that follows is not weakness.”

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

Both/and at 2:23.

Natalie Meagan paid 25 cents for a copy of The Mercy of Thin Air at a garage sale. Years later, as the successful, charming, and adorable leader of @weirdobookclub.bsky.social, she interviewed yours truly for my novel’s 20th anniversary--her favorite book! #mercyofthinair #booksky #neworleans

Freebies for book clubs and fans who want a peek behind the scenes of the 1920s love story/ghost story about a progressive New Orleans flapper. (Saturday is its 20th anniversary!) www.ronlyndomingue.com/extras #mercyofthinair #booksky #neworleans

Who relates?

….."the AI company was potentially facing court-imposed penalties amounting to billions, possibly more than $1 trillion dollars." That is what I would have preferred, as an author, as someone who makes creative work. [Yep.]

Thanks to Greg Olear--the courageous and gifted--for this meaningful chat about my debut novel's 20th anniversary and the connection it has to current social and political chaos.

"What are they hiding?"

I.....cannot.....even......

Walked early enough to see these two repairing their webs.

When you say “covid is over” or refer to the pandemic only in the pastense you make it easy for RFK jr to withhold the vaccines & defund clinics. You make it easy for employers to end paid sick days. When you don’t mask up you make it easy to pass bans. We organize but what you do & say matters too.

Congrats on your 850th PREVAIL post!

"The job of the president—the primary job of the president—is to protect us and keep us safe from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And Trump has done the opposite. He’s done the opposite. He has kept us in danger. And he’s helped our greatest adversary, Vladimir Putin."

The very short story of how I got my book deal. THE MERCY OF THIN AIR is my 1920s love story/ghost story about a progressive New Orleans flapper. My old girl celebrates her 20th anniversary in September! #mercyofthinair #booksky #neworleans #atriabooks

One of the best lines is now on a mini-notebook! This is a limited edition collaboration between @blackbirdletterpress.com & me to celebrate THE MERCY OF THIN AIR's 20th anniversary. Get yours... www.blackbirdletterpress.com/hand.../p/ra...! #Happy20thMERCY #mercyofthinair

People I love lost touch with decency and facts to the psychop of Faux News. I’ve stopped pointing out AI fakes to friends because they don’t care. I question everything I see and read now. My tether to sanity is living in the woods, where what IS really is.

ICE agents are not wearing ‘masks’. They’re face coverings. Bandanas. Gaiters. Masks are a public health tool. They’re a form of both resistance and community care. ICE agents wear them to terrorize people & hide their identity. The rest of us wear masks to protect one another.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

The rave reviews came in for my 1920s love story/ghost story about a progressive New Orleans flapper. The 20th anniversary is in three weeks. #mercyofthinair #booksky #neworleans

The men selling their own children born of rape: that's what the Confederate flag stands for.

This is the thing that’s nearly broken me. The science is crystal clear. The benefits are huge. And yet ppl go through life ignoring air filtration and acting like there’s nothing you can do about getting sick. YES YOU CAN. YOU CAN CLEAN THE FUCKING AIR. WHAT IS WRONG WITH US

On this day in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, prohibiting individual states from denying women the right to vote. We must never forget that the fight for suffrage was indeed a battle and one that widely left Black, Brown, and Indigenous women behind.

Need a good cry? “I am a 200lb tattooed ex-biker turned bookstore manager that has no spiritual beliefs other than I believe in love. Your book made me cry so, it passed my test.” —Gerald (That's a reader response I’ll never forget.) #mercyofthinair #booksky #neworleans

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Have you ever seen a wild hamster?? 😊 #bluesky

Being careful about the use of language is useful for surviving authoritarianism because authoritarianism seeks to control fact, truth, history, reality itself through misleading, false, inflammatory, and distorted language, as well as suppressed information, and to make it the norm.

That sounds enchanting! A flapper in the 1920s navigating love and the supernatural—what a beautiful escape! I adore how books can transport us to different eras and lives. #booksky #neworleans

The moment my 1920s love story/ghost story about a progressive New Orleans flapper got its title. #mercyofthinair #booksky #neworleans

#mercyofthinair #booksky #neworleans

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

Okay so..........."There is also a third, under-researched, group in the middle of young or middle-aged people who get four to six reinfections each year, and may have to take several days off work each time. “It’s non-trivial and makes it quite hard to do your work,” he said.