Being loud and ignorant…is a choice. Anyway, here is Mira Nair, Toni Morrison and Ousmane Sembène, on the white gaze. None of whom are “Internet libs.”

repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

virulent racism + unchecked greed = ongoing colonialism aka *gestures at world*

I’m so stoked that my original story Shifted is being published as part of this comic anthology, with artwork by Jody James Brenton. Seeing a piece of a story that’s only lived in my head and on the page for over a decade come to life to aid a dear cause was mind blowing! bit.ly/HorrorNotHate

Late photo. First fresh bake of the year. Long live the bread cult

On a related note! I’d completely forgotten I’d created an account years ago in order to follow a few newsletters 🙃 Dunno if those writers deleted but I did. So…maybe check if you forgot an account on substack too?

If you or someone you know have been a victim of the sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and would like to discuss your civil legal options, DM me or reach out on Signal at riot.95. I can connect you with excellent free legal counsel.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Truly the epitome of the dog / cat hetero couple

Say that ish again cuz obviously folk wasn’t listening. Rod Serling had bars for the ages. #twilightzonemarathon

It's a new day—IT'S A NEW YEAR—and we continue for these six families & a camp. It may just be spare change every week, every month, or just today, but it's their survival. Latest impact? Winter clothes for a baby; a water well; shelter. Keep it going: chuffed.org/project/hope...

I feel like Mayor Mamdani and his administration are about to school a whole lotta people that some leaders are actually in it to govern for the benefit of all

Heh

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

This is your energy for 2026 *via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown

Have I told the story on here how I almost kicked Keith Richards out of my job?

Covering my palm with Elmer’s Glue just to peel something.

Casting my line in the dark river just to reel something

Screeching on the fiddle just to creel something

Finished our first family session of Draw Steel ttrpg. Making dinner: brown rice, lahp-cheung aka candle sausage, fried eggs, boiled lettuce dressed with sesame oil & oyster sauce, and chili radish on the side. Pondering a film après manger: The Tragedy of Macbeth, a very dramatic end to 2025, non?

I've been following Yukio Akamine online for 20 years. During this time, the world has seen Myspace and Facebook get overtaken by blogging platforms such as WordPress and Tumblr, which in turn got overtaken by social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. 🧵

I love library stats. Don’t you love library stats? Who doesn’t love library stats? 😃

Holiday chocolate cream pie how it started. how it ends

If you see this, post a random fact about yourself I hate white chocolate

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

okay let's do a thread of FUN ONLY, no-stress, low-stakes New Year's Resolutions that are designed not to make you become a Better™️ Person™️ but purely to increase the amount of happiness in your life in 2026 I'm going to learn Polish folk embroidery and I want to DM at least a one-shot of something

This sentence has been caught in my teeth for days, chewy and true and hard to live up to— We're given so many chances to sell out [everything]. Good to remember it's not an imperative.

Black Nerd Probems won a Hugo Award in 2025! Will & Omar founded the site but this is a collective of writers, authors, streamers, editors, and more that keep this thang thangin'. 1/

fwiw #yeg it is prime snowball and snow creature conditions out there

'Saishoin Temple in Snow, Hirosaki' - Kawase Hasui, 1936. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

Yes, as always, please feel free to read my books from the library and also! if your library doesn’t carry them, please request they purchase them for their collection 🙏 My indie titles are priced the exact same for libraries as bookstores! Eg. unlike big pub ebooks, mine will fit library budgets 🤓

There's more to say about this open letter, unfortunately, but bear with me, because I think it's important. For example, this response in the File 770 comments by SFWA board member Jonathan Brazee. In essence, Underwood gives cover to SFWA and vice versa. But both their positions are crap. 1/?

“claims of “AGI” are a cover for abandoning the current social contract. Instead of focusing on the here and now, many ppl who focus on AGI think we ought to abandon all other scientific and socially beneficial pursuits and focus entirely on issues related to developing (& protecting against) AGI.”

Terrible, always a total magnet. His story about getting cast in Goodfellas, basically his first movie, is so charming www.avclub.com/isiah-whitlo...

Thinking of how I can trick romance authors into promoting their books with a one sentences description of what actually happens again. We gotta ease off the trope only vibes. WHAT HAPPENS!

Update: I emailed the opt-out address listed on their website and got a reply. But, I never. Should. Have. Had. To. Opt. Out. I’m so tired of these tech companies & their entitlement. DoorDash putting small restaurants on their apps w/o permission, AI scraping our sites, & now this? It’s exhausting

Since I have been reminded of it, allow me to share one of my very favorite threads of the past year:

Still at $25/$285, we can get an electrician for tomorrow afternoon, but only if we can pay them. cash.app/$grrlintersect venmo.com/u/grrlinters... www.paypal.me/dgrrl39

Heyyyy #booksky it’s my semi-regular reminder that Crime Writers of Color is here for your crime fiction fix! Find new reads + a speakers directory for book clubs etc. & sub to our free newsletter via crimewritersofcolor.com 🎯 Find new follows here too: @crimewoc.bsky.social &

BlueSky! I’m looking for webcomic recs for my book club! Caveats: –MUST be free (or at least, a solid first chunk is free) –Must be properly online, not thru a library service (audience is in US & UK) –SF, fantasy, or horror for adults preferred, although other genres/YA considered

Hi friends! Nap Comix will return on Tuesday 6th January and the update schedule will change to every Tuesday+Thursday. This is due to me getting a couple other comics projects done and getting the Nap Comix book ready to ship this Summer. Thank you so so much for your support. Much love, Rachael xx

GODFATHER FROM HELL has risen from the grave! Earlier this year, we had to make the difficult decision to stop individual issues of our infernal neo-noir thriller but in 2026, @thevaultcomics.bsky.social will publish the entire story as an OGN with a new cover by @piusbak.bsky.social (1/3)

#ThePackingList is live! 12 brand new stories of grown-up characters doing their best to get away from it all, only to have life & love catch up with them. 100% of net proceeds from this limited-time antho will be donated to sexual & reproductive health care organizations. books2read.com/u/b69J7W

Years ago I wiped all amazon links from my website. I’ve now unpublished my indie titles there for good (bc: “Ask This Book” feature🙄) For now please buy my books via Kobo or Bookshop: bookshop.org/shop/SG_Wong or borrow from libraries 🤓 All titles can be ordered from indie bookshops too 📚 #booksky

I don't know what the library staff did in this video, so I don't want to comment on this specifically. But all library workers need ICE training. We need to resist. We should be putting our voices and bodies to work. Book displays are not enough.

Delroy Lindo is on a long list of actors long overdue for an Oscar nomination. He might finally break that ceiling with his role in Sinners. We caught up to talk about Ryan Coogler's "brilliant" epic, and, as always, he has some keen observations to share

shocking that we live in a world in which you can rick roll someone and THEY DON'T EVEN GET IT

Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.