Hugo Award-winning SF/F author, occasional artist, professional linux geek (she/her/they; ace) Repped by @awfulagent.bsky.social Buy me a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/zanzjan
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I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.
You can let Ro Khanna know how you feel at the bluesky address below.
This 100% If you're going to succeed at all, you can succeed AND be treated fairly.
somewhere I have a half-finished story that hinged on this critter not going extinct after all...
Also I dunno that I've ever seen them away from the coast, but maybe we're a migration stop.
That was as zoomed in as I could get with my cellphone short of going for a swim to get closer. Thanks for the verification & refinement :)
Somehow I think it dropped my alt text? Two birds on mostly submerged tree trunks, dark with snakey necks, upright posture.
September 4th, 2025 Cormorants, I think?
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September 3rd, 2025 Friend!
Every fourth woman used to be tiny. Not anymore, thanks to woke
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Heads up! B&N is having a 25% off Pre-orders sale for rewards members, and that includes my forthcoming SF book, Ode to the Half-Broken. B&N link in first comment :)
Preorder out upcoming books for this fall and beyond! Weāve got cyborg dogs, space reality TV, and so much more! Our science fiction and fantasy books simply cannot get better than this š¤©
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
Here is a cool caterpillar (and really interesting leaf) I saw in Japan:
#bookreview šš ššŖ Fan of: - Heists! - Adventure serials - The job never going smooth Try @zanzjan.bsky.social's Finder zanzjan.net/writing/bibl... The MC has to repossess the spaceship of a gangster who runs a collection of orbital habitats, so thereās no way itās going to be that easy...or is it?
Sweet! the clarity on the bug is fantastic. Also hi and sorry from your southern neighbor (-:
Oooh, beautiful! TFS (-:
I have heard it postulated that RFK Jr. has run off with the body before they could Weekend at Bernies it, and they are currently chasing him through Central Park. Stay tuned...
I'm surprised there aren't roses that are adapted to more tropical zones, but now that you that, I don't specifically remember seeing any the times I've been down that way. I do wish I could grow a giant banana tree, though.
Feeling doomy today, so here, have a rose from my garden.
When I lived in Austin, I saw these guys at Target and Starbucks every time I went in. But to be fair, socks and pumpkin spice can be scary.
itās cool to have that sickening going-up-the-roller-coaster feeling basically all the time now
*long-lister fistbump*
A retired Israeli general said 50 Palestinians should be killed for every Israeli killed on 7 October, and also: "It doesn't matter if they're children...I'm talking about a message for future generations. From time to time, they need a Nakba to feel the cost..." www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
Doesnāt it though? Itās definitely a family affliction.
I miss the old brand #CDC
Here is a random TikTok for today; IYKYK. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6s6NPDq/
So far, we've raised enough to cover us for the next two years-we'd love to be able to cover four years during this round of fund-raising so we don't have to do this again for awhile. Thanks everyone who has donated. Please continue to spread the word. www.gofundme.com/f/fantastic-...
I made the offer to have a conversation about it. Not much else I can do. )-:
Huh. (That-sounds-bad huh, not hey-interesting huh.)
Doesnāt matter if I miss them, if they insist on standing by their bigotry, I have no interest in continuing any kind of friendship. I did offer to have a conversation about it, but has that ever worked? Dunno.
I have low- to non-existent survival and self-care skills, but I am entirely unwavering on my morals and this is not a subject for compromise or negotiation. Just took me completely by surprise )-:
There is such extraordinary grief in having someone you really like & admire for so many things voluntarily out themselves as a massive transphobe. I swore I was gonna stop burning my emotional energy trying to pull the unwilling out of the fire, but how do you just let people you care about go?
We like stories that plant swaying forests in your dream, crawl over the table with breath of cinnamon and longing, swing a moon into a nasty godās eye, ignite your voice as chaos rages down the avenue of love, change a body with their slow sorcery of one word at a time. Letās do more kck.st/4mIkEm1
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.
Side-eye
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Too much doom, have some ocean.
reposted this today because the inverse is also true: if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period. if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
100%
if you're angry at bluesky for this you should know that the Mississippi law at the heart of this requires that websites implementing age verification track which users are children do you think it's a good idea to have databases of trans children that are compellable by court order?
This is full of constructive observations.
The Phantom Corsair is a prototype automobile built in 1938. It is a six-passenger 2-door sedan[1] that was designed by Rust Heinz of the H. J. Heinz family and Maurice Schwartz of the Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company in Pasadena, California.
I do not shirk in my fact-finding missions.
Have now empirically tested the matter of being menaced by a shark, and my clothes did not fall off.
Yes! I am very fond of it, even though (or possibly because) it is inescapably silly despite also being All The Drama!
In any event, I have wondered about Overboard Nude Dude since I first saw that painting when I was like 6. Finally got a pic of it today while at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for the Van Gogh exhibit.
Thatās also a part of writingārecognizing that the reader will always bring their own perspective to the work, and you canāt own their experience. (-:
SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) ā California Legislature votes to set November special election on new US House map favoring Democrats.
He apparently commissioned the work, so he couldāve been all āpaint me SEXY NAKED with the shark!ā and we just donāt know.
Painting by John Singleton Copley, 1778.
This painting, Watson and the Shark (Copley) is, imnsho, a perfect visual representation of the importance of beta readers and the important questions they raise, frex: āYeah, I get he fell off the boat into shark-infested waters, but why did his clothes all fall off?ā
Not to be indelicate about things, but whoever decided the time interval between when your ass leaves the seat and the toilet auto-flushes is someone who never in their life has wiped their ass.
Too many real world posts/RSs, so have some nature! The world is still worthwhile!
Awesome! All the congrats!
What would you call this if you saw it happening in another country? apnews.com/article/redi...
I think a thing that's really hard for kids to wrap their heads around is that the JA incarceration was perfectly legal then and now. The Supreme Court never overturned Korematsu's conviction, the US District Court did. His conviction still stands as Supreme Court precedent.
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administrationās failures.
There are a lot of reasons to be embarrassed about this, but the thing that jumps out to me is that this is how you use a bookshelf when you're illiterate.
I kinda like Slop-O-Matic
This is one of the best articles I've read about AI in a while. It points out the many disturbing, if not outright dystopian, ways in which AI has already reshaped our society and culture, which so many people have complacently accepted because it's "the future." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.
(I always bring along a small lego kit that's an easy distraction and I find if I end up retreating to my room w/ anxiety, it's just the right focus to get me through. Any hands-on thinky-makey-thing would work, I'd expect)
Yeah, worldcon is overwhelming at the best of times. It can be great, but you have to be in the right frame of mind for a firehose of sensory/social input. There are some good small, chill cons depending on where you are, though?
*badly-timed spontaneous fist-bump attempt turned into strange stretch gesture to cover weird miss* !
That is the plan!
One nice side-effect of having not gone to Worldcon is I've circumvented the usual post-con anxiety crash where I'm convinced I'm the Most Annoyingly Awkward Stupid Person Alive And Everyone Hates Me. Also I'm not flat-broke, or at least, no more so than usual. I am sad I missed people, though.
I've just been followed (along with 30k others) by @allkidsbooks.com which looks to be one of many promo sites run by Alwin Gnanaraj. @victoriastrauss.comā¬ has written all about him on writer beware. writerbeware.blog/2025/02/21/w...
I hightly recommend immersing yourself in quiet water.
UNBELIEVABLELY sweet moment between a peacock chick and their parent. Not sharebait. I COULD NOT believe my luck. Last year I had seen the chicks about 3 weeks later, I was determined to get them younger, and this one DID NOT disappoint! SQUEE - o - meter 10/10, thank you birds! š„° š£ šŖ¶
I spent about an hour today just floating around in the middle of a big pond. I needed that.
I just couldn't stay up last night, but a MIGHTY SHOUTOUT OF LOVE to all the Hugo winners and nominees last night! We are in a golden age of great fic!
I would like to see that.
Did Howard Lutnick stop paying the employees he lost on 9/11 Yes, just days after the tragedy What did Howard Lutnick do with the $137 million he received from the airline settlement from 9/11 He gave the money to his equity partners Now you know the reason he is Trumps Commerce Secretary
I didnāt know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Three a.m., Brain sez HEY OOPS WE FORGOT A THING! Left eye now twitching. #InsomniaHaiku #YeahThatWasABadThingToForget #NoICantFixItAt3am #TwitchTwitchTwitch
No worthy person could ever be offended by lizard pics.
27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Franciscoās lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran āNo Obitsā as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.
oh my godddd š
So, uh, he was couch-surfing?
Safe travels to everyone heading to Worldcon! Have a fantastic time <3
Trump's BLS pick EJ Antoni has said that Social Security, America's greatest anti-poverty program, is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be sunset. Reminder that BLS data is what determines annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. This is a five-alarm fire.
At least* once a day I find myself wishing I was back in Japan. (* all day counts as once, right?)
10000% How can you fight if you no longer let yourself have anything worth fighting for?
'Murica
Married 4 times Divorced 3 times Conceived 2 children in an adulterous affair Wants to take away my 15 year marriage #marriageequality
Sending in federal troops and taking over a city police department on an easily debunked lie, just curious if the it's-not-fascism people want to weigh in
August 11th, 2025
I refuse to believe curry is responsible for anything wrong in this world (-:
John Boyne is the person who accidentally included a recipe from Zelda: Breath of the Wild in his book because he just googled the recipe for dying fabric and didn't realize "red lizalfo tails and Hylian shrooms" were not real.
90% of what my kids read is manga, and I am absolutely fine with that.
The only time in my life I recall the sensation of my entrails feeling warm was after eating something deeply sketchy just outside London, so I was going to say āitās not love, itās British food.ā But then I read further and yeah, I donāt think even 1800s English cuisine can be blamed for this guy.
What's this? Our website looks a bit different now! The landing page has been redesigned to provide you with pertinent info at a glance. Walking directions from Summit as well as a map are now up front, as well as links to our credo, our FAQ, and our registration page. concurrentseattle.weebly.com
"We are living defining moments in stupidity ego-powered, transient. In the give and take and borrow when accountability is forgotten or futile the degradation of detail is not only likely but is likely to be desirable. Decay is a feasible strategy." --Shriekback, "The Painter Paints"
