bird of prey

wait i do this too with different phrases, same general reasoning though. didn't know other people did it as well!

we gotta get better at writing speculative fiction lol

The complete handwave of AI at the end just made me laugh. Like oh this a fundamentally unserious book. got it.

No tough questions, no wrestling with hard truths or contradictions, just avoidance and succor. The way they dealt with indigenous sovereignty especially was. well I'm going to call it interesting even though I should really call it neo-colonialist.

I felt like it was written by people who had a kind of pseudo-utopian vision for a leftist win state but didn't bother to think through any of the actual implications of what they were writing about.

I did not like Everything for Everyone very much

slope of darkness with mist over the ocean cliffs

huge antlers over low bushes, in the mist

the bull elk slowing appearing out of the mist

bull elk framed by mist, suddenly come clear to us, casually eating a plant, with plant stalks draped over part of his rack.

The mist-shrouded morning at Point Reyes National Seashore, hiking with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social, felt not just haunted or ethereal, but otherworldly. The zenith of that sensation came when a huge bull elk appeared out of the landscape as if a ghost from another land entirely.

Pot of boiling beans

#beanFiend
#beanMode
#bean

Idk, my position is kinda “it’s a useful tool that’s clearly here to stay but is also over hyped and has substantial negative externalities”

this is to say nothing about ai, which is obvs still around.

as someone who is in university currently and lived through seeing the covid slump first hand, we are mostly out of it the worst of just the covid effects. Thesis shows last year were insanely good, when they hadnt been for the past several years because people missed so much class and studio time

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).

also hey, this issue is stacked??

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

@utopia-defer.red and @pius.dog

no this is real and occurs as we speak

The event's underpinnings are weirdly anachronistic for being so grounded in and dependent on the present moment.

Love that bird... the chick of dee

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

greens toastmasters club is a thing in nyc

every time man

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC What we won on Election Day

How and where we won.

it's so cool how american democracy is backsliding and our political journalists are analyzing the blood quantum of our social democratic leaders

The NYT granted anonymity to a eugenicist (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...) who obtained hacked college records in order to break the news that Zohran Mamdani, who was born in Uganda to Indian parents, checked both the "Asian" and "Black or African American" boxes on his college application.

the question of good taste becomes sort of immaterial if you're enough of an auteur. Like it doesn't really matter if he has good taste, its /his/ taste and he's a tastemaker.

I have the same hair texture as Lorde

thanks for posting all of these I've been starving for new and interesting mixes

Zohran and Attorney General Tish James marching together in NYC Pride.

A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈

oh good you already said this, so nice to see there's at least one other fan of his work on here

You will read Mahmood Mamdani
You will read Mahmood Mamdani
You will read Mahmood Mamdani
You will read Mahmood Mamdani
You will read Mahmood Mamdani
You will read Mahmood Mamdani

Everyone go read Neither Settler Nor Native right now. It is imperative that you do this.