Drew Broussard

What the actual fuck, Apple

desperately wish i had come up with it

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

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Great writing tip.
But this is also just a great tip for life in general IMO.
Surround yourself with people who know all kinds of random things and will enthusiastically tell you about them.
That is the good stuff!

Anyway. He also put his name on the fucking public library building. Eat the goddamn rich, and may they all suffer in the next life too.

I know it won't matter a whit in the long run, and running my mouth is likely to endanger a few friendships, but those friendships are already on the rocks for the fact that they take their salaries FROM GODDAMN SCHWARZMAN MONEY. Makes them nearly as bad as Zibby. (...well, that might be harsh.)

It's not like it's unheard of for bad people to try to launder their reputations through philanthropy, but seeing as Schwarzman attended the big ol' banquet for ~known murderer~ MBS last night, it feels at least a little relevant to the theatergoing public.

Which spanking-new off-broadway theater is owned, funded, and ostensibly curated by Stephen Schwarzman's wife? I'll give you a hint, their first show out of the gate is somehow unironically RICHARD II and they're across the street from the ostensibly-most-communist off-broadway house in the city!

Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.

I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.

really outrageous that Tommaso went down in the first round — the literary internet wouldn't be what it is without him!

The bottom line is that a writing career is full of so much frustration and sorrow and fury, and it's easy to center that, or to be twisted or broken by it. But there's so much joy as well! Center the joy instead.

My dreams came true and I just found new ways to be miserable. My fifth novel Red Star Hustle just dropped, and on pub day I did what I usually do on pub day - I swung by Union Square, where there's the Strand and a Barnes & Noble very near one another - probably...

Writers, publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it.

So don't let it.

This week, on Undercover in the Apocalypse: my dreams came true, but I just found new ways to be miserable.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...

One of the worst things Twitter ever did (before the far right takeover) was to make journalists believe that THEY were the story, and the media landscape has never recovered.

oh hell yeah!! that makes me so happy!!!

A critic (readers generally, but I'm thinking here of people who set out to analyze or otherwise discuss a work) can only see through the lens of their own context. That lens makes everything look like it fits (or doesn't) whatever pattern the critic is most familiar with.

wait a minute — November 18th is also.... could this be the big reveal at the end of volume 7 of ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME?!

Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.

God, how I hate what kind of society we are becoming... Btw, we can stop it, it depends on us: which kind of world we create, which kind of community we foster, which kind of cities we live in. You can help @argonautbooks.bsky.social by sharing wide and far!

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(rhetorically because I *know* why they aren't breaking into the conversation, and it's the same answer as to why THE EVERLASTING isn't cracking major literary awards etc)

Finally started this series today, because obviously I did — very much enjoying and wondering kind of idly (and I suppose rhetorically) why these books aren't in the genre-awards conversation, as they're unequivocally speculative!

I hate ai

This is simply too much information

finished copies showed up at the store and I truly stopped what I was doing to just turn it about and stare at it, absolutely gorgeous stuff

I love this prize (the only one run by booksellers! or at least the only translation prize run by booksellers!) and this is a very very good decision by this year's jury.

King Tuff's "Smalltown Stardust" (song) is the flip-side of @themountaingoats.bsky.social's UNIVERSAL HARVESTER (novel) and I won't be explaining any further but for those who already know/need to know about this... now it has been said.

What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket We are gathered here to celebrate the brief, bright, Roman Candle life of Literary Twitter, a mesmerizing and maddening place where the most talented writers used to rub shoulders with the most unb…

What even was literary Twitter? Vote in the first round of our bracket to determine the literary internet’s wildest, weirdest, most iconic moment!

Pennies Are Trash Now The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This is great.

happy birthday!!!!

Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 — Undertow Publications A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds upon, the critical success of its sibling predecessor,...

PSA: The Year's Best Weird Fiction (Vol. 1 / 2024) is a revitalizing tonic, a reminder of just how good and strange and fun speculative fiction can be. @undertow.bsky.social has a keen and expansive eye—I look forward to many many installments to come. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...