If This Goes On (Don't Panic)

Fascists Lie Of course Trump was not really committed to peace

fascists lie. trump lied about no wars. maga assholes like carlson and greenwald are lying when they say they were fooled. they all lie about everything because they see truth as weakness and good faith as an attack vector. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/fascists-lie

$70 to go until we reach Stretch Goal 2.

Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo (ebook) — neon hemlock This order will come with a DRM-free epub file. The stories in this collection of dark fantasy and horror short stories grapple with the complexities of identity, racism, homophobia, immigration, ...

It is women in horror month. I am one of those and here is my gothic/horror lit collection that people said was pretty good.

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yep firmly novella territory even before the afterword, hope you enjoy!

Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.

Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/

we were at a school assembly this morning. and hearing em laugh and cheer and be kids, all that brightness, you really can't help but feel deep in your gut that it takes unthinkable evil to intentionally hurt and kill children anywhere. the world leaders massacring kids are beyond lost to humankind.

Reading lists, awards, discounts, and new project updates.

The latest Essential Dreams Newsletter just dropped! The amazing Julia Deridder, intern and assistant editor extraordinaire, is back at. Sharing all our news and all her enthusiam with the world. She truly is amazing.
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On a neon computer chip background. “TK Rex’s tales of climate refugees, sentient drones, and multispecies networks pull no punches about the hardships to come, yet leave me feeling hopeful and inspired all the same. Essential reading for the Anthropocene.” - Sarena Ulibarri, author of ANOTHER LIFE and STEEL TREE.

Big thanks to solarpunk trailblazer Sarena Ulibarri for her kind words. “TK Rex’s tales of climate refugees, sentient drones, and multispecies networks pull no punches about the hardships to come, yet leave me feeling hopeful and inspired all the same. Essential reading for the Anthropocene.”

The Deer God and Other Stories A collection of short horror fiction

Happy Women in Horror Month! As a woman in horror, I present the Kickstarter for my horror short story collection. =) It's getting so close to 100%!!!
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I am not even kidding in the slightest when I say libraries, bookstores, and the general book-ish world is saving me right now (and have been for some time).

Short break from insanity to share that UNCERTAIN SONS is a BSFA finalist. A testament to @undertow.bsky.social's thoughtful work more than anything else that the book has gone anywhere. Thanks to them and to folks who support indies like UP. Means a lot. Congrats to all the finalists.

A new Super PAC, "Chicago Progressive Partnership," just jumped into #IL09, opposing Kat Abughazaleh. Filings show they’re using the same vendors as AIPAC.

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Epstein and the Shadow World Your questions answered on Epstein, AI, my career, and other dystopian matters.

"There is something very wrong with the way Americans trust criminal elites to be more reliable sources than the people they hurt."
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If This Goes On, Don't Panic
@itgodp.bsky.social remains one of my favourite podcasts. They're smart, engaging, hopeful,

Their episodes on Speculative Whiteness by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social are a must-listen. As are their @older.bsky.social ep and their @gautambhatia88.bsky.social ep.

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Tabletop industry veteran Ryan Dancey loses Alderac COO job after saying AI can generate game ideas as good as some of his company’s designs "The idea that [AI] could not be used to generate ideas on the level as those embodied by those three games is already demonstrably false (in my opinion)."

Crossposted from our friends at @boardgamewire.bsky.social: Ryan Dancey's comments about AI's potential in board games cost him his job and fits into a longer history of the former Alderac COO shooting from the proverbial hip.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

SHE-WOLF AND CUB is $1.99USD (also CAD & GBP) in ebook today (2/25/26).

One-day sale! If you like cyborg assassins, Westerns, and tales of blood-drenched motherhood, SHE-WOLF AND CUB is $1.99USD (also CAD & GBP) in ebook today, through these retailers. openroadmedia.com/ebook/she-wo...

Hello, just a reminder that this is happening later! 🤗

(I believe there should be question time at the end, if there’s anything you might want to ask.)

We appreciate you too, Paul

Book Launch & Panel Conversation WE WILL RISE AGAIN Cultivating Just Futures with/through Speculative Imagination with Steven Gonzalez Monserrate Federico Cuatlacuatl Karma Abudagga Annalee Newitz Malka Older Karen Lord SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE WE WILL RISE AGAIN EDITED BY KAREN LORD, ANNALEE NEWITZ, AND MALKA OLDER Sunday 12.04. - 2 pm MGGU - Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität This event is part of the exhibition Multispecies Members Club: New alliances between living and artificial systems at Museum Giersch. www.mggu.de www.fixingfutures.eu FIXING FUTURES Gefördert durch DFG Deutsche KÄTE HAMBURGER CENTRE Forschungsgemeinschaft CAPAS FOR APOCALYP IIC AND POST-APOCALYPTIC STUDIES GOETHE UNIVERSITÄT FRANKFURT AM MAIN MG • Museum Giersch der GU Goethe-Universität

EXCITED to announce a second all-editors We Will Rise Again event in Frankfurt on April 12, at the Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität! This is going to be an amazing conversation, join us!
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I agree. I think a lot of companies are desperate to implement AI as a magic solution to fix everything wrong with late stage capitalism. It's the CEO panic button

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I'm sure I'm missing a ton of other folks too

Kind of curious if she thinks AI will start buying video games. Lol

I don't know what I was thinking!?!

Interview with @premeemohamed.com drops tomorrow!!

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.