I cried.
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I cried.
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This week's Optimizer is about the very special wearable hell I've been living in recently... and how it's all coming for you too if Big Tech gets its way.
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I need a vacation for like a month. And by vacation I mean my bed and zero obligations. Maybe a claw-foot tub.
02.10.2025 05:27 β π 39 π 3 π¬ 4 π 0If you're attending Flights of Foundry this weekend, you can catch me at 2 events!
I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).
So, in all the online chatter about Netflix's Wednesday when it first came out, somehow it never crossed my timeline that Wednesday's dance uses choreography from the Tag Team music video made for the 1993 Addams Family Values film.
20.09.2025 20:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So how is it possible that Saara El-Arifi published 5 books in 4 years and has another on the way?? I didnβt think anyone could frighten me more than R.F. Kuang! What are they drinking?
19.09.2025 16:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why would the word be vicegerent instead of viceregent? π
18.09.2025 21:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh wait, I just remembered I wrote one this year. Under Clarion West-like duress (I had a 48-hour deadline).
18.09.2025 14:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβve done some revisions of previously drafted short stories, including CW stories. And Iβve done lots of writing for the novel-in-progress. But my brain has apparently put the knowledge of how to send a story from idea to draft into a jammed junk drawer. 2 years. Zero short stories.
This is GHETTO.
Okay so apparently I have not written any short stories since Clarion West 2023.
Jezos.
Youβve got to ask yourself sometimes, βIs it contradiction or is it nuance?β
18.09.2025 07:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am a bit epic fantasy trilogy-weary right now, I think.
17.09.2025 13:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When the book tells you about the typeface itβs set in >>>>>
17.09.2025 13:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I just learned the word βmelismaticβ & I love it!
13.09.2025 17:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You would think somebody rearranged my insides last night but no. Leg day at the gym did this to me.
12.09.2025 22:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cover of sauuti Terrors anthology
The SauΓΊtiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: SauΓΊti Terrors!
Following Mothersound, return to the SauΓΊtiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry.
Jan 2026.
LETTER I: Friendship as a creative and healing Practice
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The type of content I love to see.
04.09.2025 21:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My last 36 hours have beenβ¦ ridiculous.
When Poetra Asantewa said βThis country will kill you,β I felt that.
This place is full of preventable disasters.
Chale, my heart has really left this city. Sorry to Accra. But Accra is not sorry to me.
31.08.2025 17:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs okay that itβs bad before itβs good, sometimes.
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31.08.2025 17:28 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As for the people in the country with the green and white flag, I donβt even know what caliber of miracles is keeping anyone sane.
26.08.2025 19:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1I mean, how can we be drowning in mediocrity & thinking itβs cute?
26.08.2025 19:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Saying this from a place of hormonal imbalance & an unusually bizarre work day but: everybody who is worth their salt as far as sense & competency needs to get the hell out of this county ASAP & use all that sense somewhere itβs appreciated.
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26.08.2025 19:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Today years old when I learned that itβs βin medias resβ and not βin media res.β
21.08.2025 21:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π We are thrilled to share that Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by @wtalabi.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Aldiss Award π
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I need less.
21.08.2025 15:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I loved the Open Book Festival when I attended in 2018, and I hope I get the chance to attend again, one of these years.
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