Kip Manley

This needs a repeat, because I've never seen defining trans medical care in strict categories work out well for anyone, let alone wider struggles and communities.

PICARD: Mr. Data, we need to discuss these anomalies in your latest reports DATA: Respectfully sir, the odds I would make a mistake in my work are 43,650,000 to- PICARD: On this map of the alpha quadrant you've labeled Klingon "Krisphon" and Vulcan "Vuvutrishpo" GEORDI: Captain, be reasonable! He's not supposed to be good at that. Just ask him to write another poem about cats

A Man For All Seasons Total Landscaping

I have a little bit of time to kill so I’m going to start a thread on the Spanish Inquisition that I probably won’t finish today.

I’m trying to tell an interesting story to people who might not know a lot about this stuff and also I don’t work here so I’ll probably be making some generalizations.

Oh my dear sweet Democratic summer children: full-throated support of trans rights and actual efforts here and now to stop the genocidaires are but table stakes; the barest minimal efforts toward good. You cannot even begin to conceive of what we would see as perfect. But trust me. It's spectacular.

Unfortunately, AI is going to be one of those things where it's wrong to have been right too early.

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

No, but I like your definition of poetry.

Imagine losing a popularity contest to the pedophiles building concentration camps

ChatGPT says there are three gentlemen in Verona, as you can tell from the title of Kit Marlowe's famous tragedy.

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Oh, it's not without its point.

Good breakdown of how much goes to the indie publisher when you buy a print book from various online stores:

(Yes, I could make more money. By raising the cover price. What am I, a capitalist? If I were doing this to make money, I wouldn't be doing this.) (No shade on those who do do this to make money. There are other points in the process to make more valuable decisions.)

like, I legitimately do not know this. But I feel like people want to see Democrats saying "this is wrong and this will not stand. we will fight in the courts and we will fight at the voting booth and when we retake this country we will make sure to fix all of this"

"...said there was 'no need to be accurate' as the source material is 'just a book'."

"—the urban in urban fantasy is like the science in science fiction—"

Diane di Prima at PCCC, 1991 - The Allen Ginsberg Project Diane Di Prima’s birthday today.  Diane di Prima (1934-2020) See some of our previous postings on the Allen Ginsberg Project – here  and here – and here We feature today vintage footage from a reading...

vintage Diane di Prima reading (in New Jersey, 1991) - Remembering on the late great Diane di Prima (1934-2020) allenginsberg.org/2025/08/w-a-...

The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now

Mr. @tomscocca.bsky.social remains completely right about this

This is precisely *who they're being made for*

Really sucks to have spent years and years saying this exact thing was going to happen, only for it to happen.

Goodbye to All That (OR: Why I Stopped Writing for the NY Times) | Hugh Ryan Get more from Hugh Ryan on Patreon

I really loved this honest and clear-eyed accounting from @hughryan.bsky.social about why he's not writing for the NYT anymore www.patreon.com/posts/goodby...

(I think it's less because it's filmic and more because it's o'erweeningly popular; the question then becomes is it popular because it's filmic which, actually, I've never even looked at the damn thing, is it even filmic? I'm assuming, but there, that assumption, that's part of the problem.)

This I would expect and have also noted, and there is definitely reason for (some) concern, but there are babies in that bathwater, dammit. Dang it? Dag-nabbit. —I need to start a down-with-interiority club or something. Empathy's the bunk!

Ah! I was wondering, and went and listened, and it's a flittingly brief remark, not much more than a tweet itself, and so. But if so ("filmic" is a bit odd, if one means films), all curmudgeonliness is hereby redirected, and we march as one.

Getting curmudgeonly in the other direction: we're really gonna need to be a bit more careful with loaded terms like "filmic" and (especially) "literary" when kicking off one of these discussions, but then, I have tied myself to the mast of what might well be considered filmic prose...

Peter Gallagher starting to sing Memories Are Made Of This while holding a drink and wearing a white dinner jacket, as Vic Tenetta in THE HUDSUCKER PROXY

the Rajah of Romance, the Ministerio of Moonlight, the incredible, unforgettable-

That little almost-sip before he launches into the next verse lives rent-free in my head.

An alternate reality where “slice of life speculative fiction” dominates but it means works like China Mountain Zhang, not stifling coziness