J Yang 🍊📚🐱

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

Mail Order Magic March comes to you with Sunday Morning Transport stories by Stephanie Burgis, Eric Smith, Sarena Ulibarri, and Leah Cypess.

It's the last month of 2025, & this year, I published two short stories, one novella, and one novel. ❤️

My short story "Mail-Order Magic" is one of the most personal pieces I've ever written, and it's free to read at
@morningtransport.bsky.social : www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...

In another world the dawn of AI might have been managed in a careful, thoughtful, sparing application in pursuit of science and enriching human experience. Instead we gave it to a bunch of con men whos qualifications include car but worse, nasa but worse, dollar but worse, monkey picture but worse,

a drawing of a cute cat making a statement about ai (it sucks)

oops it's her again

made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)

that's right. fuck that stupid owl

Someone using genAI is the superhighway to me instantly blocking them!!

Then this author followed up with questions about the pitch process... but it was super obvious that they were fishing for information for an AI prompt.

Anyway, that's the last time I reply to a LinkedIn DM!!

So an author was referred to me via LinkedIn DM--which I initially ignored bc I don't take pitches or referrals via DM, but I was like fine, I'll respond this once.

Looked up the author and found multiple genAI images (with the orange Ghibli filter), which they claimed they had illustrated 🙃

2026’s New Horror Books All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

Ugh, I'm sorry! This looks amazing 😭

Stories in Games Aren't Problems, They're Solutions Lots of video games have terrible stories, but that's no reason to give up telling them.

I'm not going to re-write a whole piece I already wrote 8 years ago, so here

www.vice.com/en/article/s...

I will continue hyping up The Traitor & The Wretch, because it was a joy to write and I had the great pleasure of working with @fusspot.rip and @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social for the cover and illustrations!✨

10% of sales go to the SD Food Bank until Dec 31
www.bonedustpress.com/shop

#WeeknightWriters

For those not in those circles, I just need to remind you that losing a job to AI is not a vibes based idea. We are being told explicitly by art directors that we are being weighed against AI for jobs, people on teams fighting against the AD and you. It sucks. It’s demoralizing.

digital illustration with green and red tones of a girl holding up a lantern in a haunted house

go pet the cat go pet the cat go pet the cat go pet the cat go pet the cat go pet the cat

Grover the Muppet looking at a smartphone with the text "How much longer do you want to scroll? Is there something you set out to do when you picked up your device?"

Well I can't let Grover down

Building muscle is mostly about diet. If you want to get big you have to eat other people at the gym

People SUBSCRIBE Halle Berry Draws Gasps for Saying Gavin Newsom Is 'Devaluing' Women and 'Shouldn't Be Our Next President' Moments Before He Comes on Stage The actress made the comments at 'The New York Times' DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Dec. 3 By Becca Longmire Published on December 4, 2025 10:17AM EST

This rules people.com/halle-berry-...

Hell yeah brother

Welcome to St. Louis!! We love a gooey food

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Katrina's hand holds the book "Huda F Are you?" In front of a library book return, Piper the dog investigates trash nearby

Are you looking for a coming-of-age story about self-discovery, family, and pride in your community? Check out "Huda F Are You?" By Huda Fahmy to read about an Arab American Muslim girl's first year of high school

bookshop.org/a/10327/9780...

I got offered a LOT of money to host an official HP podcast and turned it down immediately. I’m assuming since I am not a podcaster that they have an extremely long list of people who have also said no to this. Dunno what‘s going on with the actors but the comics are holding the line lol

i was in the top 0.02% of his listeners this year

Mom can you come pick me up? It's the weapons formed against me, yeah, they're prospering again. No, yeah, I remember saying that. Because I didn't think they were going to, obviously!

also qobuz is slightly cheaper than spotify premium + more money goes to artists! sorry to be a qobuz evangelist

America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.

STILL MISSING!!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?

Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!

Excited to be here!

Watching my writer friends struggle to find work on games while my friends in publishing get laid off or are fighting to break in, and TV show after TV show gets cancelled... It's rough out here when all you wanna do is write cool stuff.