Has it ever, in the history of opinionated women, been a welcome tactic for a man she doesn’t know to come into her mentions to tell her to moderate her tone? Has this ever once worked out the way the condescending man has envisioned?
what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him
I’m filled with white-hot rage at Olga Tolarczuk. I’ve spent every day of three decades struggling with my art. The art lives in the struggle; the product is only the last traces of the art. If you’re not in the struggle, you’re not making art. All respect I’ve had for her has instantly vanished.
“Mock mercilessly anyone using generative AI until they cry” is the new “punch a Nazi.”
I just heard Landslide TWICE in a day, I can’t take it, this is emotional terrorism, who do I sue to get it to stop.
Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.
If @legroff.bsky.social wasn’t a writer, she says she’d be a landscape architect in an interview with @rumaan.bsky.social. For the three-time National Book Award finalist, making a work of fiction malleable is much like planting a garden or shaping the land.
BOMB Magazine | Lauren Groff by Rumaan Alam
The three-time National Book Award finalist and author of the new short story collection Brawler shares deep insight into her writing process and why…
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Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.
The most predictable thing about my post blaming Substack for the accelerated collapse of literary media is when people who are personally benefiting from Substack swan in to angrily defend it. This is 100% my point! It’s good for some individuals, massively destructive for the culture at large.
sometimes Oxford is normal and sometimes members of @orieloxford.bsky.social chapel gather to serenade a new beehive on college grounds with a 17th century madrigal
If you use AI to write an email either to me or to my bookstore, we will not be reading your message. It’s getting yeeted into the swamp. If you can’t take the time to do the work yourself, why should we take the time to engage with what you want from us?
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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Only in America can one party control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, win the popular vote, and hold the majority of governorships—and still blame the other party for everything wrong with the country.
I blame Substack. The single worst development for the literary world in the last few decades.
Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 3mo agoWe are rapidly losing the outlets where new writers can learn to shape a voice, where they can cultivate skills beyond quick news hits and PR with the guidance and mentorship of strong editors and the benefit of a trusted name, and it’s such a loss for writers and readers alike.
As both a bookseller and a parent of two teenage boys, trust me: if you want your young men to read enormous books with obsessive zeal, buy them the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (or borrow it from the library).
I talked with acclaimed author Lauren Groff about letting go of ambition, living between regret and repair, and how swimming set her mind free. Groff's new short story collection, Brawler, is out now. @legroff.bsky.social @tricyclemag.bsky.social tricycle.org/article/on-g...
On Grace, Melancholy, and Taking Over Our Narratives
Ann Tashi Slater talks with author Lauren Groff about surrendering to reality, mending broken relationships, and writing novels underwater.
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It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter
The Trump fake assassination attempts will continue on a regular schedule until his poll numbers rise. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Your independent bookstores put their money back into their local economies at many times the rate of the chains or tech giants. Authors would be lost without them. Support your local indie today (and every day).
I’m so fucking embarrassed to be from the United States with this insane freak in charge.
for me impeachment isn't what we should be after. this president and most of his cabinet and staff should be prosecuted for corruption, fraud, war crimes, obstruction, and all the various crimes they have committed. i will only vote for a presidential candidate in 2028 who commits to this.
The rest of the world should probably collectively stand up to the U.S. right now, tbh
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
I just don’t understand why nobody is stopping him. Stop him. Stop this madman. Stop him.
Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 4mo agoHe is insane. And this is an open declaration of intended genocide. If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.
Generative AI is a tool of fascism. If you use it, you better be prepared to be shamed by people who actually like thinking.
A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.
Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
