AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 4h ago

I read Rubio’s speech where he does a Prager U recap of Ancient Greek history, and the funniest part is where he praises Achilles for seeking glory in Troy even though it means his death. Yeah, Marco, the Iliad is great. What’s Achilles up to in the sequel?

the fundraising numbers this could do, it's all we want

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h ago

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

Good for him! More of this from other celebs, please.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 7h ago

"I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.” variety.com/2026/tv/news...

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

YES. I was just thinking about how many useful ideas and real solutions AREN'T being funded - or even THOUGHT UP - because the money and attention is being sucked into tulip bulbs. You've got kids who might have figured out cold fusion spending all their time building AI video apps.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye. Ther ys no part of thee that evir koude be wrong.

WHAT. dang I love when my eldritch powers are this cool

Marie Brennan@swantower.bsky.social · yesterday

GODDAMMIT CASS stop being so on point! (this . . . might be relevant to the second Sea Beyond book . . . which @alychelms.bsky.social and I are working on today)

Oooooh, y'know what I haven't done in a while and seems like a good idea for an October Friday night? Drunk Tarot! Comment for a one-card draw and my decidedly tipsy interpretation.

Doing an online reading of Titus Andronicus tonight. With a drinking game. Usually in this group's drinkthroughs, you finish a drink when a character dies on-stage. That rule has been suspended for this one. 😅

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

Among the things I'll be looking for in an agent is someone willing to push extremely hard for contracts with every anti-AI clause we can think of. Because this is abhorrent behavior from these publishers.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

MSNOW, quick question, why the fuck are you inflicting Trump's illegally-funded propaganda on me during a commercial break? Why is that airing on your channel? @ms.now @deadlinewh.bsky.social

Selling out Ukraine to side with Russia in order to marginally reduce the negative impacts of his dumb war with Iran

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · yesterday

The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.

So when I say that the Citizens United decision is among the very worst of the modern age, this is what I mean. It opened the door to so many ills -- including the things that got us the SCOTUS we have now and all of their disastrous opinions.

Americans for Tax Fairness@4taxfairness.bsky.social · 2d ago

20 years ago the top 15 political spenders put less than $15 million into the midterms. Then Citizens United was decided. Now, just 170 billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms. Just in case you wondered why the economy only seems to work for the rich.

it's a bit concerning that instead of responding to obvious political incentives and moderating on some of their worst and most unpopular policies, the Trump administration is getting more and more extreme

Finally got a newsletter out! Wrapping up WorldCon & the James River Writers Conference, looking ahead to MultiverseCon, and a little chatter about my current work. And, as always, sharing what I've been reading! I've had some absolute bangers recently.

October 2026 Newsletter

Autumn is finally here both on the calendar and in the weather patterns! I am very much looking to spending some time working on manuscripts outdoors in the...

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#LGBTQWriteAThon Oct 9: Rhiann has no skeletons because while she's done some awful things, she's not ashamed of them, so she doesn't bother hiding them. She's much more private about the things in her past that normal people are open about (family, childhood, etc.).

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 2d ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 10: Today we're talking SKELETONS in the CLOSET! What deep, awful secrets are your characters hiding? @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

#PretendPanel Oct 9: It's always been there, so far as I can remember. One of my earliest efforts was Last Unicorn fanfic that I made my mom write out for me and then made my cousins act out with me. I wanted to be a part of fantastical worlds and also make up my own. Nothing's changed! 😅

Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 2d ago

#pretendpanel Loved everyone's answers last weekend! Tell me more about how you got to this point (though maybe just the elevator pitch so we're not here all day) 🤭 9th October: What was your origin story/the spark that ignited your writing? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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oh my lord he actually said it 😂😂😂

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Ossoff: "Bless his heart, Mike doesn't have too much of a mind of his own. He's been doing the president's bidding thoughtlessly for a year and a half and it's my constituents and folks across the country who are suffering."

Cyberpunke ys a cautionarye tale not a businesse planne

William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

oh helllllllllll yeah This is the energy we need. Not reconciliation. Yeah, we're a divided country, because the people on the other side of the line are fucking fascists. I'm fine being divided from them. And they need to face some goddamn consequences when they lose power.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

#LGBTQWriteAThon Oct 8: eeeeeeee, I get to talk about clothing, YAY! Honestly I don't know that either of them have a *favorite* outfit, but broadly speaking, the clothing in this world is a mesh of Saxon, Viking, and Anatolian (Toviran) or Byzantine (Requini) influences. 🧵 bc yay clothes!

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 2d ago

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 8: I apologize, I totally forgot I didn't schedule this. I haven't felt great all week! What's your MCs favorite outfit? @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writingcommunity #lgbtqwriters

I’m going to start calling it Super Intelligence right after I start calling twitter “X.”

Charme, grace, nuance, kyndenesse, erudition, glamour, wit, learninge, expertyse, inclusivitye, camaraderie, creativitye, gratitude, humilitye -- all the sweetenesses of fellowship that kan not be boughte. These frustrate knaves who wisshe to be loved simplye by cause thei have moneye or power.

Was listening to MSNOW on the way home from agility class, and they were talking about Obama as an example of appealing to voters using competence, character, and being cool, all of which Dems need to demonstrate now to win. And that's... that's just rhetoric!!! Logos, ethos, pathos, right there!!!

Excellent thread, and can confirm from my camp experiences. Every day I got begged, "Is the library open yet? When are you opening the library?" I have so many cute pics of kids crowded on a blanket or picnic table, all reading. They got SO EXCITED when I ordered new books.

K.A. Doore@kadoore.com · 3d ago

As a parent of a Kid Who Reads and a Kid Who Is Starting to Read, I 100% believe that publishing could put even a little more effort into MG and be rewarded for it. Kids *are* reading. I see it among 9yo's schoolmates, I see it among 5yo's. They love the school library. They love being read to.

anyway! it's fine that everything now is scams, magic beans, gambling, and financing at usurious interest rates