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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Day #13: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2025 Translated Children's Books. So many incredible books hit our shores in a given year, that it only makes sense to write an entire post about them today. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/13/3...

I feel like the world would be a much better place if we just set aside three hours each day to dance.

My chapbook, coming out next month from CutBank Books, has a cover.

Today’s graveyard elevenes - coffee, bun and Le Guin

Overheard my kids playing: "You're so dumb because you only use AI. You don't know how to think." My work here is done.

we can have AI integrated into every line of a program but god forbid you don’t want a squiggly line under mise-en-scène or Bazin

Today I found out that there’s a limit to how many custom words you can add to your dictionary in Word

Was trying to think of the word “ennui” but could only think to describe it as “umami of the spirit”

IT'S TIME. Gifts For People You Hate, 2025: Boycott-Friendly Edition. naomikritzer.com/2025/12/11/g...

googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions

As the weather gets colder, curl up under a cozy blanket and check out these bone-chilling folk horror novels in translation. At @literaryhub.bsky.social:

an organization in the Twin Cities is offering "ICE Watch" training The training provided by States at the Core, or STAC, prepares neighbors to monitor, document, and fight against ICE activity. The organization says it has trained more than 1,000 Minnesotans so far www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

An inspiring wide-ranging discussion was had about Roque Larraquy’s weird funny fabulous novel at our book club on Monday at Hatchards with heavyweight translator of contemporary French and Spanish literature Frank Wynne @terribleman.com in attendance.

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

The last book of mine to be published in 2025 is now back from the printers (even if copies haven't made it to me in Madrid yet)! WILL YOU READ A BOOK WITH ME, illustrated by Thiago Lopes, translated into Armenian by Hripsime Madoyan, published by Antares. 😍😍 #kidlit #booksky #scbwi

packing up the traveling kimono exhibition at the museum this week and i am so charmed by this logo!

I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a comics co-editor position at @therumpus.net We're looking for original literary fiction and non-fiction comics that feel personal. Bonus if it's hand-lettered (the path to my heart) 😘 No AI Pays $100 therumpus.submittable.com/submit Pass it on!

The last book of mine to be published in 2025 is now back from the printers (even if copies haven't made it to me in Madrid yet)! WILL YOU READ A BOOK WITH ME, illustrated by Thiago Lopes, translated into Armenian by Hripsime Madoyan, published by Antares. 😍😍 #kidlit #booksky #scbwi

News is coming to me via friends on Facebook, and via Fancyclopedia, that John Varley, who wrote Millennium, Steel Beach, and the Gaea trilogy (Titan, Wizard, Demon) has died. He was an excellent writer in the Campbell/Heinlein tradition, and I dug him a lot in my teens and early 20s. RIP.

while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March just saying