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Quote from MIT Technology Review: By 2028, the researchers estimate, the power going to AI-specific purposes will rise to between 165 and 326 terawatt-hours per year. That’s more than all electricity currently used by US data centers for all purposes; it’s enough to power 22% of US households each year. That could generate the same emissions as driving over 300 billion miles—over 1,600 round trips to the sun from Earth.

That's three years from now.

Ahhhhhh, review of The Land is Holy in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!!! Grateful for the ways people continue to engage with the book almost a year after publication 💖💖💖

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

I feel like I have not figured out how to use Bluesky just yet, but just in case, CHICAGO, I am having an event on 4/24 at Seminary Co-op Bookstore to talk about THE LAND IS HOLY with @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social.

#booksky #chicagoevent #chicago #books

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North and Central Gaza: Food, Water, Diapers + Milk, Medical Aid Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

!!!URGENT!!!

THE SAMEER PROJECT ONLY HAS ENOUGH FUNDS TO CONTINUE OPERATING IN THE NORTH FOR 3 MORE DAYS.

THIS IS VERY BAD. DONATE NOW!!!!!

chuffed.org/project/help...

US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.

This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Join me in donating to Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop after they were ransacked by the occupation forces and are currently under house arrest/not allowed to enter the bookstore.

Israeli police raided a Palestinian bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem, arresting its owners for allegedly selling books that "incite terrorism," using a children's colouring book 'From the River to the Sea' as an example.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://aje.io/qf3mos

We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop.

Please share our statement below widely.

HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. Distribute Aid Logo Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT.

@distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting.

Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

Everybody who like me wanted to apply for an NEA grant this year, here’s a new foundation. Prize is 20k. You need to have 1 book out (more than that and you’re not eligible)

City of Asylum Careers | View Open Opportunities City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating freedom of creative expression. View our open positions.

Would you like to work with award winning authors and performers from around the globe? City of Asylum is hiring for the roles of Production Coordinator and Program Coordinator!
cityofasylum.org/about-us/e...

An infographic titled: "Lilac Peril Presents: Trans Writing Workshop with guest instructor Nic Anstett." An image of a black and white sketch of a castle on a mountaintop appears next to the text: "Saturday, February 8th / 2:00pm-5:00pm / Takoma Park Neighborhood Library / 416 Cedar St. NW Washington DC. 20012"

An infographic. In the bottom right sits a black and white sketch of a cockatrice. The text reads: "Who is this workshop for? trans, nonbinary, and Two-Spirit writers of all experience levels. We welcome you whether its your 1st or 100th workshop. How much does it cost? nothing! the workshop is 100% free. Why should I go? to build community, to fight despair, and to get inspired for that writing project you've really been meaning to work on."

I'm so excited to be hosting this Trans Writing Workshop with @lilacperil.bsky.social next weekend! If you're in the DC area and are interested in writing some weird shit with me, please consider swinging by!

In classic AWP fashion it’s buried in an email link 😔

If you have a panel it’s a different (cheaper) pass!

For BOMB Magazine, I got to write in Tahrir Square about the great @therakha.net upcoming novel The Dissenters (Graywolf), & how the novel ties in with the long lineage of using storytelling as a revolutionary form. Last piece of the year, and hopefully a banger!

bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Khaled Nabhan has been killed by Israeli strikes on Nusairat.

Khaled, who referred to his granddaughter as the "soul of [my] soul" and who captured the attention of the world with his softness at a time when that softness was being denied to Palestinian men, has been killed.

Donate to Help me celebrate my 40th birthday:DONATE TO S. SURVIVAL FUN, organized by noam keim S. came home in 2020, after spending 26 years incarcerated. On … noam keim needs your support for Help me celebrate my 40th birthday:DONATE TO S. SURVIVAL FUN

FUNDRAISER: I turn 40 this year and to celebrate, I am trying to fundraise 3k for my friend S. to get back on his feet:
tinyurl.com/noam40th

#fundraiser #happybirthdaytome

Inexplicably, my last paycheck was $350 instead of $1750, so I'm really fucked! Offering tarot readings: 3-card spread for $20, 10-card spread for $35. I'm really good at reading & holding space for folks as I do!

ANMLY Submission Manager **ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

ANMLY is now open for new work in ALL genres!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap39

Some news, with a heavy heart and gratitude for the people who fight to keep Palestinians alive, despite. My next poetry collection, WHEN THE ARAB APOCALYPSE COMES TO AMERICA will be published by @haymarketbooks.org in 2026.

We’re doing a blanket drive! Instead of engaging in mindless consumerism today, donate to cover the cost of one blanket in the north, approx. $38USD at tinyurl.com/sameerproject-north or $90USD in the south at tinyurl.com/sameerproject-south

www.dirtpalace.org/wedding-cake...

The Wedding Cake Residency has one for parents and provide childcare.

I am at a writing residency for the next week. Wrote 1038 words today which is usually what I am able to write in a day. But curious about others. How many words do you usually get out in a writing session?