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The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND Aurora award nomination graphic

Aurora award best novelette/novella shortlist graphic AURORA AWARDS BEST NOVELETTE/NOVELLA The First Thousand Trees, Premee Mohamed, ECW Press "In the Gardener's Service", Michèle Laframboise, Asimov's, July/August "The Lure of Stone", Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Uncanny Magazine, Issue Sixty-Six A Palace Near the Wind, Ai Jiang, Titan Books The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar, Tordotcom BEST NOVELETTE/NOVELLA NOMINEE

excited to announce that 🏰🍃🌬️A PALACE NEAR THE WIND🌬️🍃🏰 is a 2026 Aurora Award nominee for Best Novelette/Novella!! Thank you so much to all those for voted and a big congratulations to all my fellow nominees!! 🥺🙆🏻‍♀️🤍

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What If Cities Onboarded Residents Like Employers Onboard Employees? Authored by Aaron Hurst, Founder and CEO of the US Chamber of Connection I have hosted dozens of dinners in my home in Seattle over the past few years, bringing together people across backgrounds and…

A simple way to expand toward transit/biking trips in your city: Offer new arrivals a welcome package including a transit pass and free bikeshare trips. 

These are the moments when people form new travel habits, so it's a great time for nudges!

What do y'all think about submission holds? I don't do them because the worst feeling I've ever had as a writer was when an editor sent a hold but ended up rejecting my story. Don't get my hopes up! But maybe I'm in the minority on that?

Thumbs up. It helps to know a sub didn't drop into a black hole and useful data to know if it's making it to second readings, final lists, etc. before getting cut. I'm more likely to persist with a piece in pro-rate markets or just keep it on sub longer when I get that kind of signal, personally.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

"We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed."

#Palantir #Fascists #Fascism

"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."

Absolutely disgusting that a driver would do this during the memorial event for a child killed by a driver.....let that sink in 😢

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

it’s deathin’ time!

(still working on possible catch phrases) (don’t tell @ecatherine.com)

*Palantir execs trying to explain their glorious vision so we’ll invite them inside*

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

“Retooling/rebranding old ambitions/privileges of empires, they dream of splintering gov’s & carving the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under sole cont of the supremely $, protected by pvt mercenaries, AI robots & financed by cryptocurrencies.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

ohhhhhh no thank you

Sounds like my (Scottish) great grandmother's recipe, but alas, those legendary meals were before my time. Apparently she had the teensiest kitchen, from which she produced multiple desserts (& just shocking volumes of food) and the pour got heavier in the mix every year as she aged🍻

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On a new episode of 🍎 THE ORCHARD 🍎 @readtheorchard.org sits down with award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist Peter Nowak to talk about consolidation in the Canadian Resource Sector.

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Graphic promoting the Threads of Dreams series Book 1: Blind the Eyes by K.A. Wiggins. Gold filigree line art on dark concrete background with yellow/gold text reads: This dystopian future is gothic, haunted & swarming with monsters. A (neurospicy) coming-of-rage YA+ Dark Fantasy.

Photo of the third edition paperbacks of the Threads of Dreams series by K.A. Wiggins on a wood background.

So, I heard #dystopian is back…🔥

Books.kawiggins.com/tod

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary Publishing. And That’s Very, Very Bad. Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected…

"Because at its heart, AI and the havoc it’s causing is a labor issue."

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

This is valuable @wired.com reporting on prominent DOGE operatives and their fates. Where are they now? Some still inside our government, sadly for us. www.wired.com/story/where-...

Authors Guild Statement on Use of AI in Publishing and New Model Contract Clause - The Authors Guild The Authors Guild is concerned about reports that some publishing professionals are uploading manuscripts and authors’ personal information into consumer-facing AI systems for uses such as generating ...

A new model contract clause from the @authorsguild.org addresses the use of generative AI in publishing workflows (such as uploading mss into AI systems to generate summaries, marketing copy, etc.) authorsguild.org/news/use-of-...

Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About We’ve been covering the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against NewsGuard for a while now. It started with the House Oversight Committee’s absurd investigation of the c…

One of the best pieces I’ve seen on the omnishambles of the FTC, by @masnick.com

www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/o...

Indie Authors, if you have any interest in D2D; read this thread!

Delilah pulls out some key facts that have just come to light from D2D, and cuts into a lot of speculation about what's going on and the intent behind it, answering many questions we've been asking ourselves.

It's official. The Democratic Party is divided on continued military support for Israel, and leaning in the direction of withdrawing support. If you care about this issue, you should call your senator and praise or complain, depending.

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Join @daviddemchuk.com, @aijiang.bsky.social, Suzan Palumbo, and @kellyrobson.com for a discussion of why normal people scare them and abnormality in horror!

Register at the website! If you're not at least a little scared by David you win a prize*!

NDP Leader Urges Action on Study Permits for Gazan Students – April 14, 2026 At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, NDP Leader Avi Lewis and NDP MP Jenny Kwan are joined by representatives from a number of groups to discuss the filing of mandamus applications by Ga...

130+ Palestinian grad students admitted to 🇨🇦 universities are trapped in a 23-month limbo. IRCC is demanding biometrics from a war zone—a move that is both unrealistic and unjust.

The precedent exists: we did this for Ukraine & Syria. We must do it now. #cdnpoli #Gaza

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