Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Tonight, we find out the terrible price of the witch’s spell. The Mariners can’t be eliminated… if the game never ends.

The teams have stopped play and have joined each other on the field to sing Christmas carols

Congrats to the Seattle mariners for locating the end of this game

The future... The polar ice caps have melted, covering the Earth with water. Those who survived have adapted... to a new world…the Waterworld. Also, the Tigers and Mariners are still playing Game 5 of the ALDS somehow.

mariners fans are my favorite bunch of fans of any team in any sport. i watched the bottom half of the last seven innings standing up in my living room. thanks for letting me hitch a ride

I thought this game was going to kill me but damn it was good, I love baseball sm

You can’t script it. The Mariners are willed to victory by Humpy the fish finally winning his first race in the middle of the 15th inning. The crowd chants “Humpy Humpy” as the trident crosses off the ALDS win.

the vibes are off the charts

This is exactly what THE PITT made me want to do

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

Someone said Kristi Noem trying to get in your house to use the bathroom was like Remmick in Sinners tryna get in the juke joint and I don't think that's true. Remmick is WAY more charismatic and likeable.

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

Because customer service chatbots are famously beloved by all. This definitely won’t devolve into dying people yelling “REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE” and jamming the 0 button

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

Hey by the way, if you're into peer pressure, this person signed up for my newsletter. Doesn't it make you want to sign up for my newsletter too?

Of course it does!

This week you'll get a recipe for a lovely fall soup.

Please sign up! Make this Black Lady—and her editor—happy!

This 100% worked on me, thanks for mentioning! I had no idea you had a newsletter, and the soup is a very tempting bonus

See, people think AI is useless, but without it this dude would have had to imagine burning down an entire neighborhood all by himself

For what it’s worth:

Speaking as a showrunner with two writers rooms going on now, this article from Ankler is insane. I don’t know who the insider is, but the reporter should call bullshit. This is a GPT press release.

You would have enjoyed the blind butter tasting party i threw earlier this year. 45 different butters tried and rated in one day.

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

You could doomscroll, or you could literally go take a shower and then go to bed earlier than usual. One of those options will make you feel better than the other. You still deserve time to rest and recover.