Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
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From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
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Repeating a "we're fucked" narrative is the fastest way to learned helplessness. I know this intimately, having sat in the cage myself for two years. But while we don't have control over our stressors, we have control over our *reactions* to the stressors. Our thoughts, emotions, THAT,we can control
January 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Repeating a "we're fucked" narrative is the fastest way to learned helplessness. I know this intimately, having sat in the cage myself for two years. But while we don't have control over our stressors, we have control over our *reactions* to the stressors. Our thoughts, emotions, THAT,we can control
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EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
January 10, 2026 at 6:35 AM
EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
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popping in real quick to remind anyone who needs it...
rejection DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer!
sending my various communities some creative vibes and lots of affection.🥰
⌨️you got this!💪🏽
rejection DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer!
sending my various communities some creative vibes and lots of affection.🥰
⌨️you got this!💪🏽
January 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM
popping in real quick to remind anyone who needs it...
rejection DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer!
sending my various communities some creative vibes and lots of affection.🥰
⌨️you got this!💪🏽
rejection DOES NOT MEAN you are a bad writer!
sending my various communities some creative vibes and lots of affection.🥰
⌨️you got this!💪🏽
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We're just one store & I don't know if we're representative of everywhere in retail, but ever since ICE started its massive hiring campaign with higher pay and signing bonuses, we're finding it MUCH harder to recruit young, alienated sociopaths who are a danger to customers and other associates.
January 9, 2026 at 9:37 AM
We're just one store & I don't know if we're representative of everywhere in retail, but ever since ICE started its massive hiring campaign with higher pay and signing bonuses, we're finding it MUCH harder to recruit young, alienated sociopaths who are a danger to customers and other associates.
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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
WOOHOO COLONOSCOPY BAAAABEEEEE!!!!
(I am so sorry. But it's a good idea to catch any problems early.)
(I am so sorry. But it's a good idea to catch any problems early.)
January 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM
WOOHOO COLONOSCOPY BAAAABEEEEE!!!!
(I am so sorry. But it's a good idea to catch any problems early.)
(I am so sorry. But it's a good idea to catch any problems early.)
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Synopsis: You need to kick more people out.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Synopsis: You need to kick more people out.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
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a fantastic thread
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
January 7, 2026 at 10:32 AM
a fantastic thread
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On the last one, @bretdevereaux.bsky.social wrote a great series of essays on Roman identity vs modern myths acoup.blog/2021/06/11/c...
Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends
Who were the Romans? How did they understand themselves as a people and ‘Roman’ as an identity? And what were the implications of that understanding – and perhaps more importantly…
acoup.blog
January 5, 2026 at 10:14 PM
On the last one, @bretdevereaux.bsky.social wrote a great series of essays on Roman identity vs modern myths acoup.blog/2021/06/11/c...
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Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
As someone who wrote a dissertation on that damnable Frenchman; one can only hope.
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
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They always want to “save classics!” until they find that it’s only by heavily redacting Greco-Roman literature (e.g. cut out the gayness!) that they get what they call “western civ.” It’s all a ridiculous game of omission.
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Go woke, go...absolutely wreck the ethnic-exclusionist heirs of Alexander, thereby securing the dominance of your polity for the next half-millennium.
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Go woke, go...absolutely wreck the ethnic-exclusionist heirs of Alexander, thereby securing the dominance of your polity for the next half-millennium.
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Which brings us around to my ultimate thesis, which is that the Roman Republic conquered the entire world it knew...because of woke.
January 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Which brings us around to my ultimate thesis, which is that the Roman Republic conquered the entire world it knew...because of woke.
No worries, I'll claim your share! :D
January 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM
No worries, I'll claim your share! :D
Topics to consider--why are the "acceptable" food choices always ones that wealthy people prefer and/or have access to/time and resources to prepare? What even is a chemical? What foods actually do not contain chemicals?
January 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Topics to consider--why are the "acceptable" food choices always ones that wealthy people prefer and/or have access to/time and resources to prepare? What even is a chemical? What foods actually do not contain chemicals?
it important to demonstrate that you have the "right" taste and others don't?
Also, you likely don't know as much about food and nutrition as you think you do, when you disparage something as "unhealthy" or "full of chemicals" or whatever.
Also, you likely don't know as much about food and nutrition as you think you do, when you disparage something as "unhealthy" or "full of chemicals" or whatever.
January 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
it important to demonstrate that you have the "right" taste and others don't?
Also, you likely don't know as much about food and nutrition as you think you do, when you disparage something as "unhealthy" or "full of chemicals" or whatever.
Also, you likely don't know as much about food and nutrition as you think you do, when you disparage something as "unhealthy" or "full of chemicals" or whatever.
Said it before and I'll say it again--I have no patience for "X food is gross anyone with taste eats X instead" or its variants. You might think it's lighthearted or funny but you always end up punching someone in the face.
And why is
And why is
January 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Said it before and I'll say it again--I have no patience for "X food is gross anyone with taste eats X instead" or its variants. You might think it's lighthearted or funny but you always end up punching someone in the face.
And why is
And why is
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hey do you want to know about my secret wip book ok good
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No better way to get cozy than this swoony romantasy.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:49 PM
hey do you want to know about my secret wip book ok good
I had Imos for dinner last night! So delicious.
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
I had Imos for dinner last night! So delicious.
Or maybe consider not being a snob? Don't knock it till you've tried it? Go take your "I'm better than others because I only like the right things" somewhere else?
January 6, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Or maybe consider not being a snob? Don't knock it till you've tried it? Go take your "I'm better than others because I only like the right things" somewhere else?
OK time for me to play Farm Together 2 while listening to music and trying to see the next scene I need to write. Cause I can't write it until I see it.
Yes, it's work. I swear.
Yes, it's work. I swear.
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
OK time for me to play Farm Together 2 while listening to music and trying to see the next scene I need to write. Cause I can't write it until I see it.
Yes, it's work. I swear.
Yes, it's work. I swear.