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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

Finally getting around to posting my October events!

There may be one or two more later additions, but I am excited about all of these and I hope to see you guys there!

White text over a dark background with fall leaves. Heading reads “Micaiah Johnson October events” body reads “6:30 pm October 13 P&T Knitwear Lower Eastside, NY
The Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Festival’s “History & Speculation” with Veronica Roth, Yume Kitasei, Julia Vee, & Matthew Kressel

7 pm October 15 GreedyReads Remington Baltimore, MD
The Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Festival’s “The Power of ‘What If’” with Sarah Pinkser, Yume Kitasei, Ray Naylar, & Julia Vee

7:30 pm October 17 Mavey Books (Aardmore) Philadelphia
The Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Festival’s “Culture & Science Fiction Fantasy” with Yume Kitasei & Julia Vee

3-6 pm October 18 The Hidden Door Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Presents “We Demand Stories: Death Reimagined” with Leah Richards, Claire Cooney, Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde

7:00 pm October 23 Rutgers Writers House Camden, NJ
Rutgers Camden’s “Writers in Camden 10 Year Anniversary Reading” with Deena Elgenaidi & Brooke McClurg”

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 11d

I JUST KNOW IT’S GOING TO BE SO GOOD!!

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 11d

(If we can try to support living authors, that would be especially neat btw)

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 12d

Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 13d

YES OBVS YES

Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 14d

See how she’s TEASING ME?? Like I don’t already visit my Bookshop preorder of Year of the Mer like a kid shaking their Christmas presents??

Anyway pre-Order LD’s book so we can all wait together!

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 14d

It's popular, I think, to be demure about one's own writing or to distance oneself from something well-written as if it popped into being fully formed and independent of our making it.

So before imposter syndrome returns: I have read it again, and I wrote the fuck out of this mermaid book, y'all.

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Rob Cameron @brklyndragon.bsky.social · 19d

Save the date! @csecooney.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @smartinez-conde.bsky.social @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social
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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 21d

My book was named one of Mary Sue’s 10 Best Sci Fi Audiobooks of all time! *cheers*

It appears I’m the only non-man and one of only two nonwhite people on the list. *boos*

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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Audiobooks of All Time

Why read boring paper when you could listen to audio signals beamed into your brain via machine? Now THAT is sci-fi.

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 21d

I need you guys to understand I have written/thought SO MUCH about the racialization of robots and even I am too bored to take most of this “clanker” discourse seriously.

You’re all wrong and you’re all right but social media doesn’t incentivize nuance enough to be the place for this discussion.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 26d

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25d

“Demagogue shot by radical” is in fact a pretty common life outcome for demagogues. The problem here isn’t that the accurate narrative is complicated or hard to comprehend but that it’s socially inconvenient and gets scary people to yell at you.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25d

From an Atlantic editor.

I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

I don't think it's simpering praise. He was an interesting man. I didn't agree with much that he said, but he was interesting and he was growing, and his death is a significant loss for those who believe engagement can help bridge disagreements.

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 28d

Let this be a lesson to anyone else who hasn’t read @delilahsdawson.bsky.social! House of Idyll is out now so you can rectify that!

Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 28d

After a not so great day, there’s nothing better than going to an event where I get a wtf peg? from @chuckwendig.bsky.social
because I admitted to never reading @delilahsdawson.bsky.social
before! But, I did read House of Idyll and it was in a word AMAZING! Such a great conversation!

Group photo of me Chuck Wendig and Delilah Dawson

Delilah Dawson and Chuck Wendig in conversation

Chairs where Delilah Dawson chuckled Wendig will be sitting

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Gabrielle @gabbklein.cryptoanarchy.network · 29d

I wish I could remember who I saw recommend "The Space Between Worlds" by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social so I could thank them. It's been a while since I fell into a book's world so instantaneously. And the audiobook narrator is fantastic.
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The Space Between Worlds

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examinatio...

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Alex @a-cross.space · Sep 8

Those Beyond the Wall by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social should be required reading. Just, for everyone. It puts everything that happened and is happening in modern society in a mirror and screams at you to look into it.
"Spiritually, I'm an Ashtowner." That line and that chapter hit like a truck.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 6

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 4

For long takes that are mostly about niche economics, I’ve liked a few by @unlearnecon.bsky.social (though I did watch his videos on mute at first after living in TN and haven’t yet forgiven him for being English and not some dude from Chattanooga)

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 4

OMG THANK YOU SO IS YOURS!!

It is wild having a *real* “keynote” when that’s usually just what my friends call the ensuing rant that happens when I’ve had half a gin & tonic and some unwitting victim mentions any aspect of American history/race/robots. But now there’s a MICROPHONE!

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 4

It has been so hard not talking about this, but I am so excited to be an invited speaker at @sirensconference.org. YOU GUYS THEY ARE GIVING ME A WHOLE KEYNOTE TALK I WILL NEVER SHUT UP AGAIN!

Sirens @sirensconference.org · Sep 4

#Sirens26 Faculty
Dr. Micaiah Johnson (@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social): world-changing author, scholar, activist. Purveyor of hope, joy, rage, and revolution.🚀 The NYT says her fiction "rattles [your imagination] out of complacency."👩🏽‍🚀Her academic work focuses on the intersection of race and tech. 🫶🏽

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Iain @iainnd.bsky.social · Sep 1

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · Aug 30

i find it really telling all the people agreeing with this are men and meanwhile i've read more wide-ranging sci-fi pubbed by non-cis men / marketed as sci-fi in the last 5-6 years than ever? (Rivers Solomon, Alix Harrow, Micaiah Johnson, Mir Lafferty, Yoon Ha Lee, SB Divya, Bethany Jacobs, et al)

Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · Aug 29

Science fiction – printed, published science fiction, and sci-fi as a distinct publishing category – is dying. I think it's obvious at this point. It's not dead yet, and who knows, maybe a miraculous intervention could save the patient. But…

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Michael Burns @michaelburns.bsky.social · Aug 28

if someone in chicago wants to go to this but is broke lemme know and i'll buy you a ticket

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 28

Only 7 tickets left! Get them now!

We will have tickets for sale at the door but they will be very limited so purchase one now!
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Kat for Illinois Punks for Progress Concert

Show your support with a contribution.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Aug 25

being afraid of the subway is so fucking funny. you mean the choo-choo train???

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Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · Aug 25

This post is perfectly vague enough that we can just repost you every so often when he does The Thing again.

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