Paul Lucas

holy shit. the fundraising texts.

Lindsay Owens is the executive director of Groundwork Collaborative, who have done some of the most important work on surveillance pricing (using computers to spy on you to rip you off) and algorithmic wage discrimination (using computers to spy on you and steal your wages).

Dear Author, I hope your creative energy is flowing powerfully this Q3. [slop] [slop] [slop] [sloppy slopper]

Happy New Year. I want to say that it can only get better from here (but I've been wrong before 🙃). May peace & joy become reality for more people across the globe.

Opinion of unknown popularity: novels shouldn't have tables of content

Hi friends, it only takes a few days for coverage on Nepal to fade from the front pages of your most and least favorite newspaper. Please consider donating to unicef, wck or other organizations helping with relief in Nepal. Shit's tough out there. (Here too, I know)

THE MINIMALIST is a USA Today Bestseller! Thank you so much to everyone who supported this gruesome novel about classical music & the Asian adoptee experience. I'm immensely grateful for my readers, the #adoptee community, my agent @canonizer.bsky.social & my team at @stmartinspress.bsky.social 🎶🩸

Amazing book! Amazing author!

Experts say a tight-fitting, high-quality KN95 or N95 mask is a good defense against the microscopic particles distributed by wildfire smoke. Free masks will be available at public library branches across the city. Find a location near you here ⬇️

nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...

To every New Yorker with family in Venezuela: we are holding you close.   The devastating earthquakes this week have claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands more searching for loved ones. If you're able, here's how you can support relief efforts:

On the one hand, the temperature is supposed to go to 90 today. On the other, this cast iron pan looks like it needs to be seasoned again. Decisions.

It's wild. Read Stuart Schrader's recent book www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...

Thank you to @libraryjournal.bsky.social and @raforall.bsky.social for this wonderful starred review of THE MINIMALIST! My gruesome psychological horror novel of classical music & adoptee identity, perfect for fans of TÁR and THE PIANO TEACHER, releases August 18th. Read here: tr.ee/byak5r 🥚

www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2026...

Intelligence assessments say that Iran retains most of its missile sites, launchers, and uranium. A racist, alcoholic, woman-beating former Fox News host says that all of these were obliterated by kinetic lethality. For presidents busy designing ballrooms, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Just making use of a gift link for no reason whatsoever www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

if only there were some way to sustain the population that included...naw, it's useless.

NEW—Video shared w me by a witness shows another angle of NYPD officer throwing a protester to the ground during an anti-ICE protest outside Wyckoff Medical Center in the early hours of Sunday morning + has helped identify the officer. His name is Hubert Mohamed, The Handbasket is first to report:

Dear anyone who talks about Violent Crime In New York*, Murders/100,000 over time: 1975: 22.2 per 100,000 1990: 30.7 per 100,000 2019: 3.5 per 100,000 2023: 4.1 per 100,000 2026 (Projected): On track for new record lows *(ie, my parents, who are not on bsky but did live in the Bronx in 1975)

Goodbye, get lost, and we'll see you soon.

LONG ISLAND MEMORIAL is available for pre-order from your local Amazon! "Long Island Memorial is an unputdownable thrill ride for horror fans, a science fiction-tinged madhouse of mayhem that will linger long after its gut-wrenching finale." —John Mauro, Grimdark Magazine

It's almost like this was predictable. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Today was an extremely heavy news day and I documented it all with damn near 100 clips. If you appreciate my efforts, please support what I do by signing up for my newsletter. We're doing great work at PN if I do say so myself, and paid subscribers make my clipping possible. Thanks.

April 1st seems neverending this year.

Plus balrogs

they're both basically like shooting womp rats in beggar's canyon back home as far as i'm concerned.

I am one of the concerned Jewish writers! We were—and remain—concerned that the Jewish Book Council's apparent bias toward centering Israeli & Zionist voices is not only exclusionary but harmful. Thanks to @temim.bsky.social & @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social for organizing. lithub.com/an-open-lett...

Greenland will be different because there are no straits in Greenland. by Marc Thiessen

Republicans will talk about Obama's "red line" in Syria until the cows come home because he wanted a new AUMF from Congress. Trump *refuses* to go to Congress for an AUMF but (thankfully!!!) is a gd tacoing waffler and has all the structural fortitude of a used condom. PAUL LUCAS

Imagine Gregor woke up to find himself a Bret Stephens.

I just finished filing my claim with the #Anthropic settlement, which used FIFTEEN of my books to train the goddamned Temu Terminator, and I am fucking furious and heartbroken about it: catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

u up?

#rip Country Joe open.spotify.com/track/11WZ9d...

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

Lousy smarch weather

youtu.be/Ti5AkLup1mI?...

gofund.me/d2f9484a7

The only secret I truly intend to take to my grave is how much I liked ska in high school

Weeeeeeeee!

I can't imagine anything more embarrassing than being a republican.

If we saw an Olympic athlete from anywhere in the entire world describe injustice in their home country we Americans would be collectively lavishing praise on that person's brave words.

These dipshits keep forgetting that (i) the 2nd amendment was made to stand up to a tyrannical government, not to scare people around town with semi automatic weapons and (ii) that the 1st amendment protecting speech & assembly come, well, first.

Fixed

Baggy jeans, flannel shirts, RL prep... Is there anything from the 90s that isn't making a comeback?

The tux I bought for a friend's wedding in 2008 *still* fits.

We're delighted to see @edashtonwriting.bsky.social 's THE FOURTH CONSORT on Kobo's list of the Best SciFi eBooks in 2025! Part first contact story & part dark comedy, it asks an important question: how far would you go to survive? And more importantly, how many drinks would you need to go there?