John Chu

My novel, The Subtle Art of Folding Space, has a cover! Read about repairing physics, unreasonable parental expectations, and great Taiwanese food! Out on April 7, 2026. Pre-order now: t.co/0nz8JuNhwf Art credits: Jacket art by Weston Wei, Jacket Design by Katie Klimowicz.

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up around 25 works by @spacevalkyries.bsky.social @minillajovovich.bsky.social @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social @plangdi.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @chpearcewrites.bsky.social & MORE www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

a high quality poll of south carolina! and holy shit lmao

For anyone interested in primary sources from Ireland, the Manuscripts Commission has many of its publications free to download. Not only can you find diaries, chronologies [Annals] & descriptions of townlands, there are the books of survey from the 17th C & censuses!

"But Rob, they're not aligned with me on "issue"." That's grand. Don't tell me about it, tell THEM. Contact your local rep. Join a branch. Persuade people to see things differently. I had one such issue. I joined a branch and persuaded everyone. We now put forward a united front on the issue.

Folks. Please get behind the SocDems. I'm not saying that as a member, but as someone who wants the main opposition party in this country to represent decency. I want to end the state's racism and right-wing policies, not change the face of it.

Racists love visas over citizenship, because they confer all the responsibilities of citizenship with none of the rights, and are much, much easier to revoke. It's actually pathetic how Sinn Féin has basically copied the far-right's homework and is presenting it as their own. Total loser behaviour.

Other than in the issue of housing, Sinn Féin can no longer be considered in any way a left wing party. This is the clearest sign yet that they have sold the working class and the vulnerable out to the new racist European orthodoxy in search of power. No pasaràn.

A lot of it has already been implemented in Sweden by the last government (supported by the far-right Sweden Democrats), with predictable results - denial of citizenship and deportation of long-term residents over what amount to clerical errors as the rules are interpreted as strIclty as possible.

This proposal is basically a copy/paste of current European right/far-right thinking, including "good character" (good luck defining that), language tests and self-sufficiency. It's dressed up in nice language, but effectively a rug-pull to severely restrict citizenship & create a two-tier system.

it's funny how they just accuse any nonwhite person who isn't a slobbering right-wing sycophant of being "anti-white"

ChatGPT has killed people with its "advice" and generative AI will continue to kill by providing wrong medical and life information until the companies pushing the systems are held accountable. Generative AI is essentially informational fentanyl. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

“As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States. The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio . From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.” - Simon Levy … WTF???? 1/

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Our media is utterly broken

bonus Nanette!

today's semi-random theater photo: birthday girl Nanette Fabray and Ray Middleton in Love Life, by Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner (1948)

Pleased to announce that my silly TikToks about AI are now officially *major award winning* silly TikToks about AI. :) Thanks to @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org for this award but also for helping legitimize/incentivize science communication! www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa...

Bombshell: Greg Abbott’s senior team met secretly with Big Tech two days before the state made it easier and faster for data centers to connect to Texas’s electrical grid. In Greg Abbott’s Texas, billionaires come first and Texans come last.

A friend sent me a shelfie from PDX showing that THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS is a staff pick at the Powell's there! I can't believe how pretty this shelf talker is!

Oligarchs Donate $333M+ To Fight CA Wealth Tax...

Sarah Longwell: "This is the Epstein administration because there are two types of people in it — there are people who are in the Epstein files and there are people who are covering up the Epstein file."

It's just misogyny and rape all the way down. from his ascent to his continuance to his cult. it's all built on loathing women

This is why I encourage other comics people to really look at the deadline they've been assigned and if it's even feasible. And not "it will kill me, but I can do it" feasible, either. Sometimes deadlines are arbitrary and can be adjusted! Especially early in the process! Ask for what you need!

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

As discussed in the linked article, there are lots of factors that probably contribute to this spike, including more kids being out at night, dark costumes, masks that might limit vision or hearing. But pedestrian deaths are always tragic and preventable, and driver awareness is key.

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

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If Mamdani had mentioned that Chagall was Jewish, the ADL would be complaining about him going out of his way to bring it up. Hey Zohran, I'm sure the answer is to fund Zionist organisations and talk about antisemitism even more. That'll win 'em over.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

So… employment makes you illiterate?

I don't know that I buy the "everyone knows" excuse for the collective shrug. That reporter he yelled at seemed sincerely alarmed that he doesn't care about Ramaswamy exploiting a rape victim. Which suggests some folks still harbor the delusion that Trump thinks rape is bad.

Is it because the strongest allegations come from women who were technically adults at the time of the alleged assaults? E. Jean Carroll once suggested as much to me: that because Trump preferred adult victims, no one cares. I don't want that to be true, but sometimes it feels true.

Even setting aside the two accusers whose stories are shakier, we have three strong and credible direct accusations. Then we have three more young women who have evidence of Trump participating in Epstein's trafficking ring.

This report has a lot more information than that one less-than-credible accusations against Trump. If people read (I know, it's an impossible ask), you'll see there are three more I would deem extremely well-evidenced and credible.

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

Okay, I deleted the original post because people didn't check the link at all and mistook my typo of "young men" seriously. I clearly meant young women. Not sure why this isn't a bigger story, but I read this entire report today. It's gutting. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

it’s nice that politico let you and your friends do a group project for school. some day you might be a real journalist 👍

This is a pretty damning indictment of Trump that completely conflicts with the way the Times' news desk covers him

Good summary by @evanurquhart.bsky.social: "While the screed goes on and on, there’s nothing more there, no subtle nuance, no legitimate concerns. There’s only hate, a few weak protestations that it isn’t hate, and even more seething, naked hate."