TrishEM

Note: Due to trolls and bots, I'm blocking anyone with no posting history who follows me without ever interacting with me first (e.g. liking or replying to one of my posts) and anyone who direct-messages me out of the blue. Sorry if you're just new, but I need a sign that you're real and not evil.

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

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...

This is ridiculous because Abbott literally pardoned convicted murderer Daniel Perry (who was also trying to meet 16 year old girls on Kik)

Great Texas Observer coverage here

Boosting because my father's undiagnosed sleep apnea (for 30+ years!) was passed off as "he's just a loud snorer!" yet led to severe heart problems and cognitive impairment. Get checked! Snoring for long periods is NOT NORMAL.

The hardcovers I preordered and paid for with money, watching me put more Libby books on hold.

reminder of a week-long sale, get your scary romance here. And for other scary romances (a thread):

Structurally there's no reason for this at all. The Olympics manages to have men's and women's events side by side. World athletics does too. But in team sports and many other areas there's this insistence that any women's event that happens must compete with rather than run united with men's events

A thread-of-threads on my research into the ruined places of the world, the abandoned ruins of modernity, interesting historical knowledge I've come across, and strange parts of history I find fascinating.

I wrote about the Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy and how (and perhaps why) it is a sequel to The Goblin Emperor (and what that means for Celehar): wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/K...

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

is true ✨🙂

Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying. “Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.” thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...

The correct legal approach to this seems to be that when platforms start favouring some content over other, they don‘t deserve immunity for third party content on the basis that they are just platforms. They should become liable. finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Unbelievable!!! I just won the World Fantasy Award for Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! Congratulations to my fellow nominees and all the other winners! (I’ve included a thread—actually my speech—explaining the fuel that drove this project.)

This is not simply a change of government. It is the collapse of a political order that has defined Serbia since 2012. #EuropeNews ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/mbhn

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

Today The Masked Gingernuts gives away reviewing secrets

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.

Barack Obama ad urges Marylanders to vote for redistricting ballot question

Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Heidi Wong's Halloween costume (instagram) is as the Shimmer from the Annihilation movie, with a purse using my novel. Really clever, looks good affixed to the purse.

gotta say hats off to all the writers pretending to do profiles of Silicon Valley CEOs just so they can add that one same paragraph, every single time, that demonstrates they're all insane freaks who do not know or like their own kids.

Unforeseen a year ago, Democrats now have a real chance at taking the majority in the U.S. Senate. https://to.pbs.org/4hMVJye

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

This is a great look at how Israel's parliament functions (or doesn't). And for those of us who want electoral reform but always have Israel cited at us as an example of the dangers of PR, it also explains the real pitfalls and failures of their electoral system and how seats are apportioned.

Voters in more than three dozen states across the country will determine the fate of nearly 150 ballot measures on Election Day that will shape local policy on a wide range of issues.

Hear an Hour of the Jazzy Background Music from the Original 1967 Spider-Man Cartoon www.openculture.com/2026/10/an-h...

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

"Serbia's 6.4 million voters were electing lawmakers to the 250-member Parliament. In conceding the election, Vucic said his party projects that his opponents, the youth-backed Students' List, will take between 135 and 140 seats while his SNS party will have around 105." www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

"There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade." — Rick in Casablanca, shit-talking a Nazi

I only ever received two death threats online. One was from JDA. But that's a fraction of what he did to Paul and many other good people in our community. That's why I'm extremely disappointed that File 770 chose to give him a platform.