P. H. Low

hello friends ~ my short story “home/body”—insp. piranesi, the saint of bright doors, starling house, et al.—is now free to read @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!! come for hot shapeshifter autumn & liminal spaces, stay for architecture that is Trying its Best www.uncannymagazine.com/article/home...

this is unforgivable www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

i'm taking a cognitive communication class rn and it is Interesting how some of the criteria for social communication impairment are like "talks too little" & also "talks too much"

This is what they've done.

ICYMI: my last short story of the year is out at Adventitious!! "Starfall" is a love letter to Transistor and This is How You Lose the Time War. it has sapphic talking swords and bittersweet determination in the wake of a multiversal threat. ⚔️Read it here: www.adventitious.net/stories/star...

This is what they've done.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

IT'S HERE!! "Starfall" is a bittersweet sapphic multiversal epic, and I'm so proud of this piece 😭 this one has loose elements of my TTRPG miniseries, House of Starfall (hence the name), AND it's inspired by Transistor plus This is How You Lose the Time War 💜 ⚔️ www.adventitious.net/stories/star...

i am hiring someone to watch my bags when i go to the bathroom at airports

Ballroom-size scoop from @washingtonpost.com’s Jonathan O’Connell, Sarah Blaskey and @aaronschaffer.com: the secret list of major donors to Trump’s flagship project Among the revelations — $25M apiece from Apple and Nvidia, and numerous gifts from people + firms with business before Trump

absolute garbage statement and a betrayal of authors and the creative process. have fun with the angry membership cancellations.

We are SO excited to announce our 2026-2027 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible! Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon! 📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open on Friday, November 6th, 2026, so mark your calendars!

The only people who think book banning is good publicity are authors who sell so many copies they wouldn't notice. Okay, cool, the ban didn't sink Stephen King's career? Try interviewing a queer author whose book hasn't hit four digits.

*sad sigh* got an AI email inviting me to speak about "The Chrysalis of Moth One" at a library—the library was real, but not the email. just sucks, it would be a dream to talk about my work at a library someday 😭 anyway!! read my gay giant robot flash fic? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

we need to be reading more poetry. we suffer at the line level without a healthy diet of poetry.

You may have heard me occasionally mention a story affectionately nicknamed "Murder dolphins." Now you can read it! It is in a fantastic anthology put out by Inked in Gray press called Stellar Parallax: Human Hope in Grimdark Worlds www.wordsmakeart.com/collections/...

apropos of previous thread by John Wiswell: writers have a lot of solidarity when it comes to contracts. if you are a new writer and you think something might be hinky about your contract, it is completely fine to ask other professional writers even (especially) if you don't know us.

BALE SNAILS

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

thanks so much for reading! not quite sure what i wrote either tbh 😆

I've heard folks from outside the US, esp. non-anglophones, say we're "weird about AI" (as in, *markedly* more anti-AI). If true, I think it boils down to this: a sense that the power structures in our society are not aligned to bring any good to normal folks. It's a big club and you're not in it.

I am in competition with other authors in the same way a wounded man is in competition with medics.

for the evening crowd ~ : 3

Thank you to @kithrup.bsky.social for reminding me that the ebook of The Goblin Emperor is on sale today, across all retailers, for $2.99. I *did* know about this sale, but I had not yet even processed that today is Tuesday. So I appreciate being reminded!

friends, my novel has been chosen as one of powell's picks of the month for october whaaaaaat please pre-order! www.powells.com/staff-picks/...

Post them on social media. Tag Drexel in those posts. Send to President Merlo president@drexel.edu And Trish Wellenbach tw958@drexel.edu The pressure is working and we need to push it over the edge. It’s not enough, but it’s getting better. Please please take action this weekend, academics.

If you are part of an academic society or a professor of any kind, public statements that you do not condone Drexel cutting off the academy of natural sciences from the public of Philadelphia is very important right now. We need your voices. Urgently.

Do you know how evil you have to be to convince an internet full of atheists to go, "Hell yeah, Pope! You tell them about real people!"

marketing bears this out: books marketed using identity sell more than books marketed without identity. i'm real tired of y'all picking books to make you feel good as opposed to having a genuine interest in what someone like me has to say.

actual hot take: y'all, generally speaking, are not interested in supporting BIPOC and queer authors when they are not writing about Hurt and Trauma because it's not educational to you. even if the books have BIPOC and queer casts and are in new settings.

Buttondown users, ICYMI (I did!): There's now a setting in your web archive (settings > design > web) that'll allow you to toggle on or off specific crawlers/indexers/scrapers. I have immediately changed my settings to block AI trainers and scrapers. More here.

This should have gotten a hell of a lot more news! The United States was the only NO vote at the Commission on the Status of Women, at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday. America voted AGAINST women’s rights! healthpolicy-watch.news/us-isolated-...

then quit building it, man

Beautiful!

I believe a better tomorrow is possible for one reason: because so many of the people who belong in that tomorrow are already around me today.

I wrote about making Little Guys and I have @ph-low.com to thank for introducing them: misty.granades.com/2026/09/22/i...