Patrick Nielsen Hayden
@pnh.nielsenhayden.com
Retired SF and fantasy editor, winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award. Amateur musician, bibliophile, genealogist, layabout.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Signal: pnh.09
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Signal: pnh.09
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Can't, I'm trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom
Can’t, I’ve written I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK on a pink official form.
Can't, I've found myself in a dark wood, for I have strayed from the straight pathway to this tangled ground.
February 18, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Can't, I'm trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom
Can’t, I’ve written I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK on a pink official form.
Can't, I've found myself in a dark wood, for I have strayed from the straight pathway to this tangled ground.
Can't, I have dined on honeydew and drunk the milk of Paradise
February 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Can’t, I’ve written I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK on a pink official form.
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Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.
February 18, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.
I would have died in infancy.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I would have died in infancy.
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Mimouna is a Moroccan celebration in which Muslims bring Jews flour and fixings for a post-Passover kitchen reboot. Honoring it on campus is just one of the ways students are finding what they have in common.
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Muslim and Sephardic Jewish college students are connecting over shared heritage
Amid campus tensions, participants in Mizrahi cultural events say shared food, language and other commonalities are creating unexpected connections.
forward.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Mimouna is a Moroccan celebration in which Muslims bring Jews flour and fixings for a post-Passover kitchen reboot. Honoring it on campus is just one of the ways students are finding what they have in common.
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Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.
In the summer of 1986, Teresa and I took a red-eye from San Francisco to New York, and just a few rows away from us was the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
When the plane landed, just about everyone wanted to shake his hand or be photographed with him. I recall being startled by how very tall he was.
When the plane landed, just about everyone wanted to shake his hand or be photographed with him. I recall being startled by how very tall he was.
February 17, 2026 at 1:26 PM
In the summer of 1986, Teresa and I took a red-eye from San Francisco to New York, and just a few rows away from us was the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
When the plane landed, just about everyone wanted to shake his hand or be photographed with him. I recall being startled by how very tall he was.
When the plane landed, just about everyone wanted to shake his hand or be photographed with him. I recall being startled by how very tall he was.
This is 100% true. No limit on the number of generations, if you can document each step.
While we're on ancestry stuff: Am I the only American to have learned just recently about Canada's new BIll C-3?
Which apparently entitles people w/ forebears who were at any stage Canadian (born or naturalized) to apply for Canadian citizenship?
(Thinking of the Mackenzies of Halifax...)
Which apparently entitles people w/ forebears who were at any stage Canadian (born or naturalized) to apply for Canadian citizenship?
(Thinking of the Mackenzies of Halifax...)
February 15, 2026 at 9:23 PM
This is 100% true. No limit on the number of generations, if you can document each step.
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Stop sharing the “our AI agent made up data” reddit story. It is as fake as the AI you think you are critiquing & the people sharing it have done zero due dilligence 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Update: 100% sure it’s fake. Quick google confirms this is a spam account that changes its story regularly and generates viral posts while locking down their reddit profile so you can’t track inconsistencies. Fake fake fake fake fake.
February 15, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Stop sharing the “our AI agent made up data” reddit story. It is as fake as the AI you think you are critiquing & the people sharing it have done zero due dilligence 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
This is, increasingly, me
In an effort to preserve and prioritize my attention I virtually always block people who are rude to me but I also sometimes block people who are perfectly polite and could very well be lovely individuals because I absolutely cannot be trusted not to waste precious hours of my life debating them 🫠
February 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
This is, increasingly, me
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As always. Prove me wrong.
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 PM
As always. Prove me wrong.
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"Just because you're on their side doesn't mean they're on your side."
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
“Pro-Trump town stunned to learn they’re not exempt from ICE raids.”
"Chris Gross, a second-generation mint farmer in Wilder, told the Times that the town relies on Hispanic labor. 'Nobody thought something like this could happen here,’ he said."
newrepublic.com/post/206401/...
"Chris Gross, a second-generation mint farmer in Wilder, told the Times that the town relies on Hispanic labor. 'Nobody thought something like this could happen here,’ he said."
newrepublic.com/post/206401/...
Pro-Trump Town Stunned to Learn They’re Not Exempt From ICE Raids
The raids have left the Idaho town “nearly destroyed.”
newrepublic.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:21 PM
"Just because you're on their side doesn't mean they're on your side."
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest
THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again
THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest
THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again
THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again
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And they can't understand that most of us aren't narcissists and actually want to engage with people we love and see them flourish.
So they have built this incredibly expensive, incredibly resource-intensive obsequiousness machine and now they desperately need to justify its existence.
So they have built this incredibly expensive, incredibly resource-intensive obsequiousness machine and now they desperately need to justify its existence.
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
And they can't understand that most of us aren't narcissists and actually want to engage with people we love and see them flourish.
So they have built this incredibly expensive, incredibly resource-intensive obsequiousness machine and now they desperately need to justify its existence.
So they have built this incredibly expensive, incredibly resource-intensive obsequiousness machine and now they desperately need to justify its existence.
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I feel like the root cause of the hype machine behind AI slop is that tech billionaires want to not have to ever deal with other people and their messy, messy needs that interfere with the billionaires maintaining a constant narcissistic supply.
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I feel like the root cause of the hype machine behind AI slop is that tech billionaires want to not have to ever deal with other people and their messy, messy needs that interfere with the billionaires maintaining a constant narcissistic supply.
I am watching Leonard Bernstein conduct (and play piano on) Rhapsody in Blue sometime in the 1960s and you know something, Tom Wolfe can go fuck himself.
February 12, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I am watching Leonard Bernstein conduct (and play piano on) Rhapsody in Blue sometime in the 1960s and you know something, Tom Wolfe can go fuck himself.
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OK so Margaret Killjoy's infomercial for "Shut the fuck up" is my new favourite thing.
"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social
"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 2:05 AM
OK so Margaret Killjoy's infomercial for "Shut the fuck up" is my new favourite thing.
"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social
"When I get arrested, there's only one strategy I trust...
I shut the fuck up!"
- @margaret.bsky.social
In the unlikely event that you follow me and have never read this, fix that right away.
My Hugo and Nebula award winning novel Among Others about a science fiction reading girl with fantasy problems is on sale as an ebook for $2.99 www.amazon.com/Among-Others...
Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)
Among Others: A Novel (Hugo Award Winner - Best Novel)
www.amazon.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:01 AM
In the unlikely event that you follow me and have never read this, fix that right away.
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Grocery stores barely rack magazines any more, much less tons of paperbacks ☹️
February 7, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Grocery stores barely rack magazines any more, much less tons of paperbacks ☹️
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Been a long time since I found a cheap ebook at a thrift store or a Free Little Library. Been a long time since a friend pressed a loved and weathered ebook into my hands. Been a long time since I bought extra copies of an ebook just so that I could give them away to friends.
February 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Been a long time since I found a cheap ebook at a thrift store or a Free Little Library. Been a long time since a friend pressed a loved and weathered ebook into my hands. Been a long time since I bought extra copies of an ebook just so that I could give them away to friends.
John Clute.
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM
John Clute.
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Albums, books, and other works of art are gonna have "Human-Made" labels. Orgs will say,"Look for the human-made label."
seems like we are moving into a world where "indie" will basically mean "not slop"
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Albums, books, and other works of art are gonna have "Human-Made" labels. Orgs will say,"Look for the human-made label."
100%.
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
February 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
100%.
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This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.