Karol Lagodzki

It was such a pleasure to join @samuelkolawole.bsky.social Ali Araghi and Roohi Chowdhury for a fascinating conversation at #awp26 last week. Get their books! 😀

Mourning Rev. Jackson today. Such a loss.

‘Listen to Students’: How Advocates in Kentucky are Linking Free Expression Rights to Access to Education The Bluegrass Students Collective recognizes that freedom of expression in education is about access to that education in the first place.

“Listen to students,” says student organizer Savannah Dowell of the Bluegrass Students Collective in Kentucky. Learn more about how students are organizing for free expression and their communities in this month’s Conversations on the Quad. pen.org/savannah-dow...

I’m going to wait before I believe this.

From the Court Order:

This is not a new leaf to turn, you just didn't know about it. Science Fiction! Look for a new story of mine in the July/August issue of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social #sciencefiction #publishing #writerslife

Parties at the Kremlin. Shampanskoye and vodka are overflowing.

A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.

Department of Justice officials resign because leadership refused to investigate the murder of Renee Good www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...

Ex-Arizona lawmaker who questioned election integrity to be sentenced for using forged signatures A former Republican lawmaker who questioned the integrity of Arizona’s elections and served as a leader for the conservative group Turning Point Action is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday for using n...

Not an immigrant. #election #fraud

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In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born

Terrifying but must be read. #ai #ukraine #dystopia
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If you’re reading this, you survived 2025. Congratulations.

Darren C. Demaree EMILY AS RUN OR TUMBLE You can’t unburn America,but you can plant new seeds,you can be ornery, you can trip & fall all over the country& be loose with your pockets& your heart, you can …

Many thanks to the editors of Glint for publishing my poem Emily as Run or Tumble in their new issue.

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I’ve had a similar experience with my latest. The most frustrating are the cases in which an agent with a full completely ghosts you.

An exchange in which one person says AI slop is a mashup of the best art made by humans, and someone else says that the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster is a mashup of the best food made by humans.

This is about my view of things. #writing #art

If you've read a book that touched you, the greatest thanks you can offer the author is a one-sentence review.

We Are Arrows #2 (written in 2012) and instead of watching the presidential debate i finally listen to the taylor swift album folklore (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).

You mean made me cry because it was so bad? Yesterday. Deleted.

Great conversation at Morgenstern Books with @klagodzki.bsky.social last week. You can get signed books of PINEVILLE TRACE & CONTROLLED CONVERSATIONS at Morgenstern Books in Bloomington, IN!

#Publishing With this week's announcement about the closure of the book distributor Baker & Taylor, it's important to support independent presses that will lose their publisher services. @schaffnerpress.bsky.social is one such. Buy one of their books. Or five. #BookSky #Reading schaffnerpress.com

My wife says the same thing about me 🤣

Come by, it’ll be diverting! 😀 #booksky

My guess is that Orangio and Wormbrain shorted a bunch of Kenvue Brands stock well before their Tylenol announcement #crooks

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat The ideologically-motivated assault on science threatens us all.

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

No national coverage for this study, but it could be one of the most important things to happen in a while. Doing #climate #science while thinking like a lawyer. Vital. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

Polish, Dutch, German and Italian aircraft worked together last night to shoot down 19 Russian drones over Poland.

This might well have been the very first time German soldiers helped defend Poland from aggression.

What’s frightening is that an average person misses 4 of these specific questions, including what fossil fuels are.

#Bloomington #Indiana
@wesblake.bsky.social is coming to town on Oct 10! Join us at Morgenstern’s at 6 pm. Plenty of notice, so no excuses :-)
#booksky

My wonderful wife @mlagodzki.bsky.social is taking off for a month-long residency, and my goal is to get down the words for the first draft of the next novel before the end of Sep. Over/under? Wish us both luck.

Felt like a pie chart was in order.

Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197

% of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095%

% of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%