Morgan-Tobias Swim

I write, draw, and love robots. they/them

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

The tide is turning on anti-trans bills.

They are resoundingly being seen as unconstitutional in courts.

This map shows the fate of gender affirming care bans for trans youth. A month ago, this map was almost entirely red.

Now, significant chunks of the USA have access again!

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Reading the court rulings unanimously blocking trans care bans and there are consistent trends from the judges:

1. The states' "experts" have no expertise
2. Their "evidence" doesn't actually say what they think it does
3: What works on Fox News falls apart in federal court

[Neon Hemlock Press @neonhemlock]

Please send us your novellas! 🖤

(or get yours ready to send us in October?)

[Morgan-Tobias Swim @MarsChildWells]

Took a week off in July to work on the novella. Literally why can’t I finish this it’s been years.

[Neon Hemlock Press @neonhemlock]

We're excited to announce EMBODIED EXEGESIS, edited by Ann LeBlanc (@RobotLeBlanc), an anthology of transfeminine cyberpunk futures.

Coming late 2024. Submissions opening July 15, 2023.

More info: https://t.co/Tmwj4syJsG

[Morgan-Tobias Swim @MarsChildWells]

RP?? Are they trying to monetize RP??

[Matt Somerstein @MPSomerstein]

can we get some a.i. to pick plastic out of the ocean or do all the robots need to be screenwriters?

[Morgan-Tobias Swim @MarsChildWells]

Really hoping that Disney closed the Star Wars hotel to lure Desantis into it to Cask of Amontillado his ass.

[Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer]

I hope more writers will, in the current conditions, be open about the beautiful irrationality at the heart of writing. You can box it in by talking about word counts and whatnot, but at the heart is a raging fire and *being lost* and a deep disrespect for cordial efficiency.

[Orbit Books @orbitbooks]

How does a science fiction author create an alien mind that is truly alien? Join Ann Leckie and @aptshadow for a conversation moderated by Orbit Senior Editor @mspriyanka.

Register now: https://t.co/O5Dh2tRPJ1

[Morgan-Tobias Swim @MarsChildWells]

the contrast of the response time graph activated my fight or flight

[Morgan-Tobias Swim @MarsChildWells]

Logging back into Submissions Grinder and I feel like I’m opening up a dusty tome. I’m literally a different person now. Hope nothing weird or problematic has happened in publishing in the last 2 years!

[Neon Hemlock Press @neonhemlock]

We're also excited as hell for our third collection, NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON by @superyarn!

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

DeSantis just signed the most extreme slate of anti-trans laws in modern history.

A bathroom ban will result in many arrests in months to come.

A care ban targets 80% of adult care.

They are getting little coverage.

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[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Breaking!

Missouri's emergency rule banning gender affirming care for most adults has been terminated.

It appears they do not feel confident they can defend this ban in court. As a result, the rule will not go into effect.

Now, attorneys can focus on overturning the youth ban.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Bombshell from court documents...

Florida's AHCA and Surgeon General manipulated research to ban gender affirming care.

They tapped a conversion therapy advocate to do it.

An internal chart shows an end goal of "ban care"

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[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

you want Discworld? You pay Pratchett to start with The Carpet People

Hilary Mantel was first published in the 80s and Wolf Hall didn't appear until *2009*

investing in authors as practitioners of a craft produces their best work, fireworks are pretty but vanish just as quickly