the only acceptable type of weighted blanket is a cat

A thunderstorm enhances the reading experience by at least 52%.

i used to do stuff but now i just try to survive the things

I read somewhere that webrings were coming back and I was like “nah “, but look here…

BCS #460 ebook is out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of ships and commitment by @kjkabza.bsky.social and Edward Hodge, behind cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! New shroomy cover art by Tyler Edlin! Stories by @kjkabza.bsky.social and @edwardhodge.bsky.social ! weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

So annoying — getting William the Conqueror's emails again

Today: Finished reading a book Also today: Started reading a book

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the children’s book world, is saddened by the news that author, mentor and friend, Jane Yolen, has died. She was 87 and her loss cannot be measured. Please find the full obituary here: www.scbwi.org/remembering-...

The greatest war for the soul of Cyberpunk is between [If need be I will stand in the ashes of this city to build a new one that's safe for my people] And [Tech will make me better than all of those dirty poors] And [Oooh neon Kanji!]

For 15 years I've had my ebooks available and distributed through Smashwords (now Draft2Digital), but now that D2D is instituting account maintenance fees (draft2digital.com/blog/underst...), staying there will cost me more than I earn. So I'll be pulling my books from the platform.

Excited for the next FF reading period? But have a lot of stories and not sure which one might be the best fit? We'll have details from our submitter's survey to tell you which one is most likely to get our attention. Coming soon to our (free!) Patreon, so join now! www.patreon.com/c/fusionfrag...

Disney's Bambi wasn't always a children's story. The original tale comes from a 1923 novel by Felix Salten: a biography of a deer that ran much darker than the movie we love today...

🧵🧵🧵 ALERT! FF re-opens to submissions on July 1st and so, between now and then, I'll be sharing updates from members of the reading team on the stories they love and what they wish they saw more of in the reading queue. So, read on to find out what's on the wishlist! 1/

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

Got up to move some laundry, leaving an unguarded bowl of fish and rice on the table, and worried as walked off, “But what about the cat?” I have not lived with a cat in 21 years

And one litel pigge made a hous of strawe, and anothir litel pigge made a hous of stickes, and the thirde litel pigge made a hous of bricke, but the fourthe litel pigge made a hous of leaves and everyone was terrified

Wrong to the point of malpractice

Animal aesthetic shelves at Örebro Castle, Sweden

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

The worst part about being kidnapped has to be watching your captors cut letters out of magazines like they have never scrapbooked in their life

Once I was in the Quiet Car when for once it was actually quiet—until a conductor came in, shouting THIS IS THE QUIET CAR

One of the very hard things about actual science is that *bad* data is often WORSE than *no* data. Getting a bunch of opinions from self-selected, unrepresentative samples is worse than useless, because you still know nothing but now you think you do.

Today is my birthday, which is always a day of complicated feelings. The greatest gift is just being here, being able to keep changing, to keep becoming, in the hope that the work I'm doing is helping in some way. ❤️

I’m skeptical.

New kind of phone but no one can call you on it and it only contains your favorite thing to read. Also it’s made out of paper.

i like when the firefighters drive the firetruck to the grocery store and shop together

Are you passionate about SF, fantasy, and pop culture? Our Managing Editor is looking for original essay pitches: author appreciations, scholarly analysis of all aspects of pop culture, critical and personal essays, think pieces, literary analysis and deep dives into film, television, and fiction

“it’s something that she could have been made to feel confident about doing” sounds to me a lot like “maybe we could have convinced her if we argued” but she’s dead so you’ll just do whatever you want regardless I guess

Meanwhile, at Tumblr... (www.tumblr.com/dduane/81542...)

I cannot answer this for you. I don’t know your life

This is what going on the internet used to feel like

@liesandperfidy.bsky.social should know that the below thread is the only sports-related thread I have ever enjoyed

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

GO @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social GO

It took me 17 years of life experience before I could write this story as I had first envisioned it in 2008. And early next year, you all at last get to read it

engaged this morning in neighborhood vigilante yardwork

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

unfortunately i can't stop writing bizarre novelettes

They’re not wrong, though.

When a person loses 1 sense the others are heightened. That's why people who have no sense of humor have an amazing sense of self-importance.

I send random thoughts into the void and occasionally get 2 likes and I wouldn't have it any other way

This

Today during my 1st volunteer stint offering full library services at a school that is between librarians, I couldn’t access the circulation desk system, the class that was not supposed to show up showed up anyway, and a child peed on the beanbag chair. But they loved story time, so, great success

apologies to the followers of my secret Goodreads page whereupon I have this afternoon submitted a 25-book backlog of Ratings and Opinions

wow VERY impressed there is water and air that is very cool we are super lucky

No kings but our magnificent crustacean sovereign, Alaska King Crab 🦀👑