With the launch of the Kickstarter, Apex is open again to short fiction submissions! We're looking for dark speculative fiction stories up to 9,000 words long. Pay is $0.08 per word. You can submit your stories here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Palestinian families like Essam's are being displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:

I have a week to make rent and I'm £600 short. If 12 people signed up annually, I'm covered. You get literally 1000s of posts, over 800 recipes for £5 and more added every day. 16% off if you sign up annually! Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Hey y'all, you want more in-depth, hard-hitting trans journalism like this? Support @transnews.network so we can make more of it: transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com

This is not how corporations respond to an ineffective protest. This is how they respond to a protest that they would like to have go away. So don't let it go away. Keep it going. In fact, Streissand Effect this shit. Call attention to how much they want this to go away.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Hey! I’m gonna be on this stream! Tune in to watch some cool people play magic and other games while supporting a great cause!

I wanted to boost the accounts of the three families from Gaza I have been focusing on posting - here is a thread of what is going on with them. They are all doing really badly and there is just no food.

*crawls groggily out of cave. looks around social media. sighs and crawls back

Here's another indispensable, wonderful local trans person who desperately needs mutual aid. PLEASE help if you can. <3 Cis people who keep shouting about wanting to be allies, here's a chance to put your money where your mouth is. #transcrowdfund cc: @jamellebouie.net

jesse singal is being used as a primary reference by the trump administration on “the dangers of youth transgender care”. he is aiding the states objective of oppression of trans rights directly now

I would enjoy that actually. Also… sharing people’s ideas publicly without permission is NOT ok for an agent to do…

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Every clip I see from Fox News or any of the business channels is basically a higher-resolution version of this. Probably fine!

I'm a black trans woman fighting poverty and homelessness. To support myself, I set up a patreon where you can get access to all my recipes, poetry, artwork and photography for just £5. Something new EVERY SINGLE DAY. You won't regret it. http://patreon.com/fightingpride93

Folks, this is coming down to the wire but is still super reachable. Hopefully I don't have to tell you why trans people would want to get out of this blimp explosion of a country. This is when we need our cis allies to help out in material, financial ways. Donate what you can.

A series of novellas from Neon Hemlock. Including one by Lara Elena Donnelly. WELL I AM INTERESTED.

Roba is a 22 yo student whose family, including her little nephew, is homeless because of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please share & give so Roba can continue her education, & her family can survive & evacuate Israel's famine & bombardment, they're starving:

That LibGen bullshit has taken from academic articles and books as well. I would advise my friends in academia to check if they've been victims of intellectual property theft: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

You know things are fucked up when the blue wave emoji accounts and the communist Garfield accounts are exactly as pissed off about the exact same thing for the exact same reason

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

Trans Rights Readathon is March 21-31 🏳️‍⚧️ and since it is especially needed this year, I made a booklist of trans horror authors to seek out and discover (myself included). These are exceptional works of fiction in a variety of formats, so please—take your pick (but do!)

I'm not a big "follow this politics show!!!" But I do recommend @majorityreport.bsky.social because @samseder.bsky.social (and @emmavigeland.bsky.social ) are very good at explaining stuff, taking on fascists, and moments like this.

BREAKING: Judge blocks Columbia pro-Palestinian protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil's removal from US pending further action on habeas petition. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.

SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊ This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management! Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...

Announcing our first horror broadside! An illustrated horror story by Joe Koch (@horrorsong.blog), with illustrations by Silver (@blacksugarpill.bsky.social) that you can frame and scandalize your family. Limited to 100 signed copies. October 2025. frombeyondpress.com/books/horror-broadside/

We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...

So uh see here's the thing

This is so important. We all have a sphere of influence, and it's not your responsibility to put the world on your shoulders.

Red states, *AND targeted places within blue states*, were the experiments. I wrote my dissertation on this in 2016...where black residents in Benton Harbor, MI, a swing state, were warning back in 2011 that their tiny city was a test ground to eliminate democracy. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you live in Texas, specifically Houston, and have a trans healthcare appointment cancelled due to a recent executive order, please DM me.

“If ICE agents are conducting raids in your area, if you need help locating someone in ICE custody, or if you would like to report ICE activity, ICIRR has a hotline you can call at 1-855-HELP-MY-FAMILY (1-855-435-7693).” blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/17/w...

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

Bookmarking this for the next time someone tells me trans activism in the US is too confrontational

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create

Went with the kid to the museum today. In the Polynesian art section, some chud 'informed' his kids that "during Noah's time God spread people who chose not to believe in him around the world." Walking past I said, "None of that is true." Hope it leaves some kind of impression with those poor kids.

David Lynch is one of my all-time favorite directors. It's a shame the world will never get new works from him. I hope he reaches the White Lodge.

These are the names of some of the young men who are incarcerated and fighting the fires in California right now. You can follow this link to put money in their commissary account to say thank you www.jpay.com/login.aspx?R... Text of the screenshots coming in following posts.

Hey friends. A favor. @joshruben.bsky.social was one of the first people to put his name behind Bad Hand and he needs our help. The fire took his home. Let’s surround him with love and support. www.gofundme.com/f/show-love-...

Since it's holiday time, I figured I'd share this Christmas NoSleep episode from last year featuring one of my stories.

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

New installment of Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author! Up this month, we have @haileypiperfights.bsky.social on Carmen Maria Machado! Read the interview by @patrickbarb.bsky.social for free in our magazine: shortwavepublishing.com/magazine/you...