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I read this, in almost one sitting, yesterday, courtesy of the Austin Public Library. Highly recommended. #BookSky

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

The fourth annual Queer Screams Film Festival kicks off in Portland next month, with two exciting special attendees joining the fun and frights.

If you're not signed up for @wnwagner.bsky.social's entertaining and insightful Patreon, you're really missing out. Her pep talks for creatives — and for life — are truly wonderful. www.patreon.com/WendyNWagner...

I usually eat a staid, responsible bowl of oatmeal for breakfast, but this morning, I said "F- it, we ball," and made French toast. It was an EXCELLENT decision.

Exciting news from Lightspeed -- an old hand leaves, an older one returns. I am going to miss the team so much, but I'm so excited for what will come next! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Nothing like saying "I know exactly how to write this essay" and then writing and deleting nearly 1000 words in order to create . . . 1 good paragraph. But now I know how to write one paragraph in that essay!

We need to hear and see more of these positive stories about renewable energy and adaptation www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

hey it's us THE DEADLANDS with an update for authors (please leave the room if you are not, sorry) we are going to be making an ANNOUNCEMENT 4 AUTHORS soon but not yet this is an announcement of an announcement we have an email announcement form for authors, you can sign up to stay up 2 date:

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

“New global order: AI CEOs as heads of nation-states” *** “The world's most powerful heads of state gathered in the French Alps this week for the annual G7 summit, w/ the CEOs of America's dominant AI companies seated & treated like heads of nation-states themselves.” 6/20/26 …1/ archive.ph/EpW5P

I don't usually buy things just for fun, but yesterday at the grocery store I saw an erasable gel pen that looked like a tabby cat, and I thought "I really want that!" I then spent a good fifteen minutes last night writing nonsense and erasing it.

Here’s my list of the best stories presented on NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE STORY PODCAST @nightmare-magazine.com @wnwagner.bsky.social Year 5 (2016).

DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."

We bought an AI story. That’s embarrassing to say. It’s also exactly why we need to say it.

So yesterday I was supposed to be working on an essay I've been solicited for, but instead I spent the morning working on an entirely different one. I think I'm calling this summer my essay era.

Today's AI spam email very helpfully included "[SPAM]" in the subject line! Doubly hilarious, since they were pretending to be an editor from Bloomsbury.

Okay here's my Disability Pride Month Story Recommendation Thread! I'll update it across the month with books and short stories that I love. (It won't be daily because I am quite disabled and life is about to avalanche on me.) So! Here are things that ruled and that you should read.

Good morning. Today we are laughing at Nook, cheering @spmiskowski.bsky.social, and celebrating @candacenola.bsky.social's Desperate Wishes. Join us. It's free. It's called a Blog. it's something us old folks do. www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

Hey Bluesky, do you enjoy reading about -dilapidated amusement parks? -bizarre animatronics? -psychedelic dark rides? -cults? -friendship and sisterhood? If so, you might enjoy my book The Merry Dredgers. If you'd like to learn more, here's a review by Gabino Iglesias: locusmag.com/2023/06/gabi...

I got invited to write a short essay, and I'm supposed to send a pitch about what I want to write. This means I'm currently 500+ words into writing to figure out what I even think in the first place. In my experience, this is how actual intelligence works -- fuck the artificial kind.

#smallpoemsunday #poem #poetry @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #writingcommunity Suzanne Buffam

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

Hey there. Here's a favorite SFFH magazine of mine focused on immigrant and diaspora stories. They're doing interesting work and in the midst of a fundraiser. 11 days left and still a ways to go. What better way to support creators from across the globe, especially now.

Obligatory tired and cranky July 5th post.

50 years in prison for protesting ICE, that’s where we are Happy 250th birthday America

The "Great American" issue of Nightmare is out to subscribers! (And yes, it includes a delicious flash piece by Englishman Steve Toase.)

So fair!!!

Pope Leo, delivering his first craft talk: “Writing... is an act of truth, of revelation, for it reveals who we are, what we believe and hope for, the world we strive toward and the future of which we dream. We are never masters of the truth; if anything, it is the truth that ‘conquers’ us."

As always

The Christian nationalists are at it again 😡

I had to get a very deep filling today, and now the numbing agents are starting to wear off. Uggh.

If you live in the areas that are pink, stay the fuck inside. If your power goes out, drive far, far away. Temperatures above 100°F enter what's called a wet bulb crisis, meaning the air becomes so drenched in water that your body no longer can cool itself. I'm speaking from experience here.

OTD in 1908 an asteroid exploded over Tunguska in Siberia with a force of several megatons, flattening trees over an area of roughly 2,000 square kilometres. Air waves from the blast were detected as far away as London and Washington DC.

Just finished the first draft of a fun new story! Got a couple of days to revise it before it's due, so feeling pretty good about myself.

I read a short story every day! Here’s what I’ve been reading the past two months. It’s been a lot of single author collections which has been soooo much fun. Great to see different modes of play within a single body of work. What looks good to you?

Writers of Pakistani origin or resident in Pak: this is for u. SF workshop in a 3000 yr old city Old City tours The best fricking food on the planet Amazing instructors

It's been 10 days since we began the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive! So far, we've raised 75% of our base goal of $22K, which will allow us to continue existing in 2027. We would love to get there, and beyond, so we can raise our writers' pay. To help us: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Happy Pride to everyone. Thinking about how my late uncle Aveek (lost to the pandemic), who was the first openly queer person I knew, gently told me I was queer many years before I realised it myself (I denied it at the time). I think it was not long after the below book was published.

I dedicated this, my second published book, to Aveek. He introduced me to the work of Borges, & gave me a copy of Woolf's ORLANDO, both of which filtered in subtle ways into this, a tale of an uncracked/cracking egg in a dragons' nest in Calcutta of the 90s/00s:

Today is Mel Brooks’s 100th birthday.

Weird Books For Weird Readers!!! Featuring: @wnwagner.bsky.social @stephengrahamjones.com @juliaelliott.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social @kaychronister.bsky.social And some other dude :)

"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?

I really feel for everyone in Europe suffering from this heat. Buildings in Portland weren't really set up for heatwaves, and it was a huge shock when we got hit by a heat dome in 2021. And it's been SO hot for SO long in Europe -- it's much, much worse than our handful of hot days.

Accidentally turned the microwave on instead of just setting its timer, and now I've melted a hole in the door. It's so sad, because it's the least annoying microwave I've ever owned!

I have some openings in my editing calendar. I do mainly developmental edits, and work with novellas and novels in a variety of genres and categories. I don't use AI for any of it. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing and always happy to answer questions.

the supreme court is the enforcement arm of the far right oligarchy

ONE WEEK. There may be door prizes. There will definitely be @johnlangan.bsky.social (not a door prize). www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-par...