This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

For those asking after the woman who was arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No Kings protest in Fairhope, Alabama, @gambleganders.bsky.social says she was released after being charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. I told her I bet Bluesky could find her a lawyer!

Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

If you are going to a protest today: I hope you are all fine. I really hope everything goes well. If it doesn’t, though- shut the fuck up and only use WATER to wash out tear gas/pepper spray/whatever, and do not touch or handle canisters, detonated or not. Also wear a mask and drink water.

I used to make yearly donations to Wikimedia Foundation, but after talking to several friends in the nonprofit space, I've switched to recurring monthly donations instead. The predictable income stream helps them plan for the future. Throwing it out there for ppl looking for the best way to support

By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.

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I'm a big fan of Terese and I can't wait to read all the stories in this book. Canlit and Canspec should get right behind this. A speculative anthology filled with Black writers from Canada? Let's go.

Before you buy Girl Scout cookies you should know they support transgender girls and reject donations from anti-transgender organizations. Then buy a couple more boxes

This is huge news! UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal. Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure. ❤️🇨🇦⚕️ news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

We've only had to go and do a reprint of The Spear Cuts Through Water AGAIN. Thanks to every single person who continues to recommend this dream of a book ❤️

Finished reading Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 3 - so many amazing stories!* My favorite: Sophie Gazarian’s “The World in Our Hands,” from @fusionfragment.bsky.social. You should get this book: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... *(Also one by me which may or may not be amazing.)

Since I see posts talking about the Garlic book again, the stunt is doing its job, a reminder: Countess does not smell like Trinidadian food but it will make you want to eat Trinidadian food. Which SFFH books make you hungry?

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

Oh, hello

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

"Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario have all lined up at the Supreme Court to say that when a government invokes the Notwithstanding Clause, the courts should stay out and not even look at the case."

There hasn't even been enough time for there to have been an outrage cycle of pushback. The people in charge simply have no idea what they're doing.

“I call upon the prime minister to make this right and stop victimizing me and other #Inuit who were treated as lab rats for the benefit of an unexplained biological program. I am not a monkey.” www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do. In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap. Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

I'm a bisexual elder Millennial who hasn't seen The Mummy

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

Also really fun!

Really enjoyed this one!

Give us scifi, give us fantasy, give us anything in between, a bit scary here, a bit heartbreaking there, some frantic action, hope that lingers, a fun ride with so many layers underneath... Any and all of it, or something else? Don't self reject, SUBMIT 🥰

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure. Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer! Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves. Go!!!

Adelita Grijalva won her special election on September 23rd. Speaker Mike Johnson still hasn’t sworn her in. She’s being prevented from governing. Why? Because she’s the deciding vote to release the Epstein files. Learn her name. Call your reps and demand she be sworn in.

No money for Musk, ever. Delete your Twitter. Boycott Tesla.

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

everyone should legitimately be done forever with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social if he doesn't sign SB79. people took massive risks to get this through, YIMBY groups scraped together a coalition that could get through both chambers, if he fucking bails out now he's worthless.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

I HAAAAAAAATE making calls, it makes me anxious. But protecting trans people is WAY more important. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ CALL CALL CALL 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ #DidThisToday #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE. Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

Look I try not to doomsay or spread panic but this shit is truly and deeply Very Bad for every single trans person in America and unless everyone makes it their mission in life over the next few days to make sure that their reps know that shutting down the government is the correct option here.

Some Latinx authors to buy instead: Anna-Marie McLemore Gabe Cole Novoa Tehlor Kay Mejia Aidan Thomas A. E. Bross Isabel Canas Silvia Moreno-Garcia Natalia Hernandez There are many more, but those are the ones within immediate reach on my Kindle and TBR pile

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

We aren’t less than and we won’t go down without a fight. Rodney has filed a habeas corpus complaint in federal court. He’s fighting his unlawful imprisonment. He needs the disability community to fight for him and demand his release. My full article on how the community can help Rodney:

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Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

You may remember this book from the Hugo long list, or possibly from the previous times I told you to read it. It's on sale. Go grab it.