Also prolly good to specifically mention that trans rights are fucking non-negotiable given how hard the regime is going after trans folks rn.

Call your reps/senators & tell them: DO NOT cave to the craptastic Republican budget, which cuts health care even further. Is a shutdown bad? Yes. Is going along with their agenda worse? YES. Hang this disaster around their necks, not ours. (Remember, you can call after hours if you're nervous!)

Yeah, the consolidation of companies means canceling Disney+ means losing a bunch of shows/channels, and that sucks a bit. But HIT THEM IN THE WALLET. Show that buckling to censorship is not profitable. There are other things for you to watch, or read, or play!

I initially didn't pay attention to this Kickstarter because, frankly, the title made me assume it was some kind of sex comedy. Instead it's a deeply Jewish comedic noir about demons -- so if that appeals to you, back it now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

I initially didn't pay attention to this Kickstarter because, frankly, the title made me assume it was some kind of sex comedy. Instead it's a deeply Jewish comedic noir about demons -- so if that appeals to you, back it now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

It’s cute when Eeyore does it. It’s funny when George Carlin does it. Unless you are a small stuffed donkey with a pink bow, the late George Carlin, or a glorious and unholy melding of the two, your gloom is not currently appreciated.

Fair warning all, I am in a mood and coming in to the recent thread to tell me why various good things don’t ACTUALLY count and everything is terrible will get you an increasingly less gentle lecture about how outsourcing your despair is a dick move.

⚖️ BREAKING: BOLSONARO CONVICTED brazil’s Supreme Court convicts former President Jair Bolsonaro of coup d’état, conspiracy, and attacks on democratic order. Historic ruling marks first ex-president convicted of leading a coup.

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this. Every pub should do this.

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Done: "Vaccines are minimally harmful, especially compared to the illnesses they protect against. I would rather have a world with the COVID vaccine than one without. Let us please live in a world that is one where we can push back against the forces that endanger us with our collective ingenuity."

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This Adrienne Rich poem about artificial intelligence from 1961 deserves another look in 2025: www.autodidactproject.org/other/Artifi...

Witness the birth of something new today in @swantower.bsky.social's "Cutting the Cord" :

*Sing a tale in a different key . . .* Now from Book View Cafe, a new collection of stories by Marie Brennan, A SONGBOOK OF SPARKS. @swantower.bsky.social is a former anthropologist & folklorist who shamelessly leans on her academic fields for inspiration! bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announce...

The Apex Magazine team is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter for 2026 begins OCTOBER 1ST!! 🎃🍁 We're keeping all the rewards you love, adding exciting new rewards for readers and writers alike, AND reopening submissions! Mark your calendars, and we'll see you at the graveyard smash! 👻🌙🐈‍⬛📅

New poem day! Over at @mergansermagazine.bsky.social, "Hallucination" -- about AI, linguistics, and a wish for a better world . . . #sharepoetry mergansermagazine.com/story/halluc...

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

New poem day! Over at @mergansermagazine.bsky.social, "Hallucination" -- about AI, linguistics, and a wish for a better world . . . #sharepoetry mergansermagazine.com/story/halluc...

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SPACESHIP!!!!!!!

-- plus there's theoretically an omnibus of the Memoirs which may or may not have ever been published? And Зеркальная Маска (The Mask of Mirrors) as M.A. Carrick. If you can find *any* of those (without, y'know, breaking trade sanctions), drop me a line. I'll pay for purchase and int'l shipping!

I'm especially looking for В Обители Крыльев (Within the Sanctuary of Wings) because I have the rest of the series, but also Обращая Сумрак в Свет (Turning Darkness Into Light), Чтоб Никогда не Наступала Полночь (Midnight Never Come), and И в Пепел Обращен (In Ashes Lie) [continued] --

In addition to this, I'd love help from anybody with a line on Russian-language editions of books. I like to have one copy of every translation on my shelf, but the invasion of Ukraine (understandably) threw a wrench in the process of getting those out of Russia.

So if anybody can just copy-paste those into a message to me, so I can then copy them to my site, I'd be grateful!

Need help from someone with better Arabic skills than mine! (read: any skills whatsoever) I just got author copies of the Arabic translations of the Memoirs of Lady Trent, and I'd love to add their titles to my website, but I have ZERO ability to run that search and find the relevant text.

Need help from someone with better Arabic skills than mine! (read: any skills whatsoever) I just got author copies of the Arabic translations of the Memoirs of Lady Trent, and I'd love to add their titles to my website, but I have ZERO ability to run that search and find the relevant text.

Me: "Okay, today I will catch up on all the emails that flooded my inbox while I was at Worldcon!" Every cell in my body: "Or -- hear me out -- we could *not*."

Did you miss my Opening Ceremonies or Best Poem Hugo presentation poems at @seattlein2025.org? Fret not! You can still watch the recordings here: www.youtube.com/live/G0GGYLV... | www.youtube.com/live/py7MeV3... And you can read the text here: seattlein2025.org/program-and-...

I'm behind in posting about Worldcon/the Hugos here because I had programming on Sunday and then had to get into the car straightaway for the two-day drive home. But now I *am* home, and I've even slept, so let's goooooo!

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

Hey, history and medievalist friends. If you're doing any teaching on maps this semester, I have a couple of digital resources you might find useful. #skystorians 🗃️ 1. Matthew Paris's Map A fully annotated & interactive copy of Paris's c.1250 map of England. 1/3 historiacartarum.org/annotated-cl...

"Why don't you feel welcome in fandom?" "Well, when I, a wheelchair user, finally managed to become an actual freaking Hugo Finalist, people said that the wheelchair ramp to the stage helped make the entire Hugo ceremony a mess."

Make sure presenters are rehearsed in the pronunciation of names and works. This is a lifetime event for the nominees who deserve respect and celebration.

...quote posting with my initial reaction: Interesting take, given that post ceremony, winners and finalists were asked to go to another event location, several blocks away, over broken sidewalks.

For everyone now saying, "The Hugo ceremony forgot to add stairs to the stage," well... Maybe this will give you a small idea of how I feel when they don't have a ramp.

Congratulations to all the Hugo winners!!!! So many great works on that ballot! Delighted to see that @swantower.bsky.social has won the poetry award! Reminder that Worlds of Possibility —Poetry contains two more of her poems and remains free through the 20th! www.juliarios.com/worlds-of-po...

The second poem by @swantower.bsky.social was originally published in the June 2024 issue of Worlds of Possibility, which was a dragon themed issue! Marie’s very tight and lean and focused in her poems, so each one packs a lot into a very small space. 3/8

Our first Hugo finalist poet is @swantower.bsky.social! The anthology opens with Story Sits in Places 2/8

There’s a special poetry award in the Hugo Awards this year, and three of the finalist poets also have work in Worlds of Possibility —Poetry! Behold: a thread of poem excerpts! 1/8

Cooking a lot recently has convinced me there is a triangle of: healthy, fast, cheap. You cannot have all three at once. Spend money to save time and eat well, spend time to save money and eat well, or give up on eating well for fast and cheap. The labor of cooking healthy is a meaningful cost.

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We have just four days to make the stretch goals happen, Space Unicorns! Three original covers! Staff raises! Keeping the flash fiction and novella! WE CAN DO IT!!!

Celebrate, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter funded! THERE WILL BE A 12TH YEAR OF UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Next up are the STRETCH GOALS! Original covers! Staff raises! Keeping flash fiction and a novella! buff.ly/d6biJJf

JUST $1503 TO FUND UNCANNY MAGAZINE YEAR 12!!! We can do this TONIGHT, Space Unicorns!!!!! 😁🦄

Even when the world is on fire, we can still have nice things. In fact, we need them now more than ever. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Even when the world is on fire, we can still have nice things. In fact, we need them now more than ever. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

@uncannymagazine.bsky.social is 90% of the way to its funding goal -- c'mon, y'all, let's keep this going! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

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