We passed $8k yesterday! That puts us almost 25% of the way to funding YEAR 6! 😲 Lots of great rewards available if you haven't backed yet, including ARCHAEOLOGY CONSULTATIONS with @hramsaroop.bsky.social 🤩🤩 Back and share to support slice of life fantasy! We can't do it without you. 💚

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

FIYAH is going on hiatus. More here:

This feels like a good time to announce I sold two stories. One to PodCastle and one to Pseudopod! Yay! I will be posting links to those when they come out. I am a huge fan of both of these publications and so excited to hear my stories come to life with the fantastic narrators they have onboard.

I’m trying to muster the proper enthusiasm to gush about my weekend coming out of TriCon Halifax for the most fantastic speculative fiction con. I had an amazing time and am officially exhausted. Hats off to the many organizers, especially @charlotteashley.bsky.social for bringing this all together.

Registration is: * Thurs 4-8 pm at Trident, Hollis St (buy something while you’re there! @tricon-hfx.bsky.social wouldn’t be happening without them) * Fri 9am-8pm, Sat 7am-8:30pm & Sun 7am-Noon at NSCAD Port Campus, 1107 Marginal Rd and yes we have day passes and general admission at the door.

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

I'm getting married in TWO DAYS 👰👰🏿 and it would mean a lot to me to have the giveaway for my upcoming book promoted more (twenty copies up for grabs! I don't want to worry about social media this weekend!) so good people of Bluesky, please do your thing and repost this like mad.

I'll be reading at this virtual #NoKings rally, alongside an incredible group of speakers! See thread for details. 4:30 Pacific time, hope to see you there! bsky.app/profile/ruby...

Almost out of time! Vote by April 1 in the annual Locus Awards Poll & Survey to determine the winners of the 2026 awards (tickets available now)! You can vote at poll.voting.locusmag... or via the link in our bio!

My top request to everyone is to please consider nominating On Spec (@onspecmag.bsky.social) for best semiprozine. They've done great work for 35 years, been an incubator for new talent, and they're shutting their doors. It's the last chance to get them their first (very deserved) Hugo nom. 2/X

Two years ago I had my agents ask authors seeking blurbs if they had used LLMs in the writing or research for their novels. If yes, then I won’t read their books. I know I could be lied to. If I am lied to, I will LOUDLY retract my endorsement. I hope more writers might adopt a similar policy.

Some truly wonderful childrens book people lost their jobs here. But I guess PRH needs money for AI engineers. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...

Congratulations! Well Deserved!

IT'S SHOWTIME! 😍 SFWA is proud to announce this year's Nebula Award Finalists. Our dynamic slate includes TWO NEW AWARDS, to further celebrate the power of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres in poetry and comics. Welcome! Who are our finalists this year?! Let's watch and see! 👇️ 👀 🍿 💫

Great @wired.com scoop from @milesklee.bsky.social!

Last promo today, just popping this up again. Online a few more weeks. Very kind of Undertow to make it available temporarily. If it it intrigues you, you can support the indie publisher and maybe grab a book (any book! they're all killer. so many killer collections). Ty. undertowpublications.com

Cover Reveal!!  Pre-order my first-contact story about empathy, hope, and carnivorous squid, Multitude here: https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/multitude?_pos=1&_psq=mult&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Nothing says "we have no bosses" like an 8 foot rainbow-laser-eye cat banner. Come see us at booth 1185 at the AWP bookfair today, writer nerds!

We've already got a bunch of applications for our #IndieApril spotlight but there's still room for a few more! Applications close on Monday, so get yours in now!

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

'Please don’t do this': Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid speaks out against Nova Scotia arts funding cuts www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright. www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Anyone out there looking for a truly amazing 1 year old pup? This guy is the absolute sweetest pup. He is very chill and hardly ever barks. And he’s been left behind now for nearly a year. He grew up in a great foster home alongside my dog, until we adopted her last year. But he needs a home.

Submitted my Nebula nominations! SFWA members, don't forget to go vote for what you loved, the deadline is March 1, 2026, at 11:59PM PT (aka SOON). Also: If you SAVED a ballot, don't forget to go back and SUBMIT it before the deadline!

Dear readers, TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 4 IS NOW LIVE! 🎊 Fantasy is full of world ending dangers. Of wars & high stakes & lives on the line. But what comes after?👀 Subscribers can find the issue in their inbox within 24 hours, & we have 2 FREE pieces on our site RIGHT NOW! Click the link below!⬇️

I deeply believe community-building is our societal immune-response to fascist infection. Fascist violence causes people to come together and form the social bonds needed to fight fascism...for survival. Community is survival. It’s deep in our DNA as a social species. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4aMI...

I just don't know how else to say it. It is so disheartening and exhausting to live every single day knowing that trans people have been on a slow march of losing rights and being reduced to othered, lesser people until they finally make it illegal to even exist as ourselves. Fuck, man.

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week. apnews.com/article/tran...

Those calls. I mean come on. #teamcanada

I picked a great time to make figure skating temporarily my whole personality tbh watching this was so good

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe. @tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here: tante.cc/2026/02/20/a... A few further comments, 🧵>>

We urge all our friends in the Worldcon community to consider nominating On Spec for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award, and to consider nominating Diane Walton for Best Editor - Short Form. They've done great work for 35 years. New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

The Canadian women have come out against a faster, bigger, younger team after getting slaughtered by them earlier in the tournament and kept their heads and kept the pressure on. Legitimately inspiring no matter how it ends.

Go Canada!🇨🇦

Oh Canada, that was a wild game!

GUYS!! I can’t believe it, but my story tied for 1st place in the Uncanny Reader Poll! I’ve never gotten 1st place in anything, nevermind for something I’ve written, nevermind alongside such insanely good writers. Thank you so much to all the readers! 🙏🏻

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279

Issue 14 of Translunar Travelers Lounge is live on our website, with fourteen brand new stories looking for readers!

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

Call your senators. This does not have the requisite 60 votes to pass but the reason it doesn’t is because the senate knows how against it most people are. Keep reminding them.

If you read anything this week, it should be this thread.

Oh this is so good!

Victoria (and Writer Beware) is a great source for things to watch out in guidelines and reports of questionable publisher behavior. (And I totally agree with this "by submitting you grant rights" is a major issue)

Never underestimate the power of being really annoying in bringing an organization to its knees.