'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️ mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho

I’m once again relying on a YouTuber and the storm chasers he follows to tell me if I’m likely to die from a tornado tonight because the powers that be decided science was unimportant and warning systems weren’t profitable or whatever

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

this month has been so intense I almost forgot I had a new flash out today 😅 it's got wild children, creepy crawlies, and a single mom just trying to do her best. check it out in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

when I visited Budapest in 2024 everyone I spoke to was so fed up with Orbán’s shit so it’s a real joy to see this beautiful city freed of him today. may what comes next be better!

congratulations to the people of Hungary for kicking that fascist to the curb! let's do ours next 💪

a gentle reminder that if you have written anything creative in the midst of all this—anything at all—that is a huge win and should be celebrated, because the powers that be would love nothing more than for you to become an artless husk of your former self

Gabby Williams, Skylar Diggins, Brittney Sykes, and Erica Wheeler all leaving the Seattle Storm?? who is even on this team now??!??!

a lone lesser yellowlegs ponders its existence 🪶

spotted this long-billed dowitcher looking in the mirror today 🪶

the WNBA free agency season this year is WILD! this is going to feel like a whole new league when the season starts

We're over the moon to reveal the cover of Violet Lichen's second annual eco anthology edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌙✨🪐 ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, blooming onto bookshelves November 17! Cover Art by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social Cover Design by Mikio Murakami, Silent Q Design

✨ it's always a good day when I have new work out ✨ here I am reviewing Rodrigo Hasbún's novel The Invisible Years, out now in translation from @deepvellum.bsky.social. it's so good! read it, buy it, get your heart broken by it

for the past year, I’ve been organizing with fellow Jewish authors to push the Jewish Book Council away from its alignment with the Israeli state. after a long back-and-forth and no tangible change, our open letter is live today at @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/an-open-lett...

In case you missed it yesterday, I have a new story out in the April issue of Nightmare Magazine! The Final Girl Trap is now available to read online. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/the-...

stop talking about the mantasy when you could be feeling the jantasy!

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Lrp I am once again humbly recommending everyone to read these two novels.

the people in power need to be reminded that we made up the idea of a presidency and we can unmake it, too

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

dreaming of the day when the despots are overthrown, the people are in power, and billionaires no longer exist

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

Spend a little time with my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Available today! Bugs in the physics! Status reports in the form of food! Finding a family! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

for the record: I’ve never used genAI and never will. I would rather be ejected into the vacuum of space, become a human popsicle, and be eaten by some terrifying creature we don’t even know exists than use one of these shitty tools

You've got to face the fact that you loved “Swamp Pie” and “Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush” and probably everything that @ruthjoffre.bsky.social has written and so it's time to buy her book already. It's me, I need to face this fact, but you can too Night Beast: bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...

once again waking up mad that genAI companies stole my whole book and fed it into their automated slop machine and now bits and pieces of it are being regurgitated without my consent 😡

We’re now closing in on 40% for this sequel to the award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, sci-fi, and horror fiction! You’re amazing! www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Today from IT WAS PARADISE, our issue on war and conflict edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, "Adobo Sky" by @carolinehung.bsky.social originally appeared in Nonprofit Quarterly in 2023; it's a bonkers, far-future flash story which falls satisfyingly in the ACAB camp: reckoning.press/adobo-sky/

you can't convince me this isn't a shiny Pokémon 🪶

I've gone birding two of the last three days and it's doing wonders for my brain. I can feel the serotonin flooding my synapses. the joy! the brilliance! birds are magic, y'all

it is literally impossible to feel bad while looking at a bird this cute 🪶

I love how pileated woodpeckers look like tiny dinosaurs 🪶

here's a first for me: saw a snake climbing a tree today

peekaboo 🪶

a very important pupdate: its nap time

every stick is the best stick

hey if you're in mid-Missouri this arts collective I co-founded is hosting so many cool events (and even one online class for those out of state)! check it out! support the arts! cleanse your mind of the AI slop with some real art! more info on our website: www.nightjarartscollective.com

waking up to an acceptance when I thought it would be a rejection??!?? incredible way to start the day

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

The most exciting movement in nature is not progress, advance, but expansion and contraction, the opening and shutting of the eye, the hand, the heart, the mind. We throw our arms wide with a gesture of religion to the universe; we close them around a person. Robert Frost

hey, I'm in this! my story's about a fucked up "race" where you have to survive a course full of monsters and genetic experiments and creepy demons who live inside the mountain and can read your deepest, most repressed thoughts. it's a great time, and by that I mean it will give you nightmares!

"Here, the sky looks shy and affectionate, glowing soft and pink, like it has a secret to share" from "The Twilight Hotel" in NIGHT BEAST by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social

starting next week! a writing class by bird lovers, for bird lovers. come read, write, and talk about our beloved birds in this online class. all skill levels welcome! #birds www.nightjarartscollective.com/classes/p/bi...

it’s always a good day when you get paid for your writing 🎉

okay so. coming soon 👀 (no, idk *exactly* when but like... all the stories are written! and I have one cover!) #WhyMonsterGirlsDontCry 📚🏳️‍⚧️ it's got trans & nonbinary characters! it's super queer! 🌈📚🪐 💜🖤💚 also very aspec! there will be 3 new stories! 🐺🎥🧸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

every stick is the best stick

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

welp brain is all out of brain, gonna have to try again tomorrow