A great way to be allies with our LGBTQ brethren!

I have a full day of writing today, wish me luck! Getting this novella in order!!

OK, first proof/ARCs have been printed for The Maidens of Midnight, the first collection by @charibdys.bsky.social. Fantastic art seen here by @luciaretamales.bsky.social. And look how chonky it is - 170 pages, by far the thickest single-author book I’ve published. Pre-order coming soon.

🧵Spotted on the School Holidays in Aotearoa New Zealand: A young human (7?) swaggers into the library with Nana. He's got three book bags looped over his arm and is wearing a very serious expression. Pausing by the door he says: "I'm going to be a while. These bags hold a LOT of books." (1)

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

The main issue in America now is freedom of speech - not in the “cancel culture” way that our political class has whined about for years, but in the fundamental “can the government tell you what to believe and punish you for disagreeing with it way” that the Constitution actually controls.

Please share, we’re matching 3,000 (!!) 💚 The situation is more desperate, so we bring our hope more boldly, right? In two weeks, you’ve helped six families evacuate Gaza City—to survive. The final two are besieged under tank fire and worse. Help them escape south. 239/7000 by Tuesday night.

Heidi is one of my closest friends. She's been an ally, a confidant and a co-conspirator for well over a decade. Life has been so fucking unfair to her and I'm hoping that we as an industry can rally to help ease her suffering ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/ease-the-t...

The writing or season 2 of interview with the vampire is like being machine gunned by awesomeness.

Just finished @thomasha.bsky.social ‘s book, Uncertain Sons, and wow. The title novelette is a stunning closer. A surreal, violent story of monster hunting in the hills around Los Angeles (and what incredible, grotesque monsters!) that veers into sudden tenderness at the end

I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

Here’s to good news:

Look! Advance copies of my book arrived! Thank you, @interstellarflight.bsky.social ! (The House of Illusionists officially drops Nov 3, but you can preorder now)

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

New novellas by me and @aknighton.bsky.social - now available for pre-order! We'll be launching at the end of October.

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Nigel Farage pledged yesterday to remove all non-British citizens from any form of welfare access - including permanent residents who have contributed. Zia Yusuf then exempted those with EU settled status from the policy - so the slogan is now a false one. Reform have forgotten about Ireland too

Gonna just say, if it's this easy to protest against the monolith that is Disney. Then there is no excuse for people to be clinging to Harry Potter. Like, if the needle can be moved against Disney, people can make it move against JK Rowling. Stop the flow of money into her accounts,

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

You cannot call for the total social eradication of an entire section of society in a “sensible, calm” way or any other way. How would you like to be “debated” out of existence? GFY.

Okay let's do something trans, autistic and FUN, because I need it... and you might need it too 😮 Give me a page number and I give you a quote from my upcoming book SONG OF SPORES! My e-ARC has pages from 3 to 202. (Preorders here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So... )

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

From today, JobSeeker will be indexed to $56.69 a day. That's 89 cents more - or what Labor calls "cost of living relief" 🫠 Claiming credit for an automatic inflation adjustment that keeps people in poverty tells you everything you need to know about the state of the ALP.

Gentle reminder: everything is awful so you may as well go ahead and start dressing like a wizard in public.

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, I want to post a little reminder that many library cards will allow you free access to Kanopy, an amazing streaming channel. If your library card doesn't work, you can often sign up for other libraries in your region.

To be absolutely fair to hammers I do think they’ve ended a fair amount of marriages in one way or another

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

I love writing at the library because I can see at least three books by authors I know from where I’m sitting. Extremely motivating!

We've got room for 3 more ADHD authors/ authors of ADHD characters in this Itch Bundle. 📦📚

Honestly, a plus of wanting to better prioritize my media subscriptions is that fewer options are a boon in this land of plenty (too many) choices.

Stephen Colbert's opening monologue on 'The Late Show' "After threats from Trump's FCC chair, ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship ... With an autocrat, you can't give an inch ... If ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive"

I said from the jump that Kimmel never said the shooter was MAGA. I heard it the way he meant it: that MAGA is desperately spinning a narrative that the shooter is anything but MAGA. It’s like when I say I don’t trust the source of the texts, people make all kind of assumptions about what I mean.

Survivors of the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell respond to FBI director Patel’s testimony:

She ally needs to sue the hell out of them

I believe SPREAD ME is eligible for the Long Fiction category here 👀

They picked trans folks because there are so few of us they think they can get away with it, and they are perfecting a playbook they will use to go after more groups of people until they've concentrated enough power to be unstoppable. It's entirely up to cis people to stop this. Please help us y'all

Overheard a TedTalk today where some woman said students don’t like English classes because they’ll never need to “diagram a compound, complex sentence in the real world,” as if we teach that as some independent skill and not as a learning tool to help students read and write.

Absolute fucking monsters. Genocide for more real estate

This is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever read

*Indiana Jones punches a Nazi in the face* Terminally online losers: Is this an attack on Charlie Kirk?

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Two excellent publications still bringing the weird as god intended.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles