The International Red Cross / Red Crescent orgs are solid. We've worked alongside them in other countries. Support the Venezuelan Red Cross here (confirmed not on sanction list):

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

Ooops All Trans A-Z Booktitle Challenge that I did in 2025. Wohoo! I'm really happy that I managed to finish this challenge this year especially since I decided to only count trans books for it. Also this looks gorgeous. #samreads.

Guidelines for the additional four longer stories we are looking to add to our oversized March issue are here: https://foofaraw.press/mindlessly-massive-guidelines/

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

A small but concrete task for today: Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm. Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?

tomorrow, dec 27 at 8:45am: my story Our Bones Are the Mortar, beautifully read by Sarah Niles with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, airs on BBC Radio 4 alongside Dickens, Wilde & others. tune in here 👻🎄!! www.bbc.com/audio/play/l...

We are closing in on $3,000 for our worker-run trans newsroom. Every donation helps get us closer to that and our final goal — and funds hard-hitting journalism.

I’d be grateful if folks followed this project on Kickstarter 🖤 Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready. We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.

remembered abruptly that Carly Rae Jepsen is Canadian and now I need a Cut to the Feeling needle drop in Heated Rivalry

Oh, so you like bad boys? [places yet another em dash]

You don't have to be a member to tell SFWA how you feel about AI.

Hi, Indigenous person here. I've never seen any of the avatar movies, and after what James Cameron said about the Lakota people, I never will.

Canadians, please sign! #TransRightsAreHumanRights We need compassion and community, not ideological cheats. Link to sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... More details from the petition in image, if you need it. Please sign! 🇨🇦

i’m looking for agented authors of color interested in writing new adult contemporary romance for our new adult imprint, requited. any agents i can connect with on this? #mswl

Also there are 11 more days to submit your queer speculative stories already published in 2025! The editors love reading far and wide, so please especially consider submitting work from journals and anthologies they might not be aware of. www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

Sonia is writer, whose work is inspired by Palestinian folklore, she is in #URGENT need of at least $385CND to cover overdraft, and take care of necessities. Please, do what you can, share and donate now to help 💕💸 #MutualAid #HelpSky #HelpFolksLive #FundFriday

My friend Bri could use some help after losing work hours in the last month, if anyone has some mutual aid funds to spare

Just called and delivered this message and emailed it to both of my senators who signed onto this. If your Democrat senator did the same, give their office a call. REMEMBER: if you're the one calling, you have the power.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Gifting this song by British artists to your children or grandchildren costs a mere £4 to help frontline aid organizations in Gaza while boosting awareness TOGETHER FOR PALESTINE: LULLABY - THE NEW SINGLE togetherforpalestine.org

Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

ARB puts up a call for reviews every month, but: at the end of each year, we find ourselves looking at a *long* list of speculative fiction & related non-fiction that we'd love to cover! Do your part to fight recency bias, and claim one of these!

surprisingly everyone including myself, I wrote things this year!

The pre-order page for my debut solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, is now live @stelliform.press !! www.stelliform.press/index.php/pr...

Having a gorgeous panic attack as week one of December comes to an end and I'm only at $40/150 & already behind because I got sick twice in November which piled on unexpected costs. Please share. Please toss a coin if you can. I'd be so happy for work if you got any!

I’m not crying.

If you like reading South-Asian Speculative Fiction, we have an opportunity for you. Tasavvur is currently looking for enthusiastic slush readers, preferably with prior literary experience. Email us at [email protected] with your pitch! 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

I TAed for four years and this is both infuriating and predictable. Non-tenure staff (TAs and adjuncts especially) are treated as disposable by many universities, which means that the people often doing the bulk of the work have minimum protections. Justice for Mel Curth/May she get an offer soon.

Congratulations to Emily Selove and the Magic Centre at the University of Exeter for their new PhD programme in magic! I know the Magic Centre folks via my husband (who is doing a drama PhD there involving esoteric studies), and they are an amazing group of scholars. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...

lol thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...

UP TO SEVENTY SEVEN (77) PERCENT (%) (ever wish there were upper case numbers?)

My friend Hani was killed in Gaza for the crime of trying to feed his family — and meanwhile, his family is still hungry and cold, in a tent that doesn’t keep out the rain. If you have any money to spare, it’s desperately needed. chuffed.org/project/help...

Brushing off my rusty Spanish skills to let everyone know that "We, the Ones Who Killed Sam Gowers" from @pseudopod.org is now out in Spanish at @vocesinsolito.bsky.social! Many thanks to Carla and Aitana for their hard work and the very cool opportunity to be a part of this project!

Para siguientes hispanohablantes, ¡mi primer cuento en traslación! Muchísimas gracias a Carla y Aitana de @vocesinsolito.bsky.social para su trabajo y la oportunidad de publicar este cuento en español (y gracias también a mis profesores en secundario - todos los errores aquí son los míos😅)

I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved. Unions now. Unions forever.

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

Updated the post with a verified Venmo link! It's in the blog post, or you can go directly to it here: linktr.ee/sinijay8#230...

preorder this and also something by @flameswallower.bsky.social or R. Merey!

📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess use code UGHFINE or you could just buy them! up to you 📚 www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks

Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls. What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.

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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.