I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

Bookbub gave my #solarpunk anthology a Featured Deal! Which says they think readers will click & they are: already #2 in Hard Sci-Fi (there's no "solarpunk" category). Includes CORIANDER by @singingtotigers.bsky.social long-listed for #BSFAAwards2026! susankayequinn.com/books/bright... #booksky

I will die without treatment :p I dont have a support system irl, this is my only lifeline hehe. I have severe hypothyroidism which can lead to a myxedema coma / crisis / death within weeks 💯 I am also really good at art. Help me keep creating and living please www.inprnt.com/gallery/litt...

Only a few times a year, I take on a small group of writers to learn and improve the craft of writing short stories for three months. Applications for my April-June cohort are open through March 5. Learn more and apply to join the cohort here: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...

i have never been this accurately disrespected.

itch.io/b/3484/no-ic... The NO ICE IN MINNESOTA bundle is up. There's a lifetime's worth of good games in this! If you submitted something or just want to shout something out, reply here and let's reshare it and spread the word on this thing.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards! Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.

A shirt design for Palestine. www.bonfire.com/let-palestin... Proceeds from this shirt will go directly to World Central Kitchen, feeding Palestine and Sudan. wck.org

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

It's TTRPGs for Trans Rights Season! The game jam is now open for submissions to TTRPGs for Trans Rights—Idaho! Games, art, zines, and more welcome through March 8th! Proceeds from this bundle will benefit @transaffirminc.bsky.social and @tccidaho.bsky.social! itch.io/jam/ttrpgs-f...

👀January 2026 Fiction👀 ICYMI, "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" is a short story by @czwrites.bsky.social about growing up a target but finding ways to fight back. Also, summoning demons. Read it as a ritual of transformation. havenspec.com/fiction/a-be...

Today is day 20 (depending on when incarceration countdown begins) of Diana Crespo Gonzales’ incarceration in an ICE prison in Texas. Children are not allowed to legally be detained for more than 20 days.

We have a few days to accomplish this. Trying to stay housed at least through both of our surgeries. My consultation is this month. We're still waiting to see ortho for his hand. Ko-fi is in the bio alongside the shop. Thank you!!!!

The Sameer Project has had to cut their water distributions by 50% due to a drop in donations. Can you spare $10 or $20 today? chuffed.org/project/help...

LOTE. LOTE. LOTE. LOTE. LOTE.

Excited to have a flash fiction piece in Haven Spec! Please read and support all the very talented writers in this issue!

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.

if i haven't seen you out in these streets today i better see an open wallet !!! these are four LA vendor buyout funds i can personally vouch for and encourage you to support

Join us for outreach! We always go over our guidelines, and if you’re new, we’ll make sure you’re in a group with experienced volunteers - all you need to do is show up! We meet in the Immanuel Presbyterian parking lot at 12pm (you can park in the lot!) See you there!

I'm doing a stream to raise funds for my community 💙TONIGHT FRI 1/30 7-10pmCST💙 $20 donation submit your favorite character to be randomly chosen to be drawn by me on stream @kickingupfire.bsky.social @deanon.bsky.social and I will also be answering aid questions too! deckitoutmnaid.carrd.co

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Contemporary Indigenous Horror (University Press of Mississippi, 2027) solicits original, unpublished short horror fiction, poetry, and experimental works by self-identifying Indigenous creatives. No work produced with AI will be accepted. See details: www.cfplist.com/CFP/46993

"Consider the nature of evil. In books & movies, it is always so simple: here are the orcs & the creatures of the dark, who must be destroyed." Read "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" by @czwrites.bsky.social in @havenspec.bsky.social 🧂

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Give @unraveledpress.com some love. Most of us sit in warm houses watching their frontline clips while they brave winter temps, a crazy amount of tear gas, and the risk of death. Btw, if you helped Unraveled buy gear before? Guess what? Being soaked in chemical irritants wrecks everything.

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

People got so uncomfortable about that Ta-Nehisi Coates quote about how if you didn't draw the line at Gaza, you can't draw the line at democracy

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

Hey, the excellent Minneapolis arts and culture magazine Racket took down their paywall for the day, so you can go read their coverage of the occupation unhindered. Start here: racketmn.com/voices-of-th...

A "subject profile" of Öztürk that was prepared "for/in collaboration with HSI Office of Intelligence" cites her profile on the Israeli-based website Canary Mission on the third page. It also includes her op-ed.

If you can today: please support us in our general strike. No work, no buying, no school. If you can’t, I get it - I’m an essential worker and I can’t - but we aren’t buying and so many places are closed today. Stand in solidarity with us.

👀January 2026 Fiction👀 "A Beginner’s Guide to Summoning Demons" is a short story by @czwrites.bsky.social about growing up a target but finding ways to fight back. Also, summoning demons. Read it as a ritual of transformation. Subscribers get it Monday!

Coming off a busy work day to find my collection, three short stories & the peer-reviewed paper I co-wrote with @susankayequinn.bsky.social has made the #BSFA Awards Long List! Congratulations to all fabulous long-listees! Honoured to be among you. Many thanks to everyone who nominated my work 💕✨

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE. There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it. Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance. 24 hours. Go. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

Our little library of strange queer books fits in your hand. <3 For the first time in a while, we have stock of ALL of our palm-sized books (locally printed, on recycled paper). Mix and match, get all or one. 💌 Itch-IO: traumbooks.itch.io/the-little-b... Payhip: payhip.com/tRaumBooks

going to have to join just so I can force people to talk about Evil Perfume (horrors of war perfume, semen and blood scent, maple syrup bioweapon)

The #SmallPitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours! Reminders: - Underrep writers only - Finished manuscripts only - One pitch per manuscript - Up to 3 manuscripts per writer - No hashtags in your pitch - Comps & emojis are ok Once submitted, check your pitch here: database.smallpitch.org

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Did this last year, have repeated it for 2026: 15 SFF books centring queer dudes coming out this year that I have my eye on. Feels like a bit of an uptick from last year, happily! (Thumbnail is a free stock image for "gay couple reading" lol).

Excited to have a little flash piece about demons and queer precarity in this edition of @havenspec.bsky.social!

Fiction submissions are open now! The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Less than two weeks before we open for horror/Weird fic zine submissions. Get your piece(s) ready! We pay 10 cents per word. cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.