I am so excited to share my vampires in space short story A Turn at the Neck published at Sinister Soup podcast - youtu.be/GHDr0bUiFnM?... Thank you @clayvermulm.bsky.social for seeing the potential in this story and working with me to get it to this stage! Thanks to everyone at Cascade Workshop!

“Story-teller, Story-screamer Tell your tales into this night.” The Story-Stealer’s Night by Madhu Campbell Narrator: Suna Dasi Host: Kat Day Audio: Graeme Dunlop See show notes for C/Ws pseudopod.org/2025/10/17/p... This story is a PseudoPod original.

“When the station stats popped up on the screen, the Interface said, Anomalous.” Data Ghost by Martha Wells Narrator: Rae Lundberg Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Chelsea Davis This story originally appeared in Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology pseudopod.org/2025/09/26/p...

🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

HAPPENING NOW: A giant LGBTQ Pride flag has been unfurled on the south lawn of the Utah State Capitol in protest of the flag bill banning “non-sanctioned flags from classrooms and government buildings.” #utpol

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

I see authors sheepishly announcing books, or apologizing for good news. Friends: we’re enduring an onslaught of censorship and bigotry. I am PROUD that you wrote anything. Please yell about what you're doing. Art is a fuel to keeps many of us going.

We're not going to Mars on a Nazi timetable. If you want to know why, read these two books. There are more, but I'm assuming you're not a space geek. Seriously, read, and think. You'll be fine.

It exists! Head of Zeus (the UK publisher) sent me a photo of it hot off the presses! It has amazing textured paper! It's so beautiful! It's so orange! It's so violent! It's so so so so fat! 😰 But it's a fast read! I swear! 🥺 Full of jokes & tales & passion & drama & giraffes &...

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(I don't remember where I originally found this image, or who made it, but it brings me such ridiculous joy XD)

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

Incredible news! Montana’s Supreme Court just affirmed that the state’s gender affirming care ban is likely unconstitutional. This makes the state the first state Supreme Court to rule that trans medical care is protected. This applies REGARDLESS of what the US Supreme Court does.

Here it is, the longest piece of nonfiction I’ve ever written, CENTURY-SCALE STORAGE. The kind folks at @harvardlil.bsky.social let me investigate the present and future of digital storage, and how we steward and preserve our most treasured cultural objects lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

scientists just received a signal from Voyager I from 1 light day away: www.camras.nl/en/blog/2024... but we already know what Voyager I has been up to, right @premeemohamed.com ? and you can too! psychopomp.com/not-lost-nev...

Do not give this to a Republican led government my sweet god

Reskeet this until it breaks. Then reskeet it again. We need to flood Congress with phone calls TODAY to make sure they don't slip the dangerous and misguided Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) into a must-pass year end bill. This bill would make kids LESS safe and threatens LGBTQ ppl & human rights.

RIP Nikki. Say hi to my Mom. i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry

i just emailed NYPD:

We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.

My future is also fictional.

Yeremi Colino was 18. He was an immigrant. He was killed after being asked if he spoke English. The NYPD isn't investigating his murder or the attempted murder of the person with him as a hate crime, and there is no reward offered. Thank you for raising this, Anil.

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

Jordan Neely deserved better. So did Eric Garner. So did Sandra Bland. So did George Floyd. So did Breonna Taylor. So did Philando Castille. So did Sonya Massey. So did Ahmaud Arbery. So did Trayvon Martin. So did...

My horror story, “Onitsha Main, Ochanja, the Twins, Nkpor, and the Shadows of Shoprite,” originally published this year by @frombeyondpress.bsky.social is now out and free to read at @pseudopod.org This is a story of a market that goes missing. pseudopod.org/2024/12/06/p...

Happy #SnowbirdSaturday! Let’s see your birds in the snow! #birds #becurious 🪶 Anna's Hummingbird

Meanwhile...

We’re doing a blanket drive! Instead of engaging in mindless consumerism today, donate to cover the cost of one blanket in the north, approx. $38USD at tinyurl.com/sameerproject-north or $90USD in the south at tinyurl.com/sameerproject-south

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

Also a reminder that the retail industry manufactured a retail crime wave crisis & scapegoated immigrant, homeless & BIPOC communities to bail themselves out of mass losses due to COVID, shifts in consumer behavior & the $17B+ they owe in opioid settlements. progressive.org/op-eds/myth-...

HR 9495 aka “the nonprofit killer” goes up for a vote tomorrow at 10 AM! If you haven’t called yet, call your congressional rep tonight and leave a message telling them to vote no. Yes, even if your rep is a Republican. Then text 3 friends directly to ask them to call.

This is a good script for those of us in Republican-controlled states, remember that, even if you would never vote for your representative, they don’t know that.

I've been running it as a contrast, get two characters with different voices, have them complete the same activity. Exploring where they differ helps highlight who they are (and aren't)

This is a wonderful article about the haka performed in the Aotearoa parliament yesterday, and a wonderful explanation of what a haka actually is (not a “war dance”) 👏👏👏👏

It's Transgender Awareness Week. Please be aware of how shitty things are for the trans community and how much worse they're about to get. Don't tell a trans person they're overreacting about how things are going. Support trans people in bad spots. Recognize our value while we're still alive.

Reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler for @clarionwest.bsky.social’s upcoming workshop. It’s intense and terrifying, but also comforting to read in this moment in time

A truly unbelievable article.

Audiobook narrators have a guild. That guild rightly sets the minimum rate you can hire an audiobook narrator for. I pay above minimum rate for an excellent narrator. This means I have paid over £40,000 to produce audiobooks. Audible pay us less than $2 per audiobook.

I'm starting a thread of state and local victories from last night, because it's easy for those to get lost. Here's my start, but feel free to add your own: Here in Maryland, Angela Alsobrooks defeated Larry Hogan for our open Senate seat.

Nearly died (again) in today's #dungeonworld game. This is probably the fifth time my elemental elf has almost died but miraculously survived. Someday I'll write a short story about her.

I failed out of graphic design, so please consider my notes app awards eligibility post! This was my debut year and I am so fortunate to be able to share my work with all of you. Thank you for reading, sharing, and talking about stories. 🖇️below!