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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

Here it is! The gorgeous cover of Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy, A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES Out 7th April 2026 (UK) June 9th 2026 (US/Can) Artwork by Richard Anderson. Cover design by Ben Prior. Preorders open now!

The migrant-hating crowd's values seem to be they want people to stop learning English and to stop celebrating Christmas

Got a cassette player and audio books of Les Miserables and Three Men in a Boat on - yes, you guessed it - audio cassette. December 2025 sorted.

I really really really really need to not adopt new guinea pigs right now...I don't have room, I don't have time. God give me strength 😭

bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu PATRONS support us and get access to our ePub/print issues YOU CAN DO THAT, really. also support tiers increasing in new year 😿 but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE, really.

This colonial horror is happening now in Denmark.

we should feed everybody actually all the time there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless

Responsible parents leave their children behind in war zones. Apparently.

Nobody "needs" gifts but people need people and the holidays in healthy societies are a time to express that. Society not being healthy is a sad, not a big smiling happy. If we can't afford something we don't beat ourselves up about it. But it's something we need to fix, not make peace with.

Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc. *And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...

Love the SH archives! In addition to all the stories Maria called out, I'll piggyback on this to drop two of my SH faves: "Collateral Memory" by @followthelede.bsky.social: strangehorizons.com/fiction/coll... "Secrets of the Kath" by @fatimataqvi.bsky.social: strangehorizons.com/fiction/secr...

Read 'It Might Be He Returns' by Fatima Taqvi on io9, courtesy of Lightspeed Magazine.

My favorite Doctor and Companion

@lightspeedmagazine.com has published my short fantasy story "It Might Be He Returns." It's also up in audio narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen! Link here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/it-m...

this is such a wonderfully gruesome tale from @fatimataqvi.bsky.social -- don't miss out on becoming "Our Very Best Selves!" @nightmare-magazine.com

Not one but two great short fiction recs lists out today, with a ton of great stories for you to check out, including recent work by FFers @fatimataqvi.bsky.social @thesuiway.bsky.social @vivianhchou.bsky.social and @kurellian.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/book... bsky.app/profile/mari...

My latest short fiction roundup features work from @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @escapepod.org @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @khoreo.bsky.social @thedeadlands.com & @psychopomp.bsky.social!

Thanks K.C! Love your newsletter 💚

We had @avramargariti.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @vivianhchou.bsky.social @chalicotherex.bsky.social, and @fatimataqvi.bsky.social appearing in @radonjournal.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @upbeattales.bsky.social @smallwondersmag.com @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social and The Dark! 2/

Contains work by FFers @aijiang.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social @fatimataqvi.bsky.social @samhchung.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social @aardwyrm.bsky.social and Uchechukwu Nwaka! Check it out!

Writers of the world, I know a lot of you were interested in the idea of a charity anthology for Palestine in memory of Refaat Alareer. I'm in touch w/ a publisher, and preparing a query. If you are interested, pls get in touch with me asap. Thanks.

My Write for Palestine fundraiser is live. All donations will go directly to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund Urgent Gaza Relief drive. pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/WriteforPale...

In this issue's From the Archives column, @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social reviews the first two issues of Tasavvur, recommending stories by Mehak Khan, @fatimataqvi.bsky.social, Mariam Taufeeq, and Saad Hossain. tasavvurnama.com 10/

This month on the newsletter: some thoughts about the origins of work-life balance and a terrible jack o'lantern I drew for you all.

absolutely gonna work this into my everyday idiom in every conceivable context. like … yes, change in political consciousness, whether individual or collective, is very difficult and takes much patience and effort, but a bucket of rats cannot be filled in one night

If you are a citizen of a powerful state like the US, UK, EU, please take this pain, this grief and rage, and share it with others. Most of all, use it to put political pressure on your government. Demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to this atrocity of a settler colonial occupation.

The time for compartmentalizing your life, your work, and your politics is long over. Allow yourself to be unpartitioned and whole.

Cover reveal and announcement of my second novel RAKESFALL, out June 2024! Since the book is after all about the connectedness of all struggle against oppression, let me use this small platform for clarity: Palestine must be and will be free.

Sad news to art and artist communities . Palestinian artist, Heba Zakout, was murdered last night along her family. These are some of her beautiful work. We are heartbroken..

Well, time for my first thread here on BlueSky, and I'm pissed off. I've been catching up on the situation with F&SF and Sheree Thomas. I'm slow because I'm not on FB anymore, where apparently the bulk of the convo is happening, and I'm barely on Twitter. Anyway.

Sheree Renée Thomas has been a transformative editor at F&SF, publishing essential writers and stories. She doesn't deserve the problem she currently has to deal with there. But it doesn't surprise me that she has been forced to deal with it without publisher support. A thread. 1/x