We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Just have to say that this was an excellent listen and is so worth it for anyone interested in epic SFF

This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

Alright, share your terrible writing tips that actually work. Mine is: stop for the day in the middle of a paragraph, a sentence, even in the middle of a word. It feels SO wrong but it makes it 1000x easier to pick up the thread the next day.

Manosphere should just be replaced with this:

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but... Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

We simply made fun of the guy learning wonderwall to get laid too much.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

I don't really have a complete thought around this, but the slow shift of wizard from a wise person who largely offers advice to a quirky guy who casts fireball once a day somehow just seems lesser

Meet Koyu, our light-morph Harlan’s Red-tailed Hawk ambassador! Harlan’s Hawks are already one of the rarer morphs of Red-tailed Hawk, but Koyu is even more unique with her pale plumage. #FunFactFriday #Morphs #DidYouKnow

Anyone have good podcast/newsletter recs about the publishing industry? I love Print Run and publishing rodeo, but am really missing the latter these days. #amwriting

Writing whatever the opposite of the great American novel is

i am always blown away by just how far ahead of its time DS9 was. really some of the most remarkable feats of writing in TV history. and the kind of show that could only have worked with 30+ episode seasons

Ah yes, the best candidate: a rizzless vampire

Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do.

Started Empire of the Vampire because it had no wait at my library and wow this book absolutely rips. 💙📚🪐

If you're not writing your long book what are you even doing. It's the summer of writing your long book, not the summer of experiencing happiness

Hey #booksky 📚💙 Trying to read a poem a day and this old Robert Frost collection is wearing thin. Any favorite poems, poets, or collections?

Really impossible to overstate how completely this guy has failed at every aspect of being an opposition leader over the past six months. Jeffries is a truly inspiring example for every soulless careerist who would rather be king of nothing than stand for anything decent in the world.

We are on the verge of a medical Golden Age, if we retain the stability and infrastructure to support it.

no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s

You know what's good? Books.

Hells Librarians🔥 #LibrarySky #ReadToLive

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

Saw Revenge of the Sith in theaters and it is wild how as an adult most of that movie is a mess, but once everyone knows Anakin is evil it's just cinema

The phrase ‘just deserts’ has only one S. It has nothing to do with desserts 🧁or deserts 🏜️. The word ‘desert’ is spelled like🏜️ and pronounced like🧁. It's related to ‘deserve’ and means “reward or punishment deserved or earned by one’s qualities or acts.”

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

For @vanityfair.com, I wrote about Meta's defense of training its AI on millions of pirated books, including: they didn't read the pirated copies, it would be annoying to license them, and they don't think the books are individually worth anything to them, anyway. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Here's an alternate fantasy author who isn't an absolute cunt: Ursula K Le Guin

I don’t think you can summarize the fatal problem with modern liberalism any better than “My issue with the way people are being deported and disappeared is procedural.”

If this made you mad a week or so ago and you're a Harper Collins author, please consider signing this letter @michaelleali.bsky.social put together. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

JD Vance just broke apart the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy on live television.

SCOOP: Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

Who has some good recs for escapist SFF books? Asking for obvious reasons lol 🪐📚 #booksky

just kind of feel sick to my stomach about everything lol

Kurt Vonnegut man

Hey look at me I've been here for years and I still have zero books out. You can just be a writer! No qualifications! No clue what you're doing! Just making things and telling other people about it all day who barely care! That's all I do!

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

Well, here it is. Trump and Musk are turning #NIH into a garbage rightwing thinktank, just as we said. They’re forcing down junk science on us with your tax dollars. This is a deep shame for America and for scientists everywhere. 1/3

i believe in the indominable American spirit to hate one specific really annoying guy

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

I know you've tried everything, but have you tried just actually writing it?

I keep trying to type something and all I can get out is “honor” before the screen goes all blurry