Bauhaus 93. If you're getting a doc from me where I don't think I have to conform to someone else's stylebook, that's what you're gonna see.

A lot of consumer-facing companies want to be sports teams, with lifelong fans loyal to the brand, win or lose. That's why you see all this futzing around with logos while cost-cutting the core product until no one would want it. Real galaxy brain strategy.

Captain’s Lay Back  by Jeané D. Ridges @jdridges.bsky.social "Trouble to be had out in Diuna Quad, but here a beautiful bowl of chicken n dumplings" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #sciencefiction #scifi

I'd also like to share the medieval belief that weasels conceive through the ear, and since Mary was said to conceive Jesus at the word of Gabriel, they were a symbol of Mary.

You will be visited by three spirits

When I talk about movies, I always mean live action. I like animation, but it's hard for me to remember that's in the same category; for me it isn't, any more than a painting is a photograph or a rock concert is a symphony or a stage play is a dance or The Pitt is anime.

I think there are only two movies I care about that were released in 1950: Sunset Boulevard and Harvey. I don't think either of them won much of anything at the Oscars; All About Eve pretty much swept. And so ok I guess there is a third movie I like from 1950

exhausted because I spent too much of the day in the cold (yes, I dress properly, and no this does not magically negate my thin-skinned, proportionally high surface area, low-blood-pressure body needing to torch itself to stay conscious)

I noticed in another comment you assert that meaning is "encoded within the text itself", and I actually believe this is wrong as well. "This raises the question of where the meaning is" I would say the meaning is within each person who shares that language.

Many thanks to Kat for assembling this massive and beautifully organized table of contents. If you want to re-read something Strange Horizons published this year and can't quite remember the issue or author name, you can now probably find it.

You guys I think this might be the color of my personal hell. An eternity in an open featureless space that stretches forever made entirely of atmosphere where it is slightly damp and 2-3 degrees too cold to be comfortable

this holds up. I still like it just as much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFj...

gonna write a book about Hating After Forty

the hater's council just vetoed this actually. "a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder. "hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members

per this wordcloud, my non-secret hidden message this year is... "fiction rights makes women mean, science guys." See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

sunset in Boston area is at 4:13pm today. 4:13!

If I had a Spotify Wrapped, it would show that I've listened to a lot of Mike Duncan podcasts about the French Revolution and ensuing revolutions triggered by the French Revolution. I mostly listen to music on CDs. I have accidentally continued to be hard to remotely surveil.

On this Giving Tuesday, please consider a direct donation to Strange Horizons (or ask people to donate on your behalf as a gift!) It's tax deductible, and we're certified through Benevity if your employer does matching donations. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/do...

Read my surgery notes and my surgeon describes me as "a pleasant woman" and now every time my partner says I'm being annoying (I am very bad at resting) I say "NOT POSSIBLE! I'VE BEEN DIAGNOSED AS PLEASANT" which I understand has only increased the rate of incidence of my being annoying but whatever

*goes to a natural history museum and holds up a bouquet to an Allosaurus skeleton so they can finally see some flowers*

the outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: They Might Be Giants Man Man Depeche Mode Trabant Erykah Badu

To my surprise, out of nowhere on Wednesday, I started writing a cosy queer urban romantasy book. It's extremely sexual so far, because I remain at base a science fiction writer, meaning my first thought is "ok but when you're hooking up with a flower fairy what's the biology"

we could afford to do a little of this ourselves today. take care of our loved ones and the suffering and hold on to hope that the wave of malice washing over us will crest shortly.

It's not the solstice yet but it is very dark in Northern climes. If you find the holidays stressful (even if also cosy!), this song is here for you any time, on all the platforms open.spotify.com/track/1Uk9lh...

what a terrible day to comprehend language

bread is ultraprocessed also if you dig into the studies about what makes ultraprocessed food bad, it's that it tastes good. You'll voluntarily eat more granola than you'll eat unflavored oatmeal. literally that's the finding. hot off the presses: portion control

10 pockets on my new jeans

Mrs. Magalina Hoopensteimer Wallenheimer Hogan Bogan’s Wedding Toast by Jessy Randall "and orthodontists came calling and then ran away when they saw the extent of the situation, the power of her mouth-bones." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

saw a picture of someone holding up a Knitted Thing and thought "that sweater is far too small" gentlemen, it was a hat.

Strange Horizons has published several Frankenstein poems over the years. Here are some. @strangehorizons.bsky.social Frankenstein's Tongue, by Liam Campbell strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

in Jesus Christ Superstar, when Judas sings "Israel in 4 B.C." the syllable stresses are nothing like what you'd normally say. And it goes fast. So as a kid, I thought he was talking about "Israel and Forbisi." Forbisi was presumably an Ancient Land which is now part of Iraq or something.

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

I don't have the same access to direct conversations with sources I can ask questions [laudatory], but everything in this article is exactly in line with what I've surmised by just listening. It's all out in the open. It's right there.

Ed Markey and Kathryn Bigelow hanging out! That's pretty cool.

For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends

going to neighborhood meetings just to note who seconds motions

New review! Today I've got Nothing in the Basement by Romie Stott, a great horror novella with a compelling narrative structure. Out now from Dybbuk Press. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/11/12/r...

had a Jude Law year, where a lot of stuff I wrote over the course of 15 years came out all at once I would be honored to be considered for awards, especially for my first novel; a nomination would bring eyes to a book I'm proud of, from a *tiny* press with no marketing budget

time it takes me to do my basic exercise routine (push ups, leg lifts, etc): approximately 15 minutes. time it takes me to convince myself to do my basic exercise routine: approximately 6 hours and 40 minutes

I always think I'm dressed warmly enough, but figure out about 30 minutes after I've finished my morning coffee that, no, my comfort with the room temperature relied on continuous ingestion of hot liquid, much like a radiator.

Have you read this new story up on my Kofi?

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social has published an appropriately concise and horrified review of my novel Nothing in the Basement! I'm thrilled. Read the review; read the book. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/11/12/r...

My story "In the Zone", about a young woman with a special power that allows her to rescue immigrants, is now available to read at @lightspeedmagazine.com. Check it out! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...

canonically the best lake

ooooh this hurts my feelings because I love Lando *so much* and am also a diehard Democrat oooooooof (with the small consolation of a half cape)

after @chenchenwrites.bsky.social: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/160539...

The wealthiest, most powerful men in the world want slaves without having to see a Black person, girlfriends without having to talk to women, the thrill of being a Hollywood director without having to build any creative skills, and the ability to cheat death. We must mock them ruthlessly.

For me, it's probably my poem 'To Be the Change', which was released this spring from @strangehorizons.bsky.social! This was my first explicitly trans piece to enter the world; it tackles familial expectations and ancestral prophecies through a fantasy lens. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...