ICYMI! Volume 2 of award-winning fantasy THE HUNGER AND THE DUSK from myself and @chriswildgoose.bsky.social is out now, collecting the final 6 issues of the series. Hot orcs! Big fights! A rapidly changing planet! Find it wherever fine books are sold. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/780685...

Feel like "every Jessica is a good Jessica" is one of those slogans that can work on multiple levels

Some really good news, if you need some. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Are you in or near Toronto? Join me at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social on Aug 22 at 2pm for the launch of my collection (Book info threaded). There’ll be snacks and SWAG for all who attend. RSVP and reserve your book using the link. @starsandsabers.bsky.social www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com/events/58652...

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Examinations of almost 4,000-year-old mummified princesses suggest that they were skilled users of the daggers, bows and other weapons buried with them, researchers report. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-egyptian-princesses-weapons-war

Oh hey, for any other Dorothy Sayers fans who didn't know this already - I just discovered that several of her novels (and a story collection) are now in the public domain and free (and legal) to download at the Gutenberg project: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #booksky

“With fewer competitors, the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. entity would have both the incentive and the ability to lower costs by suppressing writers’ wages and reducing output. Writers will be paid less and have fewer employment opportunities.” #BlockTheMerger vist.ly/5bha2

This is Winnie. He got so excited that he briefly forgot how to be a dog. You can laugh, but he'd like to point out you look this ridiculous all the time. 13/10 (TT: brisbreaks)

In December a 1594 edition of Snorri Sturluson's Sagas of the Kings was sold at auction for 1.3 million Norwegian kroner to Erling Haaland. He donated it to the library in Bryne with the request that the book remain open for visitors, so people could read it rather than see it locked away

So excited to be part of this!

Just in case y'all haven't heard, there's an email phishing attack going around where you get an e-invitation from someone you know. This week I've gotten two from faux @tananarivedue.bsky.social and one from faux Jim Frenkel of all people. Email the person to double check!

Ahmed's family's donations have slowed a lot, & they urgently need funds for his mother's treatment after eye surgery. They're starving. Even small amounts help--I gave 8 dollars yesterday.

hi #portfolioday! I'm Dearbhla, I colour comics, and I'm currently looking for more work starting from August 💖 I've worked for DC, IDW, Boom, AWA, Vault, Mad Cave, Dynamite, Dark Horse and more. 🎨 dearbhlala.com 💌 [email protected]

every time someone complains about BIPOC people being cast i wish they'd just say what they mean, which is "I only prefer stories about white people;" an overtly dickish thing to say and also accurate

A native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa...

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

sorry to vaguesky but I saw someone whose work has meant quite a bit to me personally sharing that their accomplishments affirm, for them, only their own feeling of uselessness. In empirical fact when we feel useless it is an illusory feeling. we have to Internalize and know this.

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

Good morning, my friends. I am happy to share this beautiful story by Fawaz Al-Matrouk with you. I was lucky enough last year to be in the right place at the right time to hear him read this story. And I knew I had to share it with you, dear readers. Enjoy! reactormag.com/alien-boy-fa...

PLEASE REPOST AND SHARE WIDELY!!! We need your help once again, you magnificent Space Unicorns! Behold the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter!!! buff.ly/Gab1zWu

khōréō is at $14,390 out of their $16500 goal with THREE DAYS left! Share! Donate and share! Let's get them there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Awesome.

The future we want and need will be built by people and movements working together to ensure technology empowers rather than oppresses. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

ICYMI...

GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.

Oh hey, public outcry and pressure still work. "Meta Suspends AI Image Feature After Days of Backlash" variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Organizing starts by talking to your coworkers about your working conditions. Zenimax Workers United-CWA members show how they won historic contract protections that are being used today as workers rally against layoffs at Xbox this month. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=htkT...

I just learned about this. Apparently it's more widespread than the article says, too. American pals, stay safe as best you can! Wash produce thoroughly , cook your veggies, etc. Canadians, we should be careful too. Cross-border travel may be down, but it's not zero.

Sam Bentley's channel of "good news that didn't make the headlines" can cheer me up so much! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ig_...

I've never even looked into using AI to write because the act of writing is joyful and nourishing for me (yes, even when I hate it and want to tear my hair out). But... I feel like AI would make writing harder, not easier, because a bland, uninspired first draft is a nightmare to revise.

Have you ever had somebody insist on helping you and then you had to watch them badly and more slowly perform a task that you could've done far better in the time it took to explain anything? on top of STOLEN WORK, being ecologically AWFUL, that's why I'll never use AI. I can just write it myself.

Writer Beware is currently receiving an incredible volume of reports of impersonation scams: publishers, editors, literary agents, production companies, conferences, & more. I started keeping a list in 2024; in recent months it has more than doubled. writerbeware.blog/2024/03/15/t...

Guys! Gals! Fellow nonbinary pals! It is LITERALLY a sign!

Beware! I have a book coming out in November! via @tomgauld.bsky.social

SF writers and readers are some of the nerdiest nerds on the planet. We love tech. We are so early-adopter that we imagined it before you built it. If you’ve lost us, you’ve lost the fight.

Great review of Direct Descendant over at DreamHaven. dreamhavenbooks.com/direct-desce...

Happy birthday! Buy her books!

Let's get Strange Horizons funded today!!!

Yay! We're so excited for Didi and for Winnipeg to get what promises to be a great space and cool shop. If you're local to them, please check them out once they open their doors! We're probably biased, but sci-fi and fantasy stores are the best. 😉

:) I just got an email from George in the same vein.

My grandmother's neighbor had a St. Bernard who knew things I did not. I was thinking of him the whole time I wrote Oona. THE REDEMPTION CENTER IS CLOSED ON SUNDAYS is out now.

Trans March was fun until the end when the cops violently arrested several people, happened to be right on the front line for that. We yelled at them until they went away. Cops objected to some of the spirited political discourse apparently missionlocal.org/2026/06/san-...

I really like the concept of this short story by @nalohop.bsky.social. The tale about a post-apocalyptic society in which children must survive against werewolf-like creatures and dedicate themselves to a cruel starvation-diet is absolutely grim. And I love it so Goddamn much. So check it out.

I'm so excited about this, a ray of sunshine in a torrent of negative news. A Herculaneum Scroll has been fully digitally/virtually 'unwrapped' from a scan and translated. Huge b/c there are a lot of 'lost' texts *known* to be in the library. scrollprize.org/firstscroll

Every year we mark Pride Month in June, commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in 1969. Trans women and sissies and drag queens and butch dykes and sex workers and young queers led that revolt. We honour those warriors by standing together as an inclusive LGBTQ+ community now.

In case you need to hear it: you don’t need to read every single post of someone you follow in order to care about them You also don’t have to personally care about every person you follow

UNBOXED!!! So grateful for this Bram Stoker Award in Short Nonfiction for my essay in WHY I LOVE HORROR, ed by Becky Siegel Spratford. It was also a history-making night, with Stokers awarded to 6 Black creators. I missed it bec I was Toastmaster at the Nebulas, but I’m grateful to my horror family.