if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

Why are so many platforms punishing adults for wanting to be adults instead of just making parental controls and telling parents to monitor their own kids. Why is discord rolling out a "teen by default" mandatory ID system. Why the fuck do you need that information. Why are you making this my issue

Powerful magic

Tryin to sell 20 frogs today to try and get on track for some of these surprise bills flowing through the ether today... I'm at 2/20 sold I also gotta get fish on my website - if you're interested in a fish just shoot me a DM www.figmentpudding.com

Doodled up a little #Flowerpunk species, the sycafawn! One of the tiniest members of the unguligrowth group of magical creatures, they reach a height of just a few inches. They live in and around sycamore trees as the name suggests, disguising themselves as seeds. #Art #CreatureDesign

what are we reading???? I just finished Lia Amador's wonderfully Cuban diaspora-inflected rom-com Witch You Would and then somehow fell into a partial Wimsey reread, though I've got Meg Elison's forthcoming Founding Fathers queued up too.

it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

Good morning! I’m drawing a Neolithic pig cauldron

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

Gorgeous poem!!

WHO THE FUCK COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING YOU ANTIVAX CONCENTRATION CAMP GHOULS did you know that Anne Frank died of typhus maybe don't have people in concentration camps to begin with

HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks! Get 2 books for at least $3 Get 4 books for at least $10 Get all our stuff for at least $18 This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project! www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...

Epstein's predators were men. There are probably more rapists in the Epstein files than there are trans people in the UK. And yet the pearl-clutching TERFS are playing useful idiots to fascism by working to drive trans people out of public life, and worse.

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Honestly thought this was a nice, quite legible hand! Maybe it's all the 18C hands I've been staring at this month. This prompts me to make a short 🧵 about recent thoughts about handwriting and palaeography: (1/11)

Peurakaira, suuri suojelematon erämaa Saamenmaan etelälaidalla. Inarilaiselle kartoittajalle se näyttää, tuntuu ja tuoksuu uudelta ja erilaiselta, samalla kuitenkin niin kovin tutulta: metsiltä ja soilta jotka ovat olleet tuhansia vuosia.

"The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that, whatever its long-term potential, contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." archive.is/hvRv2

Deadline mode yaaasssss, let's finish this book

In an effort to keep up with submissions and be open on a consistent schedule, we've decided that @apexmag.bsky.social will be open to short fiction subs on an every other month schedule. We will be open in Jan, March, May, July, Sept, and Nov. We're closed the other months.

This for linguistics too, there are so many cooler things happening in modern linguistics than outdated stuff from the 1940s to build your scifi on!!

We've had sf authors tell us that @lingthusiasm.com is one way they enjoy getting more linguistics-y story ideas, though in the interests of not sending everyone to the exact same place perhaps I should direct you to our megapost instead: lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...

Holy hell, my novella GRIEF EATER is on NetGalley!!! Check out that stunning Dante Luiz cover!! @interstellarflight.bsky.social www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

AI cannot feel. Its incredibly demeaning to both humans and non-human animals that feel actual emotions to frame it like this, Amanda, you weirdo. You should feel judged.

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

"HAL 9000 ate my homework!"

😭 someone took away my plagiarism

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

finally, my time as a hater with a doctorate has come

Tänään!

35% suomalaisista on fasisteja

I’m so exhausted that it took a white US citizen for this kind of outcry. It’s disgusting and embarrassing. Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed three months ago the same exact way and 85% of the country don’t even know he existed because he was brown and a migrant.

Shout-out to everyone who's tired as fuck of only seeing the first four lines of this poem shared around.

Oh hi new followers! Historical linguist + author stuff on this account, skewing writerwards. I'm currently entering deadline mode for a new nonfiction book (in Finnish) so will probably be a bit scarce for the next weeks. Hate genAI, love human rights and the planet.

I know there are a lot of speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.

I don't want to promote or profit from books that feature generative AI on the inside or the outside.

This was such a fun interview! Talking with Julia is always a pleasure 💖 Getting to read this long poem out loud was also a joy!

Kibble? Slurry? Digi-mass? How about “ecocidal twaddle Microsoft has bet on heavily“?

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

My thoughts on the current discussions in the SF/F genre over writers using generative AI (LLMs). In particular, I love the essays shared by @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @fozmeadows.bsky.social. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/147102...

Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS. Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social Check it out here: www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

Always worth a post

Palestinians are freezing to death because Israel has blocked all the aid. There are thousands of caravans and portable housing ready for 11 months to go into Gaza but Israel is blocking them.

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

My wife reading a joke from a cracker: why do they call it the Dark Ages? Me: they don’t Her: because there were lots of knights. Everyone: hahaha Me: ok let me stop you there. Number one…

If you're wondering whether the "open letter about AI" on file 770 is worth reading and engaging, it is not. The whole thing is rhetorical mush so it was no surprise when I got to the end and she admitted "her" letter was itself written by AI. Useless bait.

This recent prose poem of mine is what I have to say about today's SFWA/AI essay in File770.