THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych appeared at the 2026 Winter Olympics wearing a helmet featuring portraits of fallen Ukrainian athletes.

✨Hello! My March commission queue is now OPEN!✨ I'm open for all types of commissions, so if you have an idea and you would like me to make art for you, reach out! Pricing and info in thread below ⬇️ Reposts and Shares = 💚 [ #art #supportartists #commissionsopen #blueskynightmarket ]

I just tried to phone in a book order to DreamHaven & spoke to Greg, he's swamped with orders (book people are THE BEST) but the website's still down. If you're local and web-savvy and available to work with them to address the shop's web woes, give them a call—they could use some help!

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Hark, UK readers! Any NEW purchase of a UK edition will also get you the bonus ebook. 😍

No alt text, but fuck me, what a clear-eyed assessment of reality.

But hey if you want to check out my “””interview”””* on Escape Pod, the first two of three parts are out, with wonderful narration from Isaac Harwood and the always lovely Tina Connelly on hosting duty! *Nehula Award Finalist novelette

This is a great conversation amongst a team living in Minneapolis right now. It feels frank in ways I've been missing hearing.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Unsolicited advice for anyone on Bluesky who wants to fight fascism in 2026 - don't stress about following big national accounts. Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪

Reminder: ICE has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world. It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office. Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

Happy Birthday to 2025 GoH @kateheartfield.com! Kate is a wonderful member of our community and we hope she has a splendid day! If you'd like to get her a gift consider pre-ordering her upcoming novel 'Mercutio', currently available as a Most Anticipated Book from Indigo!

This!👇

I will reiterate that if you are an independent journo/hobbyist I will happily set up your ghost install and host it for a few quid above cost price. You set up your own stripe and mailgun accounts, and you get to keep ALL your revenue. And post migration from wordpress/substack is pretty easy.

After the New START treaty expires in February, there will be no cap on the number of US and Russian nuclear weapons - but some are sceptical about whether the deal actually made the world safer

Start the New Year with a New Fantasy Series! And here's a Solaris selection to get you going... @natania.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social @mattfnwallace.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @ldcolter.com‬ and more!

Perfectly normal beginning to every great Dartmoor love story, in my experience.

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Someone said it before me, but I've repeated it a few times: Everything went wrong when someone decided music should be free. EVERYTHING.

✨ From today until 1st January! THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by @felipeazucares.bsky.social is available to preorder from Barnes & Noble with 25% off! Just use the code PREORDER25 at checkout! #BNPreorder https://bit.ly/4pPs0WQ

My thoughts exactly.

Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.

If you live in Bristol, love horror and want to support local businesses, please consider doing some of your Christmas shopping at The Haunted Bookshop in Stokes Crofts. You may have seen Monika at some of our events and her shop is a wonderful sanctuary for those looking to find their people.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

Hi folks, I've updated FFO's Submittable page with details about our call for resistance-themed reprints, which is opening on Jan 1st. The editor for this anthology is Jeanna Cammarano ( @wordrat.bsky.social) #writingcommunity #flashfiction ffo.submittable.com/submit

Hey hey! If you're not a subscriber then this one is now FREE FOR EVERYONE, costing you only 3-4 minutes of your time per average adult reading speeds! It has been a long year for all of us and you deserve to take those 240 seconds for yourself.

Four staff!!!

Cheap SF! "Too Like the Lightning": Here's the ebookdaily version of the $2.99 sale on the ebook: ebookdaily.com/bargain-kind... @torbooks.bsky.social

I’ve been selling my books at comic cons for ten years. But in 2025, I really went for it: selling at 42 comic cons in the UK, so I thought I’d put together a series of short videos passing on what I’ve learned… markstaywrites.com/2025/12/12/w...

A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.

🧪 IMPORTANT PSA In August, @standupforscience.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social launched a campaign to remove Kennedy. Today: Rep @rephaleystevens.bsky.social filed articles of impeachment. Next Step: Sign your name to endorse these articles & co-sponsorship with Dem Reps Your voice matters.

New extortion scam email going round (this was received via a writer's website contact form). I've seen a number of these recently but without the money demand; the translation angle is also a new one

I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms March 10th, 2026! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment

Calling British short science-fiction writers who have had stories published this year - window closing soon for Best of British Science Fiction 2025. Get your story in under the door!

3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar. En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales). Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.

Mainstream publishing no longer seems interested in SF. I can think of at least two major imprints — industry leaders in the genre — whose monthly new release emails almost never include any. Everything is “cozy” fantasy and romantasy and anything they can print as sprayed-edge “special editions.”

NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵

Science fiction now is a far smaller part of the industry, and if it wants to regain its prominence and remain relevant, publishers and readers are going to have to find new approaches and stories. I jotted down some thoughts: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/romantasy-sc...

If there are any other magazines, journals etc, who would like my help cataloguing their fiction by tags/genre/etc hit me up! The only caveat is that you have paid your authors!

In discussion with a few likeminded peeps such as @justinleeanderson.com and @rainewilson.bsky.social please find a list of some news sources we check in on regularly including @chadbourn.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social here on BSky.

I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?" Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

Simply incredible biotech. We will reap the rewards of mRNA vaccines for a long time to come - and the US is setting itself up to fall behind the curve www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

I'm very happy to see this story published at last!

How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

You cannot be fucking serious

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!