I’d be grateful if folks followed this project on Kickstarter 🖤 Aiming right now to go live in January, depending on when I get all my materials ready. We have some exciting invited authors and @mspencerdraws.bsky.social is on board for interior illustrations.

This year in gingerbread: Gennoveus, Kosmas, and a six-legged Vraselian salamander.

David Favero, Daniel Kaplan, Tyler L. Kelly Kuznetsov Categories for Gauged Linear Sigma Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18402

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

This reindeer looks so happy.

Stranger in Olondria!

help I'm getting nostalgic about SeaTac

There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now: I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.

Once again, all the books I loved most this year www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2025/12... containing: @r-emrys.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo, Sofia Samatar, @amalelmohtar.com ....

Watch this space. 🚀🪡 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Remedial "what if you actually *analyzed* pacing" thread, Master and Commander re-read edition! (1/n)

a fun, free ttrpg set in the (legally distinct and free for use) warhammer 40K world where, instead of being a hulking space marine, you play as a downtrodden and oppressed space serf: slowlorispress.com/post/8005714...

What's the best book *review* you wrote, read, edited, or published this year? I'm rounding them up again for Lit Hub. (Must have a 2025 pub date, no exceptions.)

I published 2 speculative poems in 2025! If you're nominating for the Hugos, I'd love it if you checked out "Beyond the Standard Model," a theoretical physics poem that was in Analog last January: web.archive.org/web/20250117... (1/2)

If you're an artist/crafter/musician/other creator with things that would make great gifts this holiday season, today's the Whatever gift guide day for you to share your work with thousands! Follow the link to tell people how to get what you've got! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/03/t...

Did you publish a speculative poem or book in 2025? There is a crowdsourced award eligibility doc here, please feel free to add your works to the list: (This is only for speculative poetry, please.) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)! Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/02/t...

Traditionally-published authors (print/ebook/audio): Promote your books today in the 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide! Thousands of readers to connect to your work! Follow the link below to tell folks about what you have available to them this holiday season! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/01/t...

Brilliant and fun look at shapes - from the perspective of a curious kid with a mathy mom.

Now that LA has announced their special category, the Hugo rec sheet has been updated (poem is after short story). If you've been vibrating with excitement to rec some poetry, your moment has arrived! #HugoAwards

A shilling for the 1st person to note some hilarious desecration of state symbols: "The official White House Christmas Tree...is adorned with white globe ornaments featuring all 56 U.S. states & territories, 3D printed with AI assisting in designs that feature each state bird & state flower."

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

K3 surfaces are the best surfaces.

There it is Strike Fund - Starbucks Workers United share.google/pmINaeARKhjK...

Really smart piece on how to think about democracy amidst the failure of shared knowledge.

Highlights from the Bundled Up on Broad auction opening tmow 11/13!! (Buys warm clothes for the families at my synagogue Rodeph Shalom Philly's food pantry, or give directly to our wishlist: bit.ly/bundled25) I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...

Today's a great day to support some creators. Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

My kingdom for a social media app that has ROT13 integrated

This book is so damned good.

FINAL HOUR!! LAST CHAAANCE for late pledges!! Get a 2026/2027 subscription or sponsor a poem, story, or cover art! You can also add on community subscription copies if you want to gift a subscription to others 💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

What a great idea! Thanks to @firedbutfighting.bsky.social, we can all support furloughed and fired federal employees who are offering a variety of services, including dog-walking, tutoring, graphic design, meal prep, and much more. For more information, visit firedbutfighting.org/talent-marke....

If you, like me, would prefer that airlines not sell your personal data to the government, here's how to fix that.

Kind othersiders donated several community subscriptions during our Kickstarter! If you want a sub but can’t afford it, reach out via our website form and say you want a community sub. No need to elaborate, no questions asked. We'll update when we run out! Enjoy! othersidespec.com/contact/

I just finished and absolutely loved North Continent Ribbon by @yarntheory.bsky.social. The fastest I’ve read a book in yonks. What a joy. Creative and dark and loving and hopeful all at once. Also with a beautiful cover by @treelet.bsky.social.

very proud to see my book recced in response to this moodboard: www.reddit.com/r/BooksThatF...

You have until Sunday SUNDAY Sunday to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt. I don't have room in my house for piles of shirts so our shirts are always time-limited. Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social, looks cool as hell. Get one: SquidFacts.net

Because most social programs in the US are, unfortunately, means tested, sometimes providing direct financial assistance to someone can risk their benefits. This is an excellent guide on how to avoid that if there is anyone that you want to aid directly during this crisis.

IT'S THE FIIIINAL COUNTDOWN! If you're excited about OTHERSIDE and our plans to publish some incredible speculative fiction/nonfiction/poetry/art by 2SLGBTQIA+ creators... help us spread the word one last time?

Hey #a2council folks, how are you thinking through the millage on this November's ballot?

💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀 Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy: COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho

Congratulations to @vajra.me , a shout out to @detroitjusticecen.bsky.social , a review of Iron Garden Sutra, a celebration of @othersidespec.bsky.social , and a cat: buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

"There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination,but it must be made so." Please watch the Ursula K. Le Guin prize acceptance speech from @vajra.me and read his work, and support the Sameer Project.

Every book on the le Guin prize shortlist is special in its own right. Ursula Whitcher's ( @yarntheory.bsky.social) North Continent Ribbon is a collection of stories about the sometimes slow, sometimes immediate nature of revolution. It is a stunning book. Everyone should read it

Congratulations to @vajra.me for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for his ferociously visionary RAKESFALL! & congratulations to all the finalists; I can confirm that this was an enormously challenging decision to make--because each novel in the shortlist was worthy of winning in its own way.

I'm so delighted for @vajra.me and for Rakesfall, which will break apart everything you thought you knew about novels and the universe and put them back in better pieces.

Would an early nineteenth century classics nerd have known about the cult of Mithras?

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