I just dug the notice about this class action settlement for Android users out of my spam: www.usatoday.com/story/money/... Waiting for the class action lawsuit about gmail routing class action lawsuit messages to spam.

Today is the end of an era: I just copied the list of poetry and fiction submissions I've been keeping since 2005 from RTF into markdown.

Today's cool science article: Pyramus and Thisbe, but for octopuses.

*takes breath* *gears up for deeply controversial opinion* Mansfield Park is more fun than Emma.

In Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Out now (2 June UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology

The push to move the international mathematicians conference came even before Sharif University of Technology in Tehran was bombed, destroying and damaging multiple buildings. Its alumni include Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics.

Did you know that the resistance is still active in MN? There are still folks still too afraid to leave their homes and my friends at openmarketmn.org are still feeding people where other places have closed down. (Venmo is not working, please use these.) WE FEED US!

I was going to tell you to look for the signed copy of North Continent Ribbon, but it's already gone??!

Big news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!

OTHERSIDE'S ISSUE 2 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! if you're a queer writer or poet, please submit your original fiction and/or poetry to us 👀 AND if you are sci-fi writing inclined? do give me some cool gay fucky space stories. epic or strange stories of planets, moons, spaceships etc. thank youuu ✨

May I now present a thread of all my indecencies!

Me: I like space opera, I shall write some space opera. Also me: This person has never seen a plant or an animal outside a lab, how do they compare anything to anything? What is a metaphor?

Pork chops with preserved lemon and Christmas lima beans.

My own contribution:

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

My partner, @swantower.bsky.social, and our friend Avery are Kickstarting a coloring book based on Marie's Memoirs of Lady Trent / A Natural History of Dragons series. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mar...

Michigan folks, there's a poetry party in Ypsilanti this Friday! I'll be there with copies of North Continent Ribbon. Poetry readings start at 8 PM.

A poem, a math puzzle from 1600, and the first boring number: buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

TIL that I'm at most four degrees of separation from Stalin (but one of my great-uncles drafted part of the Marshall Plan so I suspect the sci-fi route is not optimal).

My next book, a practical guide for how to write for mass media, publishes four weeks from today. I hope you'll consider ordering it now, inviting me to speak, and to tell others. Here's what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said about my work. Pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Today's unexpected writing research find: the early 19th century Prussian plot to steal American flour mill technology.

Happy trans day of visibility! I'm grateful to get to work with some exceptional trans writers, and I always want to be helpful to trans writers finding their way in. If anyone has questions about traditional (SFFH) publishing while trans, drop them here, and I'll answer as best I can.

Books that were published over three years ago still exist

Less than two days to go! Nominations for the 2026 Le Guin Prize close at midnight tomorrow, March 31st. If you need an incentive, here's a fun fact: one lucky nominator will be chosen at random to win this gorgeous stack of books—last year's entire shortlist! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

My cover for North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher: www.neonhemlock.com/books/north-...

We have a $25 @sistahscifi.bsky.social digital gift card for one lucky follower! Rules - Follow Strange Horizons - Reply to this post with your favourite piece we've published. The giveaway will run for 48 hours. One (1) person who follows the rules above will be randomly chosen as the winner.

I wrote about women doing their husband's job-searching — there's truly so much going on here: www.patreon.com/posts/154012...

Listen: If you are an expert in protests and why they matter, you can probably pitch on Monday and publish on Tuesday. If you need help, email me lollardfish at gmail and I'll walk you through it. It's especially vital (always) to pitch LOCAL outlets. More context /1

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

“i will only participate if i can pre-determine the the thing will fix everything” is such a weird attitude

If you're in SFWA and you've kinda been ignoring the board elections, you might want to tune in this time.

"Notes From a Regicide" by Isaac Fellman, an incredibly intimate look at a family whose parents were at ground zero of a rebellion and the marks that living through (sometimes causing) those events left on them, through their son's eyes. Gorgeous in texture, not afraid to ask unanswerable questions.

If you're nominating for the #HugoAwards, may I rec to your attention our wonderful artists for the Rook and Rose pattern deck? I *think* the first two are eligible in the pro artist category and the third in fan (though if you want to be *really* sure, you can nominate them in both). 1- #Hugos

sorry I'm like this y'all but you have FIVE MORE DAYS, is all, and because I have totally forgotten to mention it, let me just add that one lucky nominator will win a whole pile of books, which is to say the entire 2025 shortlist! could be yours! go forth and nominate!

I read the fine print and now I can post "Fine Print"! Follow this link for the text of both of my Hugo-eligible poems. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/brij7...

Pretty depressed about this country I live in today, so I'm going to share my art. I wrote a book that is in part about growing up queer in India without knowing it. It follows a family of refugees who may be from another reality, living in Calcutta:

this is good

Got time to check out a short before you finalize noms? Even if it's not to nominate, I'd love if you'd read "Because I Held His Name...". Maybe you'll love it too, if you like stories about identity, connection, power, and the loss of those. (And Alan Turing.) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

quoted in @SciAm Why Mathematicians Are Boycotting Their Biggest Conference https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

I took a drypoint printmaking class!

Just dropped some recs in a server for weird, contemporary SFF. Enjoy apropos of nothing. The Works of Vermin - 19th century French empire politics but bugs change reality The West Passage - what if the Hobbit but mega weird and the history doesn't make internal sense

The person who just rode down my street on a bright pink Hello Kitty bicycle is clearly living their best life.

ARB fundraiser, coming soon! We'd love your support in taking the magazine to the next level, and just spreading the word helps a ton!

there's always those signs about looking out for human trafficking in the bathrooms at the airport.. and now they've just invited the country's most prodigious human traffickers into the airport. cool

I've heard the ATC recording. It may *or may not* be as open-and-shut as it sounds, that an air-traffic controller had too much to keep track of and gave a fatal instruction. Investigation will give a fuller picture. Regardless, the ATC shortage is a crisis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

General Submissions for Translunar Travelers Lounge are open. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or fewer. Please read the guidelines. We're looking forward to them! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...