🫰SNAP!🫰 My latest column for the excellent @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org, on Tochy Onyebuchi, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, and what to read to understand what you’re reading. How might we fill the “imagination gap” in our fictions?

"Over 11,000 Palestinians from Gaza, mostly women and children, have disappeared since October 7. Their relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, trapped under rubble or detained in Israeli prisons — but they’re desperate to find answers." www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...

Please help Heba afford pads and other supplies to survive Israel's continuing genocidal siege, which has left Palestinians starving, homeless, & without basic necessities:

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Sahar is now forced to sell off some of her belongings to obtain money. I donated a few times but it's just not enough. Please, if you have anything to spare follow the link

Please share & donate to help Mohammed's son Karim recover from severe malnutrition as Israel's genocidal famine continues. Donations are slow since the 'ceasefire' & Israel is still starving little children with their siege:

@undertow.bsky.social hi. One of the prices in your store seem wrong. Helpmeet is $1 in mobi format and $3 in eoub

My father… my strength in life 💔 He can no longer walk, and today is his fourth day in the hospital. It breaks me to see him suffering while I can’t help. He urgently needs $300 for treatment — before I lose him. Please, keep him in your prayers. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/133274

Palestinian babies like Hassan have been starved & sickened over 2 yrs of Israel's genocide. Please help keep Hassan alive by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, his family's desperate to feed & give him the care he needs. Donations are v slow:

🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment: 🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and...

Please help the Nashwan family survive the aftermath of 2 years of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, they're in urgent need as winter approaches. Bluesky torments them with constant deletions/suspensions:

Last week our local humane society took in 28 cats from a woman who had gotten in over her head with too many litters. They require a lot of care to get them healthy and adoptable - please consider a donation if you can! www.hsccvt.org/donate

Palestinian families like Hammam's have been violently displaced & starved for 2 yrs of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction of Gaza. Please help by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, & shelter, they urgently need a tent before winter sets in. Donations have slowed a lot:

@darylwriterguy.bsky.social Hi, your website still leads to the old (buggy) version of the Harrison Squared twine game at philome.la. You should either update it, or link to the newer version you uploaded to the IF Archive unbox.ifarchive.org?url=http%3A%...

about once a day I think about Omar El Akkad saying, at a panel over the summer, "the world makes perfect sense if you don't give a shit about anyone but yourself" this is possibly lightly paraphrased but that is what I wrote in my notebook. and now I think about it. all the time.

@danthat.bsky.social Earth Must Die suggestions: It would be nice if players could tweak the font in the encyclopedia since they might be reading it a lot. And the mouse wheel should scroll the text. I only played a bit of the demo but it's promising to be excellent as usual.

@mattfnwallace.bsky.social Hi, just a heads up that the Sin du Jour series on Amazon is missing ebook editions for books 3, 6, and 7 (they're available on other retailers) www.amazon.com/dp/B07F7QYSWM

Coexistence is a scam

@lavietidhar.bsky.social Someone made a Winnie-the-Pooh detective game where he's solving crimes in the Hundred Acre Wood and Arthurian times. Less bloody than your versions boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

"We lost everyone. We lost everything." "They were the worst two years in every person's life in the Gaza Strip. We lost so much." "We are waiting for a new stage of this war. The stage where we're allowed to live with our sadness." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

Please help if you can:

Palestinian babies like Anas are being starved to death in Israel's genocide while their families are violently displaced by the IDF. Bluesky deletes them relentlessly. Please help by sharing & donating if you can to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter (still less than 500 dollars raised):

“We are psychologically unstable, because we see [the] execution of civilians on a daily basis."

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

Palestinian families like Hassan's are being violently displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocidal siege. Please share & donate if you can to help cover the costs of evacuation, food, shelter:

Like colonial times, when the colonised had no say in decisions that control their lives, it's the same for the Palestinians now. scroll.in/article/1086... Sajjad Hassan draws parallels between the two manmade famines and argues that Israel should not escape accountability like the British.

I wish I had the words to make people see me as human. To break past the dehumanization. The words that would make everyone understand if they just heard them. I keep imagining there’s some magic arrangement of words I know that could do it - even as I know I can’t. I just got to try and hope.

The memorial for my friend and colleague Awdah Hathaleen, murdered by a settler 40 days ago Interrupted by the Israeli army of course, since the occupation will not allow us to even grieve in peace

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Another day, another public promise of war crimes endorsed by the world:

ONE WOMAN EVERY HOUR euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

I'll never forget when my movie screened at the film festival in Rome & this Palestinian flag popped up as the first frame. I started crying & thanking them...they said "oh we didn't do this for you...this flag comes up and stays up for one minute of silence before every movie we screen" ❤️ Italians

Palestinian children like Sham are being sickened & starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can:

The new episode of Philosophy Tube is about the founding of the USA, settler colonialism, and how Thomas Jefferson made excuses for it. (You may notice some parallels to current events) youtu.be/dBjQBa23cOw?...

Poor settler, he's being attacked 😢 📍 Duma, West Bank

Palestinian families like Omar's are being displaced once again by the IDF as they're starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating so they can cover the costs of evacuation, they're in great danger:

Palestinian families like Ruba's are being displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocide. They're exhausted & very desperate. Bluesky appears to have shadowbanned her, as I never get her notifications. Please help by sharing & donating (no donations for 9 days):

Palestinian families like Hammam's are being bombed, displaced, & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you can so they can cover the costs of evacuation & food:

Maybe the problem is that the West can commit war crimes without consequences and they know it. Like this guy, he'll never pay the consequences, on the contrary, he'll get a high paid job now until he pops up 20 years later committing more war crimes...like Blair

I am excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity bundle page is now live!!! Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

Palestinian families like Hamza's are being displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating, Hamza has just 1 donation so far:

I'll reiterate one of my oft-repeated mantras: It's OK to like older SFF, just don't dismiss newer authors. When a genre is *definitionally* about the future, it's ironic how many people remain overly attached to SFF's past.