The real Minority Report is just investing in communities so they’re not in desperation mode.

The final person in our “Get to Know our Influencers” series is Saffron Asteria! She is the host of BOOKED, a podcast, and the owner of Indiosyncrasy. Saffron is a second year influencer and a major supporter of the SSBA. Let’s get to know her and her work a little better. /1

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Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Nathan Chu, Stewart C Baker, Kira Neu, S.M. Passmore, Siena Buchanan, Beáta Fülöp, and Daneille Woolhead. You can find the anthology here: www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbian... (3/3)

The shortlisted works for Best Anthology are: 📚 Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, ed JS Fields, William C Tracey, Heather Tracey (Space Wizard Press) 📚 Blood in the Bricks, ed Neil Williamson, NewCon Press 📚 This Way Lies Madness, ed Dave Jeffrey & Lee Murray, Flame Tree Press 🧵⬇️

What I'm reading is that the kingdom is united?

What's a matador's favorite hot drink? Cafe au lait

Hal Duncan's "Vellum" is a masterpiece

Called it

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Hey, South Korea - you’re doing amazing, sweetie 😘💖🙂‍↕️🫶

incredibly funny how the outbreak happened after the two main countries involved, the united states and argentina, completely obliterated their public health and regulatory agencies for insane kulturkampf reasons

Digesting some training for my day job. It is narrated by a character who claims deep expertise. I can't shake the idea that although the narrator is a real human being (or at least, probably is) that it is an AI speaking. It really undermines the learning!

I promise that everything that leads to this post will be a journey.

I hope the camps keep meticulous records about these jobs and who took them.

Filed under "things that sounded funnier in my head"

A limerick. Based on a true story.

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

It's not political violence if you agree with it.

And the moment you’ve all been waiting for… your nominees for best litmag of 2025!!! #litmag

Sour Cherry Gallstones

I'm in this @tonytranrpg.bsky.social is an artistic genius, look how gorgeous this is! foofaraw.metalabel.com/big-fuss-202...

you typically only see this outside of Tesla manufacturing facilities

@chrislhayes.bsky.social ICYMI, a piece that reminded me of Twilight Of The Elites, for obvious reasons. "a world with universal basic income is more meritocratic than a world without one" www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

Apparently it is #lesbianvisibilityweek In that spirit, first off, let's mention a couple of wonderful people: @gwenleonhard.bsky.social - writes cool monster fiction @danifinnwrites.bsky.social - total sweetheart, super talented

Today's #sapphic #ShortStory is "Like a Night of Falling Stars" I actually managed to be accepted into this wildly cool anthology: Lesbians in Space! Anyway, happy #LesbianVisibilityWeek! <3 www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbian... #WriteSky

In Indonesia, hundreds of poor households got cash payments, and even though it was only about reducing poverty, it led to a 30% drop in deforestation. And in Namibia, a UBI experiment led to a 95% drop in animal poaching. There are things we do to nature purely out of the need for money to live.

New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by @almaalexander.bsky.social and Tamara Vardomskaya and new cover art by Anthony Avon: weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

I hated serial killers until I got that first rush of my hands squeezing tighter and tighter around a helpless delicate neck

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Look, someone should invite me on a podcast I could read a story or a poem I could tell a dad joke or two I could talk at 1.7 speed for reasons unrelated to caffeine I could vomit up theories, or talk about my novels, or about how I want to write a nonfiction book Hit me up

Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised? Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!

What does Donald Trump's pet monkey wear? Fake orangutan

We've cracked 10K at last! 🥳 Things have gone more slowly than usual due to my health and <gestures around>, but they're going! They're doing falafel diplomacy on Terra Flux 🥙🪐🪐

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) The Wire (2002–2008)

I believe everyone in Hollywood should "Lean In" to adapting my written works into a huge cinematic canon that makes me into every nerd's unproblematic favourite (am I doing this right?)

Run your mouth, when I'm not around, it's ready to achieve

absolutely incredible example of AI making up problems to solve that aren’t real problems nobody needs “inspiration” on how they like their coffee??????? are you serious????? I’m asking ChatGPT to tell me what tastes good??? “computer, what do I want for breakfast?” this is dystopian actually

Writers, we're caught up on the slush pile so we have a quick turnaround on submissions at the mo. We tend towards the dark and upsetting. Ambiguity and discomfiting sharp edges encouraged. Our vibe was recently described as 'transgressive genre grime'. If that's you, shoot it our way.

How do you say "HOW MUCH?" but in Ukrainian? www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/202...

It crashed into the sea all by itself lol