ISO a sensitivity reader who can look at queer Muslim experiences in a diasporic context in a fantasy novel - anyone working in this area right now (or know anyone who is)? thx!!!

Hey, it's Disability Pride Month and Sawdust & Silk is a romance with a disabled main character written by a disabled author! csrosbak.com/sawdust-and-...

Authors beware: those slop scam emails are now impersonating Barnes and Noble employees. Not just using Gmail accounts, but making up Barnes and Noble-referencing email addresses. One obvious clue it's fake: A major bookstore chain isn't cold-mailing you for money to stock your work.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

This was lots of fun! You can listen to me read "Select All Bicycles" or read it in Uncharted Magazine (link in comments). Or both, even.

UPDATE: We learned that the folks behind Project 2025, are encouraging their base to write comments in favor of the rule. This suggests our efforts are working and they are shaken. IT ALSO MEANS WE NEED TO GO OUT WITH A BANG. MAKE YOUR COMMENT TODAY!!!

I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

When Mitch McConnell dies (if he's not already gone) they're gonna try to shame us into being nice about him. We don't need to play along.

You can follow all the finalists (or at least all the ones who have Bsky accounts) for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here with this starter pack. go.bsky.app/mR4XaC

MINNESOTANS!!! Jury nullification is legal and good. But you can’t talk about it while you’re doing it, and you can’t learn about it after you’ve been selected for jury duty. You gotta read up now! beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

Press Release Date 05-05-2026 "Australian Leaders Issue Joint Statement on ME/CFS and PEM" natlawreview.com/press-releas... 2 months late as I am behind with some reading #MEcfs #LongCovid #PostExertionalMalaise #PEM

And expanding solar. Even at this heat I’m sending excess energy INTO the grid, dammit! I’m doing my part!

New financial disclosures by Trump show that he made more than $1.4 billion from his family’s various cryptocurrency ventures last year, reaping a windfall after pulling back on regulation of the industry and promoting the U.S. as “the crypto capital of the world.”

Just want to remind all y'all that there is a Bsky starter pack of the 2026 Hugo Award finalists so you can follow them all with relative ease. Handy tool that I hope @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social and @brisbane28.org will emulate.

When people talk about taking kids' devices away w/o addressing how they have fuck all else to do, I think about the insane shit all the bored suburban kids I knew got up to before cell phones You can't just take their phones away or they're gonna get into making homemade napalm & burn a field down

D. M. Beucler is the author of Memory and Magic, a historical fashion nerd, and fiber artist who can consult on your characters clothing. Do you need to build iron age era fashions, or need advice on what we might wear on a generation space ship?

NEWS: Like a fireworks display, #NASAWebb’s view of FS Tau is bursting with color: red wisps of molecular hydrogen, orange streaks of soot-like molecules, and areas of blue where light is scattered by dust: https://news.stsci.edu/4xW7CI5

Meg lore galore in this one! Arley does a great job on these interviews.

California, you could simply not share driver's license data that will be used to profile people. Newsom could have chosen not to sign this poison pill.

New tiers at the Fund Drive including - a signed copy of Yoke of Stars by RB Lemberg - a crocheted Pikachu dumpling by Regalli, a friend of Strange Horizons You can also sponsor a work directly! Become a patron of poetry, reviews, fiction and art today! Link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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NEW evidence shows executives from 3 egg companies plotted to raise your prices. Price fixing is ILLEGAL. But Trump’s Justice Department is giving them a mere slap on the wrist. How small? The largest egg company only has to cough up 0.001% of its profit last year. Shameful.

auction.romancingthevote.com has your back on this one. go for it.

The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

A little list of what I've had published in 2026.... "The Tide Folk" in @lightspeedmagazine.com (flash): ocean vibes, eerie tide creatures, ephemeral moments of beauty www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Just sharing again because IT'S SO PRETTY

Lots of cool stuff at @romancingthevote.com ! A thread.

Evil isn't a mental illness. These people have made choices to be cruel.

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social and The Stone Soup for giving me the space to write about the unique experiences of editing an anarchist SFF magazine -- and why we need your support! stone-soup.ghost.io/guest-featur...

I wrote this story a few years ago only with hooking him up to immersive VR in a hospital bed. Didn't try to sell the piece; it was catharsis.

You know what would be fun? Doing a thread with a post every day this month featuring a work of fiction with disabled characters that I like and recommend. Do I have the spare brainpower for this endeavor? That's a great question!

The Bagel is on the move! #SomewhatDailyDoggo

Submissions for FIYAH #40 are OPEN! Deadline July 31. Get more info about "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars" at the link! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Listening to these stories is a great way to start Disability Pride Month!

Here is another of @effies.bsky.social's short stories exploring themes of disability through humor & fantasy/sci-fi! Bonus! It has Sloths! 🦥

For Disability Pride Month I *highly* recommend you check out @effies.bsky.social’s Hugo nominated, Nebula award winning short story: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” (yes the MC is disabled and disability is a primary theme) (Effie also has other short stories about disability)

Here is another of @effies.bsky.social’s short stories exploring themes of disability through humor & fantasy/sci-fi

Holy heck! The Dragon Has Some Complaints is one of Amazon's Best SFF books of July!!

Editors: Heists, spice, and space, oh my! What do you do when: 🏳️‍🌈 You're a disaster bisexual 😱 Space witches want your hyperspace treasure maps 💫 You have to get off Hecate IV before you're caught You ALWAYS GET IN A SPACESHIP WITH A SCOUNDREL 🥵🚀 #QueerPit #SF #R #A

"Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret invisible version that tells you exactly what you want to hear."

The Bagel is on the move! #SomewhatDailyDoggo

It’s been a minute since I posted a picture book #MSWL! My taste for PB runs from the quirky, imaginative, & funny like Stalactite & Stalagmite by Drew Beckmeyer to the gorgeously lyrical, emotional, and joyful like Where They Gather by Teresa Rodrigues, illus by Jamiel Law. The common thread? 1/2

some cool stuff from the @romancingthevote.com auction: I drooled over a lot of the glass jewelry. I've owned several glass pieces over the years and just love it. here are a couple of items: www.32auctions.com/organization...

IT'S HERE IT'S HERE! My new story is up!! I'm proud to be in Clarkesworld again after a few years absence. I'm proud to be in the anniversary issue of the magazine's conception. I'm proud of taking ellipses back from AI 😉. Read it here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/

This is better than a Veep moment

If someone comes to mind this week, trust your instinct. 🤝Extreme heat hits some people harder than others. A quick knock on a door or short text can mean more than you'd expect. If you're concerned about someone who is unhoused, call (617) 592-6895 or 911 in an emergency. www.cambridgema.gov/heat

A conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court will be with us into at least the 2050s, if Republican justices strategically retire and allow Trump and a GOP Senate to name replacements. trib.al/dz1rhX6

I'm checking out the items in the @romancingthevote.com auction... and I spy a query letter critique from my agent, Rebecca Strauss! My agent is awesome & has a fierce red pen. She'll be a great help for a writer at the scary querying stage. www.32auctions.com/organization...