this is something I do, not capitalizing "I" but leaving it if autocorrect does, and it's also something I've been doing a lot with my name, and sometimes in poetry (rarely written) and for me, I've realized, it's because farsi doesn't have capital letters

Please boost this outside of Minnesota. Minnesotans are exhausting what they have to keep one another housed & could really use help from more distant neighbors as 🧊 still ~500 agents deep & we're reeling from everything that's happened here this winter.

My demented camel cult story, Dromedary Mary, is out in this month’s The Dark magazine! The end of the world is coming. Quick! Pile your supplies on your body and shut all the doors. Be like Mary. Follow the dromedary. Everything will be alright in the end. www.thedarkmagazine.com/dromedary-ma...

Our third panel of BFS Online: Language in SFFH takes place Saturday 18th April 2026, 4pm to 5pm (BST). Origins & culture Ticket: tinyurl.com/sffhlang @rsagarcia.bsky.social @justmarvewrites.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social @byzantienne.bsky.social

Arley Sorg interviews me for the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld! Find out what inspired The Subtle Art of Folding Space! clarkesworldmagazine.com/chu_intervie...

Hey, The Subtle Art of Folding Space is one of Amazon's Editors' Picks for Best Science Fiction & Fantasy books of April! www.amazon.com/b?_encoding=...

An excellent writeup of the existentially terrifying House Resolution 7661. reactormag.com/what-to-know...

My latest Book Riot post is live! I did a SFF roundup of excellent stories that are free to read, featuring work by Abigail Eliza, @vanessafogg.bsky.social, @pegasusunder.bsky.social, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, @cjtavares.bsky.social, and @dracopoullos.bsky.social! bookriot.com/new-sff-shor...

The Kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is now officially a #ProjectWeLove! www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

if you’re an editor or agent and you’re doing this shit, I want you to understand something: I will slap you SO hard across the face

The new and improved IC 1954 Image date: 23 September 2024, 06:00 The spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium, is the star of this Picture of the Week from the Hubble Space Telescope. It sports a glowing bar in its core, two main majestic...

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is now in large print! “Royce wraps magical rituals of death and remembrance into a tale of love and duty, amid a Reconstruction free Black social order that will delight readers.” —Library Journal (starred review) #skybrarians #Blackbooksky www.gale.com/thorndike/pr...

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Rise and shine! It’s time for whimsy! #WhimsyWednesday

Rosette Nebula context image Image date: 23 April 2025, 16:00 The Rosette Nebula is a vast star-forming region, 100 light-years across, that lies at one end of a giant molecular cloud the constellation Monoceros. The nebula is estimated to contain around 10,000 solar masses. The nebula is locat...

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I hate this: ONE FIFTH of Lebanon's population has been displaced by Israel and their return to their homeland is contingent on when Israel decides to allow it. Where is the international community with this unchecked aggression. (I know where they are, this is rhetorical, tyia.)

Currently alllll the way out of town! All the same... if you haven't yet, check out this piece on the experiences of authors of color in SFF publishing! arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

....none of you TRULY thought that I was done playing with the Sleeping Beauty myth, did you? I didn't think so. New poem, free to read: kaleidotrope.net/spring-2026/...

Oh! it's April now, and look what popped up on NetGalley today! Reviewers, get it while it's hot! www.netgalley.com/wi...

I have truly never understood whenever a writer has said they hate writing. Writing can be exhausting and frustrating, but I will never not love it. And it feels like such a fucking insult that so many of us bust our asses to grow our craft and these fuckers want to get it done in a snap.

WRITE IT IN THE FUCKING STARS. THIS LIFE WAS NOT MEANT FOR YOU. DO LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE.

One of the greatest public health achievements of the last 60 years? Fewer than 10% of American adults smoke! www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The sheer volume of relentless cruelty this administration unleashes on a daily basis is overwhelming but this is next-level vile.

Absolutely read @catvalente.bsky.social's post "Blood Money: The Anthropic Settlement." I feel the same way. If an author received money from the settlement, good for them. But it doesn't change the harm done by Anthropic and other companies. 1/ catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

Further: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Fun facts: -DHS is only 23 years old. - Its creation stripped 180,000 government employees of their union rights and other civil service protections. - No one called the US “the homeland” before George W Bush.

HE'S SO CLINGY #Cat #Caturday

I write political fantasy. This story was first published in January 2023. Handala is a famous cartoon of a Palestinian child who represents the refugees. He cannot grow up until he and the others can return home. In his wandering, he meets three of the gods. podcastle.org/2024/11/12/p...

Very Large Telescope image of Arp 271, also known as NGC 5426 and NGC 5427. The galaxies are tugging on each other with gravity, which has begun to distort their features and may have also triggered bursts of star formation. Credit: ESO Source

journos against AI, The Flytrap would join inmmediately

We knew it would happen, but it doesn't make it better. Rutherford County Library's Director, Luanne James, was fired last night for refusing to be complicit in the board's demands to restrict 130+ books from minors. archive.ph/3gcPz

HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! Today's piece is about the importance of museums for Black women curators, artists, and patrons--and how they're being kept alive, written by Gabrielle Horton.

G is for Geode. And that's good enough for me.

"Art didn't used to be political." Meanwhile, Mr. William Shakespeare: www.youtube.com/shorts/uec_u...

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

Globular Cluster NGC 1466 Image date: 24 December 2018, 06:00 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars called NGC 1466. It is a globular cluster — a gathering of stars all held together by gravity — that is slowly moving through space on t...

Not the way in which one wants to be visible on tdov, but please if you can help!

Happy Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack! Fill this out and post/send it anywhere you like (if you're trans), and don't forget to buy a snack for someone else if you can (that's for everyone). Sending love today and every day — we WILL win and we WILL have treats along the way. xoxoxo.

As always: increased visibility without material protections, access to necessary care, and unrestricted social inclusion is just painting a clearer target

Supreme Court legalizes torture.

One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.

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and for good measure call your reps about this garbage ass book banning bill that specifically targets trans stories

"Situationship" by @seoungkim.bsky.social is a gorgeous portrait of a (something-more-than) friendship in only 900 words. Trapped in a time-loop and desperately in love... would you be brave enough to finally make a different choice? 🪐🗡️ Read here: othersidespec.com/pieces/situa...

When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

CNN reports that the US/Israel bombed an Iranian ORPHANAGE, killing at least two people. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/30/w...

Okay I'm not going to be reblogging book promo all day, so here's the deal: If you're a transfemme author and have a new or upcoming *2026* book release, drop your links in the replies! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #tdov

Both of us at Tenebrous are deeply honored to present the 40+ badass 🏳️‍⚧️creators🏳️‍⚧️ who will comprise the Table of Contents for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, a New Weird Cosmic Horror anthology due out 10.06.26! Full deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/3/... #transdayofvisibility #tdov