REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!! www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

MAY IT BE SO! I hope this one happens for OP 🤞

As a slight deviation from typical end of year "best of" lists, here are my top four footpaths of the year.

*Sees unhappy cat with claw stuck in arm of sofa* "Let me help you there, my friend." *Gently and patiently rescues cat from its uncomfortable predicament, with enormous care* Cat (leaving): "I will never forgive you for this, for as long as I live."

oh christ look at the time

Such a great price! A low stakes way to check out my novella-duology-in-one. An epic setting (biodomes! space stations!) but a very small and personal story of one person's struggle to understand what's right and carry through with it, even when it's (very) hard. 📚🌈 📚🚀 #booksky

Buy this really cool anthology!

Looking for a great new read to start off the new year? How about a cozy side quest in a D&D-inspired world? Try Tavern Tale by Kristina W. Kelly, on sale for $0.99 until tomorrow! Book 2 releases in February! www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/tavern-...

I love being trans and creating trans art ♥️🏳️‍⚧️

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

Merry Christmas to all of you, wherever you are, your support this year has been my greatest gift! 🎁✨ I hope you all can be there for those who bring you comfort and security, with lots of food! 🎄✨

LOL the alt text!! 😂

"Two Women Kissing in Nature," by Georges Rochegrosse (1859–1938), an illustration from the book "Le poison des pierreries" (1903, by Camille Mauclair).

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

AMAZING!

To worry about how Māori we were would serve no one but the forces that want to keep us down. The same goes for being a writer, or any form of artist. 5/ >>>

No, we don't have to accept hallucinatory, ecosidic creative stealing LLMs. The genie not only can be put back in the bottle, we need to do so. Accepting this as the state of affairs that we have to accept and going forward is an enormous mistake. www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...

"Contacts are so complicated to write, we need AI to assist" "Contacts are too complicated to understand, we need AI to summarize and explain" If the language of contacts is too difficult to be constructed or understood by a person, maybe we should address THAT problem instead of involving AI

The fact that this person thinks letting AI read and summarize a contract is a good use of the tech is a great data point on how little they understand why and how it sucks.

REJOICE!!!

Amazing project having great success!!

Legend Imran Ahmed (CEO of CCDH) just sued the U.S. Government for the wildly inappropriate visa sanctions. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York just granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against this inappropriate government action. What a Christmas gift!

THE MARS HOUSE BY NATASHA PULLEY Listen, I can't explain this one adequately. It's got a marriage of convenience, political intrigue, cool af sci-fi world building, mammoths, murder, espionage, queer war criminals in love, footnotes... just trust me on this one, okay? bookshop.org/a/71143/9781...

When I launched my campaign, I said I wanted to do politics differently… and we’re actually doing it. Thank you to Jessica Washington and @theintercept.com for covering the most exciting and rewarding part of this campaign: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...

depends on the animal Big dog= cishet (men only) Cats= women and all trans folks Small dogs = gay Big cat + medium dog + subaru= lesbian Rabbit = bisexual Fish = asexual

In NZ it's only $4.99 on Kobo right now! I'm getting it.

I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago. Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑

This is a WONDERFUL book and very, unexpectedly cosy.

I always try to uphold the annual New Zealand tradition of the Nativicado.

Whenever I see a fat person exercising I feel so much admiration. It takes so much courage to do that where you're visible to the public. (Also I never assume that people are exercising to lose weight. There are so many other great reasons to do it.)

Direct cash transfers is a really clear solution to many global poverty issues and yet it's like there's a whole industry dedicated to pushing more complicated/less effective solutions.

Betty Reid Soskin, one of the nation's most iconic park rangers, died peacefully at her home in Richmond on Sun., Dec. 21, 2025. She was 104.

Oh, I know. But I also know that every time I give a talk about the actual biology of sex and gender, people come up to me and thank me for helping them understand and changing their minds Maybe it's niave, but I refuse to give up hope. Thoughtful people still exist

In fact, a very kiwi Christmas this year. 😁 From various members of the whānau. Top: a pohutakawa tree, by the beach, with a kiwi Left: Māori flag-inspired design Right: land of the long white cloud Bottom: beach on a bright day

My family does cookie decorating (or biscuit icing) every year, and my best entry this year was inspired by the Tino Rangatiratanga 😁

Outstanding news! www.fastcompany.com/91461983/ind...

my solidarity is with all survivors of childhood abuse tonight. what an incredibly fucking rough news cycle this has been, with no end in sight.

There are now 3 full chapters (that's 106 pages!!) of completely free-to-read KEEPING TIME, the queer, slow burn between two former friends and now current bandmates who - for better or worse - fall in love. #KeepingTime #webcomics 🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Oh my god…

As a writer whose first complete (clearly unpublished) manuscript weighed in around 600K words, I sympathize. 😂

Anyways, I don't really care about the Christmas holidays. What actually breaks my heart is Halloween in spring with no pumpkins. 😭

Ah, it's finally summer! The weather is warm, the garden is thriving, summer produce is here, kids are done with the school year. Time to ... put up a CHRISTMAS TREE?!?!

Moving to the southern hemisphere half way through your life is so discombobulating in regards to seasons and holidays. I have no idea what's coming up or going on. My whole internal calendar is completely thrown off.

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Ngā mihi to the Greens for this statement and the support!

I want to share a bit about my personal experiences with Total Mobility, as a user. I'm someone who can often use buses and trains (which I'll call mass transit here, because I consider taxis with TM part of the public transport system) but sometimes I can't. 1/?

I *do* understand why authors, especially self-pub ones, feel the need to be on it, but there ARE other options (even the Kobo equivalent is better) and I think we should encourage them. So: here are 5 self-pub SFF books I like that are available in hardcopy and/or ebook and are not amazon exclusive