Today a coworker at the bookstore and I shared our respective nerdiest obsessions and concluded that they might be the same. Biostratigraphy is, in fact, necromantic divination

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

This is the most beautiful book at Dog Eared Books right now, come and get it before I do something my bank account will regret

Working on a new first draft of something. Probably a novelette. It has dinosaurs

yes yes yes

A couple of Nebulasaurus taito enjoy a nighttime swim as they cross a lake in China during the Middle #Jurassic. 🦕🦕🏝️ (Just a regular lake, nothing to do with #dinosaur reproduction… 😏) #paleoart #sciart #sauropod

The sub call for Indigenous writers is now open! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

If you like this one, get excited because there’s a whole book of short stories set in this #solarpunk future coming out in May from @stelliform.press 💚🌿

The Mesozoic is my Roman Empire

Go see Frankenstein if you can find it in a theater

You know what I really like SCIENCE

Temporal inequity. Such a term www.sciencealert.com/time-itself-...

So excited about this one

YALL I CAN FINALLY SAY IT: I have a short story collection coming out!! Full with aztech God mechs, a t girl feeding memories to a man made of teeth, vampire lesbians, and more~ Stay tuned, ghouls~

Familiar. Ink on Saunders Waterford hot pressed, 100 × 150 mm. From 2019.

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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Oh Hale yeah www.ign.com/articles/i-l...

💀 Eight more days to send us your speculative novellas! 💀 Some recent fav reads to give you an idea of genres we'd enjoy: COPPER SCRIPT by KJ Charles LAST EXIT by Max Gladstone HOUSE OF HUNGER by Alexis Henderson THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS by Premee Mohamed THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO by Zen Cho

Bay Area folks, this is Friday! I'll be telling scary stories by the campfire and would love to see some of your faces there. tallyhobookstore.com/events/37378...

Doing a LitCrawl! Months ago I was given a prompt and asked to curate a lineup. @prioryruins.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @nmamatas.bsky.social & Giovanna Lomanto said yes! We were granted the power to change one literary event from history. What did we change? How is the world different?!

a little haiku for my billionaire-infested city on this lovely October day: wouldn’t it be cool if those guys came to SF to clean the real trash

If you do not live in any of those places, I'm also doing a virtual book event alongside @charliejane.bsky.social and M. M. Olivas! It's on Nov 12 and you can RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

detailing is always worth it

lurking

Finished rewatch of Star Trek: Enterprise tonight and, like, dammit. I was eyerolling nonstop through the first two seasons, then 3 is just *soooo* post-9/11, then 4 is flipping fantastic. So many great s4 episodes. Trip & T’Pol made me cry. Then it’s cancelled. I knew it was coming and still 😖 gah

Prehistoric Planet season three has released its first clip, showing a family of North American ground sloths frolicking in the snowy landscape of the late Pleistocene.

San Francisco doing this tonight

Who else in the Bay texted someone today just to say that it’s raining?

*screaming crying throwing up in a good way* lol I will have more writerly words to share my gratitude at some point in the future. ✨🪐 P.s I was so deeply honoured to be on that ballot list with my Clarion sib @olivasthewriter.bsky.social whose novelette Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror is phenomenal💃🏾

@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social is having a @gofundme.com campaign to support its third year of publication. At $.10/word, The Cosmic Background pays authors of flash and poetry to share their work on the website www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

And for anyone curious, 2x @theignyteawards.bsky.social winner, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social has a novel on chill, a novel in progress, and a collection about which they are able to chat.

Exceptionally deserved!!! Congrats @shingai-be-like.bsky.social !!!! 💕

I never thought I’d be so happy to hear sports news, but wow is it ever better than everything else that was in my feed leading up to that. Fun fact: the first baseball game I ever went to was a Mariner’s game in Seattle. I was 15. If I was a sports fan this would be the fandom probably

Thinking about some lesser known Steve Kirk dinosaur artwork today. His work shaped my childhood perception of prehistoric life more than any other artist and I have an endless appreciation for his ability to decorate his animals in eye-catchingly beautiful patterns that look painted from life.

You get to read the book, *other* people get to read the book, and every interaction like this that you have with your local library sends a message that it is valued and supported by the community. Apart from everything else, now is a great time to support civic institutions!

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

If you've been curious about When the Earth Was Green, you can read a sample over at Smithsonian. It's about an unlucky bug caught in goop and how oozing trees helped make the fossil record.

Good. Now change the fucking freeway name www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

@khanwong.bsky.social 🍵

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY* We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual. More info 🐐 www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

holy shit

Oregon coho salmon making major recovery after facing extinction 🦑🌎🧪🐠

"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

this sounds awesome!

TONIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO ☕️📚⚡️🖼️🏳️‍🌈

Very cool to find this review of Metamorphosis ( @grist.org !) mentioning my story "A Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone" 🥰 🌿