Missouri friends, please vote today! St. Louis County is showing only 9.85% turnout as of 1PM, let's get the numbers up! (There are even some new I Voted sticker designs this time!!)

I'm doing a post-work vote! Hope you are too <3

Missouri friends, please vote today! St. Louis County is showing only 9.85% turnout as of 1PM, let's get the numbers up! (There are even some new I Voted sticker designs this time!!)

Spend a little time with my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Available today! Bugs in the physics! Status reports in the form of food! Finding a family! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

HAPPY OFFICIAL BOOK BIRTHDAY to @jesbattis.bsky.social !

Our authors have kept this under wrap since September, and we're all very excited to finally reveal our full list! So here we go!! (with ALT if you want it written down)

Today's the cover reveal for the revised edition of Sarah Avery's award-winning Tales From Rugosa Coven! Lovely work from @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2026/04/06/c...

It’s my book birthday! 🎉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES, Book 2 of The Invoker Trilogy, is out in the UK today! Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this journey! Get ready for battles, ancestor magic, and big revelations! See below for links to the Goldsboro and Illumicrate exclusion editions!

we’re not fighting anyone here, (but) we’re keeping ourselves safe. Poetry by Bogi Takács at Interstellar Flight Mag magazine.interstella...

"This is a distraction" is just a lie. "They are taking your money and using it to commit criminal acts beyond our comprehension" is 100% true. I think we should tell the truth and not the lie. The latter also has the benefit of at least somewhat centering the issue of atrocities.

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Jesus wept. I just called my US rep and senators and told them they have to do everything they can to stop this genocide. I told them I don't care if they're in the minority. They have options. I told them to chain themselves to the White House fence. Please call your reps, too. reps.fyi

We are terrorizing an entire country. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Year of the Mer shares a release date today with 76+ other SFF titles! Congrats to all the authors celebrating a book day, and to all the readers who almost certainly have something new in the world that fits you just right. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o... titanbooks.com/72438-year-o...

The novel It destroyed its cage Yes YES The novel is out Published today: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Trump/Vought are planning to eliminate the program that oversees social science funding from the National Science Foundation, and they are not going to wait for Congress to weigh in because they have already shown they believe they have the power of the purse. bsky.app/profile/lizn...

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

Today/Monday, April 6th Deadline to order native 🌱 plants from Missouri Wildflowers Nursery mowildflowers.net/upcoming-eve... for pickup 8 am to 4 pm Saturday, April 11th, at Kirkwood Farmers Market

We've just passed $20,000!

Missouri friends! Have you made plans to vote in your local elections tomorrow? Today is a good time to look up candidates and issues on your ballot if you haven't yet (and talk to your friends and family about it too!)

During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

Some discussion on Artemis II broadcast about how dark the Moon is compared to Earth. Here's a really nice look at the two together from the same camera -- the Moon isn't white, it's dark brown www.planetary.org/space-images...

Absolutely heartbreaking. So many mathematicians I know studied there, men AND women. Maryam Mirzakhani studied there. If this isn't enough to cancel/relocate from the US the International Congress of Mathematicians #ICM2026, nothing will be.

oh hey it's #InternationalAsexualDay and my ace romantasy is currently on sale! biromantic MC with a sapphic ace LI (and their adorable accidental baby dragon daugther) 🌈📚️ #booksky books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6

It's International Asexuality Day and a good day to back this in its final hours ✨💜

Local news has made cuts and outsourced coverage to the AP, now the AP is cutting its own local coverage... what happens to local coverage now? I just don't think the everyone researches and picks the right individual journalists on paid Substack model is sustainable 🫤

Including the KCMO earnings tax renewal!! Want our city to still have stuff? Vote to renew it!

Missouri friends! Have you made plans to vote in your local elections tomorrow? Today is a good time to look up candidates and issues on your ballot if you haven't yet (and talk to your friends and family about it too!)

I think especially because the news media has recently demonstrated what "we think the president is incompetent and that he should not be in office" looks like in how they covered Biden post-debate and don't do the same for Trump

and this is why they did the whole charade to begin with, everybody just meekly going along with the slow-drip resegregation of the university

This is tomorrow, April 6 2026

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

just found this nice @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social interview with the fromsoft lead translator / whisperer www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-jolly-co...

I used to get self-conscious about how much self-promotion was too much, until I started self-promoting more than I thought I should and *still* got people who follow me regularly going "woah, I didn't know this had come out" or "oh, I didn't know you were still making things" on like the 20th post.

Murderpeep www.reddit.com/r/murderbot/...

We are drowning in medical bills and have to somehow afford an upcoming move that we're being forced into. It is getting harder and harder to keep fighting. Every donation makes a huge difference. 💜

QUESTION: Who knows of ANY research funding for US humanities scholars that has been awarded to a trans project in the past year? Not saying that the awarding org *claims* to be open to those projects. But actually *awarding* anything. Please repost for visibility, it'd help me a lot!

I actually have an Easter weekend-themed story! "On Good Friday the Raven Washes Its Young" from Fireside, edited by @omgjulia.bsky.social. Content notice for intersexism, street harassment, environmental destruction - but the story ends on a hopeful note.

sometimes I'm forced to consider that if only 5-10 republicans found their spines, they could take the gun from this toddler and potentially avert a complete global economic collapse, and instead we're stuck flirting with apocalyptic disaster because the idea that they would seems ridiculous to us

"should fantasy novels have prologues?" buddy, i think fantasy novels should have _appendices_.

This is a really interesting article about Unlimited SaGa in its context- I mostly remember Unlimited SaGa as a game I rented once as a teenager but couldn't make heads or tales of gameplay-wise although I really liked the art style, I'd love to give it a second chance with a remastered rerelease

Periodic reminder that Markey has a bill to take away nuclear first strike powers from the president. Possibly the single most important piece of legislation a Dem majority could pass. No one should be trusted with such power.

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

Ann Maxwell (1944-) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Alex Ebel, 1979; R, uncredited, 1983 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

Our friends at Firestorm are struggling in the face of disaster capitalism. A queer- and worker-owned bookstore that has, over and over, been there for the community. They let me set up a referral page with them. Books from my podcasts, my books, and books I love firestorm.coop/r/killjoy.html

If you have a choice, and you want to save the bees, plant a diversity of native flowers to support a diversity of native bees. You will discover SO many bees that you did not know existed. I see maybe 20 native species of bees over the course of the year.

I'm still working on this queer fantasy romance! It has trans mc ✅ weird instrument no one knows about ✅ dragons ✅ a bard inspired by high-waisted pants ✅ magical constructs ✅ following your dreams ✅ I'm near the end, but I hesitate to give an exact date until I *know* so stick with me!

"You did it! You crazy son of a bitch, you did it!" An essay in which I write about James Gurney's illustrated utopian adventure fiction novel DINOTOPIA: A LAND APART FROM TIME and tell you why it's pretty fucking awesome. Plus, images of lots of Gurney's art, including his sff covers from the 80s!

I enjoy our dress rehearsals as much as anyone, but don't actually believe things that are not sourced!