!! ISSUE 04 IS LIVE NOW !! Online or in print bleatingthingmagazine.com/current.html Featuring: (see reply)

a very strange and beautiful issue full of strange and beautiful work!! 🐑

WRYTE WEIRDE BOOKES

My dad sent me this

"I Contain Multitudes" This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today. The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

need something fun to read, might i suggest my story "the skull" from last month's issue of swords & sorcery magazine? swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-skull/

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

Thank you for sharing, FF 😭🥲

I implore folks to learn what necro-politics is, because that's where the global far-right is at ideologically about now. These people legit just get to choose whether people live or die or whose life matters most. (I.e., them deciding his diabetes wasn't worth treating.)

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.

Another great short SFF reading list for you--this one contains some recent work by FFer @sydneyficant137.bsky.social!

Help, I can't keep my guinea pig away from Clarice Lispector and Anaïs Nin!

[ascends to mountain peak, sits in profound contemplation until sunset, rises to feet and cups hands at mouth to shout as the red-yellow circle of the sun gathers its terminal intensity and prepares to vanish into the horizon] SAME

When the Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter reaches 725 Backers, we will publish an exclusive mini-interview with solicited short story writer Sam J. Miller! buff.ly/JkF7S7F

I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly. Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent. You can sign up at the link below! www.pbs.org/passport/lea...

Ah yes, the five stages of "I have something to hide."

This is such a good goddamn idea

Recommend this excellent body horror flash piece in @apexmag.bsky.social by Colton Kekoa. "Until now, falling apart was just a thing that happened between us. The doctor’s referral made it real. This was a Thing that was Happening." www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

Added more to my thread yesterday about novels being sustained by a series of questions! I thought this context could be important bc process doesn’t work universally. I’ve learned other methods that I think came from writers grounded in plot/character/whatever. I’m mostly grounded in theme!

Blue Heart in Zombi 3 (1988), who doesn’t stop his radio DJ work even when he becomes one of the living dead. Still plays music. Talks shit to humans over the airwaves. Encourages his fellow zombies to multiply. Simply loves his work.

HELLO EVERYONE this is your notification that I have a story out!! It's about a little child and her tiger nanny. Jen has summarized it beautifully (thanks Jen!!). The only thing I'd add is: please hold this story with care, and above all, hold yourself and the children in your life with care. 💜

We don't need a Joe Rogan of the Left, we need an anime that does for Shonen what Evangelion did for Mecha and Madoka did for Magical Girls.

The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.

If you think ICE is bad now, just wait till they hire 10,000 more agents and open more concentration camps.

When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout

fucked up. preemptively: don’t do the “fuck Mississippi” thing plz thx. Fuck the ruling class that does this to Mississippi to keep its people down

Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

I hadn't been home for over five years when I started writing this. I hope you all have a home, wherever it may be.

Happy Juneteenth! Have a little clip of me reading from my Nebula & Sturgeon Award winning short story, TANTIE MERLE AND THE FARMHAND 4200, which is about an old woman, a robot & a goat-- --but also about personhood, acceptance, community & labor rights. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tant...

do you like SPIDERS? this story’s got em!!!

If my face suddenly went missing, I don't know if my first move would be to grab a flame thrower.

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

My novella from Reactor (Tor), Out of Body, is on sale for Kindle now at 1.99.

today on Anthropocene new poetry by Isabel Sullivan 📺🥗📺

Askinge "why reade a novel when it kan be summarized for me?" ys lyke askinge "why looke at a mountayne when it kan be grounde ynto fyne dust?"

Contains FFers @angelaliu.bsky.social @cavar.bsky.social @hannahgreer.bsky.social and @leokaaolive.bsky.social!

So the downside of spontaneously deciding a character has a secret when you introduce him, is that at some point you do need to decide what it is.

This little pup has managed to stay dry despite wearing so much drip. 12/10

If you’re making SINNERS your whole personality… Don’t let these books ROT on your #tbr : THE REFORMATORY by @tananarivedue.bsky.social, THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social, & BLACKHEART MAN by Nalo Hopkinson. Psst no big deal but director Ryan Coogler has also been recommending #BHH 😏

Dear god let this man cook.

My story “Jack of All Faces” is out now in @smallwondersmag.com and YOU can read it!! Hit that link for the most sentence you will read today:

Reskeeting a week later to those who might have missed it the first time! My story is on the paywalled end of the ep, just a heads up

This is despicable. ICE is out of control.

yall better not watch that damn show. do not go to the park or the play, do not buy the books, do not give that hateful old creep another dollar.