i mean, is it even news 🧐

#ClimateCrisis = more hunger, if we don’t act now time to rethink not just energy systems but #food systems, my friends www.theguardian.com/environment/...

my fave “do-nothing kings” journal doing much more than nothing with their latest ish—check it 👇

Very proud of this beautiful baby! 🦝 If you love short fiction and want to read 27 amazing writers' interpretation of "treasure in unexpected places", then please do grab a copy and help raise money for UK wildlife 🦡🦊🦢🦌

Please come out (or participate via livestream) for our #ScienceUnderSiege event at the storied DC bookstore @politicsprose.bsky.social, featuring my co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly, Thursday Oct 2: politics-prose.com/mann-hotez

Are your stories in full flower yet? One week to go till the deadline for our 31st Award on Sun Oct 5th.. £1000 first prize. Up to 300 word #flashfiction. Results out fast. Anthology publication offer for 50 longlisted. Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

i’ve skeeted it before but worth reskeeting: @smokelong.bsky.social is the best—for community, for excellence, for results 🏆 #writers #writing #flash

Later today, I'll be talking specificity in this online workshop for the fine folk at Smokelong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social. It's not too late to join me 👇 www.smokelong.com/product/the-...

Sending some prose out into the world? Here's some places that are super cool, fee free, and OPEN FOR SUBS!!! @xraylitmag.bsky.social @alocasiamag.bsky.social @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social @fahmidangroup.bsky.social @bruisermag.com @trampset.bsky.social @wigleaf.bsky.social @flashfrog.bsky.social

how it started/how it’s going, #Caturday edition 🙀 #cats #Paris #chats #chamedi

yet another argument for not giving an #AI #agentic access to my life www.economist.com/science-and-...

ONE WEEK TIL SGP MINI SUBS OPEN! More info here: sillygoosepress.com/the-life-of-... AND HERE: sillygoosepress.com/goose-bumps-...

frankly, AI doesn’t need to be superintelligent to be dangerous mediocre AI already bad enough 😳

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

went to Paradise for a couple of days last week for first vacay in years & got to hang out with some locals 😎 #Hawaii #photography #travel

Mi gente Latino, Latinsky is waiting for you! Help grow this feed and get more people to see the amazing comunidad that Latinsky is becoming! We’re just north of 100 likes on the feed, can you help us get it to 200?

eff pumpkin spice latte *this* is the real season harbinger 👇

🔈BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: We are looking for volunteer Flash and Fiction Readers! 📚 Applications will open this week! Stay tuned for more info.

uh, no it’s not www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-...

Led Airbus

😳 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

cameras on human faces cuz data from cameras in hands, on buildings & in the sky is just not enough 😳

what da pope sez 👇 www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

don’t know if you remember this @judehiggins.bsky.social & @flashficfestuk.bsky.social but my story that you lovely people published in the 2024 fest anthology included a reference to Vibrio as a part of a tale of unrequited love with a marine biologist at a Scottish conference…this is that FYI 👇

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but let’s be honest, could we really handle listening to rats chatting all night 🧐

had a delicious time in Brussels this weekend with #writer fam esp @smokelong.bsky.social #flash folks—kudos to @saloneurope.bsky.social for an amazing event!

as usual, putting responsibility on parents, especially moms, instead of the industrial food complex 😔 it’s like blaming us for climate change because we haven’t recycled enough will soon be querying a new #book on topic of bad #food & my life in this world of enviro/food advocacy stay tuned!

Interested in joining @pasteur.fr Pathogen Discovery Lab for a PhD ? Check out www.pasteur.fr/en/education.... I am looking for candidates with interests in metagenomics, vector-borne emerging infectious diseases, anthropogenic effects to contribute to @prezode.bsky.social funded AMAZED Project.

Reminder! We're opening to submissions for the themes of HAUNT and YARD SALE tomorrow. Send us your best 100 words! 100footcrow.com/submission-g...

@kplumhoff.bsky.social hey i want to post that pic i took of you & Cari but i don’t know her last name & whether she is on Bluesky or Twitter? please advise! (also—sooooo much fun this weekend at the salon, merci bien!!!)

Hey scholars! I'll be editing your NON-PEER-REVIEWED work at a new journal from ASEH called Germinate. Send me your fiction, photography, essays, memoir and more that explore the environmental present with its past.

what do u mean u didn’t buy this lamp as a face-scratching post 🙀 #cats #Caturday #Paris #chamedi

@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social not too far from your neck of the woods 🧐

thx to @secretsofparis.bsky.social stopped by St Sulpice in #Paris this week, oui that church of Da Vinci Code fame—still wonderful after all these years #France #photography #travel

“it thought for a second” CHATGPT CANNOT THINK 🤬

Latinx Heritage month is coming up and this is a reminder that I've put together a very robust Latinx Spec Fic Author starter pack! Go follow and support these authors! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

i just don’t understand how people can be so anti-people 😳

hey @therelphian.bsky.social i saw this press is looking for #stories (incl noir) for a #cat anthology— do you know them? seems like u may have something they might like 😸 thaliapress.com/now-acceptin...

cloudy with a chance of gorgeous #Paris #France #photography

what @meredithmeredith.bsky.social said 👇

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

Happy Monday! Anything is possible! The sun is shining! The geese are honking! Send us your whimsy! Your light! Your screaming! We 🫶🏻 you! sillygoosepress.submittable.com/submit

yo Philly skeeps 👇

hey @vodafonegroup.bsky.social 1) no #AI is *not* “so much a part of everyday life” 2) this is super creepy 3) pay a human why doncha www.theverge.com/news/773567/...

oligarchs vs. democracy, journalism edition: print news becomes digital & upends info & advertising model local papers disappear, shredding accountability social media guts shared reality AI destroys jobs & further undermines credibility of press Ultimate goal? 🧐 No more truth to power 😔

reason #436 why i’m never ever #chatbot

we had a surprise visitor today 🐦 #cats #Paris #birds

slightly diminish a book: Misdemeanors & Warnings

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