At the Nebulas, @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social, the founder of Strange Horizons, spoke about the origins of the magazine and how it started at a time where there were few opportunities for short story writers, particularly new writers, to have their work published. (1/3)

Sorry not sorry to anyone who fell for the SpaceX grift. To The Floor!!!!

Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)

It is time for my annual Potato Salad Rite. Each solstice, I am possessed by an urge to make Potato Salad. For thre days I consume the Potatoes saaaldd Nothing. but me and the salalalad I am potato my soul become pickeled I wake as if from a trance, repulsed by the sight of potato salad

Look after yourselves this week, in our record-breaking heat. And don't let this or any government backtrack on its climate commitments: both to prevent the worst and to help us adapt to the escalating impacts to which - unfortunately and infuriatingly - we are now committed. #35YearsOfFailure

The solution to deadly heat waves is not for individuals to buy air conditioners. The solution is for world governments to immediately start reducing emissions by 50%, and to accomplish this by taking the money from billionaires and trillionaires and recycling military infrastructure.

Does it bother anyone else when you get a meeting request for like 3:45 or 2:15??? I feel like the only acceptable times to start meetings are the hour and the half. For some irrational reason meeting at the quarter of the hour just feels off

Whenever public services fail me and I get mad I try to remind myself that right wing parties are purposely dismantling our public services so we lose faith in them and become reliant on private services.

I loved this one!!!!

A painting of a nightmare I had recently.

I just threw up in my mouth www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...

The burning question of today is why am I still/already hungry when I had a nice lunch at 1:30 and a snack at 3 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

It's LIVE! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

When you only have one working hand and you jam your Finger o n it and can't do anything 🫠

When will doctors find a cure for turntablism?? This devastating condition is affecting huge numbers of people 😔

Capitalism. The word you're looking for is capitalism.

My condolences to anyone buying into Elon Musk's latest grift today

Mark your calendars!!!

If your publisher uses AI art, they're bad at their job. Full stop. When a publisher claims they can't afford to invest in your cover art, what they're really saying is that they can't sell your book. /THREAD O'CLOCK

A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum  by Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social "Hey limbhackers i need help jailbreaking my new enduro bracchio lux. Just got it a few days ago and cant access all systems. The fingers lag..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

My story of limb upgrades and Internet drama is up now at @strangehorizons.bsky.social ✨🦾✨

This one in @adventitiouswords.bsky.social cracked me up www.adventitious.net/stories/who-...

I'm a weird girl now but someday I hope to be a full-on crone

Free Roverino!! This is so good 🦾

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This is so much fun! Incredible worldbuilding. Well worth your time (and balance of probability you’re probably doomscrolling a Reddit forum at some point today anyway - so make it this one)

My story of limb upgrades and Internet drama is up now at @strangehorizons.bsky.social ✨🦾✨

We've been here before. We've seen where this goes.

such a beautiful piece about the weird entangled spaces of the internet that captures everything good (and bad) about platforms, info-capital, and the simulacra of the self. amazing format. amazing writing.

One of the most fun things I've ever written is out now in @strangehorizons.bsky.social 🦾 If you've ever been sucked into a stranger's Internet drama, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum" is for you 🖥️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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This is weird as hell and absolutely rules.

One of the most fun things I've ever written is out now in @strangehorizons.bsky.social 🦾 If you've ever been sucked into a stranger's Internet drama, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Limbhackers Forum" is for you 🖥️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I'm beginning to think no theaters in Germany are gonna screen I Love Boosters 😭 pls I really wanna see it

gofund.me/f8ac5c365 if anyone is able to share, or even donate, please help us. Leo is such a gentle baby. New to the universe, curious and so loving, Leo would boop your nose if you were sad, would hang on your back if you needed a hug. He's not my baby but I'm lucky enough to think he is.

Omg so cute 😭

I'm pretty convinced no one showed up to this because all the future time travellers knew he was low-key cancelled. Hawking's time traveller party - Wikipedia share.google/mdLcmncqIrXY...

“Mała wróżka, mała wróżka, stay in your little den! Mother witch is seeking, and you know what happens then!” Got pests? She'll help! Just don't ask what she does afterward. Katharine Tyndall's delightful tale of pagan pest control is free. www.adventitious.net/stories/mada... 🪳🖥️🧒🍽️

New post on my website - May In Review(s) In which I celebrate the fever-dream of making both the Reactor and Locus recommended lists in the same month. Including links and screenshotted evidence to prove I'm not imagining this. May In Review(s) share.google/QTBdS7O7tXml...

Ok I've been misunderstanding it this whole time. I thought Sabrina Carpenter just had a really nice house.

#bookreview: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. The writing is delicious. I deeply enjoyed the warm characterisations of these ghosts-in-denial & ways in which their obsessions manifested. I've never given much thought to the afterlife, but this book has me full of it now.

Reading one star Goodreads reviews of Lincoln in the Bardo by people who thought it was going to be straightforward Abe Lincoln historical fiction. Cackling.

Its kinda funny how conventional literary wisdom is to NEVER start a story with your character waking up, while fully 50% of kafka's bibliography starts with a character waking up.

This is a really good list of resources and grassroots movements working to combat the AI empire. airesistlist.org

I find it baffling that North American institutions charge $30-60 application fees for programs that you have to pay for. Like a $60 application fee for a $3000 workshop. And if you don't get accepted, what? You've just thrown away enough money for a few days' worth of groceries?

Look at this European rhinoceros beetle I saw at the Biergarten last night 🥺 I've never seen an insect this big in the wild before

Some short SFFH reading recs for you! Really excited to see "Digital Love Spell - 78% Effective" by @katharinetyndall.bsky.social from FF#27 included, along with some recent work (with dinosaurs!) by FFer @megelison.bsky.social, plus plenty of other great reads!

Omg!!! Thanks so much to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social and @reactorsff.bsky.social for recommending Digital Love Spell!!!! ❤️🖥️🪄 @fusionfragment.bsky.social

Shunn manuscript format hates to see me coming

Loved this one. Childlike and grisly.