they also didnt get paid during the govt shutdown 🫩

People think covering a NASA launch is super glamorous but it’s usually more “eating an adult lunchable out of a cooler in the trunk of your car” than it is rocket launches. Can’t beat that view though.

one of my fave stories of last year tbhhh its incredible!! pinky & pepper forever but make it cyberpunk vibes

FUCK ICE! We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50. www.novaandmali.com/shop

sara killing it as always ‼️

Appears this is also true for fascism.

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

FEELIN' PRETTY NOW OR NEVER TO ME

As promised in our newsletter, we're organizing a giveaway of the Summer Eternal Anthology Deluxe Firestarter Bundle! To enter: 1. Follow us 2. Repost this post Winner receives one free pre-order for the Anthology Deluxe Bundle.

It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/

@sfwa.org: bro wtf

a love-hate letter to the game of my childhood 😌

windows into the soul

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work. Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

So it seems a lot of short fiction readers don't know about @inkfoundry.bsky.social! This is a great site to look for your next great read.

developed some film i accidentally partially exposed to light and it made this pic from worldcon look like star trek transporter sfx

"lauren are you okay all you ever do is retweet the streets and sodium lights quote" no. but its somewhere to be

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

Tired: check on your strong friends (unclear, mixed framework) Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch (actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)

Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️‍🌈😍🦄

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/138349...

YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”

For sale: ship of theseus Condition: used, like new

realized i have not yet catposted here so good moomin morning to you all

Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there. Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Yet another night of terror for our friends in Gaza City 🚨 The giving circle supports 6 families + a displacement camp of fifteen more in Jabalia. Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...

im missing just one very apt square from #BookBingoNW2025 and would love some recommendations for books about hope!! looking for fiction only and preferably scifi :) (alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)

i summarized my story for you, your welcome

Next year's WorldCon is in Los Angeles, and the theme appears to be Westward Expansion or possibly Manifest Destiny. The guests are referred to as Pioneers and the venue as The Frontier. This year the awards were swept by Indigenous writers. The choice is stunning in its ugliness.

We'd like to shout out Seattle's Clean Air Collective and mask bloc for providing us with free masks and air filters during ConCurrent. We could not have run the event without that help, and it was given to us for free. For FREE! What an amazing public service. Thank you so much.

From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”

At the #ConCurrent short story panel, I said that there are big bugs and tiny mammals -- they may be the same size but they are structurally distinct. Similarly with fiction: short stories are like insects, novels like mammals, and a novelette or novella might be more like either.

yes PLEASE i sat in the ADA section to guarantee i could see the captions and then they were practically useless!!

every ai chatbot transcript i read is like "Sure thing, Dave! As you requested, I've opened the pod bay doors." doors are not open "Dave, that's my bad. I told you I opened the doors and I did not. I have now opened the pod bay doors." doors are not and in fact never will be open

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE alert!🚨 SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!

WE ARE SELLING COVID TESTS AT COST AT WORLDCON

If you are at World Con, please consider masking in public in the days after as covid takes about 3-5 days on average to appear on a test. If you consider yourself someone who cares about disabled people, children, and just your fellow human, mask up to protect others just in case.

Hugo Award ramp!

good morning worldcon. today you can find me

ConCurrent is over. Thank you to everyone who liked, shared, spoke about us, donated, paneled, moderated, volunteered, worked, attended. Our mission was successful. All this can be done as it always has been done, with thoughtfulness, precision, safety, and attention to detail. I'm so grateful.

i will be at concurrent and at worldcon but i am so bone tired i havent really scheduled anything or made plans to hang out... if ur going pls say hi to me my hair is bright pink for easy identification

On X, Masaki Nobushiro posts a recurring (and useful) drawing about how people wrongly think a 1m tsunami is a cresting wave when it's actually a wall of water filled with dangerous and deadly debris that's strong enough to sweep up a car. #tsunami

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

ICYMI: ConCurrent's first panel of the day will be the short fiction panel with @samasherwriter.bsky.social @tbonejenkins.bsky.social @daviddlevine.com @awprihandita.bsky.social @ringwrites.bsky.social. Two EICs, plus Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula winners all on this panel!

Here's the ConCurrent panel that is... concurrent... with this mess of a panel. It's going to be exceptionally good.

IT'S TIME! Here's the ConCurrent panel schedule, threaded. Schedule, registration, and donation links all at the end of the thread. Oh yeah, and registration is now open. 1/

WAIT THE POND, WAIT THE WHISPERING OF DRAGONFLIES WINGS SKIMMING AGROSS THE SURFACE OF THE WORLD JUST ABOVE, WAIT THE GLISTENING OF THEIR BELOVED'S VOCAL SACS AS THEY STRETCHED IN NIGHTLY SONGS, WAIT THE MUD COOL AND BLESSEDLY FORGETTING, WAIT WAIT WAIT... PLEASE... WAIT

THE ONLY THING GOING THROUGH THEIR FROG BRAIN AS PINK WET FLESH AND A GRAVEYARD OF SMOOTH GHOSTLY TOMBSTONES LOOMED NEAR WAS "WAIT WAIT WAIT..."