Reminder that there is in fact a nonbinary parents day (April 19), but it's not very well-known, so spread the word about it -

Spanning fifteen years of nightmares, time crimes, and transgressive visions, COLLECTED gathers the essential short fiction of Chris Kelso – one of the most singular voices in contemporary cult literature. to be published 28th May Available for pre-order www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/coll...

nothing is inevitable but the heat death of the universe, & everything can be changed, with the right combination of communication & communal effort. Some people are overwhelmed & despair of these things because they genuinely don't see a light anywhere, & we should help each other find that light…

Sign this petition to make sure the future of the trans-owned Zodiac is protected.

Let's give these loudmouths a shot. I'm a trans woman in Texas who can't move to a blue state because nobody will hire me. I can line up housing and moving funds, I literally just need a job once there. Would anyone in Seattle like to hire me? I have 12+ years in tech and customer support roles!

Just had a message about a writing thing that made me cry (in a good way!) and I think I should probably lower my expectations for the rest of the day to compensate.

An earlier me - privileged, white, wealthy - could not have imagined finding this stuff terrifying or understood why othered people - Black, Jewish, immigrants - did. But I listened, and I watched, and I learned. And they were right. I'm begging you to listen and watch and learn.

Been thinking a lot about this since it came up among some writer pals: Writers, do you have a short story you consider your signature or flat out best work? Why that one? Good feedback, dear to your heart, good blend of what you like to do best? Every answer is interesting imo

Wonderful article about the importance of beloved activities and their beneficial effects on mental health:

It’s very important to note (because the people this will affect are already prone to anxiety!) per the article the FDA has no authority whatsoever to do this and in fact drug companies can simply refuse to comply - and have done so with other drugs as recently as last month.

Aaaaaaaand... 10 drafts later, it's done. Gave me the runaround, but I'm finally happy with it. Well, happy enough that I'm not going to mess with it any more this close to the deadline. Fingers crossed it actually meets the required standard. Now for 3 hours sleep 🥳

Autistic Burnout isn’t just “too much work.” It’s masking. Pain. Shame. Trying to care for everyone while no one cares for you. It’s rejection sensitivity, executive dysfunction, chronic illness, trauma. And still being told you’re “high functioning.” No wonder we break.

banning smart glasses is actually the compromise option here by the way, as my preferred option is simply to find this man and [content redacted on advice of my lawyers]

This contains the F word. Apols. It’s about a single dress at this year’s Met Gala & what you could do with the money. Just one example - taken from some of the work I’m currently doing. And I say three undergraduate students but we might be able to fund and support three, place & course dependent

🏳️‍⚧️Today is Trans+ History Day, 6 May We mark this day because of what happened – and what was nearly erased. On this date in 1933, Nazis raided the world's first Trans+ clinic. Days later, over 20,000 books from its archive were burned in the street.

just spent several hours listing a shit-ton of rare, OOP movies from my personal collection on ebay. all sales will be helping fund my upcoming escape from texas. insomniacs and early risers... you get first dibs www.ebay.com/usr/maboot-6...

If you are told of seemingly impossible encounters, journeys into high strangeness and your first impulse is to demand they be declared hoax or hallucination, then I pity you. If your need for cosy certainty trumps the possibility of wonder, you are imaginatively impoverished. – Brian Danbury, 1981

Every last fucking one of them.

Artists... ya gotta alt text that stuff, man. You just gotta. If I fave but don't repost something you did, that's why

ALT text:

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

Beastie of the day; Swallow

Actually really frustating to see several "self-publishing won't survive genAI" First of all, stop pretending trad publishing isn't announcing genAI-related deals regularly and that soon we won't have to rely on trusted authors and imprint there, too

Let's whet that appetite with a cover reveal 👅 Our second issue is a buffet for the freaky, and we can't wait to serve. Please, have a seat. Salon Sinister Issue 2 | Cover by Anni Jyn @annijyn.com | Available for free digitally June 4 | Physical release shortly after

Happy International Day of the Midwife! The word "midwife" is gender neutral. It says nothing about the gender of the midwife. It comes from the Middle English "mid", meaning "with" and "wif" meaning woman - so the word "midwife" describes the person being *with* the "wife".

the line might go up either way, but if you want busy high streets and nightlife, younger poorer people need more after-rent money, if you want more yacht building and private jet travel, keep shoveling it all to rich people. I don't know why this is hard for our greatest minds to comprehend

You can buy 'Thin Places in Hard Concrete' now: Paperback www.amazon.co.uk/Thin-Places-... eBook www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Good morning. Independent Bookshops are the heartbeat of our high streets and communities. Please, if you are able do support them. They pay their taxes & business rates whilst some in the book world. Want to fly to Mars in a Met Gala bib & tucker. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welcome to blood profits season: where every major fossil fuel company announces windfall profits thanks to mass murder and the 2nd global fossil fuel price crisis this decade. We cannot stay trapped in this cage. Time to escape. New Al Jazeera op-ed live here www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

So is there any gay folk horror out there or is the genre painfully heterosexual?

Very happy to have a story in this one!

We don’t grant rights to 99% of the conscious beings that exist on the earth already, including many living breathing humans, so…

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

What an absolute treasure trove of films this is 🤗

Struggling at this early hour to whittle these down... A Field in England Eraserhead Tetsuo: the Iron Man Hard to be a God (dir. Aleksei German) Limbo (dir. Soi Cheang) Casablanca The Maltese Falcon

📣50% off anti-capitalist books📣 This Radical May, shop the sale now until May 14th: www.plutobooks.com/product-cate...

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Brilliant book, awesome new cover - well worth checking out if you haven't already

Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

why are ai folks so bent about me hating it. fine, i'll fall behind! let me!!! fuck off!!!!

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

Bandcamp Friday begins in T-minus 12 hours! From midnight to midnight PDT, we'll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels.

2 hard! Just Like Heaven/The Cure This Corrosion/Sisters of Mercy Debaser/Pixies Follow the Cops Back Home/Placebo Crucify/Tori Amos The Book of Love/The Magnetic Fields Ball of Confusion/The Temptations The Last Beat of My Heart/Siouxsie & the Banshees Stripped/Depeche Mode Freak Scene/Dinosaur Jr

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

Anyone want some vintage UFO, Bigfoot, Bermuda Triangle, etc books? Ideally, I'd love for someone who appreciates these to have them. Gonna try to find somewhere to donate them, if not. You'd just have to pay media mail shipping (which depends on how many you want). First come, first serve 💙📚🩸

I enjoyed the Hell out of @diebooth.bsky.social's creepy Faustian novella Cool S, and now it's due a reissue with new (and yet to be revealed!) cover art by @rileyisokay.bsky.social

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Fascists target autistic people and trans people (look at Ole Lovaas, an OG nazi, who modified his child torture of autistic kids in the Feminine Boy Project to apply that torture to trans kids, etc), because both populations threaten the basic principle of fascism: violation of bodily autonomy.