@thedailytism.com covers entertainment like no other. thedailytism.com/audiences-ba...

Well, this is the best sentence I've read in a while. From Angel Maker by @matociquala.bsky.social/

Check out this book promo; it's by an author I know and she's great!

A state agency revoked the professional license of the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on Monday, days after federal agents arrested him on accusations that he was living and working in the country illegally.

Apple season in New England! My favorite is the Macoun, bred by New York researchers in the 1920s from MacIntosh and Jersey Black stock. Great in pies and greater eaten fresh, crispy and tart (but not too tart). They don't keep super well, so there's many a pie in our near future.

Thank you South Korea, with your polite but insistent resistance to the unconscionable. bbc.com/news/article...

Just finished this amazing book, True Biz, by @novicsara.bsky.social and it brings home how vicious the new Trump cuts to disability education are. Calling my senator now.

Posted by Mary Doria Russell, one of my favorite authors, over on FB. I'm not as exhausted as she is, but she's been battling harder than I have. I guess it's up to the rest of us to step it up while she rests and recuperates.

Expected, but still, YAY! www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Maine? Can we get on this and change that yellow to green?

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

Sorry, I don't know where this is from, but it's fun.

I wish this were a family recipe because if it were, it'd be my childhood comfort food. I just know it.

Can't beat this for cheesiness. Check out the whole thread if you're a word nerd. Really.

Remember tonight: reactormag.com/read-a-new-m...

We're delighted to welcome @aniking.bsky.social to the SmokeLong team! ⭐⚡🎉

Amazon worked for years to artificially depress the prices of self-published ebooks as a loss leader to sell Kindles. Now that the Kindle market is fairly saturated, they're using their near-monopoly market power to force ebook prices up and lower writer royalties.

Gull Dukat. Another one of those mental images I had to exorcise by drawing it. #art #StarTrek #DS9

My desire to dive into an excellent novel to escape the cataclysm unfolding in our government is at war with my desire to analyze and take notes on said excellent novel to improve my writing. Arghh!

Congratulations John! Well deserved!

In case you missed it. Apparently a TikTok thing. I don’t have time for TikTok. 😂 Episode 4 now streaming #murderbot #appletv+ @marthawells.com #GRWM

My new Genre Grapevine column is a deep dive into the use of ChatGPT by Seattle Worldcon. In interviews with Worldcon volunteers, I learned this was likely done by a low-level volunteer trying to save time. This volunteer wasn't original authorized to do this. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/129039...

@diabolicalplots.com is the grinder down? I don't seem to be able to connect.

Thank you, McGill University! www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/mcg...

@thaisafonso.bsky.social I suspect it wasn't easy for you to say no after giving me thoughtful feedback for an R&R. I mean, it wasn't easy for me to hear it either, but please know that your feedback was spot on, and the revisions made the story stronger. So thank you and I hope our paths cross!

weekly talk story about @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pub, social media anxiety, @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 's meet the crew (registration link in my blog), and my ukulele gig... www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/talk-story/2...

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Hey y’all! We could use some extra money right now due to some emergency bills so I’m doing a flash sale on my more expensive services! This is a great opportunity to grab a slot and work with me on your manuscript. xD #writers #amquerying

Thanks, whoever did this.

Threw out my back so I couldn't be there, but my hubs was there representing. Seeing all the posts from all over the country is making my eyes leak with hope.

So. Well. This is news so enormous it's ungraspable: I am SFWA's 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. I don't know what to say. In lieu of brains-match-mouth coherence, here's a press release. I am overwhelmed.

Scared silly to talk to an interviewer? @gideonpsmith.bsky.social wrote this article to help. www.sfwa.org/2025/03/25/s...

So I will say this as gently as I can: given the current state of the world, cons (especially held in the US) should really keep or enhance their online programming instead of eliminating it. I understand it takes resources to run a hybrid con but the alternative is to exclude the rest of the world

FREE NIKOLA TESLA

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

Time change in the USA today, but not in the UK, so my meetings and setting-up-of-meetings with UK folk are very confused.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

What a beautiful, kind story. pitheadchapel.com/nervous-thing/

Re: Last Week 1. Chose commoner bride 2. Announced betrothal 3. Planned wedding 4. Hired men to kidnap her 5. Framed Gilder for it Frankly I’m swamped.

Jay Kuo is one of the people helping to keep me sane these last few weeks. If you need some hope, here's some: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

Are you a writer hoping to get some pages in over holiday break? Are you pretending to write at this very moment but instead you are scrolling Bluesky? Are your legs crossed? If so, uncross them and do a little dance. Better for your hips.

Eastern Iceland, 2023, hike in the hinterlands, no trolls spotted.

This author is a gem of a human! She guided me at the Nebula conference and helped me get oriented at Codex. And her writing is chef's kiss!

Starting Week #3 of Not Writing for a Month: Gonna do it. Gonna start writing again. Ease my way into it. Nothing too fancy. A few verbs perhaps.

Week #2 of Not Writing for a Month: supposedly dedicated to Reckoning. My plan is to reckon with various household things then move on to reckoning with the Evil Empire. So far the score is Household Things: 3, and Me: 1. The basement office is a most formidable foe. Two decades of heaped papers.

Week #1 of Not Writing For a Month: dedicated to relaxation. I was thrown off by you-know-what, but I tried. Took a long bath in a small tub with my spouse, lay on my sofa and listened to Bach's Fugue in D Minor, and watched the sun rise and set in the same day. Next week: a reckoning.

Week #1 of Not Writing For a Month: This week is dedicated to relaxation - walking on the beach, watching sunrises and sunsets, long baths, hot tea and cozy reading - so what do I do today? I call my internet provider to cancel service and have been wrangling with them for twenty minutes.