3 Oktober in Leiden: bread and herring for all!

Mycelial Age historians will be frustrated by how we talk about conflict: www.patreon.com/posts/myceli...

Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival, in which I, astonishingly, share a contents page with W.H. Auden and C.S. Lewis, is now available as a paperback for only $24.46 or an ebook for $22.01 www.bloomsbury.com/us/speculati...

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

I love my dictionary. No slop, except for the definition listed under s.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

This is clearly correct, because my daughter and co-parent (autistic) just had to explain to me (allistic) the difference between Jigglypuff and Kirby. Eugenicists would not be able to cope with this knowledge.

This made my heart double in size!!!

I had the absolute pleasure of talking with Cristina Jurado of LIBRISIMO about the newly-available Spanish translation of A DESOLATION CALLED PEACE, out from Nocturna - UNA DESOLACÍON LLAMADA PAZ! Listen here:

Happy Happy release day!!

"I will read anything Chaz Brenchley writes. His prose is melted butter with tarragon, and his characters and worldbuilding equally delicious. Open this book to any page, and you will find something to delight you." - Ellen Kushner on Of the Emperor's Kindness wizardstowerpress.co...

While I’m at it: You guys know what to do!! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

I am at work (librarian), sitting at the circulation desk reading “Swordheart” by @tkingfisher.com (who has effectively clubbed me into submission with their powerhouse writing {clearly some form of beautiful and arcane magics} and declared themselves one of my all-time authors) -cont-

I'll be at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social this year, helping launch the @wtpress.bsky.social Wiz Duo with my new novella!

Guys, US per capita carbon emissions are down 30% from peak! 30%! We’re doing it! All the little steps (and big) are paying off! 🚉⚡️☀️💨🚲🌳🚶🌱🌎

“This Journalist is not in the business of taking ICE at their word” is the most empowering thing I’ve seen in a long time.

This is in the town I just emigrated from, filmed by a former journalist colleague of one of my householdmates. Literally close to home.

Reposting for folks now awake in the US. Meanwhile I have spent my birthday afternoon wandering the street market and collecting gelato intelligence.

Would you like to help fund two translations from non-colonial African languages? Everyone is welcome to join! This is a community project. We need to raise $3380 in a month. Ooh, that changed - I'll go update the graphic!

There should be more love songs for, like, libraries. And cheese. And people who stay calm when bad things happen.

It's my birthday! Please tell me about your favorite "see this before you die" experience - could be awe-inspiring or the most ridiculous roadside attraction, anything that you're just delighted you got to encounter.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

This and the removal of lead from fuel are probably two of the greatest achievements of the last few decades.

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day - a reminder that one person saying "No" can make an unimaginable difference.

The worst years of the pandemic also gave a glimpse of how much better and more beautiful life in our streets could be

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

Well done to all the workers who protested this. This is huge.

#BookSky help an incredible writer out 💔❤️‍🩹

"There is no good and bad when a sentence moves you; there’s only what it does and how it does it." In the newest Mark As Read, @mollytempleton.com discusses well-crafted sentences, and how they fit into our understanding of "literary" versus "genre" fiction: reactormag.com/form-functio...

Our first guest of honour is editor Carl Engle-Laird! Carl is a Hugo-nominated editor at Tor Publishing Group. He has worked on books that have won the Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards, including Gideon the Ninth, The Saint of Bright Doors, and Even Though I Knew the End. Welcome, Carl!

We have a little more than $800 to go to reach our goal! Help the The Natural History Society of Maryland fund their new shark science and conservation exhibit, which I'm working with them to design! 🧪🦑🌎🦈 www.southernfriedscience.com/help-support...

Blurbs sent out for @bluejo.bsky.social's Everybody's Perfect and @naomikritzer.bsky.social's Obstetrix (both coming June 2026). Honestly one of my favorite things about being a published writer is getting to read amazing books early!

I agree with most of this - and I think one of the most interesting asides is the comment that there is little research on Bluesky dynamics.

This week on Reading the Weird, Anne and I kvell over Michal Ajvaz's "The End of the Garden." Komodo dragons are everywhere, and it's terrible! reactormag.com/l-is-for-las...

This week on Seeds of Story, alien senses right here on Earth! reactormag.com/shimmering-s...

My friend @thomaszimmer.bsky.social is deservedly revered for his magisterial, in-depth analyses of the crisis of American democracy. Please subscribe to his relaunched newsletter Democracy Americana over on Steady and support his important work!

Any recommendations for English-language or multi-lingual Nordic-style LARPS in the Randstad?

For everyone back online after Rosh Hashanah, I'm kicking off the new year with a story about late-stage capitalist deals with the fae.

Here’s to good news:

As someone who is neurodiverse and on the spectrum, I have thoughts on that presidential big announcement about autism. Here we go! We've always been around. We'll always be here. Living, seeing, loving, dying. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/139553...

New novellas by me and @aknighton.bsky.social - now available for pre-order! We'll be launching at the end of October.

Well look at that, it's a fine pair of novellas by me and @r-emrys.bsky.social exploring relationships & landscape. Ruthanna's story is a wonderful tale of queer found family & shared obligation, while I deal with grief & memory through the magic of walking.

Here is our new piece in Lancet Planetary Health on the #WellbeingEconomy and public health, thanks to @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social for leading this :-)

A really great piece by my favorite tech journalist:

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

Amazing book now has amazing cover!

Oh, look, a perfect opportunity for me to remind everyone that Mongolian folk metal is a thing that exists and The HU are awesome and all y'all should join me in my obsession.