A triumphant moment of blocking two more pieces (the back and right sleeve) of one of my Tove Jansson-inspired intarsia knitting projects. 🧶 #moomin

I didn’t make the fishes in Weird Fishes weird enough.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

"Some of my tension is from the non-stop working (which, as we’ve already covered, is barely “work” by any traditional definition), and some of it is from the masking I constantly do as an autistic person in a neurotypical world." RELATABLE. Too bad I don't have a tub.

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

I know we all enjoyed his video about male friendships, but I think this one about reading might be even better.

hi i am looking for online examples of cli-fi short stories that deal with indigenous futurism!! all my faves are in print, which is not accessible to my students…

Scientists announce the discovery of the bumpy snailfish, a pink, big-eyed species found more than 10,000 feet below the ocean's surface.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not what you (or I) think. It can't be detected by the casual naked eye. Four particles of fingernail-sized or smaller per cubic meter isn't photogenic, so the media substituted coastal collections and the like.

I wanted to share some thoughts on social media, comment culture, isolation, connection & conversation. I'm sure I'm not the only one finding it tricky to connect here of late, for multiple reasons I unpack in this post. Yes, with a couple of writer/ reader Discord antidote suggestions 😉

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The world has changed so much since I wrote this, but at the end of the day it's still an essay I had a breakdown writing, an essay that took days because I couldn't stop crying long enough to write strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

The Imperfect Blue Marble. In a culture where a child's first word takes on great meaning, a nonverbal child shows his compassion beyond words. grist.org/climate-fict... #ClimateFiction #BookSky #Solarpunk #Fiction #SciFi #Literature

This one looks like an After School Special, heh. Fun fact about The Unidentified, it was in development with the Disney Channel for a few years after publication with the Jonas Brothers’ production company. “Breakfast Club x Matrix” was how the film agent pitched it. #PosterPit #P #YA #SF

#PosterPit #P #YA #SF

I’m working on getting the rights to my out-of-print debut YA SF reverted back to me in time for a 15-year anniversary ebook re-release. Testing out some new book cover aesthetics in these #PosterPit designs. Let me know which ones look fun! #PosterPit #P #YA #SF

very funny how I'm the most under-employed and broke I've been in a long ass time but I'm also somehow extremely busy

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN A behind-the-screens look at an unlikely team of endearingly flawed professionals working together (and against each other) to cast a reality TV team challenge competition to win a one-way trip to Mars. Fun and smart and trashy. #QuestPit #A #LF #HA #Q

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN A behind-the-screens look at an unlikely team of endearingly flawed professionals working together (and against each other) to cast a reality TV team challenge competition to win a one-way trip to Mars. Fun and smart and trashy. #QuestPit #A #LF #HA #Q

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN 😂😬workplace comedy 🤳🤩social media & reality tv 😇💪messy women just doing their jobs 👯🔪🤡teen girl vigilantes terrorizing tech-bros 😲🌏large ensemble cast (multiple #ND #Indigenous #genderfluid POVs) 😁💅🤯fun and trashy and smart #QuestPit #A #LF #HA #Q

kawaiola.news/moomeheu/mah... 😮‍💨

This is the light of the summer nights in northern Sweden that @mariahaskins.com describes in her Nordic Dark Speculative Fiction what to read list. My kid and her friend last night outside Gravmark, Sweden at 10pm, chased by a summer thunderstorm but too hypnotized to hurry home.

Idgaf if you think I’m smart! Laugh at my joke! 😔

My summer plans: Inadvertently color-coordinating library book covers with various hammocks 💙📚 #booksky 📚💙

This is how it looks when a Sea Anemone runs away from a Starfish.

WEIRD FISHES (Stelliform Press, 2022) Set entirely underwater, a cephalopod scientist (🐙) teams up with a mermaid-ish storyteller (🦭) to save the Earth's oceans from alien invasion (🙋‍♂️). A twist on first contact stories. It might make you cry big salty tears. #BluePit📖 #A #POC #SF #P

A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN SHY x IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER A storyteller from the future weaves a wandering stranger (that’s you!) into an eco-anarchist solarpunk society. The secret to their vibrant community is simple, and hard. #BluePit📖 #A #ND #POC #LGBT #W

TOMORROW & TOMORROW & TOMORROW x THE MARTIAN Hollywood has taken over casting for a televised mission to Mars. A (grump) social scientist and (sunshine) reality-TV casting director use mind games to find contestants to compete for a one-way trip off this messy planet #BluePit📖 #A #HU #ND #POC #Q

What can slime moulds teach us about biological memory? Quite a bit, it turns out. Matthew Sims (@philosobio.bsky.social) dives into this question in a wonderfully engaging piece for @aeon.co. Give it a read—before it slips your mind! 👇 aeon.co/essays/what-... #HPS #philsky #HPbio #evobio #neurosky

Elsewhere, Right Now is a high-concept workplace comedy that cuts between music styles + storyline tracks like a DJ pulling slice-of-life samples from around the globe to create a sonically layered, head-bopping composition—always matching the beat of a spinning planet. #PlaylistPitch #A #LITFIC

A clever mash-up of early 90s West Coast hiphop, chicana punk and sonically dense art pop enacting the plot of David Bowie’s "Life on Mars" with Angel Haze/Azealia Banks/Lady Leshurr quick-sharp lyricism. (Plus a B-side of Taylor Swift’s “Anti-hero” doing “Vigilante shit”) #PlaylistPitch #A #LITFIC

Doechii’s ANXIETY and Billie Eilish’s TV find out IT TAKES TWO (Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock) to cast the “best-selling shooow” LIFE ON MARS (Bowie) while Taylor Swift’s ANTI-HERO does VIGILANTE SHIT to defy what EVERYBODY KNOWS (Leonard Cohen) open.spotify.com/playlist/3PK... #PlaylistPitch #A #LITFIC

The Oligarchs greed knows no boundaries Listen as this indigenous Hawaiian man speaks about the destruction upon ke’ done by oligarch colonizers.

📢📢 ‼️QUIT ANTHROPOMORPHIZING BILLIONAIRES ‼️📢📢 A novel. #UnhingedPit #A #LF #HA

An anti-capitalist workplace comedy where an unlikely duo use personality tests and mind games to find contestants who want to win a one-way trip to Mars in a reality TV team competition. But the only person they can agree to launch into space is the techbro showrunner. #UnhingedPit #A #LF #HA

Slice-of-life stories set in LA, Amsterdam, Bengaluru, Kirkjubæjarklaustur, Finca Bellavista, MIT, Danakil desert, Blue Mountains, Austin, Oxford, the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka, the Negev (technically an-Naqab), Užupis, St Petersburg, Kathmandu, El Alto, Nome & online #UnhingedPit #A

Bespoke by Genevieve Valentine. It's under 3000 words but there's so much material. It's gorgeous and class conscious and smart. Could be visually stunning. Adapt it for screen, cowards! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I’d love to be very disappointed by a big budget, multi-season adaptation of Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series (I have such a specific vision for the characters and scenes that there’s no way anyone outside my head can “get it right” but I want someone to try!)

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible. A poetically pedantic “how to care for children as a public responsibility” guidebook disguised as a solarpunk adventure written in the style of Italo Calvino

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible. The Bechdel Test meets Groundhog Day in a reality TV casting agency conference room in Sherman Oaks

the hong kong protestors used the phrase "do not split" to mean that the radical protest and peaceful protest arms of the movement should refuse to criticize each other.

The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me

🚨 Submissions are OPEN! 🚨 We are open to short stories under 5,000 words, translations under 3,500 words, and flash fiction. We offer $0.10/word. Send in your submissions now! For more details on submissions, please visit our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Happy Bludgeon-Your-Neighbor Eve to those who still celebrate. www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

After a tough day, octopuses sometimes have to improvise to find somewhere safe to have a snooze, just like in this clamshell ~ photographed in Lembah Strait, off Indonesia, by Franco Tulli (Australian Nature Photographer Awards 2021) theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The Portuguese Man Of War Is Actually Four Distinct Species, study led by Yale University with Griffith University, published by @currentbiology.bsky.social #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #MarineBiology #ecology #NewSpecies www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...