Your mobile phone exists because of software I wrote in the 90s (seriously). That hardware exists because of another trans woman. The book on how to do microelectronics was written by a trans woman. Loads of the internet is kept running by trans women. Rachel, THINK FOR ONE SECOND

Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

Huzzah! The 3rd annual #KidLit4CeaseFire auction is up now, and you can bid on a 30-minute Zoom chat with me right here: www.32auctions.com/organization... #romancelandia #booksky

Michael B. Jordan played two separate characters to such great effect that many viewers did not realize it was one actor. The only person I've ever seen do it better is Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black. Timothee Chalamet couldn't nail a proper mid-century NYC accent despite being from NYC

But you know, that's the choice we all face. How many bikini posters, how many stripper jokes, how many weird interactions, how many can you take. I hate that pretty much everyone one of us has a story or five or a dozen. I hate that most of us probably never considered reporting it at the time.

This story is infuriating to me because this should not be on crowdfunding to resolve; @mit.edu should have solved it with financial aid.

Great news: you can now find us on Weightless Books, where you can purchase digital copies directly OR sign up for a yearly subscription!

“Mississippi leads the nation in pregnancy-related gun deaths, according to an analysis of 28 states with avail data from the CDC… For every 100,000 births in MS, roughly 15 people who either were pregnant or had been pregnant in the prev year died as a result of gun violence.”🧪🛟

I stand by my assertion that Sinners on Broadway would do looooooong-run numbers. A fixture, a steady on the street, like Book of Mormon, Hamilton, Chicago

A new study finds that texting a random stranger is probably better to mitigate loneliness than talking to an AI-powered chatbot www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

Honored that Automatic Noodle is a Nebula finalist for best novella alongside superlative work from @renanbernardo.com, @jordankurella.com @amalelmohtar.com, @hachepueyo.bsky.social, & @wtalabi.com

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

Most people live like the pandemic never happened, but some of us never fully got our lives back. For 5 years, I’ve lived with Long Covid in the form of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). There are millions around the world like me. Today is #LongCovidAwareness Day. Help spread the word!

On Saturday while driving we saw a large raptor - huge, speckled feathers, short hooked yellow bill, flying up the inlet. No way to get a photo in time. On the way back, we saw a turkey vulture up close. Again, no way to get a photo. Once home? nothin'. CMON, birds, let us admire you!

I missed the 'Sinners' concert and I'm mad. someone link me!

I woke up this morning and chose violence buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Story day! ‘Letters from Light’s End’ is out now in @khoreo.bsky.social. This one’s a queer riff on ‘Interstellar’ - with added cosmic horror, hehe - and a response to Joe Haldeman’s ‘The Forever War.’ Thank you to the khōréō team, and my amazing TOC buddies! www.khoreomag.com/fiction/lett...

I have no words...! My poem "The World To Come" is a finalist for the inaugural Nebula Poetry Award...! I am seriously in a puddle on the floor right now

So.... !!!!

Autumn Durald Arkapaw is her name!

okay wow holy cats The Death of Mountains is in such incredible company, i am honored, humbled, and floored. it, all told, did a very good job

For all the peppy colors, this project is about a solemn duty: to give back to some of the most vulnerable survivors of this ongoing genocide, children who were in occupation prisons. Power an expert-led mental health program to help eighty of these kids: chuffed.org/project/hmg

🚨 “The government has kidnapped one of my friends.” I spoke to loved ones of 38-year-old regional video gaming champion Ludovic Mbock, who came to the US legally from Cameroon & was snatched by ICE in Baltimore while applying for his yearly work permit—as he’s done for 20 years. @therealnews.com

Translunar Travelers Lounge is open for submissions from writers of color. We're looking for speculative fiction short stories of 5000 words and under. Please read the guidelines before submitting. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

It's looking like the national book ban HR 7661 could get out of committee. The next action around it is on Tuesday, so there's still time. If your Rep is listed below, call them today! Then get two members of your community (neighbor, family friend) to call them too!

Representative Tlaib’s endorsement means so much to me personally. She’s set a true example for what it means to be deeply rooted in transformative progressive values that never compromise. I hope to join her in 2027 as the only other currently elected Palestinian in Congress!

So the OSCARS are great and all but Nebula Awards nominations are releasing tonight, so…

ISSUE 1 IS NOW FREE TO READ ONLINE! Please enjoy our debut issue in all its messy, wonderful, heartbreaking, joyful queer energy. We love these poems and stories, the reprints and nonfiction, the cover and interior art—all of it! And we hope you will too 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/issues/issue-1/

My short story "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything"is eligible! Come for the fury and snark about ableism, stay for the much-needed catharsis. Also I'm not sorry for the many superhero puns. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Happy tyrant assassination day!

White people need to get that racism is their default because they’re taught to be racist from American infancy & from there, they make choices to be more or less racist.

Them: "If I lie here I'm going to jail, but if I tell the truth here I'm also going to jail, so my only real option is to play stupid and say nothing." A lot of y'all for some reason: "Wow these guys basically don't have internality and don't understand anything about what they were doing or why."

The bills we paid this week mean that, two days after payday, our bank account is literally at zero. This is so depressing and demoralizing. #MutualAid

my fellow Americans: how aware were you of what was happening in Northern Ireland 1970-98? Where were you living? What perspective did the people around you generally take? I’ve generally found Brits are surprised by how much Northern Ireland was on our minds here. The Irish were not surprised by it

There are many great books in 2025 but especially do not forget SOUR CHERRY, NOTES FROM A REGICIDE, MAD SISTERS OF ESI and WORKS OF VERMIN!

But hey for years when the issues with substack STARTED with them being racist Everyone ignored When WHITE people started noticing and journalists decided it was a story but left out all the years or direct racism That was just … We know what it was

oh and if you back at one of the levels that gives you a digital version of issue #1, I've got a story in there called "Come Lay the Crone to Rest" about an adventuring-party-as-polycule with witches and knights.

Instead of this sort of thing, how about simply restoring the child tax credits we had 2020-2022 and paying for them by raising the rates on the $626,351+ top income tax bracket. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/s...

The reality is most people feel the real problem with racism is them not winning a salon battle about their OWN “goodness” Than the fact the targets of racism are being destroyed, killed , and psychologically damaged

Bars reporters from making FOIA requests, too. They want to turn the paper into a press release Penagon plan expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content | Stars and Stripes www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. Warm blankets 2. Learning something new 3. Setting the volume on your headphones ~juuust~ loud enough to block out the world

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. • Vietnanese Sandwiches • friends helping out • going for walks

This is a slave bounty . It’s a slave bounty It’s run exactly like we did escaped slaves and railroad workers

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. • the way some cats will tap your arm or leg to get your attention • the way strawflowers & yarrow dry & last all winter • the way white-breasted nuthatches go "prrrt" when they're eating

we haven't gotten over this attack or the ones before it. we're not going to stop living our faith. just like as a queer after pulse i co-led a candlelight vigil then stepped on a grand marshall float for a pride parade the week after. the saying "we will outlive them" is very apt right now.

This is also a bunch of bullshit. Some of the most fervent anti-occupation, anti-Netanyahu organizations that ARE STILL PROTESTING AND GETTING ARRESTED are American JEWISH organizations But also why the fuck are a bunch of Americans being held responsible for the actions of a foreign government.

Took forever to fall asleep last night because I was SO EXCITED for book release day Woke up to use the bathroom at 6:30 and took forever to fall BACK asleep because I was SO EXCITED for book release day Woke up for real half an hour ago and I'm still SO EXCITED for book release day 🥰🥰

By the way if you are someone who is 1) even tangentially or semi-professionally involved in monitoring MENA related issues in Congress, or 2) involved in analyzing Israel-Palestine, FMEP has four very good newsletters which you can receive in your inbox weekly. The legislative roundup is very good.

EXCITING NEWS: Applications NOW *open* to join LPL as a 2026 summer fellow. This paid fellowship is for *early-career* researchers looking to investigate surveillance technologies. Full details here -> cdn.prod.website-files.com/66045fc0d0be...