Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Congratulations to Patrick Bazile for being one of the two winners of a Strangies Award for "Best Voice" in the story, "The Alamo" on the @drabblecast.bsky.social podcast! Thank you for making the story sound so amazing! www.drabblecast.org/2023/11/23/d... (scroll to bottom of page for audio)

Apologize for retweeting the same article twice but - and I say this with no hint of irony - this is a pretext to the single largest, easily litigated lawsuit in human history. This is an egregious violation of IP law, law protected quite literally & specifically by the Constitution. Total insanity.

YES!!

Here’s some Milka Lolo art to make your Sunday a little better.

🎶...when the lights go down in the city...🎶 "lights" - journey #photography #StunDay #AlphabetChallenge #WeekKForKaraoke

200+ pages into a second draft, I'm thinking again about how the world of a novel (and the voice you write about it in) ideally gets stronger and stronger as you write. A problem I'm always thinking about: The day you're truly prepped to start writing a novel is probably the day you finish it.

Have you heard the good news? California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient. This article made my day! www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

I hosted a Syrian refugee in my home for two years (via the Irish Red Cross) & it's one of the best decisions I ever made - I gained another little brother! Here's an article about people doing the same in the UK. If you have a spare bedroom, do think about it. 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Deeply fascinated by the new wave band Trent Reznor used to play with in the 1980’s and how everyone looks so incredibly 80’s except for Trent Reznor who looks exactly the same as he always has to the point where he might as well have time traveled

We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves. All of us get protections or none of us do

If this happens I am going to become the Joker

Happy National Book Day! www.essence.com/news/nationa...

Chekhov's stick.

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

I generally encourage new / original horror films over remakes in any given circumstance, but I'd love to see a new Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Blob or even The Fly that worked in conversation with How Things Are Now.

Good, but it’s no -

“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

Well, this is a hoot! lawrencekstimes.com/2025/07/26/s...

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Why, one might go so far as to argue that the short story is the superior form for weird/horror work, and that the market-based emphasis on the novel weakens the impact of the mode at large

this is an excellent thread on censorship of games and has multiple ways to fight back. The big point is the storefront doesn't matter nearly as much as the payment processor.

After working on this for what feels like forever, THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R LANSDALE has finally gone to press. Experience the terrors for yourself on Oct 7 tachyonpublications.com/product/the-... @tachyonpub.bsky.social

4th mention of ANGEL DOWN in the New York Times in the past month. Not sure what I did to deserve this attention, but I’ll take it.

Hi. If you know me, you know I don't often wade into industry discussion. But this response from MRM is fucked. Not only doubling down on a rights grab but lecturing writers about what scraps they should accept. The arrogance is off the charts. Talk about slamming your dick in a car door.

Learn to face your demons with this excerpt - Redemption Song by John Hartness from The Weird Wild West buff.ly/qeQESvC @dmcphail.bsky.social @johnhartness.bsky.social #weirdwest

free shipping the next few days! shopping via @nobordersbooks.bsky.social's page is an easy way to help us fundraise to open our brick-and-mortar worker-owned radical gay bookstore in queens!! bookshop.org/shop/NoBorders

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

I don't know these people, but I love bookstores and hey, I had a twisted spine once and they've got one of my books on their table in that photo (well, it's mostly Jordan Peele's book, but still).

BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) is out today! 25 of the best independently- & self-published Weird Fiction stories published in 2024, spanning Horror Sci-Fi Fantasy & all things unclassifiable...but WEIRD. And all part of a balanced breakfast🖤☠️ Get it: store.tenebrouspress.com

I just backed this project on Kickstarter because the world needs more horror bookstores! tinyurl.com/afyxdzx2

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

"With great respect and meticulous research, [Dana] Williams reveals Morrison as a hard worker, a devoted literary citizen and one of the most important book editors of the 20th century." -- Martha Southgate www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...

The latest must read My Life in Horror from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social is now live on the site. This month George delves deep into The Feminist Gothic of Nosferatu. gnofhorror.com/nosferatu-th...

Oh yeah, just updated my diverse horror list with some new books and authors: diversityhorror.com/diverse-book...

The great @hillarymonahan.bsky.social just brought to my attention that this person is still around and running a press. Don’t support racists.

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Set off from your home on a strange journey in Bruce McAllister’s new story “Emilio’s Tale.” kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

Today's treat on MDW Patreon, ALL patrons at ALL levels can get a free copy of DADDY'S BOY by Michael David Wilson, narrated by Josh Curran. "Daddy’s Boy is exciting, weird, violent, hilarious, harrowing, original, and a helluva lotta fun." @dangerslater.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/daddys...

Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

I’m so thrilled to say that my Pushcart nominated short story ‘Pegasus’ will be featured in the next episode of the Flame Tree Myth & Fiction podcast! If you’d like to hear a different version of Medusa’s story from her child’s POV, tune in June 3rd, 08:00 am (BST) here: lnk.bio/flametreepod...

Strange Horizons is opening up for novelette submissions in two days! Sharpen thy quills, friends! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.