'Urgent help🥹🥹🥹🥹 I am in danger now. My surgical wounds are infected, our tent collapsed in the rain,& my5 kids are crying without shelter. My wife has a heart condition. We need £200 for treatment&safety. Even £25 can help save my family.” Verified @mommunism.bsky.social'

With the Bengal election coming up, the BJP offers a teaser pogrom to give people a taste of what they intend to do to the state if they get voted in. As usual, they blamed their victims.

Preorders for IN YOUR SKIN #1 close on Monday March 30th. Here's some of the nice things people have been saying about the book. From the amazing @ashcanpress.com:

So, the next time someone tells you off for saying ‘shit’, just tell them you’re speaking Akkadian Also, follow this account - a BlueSky gem

Hugo nominations end tomorrow (Saturday 9am PT). MAD SISTERS OF ESI is eligible for Best Novel – I hope you'll consider it. Regardless, go nominate the books you love!

Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband Mahmoud who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & her sick daughters, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving. Mahmoud urgently needs surgery to save his life:

What a stunning cover!

Wading into the Harry Potter discourse to remind you that India just passed a disastrous bill that removes the right to self identification of gender identity, despite vehement opposition from the trans community.

The new trans bill in India takes away the right to self identify gender identity, delegitimises trans people and strips them of their fundamental rights. It medicalises identity and criminalises community care. It is completely inhumane and unconstitutional.

This is disastrous and cannot be condemned enough. It is malicious and will harm countless people: scroll.in/latest/10916...

Climate science is having to pioneer new statistical language to communicate the sheer craziness to the public. Here, a "once-in-a-4,433-year event." Certainly beats, "Rejects the null with p<0.0002" or "3.5 sigma." heatmap.news/climate/marc...

Do it! Bring books into your life! Escape into alternate Paris! Dragons! Fallen angels! Magic! Intrigue! Lies! Scheming! Love! Betrayal! Loyalty! Found family!

I'm still raising funds to pay for increased cancer treatment costs, & as a token of my appreciation to all donors, every contribution between Feb 1 & Mar 28 will be entered in a random draw to win 1 of 3 autographed copies of my latest novella! Click for details! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

Met someone very important today.

No donations for 6 days except my own. Please help Mohammed's son Jamal survive Israel's genocide, which has left him starving & in critical condition. Jamal has diabetes, asthma, and burn injuries from an IDF attack. He is suffering seizures & urgently needs insulin & treatment:

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

Eid mubarak, nouruz pirooz, happy ostara, blessed solstice. May empires fall.

'🚨 STOP. ODAI IS RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Odai suffers nonstop pain no child should endure. Doctors say his surgery is urgent, and every lost hour could take away his chance to walk again. We are still far from the goal. Even $5 or a share could help save his future. tinyurl.com/odai-care 🙏'

When people read this stuff in a book about European history of the first half of the 20th century they recognise it for what it is. When they read it in the Guardian it’s always complicated and we have to take the ‘legitimate concerns’ of the perpetrator society into account.

Found this little guy in Delhi

I love when my dog starts to dream after falling asleep on me. Come here tiny puppy you are safe to dream.

I really enjoyed this:

Alaa is going to have a baby, and we all know the implications of this while being in under siege Gaza Alaa needs more people to stand by her chuffed.org/project/1591...

This is very bad news indeed. Goes completely against the historic 2014 NALSA judgment which recognised the right to self identify, among other things:

slow donations ⚠️ "Hello my second family on Blue Sky With less than a week until Eid al-Fitr, I need to buy new clothes for my five children. I need $250, please help me and don't let my children down." @mommunism.bsky.social ✅

Spanish-language readers can get the lovely Spanish edition of THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR from @duermevelaed.bsky.social, Los últimos jinetes de dragón de Bowbazar (translated by Rebeca Cardeñoso), here, and presumably in bookstores in Spain:

This is a charcoal pencil drawing of a dragon dancing through a Calcutta monsoon sky that I did while writing THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. It can be found inside the Indian edition of the book from @westlandbooks.bsky.social:

Are you an artist specializing in imagined worlds, speculative concepts, and/or sci-fi and fantasy themes? We’re in need of cover art and would love to see your work! Share in the comments or get in touch here: LBrunger @ ellecordova dot com

Yeah, it's definitely a "Middle East" problem, and not colonial intervention and violence, genocide, ecocide, exploitation of resources, dispensational premillennialism, absurd Sykes-Picot land borders, the fossil fuel lobby, or anything else. It's just us. We're the problem.

If you'd like to read the poem in full with transliterations and translations, as well as links to different fragments that it is pieced together from: www.ebl.lmu.de/corpus/L/2/2

tušāma ina urri iššira damiqtī arḫu innammaru inammira šamšī "Perhaps, at daybreak, good things will come to me A new moon will appear, my sun will shine." A couplet from Babylonian poem, Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, whose protagonist hopes for better days. A lengthy, beautiful, bizarre work of literature.

'My children are freezing and starving 💔❄️ Their tiny bodies can’t endure this cold and hunger. My husband was taken prisoner in the final days of the war, and I’m about to give birth alone 🤰🏻 We urgently need €200 — 10 people giving €20 can save us 🙏 Please don’t ignore us.'

Ahmed is 17 and needs help to keep his family alive through Israel's genocide:

0 donations on Shimaa's new fundraiser. Please help if you can.

🎉🎂 Happy UK Book Birthday to INTERGALACTIC FEAST, the concluding book in @lavanya.bsky.social 's FLAVOUR HACKER duology, which began in Pen n Paper Award Winning INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF! The future of food could decide the future of the galaxy... https://geni.us/Megachef https://geni.us/intergfeast

I'm a writer of historical and speculative fiction from India, and my debut novel is out in 2027. Honestly I didn't think I'd make it this far, and I am so excited for my work to find its readers.

Every time I see anything about Alexander the Great now I am compelled to recommend @thresholdrose.bsky.social's amazing upcoming historical novel THE POISON PALACE, following a courtesan from the Indian subcontinent as she makes her way to Alexander's conquering army to try and assassinate him.

It's an extremely great story you should read it right now! And nominate it!

I didn’t make an eligibility post this year, because I am out of spoons and all kitchen utensils, but Hugo noms are open, and if you consider anything from me, I’d love it if you considered my @fantasymagazine.bsky.social story “Ichthyosis," that involves the sea, a queer throuple, and a fish.

I’m doing two in-person events in Ithaca, NY in March: I'll be at Cornell talking about speculative fiction on Mar 19 and I'm joining Debbie Urbanski to read for the Ithaca Irrealist Readings (@irrealist.bsky.social) on Mar 20. Come say hi if you are Ithaca-adjacent! vajra.me/2026/02/13/s...

Please help Mahmoud's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them sick, starving & homeless in winter.

“Brahminical pressure”: Supreme Court stay on UGC equity regulations triggers backlash, campus protests share.google/3dDqRBmQL83Y...

WTF... this is satire by a human, right? Satire by a human please? www.moltbook.com/post/33d7897...

Shahd, the little girl, cannot sleep because of the harsh cold…💔 She doesn’t have warm clothes or a blanket. All we need is just $100 to provide her with a simple warmth that every child deserves. Please… help us before the cold turns into illness.🙏 chuffed.org/project/mahm...

I'll be speaking on 3 panels at the Mathrubhumi International Festival Of Letters (February 1, 11:30 am, 2 pm, 4 pm, Kanakakkunnu Palace) in Trivandrum on Saturday. Come join if interested and able, or come say hello if you're a friend or a mutual! (Leaving Kerala the next morning):

This is excellent news, and Samit is an excellent teacher/guide. His support has been invaluable to my own work and I highly recommend signing up if you write speculative fiction, want to finish a novel, and would benefit from a teacher and a community.

'My hand is broken and I can’t work🤕 I urgently need treatment. Strong winds and heavy rain destroyed our tent🌧️ We have no shelter from the cold🥶 I’m only asking for help to buy a tent and get medical care🙏 Any support, even small, means a lot Verified: @mommunism.bsky.social ✅'

Immediately thought of my favourite Twitter account. IYKYK.

I can't begin to articulate the safety, comfort and care I feel with my partner. Especially after a long history of CPTSD and an unsafe idea of 'home' (a place I had to constantly escape) and more recently as an immigrant. Life-changing love.