Important thread about how racist riots in the north of Ireland are linked to fascist gangsters who kept organising despite the peace process.

July is #SouthAsianHeritageMonth And as always I am here for the books: #booksky #kidlituk #ukkidlit #southasianheritagemonth uk.bookshop.org/lists/south-...

Government of India: enough grain stocks, so anyway, data centres

“What about Pride?” “You just had Pride.” “Well, what about Second Pride?” (Me as a disabled Hobbit, probably.) IT’S DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH, FOLKS! We have a flag too! Designed by Ann Magill, and updated to this version to prevent strobing issues while scrolling on devices! #DisabilityPride

"Cats and dogs both experience sounds at far greater intensity than humans. Fireworks appear for them as discordant noise without warning. Studies suggest up to 50 percent of dogs are afraid of fireworks."

ICYMI ✨

As a trans child of immigrants, Last Dragoners of Bowbazar punched me right in the fuckin heart, man. I may have grown up half a world away from where the book is set but gatdayum if I didn't feel all that shit deep in my bones. Alice & Ru for life homie FOR LIFE

huge congrats to everyone on the shortlist! fab to see MAD SISTERS OF ESI on the list and looking forward to reading all the other nominees

This is cultural suicide and intellectual vandalism. In an era where humanities-illiterate tech bros have unearned god-like powers, we need historians, philosophers, ethicists, classicists more than ever. Please sign. (Reposting without 404) www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Fuuuuuuuck this

The new saffron nazi government of my state just passed a law that allows them to incarcerate anyone they deem 'anti-social' (aka protesters, activists, students, victims of pogroms, going by the BJP rulebook) for up to a year without bail or legal representation. Good luck to us all.

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

'My children...have not eaten for 3 days...As a father, I am terrified that I may lose them to hunger...I am desperately trying to raise $300...Please...Even a small contribution...give [us] hope. If you cannot donate, please share our appeal...Thank you for your kindness, compassion, & prayers. 💔🙏'

#ForestFriday 📍 Pennsylvania

It’s PTSD Awareness Day! I have PTSD and Complex PTSD. While it’s not curable, there are treatments that can make symptoms appear less frequently and severely. What has helped me is a combination of EMDR, talk therapy, a low-dose SSRI and yoga. It’s a lot of work but worth it.

'This’s the third day in a row with no support for my family in G🍉za No support for my pregnant wife😔who needs care for gestational diabetes & our unborn son No help to feed my little daughter💔Who cries for food every day Please🙏🏻Donate if you can Help ease our suffering'

TFW you realize that GenAI is destroying the habitats of the animals it generates videos of.

Love this story by @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, check it out

As an Indian watching my country routinely burn through multiple summers with massive death and disability tolls, I gotta say, Im quite fed up with heat and AC discourse. No one gives a fuck when its poor brown people dying in their thousands "somewhere else"

ICYMI my mythic queer femme retelling of the Indian 'poison maiden' tale x Alexander’s invasion of the Indian subcontinent is available for preorders and 25% off for today

Guess what? I’m at risk of redundancy. My job - and those of my colleagues in my department and across our wider faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - is one of those currently targeted for cuts. I received a personal letter today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Serpent Called Mercy has been selected as an Editor’s Pick Best Deal. Don’t miss out on this chance to grab an award-winning fantasy for $2.99 only until June 26! It’s never been cheaper! amzn.to/4uUgJpQ

would be simply absurd, except it is, as usual, malicious (the Indian Ministry of External Affairs has claimed that the Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship, but merely a travel document) scroll.in/latest/10938...

Hey y'all. I'm giving away 1 physical copy of the latest issue of Locus Magazine! (US for now). To win, all you need to do is either 1) add my novel THE FIST OF MEMORY as "want to read" on your Goodreads/Storygraph/Any book tracking site, or, 2) subscribe to my new website. Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I loved that novel!!!

There are not a lot of writers, frankly, that I would trust to pull off something with “elvenesse” in the title, but KAW is one of them

And they've ALWAYS offered pro-rates, even from the very beginning. Now they need to reach at least $30,000 to keep their above-pro-rate of 10c a word. Consider supporting @strangehorizons.bsky.social so we can keep seeing all the great spec fiction, poetry, and articles they publish. (3/3)

Terrible language. “Immigration has worsened” like it’s a disease. So fed up with all this malignant framing. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Just before the Brexit referendum vote, there were six weeks of sustained xenophobia from the British media, some of the worst I have ever seen. If many Leave voters want to pretend they weren’t seduced or enthused by that, then fine, but many of us witnessed it, and we won’t forget it.

The whitewashing will continue. It’s like Tony Blair, rewarded for war crimes. War crimes which are never mentioned or even hinted at when he is in the mix.

Since various book sales seem to be happening, I am gonna be BRAVE and FEARLESS and ANNOYING and suggest you read my books! Let's talk about them a little, shall we? candleinsunshine.com/books/

do you hate INSTANT GRATIFICATION you can PREORDER Amusement Park Arcana now! (this is an affiliate link) bookshop.org/a/19834/9781...

Yes, as is THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, which I recommend all the time. ❤️

ICYMI, my mythic realist novella about a boy coming of age in an extended family who may refugees from another reality, in a house in Calcutta that may be a dragons' nest. It won a British Fantasy Award and a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, if that affects one's inclination to read it:

It is Bookshop's Anti-Prime sale which means shipping on EVERYTHING is FREE. You can support indie bookstores and load up on reads for your summer. This includes my novel, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, which drops in three weeks. I want to thread some other book recs, though!

My little announcement - I have a new book in 2027, and this is the cover!

This is a fantastic novel that you shouldn't miss.

Readers in the US, it is available for pre-order now; pre-orders really help debut authors more than we can say. If you're a Barnes and Noble member, there's a 25% discount from today, June 23, to Friday, June 26. Link: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-poison...

Early endorsements have been promising; @elizabethhand.bsky.social says: "A gorgeous, sensual, completely captivating novel that immerses the reader in an ancient world and history, at once recognizable and utterly remote from our own."

THE POISON PALACE: A NOVEL is for you if you're interested in non-romanticised portrayals of both the ancient world and Alexander, contrary to conservative ideals of a 'glorious golden' past; if you're into queer femme retellings of very old myths; if you're into animism.

Spark Space is an incredible youth-run initiative that provides free internet and electricity to remote workers and students, giving them a much-needed way to keep working and learning. They stay open with our help - even $5 is a big help if you can spare it:

"My brother Diyaa has severely deteriorated and has been transferred to the intensive care unit. We do not know whether he will survive or not." 🚨 Diyaa is in the ICU. His sister has taken over his account. Please read this. Please help. Please act. chuffed.org/project/1335...

Haaaaappppy solstice! Soak up those photons, dance your heart out. We made it! Back to rolling down the hill towards winter. It'll be a wild ride.

"We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear." Adrienne Rich, from 'Diving into the Wreck'

Fantastic essay by @jennahanchey.bsky.social in Strange Horizons on being against worldbuilding. Highly recommended. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

News: THE FIFTH INFLECTION (formerly THE SENTENCE, in India) now has a cover - and it’s available for pre-order across the world! Get it here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fi...

this is the cover for the indian edition of my novel and i love it so much. Illustration by Saurav a.k.a. Drawnk please pre-order at www.blaft.com/collections/...

Happy solstice, from the ground under this chestnut tree. ☀️