Palestine's most important university used to hold classes in living rooms when Israel shut it down. A devastating essay by one of its own professors on what happens when a university keeps functioning but stops meaning anything. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...

Dear Adobe, No, I don't need the AI to summarize. No, I don't need the AI to help me search. No, I don't need the AI to help me resize the margins. No, I don't need the AI to do anything. What I need is to hit the print icon without your product crashing from all of the AI popups.

'border czar' is a thing people are saying with a straight face???

hi #amquerying friends! despite my best efforts, alas, i won't be able to open up to queries next week (last week of the month). i really want to start the year with a fresh slate and still have quite a bit of queries to go through from 2025 so will aim to open up at the end of feb!

We are immensely proud of @leemandelo.bsky.social and all of our contributors behind AMPLITUDES, for making the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

so my sister works at a call centre and her biggest op these days is the ai 'receptionists' some healthcare providers are now using, which make an already rough job even worse and highkey dystopian 🙃

We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older reviewed by Alex Kingsley Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

@ruthjoffre.bsky.social on "We Will Rise Again," where activists are "regular, everyday people trying to do a little good under decidedly less than ideal circumstances.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fantastical-transcendence-and-the-magic-of-resistance/

Picked up the @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, & @older.bsky.social edited anthology We Will Rise Again, the other day, and have a feeling that it's exactly something I need, in this moment

Tomorrow! Join me, @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social as we discuss our new anthology We Will Rise Again. Register at the link. citylights.com/events/panel...

posted this on the 📷 app but curious about responses on here too: what are some of your favourite fantasy novel opening scenes or chapters? prologues included because i'm not a monster!!!

Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

It's a tough time for non-profit, independent news outlets right now, but @globalvoices.org is nearly to halfway on our November fundraising goal! Help us keep providing free, ad-free, tracker-free, multilingual news and analysis from around the world! globalvoices.org/donate/

Im so exhausted yall, I dont know how to tell you how desperate our friends in Gaza are, because prices haven't gone down, aid is not flowing freely, there is no infrastructure and no work, but no one is donating. The horrors continue, the stress accumulates and they are all confused and frustrated

A very timely ask. I’m extending the submission period for The Apocryphal, the sequel to the award winning Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. I’ll have the details soon. But if you’re Palestinian and want to write horror, get in touch with me.

Anyone wanting to show solidarity to Sudan should challenge the "no one cares about Sudan/no one is helping" narrative. WE care. Sudanese people at home & in the diaspora & our comrades have worked relentlessly to support people & dream of justice & freedom for all of us.

'No shame': UK invites private firms to compete for Gaza reconstruction contracts - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-mps-slam-uks-private-finance-efforts-rebuilding-gaza

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will. Our work is not done! Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

hello #amquerying friends! apologies for the late notice but i will be remaining closed to queries this month as i am in the depth of frankfurt book fair prep chaos (seriously, where has september gone, does it have somewhere to be?!?) i will be back open at the end of oct for a week as per usual!

ughhhhh been in calls and surprise meetings all day and now i have task paralysis at a time when i cannot afford task paralysis i love fall in publishing 🙃

Israel closes West Bank-Jordan crossing 'until further notice' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-closes-west-bank-jordan-crossing-until-further-notice

More than 5,000 cases of malaria, typhoid and dengue fever, causing dozens of deaths, were reported in last month.

Opinion: At UN, western powers push phantom 'Palestine' recognition to safeguard Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-un-western-powers-push-phantom-palestine-recognition-safeguard

I'm about halfway thru this and it is incredible. A lifeline. Preorder it so it gets even more support!

We are so thrilled to welcome @melisfluous.bsky.social to CookeMcDermid! She is represented by Hana El Niwairi.

Some news! 👀 In a crazy ass turn of events, I have somehow found myself ✨AGENTED!✨ I'm THRILLED to now be represented by Hana El Niwairi @hel-no-wai.bsky.social. I cannot wait to see what shenanigans we get up to together. 🥰

You see, I get frustrated by those who imply Palestinians can't be trusted to relay their experiences reliably online. Because I knew the information in this article before I read it, having been told about it by people in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/how-...

A group of journalists gathered at Lebanon's Martyrs’ Square in Beirut to express support for their Palestinian colleagues reporting in Gaza, holding the pictures of some of the 274 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since it began its war on the enclave.

I love my fellow artists and writers but I do feel like sometimes we get lost in the power of story because it’s important to us and easier than the tangibility of action, pressure, protest, divestment, declining, standing up, and risking connections that might have been advantageous

WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older is also on my radar as I love each of those authors individually and am interested in their message. #ewgc #booksky

i am once again here to let y'all know that all AI has done for me thus far in my life is MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT, like exponentially so, in every facet, i hate it so much 😭

If you’re drawn to otherworldly coming-of-age stories that blend myth and memory, then @indrapramitdas.bsky.social's The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar is the perfect read for you! Pick up your copy from your nearest bookstore or online.

oh hey it's pre-order sale time again at @barnesandnoble.com which makes it a great time to pre-order WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, interviews about activism, protest, and collective action, edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly

I will never forget Hind as long as I live. And I will never forgive Israel.

I'm in this! With a little fabulist story about bird mom problems aka what happens when you have an immigrant parent and the choice to assimilate is made for you.

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.

Go read the novella that really hurt my detached-from-my-origins feelings, and made me cry a lot (affectionate)

A reminder when talking about famine in Gaza.

What’s happening in Sudan is not a “civil war.” A civil war suggests ordinary people fighting each other. What’s really happening is two elite armed factions, both backed & funded by foreign powers, are massacring civilians through ethnic cleansing, mass sexual violence and starvation tactics

Honoured that the Spanish edition of my novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR (@duermevelaed.bsky.social), translated by Rebeca Cardeñoso, is a finalist for the Ignotus Awards. Congratulations to all the finalists!

Many westerners can’t seem to imagine that this could be their son. Imagine your son’s face being here. 💔

The update!! I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined The Caldwell Agency! My query inbox is now open and I accepted queries through QT, so please consider querying me if you think I’d be a good fit for you! #amquerying

Hani Mahmoud reporting from Gaza city: what Israel is doing in Gaza city is what they did in Rafah, scorched earth, destroying everything, depopulating the city by making it unliveable.

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.