There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

GOD I love a mustelid

It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time.

BSFW EVENTS [Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone] Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 11/10 7:30PM Rad Files Novel Group - Mon 11/10 7:30PM Sam's Short Story Workshop - Tue 11/11 7PM Fantastic Fiction at KGB - Wed 11/12 7PM www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

The Social is coming. The Social is coming. The Social is coming... www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors! Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

We say: AI is theft Diversity promotes innovation If you won't fix this planet, you don't deserve a new one There is no such thing as a "self-made man" Extremes of wealth encourage madness Reject terror Defy censors Remember, you are here:

10/10 take. No notes.

Universities, public sector admin - this shit will happen in Germany if you all use AI now and integrate it into your day-to-day.

If you are publishing reprints or translations in your magazine, anthology, or podcast, credit the market that first published the story. Clearly state it in that episode, book, or issue. It's a standard professional courtesy and beneficial for your readers. (Yeah, I've seen a few of these today.)

As it turns out... ...AI is *worse* than theft.

Every once in a while I do a developmental edit for someone and I take a look at the notes before I send them and think, "Man, I actually am pretty good at this." If you want to find out for yourself, my docket's currently open. www.catrambo.com/service-cate...

CW -- SPIDERS www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Oh hey, I just found out that my article for Writing Magazine, "How to Write Romantasy," is available to read for free online now! Check it out: www.writers-online.co.uk/how-to-write...

Stories and history. Fascinating. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Space X billionaire fanboy Jared Isaacman, back as Trump's NASA nominee, has a secret plan to demolish the agency and turn it into a slush fund for Space X and other private aerospace contractors:

Tonight - our virtual meetup is a Q&A with Dr. Kathy Kitts, Planetary Geochemist Extraordinaire and a team member on the NASA Discovery Mission Genesis! www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

BSFW EVENTS [Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone] Ask A Scientist: Dr. Kathy Kitts - Thu 11/6 7:30PM Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 11/10 7:30PM Rad Files Novel Group - Mon 11/10 7:30PM Sam's Short Story Workshop - Tue 11/11 7PM www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

TOMORROW!!!!

Real Life Coyote and Road Runner!

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

So sorry to hear that we've lost Celeste Rita Baker. I only got to publish her once, with "Glass Bottle Dancer" in LIGHTSPEED (which was selected for inclusion in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy). www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/glas.... RIP.

This is very good news if you are concerned about the effects of data cartels.

In case 3i/ATLAS popped into your feed, and you were wondering... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS

New #Euclid image drop from @esa.int and @ec-euclid.bsky.social! 😍 Meet LDN 1641, a ‘dark cloud’ about 1300 light-years from Earth, observed by Euclid back in 2023 to test its guiding systems. ⬛️☁️

How to understand Einstein’s relativity without math Relativity is so much more than just the math of the Lorentz transformations. It's a profound new way of looking at the world: one that you can learn to intuit for yourself. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics #relativity

I wrote this article! 🙂 This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪

Amid all of yesterday's excitement, this was last night's "Beaver moon", named for the season when beavers feverishly prepare dams and lodges for winter. And especially cool is the "lunar halo" that encircled it (caused by moonlight refracting off of ice crystals in clouds). #astronomy #science 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

ICYMI, Uncanny Magazine Issue 67 Part 1 also features essays by Javier Grillo-Marxuach & Mari Ness; poetry by Somto Ihezue & Romie Stott; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing Eleanna Castroianni; and Paul Lewin’s Mushroom Mother of Us All as the cover! buff.ly/yEqnVQ3

Are you indigenous?

PASSAGE TO SANCTUARY: ARRIVAL (1994) Digital In the early 90s, Michael began experimenting with digital painting. Rendering was painfully slow on his Mac back then, so he brought in textures through scans of his brushwork. 1/3 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/pa...

Epiphanies are those lightning-strike moments when your character finally gets it—learn how to craft character insights that feel both inevitable and surprising, turning mere plot points into unforgettable moments of genius. go.dfstory.com/ss-eureka

BCS #445 ebook out early today at @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, w stories by thirteen-time BCS author @marissalingen.bsky.social and new one @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

2025 so far🔥 With one more book to come. This has been our most ambitious, heartburn-y year so far, & only most of it was self-induced. But no one died. That's key. If you missed any of these badass titles, well you know they're gonna be Weird. Hail the Tenebrous Cult. store.tenebrouspress.com

There's a difference between fantasy and antiscientific twaddle. We write fantasy. We stand for science.

BSFW EVENTS [Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone] On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 11/5 7:30PM Ask A Scientist: Dr. Kathy Kitts - Thu 11/6 7:30PM Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 11/10 7:30PM Rad Files Novel Group - Mon 11/10 7:30PM www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.

It is my (and my twin’s) birthday. The only thing I’d like from you is: 1. For you to vote this year and 2. To vote every year Suffrage is an amazing right, but only if we use it. www.vote.org/polling-plac...

A non-profit has built a massive internet database—and served training data to AI firms despite pleas from publishers to stop, Alex Reisner reports:

When patterns from the past re-emerge, they shape the future. They are a legitimate, terrible subject for writers.

Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. #ToriiTuesday #Shinto

The use of ammonite fossils here is a gentle reminder of the vast span of time. 2/2 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/pa...

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ATTENTION! The Universe is **NOT** we repeat **NOT** a simulation! (Suck on that, tech douches) www.sciencealert.com/physicists-j...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!