Odai was shot by the IDF. 'With a heart full of fear, I ask for help… my sick little boy is shivering inside a fragile tent. No home, no warmth, no protection. Hunger is breaking us; survival feels impossible. Please share or donate. Every second matters—your action now could save his life.💔🙏'

Decided in this moment to reread some Galeano. First page: “The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.”

Feel free not to displace your anger onto people who are simply stating facts. Knowing who to actually be mad at is praxis.

I just think it's neat that bad leaders who must be stopped at all costs only live in countries with big oil reserves

In honor of the 208th book birthday of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, I've unlocked this original 2025 poem in the voice of the lesser known first Mrs. Shelley. (Spoiler: she's pissed.) #LitSky #SciFi #Gothic #Poetry #SciFiLit #HorrorLit #AlternateHistory #HappyNewYear www.patreon.com/posts/harrie...

What happened in Venezuela over the last 24 hours is the kind of context reporters will leave out in the future when Venezuelans come to the U.S. in large numbers to seek asylum from U.S. foreign policy.

Caring for a sick toddler is already an exhausting and harrowing experience, but Sama'a and her husband have to do it in a warzone and in freezing weather. Please give whatever you can to help. Tinyurl.com/samaasfamily

#OTD in 1818, Mary Shelley's 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯; 𝘰𝘳, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘶𝘴 was first published. The title compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay. #literature #litsky #booksky #scifi #gothic #HappyNewYear

My 1st new read of the new year, acquired from a splendid small local LGBTQ+ bookstore called Always Here. It's always worth checking out something @annaleen.bsky.social had a hand in. #booksky

We're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range. Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...

This is not a hard message. Localize it. Embrace it. Win.

Judge orders Trump administration to continue to seek funding for the CFPB www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...

'Urgent My family of 15 living in freezing cold,rain without warm shelter, blankets,food,treatment They shivering now We desperately need your kindness to save them from freezing cold,rain We are trying to raise £500 before it's too late😭🥶🙏 Verified'

No donations for 3 days, please help Louay's family, including a newborn, survive. 'The rain has entered my children's tent; they are freezing from the cold. 😭😭 Two years of suffering. 😭😭 For the fourth day, I haven't received any donations 😭😭 I urgently need $100, who will stand by me? 💔🙏👇'

There is a thing that can happen to praying mantises, called "Peter Pan syndrome" by keepers, where they keep eating, keep apparently thriving, but stop molting while still sub-adult. This inevitably kills them, as they crush themselves inside their old exoskeletons. It sucks.

#Podcast #Christmas #Horror #TheNoSleepPodcast open.spotify.com/episode/6sQ6...

Check it out, folks My Best of 2025 Horror Books gnofhorror.com/best-horror-... @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @nuzo.bsky.social @emotrophywife.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @charlieratpig.bsky.social 💙📚

HT make Bluesky better than Xwitter--PERMANENTLY. Choose your account's "Settings" (gear icon) from menu; pick "Accessibility" from next choices; check "Require alt text before posting" from next choices. Presto! Instant DEI! Your photo posts can now be read by lowsight/blind people like me FOREVER!

With the heinous shenanigans involving that awful bill, I want to take a sec to tell any of my trans friends out there—I’m sorry. I’m sorry you can’t just exist and be happy and live your life without a bunch of shitbirds villainizing you. You don’t deserve that. No one does. I’m glad you’re here.

I didn’t necessarily want a c-section. I laboured for 24 hours before we went the c-section route, following my extensive birth plan flow chart. But I was also the first person in over 200 births to actively tell my doulas in their intro meeting that I wasn’t opposed to ä c-section.

My #Patreon review of “Nectarine, Apple, Pear,” by @lauracranehill.bsky.social from the Shirley Jackson award–winning anthology Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic, which, by the way, would make a great holiday gift. www.patreon.com/posts/144749...

Please help Mohammed afford treatment to save his injured brother's life. Palestinians have been left to die in Israel's ongoing genocide:

Scotland's real monsters are in its pages. This St. Andrew's Day, explore the brilliant new wave of Scottish horror authors. Our guide features 4 must-read Scottish authors and the publishers & festivals championing them gnofhorror.com/scottish-hor... #ScottishHorror #StAndrewsDay

*Love* every line of this poignant tale by @tammykomoff.bsky.social, in which a mother follows her toddler through a magic hedge into possible futures...and pulls her back again. This tiny piece of prose poetry gets right to the marrow of parenthood. Give it a listen! #MomSky #SpecLit #FlashFiction

its the FABULOUS BODIES cover reveal, my latest horror journey arriving next summer. buckaroos are calling it DRIVE MEETS BEETLEJUICE (but COLLATERAL in palm springs with an undead queer icon also works). PREORDER NOW BUCKAROOS LETS TROT us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Judging from the responses, not enough people have watched one of the greatest comedy lectures of all time.

Rebecca at her best. Come for the reveal, stay for the powerful conclusion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...

Only one day left to get these books for 50% off! #discountbooks 💙📚

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Please share & give to help Ahmed's family survive Israel's continuing genocide. His family's been left homeless and starving as winter rains flood the camps, & his children are very sick & in urgent need of unaffordable, scarce shelter & healthcare:

Authors, a terrific series. Please read the guidelines.

"There really was a very big preserved tapeworm in a jar with ‘YUM’ written on it." hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD read on (YUM) and preorder too! psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...

Reposting for signal boost! 😱📚🩸💙📚 Image shows the novels named in the post, and the image text reads: 100% of the proceeds from book sales will be donated 50% to [her] local food bank 50% to Feed America Get a book Feed a family KimberlyDavisBasso.com

Did you know? In the Victorian era, cities were so choked with horse manure that pedestrians could barely cross the street. This led to the crossing sweepers: poor men, women, and even children who earned their living by clearing small patches of road with handmade brooms. #Victorian #history

Mohammed Jameel needs some help, his donations have stopped and his daughter needs treatment. This is still their only means of income. Sharing for anyone who can assist! gofund.me/a8c93412f

Suffering has not ceased for this family and many others. Every penny, every share helps. gofund.me/041e8a387

Always fun to discover a new #badass artist.

time to step away from the starbucks drinks, y’all. do not cross the picket line. unions are how we fight back. corporate monopolies are heavily consolidated right now. it’s a large part of why prices are high and wages are low.

Surely the people of Halloween can rally together to support a bookstore called THE TWISTED SPINE that sells HORROR books? gofund.me/96586c695

In which the first Mrs. Shelley gets 186 lines to scream. Have a taste. First part's free. #ReadingCommunity #SpecLit #HorrorSky #PoetryCommunity #AlternateHistory #WhatIf #Frankenstein www.patreon.com/posts/harrie...

Wow! What a hard hitting story by @celestewakefield.bsky.social! That feeling of wanting to nourish your child no matter their level of… let’s say aliveness, is really universal. Loved it. Gave me chills! Please give it a read! www.penumbric.com/archives/Jun...

The 23 yo daughter of a friend and former coworker of mine received an unexpected diagnosis of stage 4 colon cancer. It's metastasized to her brain and lungs. She has two young girls herself. Please consider donating if you can. 💙 gofund.me/ece7d7dfb

That’s my dude!

Apparently Renfield working his way up the evolutionary ladder in his cell (flies, spiders, sparrows) and going crazy in the process reflects a wider anxiety about Darwinism taking place in England at the time