When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

I grieve to report that I have looked up apostle spoons, and they are exactly as charming and quaint as LM Montgomery always made them sound. I had really pinned my hopes on their being tacky and unbearable. No, they are so cute. The apostles have little outfits.

"Children are little priests of their parents, watching their every gesture and expression for signs of their divine will." I'm sorry but there was simply no reason for a YA novel about a girl possessed by a bear during the English Civil War to go this hard

one of the absolute best things in life is knowing two disconnected facts about a topic, and then you present your two facts to an expert in that topic, and then they're like, "Great job! You knew two facts!" and then +

Welcome to Premee Mohamed's Wickhills. If you were a secret agent, how do you think you'd compromise the mission? - I'd panic under pressure - I'd tell "just one person" - Enemy's hot? I'm spilling. - You'd never catch me hehe

Milwaukee cyberpunk, vampiric MLMs, and a newly translated novel from the author of I Who Have Never Known Men: @tobiascarroll.bsky.social gives a rundown on the upcoming indie press SFF guaranteed to haunt you!

I think to claim any aesthetic or thematic niche is immune from detectable generative AI works is misguided, automated scraping isn't a human curating only the most successful and average work to reproduce- weird niche works were scraped too, broad and indiscriminate, and they can be spat out again

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

Summer is upon us! Stay cool by getting some preorders in. I've got 16 of my most anticipated young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror books coming atcha. reactormag.com/young-adult-...

rats I stopped paying attention for one minute (several years) and I forgot all the elements of Bentham's hedonic calculus. motherfucker.

Wrote about the romance books you should read this summer (and some great titles from earlier this year you might have missed) for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social:

New column up! This time, a story from Clarkesworld that thinks about those left behind by big events and larger powers, the choices they have to make, the connections of circumstance that conflict with their divisions.

Maria is SUCH a good reporter, and this piece was a real joy to edit. My conlang assumptions (as a pure extension of canon *or* just about language learning and not the source material) were upended by this—it's a mix of that whole spectrum, and very community-oriented. Highly recommend this piece!

hot take: every time this website decides to do Falklands/Las Malvinas discourse the perpetrators should be forced to read my book as punishment

I feel like a lot of discourse about AI fiction submissions seems to want there to be a perfect way to distinguish AI fiction that never discourages or excludes real writers. And it's like, I don't know what to tell you. That's impossible.

guys guys guys hey listen up y'all, I've just had an idea what if you boiled the gnocchi and then, wait for it, wait for it DIPPED THE GNOCCHI IN THE FONDUE

They just opened a cowardly short 14-day public comment period. Make your voices heard. PLEASE. Link Below 🔗👇🏽 eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

New release day! 💙📚🌈 If Oli chooses to stay in his tiny hometown he can’t be unhappy, right? Even if nobody knows he’s gay, and he has to sneak to the city for hookups. But a disastrous reunion with Flynn, the childhood best friend who left Oli behind, starts a love affair neither may be ready for.

just went over to my sister's house and spent an hour turning Nine and Six rightside-up and then screaming and wailing and throwing myself on the floor in an agony of grief when they turned themselves upside down again. can't recommend it enough. highly therapeutic.

Again, in my experience in education, the best way to clear the LLM bar isn't seeing drafts or notes, looking for common slop phrasing, intrusive surveillance, using AI detectors, or listening to your gut (but they are great ways to punish real human work) but talking to the person who submitted it.

It's not just your time on the line but mine as a reader as well, not to mention the real humans excluded bc you got scammed. And you will get scammed, that's guaranteed. Slop is easy to spot sometimes and very hard other times. I know, I work in education and libraries. I'm neck deep in this shit.

oh fascinating, for me it's that there are too many thoughts inside my brain (many of them very bad) and if I don't drain some of the (mostly bad) thoughts out on a regular basis, then my brain will become too crowded and explode. ah, the infinity that is human experience.

Beyond physical media for books, music, movies and TV, etc too lots of crafts and hobbies have lost physical spaces you can go for supplies and inspiration- private equity has shut big chain stores and smaller ones can't provide the same hours or locations, there are fewer places to go for things

Asking for help for a couple of bills, namely coned and some rent. Could use any help so i don’t have to deal with heat stroke over the summer ko-fi.com/weredawgz

for those following along at home, my winning streak on this lasted until 2:56 PM. we had a good run (5+ hours) but the internet's love of saying "I can't get got" won out in the end.

y'all, I have a problem. there is a thing called a chompsaw CHOMPSAW what does it do? it chomps things! what things? NOT YOUR FINGERS, FINGERS ARE SAFE FROM CHOMPSAW

me when the girls (neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky) start trying to prove free will doesn't exist because scans show that your brain starts the action of moving your arm before you can articulate that you have made the decision to move your arm

"By another metric, I’ve been immersed in MM romance my entire adult reading life: For 35 years, I’ve been reading and rereading, writing and rewriting about, teaching and reteaching Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick." I snort-laughed, this is the content the internet desires

man it sucks to see people blaming small SFF magazines and their volunteer staff for getting got by AI submissions. this is like those smug jerks who think they're too clever to get taken in by phone scams. I get it, man. I'd like to be unfoolable also. but unfortunately none of us are.

my dad used to do fire drills with us a lot as kids, which was good bc ovens were less safe then & he set things on fire kind of often. he's a good cook, to be clear! he just also set things on fire a lot.

Ahead of tonight’s episode of #TheVampireLestat, I spoke with Jacob Anderson and Delainey Hayles about Lestat and Louis’ intense night out, that emotionally exposing seance, and what happens in the final minutes:

We reached our fundraising goal!❤️‍🔥🎉 Thank you all for your support & making it possible for us to continue another year of creating human art, meaningful stories, & publishing speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers. Your support & being part of our community has made this possible! 🧡

I dearly and desperately want to see these people made to answer at public trials for the illegal and unconstitutional violence they have unleashed upon the people by and for whom they fucking govern.

Anyway if you liked this you are going to LOVE my @theflytrapmedia.com article about the explosive growth of the pull to publish trend that's turning Harry Potter fanfic into big book deals. While you're at it you should subscribe to our newsletter! Majority trans & queer feminist media! Good stuff.

no, you see, I want all the characters to have EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS I want them to be DAMAGED I want them to be SUFFERING I want their low opinion of themselves to fan outward in concentric damaging waves like the shock wave when Isildur killed Sauron

still so mad Violet Bridgerton didn't marry that smoking hot man at the end of season four

We're thrilled to announce Reactor's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 - Part TWO!!! A new list curated by Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social highlighting the fantasy, science fiction, and horror books this year you won't want to miss, from authors we've loved for years to exciting new debuts.

For whatever reason, I missed this when it came out in May. Come see me (and a bunch of others) recommend books! www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n...

hummingbird is like: SAVE THE FISH! SAVE THE FISH! OH MY GOD WILL SOMEONE HELP THIS DYING FISH

Someone write a gay, enemies to lovers period romance about footmen in competing families. Call it Heated Livery.

nobody talks about John Smith blowing up his own dick like an absolute dipshit, including my HS English teacher, who had a whole unit about John Smith being a dipshit. I had to learn this intel on the streets. so: this is your annual reminder that John Smith (of Pocahontas) blew up his own dick.

Look at this wholesome video please I watched it too many times alone

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

me explaining what happened to John Smith of Pocahontas

I forgot to say that I heard this story when I was fifteen and was like "got it, so this is how one behaves then" and replicated this move upon my sister's Sunday school classmates who were bullying a mentally disabled girl in their class in like, a really gross and sexualized way.

how much sauce would y'all put on a pound of gnocchi?

one of my favorite things about my dad -- because of how much it intimidates and alarms men who like to brag about their masculinity -- is that he does all the traditionally masculine things but he also has a very robust emotional vocabulary and he is, thirdly, just a silly little guy.

We hit our base goal, but there's still 33 hours left to go, and your continued support means the world to us! With our first stretch goal, we can pay our ultra-talented human artists more, we can increase our average story length to 4000+ words, and expand to author interviews 🧡