Jirel is such an underappreciated part of S&S. She deserves as much recognition as Conan and Elric do, imo.

If you are partial to Sword and Sorcery and beyond, @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social are doing great work. The new Sword & Planet issue also happens to include a story by little old me, if you’re curious))) attend thee! Support indie publishing

I Fulneckied the assignment #SamanthaFulnecky #Meritocracy

For those who just joined or don't remember who I am, I write a lot (film & lit. crit, fiction, poetry, music thoughts). This🧵 is for freebies so if you find something of interest I hope you'll consider supporting my bad habits One of my regular review posts: www.patreon.com/posts/134358...

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

For love 🐰

ICE is using a new app called Mobile Fortify to scan people's faces and determine their immigration status. The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights. www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Check out this snippet from the audiobook for 20th Century Ambient (available on Spotify, Audible or wherever you get your audiobooks). 🎧

Order trans books directly from the artist/publisher

Proton Mail is an appealing alternative to Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. It also comes with advanced privacy and productivity features, including a way to manage newsletter overload. www.wired.com/story/4-tips...

Trans Day of Remembrance is in about a week. Aside from Miss Major, are there any other transfeminine author who have passed away in the last twelve months? Want to make sure I recognize everyone.

The Mothman Prophecies available to listen to now! 🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/3bjd... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... ▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=Joa2...

Scares That Care has TWO charity events in early 2026 -- our first Women's Writing Symposium and our 6th annual AuthorCon. For more information on either event, visit the charity's website: scaresthatcare.org

Some days life makes it very evident why my work matters so much. Had an incredibly shitty day today and let the world and the Horrors get to me. But fiction lifts the soul from the depths of despair.

The miserable bastard who did this just got a trillion dollar pay day. There's no karma, there's no cosmic justice. There's just horrible people who more often than not never gave any consequences for their actions in life.

A series of interesting ideas with classic cosmic horror play The King in Yellow are completely waylaid by one of the most unlikeable main character dynamics I've read in fiction this year. I loathed the ending of this book too. Major suicide TW to any prospective readers.

I wrote an essay on @defector.com about my archival misadventures putting together the book that is Gendertrash From Hell. Many thanks to @laurentheisen.bsky.social it was really nice to *get* edited for once. Lauren u rule!

E-book is up now today too btw

We love happy readers 🤘🏻🏳️‍⚧️♥️

ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism. Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

This sounds badass. “Go! go! go! Hahahahahaaaheeheehee))) #TCM #SallyHardestyLaugh

Trying and failing to fathom the scope of violence that the loss of basic food assistance and the catastrophic spikes in healthcare costs will cause in the US.

Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/

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As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️ This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤 A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book. #halloween #horror

Final Acts: www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

Have a douche canoe

This whole @wired.com package is insane

Patriots rather, as in standing against fascist treason against the Constitution of the United States. Dolt.

Several news organizations, including The New York Times, NPR and Newsmax, are refusing to sign a new set of restrictions on news gathering inside the Pentagon. n.pr/3ILiHaj

NEW 📗! PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social) In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil "The year's great work of literary horror." —Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

Embarking on your journey @christophergold.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social I too am feeling old and doddering. Thank you, to all the contributors.

Lyle wrote about the idiotic Hegseth speech www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Thinking about science and technology in terms of return on investment misses the point. Here’s what kids really need to know. www.wired.com/story/the-im...

UK's Labour Party Abandoned Trans People. Here's What American Dems Can Learn. www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

ICE are klansmen and criminal abusers of women and children. Enough of this bullshit!!! STOP IT 😡 #ICE #traitors

Opinion | Foreign authoritarians want to control what gets said in American colleges. That's bad.

A growing number of Americans believe that gender-affirming care will become less accessible in their lifetime, a new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll finds — reflecting a political landscape that has become increasingly hostile toward transgender people and their health care.

I've written about this a half-dozen times since 2015, because it continues to be relevant that the alt-right originally weaponized irony and memes in order to 1) spread extremism without consequence and 2) cultivate all these semi-ironic violent extremist edgelords foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/c...

The people behind Project 2025 just published a "guide" for designating the trans movement as domestic terrorism. They falsely claim trans people are behind *50%* of school shootings, despite only being able to name 4 cases (0 of which were motivated by anti-trans sentiments).

Hey check it out I fixed the turn signal on my Jeep all by myself I am such an enemy of the state for being trans. But I’ll admit that I hadn’t stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Seeing that Arizona hate sewage rally inspired me to rewatch Cloverfield and hoo boy was that as satisfying as ever. #wokekaiju

In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing, Donald Trump's advisors were sure who was to blame. Whether they actually were didn't, and doesn't, much seem to matter. www.wired.com/story/inside...

But we were promised ARUGULA #fyrefestival

WOW -- a screaming Patel crashes out in response to Schiff's questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and calls him "the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate" and "an utter coward" and "political buffoon"