#KindleBookGiveAway 5 copies of Moonbound by Robin Sloan. US Only. Part of his Penumbraverse, it is one of the craziest books I've read outside of the Library at Mount Char. But kinder and more hopeful too. So, who wants a copy?

Because if you could analyze what sex scenes they're talking about, chances are, they might have a purpose! Or maybe they're badly crafted, but the entire thing they're attached to is badly crafted also, and sex isn't even the issue. So unless you're going to cite your sources, hush.

Going forward, anyone who wants to complain about sex scenes in media has to link the actual scene they're talking about. For some reason, they never name names and it's this Ur Sex Scene Haunting the Plot. Chances are, it's not something they even watched personally. It's a clip out of context.

One of the greatest pleasures in life is being snugly tucked in a bed twice your size

The rain is so loud I can't even hear the tickytockies playing on my phone

As an Indian watching my country routinely burn through multiple summers with massive death and disability tolls, I gotta say, Im quite fed up with heat and AC discourse. No one gives a fuck when its poor brown people dying in their thousands "somewhere else"

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

As awful as it seems, I'd take the UK's new PM every 1-3 years shitshow over 12+ years of living under the same nazi and his same wretchedly evil government, no resignations for anyone in sight for any number of catastrophic failures, let alone for the PM himself (see: India under Modi).

I think “remigration” discourse needs to also be understood as an attempt to render migrant and racialised workers more precarious, in addition to being (obviously) racist. They still want workers to come. They just want them to have little to no rights and be easily deportable, like in the UAE.

Modi on a state visit to Netanyahu's Israel and will address the Parliament, Knesset. Good note: "The love affair between Modi and Netanyahu is based on a common passion for human rights violation.... These are two killers bonding over the means of killing civilians and suppressing dissent."

I'm just gonna say it: Main Vapas Aaunga was *awful*. Has Imtiaz Ali always been making soft propaganda nonsense and I didn't notice? He used to at least be able to tell a story! This was an incoherent mess.

🎉Cover reveal!!🎉 For the Indian edition of A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social Illustration by Saurav a.k.a. Drawnk Pre-order link: www.blaft.com/collections/...

spent 5 minutes on instagram and got absolutely sick of the AI slop everywhere. the constant flashing images and video give me a headache anyway and it's not even GOOD 😭

Since I have been on a little Ursula K Le Guin kick, I thought I should post this Bengali edition of The Wizard of Earthsea. I love this cover illustration so much! It's by Aratrika Choudhary, who published her first comic with Blaft

I dedicated this, my second published book, to Aveek. He introduced me to the work of Borges, & gave me a copy of Woolf's ORLANDO, both of which filtered in subtle ways into this, a tale of an uncracked/cracking egg in a dragons' nest in Calcutta of the 90s/00s:

Happy Pride to everyone. Thinking about how my late uncle Aveek (lost to the pandemic), who was the first openly queer person I knew, gently told me I was queer many years before I realised it myself (I denied it at the time). I think it was not long after the below book was published.

This is heartbreaking (from the India subreddit)

In 2024's heatwaves, there were 8,000 recorded fatalities in Uttar Pradesh, a single state. Meanwhile India's regime is making sure we have one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world (while fudging the stats to make it seem like we don't) so oligarchs can extract more wealth for them.

The main reason I’ve become such a “air conditioning is an essential life saving technology” advocate is because I was horrified to find out how many people seem to think that letting millions die during heat waves without it is better “for the greater good” of slowing climate change.

I am, of course, famous for having no opinion about Stoneskin by @kbspangler.com, so I am not sure how this US #KindleBookGiveaway cache of 5 copies appeared on my computer. None whatsoever. I certainly have never compared the book to the best of Andre Norton.

He's not the only one, either. A friend just recently had a lot of trouble with a publisher in India insisting on big disruptive changes to a book so as not to 'hurt religious sentiments' etc (of the Hindu majority, of course, no one else).

There are still 3 copies of this #UKKindleBookGiveaway edition of #KindleBookGiveaway, Men at Arms, by @terryandrob.bsky.social amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee... amazon.co.uk/kindle/redee...

Fierce heat in INDIA Historic hot night at Mumbai The Minimum of 30.2C is the highest ever recorded in June. Same value and same record for Harnai. Next days those records can be broken over and over again. Unprecedented

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

I'm deeply uninterested in any question about why authors are making less money that doesn't start by asking, "so how much money are publishers making?" they're charging libraries through the nose for those ebooks, after all. if anyone was worried about authors we'd get 50% net minimum on that

I think "do you support the Israel that actually exists, or has ever existed, or has any plans to ever exist?" is such a good question. I talk to so many fellow American Jews who are supporting a figment of their imagination, an Israel that has never existed and doesn't intend to.

Can't speak for millions of Indian users, but for the entire independent news media infra of India that's on X, I think they're not moving because their readers refuse to move--closed loop. Their existence in India is precarious under state repression, limited funding, they're afraid of vanishing.

I am once again looking for a developmental editor. The project is a potential book that would involve adapting some of my essays and pieces on organizing during Trump 2.0, while also incorporating some new, related essays. This is something I would be looking to move quickly on if we go forward.

Impulsive US #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of @jeremycshipp.bsky.social's The Atrocities, just 'cause he's a truly hoopy frood. amazon.com/kindle/redee... amazon.com/kindle/redee... amazon.com/kindle/redee... amazon.com/kindle/redee... amazon.com/kindle/redee...

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway, courtesy of @galatfemme.bsky.social: 10 copies of Vivid Worlds, edited by @wishusdonna.bsky.social, which I *have* but *haven't read yet* (I've only had it 10 months...), so if you read it, please let me know what you think...

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 10 copies of Modern Magic (Book One of the Modern Magic series) by Beth Williams, which I *have* but *have not read*, so if you read it please let me know what you think.

#KindleBookGiveAway C'mon folks. 7 free copies of Glass Houses. @kithrup.bsky.social can you help raise awareness? www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee...

Now reading. Borrowed from @galatfemme.bsky.social.

Join us (5:30 p.m. IST, in just over 100 minutes from now) for what promises to be an educative and heart wrenching discussion. Invite yourself here: calendar.app.google/NwCVVvp9vvCo...

This Sunday, 31 May, we will be discussing the Transgender Persons Amendment Act, 2026, and its implications for trans rights, self-determination, and protections against discrimination in India, with Raghavi Shukla, lawyer, and Grace Banu, activist. More: thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/a...

This is in a couple of hours! Free, virtual, and hugely important. We're so lucky to have two amazing speakers like Grace Banu and Raghavi Shukla 🏳️‍⚧️♥️ It's specific to Indian law and society ofc, but open to anyone. Come off if you're free, I'll be moderating

"whether you’re in the mood for horror, scandal, superstition, sisterhood, or grisly murder, this book has it all" The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction helterskelter.in/2026/03/book... Pick up a copy here! www.blaft.com/products/the... We also have ebooks! www.blaft.com/products/the...

Liberal in the US streets, fascist in the Indian sheets. Diaspora love liberals when they get to avail of affirmative action and PoC idpol, but ask them about reservations for DBA and caste violence and their deep seated and completely unexamined hatred makes itself known.

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Wildewood, by @rflong.bsky.social, which I *have* but *haven't read*, so if you read it, please let me know what you think. The author promoted the sale, which is how I came about to gave copies.

"Well I can't worry about what's happening over there." - somebody not doing a goddamn thing to help fix anything happening over here either.

In 1995, Sinead O'Connor wrote to now-Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir saying, "G-d does not reward those who bring terror to the children of the world. So you have succeeded in nothing but your soul's failure."

Whether Nazir's story is slop or merely bad (I lean slop, because his self-published books of poems from the pre-AI era don't suggest that this is his natural style) it's sort of hilarious that we talk about romantasy or whatever as rigidly formulaic without recognizing Granta-fit poco lit also

Remember kids, it’s only corruption when it happens in the global south. If it happens in the US it’s “sparkling investment”.

I need to make sure you all heard that right because this did not make enough noise the first time around—THE Crawford, Stoker, World Fantasy and British Fantasy award winning Usman T. Malik, who has published incredible short fiction for over twenty years, will have a DEBUT NOVEL out NEXT YEAR

Looking forward to everyone falling head over heels for The Duke by Anna Cowan in 2026 the way they did for Untamed a decade ago — this book is fucking great. Sapphic Regency where the duke is a hot mean lesbian and the other heroine is a blackmailing French courtesan: annacowan.com/product/book...

we are talking laura kinsale level stakes and sherry thomas angst, except it's an alternate history and The Duke is a cold & imposing lesbian with a cold heart & muscular thighs. it is doing things with gender that speak to me in ways i shant examine! ive read it twice in six months.

if you are an old school historical romance reader, i am taking you ungently by the cravat and looking deeply into your eyes when i say: read this

Have you published a book about revolutions, uprisings, civil disobedience, or protests? It's not too late to submit it to my Revolutionary May sale! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Everything seems awful but maybe I can give away a few books. Here's 3 U.S. Kindle copies of one of my go-to comfort reads, Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers: www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... #KindleBookGiveaway