You might, uh, commemorate this event by ordering the Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories for your local library. www.atthisarts.com/product/rosa...

Nobody ever "needed" to cave on trans rights. It is not a "need." However, is always, ever, a "want" for way too many people

One of the many reasons I've been loving fountain pens

Huge congratulations to @rblemberg.bsky.social and @tachyonpub.bsky.social for winning Best Novella at the #WorldFantasyAwards2025! 🎉 A fantastical novella of language and listening between two hurt souls in the School Of Assassins! Check out the link below: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/yoke...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

aaaand just sold a poem to one of my favorite magazines 😍

Did Zohran win???? He won!!! Thank G-d

Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:

SENTIENT. MUSHROOM. ADVENTURES.

I just want to go aaaah about the cover art of my new book, by Galen Dara. It actually wraps all the way around and I heeeear it is also on the inside cover (I haven't gotten my author copies yet, but I hope to be taking pics once I can!!!).

Ok but the real star in all this is @jhameia.bsky.social who made this book happen, she is AMAZING

Best Novella: #WorldFantasyAwards2025 Winner: Yoke of Stars, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon)

WHAT

So proud and excited to have a poem upcoming in the Deadlands. This is a poem about a Yiddish play I can't stop thinking about (and writing about)

Thank you 😍

Today I learned that John Lasser passed away. I knew he was sick. This is awful. His memory for a blessing.

I love this story and am super happy to see it out.

Such an awesome list!! I am happy to be on it.

Please take care of yourselves and each other. That's all.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

oh hey it's pre-order sale time again at @barnesandnoble.com which makes it a great time to pre-order WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, interviews about activism, protest, and collective action, edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly

And, as always, checked the Staff Recs, and they like people I like! Look @stephanieburgis.bsky.social and @rblemberg.bsky.social (in the ABC in The Hague 😊)

Well, this is a fantastic essay, and it makes me very angry to learn that names were mispronounced - AGAIN - at Worldcon.

I heard about this from faculty at UO -- I've visited UO repeatedly, this university houses the Le Guin archives, it has a wonderful folklore program, I have great colleagues there in German and Scandinavian and Russian/East European studies and other departments, all this is devastating

I wrote a picture book about a good prefix! And @kahyangni.bsky.social is illustrating it!! It's about transportation, translation, transcription, transcendance, and...some other words too.

Cover reveal!!! Yes, at a time like this. My latest, at LGBTQ Reads! SONG OF SPORES coming from Broken Eye Books November 2025! Trans & intersex space opera! Total chaos! More! With cover art by Galen Dara: lgbtqreads.com/2025/08/11/e... Preorder here: www.brokeneyebooks.com/store/c62/So...

#poemoftheday is the amazing "Things for which I have not ascertained your consent" by @rblemberg.bsky.social "I was taught that the dead are ghosts, the dead are dybbuks that cling to the living to be purified by virtue—but I think it’s in reverse" psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... #poetry

Aaand an acceptance for myself and @bogiperson.bsky.social for a co-authored socioling article on topics our state legislature views as verboten

resubmitted 🫠

What I'm thinking about today:

BREAKING: Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Wednesday.

www.humblebundle.com/books/tachyo... Tachyon 30th Anniversary Humble bundle With books by @samtasticbooks.com @nalohop.bsky.social @lavietidhar.bsky.social @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social @kateelliottsff.bsky.social @spalwick.bsky.social @rblemberg.bsky.social and more!

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

From conversations I am having, it feels like every trans/nonbinary colleague is planning to leave Kansas/this university. It certainly does not feel safe to remain. Staff have more flexibility than faculty in terms of job options and I am glad for that (I'm faculty).

Ahh amazing

Tachyon's 30 year anniversary bundle includes two of my Birdverse books - Yoke of Stars (World Fantasy finalist!) and Geometries of Belonging (Le Guin Prize for Fiction finalist!) for all your Birdly needs. www.humblebundle.com/books/tachyo...

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain.

Meanwhile, at my university.

What I'm thinking about today: Stalker is a film about people lying in bodies of water There's so much to say about this, I am literally revising an article right now, but last year I was in Estonia looking around where this film was made and -- people are lying down in bodies of water also dog

Bogi and me, on the couch right now: "Ibn Fadlan was weirded out by what he saw by the Volga." "He was really weirded out." "Did I ever tell you how Vladimir wrote a letter to his son about getting gored by various wild animals? No? Even the aurochs gored him while being almost extinct..."

sent a new story out, maybe it's time to acnkowledge that I'm having a multiday migraine even though I dunwanna

Extremely excited to see two books I edited for @tachyonpub.bsky.social among the World Fantasy Awards finalists this year!! Congrats @rblemberg.bsky.social and @samtasticbooks.com on your nominations! Shoutout to boss Jacob who's also a finalist this year!! locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...

Aaand it's public - my Birdverse novella Yoke of Stars is a World Fantasy Award finalist! locusmag.com/2025/07/2025... Congrats to all my fellow finalists @premeemohamed.com @samtasticbooks.com @leemandelo.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @tanaudel.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social <3

This is despicable. A Gofundme is linked in the comments.

Sent out two poems today, and also recorded something for the Le Guin foundation <3. I feel like hell on wheels, but at least that's something I mean... it could be hell without wheels /mutters "everything is wheel" and steps away again

This is the New York Times so the bar is buried in the ground, but it's a shameful thing to print. We're talking about Zohran Mamdani, the guy who worked to save a Yiddish bookstore, cross-endorsed with Lander and did Yiddish language outreach to frum communities. What are we even talking about?

Tyanitolkay (a visual story in 8 panels) just went up on my Patreon. This is patrons-only but you can pledge as little as $1 if you feel so inclined. www.patreon.com/posts/132271...

got rid of big balls and cuomo in one day love to see it

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

I think what establishment democrats need to understand is that most of us hate them all very much for being so persistently useless and shitty in our time of desperation and it fills our hearts with hope and joy when someone who might not be those things beats them.