oof. More details in the thread.

Story Hour is taking a few weeks off from streaming, so where can you watch videos of writers reading their own speculative fiction? Story Hour's YouTube channel has over five year's worth of stories to browse. But if you want specific Story Hours, read on! 1/? www.youtube.com/@StoryHour2020

Day 6 of #12DaysOfPoetry coincides with New Hearing Device day for me. To that end, I offer “Worlds I Didn’t Hear,” which bowed last year at @strangehorizons.bsky.social. There’s probably a whole collection here somewhere. 🤔

they know what the people want (if you don't go here: I'm pretty sure the squeaky noises are part of the mount skin, not sound effects added for the video)

All the book covers I designed and illustrated this year 🖤

I know at least one, maybe two Mochis who live in Seattle. But I think Kinako would be a great name! If nothing else it could recruit more people onto the kinako appreciation team

Hey, @barnesandnoble.com has a 25% off sale on preorders for their members from 12/30 to 1/1. Preorder _The Subtle Art of Folding Space_ at a discount. Debugging physics! A family reckoning! A status report in the form of an egg tart! #BNPreorder www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-subtle...

Authors! Readers! The grand Barnes & Noble pre-order sale is now upon us. Use the code PREORDER25 to save 25% off basically every pre-ordered book for next year. Authors: please reply to this post with your upcoming book title, a link, and at least one cool thing in your book!

what bizarre kind of glitch happened here??

Wegmans apologizes “for the inconvenience” of how just putting “spices” on their preserved meats instead of real ingredient lists means I can’t buy anything except prosciutto An apology is useless. The only useful things would be “we’ll change it” or “here’s a list of ones without that ingredient”

As others point out, if you go to the remarkably moving and interesting Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA this aspect of his thought is well documented.

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Can't tell you how many times in fantasy/D&D-adjacent spaces I've had to pause and ask myself "do they...do they not KNOW what the Crusaders, Knights Templar, etc. actually did? or do they not care? or is it all intentional?" In our current world, it's even more critical to not lionize this stuff

And if you've heard the shot doesn't match the strain this year, you should know that the shot still offers a ton of protection (especially from severe complications). www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

I feel like a lot of people have forgotten how "inevitable" widespread use of VR was circa 1995-2005. It wasn't, because it kind of sucked. Without commenting on the original piece, I don't enjoy how many people are using "inevitable" when they mean "shut up and give in."

This book is fantastic, and manages to not only be thrilling but frequently hilarious. You owe it to yourself to read it!

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

"Schools should engage with all stakeholders—including technology companies, legislators, school district leadership, parents and the community—to create policies and guidelines for use of advanced technology." Why are technology companies listed first? Why should they help with guidelines?

New invitation link: discord.gg/KkqZ5vRWQN #WhereWindsMeet #燕雲十六声 please pass on to anyone who might be interested, as I can't post this on XHS ("Discord"=banned) and the big English-language subreddits and discords ban links entirely.

I am *very* close to having the best sales month of the year, if anyone is looking for a wintry read where you're kept warm by female rage in a character-driven epic feminist fantasy, I hope you'll consider my debut, Blood Price! #BookSky #QueerAdultSFF 🌈📚 linktr.ee/thoughtsstai...

If you’re in the UK & are so inclined, from Dec 25 to Jan 5 you can get the Kindle edition of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS for 99p as part of their 12 Days of Kindle event! This means in the UK you can also get that price matched at other etailers, like Kobo! Merry Christmas! www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

kimchi is truly the solution to so many of my "but this needs more veggies" problems

This was such a fun conversation with @shaunduke.net and @skiffyandfanty.com ! Check it out and A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES too, before they escape!

Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days: REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY. IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

local heroes PM Press!

Happy jerboas 🐭

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I am wearing a green sweater vest with Totoro embroidery and a light-up toque with a cat photo applique and the woven words MEOWY XMAS because fuck it let's be holly jolly or something

My kingdom for a long-sleeved black turtleneck that's both big enough AND has long enough sleeves! I'm not THAT tall, but it's a problem. In the Bay Area it didn't matter because my sleeves were constantly pushed up anyway, but in upstate NY my exposed forearms are both goofy-looking and too cold

via @valerievaldes.bsky.social youtu.be/1IQ_GS_Gyt4?...

The fruitcakes are out and cooling. (Not a euphemism.)

(tangentially: I know I got some people's backs up with my advocacy of not using "please" or "thank you" with so-called AIs, but all this is why. IMO it's useful to break the conceit that these systems are people, because they are not! they are neither friends nor strangers nor service workers!)

Pleased to share the Spring 2026 schedule for the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ASIA online seminar series @ Harvard! Talks are over Zoom on Tuesdays, 10:30–11:45 am EST. REGISTRATION: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia #histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #sts 🧪

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

sigh.

Happy and Cozy Solstice! Some say the Great Chicken of Night and the Great Chicken of Day battle for dominance each solstice but they are friends actually, sharing the same perch.

So anyway I don't have a right answer there but just *throws up hands* Please value translation more? This shit is so difficult (end)

As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work. (2/?)

Let me boost this again for people in my feed. Finder is a fun and fantastic start to a complete four book series involving repo/con man Fergus Ferguson. His jobs always seem deceptively easy, until he gets himself into mess after mess that he has to extricate himself out of.

We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th. Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars. <6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

My Locus and British Science Fiction Awards long-listed scifantasy novel THE NIGHTWARD is $1.99 for the ebook for a limited time! If THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian/West Indian folklore sounds fun to you, get it now for Christmas! www.harpercollins.com/products/the... www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN

SALE SALE SALE!!!

I have questions

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...

if on a winter's night a Creachur

hey, it's me

─⋆⋅𖤓⋅⋆ ─ know you i, the son of the sun? ─⋆⋅𖤓⋅⋆ ─

Sometimes I feel like the more I like a book, the worse I am at talking about it. This is a problem, because I LOVED @kateheartfield.com's MERCUTIO. (short 🧵)