Thank you bsky peeps. Needed the sass and the joy tonight :)

I hope you feel a little okay. I hope you smiled once. I hope today grants you space for restful sleep at least tonight and maybe some energy for tomorrow. I hope you're hopeful.

Only one political party is actually expressing any empathy and concern on the way this shutdown is immediately impacting tens of millions of patients nationwide. The tragic irony is most of these patients live in states that support the current party in power. That party remains silent.

Recent trip to NYC had the chance to chat with @mcflycahill90.bsky.social & talk AUDITION FOR THE FOX! Loved it, it's a dose of what we need right now. Also damn Breads cheesy focaccia for the win!

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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Hiya friends, are you or do you know a rad dev who could use something like this? Pass it on!

Toss a fiver at NPR ( like tossing a coin to your Witcher but, ya know, there’s inflation )…

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

I will not piss on anyone’s chips, but as a project which celebrates the English gothic and the weird every day of the year, I sigh heartily at the start of October. Celebration of the dark and strange should never be calendar constrained. #October

Worth getting up early to read this :)

Just got home to happy book mail!!

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

Today begins the process of removing interpretive assets across National Park Service sites that violate the president's EO. If you work for the NPS, please let me know what, if any, changes are taking place at your site. No names will be used. Thank you. #NationalParks 🗃️ cwmemory.com/contact-me/

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years. Speaks for itself.

Quick point. Trump cannot silence you, period. He doesn’t have the means or the tools, and if he did he would be too weak to use them. This is a bluff. It only works if you let it.

The Fox is free! Today my debut, Audition For The Fox, is officially out in the world. Magic. Fables. Time travel. And the many ways even a goofball can resist oppression & fight tyranny. Thank you to everyone who had a paw in bringing this into the world & supporting it. Forever grateful, I am 🦊💜

Attention! Attention! Free Silvia Moreno-Garcia work from Uncanny Magazine! Woooo hoooooo! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Uncanny Magazine received 2800 short story submissions. It does seem that we are still getting AI subs. (Sadly, no shock there.) I can buy 15-20 stories for Year 12.

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Catching up on my podcasts as work has me closer to home than usual. Go check out @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 's pod this month, the poem “Dreamscape with the Devil” by Dr. Taylor Byas is sublime. The imagery my brain concocted during the reading was amazing.

It is my birthday tomorrow! If you want to do something for me, I have a big request. Think of somebody in your life who is struggling. Make them soup. Play a videogame with them. Help get their window unstuck. You don't know how far a little goodness can go. But I believe in you.

ICYMI, Uncanny 66 Part 1 also features essays by Senaa Ahmad & LaShawn M. Wanak; poetry by Angela Liu & Dr. Taylor Byas; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing Silvia Moreno-Garcia; and Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Listen To Me And I’ll Tell You A Story as the cover! buff.ly/3vumNai

ICYMI, The Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 66A features "The Caravan” by AnaMaria Curtis, as read by Erika Ensign; “Dreamscape with the Devil” by Dr. Taylor Byas, as read by Matt Peters; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing AnaMaria Curtis! buff.ly/schyxMD

ICYMI, Join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps! There are many ways to SUPPORT UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Kickstarter Pledges! Or just spreading the word! buff.ly/LFsqlpn

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

I should probably remind people that I had a novel called GIRL IN THE CREEK come out about a month and a half ago. It got a star in the Library Journal! And look at this awesome blurb from @keithrosson.bsky.social:

New poem “ Dreamscape with the Devil” by @taylorbyas.bsky.social at www.uncannymagazine.com/article/drea...

During Covid pandemic, someone got clever and came up with a DIY box filter to help with air quality in classrooms. Smoke from fires? Bad air quality in home? Another pandemic? Corsi-Rosenthal Box Filters: corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/ Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E...

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

Last few days to get your poems in! Do it this weekend!

Weekend reading thanks to @therisingtithes.bsky.social

Attorney General Bondi and President Trump: You are hereby notified that Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations. We will protect law-abiding immigrants in Washington.

Knowing that Uncanny will still be open for poetry submissions just after Worldcon's end fills me with joy. Will I write a poem while I'm still at my hotel? While on the plane, even? My fellow versewrights--submit to Uncanny! (Short story folks, too, but y'all have a bit more time.)

Sure sure the Hugo Awards but how many ppl have a Disco Chicken Award waiting when they get home? Hmmm? ( the mystery of why these ads follow me around the Internet is solved- J bought one!!)

Just a reminder to poets we are open to poetry!

The #HugoAward for Best Semiprozine goes to Uncanny Magazine.

Very wild and surreal to see, very grateful to our readers.

Today’s panel jewelry included #teamarsenic symbol ( Clarion West 2016 class) #worldcon #worldcon2025

HEY SOMETIMES THERE IS UNCOMPLICATED GOOD NEWS It's rare but it happens!!! If you think this is a big and great deal (it is) please consider donating directly to the Florida Freedom to Read Project www.fftrp.org/donate

More of Murderbot today.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Today (2 poetry panels) is for Team Arsenic ( Clarion West 2016) at #worldcon2025

Voting for the Ignyte Awards closes later this week (August 15th), and ANYONE can vote! Don't forget to vote for what you loved! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/