Final front door/possibly entire facade fix/replacement quote happening tomorrow afternoon. Someone hold our hands, we're so frickin anxious about the final price tag on this break-in. 😰🫣 All for a measly little safe with under $200 inside. Ugh.

So honoured by this! Huge congratulations to my fellow Novella finalists @renanbernardo.com, @jordankurella.com, @annaleen.bsky.social, @hachepueyo.bsky.social, & @wtalabi.com! As well as the finalists in all the other categories!

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

When beans are criminalized, only criminals will grow beans. *adjusts pole*

If you have information on what Solly and other DOGE members were working on at SSA, please reach out. You can remain anonymous. Contact me via Signal using a non-work device: makenakelly.32 www.wired.com/story/john-s...

Now that the Shahed drone threat has arrived in the Middle East, the U.S. and Arab allies have formally requested Ukraine's help. https://to.pbs.org/46Z83Wi

You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole

"i think he bought the wrong size"

Just got @dim0kq.bsky.social ’s signed memoir, Ordinary Guy at War … will read more deeply on the train this weekend, but since I deleted my X acct, good to have this history in print. History of his charity @dzygaspaw.com and how Dzyga came to be named, included!

THIS. This is why representation matters 💜

So anyway, I hope during GDC week in March you participate in #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! It's been a tough year, and we deserve some joy and a bright spark for our industry. Also, to make it easier, we have a feed on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/drjc...

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

I need to go eat dinner but KB‘s thread Is eternal

Thank you @algreen.house.gov for your good trouble.

President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.” A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:

”Stay angry little Meg. You will need all your shitposting tonight!” — A Wrinkle in Time, bluesky version

Also, if you don't want my simple country shitposter nonsense, these people are doing some excellent highfalutin' nonsense for good causes!

ACLU MN reported yesterday that the federal government filed sworn statements that there are 970 agents in Minnesota for Operation Metro Surge & that 407 agents will remain here in March. It’s important to note this is on top of the 190 agents that were already assigned before this surge started.

The Uncanny Issue 69 Proof is with the contributors. @montelin.bsky.social, @archistratego.bsky.social, @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy, @betsyaoki.bsky.social, @legopolis.bsky.social, @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social, & @mrmightyink.bsky.social are still the GREATEST STAFF IN THE UNIVERSE!!

Ok I saw this thanks to @rimrunner.bsky.social and you need this. Esp. If you recognize Southgate Roller Rink. Even if you don’t. Even if you don’t know this band. I didn’t. ( @catacalypto.bsky.social hope this repays other cool vids you have shared) m.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKj...

As the Hugos have opened up, I will mention ( then scurry back to weekend shenanigans and chores)…

New US edition of Dominion of the Fallen! Deliciously gothic atmosphere & queer characters from around the world in a ruined Paris Out March 10 2026 awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h... Preorder (or buy UK edition) & get EXCLUSIVE ebook www.aliettedebodard.com/2026/01/23/d... Covers @fringe-element.net

ICYMI, I'm at 79% of my goal, and I'd appreciate any donation, no matter how small. Please keep sharing. I'm planning to have a small giveaway as a token of my appreciation, and anyone who donated since the start of Feb will be eligible. Details to come soon! Watch this space.

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

@catacalypto.bsky.social thank you for reposting the ice car thing. I feel it embodies my state of mind rn. :)

Amidst the mayhem, gotta poemm. See the LACon's info on Special Hugo Award for Best Poem in 2026 www.lacon.org/2025/12/01/p...

WTF happened to the Epstein files? Full release was required December 19 by federal law. Today, 99% are still undisclosed. Initially, there were rolling releases. Now, nothing in weeks. REMEMBER: The DOJ said the review of these documents was complete in JULY.

Still making sure I didn’t miss stuff but current Awards Eligibility List ( poetry and fiction) betsyaoki.com/awards-eligi.... Cat pic for tax.

Among the great fiction, poems, and articles, there's also an interview with me (courtesy of @betsyaoki.bsky.social) about poetry, writing craft, and the role of art in hard times!

If ever hard times required some poetry it is now my friends… also Marie Brennan is awesome.

WTF! That’s all I got for now.

Award Eligibility Post: Yokai Poem in Nightmare ( www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/futak...) and "A Crow on the Corpse Road" short story in BCS ( www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-cr... )

Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines… blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

BCS of 2025! "A Crow on the Corpse Road" @betsyaoki.bsky.social BCS #435 "I need Tabetha’s ghost in this game, clarifying her last wishes. If only to ensure the Crow Queen understood how much or how little Tabetha wanted to protect Lucas." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-cr... #BCSof2025

Possibly one of the most horror-ific poems I have written @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com?p=23086

SFWA Members! The Nebula Awards are now open for nominations! Here is the list of eligible Uncanny Magazine stories from 2025! buff.ly/Fj6vEsY

Space Unicorns! Behold The Uncanny Magazine 2025 Poetry Eligibility Post! buff.ly/pTkzCUI

I needed that amen too

QA Testers 🤝 Professional Assassins 1) Enter the building 2) Kill the target enemy 3) Observe results

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!

🎉GeekGirlCon is unveiling our match campaign!🎉 💞 Thanks to a few generous matching donors, every dollar you give to GGC will be matched — dollar for dollar — from now until the close of #GGC25 on November 9. GGC is a 100% volunteer-run organization – every single dollar donated goes directly to🧵

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 :)