“Well, that cat’s doing it again—keeping that poor thing alive just to play with it awhile.”

I approve of the Dems' response to this, though

literal Gen X erasure in the NYT lol (also banning SSRIs is an insane and bad and stupid idea) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/s...

Is it any surprise that I'm completely taken-aback, made-up, bowled-over, and even things that AREN'T needlessly-hyphenated phrasal verbs about making this shortlist? Thanks to our contributors for making Mythaxis what it is ❤️ Obviously... I want it 😂 but also, best of luck to all the candidates!

Guy with visible stink lines: the birth rate,

Making my kids observe World Goth Day by playing KEXP; they are successfully evading by wearing their Beats.

Stop slandering college students. And professors. And curricula. And campus life. Get out & touch grass. No, not just Harvard. Not just Deep Springs, student population 26. You sound ridiculous. And petty. And we're very tired while the authoritarians are trying to destroy us & you're helping.

The Dem committee backed Street for the sample ballot in my ward/division but last I checked Rabb took an outright majority of votes in the division.

A couple of calls coming in for Rabb now in PA03. This is definitely not like the mayoral election (partly bc the split is working the other way).

vote.phila.gov went down bc I refreshed too many times to see PA-03 results. sry

Third person to vote in my division this morning in PA-03. Turnout seemed light compared to other primaries, even though this is the rare contested congressional primary. The winner today will almost certainly be our new rep.

I did not make this. I wish I had made it

Author copies of “Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance” arrived today, and they look BEAUTIFUL. Grab your copy before the first printing runs out: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... @stanchion.bsky.social

Announcing: my next book! THE LAST INFINITY is a time travel novel full of queer characters, wonky timelines, and cute robots. Check it out here! alexisamesbooks.com/2026/05/18/a.... #WritingCommunity #indieauthor #SFF

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

When the younger child told us yesterday that all the kids in his class use Google AI to research basic info on a topic, his older sib took off her Beats and spent half an hour explaining why that's bad for his brain and the environment. "And no one in high school would be okay with you doing that."

This neighborhood building was an inspiration for the title of my new story on Escape Pod. The former Formost Kosher Sausage Co. survives as The Foremost residential and commercial development escapepod.org/2026/05/14/e...

Howdy, sapient observers! Today we've got a bright new original for you, looking at interstellar flight in a fresh way: "The Graduates of Formost 891c" by @cultureworrier.bsky.social. My god, it's full of Texas...

Teachers have it rough, especially in Texas under machine rule. But what if you and your whaleship changed the terms of employment? Now available, my first sale to Escape Pod: "The Graduates of Formost 891c." escapepod.org/2026/05/14/e...

Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology

Change one letter in a movie title to make it a new movie title Roger rgbbit

“The Elder Scrolls” is what they say about you when you’re on your phone!

Beasts encountered out back this am.

Reupping my latest story and the latest Mythaxis. I've been impressed with the Mythaxis redesign--it really gives all their stories a setting in which to shine. mythaxis.co.uk/issue-45/

A Pa. grassroots activist and a flurry of right-to-know requests has the receipts on Josh Shapiro's cozy relationship with Amazon as its $20B push for energy-guzzling data centers angers locals Did Amazon deliver a blow to Shapiro's White House dreams? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/tech...

Add him to the Philly news interview pantheon

Angel Down really was amazing stuff.

i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers ews.kylemcdonald.net

"The book reads like an 'Eat Pray Love' of biotech grifting, designed to make her into a public figure based on her personal journey." Jonathan Basile reviews Kathryn Paige Harden’s “Original Sin.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/original-sin-eugenics-scientific-calvinism-kathryn-paige-harden/

I am begging everyone to actually read this story. The details are RIGHT THERE. ASU Atomic is: - not just impacting adjuncts - very much enabled by Canvas - neither opt-in nor opt-out; faculty weren't even notified this was happening - inexplicably open to the public - hot garbage

Hi everyone. Thanks for your patience as we fix the submission system. For now, we have reverted to the mail-in method while we sort out an alternative. If you have a story, a poem, an article, or art that you're dying to share, please send it our way! www.utopiasciencefiction.com/submit

Foofaraw Press (@foofarawpress.bsky.social) has added two categories to their Foofs Award: 1) Magazine of the Year 2) Editor of the Year To be eligible, mags have to pay less than $0.08/word, charge no fee, allow sim subs, and respond within 90 days. Voting: tally.so/r/ZjGzqe

If I were to write a science fiction novel, I'd want it to hit like this when I was 14.

New story out about scoundrels trying to cross the Ben Franklin Bridge into Philly (gavagai.com/posts/2337)

So excited to be a finalist again! And in this, our year of the Artemis II!

Check out the latest Meet the Manawaker's interview and learn a little more about F. B. Hughes @cultureworrier.bsky.social, author of the FFP episode "Artifacts of the Library on Shih Shen." www.patreon.com/posts/152309... You don't need to be a patron, just 'follow' Manwaker Studio for access.

I use those academic skills to do things that make me happy, and I especially love not having my labor exploited by them that trained me.

We are proud that our Issue 10 story "The Oneiromantic Sheep" has made the shortlist for the Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! www.radonjournal.com/issue-10/the...

The Inquirer endorses Chris Rabb in that contested Philly congressional primary, a great choice Meanwhile, 👀

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

The kid's school made the paper again (derogatory).

Story day! "The Agentic Necklace" is now free to read on @mythaxis.bsky.social. Thanks to @noumenon.bsky.social for thoughtful edits. A pleasure to work with. mythaxis.co.uk/issue-45/the...

Mythaxis Magazine – Issue 45 – Fiction The Agentic Necklace – Frank Baird Hughes @cultureworrier.bsky.social On Miracles – P. W. Lewis @pwlewis007.bsky.social The Perfect Mother – Jude Clee The Negotiation – Vanessa Fabiano Search History – Jon Clendaniel Pultu’s Lesson – Sean Myers

Instead, animals are conceived as agency-free biological units, who simply respond to environmental pressures as their genes dictate. It's almost impossible to talk about ethics under these assumptions. It's a lot of work to respond, and I'm finding it very tiring and frustrating.

Definitely some things I've never thought of here (that data/frameworks can be used to harm research populations totally make sense from a cultural anthropologist perspective).

What a great day to pay my taxes.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.