1. It's shutdown day, and anti-trans provisions are on the line... either today, or in a few more weeks if a clean continuing resolution passes. Trump posted a video this morning blaming a shutdown on trans people and immigrants. Here is your shutdown guide. Subscribe to support our journalism.

It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...

On #ITD2025, remember that ALT-text is a form of translation that all sighted people can get into. I remember when we in disability community socmed had to push and push for it to even exist on [other sites]. It’s always a win.

The deadline for proposals and artwork is tomorrow! See the rest of the thread and the linked site for more details.

How to ACT During Banned Books Week with a Free Bookmark Download Courtesy of @heykellyjensen.bsky.social and more: raforall.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

La Tanya S. Autry shares reflections and poses questions in light of the museum acquisition of the gun used to kill Emmett Till — a must-read this week. @artstuffmatters.bsky.social @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1045554/what...

The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much

Big news from BFS members (and leaders) @shonak.bsky.social and @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social: A new independent non-profit organisation designed to help creatives thrive in publishing. Here's @divergent-paths.bsky.social britishfantasysociety.org/divergent-pa...

Ever since I learned how to say axolotl correctly, I love saying it 🥹 Here is a video if you don’t know!

What the fuck.

If you're my age-ish, you may have missed the window to get it when were teens, but you can get it now at most places you get your flu shot without a PA, so go ahead and do that to protect the greater good/yourself.

What would I do then when the migraine meds keep me up all night? It’s like bonus awake time to check in with folks on the opposite side of the world!

oh i have had heparin really save my bacon before

If it’s copyrighted material, it seems to me either you can’t use it without running afoul of copyright or you cannot. “This would be infringing except for that we give you an opt-out” is not a thing, that I know of. Your copyright *is* your reservation of rights, you don’t have to say “Even you.”

The takedown of educational information about abortion from healthcare providers is chilling as we witness more attacks on online access to information online. Learn more about how the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline had content from their Instagram taken down: www.eff.org/pages/silen....

Another day when I wish this reminder was not needed, but politicians, publications, etc., continue to share images without alt text, which means that folx with vision loss & other disabilities will not get access to whatever information is being conveyed in images, so PLEASE update your settings! 🙏🏽

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Can we talk about 15th century Venice’s painted enamel game? Like can we have a serious discussion about this? Finally? Half-gilt, gilt brass, copper. IT DIDN’T MATTER.

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" is such a good sentence.

Looking for haunted and haunting Halloween poetry? My collection A Registry of Omens is full of ghosts, the undead, a mysterious tomb, chilling properties, and more: a.co/d/aW1r8KB. All proceeds to go Room to Read, a literacy charity!

Celebrate Traumatic Brain Injuries by getting a discount on books!

More than 20 new book reviews! Sarah Hall, Anna Quindlen, Julia Ioffe, Ian McEwen, Kate Baer, and more. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org/2025/09/29/b...

Crossing my fingers that these become available in Alberta.

Just got my Covid vaccine and asked if they’ve been busy. The nurse said they were worried people wouldn’t come in, but they’re getting lots of demand. Good going, herd! Resisting propaganda saves lives.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

DHS is proposing a rule that would end "duration of status" for J, F and other visa holders. This would decimate the international graduate student and postdoc population, which are a crucial part of the United States biomedical workforce. There's still time for you to comment on the proposed rule.

"Whoever carved the Ardross wolf has seen the real thing" 🐺 Now on display in Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, the famous Ardross Wolf Stone was probably created over 1,000 years before these animals were persecuted to extinction in Britain around 1760: www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...

Looking for haunted and haunting Halloween poetry? My collection A Registry of Omens is full of ghosts, the undead, a mysterious tomb, chilling properties, and more: a.co/d/aW1r8KB. All proceeds to go Room to Read, a literacy charity!

Submissions are now open for the Texas Institute of Letters 2025 Literary Awards! texasinstituteofletters.org/til-2025-lit... If you don’t know the TIL, we’re an honor society that’s been around since 1936. I’m VP, and we in TIL pride ourselves on honoring the best of the best of Texas writing.

these bills are quite strong individually but as a group they’d combine to make california so much safer for trans people of all ages, cis californians who follow me please take a literal minute of your day to call Newsom and demand he not leave us to the wolves (bill numbers are in linked post)

I firmly believe screenshot/meme/text-as-graphic post sharing is a corrosive practice. It divorces everything from context that might let you know where the info came from, is it now out of date, has the original poster (or their followers) made clarifying comments downthread etc

friends, i feel like most of the time you see a grainy text-based graphic posted by a rando account with no alt text making the rounds, you can assume it's likely misinformation.

Books about autism or with Autistic main characters, written by Autistic authors — published August 2025! 🧵 #AutismBooks #AutisticAuthor #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #BookSky

The October Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity newsletter is out! Literary Agents, Submission Calls (Paying markets!), Free Writing Contests, & more. (And it's free!) #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

Interesting article its own right, and something writers building secondary SFF worlds or futures should have a think about. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Really wish people who make the book covers for historical fiction would do some damn research, especially in clothing and hair styling. If your book has someone with modern highlights and fantasy dress on the cover, I’m going to doubt your ability to get the history right.

Re: LRT, there has never been a better time to dive headfirst into independent media. Indie games, indie movies, indie comics. Your media dollars support artists, not the corporations mining them like a resource, and it’s the best way to get an authentic, interesting experience now.

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

Looking for YA books about Latine characters? We’ve got ten for you: richincolor.com/2025/09/10-b...

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

My poetry collection A Registry of Omens is an Elgin Award nominee! Read about cryptids, liminal mazes, the need for baku, children's songs about the fae, and more here: a.co/d/aW1r8KB. All proceeds go to Room to Read, a literacy charity.

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for someone's Patreon, go to a live theater performance, purchase someone's album from Bandcamp. You can also leave a nice comment or write a review.

This week on Planetside… Authors and creatives, before you die, read this! Your estate—and your stories—depend on it. “Estate Planning for Authors and Creatives” by @brendaclough.bsky.social: www.sfwa.org/2025/09/23/e...

This teeny marsupial is a newly described species named for the Chachapoya, who lived in the Peruvian Andes before the Inca. 🧪

Wisp’s biopsies came back: one lipoma, one mast cell tumor. Good margins on the cancerous one, so no addl treatment needed! She still has to wear her lampshade for another week, but she’s learned how to use it to clear paths when she stomps through the flowers in the yard.

You can support Chicago Abortion Fund here action.chicagoabortionfund.org/a/donate

This is straight-up classic pro-anorexic rhetoric. Utterly horrifying.