This is a big part of the reason I'm opening a queer sff bookstore

I recommend being a breathless booster hype man for people and friends and ideas you very much actually like.

Tanking the Zoolander opening weekend was an inside job

2026 in a nutshell:

I need a device (USB, but I'm willing to consider self-contained) that accepts a command to transmit a recorded IR remote signal from a TV remote. And it should let me capture the signal in the first place. What's the best option?

*flintstones animal voice*: “it’s a living.”

if only Mary Shelley had warned us in 1818 about the dangers of literature instead of the reckless, hubristic pursuit of scientific and technological advancement carried out by ghoulish men with no regard for humanity—men who would desecrate the dead and kill the living to feed their power hunger.

Love coming to Bluesky and folks are posting vague statements about the same unexpected noun set and you’re just like, well, something happened with illegal fishing, garfield (president, cat or andrew) and Activitypub and I dont need to know anything more about it.

#Mememay 10: Two truths and a lie? 1. I’ve had law enforcement in two separate countries draw guns on me. 2. I’m not allowed in the US due to a misunderstanding with Homeland Security about whether or not I’m a cyberterrorist. 3. The first book I contributed to sold over 200,000 copies.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

Question. Is Sapphic romantasy (wlw, definitely bi characters but only showing sex between women) something people want to read? It’s not my genre but I need to know what you all want.

Do I hate webp or do I hate the lack of compatibility for webp

I need a device (USB, but I'm willing to consider self-contained) that accepts a command to transmit a recorded IR remote signal from a TV remote. And it should let me capture the signal in the first place. What's the best option?

Mass Effect, like all fascist art, is fundamentally about having sex with aliens (1/454)

I’m looking forward to this all being over so we can all forget about everything the collaborators did and they can walk away consequence-free. They should keep on doing this knowing it will work out for them no matter what.

I’m so tired.

White hat hackers warn lawful access bill could make it easier for criminals to penetrate Canadian systems www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

The first rule of running a con: make sure you volunteer enough backstory that the mark knows what your favourite flower is. #dailyocs

#MayWorldbuilders 8: By the time most cultures develop rudimentary spaceflight, their understanding of number theory usually replaces ciphers and codebooks with binary or quatrenary encryption algorithms. Even societies with no concept of privacy understand the need for machine authentication. (1/2)

Author, bookseller, and publisher friends: Please keep posting your positive stories about selling books through Bluesky, and I'll package them up and show them to publishers so that we can get more book publishers and even more authors and book conversation here!

At this point there is very little daylight between Moscow and Washington

Do you want to read The Dragon Has Some Complaints early? If only there was a way... WAIT. THERE IS.

#Mememay 8: Sure, I’ll bite. That’s a teacher emoji, btw. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒➡️🪦➡️ 👨‍👧‍👦🪦➡️👧👦➡️🧑‍🏫💬💰📈➡️😧

It's awesome that I'm like, excited about working on STREET UNI X again. This Switch release (and forthcoming big PC update) has redeemed the bad feelings I got from burnout and other such things. I love my video game again!!

The Moonshadow books have it all Women with swords? ✅ Tragic antagonists? ✅ Brooding vampires? ✅ Ancient magic? ✅ Found family? ✅ A proper series ending? ✅ Moonshadow's Guardian: diannagunn.itch.io/moonshadows-... Moonshadow's Champion: diannagunn.itch.io/moonshadows-... #WeeknightWriters

My kid is a college senior and wrote this email to his prof today (Gen Z can’t catch a break from once in a lifetime things happening annually to them…)

#Mememay 7 Beverly at the start of WIP 3 🌈✒️ #sapphic #lesfic #sapphicwriters

Don’t blame me, I voted for Emperor Cartagia.

New Pin! Want to work with a freelance editor that cares about you & your book? I have open spots in July, August, and Sept! I edit fantasy, LGBTQ+ fiction, sci-fi for short stories, novellas, and books. I do NOT edit AI books or use AI in my business. #editing ottersediting.com

What are people’s favorite queer and trans SFF novellas?

Every now and then I remember the 1700s Japanese illustration of hammerhead sharks and it cures my depression.

#WeeknightWriters A1: Kinda wishing we hadn't given control of our entire society over to the worst people ever. But you know what they say, illiberal democracy as a veneer over a hypertrophied military-industrial complex and oligarchic media ownership is doubleplusgood.(Brought to you by Monsanto.)

Hi #WeeknightWriters! I'm Catherine, writing about queer people who steal and SOMEHOW immediately get in over their heads. (Who could have foreseen this!?) Thanks to the #WeeknightWriters Discord, I just figured out how to keep a line that made me laugh, which of course, is the main reason I write.

⛴️ new bracket drops tomorrow ⛴️

Nasalliest Bubsy Voice Ever Concieved: “What could pawsibly go wrong?”

#Mememay 7: Nia has learned you can get away with a LOT when people cant't pay attention to you. I bet it would be super bad if something went wrong and they started noticing her.

#QueerPrompts May 7: I like to see villains redeemed for sure. The average billionaire could feed a family of four for weeks. Wait, is that technically redemption?

Researchers described Russia's engagement with Alberta separatism as covert; it appears "doctrinal, operational and sustained". www.bbc.com/news/article... #cdnpoli #ableg

Neither of those sound believable to me. 😅 #WritingA

I live in #Alberta. Nearly no one wants separation from Canada. Most "Albertans" aren't even from here. This doesn't surprise me one bit. #Ableg #Abpoli

Games are not a niche form of storytelling. Your grandmother is a "gamer." Your uncle is a "gamer." You are not special. You are as unique as someone who turns on a television or fires up a computer. And no one is bending over backwards to appeal to the dude who is weird and angry about women.

A lot of people don't remember that "David Lynch" originated as a Ben Stiller character in the early 2000s.

We've come a long way but it still seems like most big time charlatans are men. We need more Women In Fraud

“A test of the BC Emergency Alert system will occur on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 1:55 p.m. (PT). BC Emergency Alerts are broadcast on TV, radio, and cell phones to provide urgent, life-saving information during emergencies.” www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/test/ - EmergencyInfoBC #BCWildfire

This #WriterShareWednesday, we'd like to remind you that our virtual conference, Storycrafting Sessions: Disability in Writing is coming up at the end of THIS MONTH! If you want to include more disabled characters in your work, you don't want to miss this FREE event

And here I am like a chump, once again betting on H5N1 for three pandemics in a row.

Oh, this is an easy one.

#MayWorldbuilders 6: Tai's first language, Mitasna, uses the Southern Micapassaise writing system, a right-to-left phonetic alphabet that looks both similar to and nothing at all like @omniglot.bsky.social's Crymeddau. www.omniglot.com/conscripts/c... (1/3)