"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

Editors, have you had a writer show up at your doorstep demanding edits… what stage of the career is this

Sending thoughts and prayers to all the historians around the world because what the fuck

Ngara has always changed; it archives the evolution of Nairobi itself. So then what of the change brought by the urban renewal project unfolding in Ngara now? What is the real question behind the question of gentrification? I wrote this for @africasacountry: africasacountry.com/2026/02/visi...

@usedtobejimmy.bsky.social oya come see

With Hugo nominations open, I’d be honored if you’d read and consider my locus-recommended story, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com for Best Novelette. It's a story of friendship, love, and fireflies, and is also eligible for the Nebulas, Locus, and BSFA✨🪲

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

The Hugo nomination period is officially open, which seems like a good time to remind folks about my links post gathering eligibility and recommendations from others. I'll continue to update through the nomination period so keep sending links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

Repost of our 2025 line-up for your Locus and Hugo consideration. #scifi #fantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

so we gained drafts but i lost my handle

ICYMI, my essay about the importance of Greek voices in Greek myth adaptations has been longlisted for a BSFA Award in the Best Short Non-Fiction category. Please vote for it by Feb 19! Or if you can’t vote, please share far and wide? www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

FANON… ok now wait just one second glasses

NEVER !! - dashare.zone ADMIN

I don’t have a type but if my exes were put in a room together they’d bond over the fact that they all have sleep paralysis

you'd be surprised how gifted you are in certain things if you allowed yourself to be a beginner.

I’m always thrilled whenever stories from Issue V get love! Congratulations to @shingai-be-like.bsky.social & @formerlykevin.bsky.social! Read their stories & the rest of this stellar anthology for free on willthisbeaproblem.co.ke #AfricanSFF #KenyaMentioned

We’re delighted to share that Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology has made the 2025 @locusmag.bsky.social Recommended Reading List! Congratulations to everyone included.

this is the stuff they used to kill that little shoe in who framed roger rabbit

A celebration in two parts! Excited to see Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology edited by Olivia Kidula and myself, on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List. Also excited to see my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” from @clarkesworldmagazine.com on this list.

Also you should 100% read DENGUE BOY

WOW!!!! YOU GUYS!!! Will This Be A Problem: The Anthology is on the Locus Recommended Reading List! And in such stellar company! Congratulations to everyone who made it onto the list!

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This is a sign to read Mad Sisters of Esi, an intricately woven story of two sisters that sweeps you off of your feet with their palpable bond. With settings of nature and magic interwoven in the beautiful prose, you'll never want to put this book down. buff.ly/DMvaalG

losing it at the idea of sugarcane bones. they should do that with real meat. pork ribs but the ribs are sugarcane. chicken cane wings. (I love sugarcane)

when i find the bulgarian who invented split squats

Purple Aki, the British boogeyman who touched and measured young men's muscles and forced them to squat with his weight on their shoulders. A teenager died while running away from him onto high voltage train tracks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akinwal...

that penguin video made me bawl so hard this morning and then I come on here to see right wing arguments about it... I have so little internet left in me

Honored to see Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology on The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot for!!! Grateful to all the talented African writers who trusted us with their stories and made this anthology a reality. And a huge congratulations to other recognized works👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Honoured to see my novelette “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com on the BSFA Longlist for Best Shorter Fiction✨🌿

And here's the BSFA longlisted essay that my editor @danhartland.bsky.social and I laboured over: Strange Horizons - Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures By Jacqueline Nyathi strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

The English leaving my brain the minute I have to express any emotion

"I feel happy, I feel grateful, and I feel fulfilled. I'm happy because I never esperredit."

Wow please the scream I let out 😭 @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social The Anthology is on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards!

Spotlight: @bsfa.bsky.social Awards Longlist! We are delighted to have 2 entries on this year’s BSFA awards longlist, courtesy of Peter Nena's novelette and Peter Marco's artwork! A big thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congrats to all African creators recognised. #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙

Sinners (2025)

In the town of WHAT

There is a freaky frog in the #IndustryHBO writer's room and I'm here for it

omg they did the thing

YouTube has been trying to poison me with "this is obviously copaganda but me I like it" videos

I feel honored to have been longlisted for the BSFA Awards for my short story, "Ancestor's Gift." Thank you to everyone who nominated my story. www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... You can read it here if you wish to vote it for the shortlist. www.tractorbeam.earth/story/ancest...

My first story of 2026 is out now in Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com Read "Hunter, Hunter" now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hunt...

🚀 Congratulations to all those longlisted for BSFA Awards! Check out the complete list here 👇and enjoy this celebration of diverse and exciting works! bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Beyond excited to see the novelette and the artwork from @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social's Issue 2 on the BSFA long list! Babies Don't Grow In People - Peter Nena (best shorter fiction) Grasps of The Forgotten - Peter Marco (best artwork!) Congratulations to everyone on the long list!

Harper consistently being there for Yas' most awful moments >>>>> I cackled so hard when the camera panned to her at that disastrous dinner and her face was like 😃

bus saga

Stop everything you're doing and grab a copy of LONELY CROWDS by Stephanie Wambugu

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Tag yourself, I'm "Timothy had an ulcer"