It's here! The Power of Pride Bundle 2026 is now live on Itchio! All in support of 284 queer creators and their 396 creations. View the bundle on Itchio here (until July 6): $60 Bundle: itch.io/b/3682/the-p... $10 Pay-What-You-Can: itch.io/b/3684/the-p... #PowerofPride2026

City of Others, which i'm really vibing with! love to combine bureaucracy and the supernatural

really thrilled that i can sign up for a risograph retreat this summer because they added a scholarship for trans folks. i thought about whether i should take it, because i am not struggling to buy food or medical care etc. but i wouldn't be able to go without it, and i think that's the point

My feeling every single time I get a pop-up or notification from a piece of technology is "don't ever talk to me again". Now it's going to actually try to talk to me? Is everyone in the Valley just catastrophically lonely?

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

great news, the cats have decided they won't die in this new house and actually they own it and always have. they both sat themselves at the table for dinner. they're going to stage a coup

nicole kidman and lena dunham shopped at the same "red fluffy tube" shop for the met gala and i simply cannot understand the choice. why do you want to dress as red Big Bird

let’s look at the back

this is very cool!!

We're 75% of the way to our first stretch goal! Big thanks to everyone who's already contributed, and we'd love your help spreading the word to push ARB to the next level!

The massive amount of capital needed to finance a campaign is a huge barrier in the way of people we would actually like to vote for

My last week in Columbus aaahhh I moved here for grad school with a lot of hopes and ambitions. Frankly, most of those didn't pan out. But I'm glad that I've finally found things I like about Columbus before I leave. That feels like its own achievement.

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

Big news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!

Please help Jamal's family keep him alive through Israel's genocide. He's in the ICU with asthma, diabetes, & injuries from IDF attacks. His parents can't afford medication & insulin. He's just 2 yo, & can barely breathe. Bsky refuses to let them hold an account. Please, have mercy and share/donate:

Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st! If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈

Today was a really big day for me. We closed on a house! My first house ever, and I'm in love with its weird quirks and charms. I can't wait to put down roots and have a community in person (all love to my digital community too of course)

Vampires Will Take Your Limbs: @mishagw.bsky.social reviews Hache Pueyo's CABARET IN FLAMES (@tordotcompub.bsky.social)

really really excited that Ancillary Review will be starting its very first crowdfunding campaign in a few weeks! we're raising money to become a paying market for our hardworking writers - consider giving it a follow? www.kickstarter.com/projects/anc...

I'm frankly in awe of his ability to take what is in the US mostly an excuse for people to get drunk, and bring it back to sober, emotional, empathetic relationship-building.

There are reports of ICE activity on the north side of Chicago happening now. Please share so people in the area can be aware and take precautions. If you’re in the area please come by our office at 7016 N Clark St for ICE whistles. We protect each other. Chinga la migra.

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa... Amazing article - especially because a lot of people don't realize that not only does AI spy on you, you're often not talking to AI at all but to a human.

Hey bsky! It’s been a little while since I plugged this, so you probably haven’t seen it. Not only are we making a romcom that is witty, fast-paced, queer and anti-billionaire, but you can read the first 10 pages at the link below! #WorstManOGN

In honor of the crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS, which desperately needs your spacebucks to get over the finish line, we have the ultimate question: 🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

The Ancillary Review of Books anti-billionaire promise:

this shows to me that when there are actual material stakes that people can feel, they act. there's stakes to voting, but they are hard to feel. many political issues don't engage people because they are made to feel distant. there's still some good in people but they need things to feel close, real

The Other Perspective: @mishagw.bsky.social reviews Theodora Goss's collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY (@tachyonpub.bsky.social)

Finished reading "your behavior will be monitored" which comes out this year - it was a lot more fun than any novel about current-style AI has a right to be. definitely recommend for an engaging read, though I doubt the real world will follow the path it depicts

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

For fun I thought I'd post the art corner next to my desk. There's a lot of art throughout the apartment, but these are my particular selection that stay right next to me - and a rare feature of my own art (the embroidery)

I'm doing art on this, and I'm super excited! Really amazing for my childhood obsession with pod racing

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

From Hell, Olondria, and City in Glass absolutely on my list. I'd add Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino), Swordspoint (Ellen Kushner), Perdido Street Station (China Mieville), and probably there's many others I can't recall at the moment.

I'm sure most thoughtful people have turned to the question of "how did we get here" recently, but I think I've finally arrived at my take: complete lack of media skills. We live in a highly mediated world. That's neutral, not a bad or good thing, just true. But it does mean (cont)

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike. 🪶

Imo the faster you learn this the happier you are

Found out by chance that there are plans to build an AI data center right next to my home town. As if that wasn't bad enough, it's for nuclear weapons research. Do people ever get tired of being evil?

I've been pretty open about the fact that The Between doesn't work for me perfectly as a game. But I really liked this positive review of it - it gave me a perspective on how it *could* have worked for me, with different play styles at the table. oldmenrunningtheworld.com/threedom-the...

I would rather 6000000 people get things they don't "deserve" than one child goes hungry.

The US is a much more fragile governmental system and society than many of its residents assume. There is nothing keeping us from becoming a failed state, like so many other countries have throughout modern history.

Nebraska Public Media collaborated with PBS and the Wisconsin Menominee to make a full, free, video game. What a cool thing for public media to work on! They're always finding ways to meet audiences in new formats nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/nebraska-...

Big congrats to Vajra Chandrasekera for RAKESFALL's win; well deserved! (The entire UKLG Prize list is stellar, by the way: a snapshot of diverse literary excellence.) ARB editor @mishagw.bsky.social interviewed @vajra.me about the novel last year:

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

i know a lot of ttrpg folks got started in a major way during lockdown, but i can't remember specific names. can anyone think of names? or maybe you are that person? i might have an interview opp

On vacation and finally got to see the northern lights irl for the first time!! They were visible to the naked eye, and I felt so lucky. Nature's beauty is the antidote to despair, for me.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

the murder that’s not on every front page nationwide

Absolutely adore this — it really speaks to me both as a player and a designer, and it is clear and comprehensive in a way I didn’t personally find the Expressionist Games Manifesto to be

i think this is a really interesting glimpse into what jay dragon is thinking about as a designer: possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi... unfortunately i think it shouldn't be a manifesto, because it's not very clear, and it's not very generous to other designers.