It's not exactly a comprehensive survey, but any chance to inform the federal government that expanding Billy Bishop airport for jets is a terrible idea is worth taking. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

we spent like thirty years arguing about whether games with guns were the problem when it is actually games with any sort of social tracking component. the most violently offensive game in the world has less blood on its hands than pokemon goddamned motherfucking go.

MOTHERFUCKER

I know there's a deal with an AI company in the background. 1st I was/am writer in residence at my local library for 2026. 2nd, Librarians are being persecuted for standing up for diverse BIPOC and Queer books. This is where you plant your flag Author's guild? Against diversity?

30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones www.resetera.com/threads/15...

I wrote your book.

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This Caribbean Heritage Month, try THE NIGHTWARD, a scifantasy THE WITCHER meets West Indian mythology. - It's a woman's world - + gender based magic - Where a child queen flees a coup - Alongside a young bodyguard with secrets. - In a place that's not what it seems. www.amazon.com/Nightward-No...

I love the library. I was and I guess still am this year's writer in residence for my local library! Our library does a local author's show case to help authors sell their books! They run book clubs and purchase copies of the books for people to read! They fund free fiction writing classes!

You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I'm going to just say this and log off. No. My grandmother stories again but she always kept a cow or two and my uncle does so now. One summer I helped with the cows. She would wash them and milk them by hand and then BOIL THE MILK. That milk was unconnected to food systems/elite power.

Writing, no because I get ideas and they overtake me. I can't stop. Engaging in capitalism about it? Yes. I'm in a fallow moment of my career, waiting. Not easy but I tell myself everyday the writing is what matters. Also, I bet certain groups would love for me to stop. Tough luck haters 😛

The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility" They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants inews.co.uk/news/politic...

If you’re in Belfast please stay safe. Word is there’s going to be riots in Dublin tonight too. Stay inside.

26 days until AMUSEMENT PARK ARCANA! remember getting a shitty summer job when you were just out of high school? remember not really knowing what you want to do? What if your best friend went missing from HER shitty job? it's 1994. Buy a ticket to the park. books2read.com/AmusementPar...

A thread. The other day, I happened to clock the little AI-written bio attached to my name. It announced, quite confidently, that I was married, not to my husband, but to his brother. Particularly amusing, since my BIL is a proud member of the LGBQT community. I love him, but I am NOT his type. 🧵

God this poem is haunting me again.

Hi GTA! Come see me, Andrew, Jason and a whole host of ghosts on Saturday. I will be reading from an unpublished short story that has a lesbian demon who wants revenge. Jennifer's body meets 80s action movie? Also I am 12 years old and keep laughing every time I see this pun. WIP IT OUT ?

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder

Can anyone point me to a news source about what's happening in the UK? Sorry to be bothersome. My searches are not giving me anything useful. I'm kind of worried for some of my family there. I need to check in with my mom/aunts to see if they've messaged her abt what's going on.

The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.

I have a book coming out this August and I post these preorder links to bury the very real existential dread I feel when my imposter syndrome kicks in every 6-7 days. HAHAHAHAHA Please preorder my book about the pitfalls of ambition, capitalism, and cheesemaking. bookshop.org/p/books/pop-...

In the spirit of Caribbean Heritage and Pride Month—which I didn't know it was!—let me plug Barbadian novelist @drkarenlord.bsky.social's "The Best of All Possible Worlds", a really enjoyable SFnal romance about diaspora.

There are are so many urgent calls for help and folks in situations worse than mine 🙏🏻 I've started a GFM to help offset a 'scoping out' trip to another city where I used to live, to help me escape my abusive family. If folks can send some coins or boost the signal: www.gofundme.com/f/help-eva-e...

This is sad. The books they put out are beautiful, and I had always hoped that one day, I'd get to have a special edition published by Subterranean. Dreams, alas. Best wishes to the team. 🖤

I'm bored in a cab so indulge me: if a central fund existed, administered by a reputable org, that distributed general operational support $ annually to SFF mags and such to keep them from flaming out or having to fundraise with limited bandwidth/discoverability, would you contribute to it?

June is Caribbean Heritage Month. Some of the absolute best xpfic writing on Earth is coming from the Caribbean and diaspora. Start with writers such as @rsagarcia.bsky.social @sillysyntax.bsky.social @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social @therisingtithes.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and go from there!

Hi GTA! Come see me, Andrew, Jason and a whole host of ghosts on Saturday. I will be reading from an unpublished short story that has a lesbian demon who wants revenge. Jennifer's body meets 80s action movie? Also I am 12 years old and keep laughing every time I see this pun. WIP IT OUT ?

16/? I know this is more of a rant than an educational thread. But if I were to wrap this up with advice: ffs read something different. Read something old. Read something published in another country. Read something different, old, and from another country.

5/? The difference this time is that they're all getting folks to "leverage AI" in private groups. Oh, no! You would never use AI to write. You're just leveraging the tools to reduce your work load. Except: a lot of those tools are removing style and accents to make everything the same

3/? Over the past year, I've been really paying attention to samples (from "I'm against AI" and "I am justifying my use of AI in the next 9 paragraphs" and "I love AI") and I've noticed a few trends.

Subterranean Press to Close locusmag.com/2026/06...

The ravens are vex about something. They are jumping all over the roof and screaming across the street. It's loud!!! I didn't do anything to them. I'm going to stay inside so I don't get involved in this bacchanal. Really don't need to be in raven drama today.

Reposting! It remains Caribbean Hertiage and Pride month. I will say, while I've seen a lot of SFFH outlets talk about Pride, (Yay) I've barely seen any SFFH outlets mention Caribbean Heritage Month. Which kinda makes me sad. The region does produce great spec fic. Buy our books! Mines are gay!

Lol you get to a certain auntie age and you can spot the successful guy, who is deeply insecure and cannot let anything good pass without trying to get his own spin on it, from a mile away. It's deeply amusing. 😈

If cinema is meant to challenge, provoke, & reflect the world around us, supporting Black filmmakers requires more than hashtags & retweets. It means showing up, buying a ticket, & engaging with the work. @sharai.bsky.social sounds the alarm for #NightTideMag 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/06/09/w...

It's not entirely a surprise to me that the Critical Friends episode about established writers has attracted less discourse than the one about debut writers, but it's probably a topic I worry about more.

🚨 Here we go -> Somali World Cup referee Omar Artan denied entry to the US. This referee, who was due to be first official from his country to be involved in a World Cup game, had a diplomatic passport but was turned away in Miami. www.thetimes.com/article/f565...

This email keeps trying to suggest boring ass changes to my correspondence. LISSSEN. When you get an email from me, it's handmade. A bespoke email. It may have a little spicy awkward phrasing. A dash of archaic usage that isn't expected or smooth. I put that in there so you remember I wrote it.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

Now that that "work project" is done I will be logging off this app in a few days until I have another "work project" where ppl need to easily contact me. Sorry I'm so sporadically here. I get messages asking if I'm OK. I am! Meta is evil but I do occasionally post on insta @gothicsyntax

Public voting for the Ignytes is open. We really encourage everyone to learn abt the work of all the nominees.

Once again congratulations to all the nominees! Also, thank you to everyone who reads and supports diverse work. Thank you to all of the magazines and organizations standing up for marginalized artists and writers. Thank you to everyone who wrote or tried to write. 💜🖤✊🏽

And finally, a survey of orgs, mags, and other entities focused on speculative fiction, to determine where need might be greatest to help the field stay alive, whether it be through funding, outreach, or anything else. The survey is open thru 6/29. #2026IgnyteAwards airtable.com/appOgisruufu...

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

🖤 Announcement soon. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together. Special thanks to the jury and also to Eboni who is essential to this work. I've always thought this project was one of the most important things I've done in my life. Times are so dire. I hope this brings joy today.

Hi! I read this yesterday and you should too! It's the lovely sequel to the award winning Tanti Merle and the Farmhand 4200. Also, it's Caribbean Heritage Month and this is the perfect story to read for it. ALSO, it's a story that talks about climate issues. Check all Rhonda's work!

Echoes/Homage to Philip Glass?