📖📖 Just a couple of paperbacks to go and we can double the Jirel cover art! 👩‍🦰👩‍🦰 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

Trump's lies about the Reflecting Pool are too silly for anyone to believe. MAGA repeats them anyway. It's not just that they're that stupid. (Though they are.) They would like to arrest people for laughing at them. It also exposes their desperation. www.salon.com/2026/06/24/w...

Weekly Patreon with @mkhardywrites.com, @rainewilson.bsky.social, @robincmduncan.bsky.social @wtalabi.com @lyndseycroal.bsky.social and @russjoneswrites.bsky.social, and my Massive Indulgent Mannerpunk Fantasy of Queer Religious Love and Also Killing Wealthy Despots www.patreon.com/thequietsun/...

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Buds, a bird capture with flowers. The alt is #Birds&Bokeh, birds with a blurry background. This pigeon on our roof gives us a twofer, the bokeh in the background is flowering shrubs in nextdoor's garden. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #pigeon

Isle of Barra, 2022 #otd

Amazon's Prime days are June 23-26 so I'm going to discount all books in my own store to $3.00 during this time! This includes the new Rachel Peng, everyone's favorite permanently pissed-off cyborg. theagahfstore.bigcartel.com/category/books #book #books #author #authors #scifi #booksale

Sale is live! $3.00 on all ebooks in my store for the next few days. #book #books #author #authors #scifi #booksale

Under President Trump, more federal attention and support has gone towards anti-abortion Christian centers. A watchdog group says many of them mislead patients with promises to "rule out" ectopic pregnancies. n.pr/4oLFseJ

This list includes @johnchu.bsky.social @slhuang.com @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social (as noted below) and @marthawells.com

THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY is on a very cool list. Alien invasions, multiversal hijinks, linguustic shenanigans and, of course, Murderbot. screenrant.com/best-sci-fi-...

Via Seattle Times: “Light rail trains carried a record 280,000 passengers Friday, as people surged into Seattle for the USA-Australia World Cup soccer match, a sold-out Mariners game and summer-sauntering downtown.” Mass transit. It does a city good.

Yes, as a reminder, we are a finalist for the Hugo Award this year for Best Fanzine. We would be honored if you are a member of @laworldcon.bsky.social and would consider voting for us!

TV Review: Phantom Lawyer Lawyers, ghosts and lots of emotional intensity in the latest fantasy K-drama @annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the Hugo Award finalist NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/06/tv-r...

"Warriors! Come out to play!" apnews.com/article/warr... Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis set 'Warriors' musical for Broadway in 2027

Flashback to April and Vancouver Island’s beautiful Lower Myra Falls. #timothykeeneyphotography #photography #landscapephotography #waterfall #vancouverisland

No matter how loudly the dumbest people shout it, criticism of the state of Israel is not, in fact, "anti-Jewish messaging"

I got all the Tuesday challenges in one shot #tidesouttuesday #rockintuesday and #bluetue Cannon beach, OR #Scape #EastCoastKin #allthephotos #ColorADay #ThePhotoHour #photography #blueskyphotography #landscape #landscapephotography #pnw

Put a bunch of audiobooks and eBooks on sale for Prime Days because fuck Amazon, so a good chance to get some backlist titles while cutting out the corporations! payhip.com/skyladawncam...

Friday at 7pm Central, join us live as we torture Paul Weimer with NORMAN'S AWESOME EXPERIENCE. @princejvstin.com twitch.tv/alphabetst...

On the blog, @pematson.bsky.social looks back at a 2020 book, The Last Smile in Sunder City, by Luke Arnold. "I really enjoyed the worldbuilding in this book, and that includes the social structures..." skiffyandfanty.com/b...

See, @premeemohamed.com and her imagination would intimidate me if I ever were to do a one-shot of a TTRPG with her as one of the players

@gianttourtiere.bsky.social My research assistant should be back any minute now from the All Eyeballs dimension!

Book Review: The Last Smile in Sunder City, by Luke Arnold @pematson.bsky.social says it is a "The Last Smile in Sunder City is a really interesting and engaging novel." Check out her review at @skiffyandfanty.com skiffyandfanty.com/blog/review-...

As the destruction continues by a depraved, demented and delusional liar.

New RPG Review is up. Today we're talking about SPACESHIPS!!! youtu.be/GiR5R0KRrFA

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

They just look so beautiful together! No complaining allowed about unfinished series, either.

Glassblade is my noir epic fantasy set in Tacoma in 2013, about a group of teenagers coming of age as their world descends into violence, and about the adults trying to protect them. #WritingCommunity #Writesky Art by @data2048.bsky.social All links here: www.josephbrassey.com/the-wielder-...

This entire administration is Poster’s Madness in real life. Simply no ability to take an L

Quick note that this one is up for preorder so you can get it for 25% off at B&N right now: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/witch-is-m...

Imagine if--just imagine--you give someone the benefit of the doubt, but then over two years they do a bunch of shit that slowly makes you hate them, and then somebody says, "But WHY do you hate them?" and you have to use your memory and think backwards to all the things they've done. Just imagine!

Hi all, this is a GREAT time to join my Patreon, which brings you a new story every single month, plus access to my decade-plus archive of short fiction! Tales of love and monsters! Queer adventures! Weird horror! Jokes! www.patreon.com/c/timpratt

I missed the story about how our necrotic, rapidly decomposing husk of a president rode his fucking limo into the reflecting pool so he could "inspect" it from the back seat.

Trump will release the video evidence of vandals cutting a 350 ft gash in the Reflecting Pool lining when he releases the Epstein files, and proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and evidence that the ICE agents who killed Americans acted in self defense, and

Hagia Sophia Altar https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/hagia-sophia-altar-867

A Dubious Clamor by @marissalingen.bsky.social is out in a few months! This one is a present to your future self. Come for the magic swords that are pissed at bad legislation, stay for Marissa's immaculate sense of social atmosphere.

I get asked a pretty fair amount (three times in the last two weeks?) whether awards or award nominations 'move the needle' on book sales and my answer is usually that it's hard to tell, because I am looking mostly at the genre community, not the public. But --

NOW: Workers appear to be erecting a fence around the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. Watch LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnge...

Since various book sales seem to be happening, I am gonna be BRAVE and FEARLESS and ANNOYING and suggest you read my books! Let's talk about them a little, shall we? candleinsunshine.com/books/

MINNEAPOLIS JULY 9 take note

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas. Every single accusation was a confession.

FYI I'm interviewing Guest of Honour Neil Williamson at this year's PictCon. One of Scottish SF's most lauded and subtly devastating authors, an editor and musician, expect some wide-ranging and in-depth chat from us. @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pictcon2-t...

It's important we keep teaching reading and critical thinking so that Americans of the future may fully appreciate the metaphor here

Here is a statement from Champagne, aka Benjamin Song, the most maligned of the Priarieland protestors. Champagne was just sentenced to 100 years for shooting and injuring a police officer who had just drawn a weapon on an unarmed, fleeing protestor. prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-wr...

Your moment of calm, exploring with @wnwagner.bsky.social today.

since I need not to go into my own slough of despond and remember and remind you of the good things I do...and remind myself...

Happy US RELEASE DAY!

At @scalzi.com 's WHATEVER blog, @megelison.bsky.social has a guest post on her novel, out today, FOUNDLING FATHERS whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/23/t...

It’s all clown show now, every day, all the time.