Diamanda Galás Releases Two New Recordings on Día de Muertos You Must Be Certain of the Devil (remaster) + De-formation: Second Piano Variations More information, streaming and purchase: dub.sh/muertos

The New York Times with a rare win

Whoops did we mention that #LitCrawl is going down in San Francisco Saturday Oct 25 and that we’re hosting !!!Katie Flynn!!! !!!Cynthia Gómez!!! !!!Nick Mamatas!!! !!!LeeAnn Perry!!! and !!!Khan Wong!!! at Latin American Club on 22nd St X Mission at 6:30pm??!!

Well, the world is on fire, American history is being bulldozed for a Vegas ballroom, but at least I built a new spreadsheet for calculating indie press print-periodical income and expenses.

Starting an indie press and helping bring great work into the world is lifetime mission fulfillment. But there are a lot of fucking admin and finance spreadsheets one has to create and then continually populate. Oh yeah, and then there's fulfillment. You can't bollix a single bit of this.

BREAKING: Live munitions from a Trump-Vance “military demo” flew over I-5 and struck a CHP vehicle. The White House wanted the highway open—but Gov. Newsom shut it down for safety. That decision likely prevented injuries or worse. We have obtained these photos:

22 arrests. All Maga. Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman. I think we know who the violent ones are. #NoKings

Hey BlueSky: After hell-of consultation with Experts, we made a landing page for The Fabulist's print subscription campaign. Can you be our pre-launch review team? Take a gander, click the buttons, let us know if it gels! fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-...

Roses & Wildflowers open for 2026: societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/ro...

I hope HWA members will consider "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here: Weird Fiction in the San Francisco Bay Area" in Weird Fiction Review #13 for short non-fiction. NB: April 2025 was actual release, not Fall 2024. www.centipedepress.com/anthologies/...

My lovely publisher at @fabulistmag.bsky.social recently boosted this story I wrote about an overwhelmed android, who can't stop composing her log notes. She is a career! fabulistmagazine.com/in-our-heart... #fabulistfiction #fabulism #flashfiction #shortstory

Very happy to have new work forthcoming in @fabulistmag.bsky.social . I’ll post again when my ogre story is up. But here’s a link to my Pushcart-nominated story from 2020. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚💙

Recommended solutions for increasing gov’t surveillance? arstechnica.com/security/202...

Hot reads free! The Fabulist @ Lit Crawl 2025 presents: "STRATEGIES AGAINST DARK DREAMS OF EMPIRE": Saturday, October 25, 6:30p.m., The Latin America Club, 3286-22nd St. (x Mission/Valencia) fabulistmagazine.com/lit-crawl-25...

I know I RTd this last night, but I had a closer read of it now, and yes, this is helpful, if you haven't already done these things. I had done them, but it was good to double-check, as I've heard of updates that turn these features back on.

Public Domain Super Heroes!

Oh heck, did I mention, we have a reading tonight!? @tkrex.bsky.social booked it, @syr.bsky.social and @charliejane.bsky.social and Lehua Taitano and Charlie Getter are at the mic, and Cafe Suspiro is hosting and _hot dang_ this is gonna pop! 6pm-8pm, 1246 Folsom St. in SAN FRANNIE!!!!

Read the whole thread, but think about what this means about stories in periodicals and anthologies. SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS, eds. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, my 1st pro sale, was stolen by LibGen. The book won a World Fantasy Award. But as an anthology published in Canada, it's excluded.

So proud of how this turned out, and so very honored to have been trusted with the beautiful works of these #neurodivergent creators. #neurodivergentanthology #neurodivergentwriters #neurodivergentauthor #neurodivergentartists #neurodivergence #neurodiversity

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis. I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work. The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open. Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk Please share :)

Whatever you think about iPad kids, I really don't think we're ready for Chatbot kids

It's my newsletter! I finally wrote another one 'Oct. 2 reading + Oak story + Oooh, rain'. buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

With shoutouts to @syr.bsky.social @fabulistmag.bsky.social and @stelliform.press 📚 💕

Imagine the joy of receiving a full-color Locus Magazine in your mailbox each month—a treasure trove of reviews, interviews, and book news. Collect this month's issue and future editions here: subscribers.locusmag...

I always encourage defrauded writers to report the fraud as widely as possible (there are resources for doing so in the Legal Recourse section of the WB website)--but scammers always try to stay a step ahead (as if there weren't already enough to worry about) www.zdnet.com/article/scam...

Wait — there’s a Gormenghast opera by CAN keyboardist Irmin Schmidt??! www.facebook.com/100046800353...

Top VA officials testified that they don’t know how many doctors and nurses have left. We do. The VA is down 600+ doctors and 1,900+ nurses this year. After years of growth, the number of docs has declined each month since Trump took office. www.propublica.org/article/vete...

"A brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated almost 150 Native Americans were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children." www.history.com/this-day-in-...

One thing the Hugo Award rec sheet struggles with is artists. Are you an SFF artist, or do you know any that have done work in 2025? Our professional artist and fan artist categories need some love. #art #HugoAwards

please repost www.pbs.org/kenburns/the...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Brief and significant history of the digital shithole.

Nation’s 56,000 Acres Of Spinach Crops Cooked Down To Single Half-Cup Serving

Read this beauty by @dawnwriter.bsky.social in @fabulistmag.bsky.social this morning. If only… fabulistmagazine.com/press-me-to-...

CANCEL a streaming service, SUBSCRIBE to a print zine. Doooooooo itttttttttttt.

East Bay peeps! Come see me and FOUR other incredible speculative fiction authors talking about our books at Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave. Weds. Oct 1 @ 7 PM. Featuring @sarahgailey.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, Susanna Kwan and Lio Min. Deets: pegasusbookstore.com/bay-area-sci...

This particular battle, such as it is, is joined. Doesn’t matter if you watch Kimmel or anything. The free-speech stakes are higher than one man and one program. These corporations have a stranglehold on public discourse. Time to disrupt that.

"Form the dough. Knead until it’s as elastic as the truth."

Hey poets! Just a heads-up that The Fabulist will be opening a SPECULATIVE POETRY SUBMISSIONS WINDOW in late November. Woo! Details and links to come; meanwhile, sharpen yr quills, refresh the inkwell and start scratching on that vellum…

Hot ticket (free!) for lit fans coming up in SF Oct 2! Thrilled to be co-hosting this stellar reading with the singular @tkrex.bsky.social

Your horoscope for today: Be like the Autumnal equinox, and remind everyone that fog, darkness, and fright are lurking around every corner.

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

I'm not sure why people want to be raptored, but nostalgia is weird like that.

he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion

Pro tip: You can designate your local bookstore as the seller at bookshop.org.

Also if you want to get audiobooks and still support your local bookstore, use Libro.fm instead of audible. You get to pick which bookstore you want your purchases to go towards!

In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu

Separation of Church and Hate. Recommended book by progressive activist and humorist John Fugelsang. 💙📚 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.