This is moving and beautifully written; highly recommend.

Cats emit sleptons. Science.

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

I attended Clarion West in 1995 (old am I) and it was such a wonderful, intense, growing six weeks.

Prosper with Dragons HOLIDAY SALE is still going! ✨Only $25 for a deck! (Plus free US shipping!)✨ Just because this is a cooperative game, doesn't mean things won't get heated. One bold move by a player could tank the whole group, or save the day... 🐉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

Following yesterday’s story about Australia’s success tackling cervical cancer with the HPV vaccine, here’s the latest research on how vaccines can help prevent dementia, heart disease and some cancers.

Even in winter, the wood whispers to tramp its paths. Its Sprites and Woodwose may sleep through days demanding our heaviest coats, but its mysteries do not. Bare branches scratch the low sky and still its mysteries sing. We walk for wonder. We walk for cold magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981

I mean...arrgh. But here's a new digital collage. Not AI. And I try with the alt text, though these collages are a little hard to describe.

it's here it's QUEER it's the 2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!! 🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈

If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.

WE. ARE. LIVE. 11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS. www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Channel Island fox Maine moose Armadillo Pelicans Elephant seal

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

I signed this petition organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice. They still need more signatures. Can you sign and share as well? www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

I mean...arrgh. But here's a new digital collage. Not AI. And I try with the alt text, though these collages are a little hard to describe.

Said it before will say it again: never used it. Won’t use it. I will go into the woods and become mulch before I use it.

From a walk last week.

Great interview about Murderbot: Bifurcating Character with Incisive and Witty Inner Monologue: a Masterclass with ‘Murderbot’ Co-Showrunners Paul Weitz and Spirit Awards Winner Chris Weitz www.filmindependent.org/blog/bifurca...

Big bodega cat

Hookland holds the dialect word of holscad – a shadow cast by something that is patently not there, a shadow of something which was once there, but now no longer exists. #Hookland #WOTD

I know there’s a lot going on but if you have any money to spare, please consider protecting a vital wetland area, or share this link. secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...

Just some Scaramouche. No reason.

Content warning for the Trump Reich.

I was kinda nervous about giving this speech TBH. I don't usually get nervous about public speaking but going to a fancy Washington DC event and talking about fascism and why AI sucks felt like a lot honestly. I was so relieved people seemed to like it.

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

This is haunting and beautiful

#Pinks #ProudBlue They are going after the nurses. Trying to diminish the value of people whose life calling is to care for others just shows how terrible the regime is. Leave the nurses alone! We all need to stand up for the ones who take care of us. relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/11/11/t...

Just some Scaramouche. No reason.

Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action. Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions. You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice. The working class has much more power than they think.

First new digital collage in a while. Not AI.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

“It only ever spoke to me once and that was to say Do not sleep too deeply. Said upon departure, an aside tossed over its shoulder like salt. I paid little attention; I was staring at the thing it had given me...” “Songs Never Sung” by Premee Mohamed Issue 46 www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/3lbe...

I'll say it again. ICE are thugs and murderers; criminals.

Charlotte didn’t flinch; it rose. Neighbors linked arms, communities defied intimidation, and ICE’s fear machine hit a wall of people power. This is the new standard: we protect us. Read it, share it, make it impossible to ignore🔥 www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...

This is for all the queer pasta out there ❤️ #Gastronauts

This is fantastic!

The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection? #TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

Reading Martha Wells' Queen Demon. Can already tell I will be bereft to leave the characters when I'm done. @marthawells.com ♥️📖

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

If you're in Austin this weekend, swing by Higher Vibes ATX, stop 123 on the Austin Studio Tours. I'll be selling Prosper with Dragons games and game art prints by @cosmicamazon.bsky.social and @xavierill.bsky.social!

I will be at this tomorrow. 📚 ✨ 🌞 Local Author Showcase. Saturday, November 15th, Madelyn Helling Library: 980 Helling Way, Nevada City, CA. 11am-3pm.

(Gift link) An important article on biodiversity, and yet another example of why basic biosecurity—taking care to contain the inadvertent spread of diseases and species between biomes—really matters. wapo.st/47Slsij

Return the Black Hills to native people. Other places would also be good, don’t get me wrong, but there is so much mineral wealth in the Black Hills that deserves infinitely better stewardship and isn’t gonna get it as long as mining companies can just walk onto public land.

I'd dropped the price of all my shawls by at least 25% so they're all under $50 through December 15. Also made up a lower price weight class for the cheaper items. #crochet jkathleencheney.storenvy.com

I cannot wrap my head around how cruel and destructive this is. This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help