👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏 Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail" "About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"

please clap #Cat #Caturday

Buying ebooks with DRM isn't actually buying books, it's renting them. If you buy a print book, it's yours forever. Books don't go "obsolete". Ebooks should be the same. Don't buy ebooks with DRM. @libreture.com has a huge list of DRM-free e-booksellers. Weightless is among them

Eliminating libraries in prisons is a disaster, completely shortsighted. Libraries are a lifeline for incarcerated people who want to learn and grow, and have few other options.

Here's preview of the end of the current US administration

48 HOURS till the end of our fundraiser at locusmag.com/igg26 and we're only halfway to our funding goals.... Please take a moment to support what we do if you have the means! Thank you so much! Fundraiser closes Tuesday 4/14!

Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.

Good luck, Hungary. We're rooting for you out here today.

"We firmly believe that dark fiction is a bulwark against the forces of the world eager to reduce our human experience to dollars and cents." From the NIGHTMARE April editorial: www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Some writers are great at being public figures but others write, a solitary profession, exactly because we aren’t good at that. Even a fantastic sum of money might not be enough to make you change your basic nature. What to do? If you’re Helen DeWitt you write something funny & honest.

Submissions are OPEN! thecosmicbackground.moksha.io/publication/1 NABOKOV'S SUSPENSION Edited by Jehanne Bell 👅🧵👻🎤✍️ We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create shapeshift around them.

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

We're all here. ❤️

Friends, am delighted to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social 's 'Uncertain Sons and Other Stories' has received a Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Congratulations, Thomas!

Metrics as a substitute for thought has been catastrophic for the discussion of art

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

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As part of a new wave of young socialist candidates, Madison’s Bobby Gronert is running for city council, bringing lessons learned from student organizing to city hall to challenge developers and shape what socialism looks like for a new generation.

FINALLY just rode an elevator with an elevator repairman WORKING on the elevator as we rode it, and asked him what I’ve always wanted to know: So, is Die Hard accurate, or possible? “Nope.” Alas. One more dream dies. For me AND Jake Peralta, I guess.

We are currently open for reprints from Anthologies and Collections published, or due to be published, in 2026.* Books only, not magazines or periodicals. Anything up to 6000 words (we like flash!) escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/... (*Strictly 2026. We’ll open for general subs in August)

[walks to the fridge immediately]

Latest story, "Middle Song," now out in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social. Soldiers on a search for fugitives wander into a strange roadhouse. Standalone but loosely tied to a group of stories that started in 2022 right here in BP. Always glad to be back and in a ToC w/great fellow authors.

**SCREAMING** because our Modern Mummies horror anthology has been nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Classic Monster Fiction! You can find out how to vote for Modern Mummies at the link below ⬇️ rondoaward.com/rondoaward.c...

oh damn it's been 6 months. a lot of dark things happening, but this is one of the better things drawing my focus. appreciate all the folks who went out their way for it. blurbs. reviews. recs to friends. every short fic editor, fellow writer, reader from over the years. grateful for the support.

Chuck Norris actually died when Bruce Lee killed him on the Way of the Dragon set, he just didn't figure it out till now

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

Painfully relatable

I have a new story out today in @apexmag.bsky.social! "The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood" is a happy love story on a remote island where everything is delicious and perfect 😀 (oh, the title? Don't mind that.) Loosely inspired by the Japanese urban legend of Hanako-san.

This Friday (March 20), at 12pm ET, the hex gates will open once more. We will have a cap of 200 submissions, so PLEASE only one submission per writer. hex recently celebrated our 4th (!!!) year of existence and we couldn't do it without all of you incredible folks! Thank you and C u soon! <3 😈

Excited to scratch the first 2026 book off my TBR by one of my absolute favorite modern short story authors!

Hey poets! We'll be open for poetry submissions from March 16 - April 27! Get those poems polished and ready for potential publication! We pay $60 / poem for SFFH narrative poetry, any length. Here's where you'll go to submit when we open:

Trans and queer writers review thirteen essential queer books (that weren’t covered by the New York Times Book Review during Pamela Paul’s reign).

“Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth the small truths accumulate around it.” —Ray Bradbury

Fucking despicable

If you're reading for the Hugo Awards, please consider @thomasha.bsky.social 's "Uncertain Sons" in the Novelette category. Thank you. You can read the story here: undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.

We have only 61 stories submitted for WHAT ELEGANT STARS so far. I suppose a lot of folks will submit in the last month, but that still seems low. Though the theme is more specific than some previous ones, so folks are less likely to have anything ready to go. www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

We’re not fighting for ourselves. We’re fighting for each other. Happy International Women’s Day.

5 of the many women in SFFH that I admire and respect greatly. This list doesn't even scratch the surface: @ivygrimes.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @lucyasnyder.bsky.social @annieneugebauer.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Happy international women's day! Who's on your list?

Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored.

Anyways.

Don't let the American government decide what books you and your family are allowed to read. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

don’t doomscroll. read a chapter instead.

For no reason, just posting this here as a reminder that art doesn’t need to be owned by a corporation and sold and conglomerated for billions. Support indie art. It is (almost literally) the only art that remains🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

#HorrorWritersChat I try not to let my writing be defined by tropes, positively or negatively. The lives of my characters are, hopefully, complicated and multi faceted and their arcs are defined by their personal journeys while being conscious of any negative trope that could be cropping up as I go

#HorrorWritersChat A constant theme for my writing is that feeling of walking into a place and knowing you're visibly an outsider, that sense that you're subject to derision and scorn for being you in a place not made for you. I think that aspect of the queer experience resonates broadly

#HorrorWritersChat Let me introduce you to Carmine and Prince Aurum! Carmine is the secretary at the old detective agency. It's the only job she can get in Arkham as a black woman. Her real dream is to run her own circus. She can be closed off but at heart is a playful trickster and creator. 1/2

One of my Black characters is Simon, host of the Simon Speaks radio show. He investigates paranormal encounters. One of my ace characters is Valentina. She hosts a forbidden Halloween party as part of her plot to overthrow the conservative mayor who has banned Halloween. #HorrorWritersChat Q2