The collective noun for leaf blowers is a SCOURGE

when you accidentally become important at work

There’s been a movie I saw as a kid that I’ve struggled to remember, and I could recall “band aids on necks” and “a bunch of frogs.” TONIGHT I FINALLY FOUND THE MOVIE

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

The Sunday Morning Transport treads the boards today with Andy Duncan debuting a meteoric play. Read a sample or subscribe to find out how it ends!

This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Excited to announce I have a new story coming out in Sunday Morning Transport in the middle of this month! If you haven’t already subscribed to this excellent short fiction magazine, you should really consider it: www.sundaymorningtransport.com

Also I can definitely NOT recommend candida esophagitis. Not even a little bit.

It’s been a hard couple months, health-wise, but I am excited to share that I’ll have a new piece of fiction coming out this month!

Holy smokes, GIRL IN THE CREEK is #10 in Amazon's Cosmic & Eldritch Horror category!!!!

On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer

Google's back on its bullshit: Here's how to remove AI Mode from Google Chrome's address bar piunikaweb.com/2025/10/02/g...

ICYMI! Catch those thieves !

Carl Sagan, Jacques Cousteau, and Jane Goodall were a Big Three for me. Grateful we had them.

If you hate Bad Bunny and aren’t too clear on his citizenship…wow, do I have a novel for you! Boricua to the core. Taíno blood in its heart. Full of history and anticolonialism. Angry as fuck. Dark and full of magic. Bilingüe y sabrosa. Come learn… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Hi everyone from launch day for A Philosophy of Thieves! Thieves is my 9th novel & it’s launching close to the10-year birthday of my first book, Updraft. To celebrate, I’ve made my monthly craft essay public, with how-to-writer thoughts I’ve picked up over the past decade. www.patreon.com/post...

This is still ongoing!

That is a very smart rec, @reactorsff.bsky.social ! New excerpt just dropped! Catch some thieves before they escape and launch next week!

A Hunger with No Name has been out in the world for a year! I'm still in love with this story of hope in the high desert, dealing w so many things we’re grappling w now. Like, follow, share for your chance to win the book in the format of your choice (internat'l e-book only) #giveaway

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Go on, dump Hulu/Disney & subscribe to some excellent independent sf&f magazines on Weightless — all ebooks are DRM-free (i.e. you own them) and besides all the magazines they also have books like this:

So we have the radiologist’s update on Castiel, and… It could be a lot better. We’re looking at another night of hospitalization, and at least a month of medical recovery. So I have bowed to the inevitable, and set up a GoFundMe to cover the costs. 😔🙏🏼🐈‍⬛ www.gofundme.com/f/help-casti...

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Anyone who advocates for the erasure of others does not need to be heard, supported, represented, or even acknowledged.

For Latin American Heritage month give the gift of a review! Reviews sell books. If you liked a book, review it. Even a sentence. If you can't do the one sentence maybe upvote a good review you agree with. In the age of the algorithm we gotta work the system. Upvote, click or share. Thnx.

I’m watching The Haunting (1963) tonight to celebrate finishing a bunch of different little writing tasks this week. I’m always delighted by the low-key lesbian representation in this movie

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

Three thousand per book is not nearly enough for this level of piracy, especially if they're allowed to keep using their chatbot trained on our stolen material.

P.A. Cornell did a service to our whole community in going public with her experience with the MRM contract. I love these magazines & their editorial teams & I hope that the new publishers get their act together before the damage is permanent. Contracts should protect the interests of both parties.

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

EVIL DEAD legend Sam Raimi is set to produce a remake of MAGIC, the 1978 ventriloquist horror starring Anthony Hopkins.

Haven’t preordered your copy of A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES yet? Now’s the time! @BNBuzz is offering B&N Rewards Members 25% off ALL preorders from September 3-5. Use code PREORDER25 when you order here tinyurl.com/2u5hmx56

probably my favorite book, every single sentence is a perfect chiseled jewel you'd give your eyeteeth to have written

Consistent with all odds, I am not a powerball winner on this day

I asked my mom what she’d do with her share of our inevitable powerball winnings and just said she’d replace her house’s side door. I think she’s reached peak life contentment, everyone!

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

Mycologists: are there fungal organisms where a single mycelium can get broken into separate living parts, and where those parts can rejoin into a single organism again if able to find each other? Asking on behalf of an extended metaphor

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JULY 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's June's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think

The wonderful @3lobedmag.com is running their annual Kickstarter. They're a fabulous source of weird, dark fiction, so if you can, consider helping them keep doing what they do for another year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Thank you to everybody who is pre-ordering ANGEL MAKER! It's currently #1 in Steampunk ebooks at Kobo and was just #3 in Steampunk ebooks over at Amazon! Getting stuff on those lists really does help a lot with discoverability and sales, so THANK YOU.

Had a fantastic #worldcon! Some action shots from my reading and panels and more to explore over on instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DNi9UTRp9CQ

@teffeau.bsky.social ‘s reading of A Hunger with No Name (which has a glass city) was backdropped by Seattle’s own glass towers. She also read an excerpt of her upcoming story, Accelerated Growth Environment, coming March 2026 from Shiraki Press! #booksky #ecothriller #solarpunk #hopepunk #novella

World Con is this week & my art will be in the Art Show and program book! I'll have original watercolor paintings & limited edition hand-embellished gold mica prints. I wish I could be there in person with my fellow book geeks but you can at least visit my art! seattlein2025.org/exhibits/art...

I wrote these posts after attending the San Antonio #Worldcon and they've been doing numbers on my site the last few days, so for anyone headed to Seattle, check out How to Survive Your First Worldcon Part 1 (laurencteffeau.com/2013/09/04/h...) and Part 2 (laurencteffeau.com/2013/09/11/h...)!

I’m over at @scalzi.com’s Big Idea today, trying to figure out the big idea of a whole short story collection - which was hard! So glad I had some help! Thank you Scalzi! whatever.scalzi.com/... #ACATALOGOFSTORMS #fairwoodpress

15 years ago, I hadn’t yet sold my 1st story (1 sold that fall); hadn’t met those who’d become my writing community; my kid was in kindergarten, my hair wasn’t this long, nor this silver. 15 years of stories & learning & being part of an amazing conversation. Happy book birthday A CATALOG OF STORMS.

Weird fiction fans, Three-Lobed Burning Eye's crowdfund is live! Behold this mag's incredible lineup of next year's authors, said with limited modesty as I'm one of them. The rewards are dope as well, shirts and art and...what's that? Backers can get a story critique from yours truly? Why yes!