When you say you are struggling to work because reading accounts of how brazenly children are being killed is messing with your head, people just tell you to stop reading the news. But under no circumstances should you stop generating shareholder value. That’s your main goal in life.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

It's the 2026 giant World SF bundle! 15 books for $30! With @tadethompson.bsky.social, @aliettedebodard.com, @lavanya.bsky.social @theodoragoss.bsky.social @genni.bsky.social and many more! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts hugely appreciated! storybundle.com/scifi

The American Historical Association filed suit today against the president and several top Trump administration officials over a new Justice Department opinion claiming the administration can ignore the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

National Poetry Month is in full bloom on the page. This poster was sent to us from the Academy of American Poets We hope everyone's celebrating by trying to write a speculative poem a day. Just think of how many poems you'll have to submit to us and places like Uncanny by the end of the month

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Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.

Susan Collins grimly standing up, walking across her office, and with a heavy weight bearing down on her weary shoulders, moving her doomsday clock from "concerned" to "worried."

REI and Patagonia both spoke out against the dismantling of the US Forest Service thank you to both of them! We’ve updated our website and added L.L. Bean to the pressure campaign.

Today’s Ars Poetica is a tongue in cheek sonnet by Tony Walsh If you have been following my posts you will know I am fond of a sonnet, a little fist of a poem that punches above its weight. They are easy to appreciate but not so easy to write (well). #Poetry #Poemoftheday #Nationalpoetrymonth

Gentle reminder to SFWA members that Nebula voting ends April 15.

Also sliding in with a last minute eligibility post for the Aurora Awards! Please consider my 2025 stories for those of you still nominating ✨

Last call for the Auroras. If you’re still nominating, I’d be honoured if you considered my Nebula-nominated short story “Through the Machine.” Thank you.

It feels like the perfect day to share a great poem about the stock market found in the @radonjournal.bsky.social 's Discord Channel by wonderful poet @shanaross.bsky.social : citronreview.com/2023/12/29/t...

I am once again asking you to submit to a special call that I'm editing

If you read only one fictional proposal about bypassing Homeless Shelter construction in the dogged pursuit of more pickleball in McSweeney's, let it be this one: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha... Hats off to @themaust.bsky.social

The gently sloping line at the bottom is our world 252 million years ago, when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years killing 90% of all species. It is a period known as The Great Dying. That vertical red line is the world our children live in.

Today is Giving Tuesday, for donating to nonprofits. BCS's parent co. is a 501c3 nonprofit, so donations & Patreon support are tax deductible (consult a tax professional). We'd appreciate your support. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/support-bcs/...

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Good piece here from @jmingle.bsky.social on the effects of Trump's war. The short-term effect on the world's poor & emerging economies: immense suffering. The long-term effect: an acceleration of the turn away from fossil fuels.

*Journalism Jobs* @wired.com is hiring a Senior Photo Editor to develop and execute high-level visual storytelling across digital and print platforms for the WIRED Global Network. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

What's so frustrating is reading this: "First elected to political office at 27, Mr. Cohen is a strong, and at times bluntly eccentric, politician in Memphis." So many of the elderly incumbents were young when they started, but refuse to let others have the same. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

Don't miss "The Strings and Roots that Guide and Speak," one of the most haunting stories from #11. www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/the...

Are climate policies all hot air? An analysis of policies in action across 40 nations says no - they are reducing emissions, and the strongest effects come from “packages” combining carbon pricing, subsidies and regulations, rather than single measures. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to see this investigation out in @theguardian.com today (follow-on piece from @drilledmedia.bsky.social mañana) on the shocking news that voluntary certifications built on self-reported data are probs not going to meaningfully reduce methane emissions 🙃 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Dwarf Stars nomination period is NOW OPEN (no fooling!) ✨Anyone✨ may submit, both their own poems or those of others. Final decisions made by this year's editor Jean-Paul L. Garnier (@spacecowboybooks.bsky.social) Read more about how to nominate here: sfpoetry.org/wp/dwarf-sta...

"For another memory, I can show you more possibilities." @prof-bogs.bsky.social's haunting meditation on trauma and memory is now live at Dream Theory: "Claire de Lune" www.dreamtheory.media/claire-de-lu...

Re-upping this for the Canadians. I'd especially appreciate nominations for "Through the Machine" which is currently a Nebula finalist.

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

"If you are trying to protect life on Earth, you are working in an era defined by loss." As with climate scientists, many on the frontlines fighting for the living world are suffering a mental health crisis. It's *vital* we mind ourselves, and each other. www.butlernature.com/2026/03/22/t...

I gather the SF&F subgenre formerly referred to as'blokes in cloaks' is now to be known as 'mantasy', and may be considered the counterpart to 'guy fi'. You may now go on with your day.

San Diego just gave us the best reveal of No Kings Day. #NoKings

A predictable #NoKings take from Jeremy Peters: A small turnout will be ominous, a large one will be meaningless, all protests from the left are merely a "primal scream," and none of them mean much. The NYT has always loved protests as history but hated them as news. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

Congratulations to Mari Ness @mariness.bsky.social! Mari Ness's poem "Care for Lightning" is a Nebula Award finalist! You can read it here! buff.ly/FD35sMH

Shoot all these people into fucking space.

Just finished a round of interviews & have openings before the next round begins, so if you have a blog, newsletter, podcast, or other place where you do author interviews, I’d love to chat with you about my two books publishing this year and more! Reach out to me or @starsandsabers.bsky.social.

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

[Editors, chanting softly] "subscribe, subscribe, subscribe" [Readers chiming in] "Subscribe! SUBSCRIBE!" [The entire internet] "SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE! SUBSCRIBE!" store.smallwondersma...

“The tech industry has done a great job of scaring reporters into thinking that having a negative opinion is somehow “not supporting innovation,” and I want to be clear that refusing to criticize the tech industry is what’s actually stopping innovation.” 👇

I hope we don't have to strike, but I voted "yes" along with 92% of my colleagues because we deserve what countless other unionized newsrooms have won: a fair disciplinary process; wages that keep up with inflation and reasonable AI guardrails. Here's how you can support our union's efforts: 1/

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SALE ALERT: I'm off work today, which means no pay, so I made some Cover Prompts! Not sure what to write? Use one of these covers to prompt a new story! Short, Novella, whatever! No AI, Fully Licensed, etc. $25. Just reply with which one you want, and I'll do the edits whenever you want! 1/2

Reposting: I'm guest editing this issue of @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social ! Call open until 3/31!

If you're nominating for the Hugos, I'd love it if you'd consider my poem "the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force." In any case, I hope you'll nominate poems! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Staffing “was always bad. And now it’s at a breaking point,” a VA psychologist said. They described being stretched so thin that one-on-one appointments were cut down to 16 minutes or replaced with group sessions with as many as 35 veterans.

Not to steal the thunder from “Through the Machine”‘s Nebula nom, but…in case you missed it, I published this novelette earlier this year. Some people have really liked it. You may too. Only one way to find out!

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: