For Pride, you can preorder my & @cypayseur.bsky.social's favorite queer speculative stories of 2025! There have been many discussions lately about how queer publishing in the US is being squeezed from all directions. Pls support this ONGOING series & make sure it *remains* ongoing 💕 It matters!

🪁strange one from @spocksbrain.bsky.social

Here's my latest weird micro fiction, please enjoy. 🙏

brass solidarity band performing at george floyd square on the 6th anniversary of his murder by the minneapolis police department

So!! Grief Eater is out on Monday!! (Tuesday for the US, sorry, we beat you to it!) (Also if you haven’t seen my cover, holy shit, thank you Dante Luiz 🖤) I’d love to answer some questions, please AMA 🥰

We’re hiring a fiction editor to join our team! In this role, you’ll be: 👉 Reading fiction submissions during reading periods 👉 Editing selected submissions to a high standard & supporting authors throughout the publication process And more! Read on & apply www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

Men, masc folks of twin cities … if you’re cleaning out closets and drawers this weekend. Donation drop off locations in their bio:

please help minneapolis build its horror small press mecha; soon there will be enough to combine into an even larger form, perhaps one with a sword.

A Minneapolis neighborhood school created a @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social registry of books to send home with kids for the summer, and Moon Palace is selling them at a 20 percent discount! Order the books for local students at this link by May 29 moonpalacebooks.com/gift-registr...

🚨The Wedge LIVE Cat Tour is fast approaching: June 24. Wedge residents, please register your cats. Even if you've participated in prior years, we ask you to register again so we know you remain interested in having a mob scene stream past your home. wedgelive.com/cat-tour/

whenever the gdrive suite updates ANYTHING about its ui it throws me off for the rest of the day. they changed the favicon, and the sheets one looks so squished and weird. the docs one looks like dogshit too but ... i realize this is a problem that makes me and me alone disgruntled.

Orders are OPEN for our next zine bundle! For the next week, I'll donate all proceeds from this bundle to Emma, my partner's sister, who is three months sober and needs extra financial support while she secures a new job. Grab some zines and help out! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/curs...

There's still a chance for Frey to resurrect this and give Elizabeth Shaffer credit.

Help Max if you can!

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

Bookseller wanted! Are you in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada? Do you love queer science fiction and fantasy books? Do you want to sell them for a living? Come help me create a welcoming, friendly space for queer nerds at Other Places Books. Please send your information to [email protected]

hey, whose book club is this? must’ve been my imagination …

The discourse around "This is a tell for AI writing" really only serves the AI bros, because (they believe) it will tell them how to change the AI to make it indistinguishable from a human. We need to keep our em dashes. Our rules of three. The tell for AI is: is it hollow, does it say nothing.

Here's where you can make your voice heard, and it would be wonderful if more than just the smut peddlers ourselves gave them feedback. help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/req...

Yes this will lead to bans on non-sexual queer content but also…Art for sexual gratification is good and normal actually. It’s one of the main things art is for, always has been. Take it up with the human psyche if you don’t like it.

Pick up this half-price book sampler here: www.neonhemlock.com/books/spring...

Finally got the site working. By popular demand and brain of @nora.zone A General Bad Mayor shirt for those in other cities that ALSO have Bad Mayors and would like to let them no how they feel!

this thread is worth a read, OP is in minneapolis but i think it is solid advice for all

This morning, a resident was stopped and kidnapped by ICE near 28th and Oakland Ave South. Yesterday, a resident was kidnapped by ICE near Lake and Stevens Ave South. There is also increased activity at the Whipple building this morning compared to the last couple of weeks. 1/

SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM opens for submissions in nine days! Send us your horror and dark sci-fi stories about the extra work we do to stay afloat. Regular call = May 15 to June 14 Extended period for marginalized authors: June 15 to June 21 agitapublishing.com/submissions/

Obviously a mayor that governs by press release is more than happy to take the credit for others’ work in public. But I think often about whether, when he has a quiet moment alone with his thoughts, Frey feels any sense of embarrassment when his allies do shit like this.

For the evening crowd!

We had a snowplow naming competition last winter and the winning name was ABOLISH ICE. Sadly, the people spoke and the city did not listen.

Some more May Day Parade

May Day in Minneapolis always feels like a reward for surviving a Minnesota winter. This year is different. We survived a winter when the federal government sent an occupying force, kidnapped our neighbors, and spent months trying to destroy our community. We’re still here. ❤️

Happy May Day! They didn’t think the Southside could make it and they wanted to break us down but they must not know us. We are still here and we aren’t going anywhere. ¡Adelante!

All the pics I got of mayday are shit because I was too busy watching and/or holding a baby, but I was so glad I went. I love my city 😭

Minneapolis May Day Battle Train rolling down Bloomington - the best annual tradition.

If you are able, spread/supplement the May Day joy by donating to the Powderhorn Rent Relief Fund, since we’ll be parading through a neighborhood that’s been heavily impacted and some neighbors are still not able to safely leave to enjoy with us.

$15k would be game changing for several Lake Street businesses but Mayor Frey is handing it to social media consultant. Redirecting small business aid from immigrants suffering from ICE occupation into the pockets of his political allies should be a national scandal for Frey. Inexcusable.

Minneapolis! The city announced recipients of grants following metro surge. 50th and France is getting $30,000! East Isles is getting $35,000! Nothing for East Phillips or Powderhorn Park. If you are as frustrated as me, email [email protected] www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2026/ap...

amazing may day news that the mayor is gonna use money he bragged about to fund a festival meant to minimize the city’s own 1934 attack on organized labor while withholding that money from some of the wards that need it most- represented by the council members he hates the most. god i hate him!

Happy International Workers Day! Today, all proceeds from the Cursed Morsels store will go to Twin Cities rent relief for families affected by the ongoing but less publicized ICE occupation. Authors will still receive their royalties as normal. www.cursedmorselspress.com

you know what i think uptown needs. benches.

It’s normal to structure your stories around “Monster Culture (Seven Theses).” Everyone does it at least once, I’ve heard.

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - MARCH 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @jennahanchey.bsky.social @spacevalkyries.bsky.social @awritingwren.bsky.social @historyneverwas.bsky.social @benfrancisco.bsky.social @ayidashonibar.bsky.social @deeholloway.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/156917...

people still want to act like nihilism is cool but it is actually bullshit compliance. humans are not going away. we get to decide if future generations suffer or if they live free. hope is punk as fuck. our oppressors want us to believe we have no power and nothing is possible. it’s not true.

in case you were under the impression the occupation of Minneapolis was over

You can qualify for assistance if: 1. You live in Minneapolis 2. Your household income is at or below 30% of the Area Median Income (AMI) 3. You have received an eviction notice from your landlord For more information: www.minneapolismn.gov/resident-ser...

Minnesota writers: We're looking for stories & poems under 400 words in response to the ICE occupation of our state. Submissions close THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 📣 ⚠️ Submit & more info about our chapbook project: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

The Luminous Dead is at times so intensely claustrophobic & isolated that the idea of how it’d look on stage is exhilarating. More! Scifi! Horror! Theater! About! Women!

Post something you’re proud of. My sf robot/human solidarity story “What a Name Does Is Let You Leave” motivated me to become a better writer. I love non-human povs, I love 2nd person, and I love this story. It took 2 years to get there, but it was worth it. www.adventitious.net/stories/what...

Access to books is highly restricted for people who are incarcerated. The Prison Book Program does incredible work getting books to them. Thanks to a matching donation, your gift will go twice as far this week.

Families here REALLY need the kindness of those in other communities to come through as much as we can in order to weather some of what we've been through here.

Reminder that Frey was posting grinning pics with congressional leaders in DC a week after Alex Pretti was murdered. This is not the face of a man concerned with his dead constituents, it's a guy ecstatic to have any reason to be there. All he wants is to be in their club.