Not to be dramatic, but the most exciting thing to happen this year is going on right now at tv.theindiebeat.fm #indiemusic #music

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Sugar Cubes + PIL + New Order Eurythmics Peter Hook Peter Murphy 2x Conspiracy of Hope (U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Bryan Adams, Joan Baez, The Neville Brothers)

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best www.thenation.com/article/soci...

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gol...

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

THE PORTAL IS OPEN! THE PORTAL IS OPEN! You can dance into the ring and submit your story for consideration at @apexmag.bsky.social

I’m so excited to have these two accomplished authors as instructors at Reach Your Apex!

"But despite all this, We Who Hunt Alexanders shows how community, family and friendships not only help people survive in dangerous times but also help us keep hope alive." 🌅🖤 If you're a #booksky cozy horror fan looking for your next read, you're in good hands with @jasonsanford.bsky.social 💙📚

I'm teaching a "Writing While Neurodiverse" workshop on Saturday, August 16 as part of the @seattlein2025.org. If you'd like to read the detailed booklet I provide participants plus see more details on the workshop and my Worldcon schedule, dive into this link. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

We're thrilled to announce the results of our art contest: - 3rd: Landscape by Debbie Hughes - 2nd: Circuit Tree by Lannie Phajlic - 1st: Untitled by Grace Crandal We'll be posting the images here over the next week, but if you just can't wait to see them, visit our Instagram! #sciencefiction #art

I'm also on Mastodon, which still stands the best chance of surviving longer than all the various millionaire or billionaire-owned social media sites. Here I am over there: mastodon.social/@gregpak

im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires

Things are pretty bad right now and we need to take joy wherever we can, so here is a picture of Jack McBrayer and Alexander Skarsgard holding hands and being best friends.

Substack has a Nazi problem. If you're starting a newsletter in 2025, you have other options and you absolutely should take them for moral and ethical reasons, imo. I'm on @buttondown.com and it's pretty great!

📢 NEW DRABBLE CONTEST ALERT!! Theme: "The Masks We Wear" 🎭👺 Spooky season's come early! We're opening submissions from July 10th-July 24th 2025 for masquerade microfiction. Winners will be published in Apex Magazine October 2025 Issue! 🎃☠️ Full details here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

@shackleboundbooks.bsky.social is opening submissions for a weird west flash anthology in July (2c/w) and they're open for a dark fairytale drabble anthology right now... which I happen to be editing. 👀 😮 🙌 🙌 🙌 shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/

If you have a copy of Let This Radicalize You, pls note that there is an appendix in the back that talks about what to do if the police or any agent of the state shows up at your door. A trusted movement attorney wrote this section. Nothing will keep us 100% safe, but pls be aware of best practices.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

Eyyy my 'the betrayal of the whatnow' sword & sorcery story THE BETRAYAL OF THE RHINOCEROS (from @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social issue 3) gets a nice little shout-out in @locusmag.bsky.social -- reviewed alongside many other cool stories by Paula Guran! :D locusmag.com/2025/06/the-...

omg just fuck already

Gynocentric communication

“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden This is a Dr. Hayden appreciation post.

Romance comics anticipated all of today's problems

Your writing prompt for today is here: storyaday.org/2025-day-04/. "Two characters. One location. There’s one problem and they can’t agree on how to solve it." I am delighted to participate in Story a Day in May, where they invite you to write today, not 'some day.' @storyaday.bsky.social #StoryADay

Each issue of Utopia Science Fiction contains a From the Vault section, reviving greatly underappreciated works of fiction, most recently, "The World with a Thousand Moons" by Edmond Hamilton. www.utopiasciencefiction.com

This Day in Labor History: May 1, 1867. Workers in Chicago went on strike for an 8-hour day, the first mass-scale labor action for that demand that directly challenged political power. Let's talk about this little known worker action on May Day!

Support Your Local Comic Shop: Books With Pictures (Portland, Oregon). www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/books-w...

Same

Democratic members of Congress should probably be made to understand that unless they throw everything they have at this, they are next.

Way too many people hear “language model” and think the algorithm understands language. It does not. It reduces letters to numbers and looks for patterns in the numbers. That’s all it does. That’s all it can do. It does not derive meaning; it does not extrapolate consequences.

“THE ALGORITHM IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE CAPABLE OF DISCERNMENT.” Never. AI is a misnomer. It’s not intelligent. It’s a calculator. If you’re like “calculators can’t do language, silly,” that’s the entire goddamn point.

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

A great write-up from @ebhutchins.bsky.social. Would also ad that if you don't have a local comic book shop near you, you can still order books from rad shops like Big Planet Comics, Four Color Fantasies, Now or Never, Third Eye Comics, Books With Pictures, Challengers, & more that will ship to you.

The only reason Andrew Cuomo hasn't gotten more speed camera tickets in New York City is because he's only lived in New York City for less than a year. Don't rank Cuomo.

Who’s going to enforce any of these rulings? How?

It's a start

My first apartment in 1994 was $350/month. Adjusting for inflation, that apartment should now rent for $744/month. It actually rents for $1500. Greed and inflation are hurting the kids, not their Starbucks lattes.

Our Kickstarter goals have been met and we're all very excited for another year of Utopia Science Fiction! The rewards for all tiers should have been sent out by now (so please let us know if you're waiting on anything). Huge thanks again to everyone who supported us and our amazing contributors.

Fantastic list for new science fiction and fantasy authors! www.aplaceofintent.co.uk/blog/science...

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

History time! Shout out to one of our supporters for giving us the idea to post this. The 1975 Icelandic women's strike. For 1 day, women refused to go to work, preform domestic and child caring labor. 90% of the women population went on strike - amazing.

The only thing that needs more babies to be made is the capitalist human grinder. Earth does not need more humans. Only billionaires need more worker drones.

To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/) File this under "solutions to modern problems that summon the old gods."

Every time I see a headline about a court—even SCOTUS—ruling against the POTUS, I wonder: WHO is going to enforce this ruling? How? Can Schumer or Jeffries or Harris or Biden or Obama tell us the answer? If there’s no answer or it’s “a few good Republicans,” then these headlines are hopium.

Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over. Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed. I have the links

I am already at work fighting against the rehabilitation of David fucking Brooks and Bret fucking Stephens.

😐 We’ve reached the singuhilarity.