Babe wake up, new sickos meme just dropped

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

No one looks nonbinary. Androgynous, maybe, but those are not synonyms. Nonbinary folks slant masc, femme, androgynous, or are fluid. You do not know looking at someone. Asking for preferred pronouns is a kindness this nonbinary femme appreciates. Thank you!

Submissions for issue 10 are open a few hours early! For this, our last issue, we're looking for stories which explore the theme of endings 🥲 1-14 January: open to authors who are members of marginalised groups only 15-31 January: open to everyone

That's definitely a follow-farming bot. Picked up by multiple blocklists including bsky.app/profile/did:... (which I recommend)

I feel just a little shameless doing this but I saw other people doing it and I gotta learn to promote myself. Hi, I'm Mika and it's my birthday today! If I could have one wish it'd be for you to share my art. No pressure though I already had a banger day. Appreciate you all ❤️

I have two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines, podcasts, and publishers. You can follow all or some from these lists. 1. bsky.app/starter-pack... 2. bsky.app/starter-pack...

It's a Christmas miracle! FF#1 has re-launched is now available in an e-reader friendly EPUB format and our new PDF format, along with some fresh cover art from @carlydraws.bsky.social! www.fusionfragment.com/issue-1/

Write the stories you want to write. Because then, no matter what happens, no matter what markets are or aren’t there, you’ll at least have written the stories you want to write.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

The Endangered Species Act is under attack! I’ve been drawing an endangered animal everyday to bring awareness! Originally posted as speeddrawing reels on insta, I’m posting the final drawings here. If you want to find out how to help protect these animals, read the following posts!

Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...

My apocalyptic science-fantasy short story ZEN SOLARIS AND THE GOD-CHILD is here on sale for a single dollar! Main character is an intersex trans masc with a switchblade and a bad attitude. (CWs for dystopian goverment-mandated medical abuse)

Defending SFWA's take about AI as an author communicates you've used it. You used it "before anyone told you it was bad" doesn't fly because everyone said it was bad from the get go. You chose to ignore the critics. Dunno what to say other than sci fi writers would know better, you'd think.

I've seen some people saying that the new SFWA rule on "AI" in the Nebulas will prevent people from being transparent about their LLM use. Newsflash: They wouldn't have been anyway. It would cost them readers. It would cost them votes. It would potentially cost them opportunities with publishers.

We're reopening to submissions on January 1st. Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.

Happy to announce my story "Schema" is coming to @trollbreathmag.bsky.social next March!! Can't wait for everyone to meet my toxic sapphics and their very peculiar flock of sheep 🐑

Watch this space. 🚀🪡 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

1 8 4 4 #darkart #sciart #birdart #naturalhistory #illustration #extinction

Baubles from Bones #7 is out and in it you can find a story of mine. It's about environmental destruction, capitalism taking advantage of disadvantaged communities through the promise of labor, and saints made of squid flesh 🐟🏭🦪 www.baublesfrombones.com/a-hagiograph...

We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.

I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories. If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word? Thank you!

Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please donate otherwiseaward.org/support-us/d... to our year-end fundraising campaign: otherwiseaward.org/2025/12/help...

🚨🚨 Tomorrow, a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee is voting on passing KOSA & several other age verification bills. We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW Call 202-224-3121 www.badinternetbills.com

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Grave of the Fireflies. I don't think anyone needs to sit with that kind of sadness more than once, especially considering what we're witnessing around the world in real life

Although we had planned to stay open to reprints year-round, we’ve received so many fantastic stories that we've decided to temporarily close on January 1st in order to focus on reading original fiction and poetry. We’ll open again in March 2026 for reprints for Issue 2! Nonfiction will stay open!

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

I know a lot of people aren't familiar with Common Bonds, but it's a series of all-aro anthologies to combat the way aro stories in anthos are often fully eclipsed by ace ones. Book 1 released in 2021 and now we're back by popular demand with all new stories! Check it out 👇🏽

Congrats to @hazelzorn.bsky.social whose incredible Eco-Body-Horror cli-fi novella REEF MIND made @lithub.com.web.brid.gy's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025! lithub.com/100-notable-...

The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed and alcohol pooled on the floor. The suspect acted like an animal because, in fact, he's a raccoon.

A seagull couple has been nesting on the roof next to my office each year and today they were beefing with two hooded crows. Guess who ended up watching the whole thing and forgetting they were at work

Applications for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices are now open! Apply for your chance to work with one of our 8 amazing faculty members, attend programming aimed at developing craft and demystifying the publishing industry, and build forever-community. 🥰 bit.ly/48cM1iy

I got hit with an unexpected $200 expense today! I need to buy software to keep my new freelance job. It would be amazing to sell some books or get some new patrons to help cover it 😬 Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

There were once dozens of newsstand magazines devoted to science fiction, fantasy, horror, and "weird tales." Those dozens eventually shrank to three: Analog, Asimov's, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. 1/x

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And in fact, by continuing to give power to these men, you are losing exponentially more knowledge than they could ever contribute Not only are they more fungible in their own position than they think but they operate like scarecrows, warning away countless flocks of decent people

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

We're a new literary magazine for eco-fiction. We're going to start publishing in January of 2026, with subs opening in December. - Published by @briefecology.bsky.social - Stories will be free to read in newsletter + website - $ 0.06/word - 1,500 words or less - More details at the link 👇

My toxic trait is that I pronounce bsky as "bisky", like the HxH character

24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026! It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Editing is not about rewriting, but about helping a story be the best version of itself. That can mean making things clearer for the reader, but it can also mean making them less clear.

We have 5 days left and are $800 away from our goal!!! Help us make this book a reality!

For many folks, money is tight and about to get tighter with the manufactured SNAP benefits crisis. As such, between now and the end of the month, I'm donating all Cursed Morsels store proceeds to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. Buy a book and support unhoused folks: www.cursedmorselspress.com