If anyone is looking to hire an American culture critic who does not live inside America I am right here

Geometry of a kind #Dartmoor

ICYMI, @titanbooks.bsky.social unveiled the cover of the UK edition of YEAR OF THE MER 🤩 If you are of the review-y persuasion and in one of the geographic areas Titan serves, you can request an ARC here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.

quick! everybody buy THE SHAMSHINE BLIND so I can justify buying myself a bundt pan for Christmas

Don't care what it is, I'm buying this record immediately.

This is a nifty write up of both sets of novels—go read GENERATION LOSS!—plus an interview with me about why Aud, with her “slivers of strangeness” is a “unique character who could enliven a book in any genre”. Quite right!

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

A fun thing to do if you can afford it is to give money to someone doing good work so that they both have more money, can do more work, and feel appreciated for doing the good work

Thread. A heads up. I'll be doing themed witch drawings through the month of October, in the new style. (toned paper, pencil , gauche, chalk ) will be offering them daily at a reasonable price (because everybody should be able to afford art) Will be first come, first served though...

This. This this this this this. Build your shit. Own your shit. It's the only way forward. Nobody there but you.

They are literally canceling culture

I'm entering this competition and you can too! wn.nr/Mn7G2dV @silviamg.bsky.social new book!

The Right doesn't like this paradigm because they know they are shitty people

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Mentioned today in LA that I co-wrote a how-to write book; some ppl seemed interested in it. It's A Writer’s Guide to Speculative Fiction (co-writer is Crawford Killian). Hard to find now (small press), but the ebook is still obtainable. Intended as an intro for newbies bookshop.org/p/books/a-wr...

Cross posting two bits of advice for a newbie writer: 1. Read like a writer (sometimes). Find out why you like the writing you like, and see if there's anything you can adopt from that writer. This needs a level of intentionality that's not there when you're just reading for pleasure. 1/

if I was still teaching journalism, we'd be opening tomorrow's class with a dissection of how in the fuck they printed this in the first place

We can denounce political violence while pointing out his hateful beliefs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Source: the Guardian

Restaurant food. People use fresh ingredients and global cuisine much more. Prestige TV. Hit a big lull after the Sproanos era but the recent spate of shows are -fantastic- Small online artist/retailers. Ten years ago you could everything unique online came from EBay or with $50 shipping. ♥️♥️

Just reminding everyone that we still don't know who killed Kirk or why so can we all stop talking about how his murder is an assault on democracy or whatever. We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb

blocklist here. Feel free to add screenshots if you think I should check anyone out to add them.

There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

Check out Heart of Stone! It's a gorgeous film, and I was super happy to be asked to make the cover art :-)

Sarah, it’s a mad world and we saw it coming. Loved having you on show podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Hey UK, my reality-bending mother-daughter-found-family-multiverse novel is on sale on Kobo. It's about being lost, trying to find the best version of you (literally), the mysteries of our parents, neuroparasites, murder and features two of my favourite characters I've ever written in Dom and Amber

Thinking about Mount Rundle (my second fave mountain), it's just as picturesque in the winter. This was taken in January from Vermillion lake. Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #bluesky #blueskyphotography #naturephotography #Alberta #winter

Genre rules are only guidelines anyway! Want some Dragons in your Western? A locked boat murder mystery in your sci-fantasy? GBBO in outer space? A Necromantic bildungsroman? Searing examinations of war with bonus military Pteranodons? A literal plot device? We've got all that and more! 1/3

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Anyway folks looking to explore short fiction can and should check out the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, the content of which I can definitively assure you was sourced from a broad and inclusive range of magazines and anthologies for 13 whole seasons.

Please please help me spread the word! I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA. So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚

How an elephant rubs its eye

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

The more things I've made, the less I've been interested in publicly criticizing the things that other people make, because once you make a few things you start to understand what a miracle it is that anything gets made at all

Boyne, when less famous LGBT+ writers drop out of an LGBT+ prize bc his inclusion means it can't support all lgbt+ ppl: I HAVE BEEN CANCELLED, WHAT HAPPENED TO FREE SPEECH Rooney, when the actual UK gvt try to get all her work pulled from the UK bc she reckons babies shouldn't be starved: so be it

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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

I've said it often, but libraries are, without hyperbole, one of the greatest things humans have ever done. Like ever.

I love horror & it is a genre that continues to evolve. Horror is also growing in various kinds of representation. @sadiehartmann.bsky.social’s latest book FERAL & HYSTERICAL is a celebration of women & non-binary writers of horror with a readers’ advisory lens.

@tadethompson.bsky.social you don’t need 😝more things to spend money on… but this looks 🥹

I use "Detach Quote" liberally, when someone is trying to dogpile, also when someone is using something I said to use it as part of an argument or assertion I don't want to be associated with, also when, I don't know, they're reporting in from Neptune and I don't know wtf they're trying to say

I want to tell you something about my Doctor Who book. If you open it, you'll find it's dedicated to Katrina. Katrina was a friend of mine with profound intellectual disability, which came bundled with a whole bunch of physical disabilities. 1/

⬇️ More from a wonderful writer who knows the world of criminal elites all too well.

I wish it wasn’t considered controversial to say that people should not be starved to death. I wish it wasn’t controversial to say that is unacceptable for all of humanity.

1st lines read this morning Work is a incurable architecture inflicted on ourselves ... I would like to be inside an insanity that works like a sky above my head, possessed by a nameless acceleration. From Time by Etel Adnan tr by Sarah Riggs 2019 #Booksky #1stline #poetry #translation #French

If all we needed to end ignorance and inform good choices was for accurate information to be public, the internet would have solved all our epistemic problems. It didn’t. It’s not just a matter of having or not having information. The manner in which it is understood, the speech context, matters.

I would like to talk for like five hours about the workplace camaraderie in Luthor’s control room. one of the most chilling parts of the movie was how many other people it takes to execute evil on this level and all those people were deliberately normie-coded