I emerge from the ground like a periodical cicada to scream I WILL BE AT @wiscon.bsky.social on several panels including one on BUGS of which I have Many Opinions As An Certified Entomologist. #wiscon #wiscon48

Taking a few more minutes to savor "Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic."

Meet the king of the Weird Little Guys, the Butternut Woollyworm (Eriocampa juglandis), native to North America. They're the larval form for a wasp-like sawfly & they secrete tufts of wooly substance from epidermal glands to aid in camouflage. All hail the king! (📷: Robert Gromotka)

Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f... If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!

Any time any where someone brings up recovered memory therapy & forensic hypnosis as proof for XYZ, I'm rolling my eyes so hard they're doing 360s off a half pike bc it's been repeatedly demonstrated that's completely bunk. I'm looking at you ufologists.

Consider writing really wierd stories so Joe pays you in cold hard metal coins

Harlequin’s global growth in the 70s was made possible by local translators who not only converted the language but also the idioms and symbols of love into things locals would understand. This is a penny wise, pound foolish move by HC, another in a long line.

Blacktip beet sharks 🫜🦈 #art

So I definitely will not be coughing but the 90$ to renew my membership to SWFA especially with returning to school for degree three. Cancelling membership & not renewing directly impacts sfwas ability to operate so let ur wallet speak

It's just really disappointing to see this stance from SWFA especially after they worked with writers impacted by LLMs using their work in a class action lawsuit :/. We can't be wishy washy lads.

This is a slippery slope that will lead to more slop further undermining the spec fic publishing industry imo.

The scariest thing is getting the library newsletter on Halloween to see the friends of the library are sponsoring workshops on chatgpt/AI and ALSO essential oils 😬😬😬

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

More Cake ???? More Cake !!! 2026 is going to be a great year for queer sff short fiction, we are up to 4 queer sff mags !

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company. craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

5:45am "you shouldn't draw attention to yourself" talking at is a great start to the day. This time triggered by teaching a cosplay workshop to teens about animal ears. It's a rather boring way to live to actually not draw attention and counterproductive too imo.

Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas: Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter

2025 Lambda Literary Awards and Special Awards Winners

i have no more excuses for not having a copy of nana like a good little jfashion enthusiast.

Did you miss @spacemagiccon.bsky.social ? The 2025 panels are all up on youtube for viewing pleasure including the one I was on, Defining Genres: Do We Need To! youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiLg-RonFvaDdTJwMN6avZaNjKn6Jr_S&si=aNGPhtQTjElChGy6 I also really enjoyed the Queer Desire panel <3

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books! You can request a copy here: forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH... I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

working at the deli requires a REALLY BIG BUBBLE WAND just saying, maybe even a BUBBLE MACHINE.

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

UM WHAT our campaign is officially a Kickstarter "Project We Love"! Now more than ever supporting queer speculative art, poetry, and stories is so important—it means a lot that our want to create space for queer artists, poets, and writers resonates so strongly! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

*slaps roof of car* this bad boy can fit so much fucking gay words in it. Have you backed @othersidespec.bsky.social on kickstarter yet? They have 1.5 years of queer spec fic funded with each issue at a 15k words. Let's fill that bad boy UP. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Translunar Traveler's Lounge is open for speculative fiction, 5000 words and under. Please check the guidelines before submitting, but other than that, don't self-reject. translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

OP: Maxicimam Blouse, headdress, bloomers: BTSSB Actually my comfiest MAM piece thus far but MAM has a lot of comfy pieces i love them ahhhhhh #jfashion #eglcomm #ロリィタ #ロリータファッション #ロリータ #lolitafashion

get in the otherside kickstarter launch shinji

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researching a maritime disaster in 2025: Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor

I am currently reading the Extinction of Irena Rey and it's so unhinged. The first chapter is like I am a beautiful horrible translator do not sue me. Second chapter is fungi evil. It just goes to 100 and does not stop

I'll be yapping about genre as a tool and the post cyberpunk genres in October at Rainbow Space Magic! Hope to see you there

Our Kickstarter launches in TEN DAYS! September 29 is in fact SOMEHOW ten days away!!! We’re nervous and excited and SO ready. We're only screaming intermittently. Sign up to be notified when it launches. We have a lot of fun rewards and goals planned… you won’t want to miss this 👀

FF is at FoF! I'll be hosting a limited-seating chill-n-chat on Saturday the 27th at 9 AM Eastern. Join me to chat about anything short fiction related! Enter the lottery to get a seat! flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/ And if you haven't heard of FoF, it's only the greatest virtual con going!

Come hang out with us! Ask us your burning magazine questions, learn more about our vision for the first issue of OTHERSIDE, or just yell excitedly with us about all our favorite queer SFF. See you there!

As I toil away in the meat mines on this labor day, what are some of your favorite labor related sf? Mine are Metal From Heaven, Ancillary Mercy, & Going Postal.

I got curious about Hugo-finalist ages over time (specifically ages of authors whose works were finalists in the Novel/Novella/Novelette/Short Story categories), so I extracted some data from ISFDB and created some charts. www.kith.org/jed/2025/08/...

Mate-seeking spiders looking to smash are getting smushed by cars in Southern Colorado. So the state is building tarantula crossings.

Oliver Frey

forgot I made these badge ribbons back in april/may to give away as a con purchase bonus, and I have a lot extra that I had been concerned about because the joke is so topical that what if they become outdated by the next time I attend a ribbon con how optimistic of me

Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜 🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆

Currently experiencing eggolavanche. All my pullets are laying so it's been 5 eggs a day.

There's this weird problem folks have where they imagine any marginalized person (by race, class, gender, industry, whatever) who achieves any level of success has a burden to make all the "right" decisions on how to represent themselves and their group and interact with other marginalized people.

Writing with resistance, Imagining a better future. Join us Oct 4 & 5 for the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic. This free virtual con is for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction. Panels & schedule to be released soon! rainbowspacemagic.org. #LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

The blattodea page on bugguide is a pvp zone when filtered for Florida between the native species and introduced species.

Researchers have filmed thousands of climbing catfish scaling waterfalls, providing a rare insight into the daring migration of an enigmatic fish. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4lDlFux

i'm sorry

Woke up today to the meatball painting over the pulse memorial rainbow crossing. Glad that people are redoing it in chalk. The other two crosswalks in the state are going to get painted over too. It really sucks loving a place where the leaders actively try to erase you.