"And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one."

Me when everything right now.

Sometimes, there is news that is really neat

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Like the kind of girl Trump drew on Epstein’s birthday card, or a different kind

“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”

If you and/or your littles love a cozy fort like I do, you're in luck! FORTS, written by @katievenit.bsky.social and illustrated by @kenardpak.bsky.social, is now available online and at your favorite local bookstore 🎉🏡✨️

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

People in #Gaza, including UNRWA staff, are fainting due to starvation and severe hunger. People are dying from severe malnutrition. UNRWA alone has thousands of trucks in neighbouring countries waiting to enter Gaza – banned by Israeli Authorities from entering since March. Lift the siege.

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

WCK resumed cooking in Gaza after our first aid delivery in 12 weeks. With new ingredients on hand, we’re preparing warm, carb-rich meals like pasta and hearty potato stews. The WCK team cooked nearly 10,000 meals on day one of resumed operations. #ChefsForGaza (1/2)

if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

We are still supporting Palestinian families by distributing critically needed potable water where possible. #ChefsForGaza (4/5)

Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once

Happy book birthday to my favorite curmudgeon @kenardpak.bsky.social! GOODBYE SPRING, HELLO SUMMER wraps up his seasonal picture book series and it's now available for purchase/order at your favorite bookseller. It's been a true labor of love, and it could not be lovelier - cheers, old man! 🌿🌸🏵🌷🌞

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET ANYTHING DONE EVER AGAIN

"The Iron Giant" was born out of heartbreak, but manages to be warm, joyful, and funny, while delivering a lesson that becomes more vital with each passing year. Let's discuss this perfect movie... reactormag.com/the-iron-gia...

Like many people, the recent glut of Studio-Ghibli-styled AI images has left a bad taste in my mouth. My grandma (we called her “granarch” because she was 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘤) wrote “Howl's Moving Castle”, which was adapted by Hayao Miyazaki into a film of the same name.

27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky

Lots of new peeps around on Bluesky so I'll share these again! I have two starter packs full of awesome speculative fiction zines, publishers, podcasts, etc: 1: bsky.app/starter-pack... 2: bsky.app/starter-pack... You can click "follow all", or click to follow individual accounts.

The hearing on a PI ordered here is going on right now. Judge Reyes is grilling the gov't lawyer on what the DOD policies mean, and the gov't lawyer essentially said the policies are changing every two days so he didn't know. Judge Reyes asked him why he wasn't talking to his clients. Yikes.

I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

🖤Armitage🖤

The first Castlevania series was a pleasant surprise, and with Nocturne the showrunners upped the stakes and sarcasm by grounding it with an emotional core - and breathtakingly animated fight sequences. Check it out, because we need more of this please

DAVID LYNCH has passed away. We have lost one of the greatest directors in history, a superlative artist. A unique and timeless cultural figure. Forever in our memory, forever in our hearts. Long live The Greatest.

❤️‍🩹🌱✨ The Altadena Seed Library shares, "We are seeking seed donations to help reseed Altadena. This community is enormously dedicated to native plants, but also had many farmers & growers who lost generations of crops at community gardens and in backyards. Wildlife coming down from the foothills 🧵

If you’re a California resident you are able get a card at any system in the state 📚

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

very tiny starter pack (right now) of all the ESEA SFFH writers i think you should all follow! comment below if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/Aw6qa9B

Sometimes the shirt chooses you and the energy you're bringing to the day

My copy of REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE by the ingenious and wonderful @edenrobins.bsky.social finally arrived today! It spans history, time and space through obituaries and y'all it is flat out brilliant. Cheers and congrats, Eden! 🎉🎂🥳🥂😘

There are now over 100(!!!) talented BIPOC authors in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror who have self-selected to be followed and engaged with as part of this starter pack! Thank you all & if you've given this list a follow before, consider doing a re-follow of any new adds! go.bsky.app/6WxXXBY

So so excited (and humbled!) that my novelette "Optimist Cleaver's Last Transmission" is part of a phenomenal ToC from BEST SF OF THE YEAR VOL 8 - now available from your favorite bookstore 😊 Many thanks to Neil @clarkesworldmagazine.com and @shereereneethomas.bsky.social at F&SF 💜 #specfic #sff

Hi! I've created an SFFH BIPOC starter pack! Please share around! Also please reply if you'd like to be added (I'm making this an opt-in list)! #sciencefiction #fantasy #sff #horror #writing go.bsky.app/6WxXXBY

The rare topic mira and I agree on- some jobs simply shouldnt exist and one of those is the job of CTO at Open AI

Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency

Michelle Yeoh will play a replicant who we can only assume will be very cool in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner 2099 reactormag.com/michelle-yeo...

@apexmag.bsky.social has posted the upcoming story "Loss Prevention" by Pamela Rentz to commemorate and acknowledge Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day - it's a powerful SFF story by an amazing writer, and you can read it here, today: www.patreon.com/posts/missin...

To honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day on May 5th, "Loss Prevention" by Pamela Rentz will be free to read on our Patreon for one-day only (the 5th). Our Patreon link is www.patreon.com/apexbookcomp... but we'll provide a direct link to the story when it goes live.

"One movie at a time, we’ll watch our way through the good, the bad, and the utterly bizarre in science fiction cinema." We're excited to announce the Reactor Sci-fi film club, a new column lead by Kali Wallace! reactormag.com/introducing-...

Fingers crossed!!! I thought The Peripheral had a fighting chance, but here goes...

Stephen King: so i'm gonna go over to space coven tonight to tell a story Clive Barker: what, the sci fi nerds? good luck with that King: oh they're not so bad once you get to know them, clive Barker: i do not intend to know nerds

Man, the stranglehold this book had on weird kids...

Humble Bundle is offering 38 Terry Pratchett DiscWorld books for $18 (or a smaller subset for as little as $1). https://www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-pratchetts-discworld-harpercollins-books @rincewind.run

I'll play - ten writers of whom I've read more than five books: William Gibson Kameron Hurley NK Jemisin Stephen King Ian McDonald China Mieville Sylvia Moreno-Garcia Neal Stephenson JRR Tolkien Laura Ingalls Wilder

The first three words you see will predict your 2024!

@megelison.bsky.social is incredibly kind, insightful and generous - check out hew new Patreon tier, if you're querying you cannot go wrong with her feedback and advice!