Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice. We noticed. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Please to receive my copy of the new print @fabulistmag.bsky.social. Includes my Short Review of a Short Book--Marisolania by Michele Cruz Gonzales AND my new flash fiction designed to be the 52nd weekly of 52. The rest are online at The Fab's website, and my story—"Punchline" is in print.

In a word … hurray for proofreaders!!!!!!

Honored to have a small part (as proofreader) in helping a wonderful, unique lit magazine find its way to print. Kudos and thanks to publisher/editor in chief Joshua Wilson on the new edition of @fabulistmag.bsky.social, which is fabulous. Print is NOT dead. fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-...

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Adding a link to a story about Diana with more details of her abduction. She was GOING TO THE DOCTOR BECAUSE SHE HAD A NOSEBLEED AND NOW SHE IS IN A PRISON FULL OF MEASLES. www.opb.org/article/2026...

There is no way in hell the United States under the Trump regime can host the World Cup in a few months. They are murdering citizens in broad daylight, threatening war against NATO, and lawlessly kidnapping children and foreign heads of state. The world has to organize a boycott. It’s not safe.

Tomorrow, Jan. 22, is STIR's "Rainy Season" reading event. The lineup is SUPERABUNDANT. Mukethe Kawinzi! Sam J. Miller! Jason Bayani! Annalee Newitz! And the venue? *chef's kiss* Hella kudos to our event lead TK Rex for bringing such care and intention to this happening. If you're in SF, ya gotta!

Thursday in San Francisco! Coffee hour, readings & discussion with: 📖 Mukethe Kawinzi 📕 @jasonbayani.bsky.social 🦖 @sentencebender.bsky.social 📚 @annaleen.bsky.social 1246 Folsom near Civic Center ☕️ Coffee hour 5-6 🎤 Readings start at 6 Hosted by me & @fabulistmag.bsky.social

Twenty minutes into this Award Winning Military Science Fiction Novel and I am trying and failing to give a shit about another goddamn galactic empire. How about an epic far-future science fiction novel about an artist cooperative or something. Fucking please.

Fiction submissions are open now! The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.

This is gonna be good.

Raul Sanchez of the great SoMa SF cultural space Cafe Suspiro suffered a stroke before the holidays. Raul hosts the Stir reading series produced by our comrade @tkrex.bsky.social (next one is Jan 22!) and is a stand-up fellow. We donated to support him and we encourage you to as well!

It’s my birthday and I’m 45! One way to celebrate with me is to support @truthout.org. TO’s news and analysis rocks, and our Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism works to foster and maintain the ecosystem of movement and indy journalism that we need to fight fascism. truthout.org/donate

Let's talk about SFFH magazine editing! With @mrjoshuawilson.bsky.social, editor of @fabulistmag.bsky.social, and Alexandra Pierce, editor of @speculativeinsight.bsky.social. wizardsandspaceships.ca/2026/01/15/s...

So many. This made me cry.

Expiring on Jan. 15! Subscribe to The Fabulist Magazine in print and get a free, collectible copy of Issue Zero. Limited stock • Offer ends 11:59pm Jan 15. fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-...

One of my favorite local poets is reading at Stir on the 22nd and she’s not on socials so I’m gonna go ahead and tell you to get to know her the old fashioned way and come to our reading! 1246 Folsom in San Francisco, hosted by me and @fabulistmag.bsky.social www.mukethekawinzi.com

“It’s dangerous to confused self-expression with communication” phew!

After 2 and a half years of delays, I have the new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION in my hands. My story in it has been waiting a long time for their new owners to get it together. AND I got the new WORLDS OF IF in. I'm in there too. IF is a BIG thick mag full up with wonder.

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

I need everyone to memorize this poem by the US citizen shot by ICE and then try and tell me poetry doesn’t matter. life is merely to ovum and sperm and where those two meet and how often and how well and what dies there. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

Now on to the disgusting spectacle of politicians and mass media retconning the murder of a young woman.

Read her award-winning poetry right now and remember that Garcia Lorca was also murdered by a fascist government poets.org/2020-on-lear...

I dunno man, that Stranger Things finale. What the hell, totally unrealistic. I mean, who finishes an entire D&D campaign in just a few hours before dinner?

Quite humbled to see my story "The Eating Doll" featured on @datlow.bsky.social 's Best Horror of the Year 17 Recommendations List!! ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f... You can read it for free on the @fabulistmag.bsky.social fabulistmagazine.com/the-eating-d...

#writing #sff

TWO FULL YEARS of essays! Our very first essay was @cherylmorgan.bsky.social on fantasy and historical fiction: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/what-... January 2025 saw @nniskanen.bsky.social discuss how SF has looked at families of the future: www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/famil...

OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Hey everybody, I have a big favor to ask. I don't talk much about my day job, but the owner of my rad little neighborhood coffee shop had a stroke recently. A LOT of people asked how they could help so I've started a gofundme for him. He's a great dude & I hope you can help. gofund.me/416371283

Denying their project is colonialist and then starting their next sentence with “Although, in Africa…” is pretty wild, even for them.

Winter’s Poem 3

The cap for submissions has been reached, and our open call for poetry is now closed. Stay tuned for updates on new submissions opportunities from The Fabulist!

Hi poets. Just a heads up that we are at 75% capacity for our current open. Call for poetry. fabulistmagazine.com/poetry-submi...

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

Thank you, @duotrope.com !!!

Going by the news headlines (IRS paying TurboTax to integrate ChatGPT! Nuclear roll-out to be sped up by using AI to design reactors!) we are *well* into the pets.com phase of the bubble at this point, ie. throw random shit at the wall and see if it sticks. Spoiler: it won't.

Poets, take heed! The Fabulist is opening a submissions window for speculative, fantastical and fabulist poetry from Dec. 1-10, with a cap of 150 manuscripts. Guidelines: fabulistmagazine.com/poetry-submi...

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Diamanda Galás Releases Two New Recordings on Día de Muertos You Must Be Certain of the Devil (remaster) + De-formation: Second Piano Variations More information, streaming and purchase: dub.sh/muertos

The New York Times with a rare win

Whoops did we mention that #LitCrawl is going down in San Francisco Saturday Oct 25 and that we’re hosting !!!Katie Flynn!!! !!!Cynthia Gómez!!! !!!Nick Mamatas!!! !!!LeeAnn Perry!!! and !!!Khan Wong!!! at Latin American Club on 22nd St X Mission at 6:30pm??!!

Well, the world is on fire, American history is being bulldozed for a Vegas ballroom, but at least I built a new spreadsheet for calculating indie press print-periodical income and expenses.

Starting an indie press and helping bring great work into the world is lifetime mission fulfillment. But there are a lot of fucking admin and finance spreadsheets one has to create and then continually populate. Oh yeah, and then there's fulfillment. You can't bollix a single bit of this.