If you are using AI/LLM you are not part of our community. We write. You push buttons trying to make a quick buck. That makes you a scammer not an artist.

AI remains, on balance, loser shit.

Reading A Scanner Darkly again. Must be the third copy I’ve bought over the past 30 years. Lent the older edishes out, never to be seen again. Worth it.

illustration, interface age, magazine (1982) archive.org/details/Inte...

He's gotta fast track that West Coast pipeline before the West Coast is burned to the ground, it's logic, checkmate libs www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News

Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...

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Thanks to the Village Green Bakery in Victoria Beach for supporting local authors!

Tommy Bahama parasol pinwheeling down the beach, careening off sunbathers all the while.

“He has always been the sort of boy who picks at scabs. In class sometimes he digs the compass point into the webbing of his hands. It helps him concentrate: it quells the noise.” www.thedarkmagazine.com/baby-blue/ Very happy to return to The Dark Magazine today with ‘Baby Blue’.

It'd mean everything to me if you preorder my book. But definitely pick up some other Malarkey titles. They're all amazing reads 💙💙💙

Malarkey@malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 4d ago

Will’s book comes out in April and it is beautiful. As it’s our first book of strictly flash fiction we are offering a flash sale. Code AFTERLASTCALL gets 50% off anything in our store today only (8/1/26). Great day to preorder Will’s book but the code will also work on all of our other titles!

Thanks to the Village Green Bakery in Victoria Beach for supporting local authors!

Vacation mode engaged

The wavelength I’m riding into summer vacation, you guys. @suzyeynon.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social

Escape from New York (1981)

The wavelength I’m riding into summer vacation, you guys. @suzyeynon.bsky.social @greatdismal.bsky.social

You guys, I’m starting to think the cards are stacked against us…

This is the way to do summer vacation, friends.

Justin Bryant@justinwriter.bsky.social · last wk.

Spending the night randomly picking stories from these two pressmates and it’s just delight after delight. I mostly suck at short fiction. It’s so fun to see it done well @spencerfleury.bsky.social @badguybirnie.bsky.social

Sitting and staring at a big, beautiful body of water can do wonders to wash away the bullshit.

This is the way to do summer vacation, friends.

Justin Bryant@justinwriter.bsky.social · last wk.

Spending the night randomly picking stories from these two pressmates and it’s just delight after delight. I mostly suck at short fiction. It’s so fun to see it done well @spencerfleury.bsky.social @badguybirnie.bsky.social

One of the best things you can do for an author is check their book out of the library. If your library doesn't have the title, requesting it is also great! Never apologize. The library bought the book! Sometimes more than one! Because of you!

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Never ever apologize for getting someone's book from the library. A lot of them were written by authors who themselves first read a lot of other books in a library

Spending the night randomly picking stories from these two pressmates and it’s just delight after delight. I mostly suck at short fiction. It’s so fun to see it done well @spencerfleury.bsky.social @badguybirnie.bsky.social

Very pleased to share The Garden, a story that took over four years and multiple complete overhauls to write, with you today. thedodgemag.com/summer-2026-... Thanks to @thedodgemag.bsky.social for believing.

Stoked to have a story in this edish of Saros SF (#6). Thanks to @chalicotherex.bsky.social @fusionfragment.bsky.social for believing get yours today bud sarossf.com/issue-6/

Hoping my brother’s house doesn’t burn down in the Two Twin Creeks wildfire tonight. 🤞😬🤞 Glad the feds are committed to kissing Alberta’s ass, I mean building another pipeline though 🙏 😡 🤢

Stoked to have a story in this edish of Saros SF (#6). Thanks to @chalicotherex.bsky.social @fusionfragment.bsky.social for believing get yours today bud sarossf.com/issue-6/

Enjoyed this essay about the looting of science fiction at the hands of our would be tech overlords. aeon.co/essays/silic...

Lou Reed was right: You need a bus load of faith to get by.

We coat every page of our books with a patented clear resin, harmless in low levels, that activates when a page is digitally scanned, releasing a generational curse on anyone who is using our books to train LLMs. Fear not, scholars and librarians have access to non-cursed editions.

So long, and thanks for all the stories www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communit...