We are open throughout August for submissions from young authors (under 20 by end of August) escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...

the absolute fastest way for the WNBA to lose me as a new customer is to roll over and show their belly to these fanged fucks walking in to arenas strapped with explosives. Ether there’s a unified front against transphobia ASAP or they’re going to be sumping muck indefinitely while queers head out.

Defector@defector.com · 6d ago

WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:

PseudoPod 🎙️@pseudopod.org · 6d ago

pseudopod.org/submissions Absolutely *no* Ai-generated text. Please don’t ask an LLM to write your cover letter, either.

The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).

This is a weird time to be alive, so here's a cute cardinal with a fabulous crest for your feed. Hopefully he makes you smile.

PseudoPod 1040: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIX (79): Ubi amor, ibi dolor • A Table Set and Waiting, by Jordan Shiveley • Third Date, by Divya Kernan • You’re Still Here, by Thea Liu • 9 Steps to Dissecting a Ghost, by Jeanna Cammarano Multiple content warnings: see website for details

PseudoPod 1040: Flash on the Borderlands LXXIX (79): Ubi amor, ibi dolor

Ubi amor, ibi dolor – where there is love, there is pain “Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.” – C. S. Lewis No one knows who found the Dark Room first. Maybe it found us?

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Cast of Wonders 691: Little Wonders 51 – Unusual Pets Stories by Marisca Pichette and Jeff Stehman Narrated by Eve Upton and Tina Connolly Hosted by Katherine Inskip and produced by Jeremy Carter www.castofwonders.org/2026/07/cast...

if the bird wasn’t so whimsical and beautiful and adorable, those legs and talons would be horrifying

Dani Daly@danooli.bsky.social · last wk.

This is a weird time to be alive, so here's a cute cardinal with a fabulous crest for your feed. Hopefully he makes you smile.

This is a weird time to be alive, so here's a cute cardinal with a fabulous crest for your feed. Hopefully he makes you smile.

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Please put out shallow dishes of water in the shade for hedgerow animals - they're desperate for moisture right now. Just had a shrew come sniffing my toes on the footpath. Never, ever seen that level of desperation overcoming instinctive fear.

We would like to draw your attention to this article from Bona Books (note: f-bomb in link image) www.bona-books.com/news/we-boug...

Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books

Bona Books share a hard-learned lesson: we accidentally bought AI-generated fiction. This deep dive into our experience with submission fraud covers the "red flags" we missed, the toll it took on our ...

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My latest narration is live! These are all great stories, I read the third one of the three. (The wonderful "Taking Root" by Jeanna Cammarano) PodCastle 950: FLASH FICTION EXTRAVAGANZA: Reapings - PodCastle share.google/Eq6UQaW5GlB1...

If you like cozy games, you should buy this. It's fantastic. It's one of my all time favorites so far, even in early access. This price is very worth it

Fields of Mistria ✨ Out now in 1.0@fieldsofmistria.bsky.social · last mo.

Fields of Mistria is 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale ☀️ The sale lasts from 6/25 to 7/9! 🔗 bit.ly/Mistria

This is such exciting and incredible news. Definium's LSD-based depression pill delivers strong late-stage results, shares surge | Reuters share.google/lQMkPUVN9URL...

Definium's LSD-based depression pill delivers strong late-stage results, shares surge

Definium Therapeutics said a single dose of its LSD-based experimental pill ​significantly reduced symptoms of major depression in patients in a late-stage ‌trial, sending its shares soaring 55% to a ...

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BREAKING: The Senate, including 4 Republicans, just voted to pass a War Powers Resolution to end Trump’s illegal war in Iran. The House and the Senate have both stood up. It’s time to stop this deadly and costly conflict.

I've been reposting exponentially more than posting my content. Oops. While I'm still unpacking art supplies and reconfiguring.. everything... here's Finn's ridiculously transparent ears in the mornings🤣🖤💀🖤🐺

This still rings true 38 years later open.spotify.com/track/1fOK1t...

Dear God

XTC · Dear God · Song · 1988

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I think I want to try mummybread www.cbsnews.com/news/oetzi-t...

Scientists find yeast in frozen mummy's guts, use it to make sourdough bread

More than 5,300 years ago, Oetzi the Iceman was strolling through the Alps on the border of Austria and Italy when he was killed by an arrow in the back.

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He's a menace, but he's my menace.

PseudoPod 1031: Her Skin Episode 1031… “He found her in Hells Canyon.” Her Skin by Maegan Langer Narrator: Jonathan Danz Host & Audio Producer: Graeme Dunlop C/W: intimate partner abuse/control This story first appeared in the anthology, They Walk Among Us: A Collection of Utah Horror

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He found her in Hells Canyon. After that, my friend Oss liked to brag about how he’d gone fishing in the Snake River and caught a wife instead, but I knew it was really the other way around.

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Um...I don't think that's a lizard. How I wish that was a lizard.

A short tale of aristocrats playing psychic silly-buggers in the 1920s, while making the usual rich people mistake of underestimating the staff. Especially the lady's maid, who is unusually good with her needle.

PseudoPod 🎙️@pseudopod.org · 3mo ago

“You want me to talk about the last séance?” Keeping Up with the Conan Doyles by Jess Whitecroft Narrator: Louise Hewitt Host: Kat Day Audio Producer: Graeme Dunlop C/W: disordered eating, fat-shaming pseudopod.org/2026/05/22/p... This story is a PseudoPod original

“You want me to talk about the last séance?” Keeping Up with the Conan Doyles by Jess Whitecroft Narrator: Louise Hewitt Host: Kat Day Audio Producer: Graeme Dunlop C/W: disordered eating, fat-shaming pseudopod.org/2026/05/22/p... This story is a PseudoPod original

PseudoPod 1030: Keeping Up With the Conan Doyles

From the Journals of the Society for Psychical Research. Interview with Angela Patterson, housekeeper of Latham Hall, present at the last séance of Neville Worth. 14th August 1956. You want me to talk...

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This is so incredibly uplifting and inspiring. I also love this woman. Her smile is infectious, and her actions are goddess tier

Groovy goodies@kokojo66.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I love this woman ! youtu.be/yRNZIKa6k7E?...

So...someone flipped a switch they were not supposed to and now we are without power. Somebody is coming to fix it apparently, but I don't have an ETA on when I won't be sitting in the dark anymore.

One of the best BBQ sauces I ever tried replaced molasses with cherry coke syrup (for fountain drinks.) But these are horror prompts.

Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Bush's baked beans has jumped the shark (yes, they're real).

Today's 🦇💀 Sinister Affirmation 💀🦇 In a world where you can be anything, be the terror in the dark who brings nightmares to men who call their female colleagues "babe."

One Big Thing is now done, so I can focus on a different Big Thing that I want to do even more. I really like checking DONE on agenda items.

Cat fishing with Albert