Isn't it just great when books you love win the awards they deserve? Go read this one everybody!

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 36m ago

Many thanks to the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social for the lovely award, & to @subpress.bsky.social for kindly shipping it to me in India (& publishing the book it's for!). THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR is a book I'm very proud of, with a v small readership, so I'm truly grateful for the recognition.

@ayannapressley.bsky.social knows what's up.

Nik DeCosta-Klipa@nikdecostaklipa.bsky.social · 20m ago

First in @wbur.org's Mass. Politics newsletter: Just a few hours after former Gov. Charlie Baker endorsed Question 3, Rep. Ayanna Pressley came out against the all-party primary ballot question: www.wbur.org/news/massach...

The health problems are endless, but there is always Yaoi.

There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 4h ago

This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...

Normalize writing micro-essays.

It was weird at the time and weird to this day that "former Speaker of the House was a pedophile" barely landed as a story

CBS Philadelphia@cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social · 4h ago

Dennis Hastert — the former House speaker who was later sentenced to prison time over hush money payments made to cover up sexual abuse of teen boys — has died at age 84.

this is real. a lot of our millennial instincts were formed in the ZIRP era, when there was money for everything because borrowing was almost free. we all worked at dubious startups and we got free/cheap shit from other dubious startups. Netflix borrowed hand over fist to make great queer TV.

mcc@dryad.technology · 19h ago

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · yesterday

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

Seiryū (青龍 Qīnglóng) - Bluegreen Dragon of the East, Deity of the Spring

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · yesterday

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools

According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...

feministing.com

David Lebo@leboism.bsky.social · 22h ago

For those not following NJ politics, please know that the Lt Gov resigned a few days ago because a report came out saying he did serial harassment, and yesterday he went on TV to say "i put that report through multiple AIs and they told me it wasn't sexual harassment." Former university president

Every week, we hear stories about people being illegally jailed on behalf of ICE by the Plymouth County sheriff—even people from out of state—but last time we heard about this from the governor, she said it was just a “county issue” and she doesn't support legislation to stop it. #Massachusetts

Maura Healey on ICE: “I support them”

Massachusetts governor declines to end state’s partnership with ICE

massdump.ghost.io

Universal Hub@universalhub.com · 4d ago

Judge who ordered #ICE to release an immigrant it grabbed illegally also has to order it to give him back his work permit because it didn't want to www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-w... #immigrants #lawsuits #Boston #Maine

i really like this phrasing because ive been thinking about how to phrase "dont do this unless you want to" and it's kind of like that

I'm in two of these! "The Night Parade" is my Japanese mythology inspired take on Alice. "And On 'Til Morning" is my take on Peter Pan as protector of the souls of lost children. I'm not in The Land Of Oz, but it's a fantastic read all the same

Paul Kane@paulkane.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our ‘lands’ anthologies, the Shirley Jackson award-nominated #Wonderland 🐇 the No. 1 #bestseller #TheOtherSideofNever 🧚 and out now #LandofOz 🌈 www.amazon.co.uk/Wonderland-A... www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Side-N... www.amazon.co.uk/Land-Oz-Mari...

ugh i quoted the post without the link, here it is blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shadows40/

just finished reading this and jfc it's good. Two ghost stories set in Japan. absolutely visceral & gorgeous prose, texture and grime and beauty, sharp characters with cracks so deep you could fall into them. queer stuff, glorious mess, the clarity, the violence of the moment. i'm scared to kiss it

the brickmaster general@lauramauro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pleased to announce that my mini collection, Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers*, is due out in August from Black Shuck Books. Featuring two brand new stories: Lovesongs of the Nonmigratory Birds, a novella set in 1990s Yokohama. And Shadowsick, a short story. My first piece of writing in ages!

I talk (constantly!) about the college graduation halo, and the avoiding jail halo, that surround Black pro athletes, to point out the incredible racism of the "Protect College Sports🤡" act, restricting young Black athletes' access to the same labor rights that the rest of us enjoy.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 20h ago

Having a cousin that is a pro athlete, reduces a Black boy's probability of being convicted of a crime. Not because the athlete is a role model. But because they have the means to help the young man avoid being convicted while innocent. But it's still not enough to overcome the level of US racism

while i am commenting on this: i have reached the end of my rope with this sort of thing and my current point of view is that the weird monks should not be allowed to disavow their satanist wing, and also that their satanist wing appears to mostly rule them and tell them what to do

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 7d ago

right, exactly. i am adjacent to rationalists because i have worked alongside rationalists for a decade. some are very earnest EA monks who more or less give away the huge amount of money they make. some are neoreactionaries with essentially Satanic values. the monks and neoreactionaries get along.

i'm sure much of what you're saying is conditionally true for many, but imo child abuse is insanely common, especially if you're queer or otherwise societally undesirable, and people leaving/being forced out of the framework of family and finding a new life in the queer world is not a new phenomenon

It's easier to think that people are cutting off their family because of social contagion or viral therapy trends than it is to accept that families are very often places of pain and domination where escape is the only alternative to lifelong misery or death.

today is the Somerville Connection Expo, which I found out about too late to sign up for as @bostonfanbrunch.bsky.social, and today I am too tired to go, but a friend told me that there was a line around the block to get in. linktr.ee/somervilleco...

somervilleconnectionexpo Official: Instagram | Linktree

Connecting you to local clubs and building community in Somerville! Join us at Arts at the Armory on Sun. Oct 4th from 10am - 2pm!

linktr.ee

Just being an exhausted little skelly today. (Made in 2016)

just finished reading this and jfc it's good. Two ghost stories set in Japan. absolutely visceral & gorgeous prose, texture and grime and beauty, sharp characters with cracks so deep you could fall into them. queer stuff, glorious mess, the clarity, the violence of the moment. i'm scared to kiss it

the brickmaster general@lauramauro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Pleased to announce that my mini collection, Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers*, is due out in August from Black Shuck Books. Featuring two brand new stories: Lovesongs of the Nonmigratory Birds, a novella set in 1990s Yokohama. And Shadowsick, a short story. My first piece of writing in ages!

Impressive that Taipei's LGBTQ community could mobilise so many people & groups so fast, against the homophobic actions of the police. The head of the police inspection team came out to respond to the protesters but seems his response was erm poor...

New Bloom@newbloommag.net · yesterday

"A Look at Today's Protest Against Police Raids of LGBTQ Nightlife Establishments in Photos" by Em Gunter

Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past statements about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.

Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

buff.ly

ok so remember some time ago on here we were talking about how pikachu doesn't free himself even though he could and one of you said "he lived in a poke ball of the mind"? well that's how i feel when i see decorative pumpkins in woolworths in australia in october

“On this issue, the dynamic has really shifted,” Third Way’s Lanae Erickson told me in an interview She described the “Republicans’ sheer obsession and extremism” in promoting transphobia. This very notable shit by a leading centrist group was omitted in the nyt article. Why?

everyone should try drawing boobs from time to time as usual i keep repeatedly polishing things up long after saying they're "done" (i labeled it "suggestive" this time)

Hail Inanna! Ishtar Vase, the Louvre.