Have you ever wanted a job where you just take pictures? Cool, cool, here you go, kid. Don't ask questions and, uh, careful where you point that thing. (my story is live today on ergot.) (no pictures, please)

ergot.@ergot.bsky.social · 13h ago

"The money was good. It was good enough. I had college debt. I was still paying off expenses from my mother’s funeral. The money was good, but it was never enough." Today on ergot.: 'Camera Operator Wanted: No Experience Necessary' by Andrew Kozma @andrewkozma.net www.ergot.press/authors/Andr...

Don’t make me retweet this every time I see the c word

Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 3d ago

god gives his most virulent trypanosomiasis to his tiredest sleepyheads

You know, I never expected evil to arrive with so much buffoonery. Limited imagination, I guess.

I feel like the 21st century in general and social media in particular have created the facsimile/opposite of a beginner's mind while replicating its immediacy and innocence We are all the Uncarved Blockhead

go to settings, then click on privacy and settings, then click on parameters and measures, then click on account settings, then click on manage accounts, then click on account management, then click on manage settings, then click on other settings, then click on....

Hey! Happy release day to BASFF 2026! Stories by some great working short fic authors. Honored to be included. Check out the recent SFF landscape. Always interested in the year's themes/topics. Ed. by @johnjosephadams.com & @olivieblake.bsky.social. Links: www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...

Thomas Ha@thomasha.bsky.social · 3w ago

contributor copies! they look great 🎉 @olivieblake.bsky.social @johnjosephadams.com @marinerbooks.bsky.social

Most obnoxious guy at the reptile house is the one who’s always an enclosure ahead of you. “Oh the spotted turtle is right there in the corner.” Shut the fuck up. I would‘ve found it.

I have said it before, and I will say it again: the UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. All you have to do is keep your eyes open and look carefully for them... tomcox.substack.com/p/20-of-the-...

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valéry

what actually sells novels? mostly things that are out of the author's hands and formally not their business, like things publishers decide to spend money on, or how enthusiastically readers recommend the books to each other … seems to me like everything else is basically Fun Activities For Authors

having spent my entire career firmly wedded to yog's law, it's always bizarre to be reminded that there are writers out there spending money (this is a self-help/advice author, not a novelist, so that at least explains why they have money to spend)

Wait, You Guys Are Getting Paid? Meme

Alt: "Wait, You Guys Are Getting Paid?" meme, except that in this case it's obviously wait you guys are paying?

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Polly Farquhar@pollyf.bsky.social · last wk.

Am still thinking about this, from this summer. (Sorry that it's a substack.) amychan.substack.com/p/i-spent-44...

Any other elder millennials have a soft spot for this album?

i know i keep saying "this might be my weirdest story yet" but this time i swear it's true. check out SEX MAGGOTS, free to read in @ergot.bsky.social ! www.ergot.press/authors/Josh...

Hey there. Some news! Contract's signed, so I'm happy to say I'll be back in the pages of @clarkesworldmagazine.com with a novelette, "Ludd Kid." Instant gratification. Indecipherable movies. Family estrangement. People that aren't people. Things slipping into decline. The usual light-hearted stuff.

Some very kind words about a particular piece (and making of video) of which I just coincidently released a colored version today. Up now on both shops.

Jay Babcock@jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nanao Sakaki’s wisdom of youth, Zé Burnay’s fungaloid organist, Lynda Barry does an audiobook, pirate radio doc news, fascist infiltrators in the ‘90s/’00s USA counterculture, and Jorge Luis Borges charms William F. Buckley. Plus: the best sound in the world jaybabcock.substack.com/p/landline-b...

Girls 2: Gorls

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

good night, a fragment of field

Why is cafeteria pizza always the same? A square of dough with a scattering of cheese and pepperoni and a quiet voice whispering underneath it all as you chew explaining that if you give in, just a little, your life would be so much better. Why is that?

Good day to read @kayv.bsky.social (which is also every day fwiw)

"An American Execution" by Kay Vaindal - Seize The Press

He’s delusional. Good in the sack, though. I flatten the popcorn bag on the microwave carousel and hit two minutes, express cook, and he asks me why I hit two minutes and not the button that says popc...

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AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w ago

BREAKING US execution by firing squad of Fort Hood shooter to be livestreamed: Pentagon official

Someone told me a while back that every year they offer this to R.L. Stine and every year he politely declines so they can give it to someone who maybe needs it more than he does. If true, it really speaks to his humility as a writer and kindness as a human being. Don't know if it's true though.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH

Today's announcements: after-school activities today will take place in flames, your parents have been notified of your intent to ask Stacy to the Homecoming Dance, and please ignore the body in locker 451. You will find the locker code written on the back page of your current textbook. Ignore it.

Statistically speaking there is at least one guy whose exposure to written culture ended with reading the Far Side cartoons that misheard a conversation this morning and genuinely believes that the Nobel in Literature went to Gary Larson. And that's okay.

thinking about how Olondria and Rakesfall have atrociously low ratings in bookish platforms

Jake Casella Brookins@casella.bsky.social · 3w ago

Easier, in my experience, to get a litfic reader to pick up Ancillary Justice or Exhalation than it is to get SFF fans to pick up even more "literary" titles within genre—Samatar or Jimenez, say—much less something lacking speculative elements.

Haha can you imagine if they awarded the Nobel in Literature to Trump. Committee's like "We're not going to give you the Peace prize (we're not crazy), but no one cares about this one, so you can have it."

Look, bullying is terrible and no one should be harassed or hurt for being different, but the rise of smug, obnoxious, nerds like Curtis Yarvin, Steven Miller and Ben Shapiro and the decline of swirlies is not a coincidence.

During college I worked for a few summers at a camp. About once per session we would set up these sort of maze/haunted houses for the kids. I loved helping out with those. One year I found this poster of Elvis that was on a transparent backing. Almost like a big slide or projector sheet.

Granted we're only a few days into it but I gotta say my October has not been spooktacular at all

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip