Story sale!! 🥳 My sci-fi noir story "For One More Mouthful of Manna" will appear in the Obsidian Skull's upcoming issue. :) This was one of my darker stories, combining near-future themes with Old Testament symbolism, and I'm glad it's found a good home. ^_^

This is so weird... Barnes&Noble accepts Paypal, so it's my go-to store to convert my story earnings into more books on the Craft. :) Looking up a certain famous book known for its wonderful illustrations... eBook: $20 (okayyy) paperback: $30 (...sure, let's) audiobook (no pictures!): $43 Whyyy? 🤣

look at Priyanka Gandhi holding the constitution of India while she's being taken away by the cops

Candidate for Bogomil Pope@yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 19h ago

“Prime Minister…Sir…the opposition…they’re Aurafarming” “It’s over”

This could herald the beginning of a very gruesome hunting season... (Not unlike that old South Park episode: "It was coming right for me!")

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · yesterday

This is so damn bleak. "The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week the biological sex of a transgender woman fatally shot by Samuel Ward Jr. in June 2022 was not only relevant to Ward’s claim of self defense but supported it." jamiescoop.substack.com/p/court-judg...

Reality will always be stranger than fiction, because reality doesn't need to make sense. 🙃

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 18h ago

Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · 22h ago

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

"The name is Lehem. *Beth* Lehem." 🔫🔫👩 *pew pew pew* (Oi, Hollywood! Call me, eh.)

Yesss! Down with the slop. No moneys for the sloppers. I'm so proud of my country right now. :)

Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · yesterday

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Old man stands still Twixt me and coffee. How unwise.

Today, on my day off, I shall treat myself to something unwise yet quite extravagant. 💅 *puts a second Earl Grey teabag into the mug*

“The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, "Tarzan of the Apes"

"Madame Lachance, thank you for saving the Earth by courageously leaping into the kaiju's open maw armed with nothing but an improvised harpoon made out of Ikea forks glued to a broomstick. What inspired you to do this?" "...well, you see, I have this WIP novel I'm really procrastinating on..."

According to Jim Carrey's hilarious HBO series "I'm dying up here" (about the rise of stand-up comedy), stealing a fellow comedian's joke was something you could get beaten up for, with gusto.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2d ago

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

#WholesomeWednesday We're resetting the vibes. Share a wholesome story, some good news, some motivation, and/or a pet photo (please add alt text). #Hopecore #Prompt #GoodVibes #Positivity #Wholesome #BeKind

Hokay, so... I promise I'm not pranking y'all, but I've just sold my 4th original (i.e., not a reprint) story in 32 hours!! 🥳🥳🥳 "To Glow, To Grow, To Triumph Once Again" (a noir fantasy) will appear in foofaraw's upcoming Monstrously Massive March issue! Best. Day. Ever. 💖

I hereby declare war on Antarctica. (It knows what it did.)

Going through my Worldcon loot... 🤓 This very short story is paywalled (it appeared in Analog, March/April 2026 issue), but try to find "On the Origins of the Species" by Edd Vick if you can. :) It has a lot of fun with the classic "aliens getting drunk at a space bar" trope (a la Deep Space 9).

*marks herself safe from knowing what Skydance is* ☺️

"The name is Lehem. *Beth* Lehem." 🔫🔫👩 *pew pew pew* (Oi, Hollywood! Call me, eh.)

"Stop right there! Can't you read? The sign clearly says 'Future Resident Parking.' Is today the future? No it's not. Today is today, dumb-dumb. Now scram before I call the police, wise guy." ~me on the first and last day as a security guard

This is an excellent creepypasta story written in the second person (!!) in the format of a text-based adventure game. 🤩 Err, content warning: a bit of body horror. 👀 Great stuff. Go read it. :)

Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration@mst3k.fan · 2d ago

My text adventure style prose piece with an unrealiable parser and liminal hell setting has been published at Videodame! "A Little Less Text Adventure, A Little More Existential Crisis" is here! Please reskeet. I'd like the maximum number of readers possible.

Story sale!! 🥳 My short story "Our Pixelated Love" sold to the niche-but-nice Videogame magazine. Can't wait to share it with y'all. :)

Another story release day! 🥳 "Cozy in the Apocalypse is a beautiful anthology (just look at that cover! 😍) with lots of amazing stories, including my flash "The Sunset at the End of the World." (It is, for once, not sci-fi, just vibes. 😌) Come check it out! :)

Angry Gable Press@angrygablepress.bsky.social · 2d ago

It release day! a.co/d/0dXweXNq

"No trespassing! We will prosecute!" said the sign designed with the admittedly reasonable yet incorrect assumption that I wasn't into being prosecuted.

To do list: -buy eggs -clean the bathroom -get stabbed in the gut for research purposes -water the plants

This is why I keep saying “Make art. Make bad art.” Please understand that what the techbros and the AI cabal is coming for is your ability TO BELIEVE that YOU can be both a creative and a subject matter expert. One way to fight that is to consume less, create more, and share with others.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾@blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d ago

Of COURSE THEY WOULD COME FOR WIKIPEDIA .. “It’s just the scraping” No you utter miscreants. AI as designed by the current closed models CAN NOT ALLOW OPEN SOURCE KNOWLEDGE it needs your methods, it needs best performers out of the frame

Slowly, gradually and tentatively, my mind fog went away. I knelt on the floor, covered in their blood, the serrated knife stuck in a ribcage. Outside, sirens. One minute till detonation: too late to flee. I screamed. But then I recalled my affirmation. I... I lowered the carbon footprint! 😌

🎃EM-SCREAM-KAYVEE 🔪@youremceekayvee.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Look for the blessings in every situation" type shit people who have never had genuinely horrific situations say.

Thread. 😿 All those fancy, ribbon-cutting, photo-op ceremonies and accords are useless if there are no consequences for failing to meet your stated goals.

Jessica Green@greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

Just enjoyed foofaraw.press/have-hands-w... by @lilylachance.com, now contemplating Leith Depot's fancy deep fried Mars bar. I think this time, I might pour the Buckfast shot it comes with over the ice cream.

Have Hands, Will Hench

a novelette by Lily Lachance

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