Coming down to the wire, folks, and 3LBE is still short of their funding for 2027. Please check them out and give if you can. There's some good swag available as well.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag.com · 18h ago

New backer rewards added in the form of story critiques and custom artwork (all done by a human!). With just 6 days left to reach our goal, all or nothing, help us fund another year of great fiction in 2027. kck.st/4x4r1oz

🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a @dairinstitute.bsky.social virtual event concerning the ***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable of populations, refugees. Everything you see is first experimented on them.🧵 ⏰ October 1 at 6-8pm CET/9am PDT on Zoom. ✴️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The @3lobedmag.com Kickstarter is getting close to its goal with a week of left to go. Help them cross the finish line!

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag.com · 2d ago

We are very excited about the authors already writing stories for next year. Help us meet our funding goal and let’s read them together! 74% there and only 7 days left! Back us here kck.st/4x4r1oz

Me (watching firefighters training): "Yeah, fight that fire! Fight on! Come on, douse that flaming hot piece of woody shit! Drown it! Make it beg! Yeah, that's the way! You got this, fire people! Make it your little friend! Make it your little friend!"

"Between this and the aforementioned “Black Envelope,” Pottern shows an impressive range. While “Black Envelope” was literary and devastating, "Cryptid Car Rental” is a breezy, delightful humor piece about cryptids, demons, the deep Abyss, vegan art, and unexpected friendships born on the Internet."

Cryptid Car Rental - Trollbreath Magazine

by Allison Pottern

magazine.trollbreath.com

Vanessa Fogg@vanessafogg.bsky.social · 3d ago

Very late, but my short fic recs for June-Aug are now up! With fiction from @dianadima.com @hhpak.bsky.social @wtalabi.com @thomasha.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social Maya Ysabel Ng @aijiang.bsky.social @wordrat.bsky.social and @apottern.bsky.social itsajumble.blogspot.com/2026/09/shor...

What a quote by @timnitgebru.blacksky.app: "Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans."

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

technologyreview.com

Meta paying people in distant countries pennies on the dollar while you pay Meta a monthly subscription fee in the tens to hundreds of dollars for the privilege seems really really brain dead. That's because it is. Don't be brain dead. I know you all are far too smart for this.

404 Media@404media.co · 3d ago

SCOOP: Meta execs announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media learned.

Paying staff for their hard work is important. Anything you can do to help Clarkesworld helps the industry as a whole.

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 3d ago

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Welcome to fall officially, by the way. Amazing how fast this month is moving. Soon enough it'll be October, and we'll be planning our trip to Ottowa for Can*Con. Random picture of trees turning colors, not mine, and not recent, but pretty.

Another morning spent dealing with LLM scammers. It angers me watching jackasses who won't do the real work of writing try to steal money meant for authors. Especially egregious when they are out in public, acting like they are king shit, but their entire body of work is LLM manufactured. Banned.

Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls@trollbreath.com · 2w ago

I don't know which is funnier: the fact someone submitted a story I didn't like but I also suspected might be LLM generated; or the fact they emailed back angry we rejected it "in only 2 days; did you even read it?" Which made me double check, and yep, 100% AI. Don't rage email editors. Banned

Pre-order from Bookshop.org! bookshop.org/p/books/trol...

Trollbreath Magazine: Volume One: Volume 1: Year One

From the pages of Trollbreath Magazine comes Volume One, an anthology of short speculative fiction. We're celebrating the amazing authors whose short stories and poetry we were privileged to bring to ...

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I just realized I'm only a year younger than Ian McKellan was when he starting film work on the first Lord of the Rings movies, and I'm just thinking... what? No. Is impossible. Then I see him without the Gandalf makeup and it all makes WAY more sense.

This was the second year I attended Flights of Foundry, and I had such a blast participating and moderating. They are still short of their goals, so please donate! Donations support the work, and ensure this affordable, international, virtual event can continue. flights-of-foundry.org/donate/

Easy. "Pool of Radiance." I played it on my commodore 64, and it was the first time I stayed up all night gaming. I'd enjoyed games before, but this was when games became a real passion.

Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · 6d ago

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

The same goes for the staff of Trollbreath. Drop us a note here or use our contact form on the website, we can talk about setting up a website and managing submissions and creating epubs all day long (especially if it gets us out of doing any real work).

Stephen Granade@granades.com · 5d ago

In several @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social panels about short fiction magazine editing I said oh hey if you’re thinking of starting one or have any questions about it please hmu and that offer stands for all y’all. I have so many thoughts about Wordpress and epub at this point.

This panel was the BEST. And not just because I was moderating it.

Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls@trollbreath.com · 5d ago

In the darkest hours, a hero rises from the ashes of the publishing industry. Who are these magazines? What gave birth to them? What incredible powers do they wield? What flavor of ice cream keeps them sane? Look! Up in the sky! It's a BLAD, it's a reprint, it's... <insert name of journal here>

In the darkest hours, a hero rises from the ashes of the publishing industry. Who are these magazines? What gave birth to them? What incredible powers do they wield? What flavor of ice cream keeps them sane? Look! Up in the sky! It's a BLAD, it's a reprint, it's... <insert name of journal here>

Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 5d ago

In 3 hours: talking about magazine ops w/ @spacevalkyries.bsky.social @granades.com + Jeff and Jennifer Reynolds from @trollbreath.com. What paths did we take? What midnight pacts were forged? Where is that haunting drumbeat coming from? You know, publishing. flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

Just finished an awesome panel with Rebecca Treasure, managing editor of Apex, and E.M. Linden, writer from New Zealand, talking all about writing to specific anthology calls. They both made moderating super easy and we had a fantastic discussion (despite I'd only been awake a short while). 🙃

I am exhaust after a day of paneling and a reading. Lots of fun, but it's really left me feeling deeply out of sorts. Way more face time and conversation than I normally engage in, even at cons, and I find it weirdly more draining than in person panels.

Done. I tripled my attendance from last year (last year I had 2, this year 7), and got to introduce new people to my funky voices (I try to do unique voices when I read) Next up: Noon EDT (16:00 UTC) Short Fiction Magazine Structure 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC) Finance and Short Fiction Markets

Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls@trollbreath.com · 6d ago

Reading in 10 minutes at Flights of Foundry. Come hear me reading the first chapter of my unfinished WIP novel, and a recently published short piece called "Jubee's First Hunt" (my first sword and sorcery piece). Maybe a very short flash piece if there's time.

Reading in 10 minutes at Flights of Foundry. Come hear me reading the first chapter of my unfinished WIP novel, and a recently published short piece called "Jubee's First Hunt" (my first sword and sorcery piece). Maybe a very short flash piece if there's time.

Just a reminder if you're attending Flights of Foundry this weekend, Catherine has organized a Resident Evil fan meetup Sunday at 8:00 PM EDT (12:00 AM UTC)

Catherine Tavares@cjtavares.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Courage is Not the Absence of Fear" an essay on Resident Evil Requiem's Grace Ashcroft and her heroism. Published with @trollbreathmag.bsky.social

Time for my second panel of @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social: come hear me & @trollbreath.com & @katclay.com & @seanfsmith.bsky.social & @alasdairstuart.com shower you with GAME RECOMMENDATIONS!

Brandon O’Brien@therisingtithes.bsky.social · last wk.

Hark! @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social is this weekend! There's a lot of really wonderful programming planned if you're not already aware, and your registration and donations help @dreamfoundry.bsky.social do lots of very valuable work, so come through! flights-of-foundry.org

Hey folks, Three-Lobed Burning Eye is way short of their goals and the deadline is approaching. Please check them out and toss them some love in the form of monetary support. They're doing some really great and unique work.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine@3lobedmag.com · 7d ago

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 12 days. For the love of horror, fantasy, and science fiction—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2027! kck.st/4x4r1oz

The cat distribution system gave the whole planet an entire new species... www.cbc.ca/news/science...

New cat species identified in Bolivia | CBC News

A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described in...

cbc.ca

Yes, that's right, even as I log into my day job AND prep for a metric boat load of panels for Flights of Foundry, I'm still getting the marketing work done for Trollbreath Magazine. Our latest "freed from the paywall" story is available to the public.

Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · last wk.

Welcome to another Free Fiction Friday! Today we have a story about what goes on in the labyrinth we call our minds. Things are definitely not as they seem in "The Bell Jar Frequency," by Gretchen Tessmer. magazine.trollbreath.com/the-bell-jar...

I'll be participating in Flights of Foundry this weekend. Here's where you can find me. I'll be moderating the Friday night and both Sunday sessions. And please come to my reading! I may do one of the Fox & Troll stories again like last year.

Not long after I got up, in the wee dark hours, I heard the coyotes in the marshy scrub woods off behind our house howling and barking. It's a forlorn and spooky sound. It's also why I stopped taking walks down wooded dirt roads in the early hours of the day.

Thread up and down, and in 100% agreement.

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · last wk.

Yeah, I mean "my wife's hot, gender isn't real, we don't give a shit if you think we're trans or not, go fuck yourselves" while whirling a claymore round your head in nipple stickers is about as good a response as anyone has ever given.

What about food safety, Mike? What should we do there? "They can self-police. They can self-regulate." The GOP goal of removing "red tape" (regulations that protect consumers) is one of the biggest frauds they peddle. Deregulation means "let corpos make more profit at the expense of your family."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Mike Johnson on OpenAI and Anthropic: "They can self-police. They can self-regulate."