Greetings, Bluesky! Tomorrow is the first day of the fifth annual Sturgeon Symposium, featuring a combination of virtual and in-person panels on this year's theme, "Changing Words, Changing Worlds: SF as a Literature of Resistance." Follow this link to register: sfcenter.ku.edu/2026-sturgeo...

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...

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Just a note for everyone outside the Twin Cities: Yes, ICE is still here harassing and kidnapping our neighbors

Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸@gaykwon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Two blocks from me, patrolling a bus stop on a corner where most of the houses are owned/rented by latino families.

the best time to stand up for us was years ago when we told you where this was all heading until cis people decide to stop this, it’s gonna continue you see where this is heading the second best time to stand up for us is NOW

Jesspooka Kant 🎃@jessdkant.bsky.social · 8mo ago

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Meet OKD’s Pushcart Prize nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below.

I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤 Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!

Okay Donkey Magazine@okaydonkeymag.com · last yr.

"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom." "All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

album covers but with muppets: thread

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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This link is an excellent resource for all the ways we can contact payment providers to complain about the removal of queer and adult games, comics, books and media from all our platforms. Tell these companies to stop censoring queer and adult content. It makes no sense! Enough is enough!

D-CELL'S BLUESKY ACCOUNT@dcellgames.com · last yr.

credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think

Oh what a Goddamn shitty business we've taken on, being writers! Oh what shit! What shit!

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT

“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

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What is going on at Columbia? Ellen Shrecker, esteemed historian of McCarthyism and higher ed, and Nina Berman, documentary photographer extraordinaire, answer clearly.

Support a trans couple in South Dakota who are trying to promote literature and inclusion in a very difficult cultural climate. www.keloland.com/news/local-n...

Trans couple starts fundraiser to buy local bookstore

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The current owners of Outside of a Dog Books and Games, decided to sell their bookstore and move out of state because of the current anti-trans laws in the state. A local…

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"Is the sex scene relevant? Does it move the plot forward?" Does it matter? Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season–and how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work: reactormag.com/the-necessar...

The Necessary Sex Scene: Intimacy as Craft in N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season - Reactor

What place do sex scenes have in contemporary SFF?

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Before we begin, some housekeeping: Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...

National Bail Fund Network — Community Justice Exchange

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Hey, #academic friends: My institution, U. of Kansas, is hiring an Asst. Prof. of African American #writing. Link below. Our department is very collegial, and I'd be happy to talk to anyone with questions or direct them to a higher-up. Come work with us! (Please circulate!)

Tell ‘um like it is Sourdough Jack!

I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever

This is how it feels to put "writer / educator / etc. / etc." in a bio

Which of your fave journals & indie presses have made their way over to the other side? Boost them here?

Dr. Han VanderHart@hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 3y ago

The amount of work to rebuilt platforms and reach listeners, readers, writers—it is so much. What a burden. What a senseless burden.