i had to block the cursed ai burrito poster because people will not fucking stop reposting it and I can only take so much psychic damage in one day
Mia V. Moss
@magicrobotcarnival.com
they ✨ THE HERESY OF THIEVES (Dark Matter Ink, 2026) ✨ Queer SFF author, cocktail enjoyer, intense plant witch vibes per my therapist, animal rescuer + snuggler 🏳️🌈 Codex, TLDR Press https://lnk.bio/miavmoss
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I often phrase this as, "Science fiction isn't the literature of ideas; it's the literature of testing ideas to destruction."
Scott Lynch@scottlynch78.bsky.social · 17h agoIf I want to start arguments I sometimes say that science fiction isn't a literature of prediction, it's a literature of extrapolated consequences. If it's 1890, "in the future there will be cars" is boring-ass mere prediction. "Because of cars there will be vast traffic jams" is extrapolation. 🧵
Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.
TofuNYG 🏈🏳️🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊@groguspeak.bsky.social · 19h agoNah, keep mocking the shit out of her
A new issue of the Hyperspace is out and my guest today is @marissalingen.bsky.social, telling us a bit about her book A Dubious Clamor, coming up next month! renanbernardo.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-h...
Into the Hyperspace: Marissa Lingen and A Dubious Clamor
"A Dubious Clamor is the story of an ex-harpy and her harpy ex-girlfriend who have to team up with an assortment of allies."
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This is going to be such a fun night!! Can't wait to be back in Brooklyn!
Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense@bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 2d agoREMAIN CALM: BBB's September reading series will be on a 4th, not a 3rd, Tues! Join us on 9/22 @ 7pm @ Barrows Intense to hear from authors @carolgyzander.bsky.social @magicrobotcarnival.com @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social & @meganf.bsky.social ! Best of all, it's FREE!📚🎙️🍸👀 More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com
Submissions are now open for speculative novelettes and/or tiny short story collection chapbooks. Word limit: 7,500 to 12,000 words. Limited print run. Will pay $100 and 25 copies. Deadline: October 15th. More info here: neonhemlock.submittable.com/submit/36598...
Neon Hemlock - Speculative Chapbook/Novelette
Neon Hemlock Press is open to submissions of speculative chapbook manuscripts from August 20 to October 15, 2026. We expect to publish at least one chapbook next year; if the stretch goal in our curre...
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“Sir”, she whispered seductively, “this IS a Wendy’s.”
Scream Kings Podcast@screamkings.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Wendy's in Beaver, UT has such sights to show you
ICE: "We're going to start using torture gloves against the public." Public: "What the fuck, you should not have those." Omaha PD: "What's the big deal, we have them." Public: "what" Omaha PD: "We use them on school children."
The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools | Fortune
The Omaha Police Department was awarded more than $65,000 for 40 pairs of the gloves in May 2025.
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Removed all the hummingbird posts because apparently I can't post video on bluesky anymore?? 😭
It’s romance. It’s dark fantasy. It’s a Christmas horror story. It’s a righteous fury revenge quest. It’s about love lasting longer than death. It’s got cannibalism, blood magic, a guy full of bugs, a protag w chronic pain, and an OT3. Let’s celebrate with a teaser made by @izzysinger.bsky.social
Laura Zats@lzats.bsky.social · 2y agoOne of my biggest-kept secrets of 2024 went live today! Congrats @smhallow.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
TNKS to @louisevans.bsky.social #CatherineStine @teelglenn.bsky.social and @alexshvartsman.bsky.social for (w/ host @randeedawn.com) for reading with BBB! Next up 9/11: @meganf.bsky.social @carolgyzander.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social & @magicrobotcarnival.com! More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com
IT’S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY! 🥳 Thank you to everyone who’s pre-ordered this book. If you haven’t yet, I’m not mad. Here’s the order links just in case: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-as...
Stars and Sabers@starsandsabers.bsky.social · 4d agoHappy release day to @cornellwriter.bsky.social! The Astronaut Among the Flowers and Other Stories, her debut collection, is now available. With captivating and thrilling science fiction and fantasy stories, this collection is inspiring. Cover art by Loreto Salinas Retamal. #books #SFF #scifi
today is the day I learned about the arachnid with bunny ears, the bunny eared harvestman and no, I will not ever be the same
you already know who's got those PDFs hot'n'ready for you like a horny little caesar, don't you? Like a Snowball: The Growth and Impact of the Gender Critical Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Like_a_snowb... (412KB) A Growing Threat: The Anti-rights Movement in the UK: cis.fm/Report_-_A_g... (354KB)
Bex@bexg93.bsky.social · 6d ago🚨 The archived version of the suppressed Amnesty report into the anti-trans network operating to dismantle human rights in the UK has been "excluded" from the Wayback Machine. JKR is working very hard to scrub its existence from the eyes of the public. Thankfully, I kept screenshots.
I'm officially reopening CURIOUS & CROW, my Etsy shop! Only this time it's going to be very chill. No bulk orders. Everything is one-and-done. I'll update it regularly with candles, crystals, jewelry, crochet, craft supplies, etc. But once it's gone, it's gone. 🧶 curiousandcrow.etsy.com
CuriousAndCrow - Etsy
Shop Oddities for Approachable Goths and trendy nerds by CuriousAndCrow located in Chicago, Illinois.
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My newest story "Duet of Tears and Laughter" is out now at @translunartl.bsky.social! This story of two villages separated by a mirror-clear lake is full of soft feelings. It's about connection and hope and showing up in hard times. I hope you love it: translunartravelerslounge.com/2026/08/15/d...
Duet of Tears and Laughter by Jo Miles
There exist places where the walls between worlds grow thin. Places like this one, where two villages press together like lips on opposite sides of a glass: Renna-tal and Renna-ba, both perched on …
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Galaxy Far Far Away historian who is irritated with pop culture depictions of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, whose leadership included royalty and religious fanatics, as a democratic, progressive movement.
NASA science newes: Scoleres of astrophysics theorize that when a Champagne Supernova and a Red Wyne Supernova are close ynogh thei create what ys knowne as a Sparklinge Rosé Singularity
Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of TJPA’s Salesforce Park. Zoe Young and Leslie Kirk Campbell will be reading from their work, come by! Words & Stories Reading Series August 19 • 1:00–1:30pm Wetlands Garden of TJPA’s Salesforce Park #literaryevents #freeevents
My story "A Poem of Anas" is now out in @translunartl.bsky.social #15! Join Ana as she opens windows to other versions of herself in search for a cure for her father 👩🏽👩🏻👩🏿 Thrilled to share pages with @mariahaskins.com, @scottedelman.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, @bethgoder.bsky.social, + more!
Translunar Travelers Lounge@translunartl.bsky.social · last wk.Welcome to the Translunar Travelers Lounge, it's Saturday August 15 2026, and we have 13 new stories for you. Issue 15 is live! translunartravelerslounge.com
Fuckin’ quote us on this. Hold us accountable: We will NEVER stop being an open submissions publisher. We will NEVER stop prioritizing unagented submissions. 🖤☠️
Katherine "Kat" Silva@katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · last wk.Hot take incoming: I am seeing increasingly more agented authors getting deals based on pitches with small presses. I'm excited for them and at the same time, sad for all of those friends with no agent and equally fantastic books who cannot sell them. 1/?
I'm just over at @renanbernardo.com's Hyperspace talking about all things Heresy today! It's a great newsletter in all other aspects and you should subscribe 👇
Renan Bernardo@renanbernardo.com · last wk.Today I have @magicrobotcarnival.com in the Hyperspace! Join them in talking about their upcoming release: The Heresy of Thieves! renanbernardo.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-h...
1 like = 1 answer I'm on vacation in the middle of the Pacific so I'll answer whenever I'm not dying of the humid heat.
the valley is deeply uncanny with this one and her emotional support binder is empty
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last wk.First day in a human body:
At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, @rebeccaoliver.bsky.social & I spoke with power writing couple @tillybridges.bsky.social & @susanlbridges.bsky.social on behalf of @comicsbeat.bsky.social! Read our chat with them about Star Trek, their OGN Just Another Summer, their short film Long Away & more (🐄) now!
Comicsbeat@comicsbeat.bsky.social · last wk.Interview: TILLY and SUSAN BRIDGES on JUST ANOTHER SUMMER, STAR TREK: VOYAGER: HOMECOMING and more Comics Beat caught up with power writing couple Tilly and Susan Bridges at SDCC '26 and asked all about Just Another Summer, Star Trek and more!
Getting tagged in reviews by people who deeply, deeply understand your art & receive it exactly as it was meant to be received is the best thing ever. Thank you a million times for this glowing review, Sia!!!! 💀🪦🕷️⚰️👻🪰🖤
🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌@raenbowpunk.bsky.social · last wk.If Gideon the Ninth had a baby with Kushiel’s Dart that was raised by Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, what you’d get is @smhallow.bsky.social's 💀HALLS OF THE DEAD💀 📖horror as adoration ⚰️unbury + RESURRECT your gays 🖤feral necromancers feral for *each other* 🏳️🌈love triangle < poly buff.ly/HFHBiZ9