My article on Pokopia and the climate crisis is out in LARB today! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social What do Bill, fictional inventor of the Pokémon storage system, and Joanna Russ, sf legend, have in common? lareviewofbooks.org/article/poke...
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they/them. SFF author who might be a bird or a cat or a secret third thing. wrendouglas.carrd.co
Today a deeply personal story of mine comes out on smoke and mold magazine. It's about wanting to be something else, the allure of collectibles, and parasocial relationships gone truly, horridly wrong. Read it here: smokeandmold.net/issue-14-fal...
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Cutify Yourself!! ISSUE 14ANGEL LEALASTER OLSENB. FISKBELLA MASSIEBIRCH WILEYEVIE GIACONIAFOREST MURMURSFOX RINNEHAL SCHRIEVENELLE TANKUSSK CARTERWREN DOUGLAS Pierced bunny ears digital asset by mo…
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For #InternationalRabbitDay 🐰: Yabu Chosui (Japan, 1814-c.1870) Portrait of a #Rabbit, 1867 Color woodblock print; surimono 24.9 × 18.3 cm (9 13/16 × 7 1/4 in.) Art Institute of Chicago www.artic.edu/artworks/420...
Need google docs to get on the WordArt train posthaste I miss playin in da playground
this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold
WIRED@wired.com · last wk.One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten. www.wired.com/story/venus-...
saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage
obsessed with this poem by CAConrad. the empire will tax your soul! I prefer the forests making blankets from themselves!!
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
Does she understand that the bones are going to be inside her? What is she promising that dog?!
I want a SMALLER phone with a THICKER case and MORE headphone jacks and I'm NOT kidding
Yvonne Lam@yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 3w agoI want a small phone with a headphone jack, please and thank you.
Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.
Fiction opens on 1st October. :) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Fiction Submissions Open October 1
Strange Horizons will open to general fiction submissions on October 1, 2026, at 3 p.m. UTC! This window will remain open until we hit our submission cap of 1,000 stories. Our maximum word count fo…
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
Having an AI generated logo is the quickest way to make me blacklist you as a publisher btw
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Hazy/Dusk🌻🍉@duskvortex.bsky.social · 4w agohey EU friends, there's a European Citizen's Initiative from stop killing the internet to demand no digital ID and age verification to use the internet. please sign this if you can and spread the word! this needs to go viral! citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
"The Most Important Thing fiction writers can take away from video game writing: How to adapt to the rules." 🎮🕹️👾 New nonfiction today by @rdansky.bsky.social: "Learning From the Nerds: Game Writing Techniques That Apply To Fiction" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...
European artists! The EU commission is opening a feedback on the use of AI in the cultural and creative fields. Their vision is clearly pro-use of AI, but we clearly have an opportunity to push back: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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looking for a good replacement for Harry Potter and don't want your money to go to transphobia? Check out the sobering and beautiful works of Dostoevsky
I'm begging people: pay more attention to what's happening in the genre indie and small press scene, because you are missing out on so many excellent stories and writers if you don't. You're tired of everything being the same? Here's an answer for that!
words mean nothing, place names mean nothing, let's hack google maps and change the white house to mushroom dick forest www.wired.com/story/google...
Google Maps Now Shows ‘Lake America’ Instead of Lake Ontario
After Donald Trump’s executive order demanding the name change, Google is the first major online maps provider to flip the switch.
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The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3
"I can't read because I'll accidentally copy it" is a silly excuse. We're influenced by literally every piece of media we take in, not just books. It's better to recognize your influences and adjust accordingly, then refuse to participate in half of an art form.
Ian Haramaki 🏳️⚧️✨@cometkins.bsky.social · last mo.What's one piece of advice you think writers need to hear? #WritingPrompt
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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