🌖💀 The veil between worlds is thinning and Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend, so it’s a good time to think about your next curled up on the couch with a blanket, some hot cider, and a cat read.📚🐈‍⬛ Here’s three weird ones from me (🧵1/4) #booksky #horror #horrorlit #spookyreads #humboldt

Folks, Apex still needs $3500 to fund a whole year of paying writers and artists, and they only have 3 more days to raise it. Please boost and help if you can! Good, independent arts venues are a jewel beyond price right now!

Lesley Conner@lesleyconner.bsky.social · last wk.

We're in the final 4 days of the Apex Magazine 2021 Kickstarter and we're $4,393 away from our initial funding goal. The time is now! Let's hit our goal and fund Apex for 2027! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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P.L. McMillan@authorplm.bsky.social · 4w ago

For a limited time only - a Spooktastic eBook Bundle deal! 3 for only $12! Don't miss out and have this haunt you, grab your sweet Halloween treat here: www.plmcmillan.com/store/p/hall...

Thank you Bluesky, for making it easier to be competitive! If you won't treat your users right, we will. Want to escape the enshittification of Bluesky, Instagram, and YouTube? Check us out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

It’s depressing to see schools use AI to create flyers, banners, & t-shirts. When I was in high school the faculty would come to the art department to have students create these things. I learned so many skills that have followed me my entire professional life. That’s what I thought school was for.

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Hit me w/ the first line of your novel, finished or not. “It was not unusual for Eve to be alone in the office, especially at five p.m.—but Dan and Yolanda had not shown up at all that day, and somehow the silence was even more distracting than the flirtation between her coworkers.“ -The Everyone

Shantell Powell@shanmonster.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. "In a beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth by way of the angels." - "The Everwhen," my bonkers cli-fi novel of the Great Flood, featuring the snake from Eden and Enki, god of semen & fresh water. Still unpublished.

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Another recent outdoor painting

There's nothing wrong with you, and you are not broken. The world that should offer us peace, warmth, and a haunted old forest surrounding every town is broken.

Here's a fancy rooster for today's #Whistober... also fits into #boktober and doubles as a coloring page should you so desire! #BirdArt

5 DAYS. Happy to announce we're launching on Kickstarter on October 13th! On the same day, we're holding a livestreamed interview with @deephumor.bsky.social and our founder at 6 PM Pacific Time. Please stop by and ask us anything! 25% OFF for the first 48 hours: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...

Coming soon: Haven: A Social Platform Stopping AI Theft & Surveillance

Social media that prevents AI & Big Tech from stealing your art, your biometrics, and your privacy. We're replacing Insta and YouTube.

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Listen, we have just a few days left!! Help us fund more time loops!! (I really ALSO wanna reboot The Deer Is Messed Up next year… which is unrelated but also 👀 if this funds in time I will have more faith we can do deer next!)

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⏳ WE HAVE UNTIL OCTOBER 1st! ⏳ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Most people would think by looking at me that I’m either a forest fairy or a library vampire, but I’m actually a tavern troll.

Edmonds Scanner@edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What's your vibe? 1. library vampire 2. tavern troll 3. forest fairy 4. theater goblin

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo ago

Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.

Do not underestimate the scale of this climate crisis. We are watching feedback loops accelerate, ice sheet collapse, ocean heat content, methane release, that could lock in irreversible warming. We have all witnessed the data, and it is not slowing down.

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

I really need to catch up on my 2026 reading, but I recently read the dystopian story "Barbie Grasshopper Dreamhouse" by H.V. Patterson in @radonjournal.bsky.social and really enjoyed that one. The title intrigued me and it didn't disappoint!

What's the last short story you read and really enjoyed? Aaaaaaand go! (Doing some proofing work on FF29 this afternoon and man, these stories. In a let's-all-yell-about-great-stuff kinda mood.)

Amazing news, thanks to decades of unrelenting advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath Tribes. It’s heartening to see the collaborative nature of the salmon restoration effort reflected in this paper’s authorship, which includes all three Tribes, state & federal agencies, NGOs & private entities.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

Our economy is no more than a brew of the AI bubble, gambling, and scams. Get under that layer and it's just a continuous flow of wealth from the 99% to the 1%, justified by the "line go up" fetishization of shareholder value. I'm just a simple country doctor, but this seems bad.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Hello new followers! I write anxiety-driven horror featuring serial killers, ghosts, haunted forests, and sometimes all of the above. You can check out my latest in SPLIT SCREAM VOL. 8: CURSED PLACES, from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social.

SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 8: CURSED PLACES - Two Novelettes (eBook only)

“Evocative and evil, a powerful one-two punch of horror” Tamika Thompson, THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS This is not a place of honor. This place is Cursed. These New Weird Horror novelettes by Sonora Ta...

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Only one week left to enter our ECO24 giveaway on @thestorygraph.com! 🌱📣 We're giving away 110 copies in celebration of ECO25, the second in our annual speculative ecofiction series, releasing this November! Check it out below: 🌟 app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/88...

Apex Magazine and Book Company@apexmag.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're giving away 110 copies of ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION on @thestorygraph.com! 🌱🪲🐛 If you want to catch up on the anthology series before the November release of ECO25, enter below before September 14th for a chance to win! 🗳️ app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/88...

Getting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’

Nearly all stores that sell new books can order a book for you even if they don't have it on their shelves. Here's a quick thread about how that works, and how it's ESPECIALLY helpful for writers who self-publish or have work with small presses.

Cherae // C. L.@clclarkwrites.com · 2mo ago

If you check out @ninocipri.bsky.social on insta, you can see why it's so helpful to authors to request/pre-order books in stores and how it works in real time! www.instagram.com/reel/DakqVmu...

Blurb by @aijiang.bsky.social "After You Were Lost is a collection of melancholy with the bitterness of regret. Filled with tales of internal turmoil and heartbreak, along with love lost and explorations of age and death. Delmas has created worlds both expansive and emotional in such few words."

Kai Delmas@kaidelmas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Publication day! 🥳🎉🙌 My collection "After You Were Lost" was published by WATG Press today. It's a collection that means a lot to me, and I'm excited that people will finally get to read it. All of the 23 flash and micro stories within deal with grief in different ways. Something I know much about.

I cannot wait to dropkick these weird old men into the sun.

The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · 2mo ago

HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

it's wild how republicans will be like "governing is bad, also elect me to govern you" and people do and they put their promise into practice and don't govern, run everything off a cliff, bankrupt everyone, light the world on fire, and after a while people forget about that and let them do it again