If you're in the US, you might score one of these books! Go get some.

Michael Bettendorf@beardedbetts.bsky.social · 3w ago

@tenebrouspress.bsky.social is giving away 6 copies of MIDWESTERN CHROME! Enter by 8/10. In the meantime, I wanna talk about 6 various pieces of media that influenced me & Chrome...but not the obvious ones... www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Pretending you don't see a difference between AI that counts beans and AI that steals novels is a doltish, peevish stance. Cannot believe @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social ran this apologia for the plagiarism machine.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · yesterday

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

Canadian Poets Series #34 : Misha Solomon / @mishasolomon.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @montrealprize.bsky.social ; peripetyandortronies.blogspot.com/2026/08/cana...

✨ Just Released! A guided keepsake journal with 500 prompts designed to help you write the story of your life—one page at a time. tinyurl.com/5n6zszm7

Excuse me...they wanted to do what? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Israel halts plans for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ due to animal welfare concerns

Proponents argue that it would alleviate the burden on staff, while critics say it would be ‘cruel’ and ‘vicious’ to police a prison with crocodiles

independent.co.uk

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Missed out on the Common Bonds 3 BackerKit campaign? You can preorder your copy of our wonderful aromantic anthology alongside all others and get it at the same time as our backers! common-bonds-3.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

I'm doing #PromptGamesMonthly trying to list out all the active prompt games in the #WritingCommunity as it's one of the best ways to meet people! Here is a Starter Pack to follow all the hosts of the games I have listed! Have fun and make some new friends! #WriteSky #Writers #AmWriting

When I was small, my father held a knife to my mom’s throat as I screamed and scratched at his legs. Later she made dinner, because refusing to do so would have been worse. That was a few days before we left in the night, her bleeding, me silent. It was the worst night of my life. And the best.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

I’m embarrassed we have Democrats like you still saying they stand with Israel in 2026 after nearly 3 years of full on genocide. 

Very much this. If this was just a matter of you risking your own health and it had no blowback on anyone else, fine, go to cons and don't wear a mask. It's your health, your call. Except it isn't, is it? You not wearing a mask at a con means other folks, folks who would love to attend, actually...

Amabel Holland@amabel.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Amabel, why don't you go to conventions" biggest reason is no one masks anymore and I can't risk my partner's respiratory system it's just not an environment I get to be in ever again, but I'm glad everyone else has moved on and is having fun

It's been a breakneck year for me, with so many opportunities to write and advance my craft. A big part of that has been @ontarioarts.bsky.social - I'm so fortunate that this year, the OAC and @houseofanansi.bsky.social gave me a Recommender's Grant.

excited to be in @havehashad.com again with a tiny micro about a bar for ghosts. grateful to @aaronburch.bsky.social + any of you who read it 💀 🍻 👻 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/whe...

Hey so also: it’s available on streaming, and I really think you should watch Supergirl, which is about women healing from trauma and beating the shit out of sex trafficking incels. news.chanda.science/archive/you-...

You should go see Supergirl

It's pop art that is unapologetically political.

news.chanda.science

We have genAI that can now make perfect deepfakes of your grandmother, but iOS and Android speech-to-text is still a mess of steaming hot garbage.

ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.

No one is watching. You have almost no “followers,” and Twitter isn’t showing your stuff to most of them anyway. So, never be scared of publishing. 99.999% of your readers are in the future, reading future things. So get going, so you can get to those!

A poem by Virginia Hamilton Adair, who published her debut collection at the age of 83

Good grief, this hits home.

Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli

Well, this will be fun in a few minutes

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by the way. I'd like to cut it off. Spain is a terrible partner in NATO. Cut off all trade with Spain, please. Including visits. We don't want anything to do. They're hopeless. Bad people."

The denialism around covid contributes to this. Covid didn't end or become mild people chose to abandon layered mitigations because the government told them they could. Science denialism is mainstream these days, people don't care about spreading disease.

This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w ago

And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

Wishing death on someone because you don't like that one thing they said out of thousands is just entitled shitty idiotic behavior. I can't even call it childish because children aren't like that! Get offline and go touch grass. My GOD.

I saw someone who claims to be an author on Threads post this: "Stephen King was the hardest for me. The man practically raised me. But the old man must die." What the HELL is wrong with people on social media? Faceless anonymity is a drug.

As a trained and licensed teacher, there is no hell hot enough for this private school owner, and everyone like them.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵