& now we get to measure how big the avocado toast voting bloc really is
#BREAKING US suspends imports from Mexico's largest avocado producer: industry group
LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻
@lorifontanes.bsky.social
Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech.
& now we get to measure how big the avocado toast voting bloc really is
#BREAKING US suspends imports from Mexico's largest avocado producer: industry group
i hate when i have to learn a new verb in French (« pulvériser ») if it relates to these terrifying #heatwaves 😳 @jackmmorris.bsky.social btw M. Jobard is citing data from Parc Montsouris, same location as my story in @neitherfishnorfoul.com!
🌡️Sur les 50 derniers jours la moyenne des températures maximales à #Paris Montsouris a atteint 32.2 °C du 15 juin au 3 août 2026 Cela pulvérise le précédent record (fiable) en la matière : 29.7 °C du 25 juin au 13 août 2018. #sécheresse #canicule 32.2 °C ~ normale de juillet de l'intérieur du Var
🥹! (my dad served in the Army so this makes me smile)
When you're stationed overseas and the furriest member of your family needs care, what do you do? 🐾🩺 The Army Veterinary Readiness Activity distributes its soldiers in small teams to care for working dogs or perform food quality inspections for Army, Navy and Air Force bases.
can confirm 🥵 so what’s our plan for next summer (& all the summers after that?) #ClimateSafetyNow www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
July was France's hottest month ever recorded
According ot the country's weather service, the month was also France's third-driest July on record, with rainfall nearly 70% below average.
lemonde.fr
Don't forget to pre-order this beauty, if you haven't. Dropping October. We're not crowd-funding this. The only way it keeps going is through your generosity. Plus, it's pretty good. Shoot me a line if you're unsure if you've pre-ordered. Thx!! undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications
Pre-Order. Shipping October 2026. Cover art by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR “Momentous... an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in ...
undertowpublications.com
heartbreaking micro about a daughter & the shape of love 🥹 @claudineliterary.bsky.social www.claudineliterary.com/christinehchen
Christine H. Chen | And afterwards,
claudineliterary.com
While our contest period has ended, we remain open for submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry and are a paying market. We also do not charge submission fees. For Afterwords (our blog) we accept critical book review and interviews with authors.
Broad Ripple Review Submission Manager
Submit to Broad Ripple Review. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.
duotrope.com
nothing more satisfying than holding a print copy of a #book that contains your story, except maybe holding a book that contains over 100 other fantastic stories, too! @victorialbrun.bsky.social @100footcrow.bsky.social #FlashFiction #SF #horror #fantasy #anthology
@delgeo14.bsky.social checking in to see how you’re doing in this challenging summer! not sure which country you’re in but it’s been tough for both France & Greece hélas 😔
Current submission period: Aug. 1 - Nov. 30. Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Take your time. Read the guidelines. Read some of the work on our site--issues going back about 14 years, available to read for free. Polish your work until it shines. baltimorereview.org
The Baltimore Review
A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
baltimorereview.org
another in a series of my spooky #Paris based tales from last month’s @neitherfishnorfoul.com fishless ish 👻
ICYMI
fellow #writers & anti-AI skeeps, prepare for this terrifying new world 😳
So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.
i use an OG step counter that can’t connect to the interwebz no way i would willingly share any health data with Big Tech
Many people wear a fitness tracker to stay on top of their health—but do these devices respect your privacy? Find out more with our latest issue of EFFector: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
omg the new Ariana Grande video 🙀 i loved “The Substance” & this is quite the body #horror #feminist homage 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=afSg...
Ariana Grande - petal (official music video)
YouTube video by ArianaGrandeVevo
youtube.com
nooooooooooo 😳
Google Earth has launched a new AI tool which allows users to create fake satellite images. A collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole swallowing the Great Pyramid of Giza and Russian tanks in Kyiv were among the fake images BBC Verify created when testing the feature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New York City friends! The LES cat cafe Koneko is closing tomorrow and needs urgent help rehoming some kitties. This place was very cute and took good care of their cats. Tell cat curious NYC friends that there are kitties that need some homes. www.instagram.com/p/DbbfOxcGu1V/
Rawhead is seeking hybrid work. We are also accepting Visual Art, Fiction, CNF, and Poetry submissions until August 15th. rawhead.submittable.com/submit #callforsubmissions #litmag #writingcommunity #artcommunity #hybridwork #hybridwriting #hybridart #submissions #artjournal #rawheadjournal
This is a very good job that'll be a little hard. You're basically running point on an omnichannel comedy network for aspiring paranoiacs that will turn into a cult of its own. Apply or tell your smartest friend to apply. There's a war on for your mind and we need a John Brown.
*takes deep breath* *ululates* WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS hornedlarkpress.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
hornedlarkpress.moksha.io
🚨There’s still time to haunt us, but our call for ghost stories closes tomorrow night at midnight pst! 👻⏰
Haunt us! flash-frog.com/submit/
@hypervisible.blacksky.app did u see this? next level security in the age of inevitable AI-enabled insecurity or i dunno wtaf 😳
naw it’s cool, nothing to see here, just Wells Fargo patenting sensor dust they can blow on you to make financial decisions based on your body this will surely not be used to bar disabled people, fat people, women, ??? from resources patents.google.com/patent/US113...
@gooseberrypielit.bsky.social is open for submissions: Artwork for our cover and/or to accompany published pieces of fiction. Fiction with 6 sentences and no more than 400 words. gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Submissions Submission Guidelines Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine publishes fiction with exactly six-sentences and no more than 400 words. Title does not count as one of the six sentences or towards the w...
gooseberry-pie.com
Gavin Newsom's California Forever Problem. It's the billionaires versus the people, and your future presidential nominee has chosen a side. Guess which one. www.thenerdreich.com/will-gavin-n...
Gavin Newsom‘s California Forever Problem
California Forever failed at the ballot box. Now Gov. Newsom's office is trying to push the tech billionaire-backed megacity through Sacramento
thenerdreich.com