Big congratulations to @thomasha.bsky.social on his three (3!) World Fantasy Award nominations!

Thomas Ha@thomasha.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh wow. Congrats to the finalists. Honored to be included with these authors. Thanks to World Fantasy Con, the judges, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, and @undertow.bsky.social. And thanks to readers who enjoyed and talked about these stories. Really means a lot.

Happy book birthday to the only Cabin 23 book that’s dedicated to sharks.

I have two books coming this fall & both of them received Kirkus stars 😭💕 Xasteyo!!!!!!!

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

This is another example of why the idea we can fight Trump “in the courts” is a total fraud: he has effectively neutered any legal avenue. Let’s stop pretending we have any options other than force of numbers large enough that no court can stop us www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways

The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.

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we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

If I hear one more politician say “they have to want help” in regards to homeless people while shelters are full of abuse, public housing wait lists are YEARS, the for-profit prison system exists, and our public health system is a fucking joke, I’m gonna lose my fucking mind.

You are a mark if you are getting propagandized to build more jails and arrest even more people at a time when all of the governments OWN MEASURES show violent crime having significantly decreased over the past years.

Yep, "you can't just fire people, keep their passports, do brutality, not even a little bit" was in some anti-slavery reforms to the H2A program in 2024. Farmers were outraged at the "gov't overreach & red tape." They went hard for Trump in '24, & he repealed those farm worker regs in June 2025.

Gaius Cassius Longinus@cassius1213.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm also guessing that the farmers in question didn't want their workers to be able to quit and that they wanted the right to "discipline" them for "poor performance" however they saw fit?

that is in fact literally in the bible. it's Matthew 6:5.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · last wk.

Rep. Lauren Boebert insists that public Christian worship events are necessary for America to experience revival: "I don't think that Jesus ever called for any Christian to pray only silently or to keep their faith hidden only in the prayer closet."

We are over the moon to that #TheEndOfEverything by M. John Harrison is on the 2026 Booker Prize longlist! Here's what the judges said about this apocalyptic adventure: 'shimmering and oblique, it holds the reader to the surface of something very grave and deep' thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

BUT truth be unto you my children, if you have any love in your hearts left for me, you'll buy STARVE BETTER from this link to @ebbooksellers.bsky.social and get it signed/inscribed! Reskeet this one, baby! www.ebbooksellers.com/item/PMT_BEJ...

Once, I wrote a book that people a. liked and b. found helpful It was called STARVE BETTER. The new edition—with two new chapters—is here! I am an amazon hater but you are all amazon lovers, AND amazon won't take down the old link to a single used copy, so www.amazon.com/Starve-Bette...

Books are not military targets, but according to the Ukrainian Book Institute, Russia has destroyed more than 1.5 million Ukrainian books in July alone.

Ukrainian publishers stand strong despite enormous financial losses from Russian attacks

The moment Svitlana Paveletska, co-founder of Knyholav, received the news that the mass attack on July 19 had wiped out her publishing house's warehouse in Kyiv, she felt an overwhelming wave of grief...

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Everyone should be paying attention to the current Democratic party insiders' "policy proposals" around healthcare. It's going to be Obamacare redux and we see how that has gone for most of the country. A lot of people still uninsured and even more UNDERINSURED.

last day for this my deep-fried friendos

kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல்@kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 2w ago

friends and most importantly comrades, Waterstones is having a preorder sale where you can get my novel at 25% off. Just visit the site or app and use the code “SUMMER26”. Support non-white, non-dude writers! www.waterstones.com/book/a-compe...

being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up.

Arundhati Roy gives a fairly thorough and eloquent rundown of what's happening in India right now. 'But this regime will not go easily. It will not tolerate being humiliated on the streets of the capital...They will do everything they can to break us. We must do everything we can to stop them.'

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2w ago

'How does a regime which is clearly becoming hugely unpopular have the confidence to not make any concessions to the people who voted for it? Probably because it feels it has successfully gamed the election business. It has captured the machinery.'

This should not surprise any Weird Al fan.

Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr@learnonaut.bsky.social · 2w ago

So Weird Al turned down an AI ad and also the Riyadh comedy festival and the lesson is Weird Al has more integrity than the vast majority of entertainers triblive.com/aande/music/...

This week's post is about how the Red Scare is a big enough tent for all of us. With an explainer about socialism vs anarchism vs communism, complete with a diagram. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-red-scar...

A Red Scare Big Enough For All of Us

or: you don't even have to be a red to scare the fascists

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In better news, the Polish translation of RAKESFALL is out in August from Czarna Owca polter.pl/ksiazki/Rake...

Rakesfall: twórca Świętego od papuzich drzwi powraca z nowym dziełem - Książki - POLTERGEIST

Pod koniec sierpnia nakładem wydawnictwa Czarna Owca ukaże się Rakesfall, powieść science fiction, której autorem jest Vajra Chandrasekera, znany z in...

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if you liked the cyclops scene, this story from earlier in the month might have some things you might enjoy

Jay@tarvolon.bsky.social · 2w ago

And “Our Revels Now Are Ended” by @thomasha.bsky.social is weird, unsettling, and meditative. It leaves a fair bit of ambiguity (not unusual for Ha), but it’s a gripping read. If you like his style, this is one to pick up clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_07_26

haha futurism.com/artificial-i...

Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces

OpenAI invited prominent author Dave Eggers to talk to its workers — and he relished the opportunity to set the record straight.

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Ok this article is, like, textbook antisemitism. We see that, right? They’re quantifying a person’s Jewishness based on how enthusiastic his support for Israel’s policies are.

The Jewish Chronicle@jewishchron.bsky.social · 2w ago

So just how Jewish is Ed Miliband? www.thejc.com/news/politic...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

A full on war on the poor and the sick while the public is told by people in both political parties and by punditry not to "demonize" billionaires. Incredible.

Protesters, including teenage students, being beaten up and tear gassed by cops right now in Delhi. Footage all over Twitter of regime goons wailing on unarmed young people. Modi has left parliament.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2w ago

Police attack Cockroach activists as thousands march on Indian parliament https://aje.news/936c0h

"But it is opt-in" they say. Here is how it will work. Good drivers will opt-in and get their rates cut. Insurers still need to make money, so they will raise rates on everyone else. That will cause more drivers to opt-in. Rise, repeat, all while we get spied on more and risk sharing disappears.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

The Consumer Driving Data Protection Act “would allow insurers to track speed, braking and other driving habits to establish a motorist's safety record, a key component in setting individual premiums — as long as the motorist agrees to it.”

Biden is a war criminal who actively enabled a genocide and the denial by a good chunk of Dems is part of why we’re in this mess

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 2w ago

'Must-read' is a cliche, but it applies to this story. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...