Shaawan Francis Keahna
@shaawan.com
he/him, ubalt student currently on summer break, career writer absolutely not on break even a little bit. “linux” “enthusiast” and dumbphone user proselytizing both for fun and profit. dont trust a word i say pfp by eleanora hyde photography
Everything is risograph and cyanotype and fermentation. It's clear that AI slop and accelerationist destruction are prompting the seemingly ubiquitous resurgence of interest in these slow, organic, manual processes.
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
Portals #1 update! This call will be CLOSING to submissions on August 16th at 11:59 pm Eastern… unless we hit the cap before then, so don’t wait! Last chance to send us your darkest, strangest, queerest horror! 🖤 Current subs: Fiction: 121/150 Poetry: 44/100 hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last mo.Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)
I updated my fundraiser with more information about what I'm doing and why I need money. Help me keep Other Spaces going! Help support a free trans film series! Help me keep writing, playing music, and making art!
Donate to Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going, organized by Isobel Bess
Hi! I’m Isobel. I run a small trans zine press and tape label called Other Spaces… Isobel Bess needs your support for Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going
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15 days left to preorder the next anthology! For those unaware of how the industry works, preorder numbers directly influence your publisher’s allocation of resources toward the book, including helping us convince them people want PART III. Thank you in advance 🙏 NWAN2.com
Hohóú Michael Welch of the Chicago Review of Books for including Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood in this list of must-read books for August 2026 chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/03/1...
12 Must-Read Books of August 2026 - Chicago Review of Books
Come the dog days of summer, when the heat begins to grind you down and the days start to blend, there’s nothing better than encountering a story that will provide a spark of excitement. Maybe a littl...
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imdb doesn’t care how many times i hit unsubscribe. it is back in my inbox telling me to watch five new shows this month. it is back in my inbox telling me it has my list of new obsessions as if it knows me. imdb doesn’t care that i think it’s ugly, it just keeps coming back to offer me itself.
hitting Other Mommy poses in a desperate attempt to get this crick out my neck
AI companies are trying to do this, but with human knowledge. It's why they're destroying the books. Wipe out our ability to think for ourselves, then own the means of thinking.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
growing up i was such a fuckin grammar cop and it carried over into adulthood and now due to the proliferation of LLMs i go "thank god this chick can't spell for shit" when i'm going through some coder's documentation
By the way COVER LETTERS: Name, story title, wordcount. Nothing else matters at this stage, so don't stress! WORDCOUNT STRICTNESS: Extremely so. One word below 4000 is a rejection, at the other end we allow up to 100 words of elasticity if you really need it but 6101 or higher is also a rejection.
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 5d ago📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/
📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/
It's also just wild as a farmer. Nearly everyone who's left of center & wants to do agriculture, wants to do a "cute little farm. Because big farms are bad!!" Thus leaving the actual food supply, AND RURAL EMPLOYMENT, entirely in the hands of reactionaries. And we wonder why we keep losing!
I found this fascinating. I don't think I've ever seen a Museum publicly list the costs of an exhibition before. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri... - It's actually super helpful for people to see what it takes.
A Museum Dares to Reveal What It Really Costs to Make an Exhibition
“Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form,” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, stars Autumn Knight, Dread Scott, Ghislaine Leung.
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getting my artwork together to apply for an INPRNT storefront and i’ve shown my work at both the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts as well as the Watermark Art Center and while looking them up i accidentally created the Waltermark
We didn’t see the cyclops’s penis in the Odyssey because it would have two penis holes and that would scare the public into riots and unrest
Not enough is written about the fact that in the US, any spiteful lunatic can launch a family-destroying machine at virtually anybody with a single phone call and a few made-up allegations. And a similar machine can be called to launch a heavily-armed murder squad at ANYONE, even those without kids.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Exclusive: Officials relied on a vague and unsubstantiated allegation to separate Pete Buttigieg from his young twins last month. Previously unreported police records, obtained by The Post, and an interview with the apparent complainant offer the most detailed account yet: wapo.st/4wt1Zjs
I designed an extremely aggressive and difficult to parse out new shirt about a plague that is ravaging the country, please help me raise awareness. roryblank.bigcartel.com
NWAN2.com for those of you who don't know, i'm in this with a whole slew of brilliant indigenous writers, it's up for preorder. get in there is what i'm saying
I wrote a comedy textbook about Native American history, people and culture! It's called “We’ve Been Here The Whole Time! A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America.” It’s like if The Daily Show or The Onion wrote a book about Indian Country.
Ok bsky: I am searching for a cover illustration artist for my upcoming project! Seeking someone with experience illustrating nature/naturalist scenes! The project is an eco-gothic set in the N.C./VA swamp. Please drop your portfolio or website if this sounds like your jam! #booksky #coverartists
ANMLY is now open for our new folio exploring poetry on desire and devotion that revels in excess. We’re seeking previously-unpublished poetry, multimedia poetry, audio, and video. Absolutely no AI. Deadline: August 28th, 2026
I Roved Out is wonderful. It's described as 'warmly pornographic' and I can't think of a better description. Lewd, funny, with deep, almost incomprehensible high fantasy lore and characters who clearly love each other even when getting on each other's nerves. Highly recommended.
Alexis Flower@alexisflower.bsky.social · last wk.alright, got my storyboards and my layouts, gonna get some noodles and beer then it's a straight line to the end of Tome 4. Won't be coming out as fast as AHS but I'll be posting pages as I finish them!
SVU character: I'm NOT gay. I have relationships with women... and SEX with men. Woke Ice T: That's normal. I'm not going to put a label on you right now
All the most evil people alive today are working very hard to keep people scared of socialist organizations. Something to think about, why literally all the world's most evil people agree on and are terrified of that one specific thing.