Just crossed the terminal: Microsoft disclosures suggest that OpenAI is about 70% of AI sales! If only someone had said something

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · yesterday

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

When @thomasha.bsky.social drops a new story: www.youtube.com/shorts/5-NCP... Check out the Borgesian-Kafkian-Poeian mashup that is: "Our Revels Are Now Ended" clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_07_26/

If there were car reactions in the 1800s 👀 #shorts | when Beethoven dropped...😂

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Check it out! That's me down there on the cover for Issue 9 of Trollbreath. My story "Gael's Severed Eye" is all about parricide, stray cats, state-sponsored kidnappings, and a woman who wants to make a new genre of music, blood metal, with the power to transform the world.

Trollbreath Magazine@trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 4d ago

Welcome to August! Only one month to go until our 9th issue drops. Edits will be going out to authors soon (probably today). In the meantime, we can finally reveal the absolutely gorgeous cover, slightly revamped from our previous style, with original art by Tobias Roetsch. Ain't it beautiful?

You know, there is someone for everyone. Before there was a posse, there were just separate insane clowns out there wandering, but somehow they met up. Makes you think.

After giving it some thought, I figure there's never going to be a perfect time to open for horror/Weird fic collection submissions. Why not now while my job is still in a slow period? If you're BIPOC and/or queer, I'm especially interested in reading your work: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN NOW UNTIL FILLED) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. The submi…

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Going to Minneapolis in two weeks with a Boundary Waters trip thrown in! While in the Cities, would love to check out bookstores, events and chat with any writer folks out there. Any interesting stuff going on August 8-16?

Sometimes there is actual good news in the universe

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 3w ago

We hit our base goal, but there's still 33 hours left to go, and your continued support means the world to us! With our first stretch goal, we can pay our ultra-talented human artists more, we can increase our average story length to 4000+ words, and expand to author interviews 🧡

Happy BNW release day to all authors @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and thanks to @seizethepress.bsky.social for originally publishing “Avila Beach,” my story of a town awash in severed limbs & teenagers with no future. If you take your fiction with a tablespoon (gallon?) of weird this is for you!

👽💀Into the Weird we go once again💀👽 BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4, is OUT NOW! 23 of the finest & Weirdest stories of 2025. Congrats to all this year's winners🖤☠️ Get BRAVE NEW WEIRD wherever books are sold, or direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com

Great advice from a great writer.

Samir Sirk Morató@spicycloaca.bsky.social · 4w ago

it's essential to have hobbies and confidence not linked to publishing. care, absolutely, but do not tether your self worth to your art, or to the draining, slow, highly subjective industry you're submitting that art to

I just backed this! Only five days left and they’re 70% of the way there. Do consider backing it if you wanna see more great fiction from Khoreo

khōréō magazine@khoreo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Thrilled to see Locus's 'Year's Best' fund in a day. Reminder that our little 'Best Of' could use some pre-order love, as well. If you're able and inclined. We think it's pretty good. You might, as well. 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 ...

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Honored to be in this collection among 22 other certified weirdos! Out July 14

Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 4w ago

Meet @zddochterman.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD winner🖤☠️ When severed limbs start washing up on shore, the city of Avila Beach blames a group of teen outsiders. They'll have to confront Minotaurs, carnivorous plants & cops to figure out not only who's behind the carnage, but how to get justice. ⬇️

Meet @zddochterman.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD winner🖤☠️ When severed limbs start washing up on shore, the city of Avila Beach blames a group of teen outsiders. They'll have to confront Minotaurs, carnivorous plants & cops to figure out not only who's behind the carnage, but how to get justice. ⬇️

A great summary by the folks @tenebrouspress.bsky.social of my story "Avila Beach" that kickoffs 2026's "Brave New Weird" *A wave of body parts washing up on shore, an investigation by corrupt cops, and the wrath of the Minotaur* July 14th, get it here: store.tenebrouspress.com?utm_source=s...

Tenebrous Press - The Home of New Weird Horror

Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

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If this cover Art speaks to you just imagine how much you’re gonna like the stories

Seize The Press Magazine@seizethepress.bsky.social · last mo.

STP Issue #14 is out! With stories about eating children; guys turning into telephones; malignant grimoires; 'The Connoisseur'; and resurrecting the 9/11 hijackers in order to publicly execute them.

if your vibe is bleak, horrifying, and weird, you probably already know… And if you don’t know, now you know

NEW: The scariest part of Backrooms is how eerily well it maps onto our capitalist world of hostile liminality, argues @rsbenedict.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/hostile-arch...

Hostile Architecture: Late Capitalism and Backrooms

The scariest thing about Backrooms is that we already live there.

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New Em Liu!

Haven Spec Magazine@havenspec.bsky.social · last mo.

Our ✨June 2026 issue✨ is ready! Subscribers will get it tomorrow, and everyone else can read it July 2nd! In this issue, you'll find five new stories and six new poems, many of which are vaguely environmental and all of which are amazing!

Loads of excellent Weird fiction on sale right here. Some of the best out there, of you ask me. Hail the Sale. Hail 10p 💀🤘💜

Tenebrous Press@tenebrouspress.bsky.social · last mo.

🔥SALE🔥 Prime Day is now thru the 26th? COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY, ALL OUR E-BOOKS & MAGAZINES ARE 50% OFF THRU THE 26TH. Buy from our webstore, get your books & mags delivered INSTANTLY, + you own them outright! (Sorry, not applicable to preorders) 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

Portishead “Dummy” #portishead

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · last mo.

Name your fav album to hear start to finish, no skips.

If you think 2020s internet culture is harsh, imagine getting on Poe's bad side: "With rare exception...we have had no American tales of high merit. We have had no skilful compositions...Of twattle called tale-writing we have had, perhaps, more than enough." - 1842 www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/...

In honor of the Stokers I’m going back and reading ones from previous years. This story is half early Internet horror, half parable for our times.

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃@wnwagner.bsky.social · 2y ago

I can't decide if this story by Manish Melwani is actually fiction or if he just peered into the future and took notes, but I do know it is 100% horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/mamm...

Just read the Stoker-nominated "Autogas Ferryman" by @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com A wonderful story about a taxi driver who ferries ghosts around Bangkok. Without spoiling it, I think the story does a masterful job of weaving together personal trauma and political events.

Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine

Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...

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Insightful words from an amazing author on the Weird

Spencer Nitkey@spencerwriting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sentence structure, paragraphs, descriptions, DIALOGUE (chief candidate for the inherent Otherness of Text), are all Weird. Reading Weirdly is just paying extra close attention to a text. Once you do, the complete and utter alienness of representing "reality" with words becomes totally unavoidable.

Reading the Nebula short stories and really loved "The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead." @emlinden.bsky.social Hits all the right notes of a lost homeland and how the living choose to remember the dead. Threads the line between nostalgia and looking to the future so well.

this Pride, consider supporting queer authors and a queer press doing good work (and read some cool shit in the process!)

Cursed Morsels@cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Pride Month! If you want to support queer writers (as you always should), snag one of our many, many books featuring their work. These aren't sanitized queer stories. They're honest and strange, dark and radical. Take a look! www.cursedmorselspress.com

Hey everyone, read this if you’re in a weird horror about twins, cannibalism, and the devouring power of plants. @jesskoch.bsky.social

Jess Koch > Eleanora > Bourbon Penn

The twins were born on a humid January night, uprooted from their young mother’s womb through a cesarean incision opened across gossamer skin, exactly seventeen years and ninety-eight days before they...

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