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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 2h

We are proud to have "Kindling" by @somtoihezue.bsky.social first published in our magic-themed anthology, OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE! Congratulations, Somto, for your entry in ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-enc... #fantasy #horror #books

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Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite – Stars and Sabers

Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite is a magic-themed anthology featuring 31 authors of fantasy and horror, edited by Jendia Gammon, Gareth L. Powell, and Scarlett R. Algee.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Jessie' s Girl guy discovered Buddhism. New episode, y'all www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxvs...

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TRAINWRECKORDS: Rick Springfield's "Tao"

YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

An ICE agent directed Emilio, a Venezuelan Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for an interpreter and didn’t get one. When he saw a Mexican flag, he realized he was being deported to Mexico, sans passport. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity

An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Highly usable post from last year

@weedle.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 05/08/2026

it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This

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How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor

“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/08/2026

@rweingarten.bsky.social, this is a horror. Teachers cited in this article say they're using "A.i." to develop lesson plans for kids with disabilities and imply that they're feeding student data into LLMs. This is using untested, dangerous teach on vulnerable kids AND possibly violating privacy law.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

I am not joking: this is AOL era software. It's got clip art. IDK how it even works on modern computers

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/07/2026

8. The capitulation of Amnesty International signals a bleak new era for transgender people in the United Kingdom. The country that once ranked first in Europe for LGBTQ+ rights now sits 22nd on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map, after 11 consecutive years of decline.

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Rodrigo Culagovski @culagovski.net · 30/07/2026

*standing up on the plane* Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de veinte casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de

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Alex Helberg @dystopamine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is such a loss for the Harvard community. Jane has been a leader and a steady voice in the conversation about university writing and AI nationwide but especially in New England. Carnegie Mellon did the exact same thing with our Writing Center while I was a grad student there... (1/2)

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026

They said from a profitability standpoint they can’t afford to make movies with Asian protagonists but then they also said it’s worth it to them to put abusers in movies just to put women in their place.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The used booksellers were trying to figure out wtf was going on a while ago and I was afraid it was something like this.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

"Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage," it explains in an article on its website, as quoted by
404. "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools."
Once focused on helping libraries, distributors, and book shops find and sell books, ISBNdb now helps Al companies bulk-buy anywhere between 1,000 to one million books per order, according to 404.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23/07/2026

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Peter Nygaard @retepadam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I cannot stress enough how much The Onion’s Real InfoWars has become weekly appointment viewing.

I only have 2000 characters; I cannot hope to describe this image.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Never ever apologize for getting someone's book from the library. A lot of them were written by authors who themselves first read a lot of other books in a library

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Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

ChatGPT is a tool specifically created to make you illiterate and illegible.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 16/07/2026

Fede Aldama (Professor Latinx) interviewed me for Latinx Pop Magazine about THE MATRON, horror, and more. Check it out!

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Interview with David Bowles: World-Building, Horror & Craft Insights

Horror, more than any genre, lets you put people in extreme situations and watch their humanity shine.

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We are in the last few hours of this fundraiser and still about 50 new Supporters away from our goal! Please consider signing up for a monthly donation if you value our work: the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Demon deals, haunted mansions, and sexy dystopias, oh my! Here are 30 MORE notable works of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and everything inbetween for the rest of 2026 reactormag.com/30-more-sff-...

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30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2026 - Reactor

The most anticipated books for your summer, fall, and holiday TBR stacks

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/07/2026

Assigned Media needs YOUR HELP! We're a growing trans news site, bringing high quality reporting to our community. But the financial environment is, shall we say, not exactly kind to scrappy little community minded news outlets? Join us! Join us! Join us! assignedmedia.org/support/

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Support Our Journalism - Assigned Media

Support OurJournalism Our journalism is only possible through the support of our members! As a supporting member, you’ll receive a special edition of our newsletter, featuring bonus essays and insight...

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/07/2026

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

jk rowling quotes an account called trans widows’ voices

rowling says:
Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund.

trans widows’ voices says:

Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do not have the same power or influence to defend ourselves

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 13/07/2026

What kind of a society do we live in where the grading policies of Duke, Harvard, and Yale are the focus of the *New York Times* but the crumbling buildings of CUNY - literally the public university of the city of the paper - merits barely any attention from the NYT? ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

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From mold to malfunctions, CUNY conditions come under scrutiny

Several dozen staff members rallied outside Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday.

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The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 13/07/2026

"From friends to medics, women are used to having their health issues dismissed, minimized, or blamed on their hormones." thesicktimes.org/2026/07/10/s...

Graphic featuring clips from old, black and white medical advertisements, one showing a man wearing a lamp on a band around his head and one showing a woman in a surgical mask. The clips are cut with diagrams of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and red, white, and black boxes. The text reads, "Stop telling women their Long COVID is menopause. From friends to medics, women are used to having their health issues dismissed, minimized, or blamed on their hormones."

"And it feels ever thus: women’s knowledge of their bodies sidelined, their intuition dismissed, their symptoms pigeonholed into the medic’s preferred diagnosis — which, once you hit midlife, is almost always menopause." - Kelly Rose Bradford

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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Get some stickers! Keep our Long COVID storytelling going! It’s a win-win!

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Less than 3 days left in the Kickstarter for year 6 of the excellent magazine _khōréō_. They need about 75 more subscribers in order to meet their funding goal. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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khōréō: Year 6

Help us sustain and grow an award-winning magazine of speculative fiction and migration!

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The Booooobarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This one needs alt text.

Michael Fanone:

Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn't going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you're in it.

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Zhui Ning Chang 曾睿宁 @witchywonderer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We’re still $2K short and it’s down to the last 3 days of the fundraiser. Help us get over the finish line and bring you another year of incredible SFF short stories!

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 12/07/2026

the deadlands is ALMOST, but not quite, fully funded consider joining as a patron and two things happen: 1. we keep publishing amazing deathy works 2. you get epub/phsyical copies of the deadlands and OH BY THE WAY the next issue (in 7 days) contains A WHOLE NOVELLA + regular deadlands content!

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 12/07/2026

You can get cover art made by real artists. You can buy premade covers from real artists. You can use stock images / art for your covers without involving AI-gen images. Writers and publishers have been getting covers made forEVER w/o AI-gen art and we don't have to use the tools of the enemy now.

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

As far as "books for kids" go I do sometimes wonder if the existence of a YA shelf robs young folks of the joys of early unsupervised exposure to the ranting of depraved communists and libertarian sex-weirdos in the SFF section, an important inoculation when it doesn't destroy 3-10 years of yr life

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 12/07/2026

Despite a paper trail proving otherwise, Unbound’s administrators claimed they still owned the rights to Effin’ Birds and threatened to sue Penguin Random House if PRH paid me any royalties for my ongoing book sales. Wasn’t resolved until two months ago. They tried to bankrupt me out of spite.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

With alt text

The distracted boyfriend meme, except it's death in his black robe walking with mitch McConnell in a light blue suit, who is looking shocked and offended at death suddenly distracted and turning to watch a smiling Lindsey Graham in a red suit coat and white shirt, walking obliviously by them, smiling at camera

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Goldenrod - A Horror Podcast @podgoldenrod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our trailer is available NOW on Spotify and YouTube! Just give Goldenrod - A Horror Podcast a search, and feel free to leave us a comment or reply to let us know what you think! Keep an eye on your podcatcher of choice as the show begins to pop up! As always, thank you for listening. 🔥🔥

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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is super cool bc: 1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list 2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them 3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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CDC panel votes to limit who is eligible for this fall's Covid vaccine

Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My response to D&Q's statement:

D&Q packaged and marketed Walden’s book as an independent work with no acknowledgment that it was an adaptation of my book. There is exactly one sentence in the notes at the back that acknowledges the existence of my book. Walden has repeatedly presented the work as based on her research, even going so far as to claim on CBC that she’s the only person who’s read all the letters, and saying in a video she made for the Henry Sheldon Museum that she worked exclusively from the diaries and letters. Readers of reviews, people who’ve listened to her CBC interview, and readers of the book have no way to know that she adapted my work. Many people who bought Walden’s book have commented exactly that on social media. Additionally, D&Q took my title, and cover image. I’ve heard from readers that when they tried to buy my book, bookstore owners have pointed them towards Walden’s graphic novel. In the future when people search for “Charity and Sylvia” on the internet the algorithm will point them to Walden, who has a far bigger platform as a cartoonist than I will ever have as an academic. In short, Walden and D&Q are profiting off eight years of my labor and pretending otherwise. It pains me to have to correct the record this way. Walden was initially given a grant to work exclusively from the papers at the Sheldon. Instead, as her website makes clear, she read my book twice closely and outlined and drafted, then went to look at documents to supplement the story I had written. My book is based on research at over 20 archives and historical sites. I am the author of the story. Walden took that story and illustrated it beautifully, but she and D&Q should have acknowledged the adaptation and they should compensate me.

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

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Count Cyaneyed Pigeon Pope 🪿 @cyaneyed.lol · 03/07/2026

Get over to infowars asap, they've got the inside scoop on Alex Jones popping like a balloon.

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

still costing universities money from beyond the grave

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just $400 away from our penultimate milestone of $20K, when we will release a brand new poem by Nico Martinez Nocito! To help us get there: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Submissions for FIYAH #40 are OPEN! Deadline July 31. Get more info about "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars" at the link! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Submissions Open "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars"
Deadline July 31. Image showing magical energy above a school facade and courtyard. https://fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This one is special, closing out a ten year run of Black SFF 🥹 Share this with a Black author or poet of speculative fiction who will help us send off issue #40 in style 🔥🔥🔥

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Leaving Omelas? Don’t be shy At the bypass Come say hi! Wall Drug

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