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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 11m

idly wondering if I've lived alone too long as I use my bare hands to transfer wet noodles between containers

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 20h

Erik saying this and telling me to get out the spray bottle isn't time management ಠ_ಠ

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October🎃 which means, SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5! **This is our yearly Best-Of Weird Fiction anthology, only eligible REPRINTS will be considered** Get the full submissions details here, and check out the full cover reveal! tinyurl.com/4474xej6

THE CALL OF THE WEIRD
All October, Tenebrous Press is accepting submissions for the Fifth Volume of our Weird Fiction Award anthology, BRAVE NEW WEIRD.
This is a reprint anthology. Only works published between 10/31/25-10/31/26 will be considered.
Full details at www.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Matt Blairstone.
Beneath a swirling tile mosaic sea filled with fish and squid, two mountain giants surround a rural village who are burning a wicker man in their honor.
One of the giants eats the worshippers, while the other digs what they're throwin' down.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ISSUE 3 IS HERE! And completely free to read! We're SO excited for you to read this issue 🧡 It's bleak and beautiful and heartbreaking... and, as always, spectacularly queer. Give it a read, tell a friend, help us spread the word! Read it here: othersidespec.com/issues/issue-3/

White text on a red and black background, with the magazine cover on the left. The magazine cover has eroded statues in the background with a figure standing in the foreground. Text says: OTHERSIDE ISSUE 3. Nine stories, four poems, one essay, original art by queer creators available now!

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maybe still jurijuri @hellonerds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the moon hits your eye With a big mecha guy Escaflowne

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the tendency to take older intellectual property and making it dark and gritty has run its course. Time to start adapting older texts to be maximally horny.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

stress is bad cat is good I choose cat

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I appreciate the ones who have gone before me letting me know which SFFH magazines might take my unhinged shit.

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Struggling to make a pitch relatable, so I added 800% more gay sex. Now I know FOR A FACT it's not relatable, plus it has 800% more gay sex. Problem solved.

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Aaron Bossig @aaronbossig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Pickup artists” and “garbage men” are groups of people who should exchange titles

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 22/09/2026

Love jeans and flannel season, when I can finally once again dress according to my True Form.

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I appreciate knowing people who will run with my terrible story ideas and encourage me to make them worse

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My eternal frustration with Wonder Woman is that it could be much more credible with only a few small changes. For example, if you give the plane a second set of wings, it's a lot more believable, due to bi invisibility.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Issue 3 is OUT NOW FOR SUBSCRIBERS! Check your email! 🪐🗡️🧡 If you aren't a subscriber, Issue 3 will be free online September 30th! But if you'd like to support us and read Issue 3 before anyone else, snag your copy today! Patreon: www.patreon.com/OthersideSpe... Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/othersidespe...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As you behold it, you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to him, in point of pervading dignity.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/09/2026

It's time to clean the catbox It's time to shovel crap It's time to sift used litter While the kitties take a nap

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I can't believe a photographer took a striking picture and decided it needed to be slopified to enter a contest. This looks so much better!

A photo of a ram at a state fair, when the ram and surrounding hay are similar shades of brown but the fence and halter are a striking bright blues

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't know about y'all, but as a kid I absolutely loved all-ages compendiums of weird extinct animals. So this year, I wrote one. And then @stievenvdp.bsky.social illustrated it, and the results will knock your socks off. HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY. Out April 27, 2027. You can preorder it now!

bookshop.org

How to Survive Prehistory: A Guide to the Wildest Beasts of Ancient Earth

From Smithsonian and Scientific American writer Asher Elbein comes the ultimate illustrated guide to prehistory's most dangerous real-life monsters, perfect for lovers of survival guides and dinosaur ...

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope this Ishmael finds you whale

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Running for office on a platform of everyone who votes for me gets a ginger cat

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 06/09/2026

We're accepting applications to join our first readers team! This is a great way to see what makes a magazine like ours work, read LOTS of different styles of flash fiction and poetry, refine your own tastes, and work with some nifty people: airtable.com/applzdlHLTpe...

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I swear every Roku remote has a shitty mute button on purpose. Let me silence ads you fuckers!

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

they should invent a small EMP that disables speakerphones in public spaces

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/09/2026

September is Baby Safety Month. Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Stayed up far too late chatting with people and feel barely awake the next morning, the ideal WorldCon experience

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Our Issue 3 TOC is HERE and it is AMAZING 🪐 🗡️ Seven pieces of original fiction, four poems, two reprints, and a special guest essay come together in an issue full of desperation and longing. We can't wait for you to read it in September! More details in the 🧵(1/7)

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Issue 3, September 2026

Original Fiction

One Floor, One Phoenix - Crystal Koo
Wine-Dark - Cyrus Amelia Fisher
His Face, in the End, Inches From Mine - Elijah J. Mears
Ivan Ivanovich - Kristina Ten
Field Notes on Liturgical Rites, Co-Authored Li and Albrecht - Mina Yeh
The Illuminated World - Rebecca Schneider
This Is Not a Place of Honor - RJ Aurand

Nonfiction
a special essay from Theo Marcial!

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Issue 3, September 2026

Original Poetry
The Clay King - Arda Mori
Tiktaalik Rosae, or, If We Were the Earliest Example of a Link Between Fish and Tetrapods Would You Climb onto the Mudflats with Me? - Kym Deyn
Feral thing in a lightbox - Madeleine Poole
trans/formative - Nico Martinez Nocito

Reprint Fiction
The Monster at the End of This Film - Algae Ross
BLIGHT - Samir Sirk Morató

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I could be writing but WHAT IF I just make goofy fake covers shitposting my friend instead...?

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 07/08/2026

Eugenia has already said here everything I was going to say about this. One thing I will add is that the lasting thing I gained following this project was a deep hatred for AI slop and LLMs as anyone who has heard me speak on ths subject since knows. I saw how the sausage was made and rejected it.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.

wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com

Wordcraft Writers Workshop

The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI.

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As a lover of whale facts I have much appreciation for this thread of extremely accurate shrimp facts.

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I give isekai a lot of shit for being generally bad, but this is valid.

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm bad at making it to in person events but it was great to go to Lavender Con and meet so many authors and editors. I'm so glad I went.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

hey guys I don't read this genre but I'm here to revolutionise it. I haven't read a single book that's done this.

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Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And here I was thinking my only worries were mundane things like tetanus from old staples, arsenic on old books, and mold. ☠️

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21/07/2026

Ok so this “Worse on Purpose” guy with opinions about private equity ruining everything has also posted to LinkedIn about how great it is to work at Palantir (Metafilter was onto him in May: www.metafilter.com/213070/Worse...) - www.linkedin.com/in/keyanasapp - www.linkedin.com/posts/keyana...

LinkedIn post by Keyana Sapp:

"Unique aspects of Palantir: speed, talent, conviction"
• This title was summarized by Al from the post below.

Keyana Sapp
11 mo
Reflecting on a couple months at Palantir
There's a few things that make this company utterly unique:
1. Speed at Scale
Palantir's ability to quickly deliver value to customers is unmatched. This speed-to-value is driven by the company's Forward Deployed Engineer model.
After identifying the highest-leverage problem to tackle, the next step is getting on-site and directing Palantir's technology to solve it. No endless scoping, whiteboarding, or POCs.

LinkedIn post continued:

3. Unapologetic Conviction
That begs the question: How do you attract this kind of talent?
Bar none, the thing that sets Palantir apart is how publicly opinionated the company's leadership is.
In a corporate culture overrun by identity politics and wokeism, Palantir's unapologetically meritocratic, pro-Western positioning is a breath of fresh air to people who just want to dedicate themselves to improving the world through hard work, without the politics.
Thrilled to be here - if you're interested in learning more or perhaps considering a role change, hit me up. Would love to chat!

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Erik Grove @erikgrove.com · 18/07/2026

Cover only for accessibility and oohs + ahhhs.

Cover of the sci fi noir novel THE LONG RED TOMORROW by Erik Grove (me!) from PODIUM PUBLISHING. The cover has a man in a long coat, alone in the Martian dust but for his loyal dog. They are facing an ominous cityscape in the distance.

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