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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello and happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day! We're about ready to get started with this year's winner announcement A very special thanks to our first-ever sponsors: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, @laworldcon.bsky.social , and @revmindi.bsky.social ! #2026IgnyteAwards

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Giving out subscriptions to Vizier Monthly for Christmas this year, I'm sure a few people in my life could use this content

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Daniel has eyes on literally every county in every state, so you should trust the curation here and bookmark this:

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also even if you’re just narrowly focused on “library means reading,” board games are a way that kids who aren’t so sure about reading can be convinced that the library and exposed to books!

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The largest branch near me does musical instruments (and I think sometimes soundproofed spaces to try them in?) which I think is so awesome

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 23/09/2026

Urgent! Today is bisexual day of visibility!! Reschedule your heists to TOMORROW!!!

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I wrote, I know this attorney very well, and he is a long standing supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. He has taken many pro bono cases, and at this point he can't take another pro bono case, but he can be retained. Siobhán needs another 3k for this to happen. www.gofundme.com/f/protect-si...

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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein

Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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🐈‍⬛ @karinlow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you think there’s an audience for a queer Romance of Manners a la Jane Austen, set in a secondary world, where the protags (M/M) are over 35 & family’s just as important as the “couple problems”? Oh, and the colonialism inherent in Regency & Victorian romances is actually addressed. LET ME KNOW 😇

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In addition to all the things you've listed, I'm finding the action scenes incredible so far! Tense, fast-paced, clear on what's happening, and it's rare IMO to get all three of those at once

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 18/09/2026

We'd like your help with something. The one hundredth anniversary of Ursula's birth will take place in 2029. This may seem a long time away, but we’re already starting to think about how to celebrate Ursula’s life and art. We’d love to add your ideas to the mix—there's a brief survey here:

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Centenary event planning

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026

Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ouch, very sorry to hear this - hope she feels better soon!

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 07/09/2026

Right. I just went back to the Anthropic settlement website and checked the form. It specifies you must be legal, beneficial, or sole owner of the exclusive right to reproduce a copyrighted work, and offers this list of possible claimants. Note the absence of 'literary agent'.

Question 7, 'claimant type' offers options Author, Publisher, Author Loan-Out Company, Literary Trust, Literary Estate, Other (please describe). There is no clickable Agent option.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026

If you are agented by: The Wylie Agency, Malatesta Literary Agency, L. Perkins Agency, Global Lion Intellectual Property (formerly PMA Literary), Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Sanford J. Greenburger, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency ...read this and consider hard.

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s accurate for BC (well, for southwest/Island BC at least)

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/09/2026

Oh my god, this is AWFUL

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/09/2026

This is not yet Officially Announced (the artist is hard at work on the cover!) but looks like it's already up for ebook/hardcover preorder in the US, so—this is a secret not-announcement that you totally did not hear from me! Out next July, my third novel. I was never here

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ooh I didn’t know she had a new one, I loved The Unspoken Name!

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it's sapphic september and i am here to tell you that YES, The Memory Hunters is sapphic science fantasy* and you too can be disappointed by *checks* lesbians° * magic mycological anthropology and museum ethics in a post-disaster world ° one is lesbian and the other is bisexual

An Amazon 1-star review with the following text:

Lesbian romance disguised as sci-fi

It's not sci-fo or fantasy - it's a lesbian love story. That's okay if you're a lesbian. But if you're looking for a sci-fi fantasy it's a heck of a disappointment

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My understanding is that this game - squardle.app - does not use AI (but if someone knows otherwise lemme know as this is my last remaining word game)

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Squaredle

Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/09/2026

FYI Outlier players—since they deleted their whole bsky account just now in an attempt to stop people from noticing this

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ugh trying to find word games that aren’t NYT and thought this one seemed fun … maybe their somewhat naked ambition to be the biggest word game on the web was a tell, I don’t know

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I spoke about being queer in a religious upbringing to 200 Scottish teens at book event this afternoon. Had seven (yes, seven) queer students and two trans students come out to me quietly in the signing queue afterwards, one of them in tears. I will never forgive those who make their lives so hard.

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm sure I was told about various other events that happened over the next few years but the next one I have strong memories of is hearing on the radio during art class in Grade 8 that OJ Simpson had been acquitted

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ben Johnson winning, and then being stripped of, his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics (I was 5, Canadian, and in a family that liked to watch a lot of Olympics; I imagine I remember this because it would have required some explanation as to why he was no longer the winner)

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I went to that troll in like 2006 on a little Seattle tour because it was in a guidebook, probably Lonely Planet because that's what I generally used back then. But sure, nobody knew!

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hey all, very annoyingly this site (short-stories.co) is posting shorts without permission from authors, have a look and let them know if you have one on there: short-stories.co

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Short Stories - Where good short stories find you

Connecting writers with a new audience, and readers with new short stories.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 24/08/2026

Hopeful update from the Sameer Project: “Our community has already brought us to 18% of our monthly operating expenses covered by recurring donations. That means predictable funding we can count on every month! … At 25%, we can begin gradually reopening programs, even at the bare minimum.”

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh good reminder to re-read Swordheart, it's been a while!

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

19 (there are bits with Fatiha where I just cannot stop laughing), but 12 is very close for me

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don't know about definitionally but for me personally if a book described a detective finding a corpse and it was later revealed to have been a skeleton/just bones I'd be confused -- I think there's got to be at least some flesh on those bones

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Some of the tasks seem to me like things that parents wouldn't be surprised to have to do for their kids ... there are a few exceptions to your theory over the course of the series but Dara O Briain, Joanna Page and Mat Baynton are all pretty compelling recent arguments in favour

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."

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ICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing Back

An airline manager warned a passenger that ICE agents were waiting at her gate, helping her avoid a possible arrest.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I am noticing an uptick in "it's not worth bothering to distinguish between human and llm-generated prose, don't even bother trying just accept it" narratives. to me, this is a clear sign that the llm companies have stopped trying to compete on quality and are now trying to play the refs.

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Charly Salonius-Pasternak @charlyjsp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

An Israeli minister called for the extermination of groups of people because they're not really human, and security forces marked detained people with numbers.... I mean, really, how is this not mind-bending...it's only a few weeks since the 82nd anniversary of the liberation of Majdanek.

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s an interesting way of putting the materials together! Mine was a UBC theatre department production in the early aughts

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am a terrible actor so in 12th night I was the ship captain, very minor role, and in the Scottish Play we swapped roles each scene and I got to do Lady Macbeth’s famous monologue

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

As a teen I was in the Scottish play and Twelfth Night in a Shakespearean summer camp, and I was ass’t stage mgr for a production of Falstaff (combining the Falstaff bits of the Henry plays) - the production had swords, prop guns that fired, a motorcycle and sidecar that drove onstage, & a live dog

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11/08/2026

I've talked about the Sameer Project before—an excellent life-saving on-the-ground initiative in Gaza. Since April 2024, they've distributed nearly a quarter of a million meals alone (plus water, medical care, and shelter). But funding has dropped so much that they'll have to shut down without help.

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Food & Water x The Sameer Project

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’ve seen people saying that there is an idea that kids these days expect movies to be 3D animated, and I don’t know if that’s really true but the children I know who’ve seen the teaser liked it (I personally prefer the 2D)

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Woot! @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social recommended my novella THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS for the Ignyte Awards! Votes close in a few days and anyone can vote in the final round, so check it out! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/08/read...

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