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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇

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Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎 @novellamenagerie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I thought that now would be a great time to share this starter pack again. There's still space, so let me know if you'd like to be added!

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 02/09/2026

hello. friends an announcement about THE DEADLANDS we are going on a brief hiatus but we'll back. oh yes full details here, please read and share widely, it'd help us out. xo the deadlands psychopomp.com/an-intermiss...

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An Intermission - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Hello friends.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

I really want to write a second book about the COVID pandemic from a Black epidemiologist perspective but my family and friends have begged me not to out of fear of my safety. And it’s incredible that even has to be taken into consideration b/c of insane conspiracy theorists.

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

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Pan'S Labyrinth

Alt: Clip from Pan's Labyrinth with the faun and girl

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why are we still platforming Mel Gibson?. And in Canada too! A reminder that last year Trump named him a "special ambassador" to "bring back the Golden Age of Hollywood".... He's shown us who he is over and over again ew.com/mel-gibson-a...

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Mel Gibson issues apology for mocking ASL interpreter at fan convention amid mounting backlash

Mel Gibson is apologizing for his ‘thoughtless idiocy’ after mocking an ASL interpreter at a Canadian fan convention, sparking a swift backlash.

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm one of the "and more!" authors in September! I know there are SO many books that are competing for your money and your eyes (or ears) this month, so I'm sorry to keep bugging you about mine, but if you like movies and horror (and maybe a little bit of romance), you can preorder mine!

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 19/08/2026

TIL this is who apparently runs the Grievance Committee of the HWA. Patrick's still running unopposed. He's posted a weak statement on his substack saying he's grown as a person since creeping on Theo and "let the voters decide." There's no one else to vote for. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_T...

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Brett Talley - Wikipedia

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm ureteroceles (sounds like a Greek character) and poison backing up through my system at under age 1, and being on antibiotics for the first 2 years of my life... (People sometimes ask "What would you be in medieval times?" Dead. I'd be dead)

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today is Prisoners' Justice Day. Across Canada, and now internationally, people in custody take part in hunger strikes and other protests to remember those who died while incarcerated. People outside join vigils and protests in solidarity. This PJD comes with problematic calls for parole reform

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have updated the "Crowdsourced Award Eligible Speculative Poetry" spreadsheet for 2026, please add your published works: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Crowdsourced Award Eligible Speculative Poetry 2026

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today as I was weeding, I accidentally knocked a beautiful cicada out of the bush, and it skedaddled away on foot. About 5 minutes later I heard a lot of cicada noise from the trees, and I hoped it was “my” cicada with its friends

A cicada with translucent blue-green wings sits in the brush

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

“Sure. Sure.

Yes, we know AI is using up resources. So does driving a car or a planes so does building a new home. So do a lot of things. Humans have always used up Earth’s resources and usually not nicely. There are reservations and other Indigenous communities in Canada that have never had clean water and have been ravaged by pipeline construction. But somehow that’s been okay for the past fifty or a hundred years, and very few people scream about that. But suddenly, AI is the enemy, not everything else we’ve been doing all along. Suddenly YOUR water might not be clean, so it’s a Big Deal”.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Our general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Rob Gilmore(Grimoire) @robgrim.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Let’s do it!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ink...

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Excited to report that the first poem of my "tenure" as Poetry Editor of Haven Spec has arrived in the mag! And we're also wrapping up some of the previous Poetry Editor's selections with some bangers by cool folks. The whole issue, poems and stories too, is now free to read! Check it out below.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

my brother-in-gore Nick Cutter is clearing out his parents' basement. 100% of the proceeds from every autographed book will go to The Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre—whose mandate is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release turtles native to the Ontario region. we do love turtles. nickcutter.com

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Nick Cutter Autographed Books | Signed Copies & Official Shop | Nick Cutter Fans

Shop a limited selection of Nick Cutter autographed books, including The Queen and The Troop. Inventory changes over time—check the shop or contact us about signed copy availability.

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is a neat indie fic sales summary! Good one, Carson

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

@draft2digital.bsky.social used to be THE place for indie authors working on shared revenue projects like anthologies. This new change entirely breaks that model, and makes it basically untenable.

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Our associate editor Ghazal is looking to leave Tehran as soon as possible, so if anyone knows of an art residency or work opportunity or uni posting that they can apply to, please let us know (dm or email). These are scary times, and we must protect each other as best we can.

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Happy to see Avi Lewis was elected leader of Canada's federal NDP party! The active discussion of capitalism as the root of so many of the issues we're having is refreshing. Feeling cautiously optimistic. . .

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I haven't seen "The Bride!" yet and I'm sure this movie reviewer otherwise knows what they're talking abut.... but 5 times is too many times to mention the '1920s' setting in a movie that is actually set in the 1930s. And that's not a flapper dress. www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

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'The Bride!' Is Stylish, Garish, And Soulless

Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a stylish, garish, and soulless "sequel" to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 08/02/2026

I'm stoked that the Humble Bundle of my and @annaleen.bsky.social's books from Tor has raised nearly $5000 for the TGI Justice Project and Miss Major/Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center. www.humblebundle.com/books/charli... Let me tell you about when I went to the TGIJP's anniversary party

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Humble Book Bundle: Charlie Jane Anders & Annalee Newitz by TOR

Don’t miss this bundle of novels and story collections from acclaimed authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz! Pay what you want and support charity!

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 24/02/2026

They want me to give a talk at the university next month so I have 20 minutes to tell the kids that incarceration is inextricable from capitalism and is the tool it uses to extract labor and sustain a permanent underclass.

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Look at this!! One of my favourite horror novels of recent years and it's coming out so pretty.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS is $175 away from our base goal (97% there) (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 83% to SG1 & 73% to SG2. 5.46 backers to go. Will you be one of those backers (or .46th of a backer) to help? #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

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Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity

A Hard SF anthology of stories involving tea or coffee, stars, and gravity.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/02/2026

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Thursday at 7 PM ET events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel

Thursday, February 12 at 7pm ET

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I started a new garden journal this weekend! Such a time capsule to look back at my last one that started in 2014 when I was still gardening in containers on my tenth floor balcony, to now in my backyard (and every year since!). Still an obsession.

The first page of two journals - one is titled Garden 2014 and the other says 2026 Garden

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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The rumours are TRUE! There is a Romance x Horror bookstore PopUp in Union station running from now until May 31st. This great little space, shared between us and Hopeless Romantic Books, is the pink/black bookstore of your dreams. Come by say hi on your next commute! 🖤📚👻💕

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Solidarity to Minnesota, and to all Americans who are keeping up the fight

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Check out my 2025 writing update, my top reads of 2025, and what's up next in my writing world, at my newest newsletter! mailchi.mp/b2f576eacacd... Or check out the sneak peek of my top 9 reads (they fit better in an image than a top 10) right here!

Covers of 9 books: All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes, King of Ashes by SA Cosby, Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis, To Desire a Devil by Elizabeth Hoyt, Rick Steves’ Italy for Food Lovers by Rick Steves & Fred Plotkin, Fog and Fury by Rachel Howzell Hall, Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington, Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It’s Silent Night night! I think I’m going to start with the 2023 (it’s what I was originally searching), but then see if I can hit the 2021 too…

Screenshots of 2 movies, both named Silent Night, from 2021 and 2023

Screenshots of 2 movies, both named Silent Night, from 2012 and 2020

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I'm thrilled to join Haven Spec as Poetry Editor! Excited to dig into the beautiful mountain of spec poetry - the vivid, the emotional, the lyrical, the strange, the dark, the climate-conscious, the bittersweet, the idea-driven, the magical, the otherwordly, the weird. . . and everything else!

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Grouchy writer rant: don’t put this in your guidelines if you want me to take you seriously “Simultaneous Submissions: Don’t. This is the fastest way to get on our list.” Especially from a token or nonpaying market. If. You dont want sim subs, fine, but sim subbing writers are not criminals 🙄

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Seeing my favourite bread newsletter (@wordloaf.org) post about the starvation in Gaza made me tear up - important to see food writers as well advocating for Palestinians (also includes some links to where you can send financial support on-the-ground) newsletter.wordloaf.org/bread-not-as...

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Bread, not as sustenance, but as leverage

On Gaza right now

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

So I vaguely recalled in the wake of Sweeney jeans ad discourse (which I was genuinely trying to avoid) that at some point I thought I learned that Black people gave us jeans — I just couldn’t recall the source until today. There is a doc which this article summarizes, with sources cited. Cheers.

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Enslaved Blacks invented blue jeans

A few weeks ago, on Feb. 14 to be exact, I tweeted the following:

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I've seen 2 Hamilton Fringe shows & they were both bangers! --> The Pole Shebang - touching, funny, interactive, IMPRESSIVELY athletic memoir via pole-dancing --> Ugly Privilege - standup comedy that really hit for me. On autism, queerness, & being a weird little guy Going through Sun! #HamOnt

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Very nice article on speculative poetry!

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Unbound/Boundless who no longer have the rights to sell my book are still selling it for FUCKING $4 on Amazon. Talk about some shady fucking shit. Trying to burn through the inventory THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO SELL before they are forced to send me the remaining stock. Weasels.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

“Mmeory” is a multi genre anthology of memory manipulation stories on KS. Cheering for a surge this week - 87% base funded ($727 to go). Our recent updates are about choosing authors and designing covers - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

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Mmeory: A genre spanning anthology of memory manipulation

An anthology of memory manipulation stories: magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone wrong.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/06/2025

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

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Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Congrats Chris! Happy book birthday!

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HOWL Society @howlsociety.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Here is a list of 5 dark medical non-fiction books from our very own @jessicapeter.bsky.social! Join our Discord for a lively discussion! howlsociety.com/2025/04/29/h...

5 Non-Fiction Medical Horror Books from Howl Society Book Club. Image of 5 book covers. Taste for Poison, Black Death and the Golden Gate, Crisis in the Red Zone, The Butchering Art and Still Life with Bones.

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