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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22h

It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.

Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com

(right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

(left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 10h

Almost full! About 50 more stories and we'll reach our cap!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 11h

We walk passed buildings that leak ghosts. We are window watched. We are scratched with shadows. A psychic toll is paid for our navigations in headache, in a pressing into the back of the neck. This is our phantom reality. – #DAKilroy #Ghosts

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Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com · 11h

Clarkesworld gave me my first professional publication, and I couldn't be more thrilled to be in their 20yr anniversary issue. Happy birthday, @clarkesworldmagazine.com! And with one of my favourite stories, too: "Roams the Planet of Our Grief," where a trans boy talks to the dead. As one does.

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 10h

You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.

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Priceratops @rikkiprice.bsky.social · 15h

A sobering read

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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 15h

Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shock and concern among disabled people’s organisations. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/free-social-...

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Free social care is coming… but only if you’re over 65, government confirms after Burnham speech

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

nobody ever stops to think about what slime is going through. probably some sort of metal grate

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry to all owed emails from me, laptop died, got replacement laptop, that died, laptop 3 is so far still working but now there's something wrong with my email at the server level I had like 4 hours sleep last night cos BRAIN and had family care shit to do today but back home and working on it now

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Dancer (The) @dancerv.bsky.social · 15h

Corrupt cops covering for each-other. #auspol

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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The inflation problem. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a single mother, recently made homeless after defaulting on her mortgage repayments (as evidenced by visible paperwork), setting up a new home in a tent with her two young children. Surrounded by their essentials stored in storage and plastic bags, the baby crawls on the grass, his older brother heats some food over a camp stove, and his exhausted-looking mother blows up an air mattress. Watching her, the boy says, "Is this what they means when they say 'inflation is the problem,' Mum?"

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 15h

It is indeed a useful word, and you should all read the deeply unsettling story it came from

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This will be great! Get in!

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Daily Grail @dailygrail.com · 01/10/2026

Watching 'UFO whistleblower' David Grusch on the Joe Rogan Experience and I've never been more convinced all this stuff is just a right wing op. Apparently Stephen Miller is working hard on UFO disclosure, and is an 'alpha dog' just like Grusch. 🤮

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hokusai's Great Wave for the modern era

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminded once again tonight that Mean To Me on that first record by Crowded House is still the single greatest cold open in musical history SHE CAME ALL THE WAY FROM AMERICA SHE HAD A BLIND DATE WITH DESTINY

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not to piss on anyone’s chips, but Hookland won’t be doing any ‘31 days of spookiness’ malarkey. Halloween is not that big a thing in a county that does hauntings in a matchbox every day of the year. The gothic is not tinsel on this ghost soil, it’s a bone tattoo.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am so pleased with the candy corn on the cob on the cover. Please pre-order now, so I can tell you Sumi's story!

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I'm very poorly today, very stupid & hate everybody & everything @voxexsinister.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yet more evidence that the UK couldn't run a chip shop!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A downward spiral psychological implosion like no other, and the most emotionally true depiction of the Anzac blood cult on film. TW: ... oh look fucking everything. This isn't The Wicker Man, put it like that. Specifically though, they really shot the roos, clumsily, for the footage. Nasty as fuck

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male to fujoshi transsexual @foxglove.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The best thing about A Clockwork Orange was that Wendy Carlos got transition money out of it.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's a type of red clay soil you find on some parts of the county's western border. People call it 'Hookland Red'. It used to be said witches would come from the other side of the county to collect it because it had 'special properties'. I just reckon it's good for growing. – Tom Rudd #VOH

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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tips: - block annoying accounts without replying. - log off if you feel yourself getting upset. - ignore most discourse. - if an account keeps arguing with randos, you probably want to unfollow them. - mute words / phrases that you don’t like. cleans up the app significantly. 👍

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/

Issue 3: Ekphrasis
Between October 17 and November 17, guest editor Zachary Gillan will accept submissions of weird flash fiction that features ekphrasis.
Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art.
Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it.
We want stories that live at the intersection of the two. Pieces that emphasize the eerie power of weird art, whether fully ekphrastic or embedded within a traditional narrative. How does the weird seep in as reality is doubly estranged from these two layers of representation? Cursed paintings, uncanny statues, haunted mezzotints-send us your stories of weird art.
Publication date: February 1, 2027

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Calliss Clan @callissclan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our gate dragon is a mighty good looking fella

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fucking barbaric. The irony that this is supposedly the consequence of violent murder. Society and the system has failed this woman her entire life.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's like Australian children's TV of the 80s — down to the hand puppet animal sidekick — but trans, occult and designed to annoy all the right people "A TERF?! Oh hell no, I'm a demon not a cunt!" 😂

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Crisp @crisp91.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Space is getting crowded, and what goes up can come back down. 🚀 ESA data shows the risk from uncontrolled rocket stages and satellite debris is rising as launches accelerate. With more than 3 intact objects reentering daily, responsible space traffic management is becoming essential. With my luck 💀

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The risk of space debris falling to Earth and causing deaths and is growing, experts say

"Even though the numbers are low compared to everyday risks in life, the chance of a casualty increased in recent years due to increased traffic."

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Justin Eger @fugitivecourier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a vested interest in seeing Joe and PoI succeed. He took a chance on a wild idea and made Sterling Dodge a reality. I'm forever grateful and want -- need -- to help. I know I have some folks with podcasts and radio shows in my mutuals. Who wants to welcome Point of Impact to their programs?

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jeff gets it. Art is sensory communion, a dance that requires a human on both sides. Our desire for it is based on that fundamental human need. The mere EXISTENCE of AI art is corrosive because it introduces a distrust into our reflex to meet that need. It’s like not being able to trust the water.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ask anyone who ever broke up with or otherwise crossed Taylor Swift how great personalised music is

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?

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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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Kim D. Stryker @hungrychimp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

love this! get 'em, ladies

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Transparency around lobby groups communication with government ministers sounds necessary for healthy democracy to me. It might help with undue fossil fuel and Zionist lobby influence. An independent regulator & lobby rules being enforced would be even better. #auspol

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Canberra's not for sale – demand a National Lobbying Act

Nine corporate lobbyists for every politician, and most aren't even on the register. Sign the petition to end secret corporate lobbying in Canberra.

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Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sound up - the narration is spot-on.🤣

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Day 3—I'm going to continue to bang on about this yes. My youngest has his first EP out It is very, very good. I would buy it and play it if I had no idea who he was. Atmospheric, melancholy, made with field recordings and a pre-WWI reed organ He would very much like you to follow him on Instagram

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Emily and I have been cursing the far right for 40 years. bsky.app/profile/cult...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Hoarse Hag may once have been a witch of the moors, but now she is a folkloric creature. Winged, black eyes as big as Crown coins and gifted with a voice that can bend men to her will. She is a creature of fogs and moor mists. She eats certainty and feasts on fear.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Witchcraft is not consolatory hokum. It doesn't offer tepid answers to hard questions and even harsher circumstances. It offers us relationships with the land, its spirits and ourselves. Relationships may be rough and require work, but they get us through. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 30/09/2026

Example #763 of "Every accusation is a confession."

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