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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 3h

Like I see where you’re coming from but they very much did elect this guy pope.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 3h

The thrift stores are slowly filling up with the partly-done adult coloring books we all bought in 2020.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 4h

I wish it were possible to befriend spiders the way people do with crows.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 21h

I wore a beautiful black cape out tonight and at some point in a conversation I said “excuse me, I need to turn into the wind” and then did and it was GLORIOUS.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When I worked at Home Depot, one of my managers put up a suggestions box for our best stupid customer service phrase. He read them aloud at a morning meeting, including mine: "Thanks a lot! Ed's a twat!"

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Who here wants to cry about rewilding of Pokémon?

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

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The Job by Elizabeth Bear

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is what this asshole is spending his lame duck term on. Doing AI bro exec orders while vetoing bipartisan bills that would make Californian lives demonstratively safer.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also to be clear I am not just randomly checking my wiki, find you a friend like @megelison.bsky.social etc etc

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Maggie your picture
On your Wikipedia
Babe it's a hate crime

From Maggie:
lol what
Lol that could be worse

Meg:
It could also be better!

Maggie:
Who chooses these pics!
True

Meg:
Also your bio is just a list of names and then bitch is bi
I feel like an editor hates you

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This Story Hour, @jordankurella.com and @megelison.bsky.social read us powerful stories of things we don't expect to see (but need to). Phenomenal stories, beautifully read. You can still watch! youtu.be/Mccv-Ro6NTw

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September 30, 2026 Story Hour: Jordan Kurella and Meg Elison

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One way to ruin the experience of wearing shoes is to put on your Uggs in the morning. After that, every other footwear is a torture device.

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Rob Cameron @brklyndragon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Many thanks to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for her review of my Caribbean horror story, "When I Heard Calypso." Honored to share space with Nisi Shawl, @megelison.bsky.social, Elijah J Mears,and Melissa Watkins! Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2026 - Reactor share.google/LnfWl1UuuJdK...

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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2026 - Reactor

We're starting off spooky season with dark fairy tales, cannibalism, and revenge...

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 30/09/2026

Did you know they extended the age recommendation?

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing about this book is that I wrote it from a deeply personal place-- it takes place where I went to hs, the main girl looks suspiciously like me-- about the rape culture I experienced at the age that was unacceptable. And all I've ever wanted for this book was its cultural irrelevance.

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Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some say you should act cool. I say enjoy every new thing like a child. In that spirit, I'm excited to find @megelison.bsky.social Foundling Fathers, @slashnburnett.bsky.social ExPartum, @jomiles.bsky.social Last Chronicle of Yeneh & my novella Hornytown Chutzpah on the SFWA recommended reading list

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 29/09/2026

hey all!!! this Wednesday, which is tomorrow, i'll be at @storyhour.bsky.social with @megelison.bsky.social !!!! holy carps!!! you know you wanna attend this one. free author readings online, to refill the creative well! 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern youtube.com/@storyhour2020

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Story Hour

Every week, an hour of speculative fiction short stories, narrated by the authors. From horror to weird to hard SF and everything in between; from newly published authors to seasoned pros and multiple...

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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I need a final count
I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At this point, I assume any defense of AI was written by it. I’ve not been wrong.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elaborate breakfasts are an eloquent expression of self-love.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I took on six different jobs as a contractor during my DOGEd period of under-employment. Four of them found me in all-hands meetings about downsizing/furlough/reduction in force. At this point I could write a ballet depicting how they go.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think we're in a time when people don't hear songs by accident often anymore. If I could have avoided ever hearing "My Heart Will Go On" in 1997 by carrying earbuds everywhere, I would have. I've never heard this song, because I am rarely if ever forced to hear anything.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When I worked in tech, our famous interview question was "what's in the trunk of your car?"

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Woman ahead of me in line at the grocery store looked at her Zesty Italian dressing and said, “oh no.” Ran to the dressing aisle and came back with a non-zesty. Her husband was at the counter telling the checker stories about the checker’s great aunt, who was also a checker. At this store.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm late again with this list of my top 10 favorite short spec fic stories from August, but life yadda yadda yadda. Anyway, come check out some great stories. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2026 - Reactor

We're starting off spooky season with dark fairy tales, cannibalism, and revenge...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IF YOU HAVE MANY DESIRES YOUR LIFE WILL BE INTERESTING

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My prediction for the “graphic nudity” in You Can See Everything is breastfeeding, btw. Either that or Holmes walks up full frontal, being like “I have nothing to hide.”

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes I like to imagine a version of Westworld where the writing was worthy of that Djawadi score.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Climate change has a lot of Brits learning for the first time what chocolate bloom is.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you feel overwhelmed as an adult? Then I've got just the trick: The Last Adult Superstore. It's got everything you need. They promise.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

can anyybodyyyyyyyyyyyyyy find meeeee somebodyyyy tooooooooooooooo bite

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

“Hey guys, we’ve got this cool new invention, nobody’s ever heard of it before, it’s called devaluing labor”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari...

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In Practical Magic, there was a little witch in every woman, and the PTA phone tree could produce an impromptu coven. In the DNA-obsessed sequel (Pace’s character even insists magic is in the RNA! I am not overstating the case!), most of us are NPCs who are welcome to buy the merch.

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Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I will say that knowing that we now have Thomas Jefferson's genome makes @megelison.bsky.social's wonderful new book FOUNDLING FATHERS even more fun! Check it out if you want to know why... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...