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International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social · 39m

📢 Call for Papers Pulp Fiction 4, the fourth academic conference on popular literature hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar-Ilan University, will take place on 30 March 2027.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 16m

I feel I have been very upset for various reasons for the past few weeks. Sure, there are external factors and the usual suspects. But this state of upset is probably also perimenopause-related particularly since other symptoms seem worse lately. Which is why I keep checking in with myself.

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Trek Central @trekcentral.net · 12h

🔥 NEW - Actor Bill Nighy Stars in #StarTrek: #StarfleetAcademy Season 2! The actor will guest star as "Nyk", the estranged father of Holly Hunter's Captain Nahla Ake. #NYCC

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 10/10/2026

I would like to very slowly explain to the (many) people in my life that if going to the hospital would fix me, I would just do that and get fixed however, the word 'chronic' in chronic illness is kind of a big clue 🫩🫩

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Jessica BOOOOlin: Preorder Getting Hairy, out October 31! @olinj.bsky.social · 13h

omg look at this baby!!!!!!!

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/10/2026

India deploys police and restricts transport ahead of mass protest in Delhi aje.news/zl38w6

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

here. take bat_clean.mp4

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 18h

My main attitude these days in my 50s is, "I'm not going to bother barking at the moon, I'll just keep doing what I love to do and screw the rest of it". Applies to more than one sphere of my life.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 14h

Done with article work for the night. Now going to read a couple more chapters of Ann Leckie’s Provenance before I crash. Reading for pleasure in small amounts this weekend because of said article.

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 14h

Five days left on the Lightspeed & Nightmare kickstarter, and they still need $10k to meet their funding goal! Love short fiction? Go pick up a subscription and help spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cicero. In Latin. With a twist. I mean c'mon, these kids deserve better school buildings.

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Inda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social · 15h

Didn't know that all the climate scientists cheetoh fired launched a new website and put back all the information. www.climate.us

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 17h

Between the Blood and the Sun is on sale for $2.99 from now until December 5 to celebrate this year's #SFINCS! Perhaps this weekend, you'd like to read a book about dying. books2read.com/BetweentheBl... jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...

The cover for BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE SUN: a female figure, face shadowed, the sun rising or setting behind her. She's wearing a smallish cowboy hat (i.e. not ten gallon), and has two guns.

cover by Elyon from thebookcoverdesigner.com

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 15h

People wonder why I lock down my social media but even here on bsky I occasionally take a peek at how some randos talk to other authors and my hair stands on end. I feel quite content with my life decisions in this regard. Won't win popularity prizes but I will lose less sleep.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 15h

Still working at 117am. Closer to getting done, though. Phew. Brain started working again after I fed it my fixation meal.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 18h

In #Lebanon, our #mentalhealth hotline has answered hundreds of calls and provided ongoing psychosocial consultations. On #WorldMentalHealthDay, hear directly from our patients:

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 15h

Will never be at the same level but I still feel Carson scored one for the team.

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Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Data and Picard on the pad of the Enterprise E transporter room, which is a redress of the Voyager set, which is a redress of the TNG set, which is a redress of the TMP set, which is a redress of the Phase II set.

Data and Picard stand on the transporter pad

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dust off your spine-tingling novels and novellas for our spookiest event yet: Apex Book Company's open reading period from Nov. 3rd-9th! 🎃📚 Both agented and unagented submissions welcome! Our guidelines and wishlist are linked below. Stay tuned for submission instructions closer to the start date⬇️

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Submissions

APEX BOOK COMPANY Editor-in-Chief: Jason SizemoreManaging Editor: Darian Bianco 2026 has been another great year in terms of the amazing projects we’ve be...

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 21h

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026

More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18h

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 16h

#Skybrarians 📚

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 16h

Victoria Strauss is of course _the_ resource for this but literally just saying to whoever "hey, you don't know who I am, but I just got a contract from [magazine] and I don't know if this part is normal" is socially fine. We may or may not be able to answer but we can point you to people who will.

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 16h

apropos of previous thread by John Wiswell: writers have a lot of solidarity when it comes to contracts. if you are a new writer and you think something might be hinky about your contract, it is completely fine to ask other professional writers even (especially) if you don't know us.

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Megan J. Kerr @meganjkerr.bsky.social · 17h

If you'd like to explore an otherworldly train filled with supernatural passengers, and you also love gorgeous art, please try out our free 15 minute game!

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 17h

Made my current fixation meal again. Airfried chicken legs w/ gravy, steamed veg and rice. Also baby taters.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You know, I think what hooks me the most about these shows I am watching (and to be clear I am seeing them as an alt-reality/fantasy where AC are not B) is this: loyalty and friendship amongst work partners willing to go to bat for you when you are in trouble. The kind who would never sell you out.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 18h

My main attitude these days in my 50s is, "I'm not going to bother barking at the moon, I'll just keep doing what I love to do and screw the rest of it". Applies to more than one sphere of my life.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 18h

It is 9.28pm. I am still struggling to finalise this gd article (with some breaks in-between for my nervous system hence blogging and some minor housework). I've done most of the readings but must confess to being a bit blocked in articulating what I want to say. Blogging helped to unclog me a bit.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, I'm not going to bother plugging my blog posts on this platform anymore. Those posts seem to get buried and I've not had a lack of hits on my blogs on a daily basis so I'm just going to not stress myself out over such a trivial thing. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 19h

What I love about Ann Leckie’s Radchaai (and others) universe is the way in which she weaves together very high concepts, complex manifestations of posthumanism and some truly alien cultures but makes them understandable and relatable without excessive exposition. That level of craft is unmatched.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 20h

Prolly not doing any eligibility postings this year because I simply don't have the numbers, visibility and range. Would prefer to avoid more emotional damage.

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Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐 @mythopoetica.bsky.social · 21h

I went from having 9 short fiction publications in 2019, to 3 in 2020, to none at all between 2020-2024. Last year I had 1 new publication and 2 reprints. This year, it's likely just Karrom in the Behemoth. But 1 publication a year is better than none!

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WIRED @wired.com · 22h

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.

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Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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