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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've decided that this issue and the thoughts I have about it incense me so deeply that I couldn't wait. My long essay about AI as a reminder of a deeper issue with publishing's biases is now free a few days earlier than planned.

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An Essay: 'beyond the margin-frame' | Brandon O'Brien

As I've been working on the other essay about LLMs in fiction, I've found myself considering the last few months of AI-related literary scan

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"'AI is adverse to the idea of learning. An educational institution should be focused more on teaching us than making us ready for a job. I’m not measuring my success on a billionaire’s mindset. I want education for the sake of education. I want to learn.’” ht: Dagmar Monett

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As Colorado universities align with ChatGPT, student AI resisters take a stand against the ‘plagiarism machine’

“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.

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Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology is now available to all subscribers! 🧡 For as low as $1, you could be enjoying everything Hexagon published in its fifth year, marvelling at fantastic cover art, and gasping for air as you drown in never before seen concept art.

Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology cover features a human with long hair rising from a mangrove river with an enormous red snake watching ominously behind them. The human’s bottom half is sort of pixelated into small hexagon shapes as it emerges from the water.

Includes stories by Calvert, Cato, Del Valle Berríos, Dorgan, Gayet, Geleynse, Guay, Haab, Heike, Hirsch, Joines, Jones, Muscato, Novak, Nwaka, O’ Mahoney, Scheina, Stamp, Vona, and Wallace. Edited by JW Stebner.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 04/08/2026

happy there will come soft rains day to all those who partake

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Book mail! Eager to dig into this poetry collection by Loren Maria Guay! LIVING FOSSILS poetry by @nightgleaming.bsky.social !!

Book cover has an image of fossilized wood in shades of gray and reddis brown. The words "Living Fossils" are superimposed in white. Under that are the words "Loren Maria Guay Poems" in white text.

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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

6 days left and we are 70% funded—toss a coin, spread the word, help us reach the finish line!

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Loren (L.M.) Guay @nightgleaming.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It was an honor & a joy to curate my favorite speculative poem recs from the last few months for Myna & MicroVerse; check them out & send love to the poets & magazines! Extra kudos to the poetry editors & first readers doing the behind-the-scenes work. 💙

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Devoured @nightgleaming.bsky.social's "Living Fossils" tonight. Picked it up twice at the bookstore and finally could not resist its call. Love love love the language, the use of natural phenomena and geologic time as a lens for the human and deeply personal. Gorgeous. Loved every page.

The cover of the poetry chapbook "Living Fossils" by Loren Maria Guay.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This pride month, if you’re not plugged in, please take a moment to think about what you specifically can do to support trans kids under attack. I get asked all the time about steps people can take, so I hope at least one person takes this to heart. I’ll be adding throughout June. A thread.🧵

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

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Books Unbanned - Get a Card

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"For queer authors of color and other multiply marginalized people, the pressure is even more intense."

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)

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Loren (L.M.) Guay @nightgleaming.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

[sweating nervously in wrote my undergrad thesis 11 years ago on the Catalogue of Ships, working on a poetry project about it right now, had at least 5 friends text me about this news] wow, yeah, what a weird part of the Iliad to be buried with

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’

Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

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Anathema: Spec from the Margins

Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Reporting in @insidehighered.com on the CCCC Resolution on Academic Freedom and Upholding Students' and Teachers' Right to Refuse Generative AI in the Writing Classroom that was passed at the #4c26 Annual Business Meeting.

Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We need reparations for ICE victims. Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

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Loren (L.M.) Guay @nightgleaming.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

the best thing about a new poetry collection is that it can double as an inexpensive cat bed and/or object of scorn happy official pub day to LIVING FOSSILS, out now from Texas Review Press 📖 www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

A tortoiseshell cat in loaf mode looking deeply unimpressed at a poetry chapbook titled Living Fossils

A black and white cat sitting on top of the poetry collection Living Fossils. He can't read, but it makes a great bed.

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#TransRightsReadathon begins soon. It's a decentralized event, which means you don't have to sign up or do anything in particular, you just have to love trans people and trans books. Here's what I'm doing this year 🧵 @trreadathon.bsky.social

About: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. How to participate: read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender-nonconforming authors and characters. Donate and fundraise for trans aid organizations in your community.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

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Loren (L.M.) Guay @nightgleaming.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

highly recommend holding your real life poems in your real life hands instead of paying attention to the agonies if you like poems about weird creatures & queer/trans survival, LIVING FOSSILS is out March 10 (!!) www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

Author holding a just-unboxed physical copy of their poetry collection, Living Fossils: Poems.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency" ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 16/01/2026

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

And we said abolish ICE too. ICE is not inevitable, its existence is not settled —even as it fortifies the settler state. Historically speaking, that ain’t certain either.

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Today you should give Latin Americans the dignity of rage, and not expect people to feel grateful for your passive indignation

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Loren (L.M.) Guay @nightgleaming.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 eligibility post: like many of us I was Eligible for having a nervous breakdown & yet I did not do that, wow! however I also did not publish any fiction. here are some books (& one play) by other people I enjoyed reading very much instead

Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway, You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue, Private Rites by Julia Armfield, Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus by Tony Harrison, Woodwoorm by Layla Martinez, Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia

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Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison. Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.

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Protect Trans Care Now

As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 10/12/2025

UPDATE — For those who want to help, there’s now a way to donate directly to the 7500 South Shore Tenants Union to help with emergency relocation costs as residents “vacate in one of the snowiest winters in Chicago’s history.” Details in our story. thetriibe.com/2025/12/judg...

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Judge: residents must move out, ICE-raided South Shore building is uninhabitable • The TRiiBE

The tenants of the property at 7500 S. South Shore Drive are ordered to leave the property by Friday.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Arcadia.

We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for corkscrew?

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Loren (L.M.) Guay @nightgleaming.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

thrilled to announce that my debut poetry collection LIVING FOSSILS is now available for pre-order from TRP! tell your cats, tell your friends, support queer/trans literature and art [coelacanth emoji when] www.tamupress.com/book/9781680...

Promo post for upcoming book: LIVING FOSSILS, poems by Loren Maria Guay. Available for pre-order now, coming Feb. 2026 from TRP. Winner of the 2025 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize.

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees! em roth nat raum Loren Maria Guay Yufan Lu sterling-elizabeth arcadia Read their work at beestungmag.com

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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Thanks to Rex for spotting this one! Necropolis contains 5 stories about strange, decaying cities and is now available for purchase at Hexagon's patreon! @alexfox.bsky.social @omersarae.bsky.social @nightgleaming.bsky.social @improbablerex.bsky.social and Victoria! cover art by @warls.bsky.social

Necropolis cover showing an orangey red shell of a building that has been taken over by funghi

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 05/11/2025

fact: transphobia is for losers

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 04/11/2025

workers at Detroit Institute of Arts are announcing a wall-to-wall union drive for all staff at the museum. DIA is an amazing museum with a ton of incredible exhibits. if you could sign the petition, that may help motivate museum leadership to voluntarily recognize the union. diaworkersunited.org

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Detroit Institute of Arts Cultural Workers United

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

it should be illegal to move your cat off-camera during a Zoom meeting

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If you would like to support some of the families of people who have been abducted by ICE in my area during the recent federal attacks on our community that I've written about, local organizers have put together this trusted list of crowd funds.

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Rogers Park Immigrant Families Need Your Support

Please give as you are able AND share this page! If you have friends and family asking how they can support Chicago in this difficult time, this is a way to directly support families. Go FundMe Link...

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

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They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

If you'd like to see beestung keep buzzing, please consider dropping a few bucks our way 🖤💛🖤💛

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 30/09/2025

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

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Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open

"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.

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Loren (L.M.) Guay @nightgleaming.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for including my poem in @beestung.bsky.social in this list, alongside so many other fantastic reads!

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

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