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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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Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social · 18h

Tomorrow's the last day to sign up for October's Snail Mail! 💌

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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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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A child was in the car when ICE recently shot a man in NYC. To give you a bigger picture of how immigration enforcement is affecting New York children, our story released yesterday showed how ICE arrests of children TRIPLED in NY state in 2026. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/i...

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ICE Has Arrested Twice As Many Children This Year

In total, more than 8,500 kids have been arrested by ICE in Trump’s second term.

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

Target on 225th St in the Bronx/Marble Hill permits ICE to use their parking lots as a staging area. Oct 5th letter from (8) area Bx City Council Members requesting leaseholder to disclose who authorizes ICE use of these (private) lots & demanding they withdraw ICE's permission immediately.

ATTN: PAUL TRAVIS
As Managing Partner for KINGSBRIDGE ASSOCIATES, LLC
675 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Transmitted via electronic mail on October 5, 2026

Dear Kingsbridge Associates,
We write as elected officials representing the West Bronx regarding reports and increasing sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) using the parking lot at Target’s 40 W. 225th Street
location as a staging area for immigration enforcement activity.

REQUEST: We request a response confirming whether Kingsbridge Associates LLC, Target or another controlling entity has authorized ICE’s use of the property. If authorization has been granted, we urge the responsible entity to immediately withdraw or terminate that authorization and take measures to prohibit ICE from using the parking lot for staging, absent access required by law.

Our communities are outraged. In April of this year, more than 50 residents from the Bronx, Upper Manhattan, and Westchester wrote to Target calling on the company to end cooperation with ICE and establish protections against immigration enforcement on Target property.

This is private property operated by or for Target, where
our neighbors shop, work, and bring their families. In a borough home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, our residents should not have to fear that their neighborhood shops are being used as a staging ground for immigration enforcement.

We respectfully request a written response by October 31, 2026.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Elise is an editor at Deadlands, a long-time member of the SFF community. She's fighting cancer right now and going through a lot. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026

this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 06/10/2026

Chef Melissa King's memoir is out today. Here, I interview her about taking five years to write it herself, why she felt readers needed to learn her family's complicated backstory to know about her, and about the one ingredient she'll never cook with www.weareravenous.com/its-good-to-...

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It's Good to Be the King

With the publication of her memoir 'The Girl Who Became King',' Melissa King explores a life of cooking.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.

Are you a trans person of color doing rad art or community organizing work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2026 grant program are open now through October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

We are specifically looking for projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, and/or other marginalized communities, as well as projects that foster exploration and celebration of gender diversity and trans lives.

We accept applications from anywhere in the world. Collectives/groups are welcome to apply.

Grant recipients are chosen by a paid panel of trans judges of color. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2026.

AI-written applications will be deleted.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 05/10/2026

For my newsletter, I explained why you're all seeing Texas anti-trans ads during every football game this fall and what it all means for the midterms generally. www.burnsnotice.com/everyone-is-...

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Everyone is Sick of Texas Political Ads

Why you are seeing all these Ken Paxton ads and why this is a sign of the GOP's Texas demise

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026

hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at

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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is my first time setting up a Gofundme, but the situation is dire. Mikey is one of my dearest friends, one of the first people who adopted me when I moved to NYC, and one of the people who has supported me through thick and thin. If you can’t donate, please share! I would appreciate it so much.

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Donate to Keep Mikey and His Cat in Their Home, organized by Raven Jakubowski

Our lifelong friend and found family member Mikey Goodmark is currently facing… Raven Jakubowski needs your support for Keep Mikey and His Cat in Their Home

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is the start of Banned Books Week and as such it's an EXCELLLLENT moment to donate to @authorsabb.bsky.social. We are laser focused on tbe single issue of fighting book bans. It's hard work, and we've done it with all volunteers for about 3 years-- and now we finally have a program manager.

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Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LGBTQ+ Gothic, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle Ends on 10/17 $10 for 30+ works including THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS Volume 1, my illustrated queer retelling of the Russian Revolution about a stealth vampire discovering there's not much he won't do to prevent a forever war itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...

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LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle!
Get over thirty books for just $10!
Oct 3 - 17

QUEER RETELLING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION WITH MAGIC AND VAMPIRES

THE FEALTY OF MONSTERS Volume 1 by Ladz (illustrated by Soren Häxan)

Illustrated books
Toxic liege x servant yuri
Eating the rich (literally)
Old man yaoi
MILF (monsters I'd like to fuck)

OUT NOW IN EBOOK AND PAPERBACK

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hey, friends. You home today? You hangin? Join us on twitch.tv/csecooney from 3-4:30 today, to hear some of our great SFFH readers give you snippets & drams of their incredible novels/novellas. Sort of a Halloween feeling... AND ALL THE OTHER FEELS TOO! Let us keep you company on a Sunday afternoon!

An orange and yellow poster with black lettering depicting ten genre authors. Top (left to right): Amanda McGee, Steven Gibbon, Emma Gibbon, Francesca Forrest Middle (left to right): Zig Zag Claybourne, Christa Carmen, Virginia Mohlere, Eden Royce Bottom (left and right) Nadia Bulkin, A T Sayre The text reads: 10 Authors of Reality-Redefining Fiction converge in a bizarre bazaar for the imagination Sunday, Oct 4, 2026 3-4:30 PM Eastern Time twitch.tv/csecooney

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is perhaps the most important sci-fi story I've ever read: "This is an Emergency Broadcast" by @rsagarcia.bsky.social. The message and the delivery are perfect and speak to our current times. clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/ #sff #scifi #sciencefiction #readsky #reading #shortstories

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This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Hailey Kaas - Cancer Fund ($285/$650) @transqueerfem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Brazilian elections are tomorrow. So, I'll continue this thread to keep talking about the political scenario here. As usual, I ask for your help to boost/contribute to my mom's cancer fund if you can ♥️ #mutualaid #helpsky #politics #Brazil #transcrowdfund ko-fi.com/haileykaas

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Buy Hailey Kaas a Coffee

Become a supporter of Hailey Kaas today!

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The #2026IgnyteAwards Critics Award recognizes contributions to reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature Congratulations again, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social

2026 Ignyte Critics Award winner: Alex Brown

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Ser Darth 🔜 Capclave @capclave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@jeanmarieward.bsky.social interviewing @ninocipri.bsky.social right now in the Eisenhower room

Jean Marie Ward sitting on the left interviews Nino Cipri sitting on the right from the audience point of view

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Guess who's got an awesome new writing gig! IndieReader is letting me gush about backlist indie titles for them, and of course my first one had to cover LD Lewis' The Dead Withheld. indiereader.com/marquee-colu...

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Alex Brown on The Dead Withheld by L.D. Lewis | IndieReader

Hugo-nominated, Ignyte Award-winning critic Alex Brown takes on L.D. Lewis' The Dead Withheld, a queer, neo-noir urban fantasy from Neon Hemlock.

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey pals! My wonderful, talented gf’s freelance work has dried up, and in fabulous timing, we’ve just bought a house 😫 Please check out her new Patreon and consider signing up if you can! Thanks loves!! www.patreon.com/cw/OliviaMro...

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Olivia Mròz — Photographs and art

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026

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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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sent out a newsletter because I'm going to be GoH at Capclave this weekend (along with the amazing @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social) AND teaching a horror-writing class at Queens Collaborative in a week and a half. That, a progress pic of my next zine, & many links here: buttondown.com/ninocipri/ar...

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Where to find me this fall

Capclave! Horror 101 classes! Links!

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Magdaloween! 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 01/10/2026

hey folk! I'm a multi-award (Eisner, Lambda Literary, GLAAD Media) nominated writer, and I am *really good* at helping people build the skillset needed to excel. Let me give you a hand :)

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Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrow's Intense @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rabbit rabbit! October is upon us which means BBB's 10/20 reading at 7pm at Barrows in Industry City is spookily near! Join us then for amazing readings from @marygthompson.bsky.social @angelluiscolon.com #IsaacFitzimons & #DavidHeskaWanbliWieden! We got ya covered! 📚🎙️🧉 More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com

Authors Isaac Fitzsimons, Mary G. Thompson, David Heska Wanbli Weiden and Angel Luis Colon in ad for Brooklyn Books & Booze on 10/20 at 7pm at Barrows Intense

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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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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thank you! I'm very happy with this one!

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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A horror book hit number 1 in a non-horror category on the largest bookseller in the world. Let this be proof, my readers, our readers, support us. They’ll always come out. Love you. Thank you to all of the readers, booksellers and librarians who support me and uplift this book 💗

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Where to find me this fall

Capclave! Horror 101 classes! Links!

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.

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Donate to Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery, organized by Katra Ariello

Hi, my name is Katra, and I’ve just been notified that I’ll be let go of… Katra Ariello needs your support for Support Katra Through Bottom Surgery Recovery

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 29/09/2026

NYers READ SHARE DONATE My friend Chelsea's daughter has leukemia & needs platelet transfusions. She can *only* have AB platelets. You can donate if you are AB+ or AB-. Please go to Sloane Kettering at 1250 1st Ave. Say they're for Stella Suther. DM me for her bday www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/a...

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From the AskNYC community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskNYC community

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I got a steroid injection in my foot today and it hurts and I would like some candy for my brain. Please recommend a gay romance novel that is very horny. F/f or m/m, poly is fine, trans or cis, just as long as they're not straight and they fuck a bunch. Yes I have read all the Heated Rivalries

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you should really get some good insoles at least

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By 40, you should have a shirt you can’t bear to throw out, an animal you over-identify with, a bad 90s movie that makes you weep due to unresolved issues with a parent, an apotropaic charm to ward off The Curse, inexplicable memory lapses, blood on your hands, so much blood, & shoes w/ arch support

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Get shoes with a deep heel cushion AND sigils to avert hexes placed on you by your sworn enemies — that’s how you win at being middle aged

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Hailey Kaas - Cancer Fund ($285/$650) @transqueerfem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's been 2 weeks and we're still stuck at $90/$650 :( So, I'm doing this🧵 explaining a little about the political turmoil in Brazil that took place in the last month or so to boost this crowdfund! Keep in mind that this is a short version of a (much) wider political context! ko-fi.com/haileykaas

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Buy Hailey Kaas a Coffee

Become a supporter of Hailey Kaas today!

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would like to wish all transphobic Dem candidates a very "failure in all of your pursuits forever, go live in a cave"

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Terra Field @rainofterra.gay · 18/06/2025

This is what instantly popped into my head when I heard Dear Leader was ranting about "Transgender for Everbody":

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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Texas Tribune, one of the most reliable news outlets in Texas, just named the ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Gregory Feathers www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/h...

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