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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 30/09/2026

I got to beta read this one and it's a delight. There's a valkyrie. She wears a motorcycle jacket. 🫦

Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 30/09/2026

In Permian Gothic, River inherits land from their estranged, transphobic grandmother. The mysterious estate in a tiny desert oil town turns out to be just a trailer home harboring ugly family secrets & a menacing spirit. Will River seek the truth or run for safety? #DVpit #A #Novella #H #TV #LGBT

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 18/08/2026

"Always, Ty tried to be worthy of a pack; always, the wolf ruined it." If you too are tired of your inner wolf sabotaging your dreams, maybe read this story by @spencerorey.bsky.social. Bonus points for being set in an extra-radioactive New Mexico. zooscape-zine.com/pinon-smoke-...

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Piñon Smoke and Juniper – Zooscape

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 30/07/2026

I know a lot of y’all had stories in DSF. Do a search on their site for one of your titles, then click on your name to get the entire list, and send takedown notices as the spirit moves you.

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 20/07/2026

My latest story, "Herkimer Inquiries", is now free to read on @reckoningmag.bsky.social! I'm super proud of this psychogeographic investigation story. But (LeVar Burton voice)...you don't have to take *my* word for it!

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Zee (missing life's little cues) @miscue.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We have until July 29th to save Chaco Canyon, one of the most ancient historical and cultural sites in the county. It's absolutely irreplaceable, and this move is absolutely against the wishes of the local Native Nations and tribes. Please, please, please leave a comment

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 25/06/2026

There's still time to donate to the Queer Liberation Library's 2026 Pride Fundraiser: givebutter.com/qqlls-pride-... These books are out here changing lives, and the QLL is lending 'em for free. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚 Get a free library card!

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Pride 2026 with Queer Liberation Library!

smut with a side of theory

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/06/2026

I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 17/06/2026

Every time I see someone say "the pronouns have just become a gimmick" I look over at the folks who say they love the pronouns and it makes their heart happy and start trying to figure out how to put even more pronouns in the next book.

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 07/06/2026

Tomorrow! A panel and a reading for me at #StokerCon. 🖤

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 06/06/2026

Ummm I created an Instagram account, as one is meant to do - driven by fomo, with no forethought or planning. www.instagram.com/rathmercury if that is your thing.

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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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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 05/06/2026

My first StokerCon is rad. I meant to go to bed early last night, but everyone is both friendly and nocturnal so I guess we just had to kick it all off with a late-night vampire hang. Today I had a spare minute to check out the Warhol Museum before things got started, too.

A collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Features a yellow and black dollar sign on a lavender field, with a black bar vertically that reads "don't read on me" with a picture of a snake.

A picture of the Allegheny River on a sunny day. A pole in the foreground has two stickers -- one damaged sticker of Lenin, and a yellow sticker that reads "Billionaires don't exist in a happy world." A yellow bridge and a baseball stadium are visible in the distance.

Rath (me) in front of a giant painting of a pink skull on a green surface (by Andy Warhol)

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

A rainbow colored box turtle looking nervously out of a drab gray shell. There is text above him that says “It’s OK if you’re not ready yet.”

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 29/05/2026

Heeeeey it's my first StokerCon! Can't wait to meet all my fellow spookies.

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I'm going to be at StokerCon

We've Always Been Here: Transgender Imagery and Characters Throughout Horror History
Sunday, June 7 | 10 am
with Jamie Flanagan, Bitter Karella, Lee Mandelo, and Dave V. Riser (mod)
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Author Reading
Sunday June 7 | 12 pm
with Piper White and Marissa Yarrow
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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 24/05/2026

Thank you to @rchetypes.bsky.social @madrobins.bsky.social @ritabriar.bsky.social and Jamie Riedesel for the great panel on writing fight scenes. Super inspired to go write/read/watch all the fight scenes now. #wiscon48

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We are SO close to 50% funded thanks to everyone who has backed our campaign or shared our Kickstarter! THANK YOU 💜 Let’s cross that halfway point and then sprint to the finish line! ✨

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 30/03/2026

Wondering where your subscription funds go? 85.5% of our annual funds go to authors, artists, and our art director. 2.5% is IT expenses, 4% goes to taxes, postage, and the cost of running a business. A whopping 8% is bank & transaction fees (we love zelle - no fees!).

A square graphic proving that your humble editor is not a very visual person. There are comic-style dots in the background, clouds, and in the center is a pie chart depicting the Small Wonders budget. The blue wedge is the biggest, labeled "85.5% authors, artist, art director", clockwise next to that is a thinner green wedge labeled "8% fees", a gray wedge "2.5% IT", and a yellow wedge "4% misc". There's a legend for the colors at the bottom, in a blue and white box with a question mark.

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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

a digital illustration in the style of a relief print depicting a black cat in a defensive pose holding a torn and tattered transgender pride flag in its mouth as it looks directly towards the viewer. the background is purple with some specks of blue and pink showing through, and behind the cat is a black midground resembling grass or flames. the top right corner features a box with a caption reading "T.D.O.V."

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 27/03/2026

One of the saddest things about GenAI is that it robs would-be artists of one of the most pleasurable elements of the artistic process — the miraculous "whoops!" I cannot count the number of times I've been working on a piece and something went "wrong", then I said "Alright! I'm working with it!"

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Poe: joanne was explaining death of the author Poe: what do you think, mary Shelley: death of the author eh? Shelley: [brandishing swicthblade] i think it's a good idea Rowling: i Rowling: i have to go

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GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hey horror fans, do you need some extra reading material for this year's #TransRightsReadathon? We got you covered! Here are some free eBooks written & edited by trans authors & published by Ghoulish Books. Please share! buttondown.com/ghoulish/arc...

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Free Horror eBooks Written By Trans Authors (Trans Rights Readathon 2026)

I know I'm a bit late with getting this organized and posted, but in my defense, I forgot. Anyway! Better late than never, right? So, starting right now and...

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Do you write weird shit? Do you want to write even WEIRDER? You should consider attending BIZARROCON! Workshops for novelists & screenwriters in horror & more. But if they don't sell 15 more tickets by the end of the week, the con might have to be canceled, so JUMP ON THIS! bizarrocon.com

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BizarroCon 2026

A Home For Literary Misfits

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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 09/02/2026

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Gonna log off this app for the rest of the weekend but I wanted to boost this. If you are interested in participating in the nomination process for the Ignyte awards we have an application. Our awards are very dear to me. I thought the dire urgency of them would fade. I was wrong. We keep going 🖤

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 06/02/2026

"I needed someone to tell me they saw the monster too, and it was bad, and it was scary, and we should all be screaming." Just....very much yes. Thank you @cjtavares.bsky.social and @interstellarflight.bsky.social for the excellent essay about horror as comfort.

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A Great and Terrible Comfort

How Horror Became My Cozy Genre

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"'We lost all trust,' a current ICE official added. 'I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.'” If an ICE official can see there being a world without ICE, there's no reason any of us shouldn't be able to do the same thing. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reports

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 16/01/2026

Reckoning X is here! And I have a story in it. So grateful to have this particular story, about an oddball psychogeographic investigator who listens to birds as much as people, in this particular magazine.

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 05/01/2026

New year, new rejection collection. This year I'm going to aim for 50 rejections out of the gate, and just got my first from Apex! 🎇

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 30/09/2025

This post it just the prompt; there's a story in the replies from @howsweetthewords.bsky.social that I loved

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

As someone who is neurodiverse and on the spectrum, I have thoughts on that presidential big announcement about autism. Here we go! We've always been around. We'll always be here. Living, seeing, loving, dying. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/139553...

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When They Say They've Cured Autism | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

32 years ago today

Mulder and Scully meet in the pilot episode of the X-Files

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 01/09/2025

Lots of discussion lately about increased interest in short fiction, and we love that. We have 25 years of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction stories for you to read. And we would love to do 25 more, if you can help. kck.st/4mIkEm1

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/08/2025

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER
NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE
AUGUST 29, 2025
Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

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Sam Asher @samasherwriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year. Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it. gofund.me/ca0c2b7d

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Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher

For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 18/08/2025

Welp, I'm home from WorldCon and I'm completely feral

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 17/08/2025

I'm not crying about cats being depressed and lonely; you are. #worldcon

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 17/08/2025

New writing goal: write a sufficiently beloved book that I get to be on the pet stories panel.

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 17/08/2025

The amount of cat people energy in this panel about animals/aliens/AI is giving me life. #worldcon

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 17/08/2025

"Look at the markers of power and the markers of place to see how the writer orients the reader to this world." Leigh Bardugo on details and how to use them in fiction. #worldcon

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 17/08/2025

"Culture is not a buffet for a writer. History is not a buffet for a writer." -Natania Barron at #worldcon

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 17/08/2025

Love hearing Nisi Shawl talking about strategies for enlivening overused time periods by connecting with the details of the period. Use your eyes, ears, nose to find the diversity that have been erased. #worldcon

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Rath Mercury @rathmercury.com · 17/08/2025

"We're seeing a real flattening of culture. Just echoes of echoes of echoes. That's why it is important to go to the source material....You don't need to have an MFA; you just need to read a lot." -Leigh Bardugo #worldcon

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