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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ICYMI - please consider helping and spreading the word! Thank you to everyone who already boosted and donated.

R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 09/09/2026

For this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, R.B. Lemberg (@rblemberg.bsky.social) reads "First Contact," a story about a rattlesnake, communication, and ingenuity. As Ursula notes, "The sacred and the comic are not that far apart."

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In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin: R.B. Lemberg reads "First Contact"

R.B. Lemberg reads post 22, "First Contact," from May of 2011. You can read Ursula's original post here: R.B. Lemberg's website is

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@bogiperson.bsky.social and I have been married for ten+ years. To each other :) In 1980s our people were dying of AIDS. In terms of food, the state of vegan food is AMAZING right now.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I am satisfied with KS primary elections so far. Cindy Holscher is the governor nominee, and establishment Dems better support her here. Kansans of all political persuasions overwhelmingly voted No on politicizing our supreme court (which would have reopened the abortion access question yet again).

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Soviet animated version is set on Dec 31 2026, but it is also very much worth experiencing (thank you to @rblemberg.bsky.social who showed it to me!) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP... Possibly even more terrifying than the original story.

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Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]

YouTube video by Алекс Кэрролл

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

An editor I never interacted with, and whom I never mentioned, was in my mentions attacking me for my skeets. This is the type of behavior that makes authors afraid to say anything. Don't look for them on my behalf. Thanks. I'm going to step away again. I'll see you when I see you.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've just seen a very obvious "AI" scammer claim to be a SFWA member yesterday, so some of the people doing this are definitely knowledgeable enough about genre to know what respectability signals to send - or know how to prompt their LLM to get these respectability signals.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It occurred to me that instead of forcing authors to prove they are not AI, editors need to prove to authors that they are able to distinguish original work from AI slop. It should not be all that difficult.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This thread from JJA echoes my own thoughts on the topic, which I posted some days ago.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I stg I was going to pitch something morose and elegiac but the MC's special interest is clumps

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026

i resent and push back against the idea that we should have to show draft work. it was frustrating for visual artists to have to do, and its frustrating for prose artists as well. for a lot of people, the parts of the drafting process they don't already share w editors are pretty personal?

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I just had a horrifying realization. It seems like the new test to prove you didn't use "AI" to write a story is gonna be sharing all your notes and drafts with editors. Which means all my frantic all-caps "WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING WHY HAVE I FORGOTTEN HOW TO WRITE" might become evidence. Fuck.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Needing to prove that I'm not AI to editors after AI stole ALL of my published work, digested it, and can spit garbage stylized with birds and tapestries a la Lemberg: 🤮 Editors needing to decipher my fountain pen chicken scratch intertwined with other weird scribblings I don't want to share: ⛔

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I've been using a Fitbit of some kind for years, and it's helped me get through the worst of Long Covid, I'm using it to calibrate my envelope and track my progress with gentle exercise/recovery. Ever since Google Health has been pushed, it's been beyond awful. (short thread)

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive to keep us publishing in 2027 is finally here! You can find the fund drive at the link ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... Some changes have arrived this time around though. Read the thread to learn more.

Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive
Live Now

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

@casella.bsky.social I went to find you on bsky and saw that we are already mutuals :) hurray!

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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our Award-Winner #HumbleBundle is now live! Treat yourself to the best of the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror while supporting #DoctorsWithoutBorders buff.ly/kAZ8PUS

$Graphic showcasing books \included in this bundle The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy The Apes of Wrath edited by Richard Klaw After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress The Asylum of Dr. Caligari by James Morrow Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts The Bible Repairman by Tim Powers Burn by James Patrick Kelley Central Station by Lavie Tidhar Dreams of Distant Shores by Patricia A. McKillip The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale The Essential Patricia A. McKillip The Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen The New Voices of Fantasy edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages Reading the Bones by Shiela Finch Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow The Very Best of F&SF 2 edited by Gordon Van Gelder Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress$

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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The 2026 #Pride #StoryBundle is here! 16 queer reads curated by Catherine Lundoff and @blueterraplane.bsky.social in support of #RainbowRailroad! Featuring World Fantasy Award Winner YOKE OF STARS by @rblemberg.bsky.social and more storybundle.com/pride @storybundle.bsky.social

Then 2026 Pride Bundle

Covers to
Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff
Finding Echoes by Foz Meadows
Office of the Lost by J. Scott Coatsworth and Kim Fielding
Of the Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley
Yoke of Stars by R. B. Lemberg
Worldburner by J. Warren
Blood Moon by Catherine Lundoff
Running Dry by M. Christian
We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2024 edited by Ryka Aoki
and series editor Charles Payseur
Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures edited by Ann LeBlanc
The Master of Samar by Melissa Scott
The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields
Was by Geoff Ryman
I Want That Twink Obliterated! edited by Trip Galey, Robert Berg and C.L. McCartney
Reclaimed by Seth Haddon
Wolf’s Path by Joyce Chng

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 04/06/2026

📢 Hey friends and fiends! 📢 I'm (finally) working on the 2026 Queer SFF Book list and I want to make sure I don't miss YOUR book! So if you have a adult SFF book coming out this year (2026) that has a queer MC, please take this opportunity to SHOUT IT OUT in the comments or QTs!! 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜📚

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride month! Thrilled to share a ToC with @cafenowhere.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social @polenth.bsky.social @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social and many other wonderful writers! My story reprint is from We Will Rise Again, which won the Locus award yesterday. 😍

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I think this goes hand in hand with dehumanizing nonspeaking people. Numerous "specialists" assumed over the years that our son of course communicates via typing since he does not communicate much via speaking. Um no, he has syntax production problems

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

New poem about the music Messiaen wrote as a prisoner of war

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hurray, my amazing editor is a Hugo finalist!!!! 😍

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 14/04/2026

POETRY No Mother to Replace by Nosawema O. After Messiaen: A Quartet for the End of Time by @rblemberg.bsky.social We’re Running out of Numbers for all this Counting by Kelsey Dean

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Honestly really surprised to be a Locus award finalist in two different categories?! Best First Novel (for Song of Spores - initially they put it in Science Fiction, but then I think they realized it was my first) AND Best Editor?! Congrats to the finalists!!

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2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists

Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I really wasn't optimistic about Magyar, but this is great. More of this please.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Swalwell is out on the same day as Orbán is out. ☺️

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Finally had a chance to listen to the speech and he really did say that - this is the most he's ever said on the topic, I think.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orbán lost decisively. That's great. Surprisingly, he has conceded. I do not trust Magyar, but an Orbán defeat is a cause for celebration

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Hi all. I'm back from Passover (first bout) but not really around. Everything is super hard. Social media feels impossible to navigate right now. I have zero capacity. Sending good wishes.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

for many years I haven't felt as invisible as I feel right now on this #TDOV I'm not hiding - it's the general atmosphere, also here in KS and even more painful is watching people forced back into the closet If you're feeling invisible and/or erased right now I feel you - solidarity

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Aphid @aphidjay.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Woah! In the last..hour? Yall didn't just reach my goal, but surpassed it significantly! Thank you again, for giving me resources& peace of mind for my emergency move. I won't forget the generosity my community has shown me, in this concrete& quantifiable way and many ways that confound measurement❤

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hi folks, our former student Aphid is just $285 away from goal. He needs the funds to relocate from Kansas to Colorado, where trans folk are safer. Please help and spread the word if you can!

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

As of today, I don't know any trans person in KS who received direct help from a relocation org. If you are such a person, I would appreciate hearing from you. Lots of trans people in KS who are in need and/or trying to leave, rely on mutual aid and QT orgs operating in KS. List below.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Aphid is almost to goal - hope we can make one more push!

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Well, someone at our local hospital refused to schedule our child for a non-urgent procedure on any day which wasn't Passover, and was very vehement about it - not on a different day, not in a different place, etc. I'm not a person to throw the word antisemitism around but I'm just stunned

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Aphid used to study with @bogiperson.bsky.social , we know him. He and his loved ones are trying to leave Kansas for a safer state. Any contribution to this fundraiser would be much appreciated. Please spread the word, and let's help Aphid relocate.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My dear former student Aphid is fundraising to leave Kansas and move to Colorado. He is a 100% real trans person in Kansas, I personally know him and vouch for him. You can make an immediate big difference in someone's life this way!! Please spread the word & contribute if you can!

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I haven't been around much. In my so-called spare time I've been writing endless rec letters for my trans/non-binary/gnc/queer mentees / students trying to leave the state, + mutual aid. Everyone has worked so hard to build communities and a life here. I am determined.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The world is burning, everything is awful, our rights are being taken away, but one thing does not change: Target boycott. For me it started when they tossed out Ash + Chess and it will end never. Cheers

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