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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 23h

if you're in mid-Missouri, you can get your tickets for this one-night-only event now! Tuesday, October 13 at 7 PM. I'll give a 20-minute reading of recent work right before a screening of The Devil's Backbone

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The Devil's Backbone • Ragtag Cinema

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

Hello and happy Fullmetal Alchemist Day! We're about ready to get started with this year's winner announcement A very special thanks to our first-ever sponsors: @bcsmagazine.bsky.social, @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, @laworldcon.bsky.social , and @revmindi.bsky.social ! #2026IgnyteAwards

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a cool thing happening later this month: I'll be reading my work at a local cinema in advance of a screening of a Guillermo del Toro film! I've been a fan of his for years and never thought I'd get an opportunity to pair our work like this so it's super exciting!!!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

somehow I had never read this and let me tell you it’s my new favorite of his. I’m obsessed with the pining. do men pine like this anymore? because it sure doesn’t seem like it. only lesbians pine like this now

The cover for Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. It features an upside down parrot in the top half of the image and an eye hiding behind a frond on the bottom half

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when an IPO is welfare for the wealthy. the product is trash, the business is reporting staggering losses, but they expect everyone else to pay for it

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it’s about fucking time! I hope they all go down for this. I hope the victim gets justice, and I hope there’s a serious reckoning at Cornell, my alma mater, which has bungled every step of this situation

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026

in the age of AI, making art is a radical act

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

currently stuck in one of O’Hare’s circles of hell because that Cheeto-colored demon decided he just had to play golf in Chicago 🙄

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m so sick of people trying to put more protein in desserts. actually I don’t want to substitute cottage cheese for that ingredient. actually I don’t want to add protein powders we know are full of lead. I just want to eat some fucking pumpkin bread, not learn what a macro is

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

well this was easily the best Star Trek movie ever made

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

get in, loser, we’re saving the whales

The movie poster for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, featuring a Klingon ship flying low over the Golden Gate Bridge

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🍄 C.G. Aubrey🍂 @cgaubrey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Most of the time I'm promoting someone else's writing, but this time it's MINE. :) It's cozy, mysterious, and the perfect mood for the turning of the seasons.

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VL-ADventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Listen. Life is vast beyond our wildest dreams, and humans are, on the whole, myopic creatures." A phenomenal 3.5 Questions with @ruthjoffre.bsky.social for our Patreons. I want her full answer to #3.5 on my tombstone to remind the mortals passing by. www.patreon.com/Adventitious...

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3.5 Questions with Ruth Joffre | Adventitious

In the opening lines of Ruth Joffre's "A Hole in My Heart the Shape of the Universe," the main character admits to being unable to pinpoint

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 17/09/2026

We've reached and then quickly surpassed 25% of our funding goal and are now closing in on $15K and 30%. 178 of you have pledged your support so far. Thanks so much to all of you for backing and spreading the word... and being a part of the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE story. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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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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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IT'S TODAY!!! My fantasy novella, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, is out today! From here on out, if you suddenly have the urge to read about harpies, opinionated weapons, and a bunch of misfits fighting the fash, you can just DO THAT! Order direct or from bookstores: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...

Happy author Marissa Lingen, a long-haired white woman, holds up a copy of her book, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

do you want to help fund two of the best mags in the business? now's your chance! they've got loads of cool rewards. plus: I've got stories coming out in BOTH of these magazines, and trust me when I say you don't want to miss them!!

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

well here's a first: submitted some of my photography to an art magazine today! never say you can't try new things

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

your semi-regular reminder that the world is just so incredibly gorgeous 🦋

A black swallowtail butterfly drinking nectar from a zinnia. Its wings are fully extended so you can see the yellow pattern

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just know Bob is designing rhinestone outfits for Dolly in heaven. Rest in peace king. One of one. www.out.com/bob-mackie-d...

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Bob Mackie, famous gay fashion and costume designer, dies at 87

Legendary designer Bob Mackie, who dressed everyone from Cher to Elton John, has died.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 14/09/2026

We’re nearly halfway through our campaign, but only a third of the way to our funding goal, and it’s all or nothing. We need your support! More authors have joined, welcome to Gemma Amor, Gemma Files, and Suzan Palumbo. Let’s bring another year of haunting & challenging tales! kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2027

Publishing original horror, fantasy, and science fiction since 1999. Let’s create another year of strange and wondrous tales!

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

switched gears and immediately wrote 1000 words! it's amazing how much easier it is when you're not writing in the wrong direction

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

whoops just realized the scene I'm writing is the wrong scene 🙃

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hello, today the final story in my collection, "How to Be a Black Writer" is in @literaryhub.bsky.social: lithub.com/how-to-be-a-... the story is in stylistic conversation with Lorrie Moore's "how to become a writer" and Kiese Laymon's "you are the second person"

From the screenshotted excerpt: "You chose this program based on money and because you never had a Black person of any gender teach you anything about writing or reading. You learned math and Black Studies and the safest way to blow and push life into another person from other Black people, but none of them had taught you how to tell a story.

There is a family legend about how you learned how to read, that one day you were sitting at a kitchen table, four years old, beads in your hair because you were fresh back from a visit to your Mom-Mom’s, and you said something like, “Good morning. I hate Mondays. Lasagna,” and your parents realized you were reading a comic aloud to yourself. Reading came to you like a sudden burst into fruit brought forth by unseen winds.

You wanted a lineage. Sometimes, creating one doesn’t take generations upon generations. It can be established, at least in the arts, with the right, thoughtful conversation or idea passed around a table in two hours and forty-five minutes on a rainy Tuesday afternoon.

I want to tell you that you’ll make it through this year. But did you?

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

gone fishin etc buy some books while i’m gone and will mail when i get back 🖤

20% off
out of office sale
code: VACATION
til 9/10

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 08/09/2026

We’ve published dark fiction for 27 years, and don’t want to stop any time soon. We believe stories can inspire growth, change perspectives, and are essential components of every culture. If you agree, support our Kickstarter for another year of great tales. kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

first time pitching a personal essay in a hot minute. fingers crossed it works out! 🤞

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

he’s waiting for me to drop something

A large black dog with spotted white paws is smiling happily through the wooden legs of the kitchen table

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Short story lovers rejoice! We are welcoming EIGHT new short story collections this September, inspired by everything from the world's hidden places to Ursula K. Le Guin!

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All the New SFF Crossover Books Arriving in September 2026 - Reactor

This September brings horror (and/or zombie) romance, several short story collections, and more…

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

over the years I've realized that my writing style for the day is often decided by the quality of my sleep the night before. good night's sleep? intricately imagined and meticulously crafted scenes. bad night's sleep? feverish prose poetry with punctuation marks strewn over it like flower petals

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