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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Tart of Darkness @theinfophile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rereading BUNNICULA for the first time since childhood and I have a couple thoughts: 1. Promoting feeding chocolate cake to the dog??? 2. Chester is my homie and remains ✨️ iconic ✨️

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17/08/2025

I know we're all desperate for anyone at all to fight back against trump, but Newsom's not a hero, here. He's not even a good person. He's a transphobe & actively, proudly destroying tent shelter encampments *With His Own Hands*. This is prime LetThemFight Dot Gif & we get to take down the winner.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also for Californians: sign up for BallotTrax. You will get text or email notifications about your ballot from the moment it gets put in the mail from the Elections Office until the moment they process it. Any issues, they will also let you know asap.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This Saturday! NOON! The BOOKSTORE AND CHOCOLATE CRAWL hits the Mission and Castro neighborhoods in SF. It's a bunch of mostly very gay bookstores, full of magic and strange discoveries. Come shop with us! www.eventbrite.com/e/bookstore-...

pink sign says SHOP INDIE BOOKSTORES AND ALSO EAT CHOCOLATE

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Tart of Darkness @theinfophile.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New Optimistic Hoarder dropped! optimistichoarder.beehiiv.com/p/optimistic...

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Optimistic Hoarder: Scrooge McDuck Interlude

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Tart of Darkness @theinfophile.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New newsletter issue! material-materials.beehiiv.com/p/material-m...

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Material Materials: Reader Mail 001

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/09/2026

thinking about all the young people who left ban states and came to New York for care, and now

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Tart of Darkness @theinfophile.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Everybody uses AI" NO! NO I FUCKING DON'T! I don't use AI for ethical reasons, for moral reasons, for climate reasons, for health reasons, for reasons of actually wanting things done WELL. I have a BRAIN and I am good at THINKING and so I use my GOOD-THINKING BRAIN TO DO THINGS!!! FUCK!!!

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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In 2020, Interview magazine held an Ask Me Anything with Gloria Steinem, for which 25 of us were invited to ask her a question. Here is my question and Gloria’s answer, and the link to the feature: www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/glor...

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MONA ELTAHAWY: As a woman who is childfree by choice, I know the taboo of saying out loud the freedoms that have come from such a choice. How has choosing to be childfree impacted your life?

STEINEM: I would put the emphasis on“free.” It has increased my freedom. Everyone has a right to make this choice, or hopefully has the ability to make the choice to be a parent or not. It was always clear to me that I did not want to be a parent, so, although I, of course, understand and see the joys and rewards of parenthood, I experience the freedom that comes without that responsibility and connection.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am at WorldCon! I am on lots of awesome panels! And I have a reading at noon on Monday, introducing some new stuff! Come say hi! guide.lacon.org/people/01249...

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LACon V Program Guide

LACon V Programme Guide

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

....the ongoing delights of being both a Hugo finalist and a wheelchair user. "The backstage is for walking participants," said directly to my face, as a wheelchair user.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

strive to live your life in such a way that your freedom doesn't depend on being in good personal standing with laura loomer abcnews.com/US/milo-yian...

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Milo Yiannopoulos, far-right British commentator, detained by ICE

Far-right British political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was detained by ICE on Friday, according to an ICE detention database.

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Tart of Darkness @theinfophile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New newsletter material-materials.beehiiv.com/p/material-m...

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Material Materials: Lexual Healing

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“In her original Japanese edition, Kusama refers to the area in New York where she used to live transforming into a “slum,” with real estate prices “falling by $5 a day.” She attributes this to “black people shooting each other out front, and homeless people sleeping there.””

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What the Art World Doesn't Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama

A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In her 2002 autobiography, she “writes of the apparent ‘animalistic sex techniques’ of Black people, and what she describes as their ‘distinctive smell’. She describes working with a Black man in a past performance work, with lingering attention paid to her descriptions of his lips and genitals.”

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Yayoi Kusama apologizes for historic racism

A history of racist comments and descriptions of Black people in the writing of Yayoi Kusama has drawn criticism on the eve of her exhibition at SFMOMA

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Kirkus calls it "very strange and strangely satisfying." Publishers Weekly says it is "as bizarre as it is meticulous." They're talking about my new novel, A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD. It's coming 10/6/26. Pre-order it: us.macmillan.com/books/978125... Plus: a teaser trailer! youtu.be/gHLnJQuyQQo?...

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Teaser: "A Wall Is Also a Road," by Annalee Newitz, from Tor Books

YouTube video by Annalee Newitz

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Did you know I have a new book coming out about a graduate student who is a slime mold from beyond the galaxy? Who comes to Earth to do fieldwork and meets a badass sex worker in ancient Pompeii? It's called "A Wall Is Also a Road." You should pre-order it now! torpublishinggroup.com/a-wall-is-al...

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A Wall Is Also a Road

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Jamie Canavés @jamiecanaves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'll be thinking about this all day: Do you still have a CD that is unique in some way?

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/08/2026

TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1

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Ashe @ladyinsanity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If someone near you is secretly recording with glasses, yell “META stop recording!” It works even if you’re not the owner. (This is more effective than the Disney trick, since there are AI tools to remove background music.)

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Jamie Canavés @jamiecanaves.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

every time gate keepers explain that there isn't an audience/money for (insert anything related to marginalized groups) they are lying.

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Library Juice Connections @libjuiceconnect.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Zinesters as Librarians, Librarians as Zinesters ow.ly/HkhC50ZyFVl How does being a librarian influence our zine practices? How does being a zinester influence our library practice? Join Dez Alaniz, Violet Fox 🦊 and Dawn (Rogers) Stahura as we talk about it!

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/02/2024

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The TikTok girlies are referring to Amanda Palmer as “steampunk Ghislaine Maxwell” and damn

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Tart of Darkness @theinfophile.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This book is so damn good on audio!!!

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

Does he think people who are anti ai enjoy using ai????

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

The real enemy isn’t your buddy who is using AI to make a book cover; the enemy is the Powers-That-Be who thrive on dividing everyone, especially in the United States. Look at how divided everyone in the US got over politics over the past ten years, and it’s now trickled to other countries. No more, are you a fellow human? Nope, it’s who did you vote for? Well, then you must be a hateful asshole. Instant block.

But who’s the asshole?

Every week, the gatekeepers of horror writers have some new witch hunt. Sometimes it’s a good thing to suss out shitty publishers, editors, and agents. Yet, not ALL shitty ones are sussed out because, you know, there are consequences to getting all the shitty people shut down. Some people still like the opportunities to get published or represented even if it means going with the most despicable people because the gatekeepers didn’t get them shut down, or sometimes, don’t even notice. It all depends on who is buttering the toast.

The past few weeks have been so tedious with all the gatekeepers out in full force. They are whipping people up into a frenzy, and more division is happening when it comes to AI. Of course, the irony is that the gatekeepers are denouncing AI, yet they are doing it on Facebook, which uses AI. They are likely typing their pretentious screeds on their phones, which also use AI. They likely sell their books on Amazon, which also uses AI.

AI is here. It’s been coming since I was typing on a manual typewriter. You can let the robots win by becoming less human by cutting out all your friends, fans, family, and readers because they dared to try out AI, or you can be a human being and let people explore and figure things out for themselves.

Hollywood is already embracing AI.

Many companies use AI.

AI can be useful for tedious tasks such as creating listings on eBay or Poshmark. Do you shop or sell on those platforms? They totally use AI now, so you’d better boycott them too.

I went to the AI panel at Stokercon, and of course, most of the panelists were vehemently anti-AI. An audience member stood up and pointed out that they learned about the panel because they saw it on Sched, which is the app that the HWA/Stokercon uses, and THAT is AI. Doesn’t HWA have an anti-AI stance? Oh, but of course, THAT is okay; it’s all the other AI stuff that isn’t.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

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Jamie Canavés @jamiecanaves.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"If something is dead, then you have no choice but to buy the new products or buy-in to the new technologies."

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Tart of Darkness @theinfophile.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"They say disco died a few months after I was born, but I never got the memo."

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/08/2026

What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.

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Tart of Darkness @theinfophile.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is INCREDIBLY HELPFUL! Please share!

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is TERRIBLE news, y'all.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tattoo it, if you must. But move with this understanding.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

They claim the stories are hosted with author consent, but that seems to be a flat out lie. They also tell authors to contact them for removal, but there is no contact on the site, no email or form.

A note on the archive
Older stories on this site were originally published on dailysciencefiction.com. We re-host them with author consent, gathered story by story. If you're an author and want yours added, removed, or corrected, get in touch.

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