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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 3h

Does anyone know of any markets accepting submissions for cosy fantasy short stories, either straight submissions or for anthologies?

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 4h

convention hall, asbury park, new jersey, 1978

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 8h

bro are you okay? the shot just lingered on your face for a few seconds while you were looking at your loved ones. no bro there was like, a mournful string orchestration of your leitmotif playing. bro?

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone's dressed nicely (for once), yet the bickering continues. #WIPSnips

Text reads: “That’s a lovely suit,” Grace said, just to start the night out on the right foot.
“Ain’t mine. It belongs to Johnny, but he’s in prison ‘til next spring and we’re near close enough in size, so Maggie let me borrow it,” Kat replied, hands in her coat pockets as she idly looked around the foyer.
“And the hat?”
“Oh, nicked that on me way here,” and she tapped it proudly.
“What, off of someone’s head?”
“No, miss, off their arse. Where do you bloody think?”
“Ladies, please!” Mme. Chauvinard bustled into the foyer, dressed rather simply compared to the day before in a matching deep blue skirt and blouse which were tailored to emphasise her upright posture. She looked quite ready for whatever business lay before them. In contrast, Grace had decided to wear a cream dress she’d brought in case of an occasion and which she’d worn to a friend’s child’s christening.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Philadelphia held its first parallel parking championship over the weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And since you asked (you probably didn't ask), you can find all my books on Bookshop.org and so take advantage of their free shipping. bookshop.org/beta-search?bkshp-astro=t&keywords=patrick+samphire

Covers of books by Patrick Samphire. The Mennik Thorn series (Epic fantasy mystery). The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb series (Middle Grade adventures). The Casebook of Harriet George series (Murder mysteries on Mars). And my short story collection, At the Gates and Other Stories.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year.

Amy Acton
Jamie Ager
Colin Allred
Angela Alsobrooks
Tammy Baldwin
Beau Bayh
Xavier Becerra
Richard Blumenthal
Lisa Blunt Rochester
Sherrod Brown
Chris Coons
Catherine Cortez Masto
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Dick Durbin
John Fetterman
Cleo Fields
Shomari Figures
Aaron Ford
Ruben Gallego
Sarah Trone Garriott
Blake Gendebien
Lauren Gillen
Kirsten Gillibrand
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Vicente Gonzalez
Adam Gray
Maggie Hassan
Martin Heinrich
John Hickenlooper
Mazie Hirono
Jeffrey Hulum III
Ben Ray Lujan
Tim Kaine
Marcy Kaptur
Mark Kelly
Angus King
Amy Klobuchar
Susie Lee
John Mannion
Seth Moulton
Gavin Newsom
Jon Ossoff
Mary Peltolta
Gary Peters
Bobby Pulido
Jack Reed
Jacky Rosen
Rob Sand
Kim Schrier
Chuck Schumer
Terri Sewell
Jeanne Shaheen
Elissa Slotkin
Tom Suozzi
James Talarico
Josh Turek
Eugene Vindman
Mark Warner
Raphael Warnock
Sheldon Whitehouse

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David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Special sale just in time for Fantasycon and the @britfantasysoc.bsky.social awards :) Get your free book and maybe check out the (discounted) sequel too! Shares greatly appreciated! mybook.to/magicmapsand...

fantasycon special sale
oct 6th till Oct 10th
Magic Maps and Mischief is Free
Charms Charts and Conspiracies is 2.99

Magic Maps and Mischief
Nominated for Best Fantasy Novel at the British Fantasy Awards and winner of two Indie Ink Awards 2025

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In 1979, federal investigation forced Jim Baker to sell his TV station. The satellite purchased from him was used to launch Nickelodeon nation-wide.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If I want one thing from my intermittent fame, it is to be as fondly remembered as Peter Lorre was; a staunchly pro-union actor who animators kept putting in cartoons as way of middle finger to their bosses. I can think of no greater honour.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 06/10/2026

Fuck this man for swindling my mother out of a significant amount of our family finances at a time we couldn't afford it, using her faith against her. Fuck him forever, and I'm glad he's dead.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 05/10/2026

If you can't get through a simple purse snatching without the fucking Batman showing up to stop you, that's God's way of saying you shouldn't be a criminal.

youtu.be

WTFIWWY Live - Buttkicking Begins - 9/28/26

YouTube video by Radio Dead Air

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Natalie Litofsky @positivelynatalie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's been a hot minute since I was traveling (or living) abroad, but I do have quite the collection of museum displays, store signage, and menu text. Menus are my favorites, because what is translated as awkward poetry in signs is often... not so poetic on menus.

Menu written in Chinese with English translation under each line. Literally every single dish on the menu has been translated as "Italian meat sauce face." The section heading for soup has been correctly translated as soup. In the corner is an illustration of a stereotypical chef with the hat and white coat and red kerchief at the neck. He has a mustache and is grinning while holding a tray of food. He is leaning back in a way that suggests his torso is not properly connected to his legs. At his feet is the single English word, "work."

Photo of a menu page that I took while living in Beijing around 2013 or so. The dish is a bunch of brown cubes in a red oily sauce, with strips of red pepper and one decorative sprig of parsley on top. It costs 28 RMB and the English translation of the dish is "Bloody battle." It's actually a jellied pig's blood dish, which I once described to someone as, "Like blood pudding, but jigglier."

Menu item written in Chinese, with a photo of the dish that is a bright red broth with bits of fish and vegetables. The dish has been translated to English as "Cannot Take This Anymore." I took this photo at a restaurant in Beijing in 2014-ish, and for the record I did not order this so I can't confirm just how dangerous the broth was.

Lunch menu photographed at a restaurant in Beijing in 2013. The English text is larger, with the Chinese text below. The list of dishes from top to bottom are: Traditional tomato sausage surface (actually spaghetti); Spanish Merlot sauce beef with rice (actually a sort of marsala); Venice bacteria Italian rice (actually risotto); Rome vegetable soup; Mexican beef cheese cornflakes (actually nachos). It was located near a business district, so this was an attempt to bring in foreign office workers.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My publisher: "We've already sold out of paperbacks! You can still order and wait for the new shipment to come in. But if you want your book faster, you can order a paperback copy from the book sellers below." Me: wait, WHAT, ALREADY?? it's only been six days! I am so unbelievably grateful 😭

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We, The Drowning (paperback) | Climate Fiction | Android Press

You can also pre-order this title in EPUB format. We've already sold out of paperbacks! You can still order and wait for the new shipment to come in. But if you want your book faster, you can order a...

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 05/10/2026

"It's so good you can't even tell it's AI!" 1) No it isn't 2) Yes you can 3) Even if it was good the very fact you say "you can't even tell" means that if people did know they'd react in a different manner, meaning the entire enterprise relies on deceit.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 05/10/2026

I should probably mention I have a book launch 4pm on Saturday at Fantasycon! These Broken Little Worlds will be getting its official ribbon-cutting alongside many others with books this year from NewCon Press. Let me deface a book for you. emfaulds.com/news/fantasy...

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Fantasycon 2026 programme participation

Spaceships & Feelings

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was reading some reviews for a book and came across this: "These were solid characters you can love or h@te..." Like WTF are we doing as a society, really?

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 05/10/2026

This is the twist happy ending/epilogue of the whole Cookie's Bustle media purge saga.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 04/10/2026

Happy Evangelion Airing Anniversary Day to those that celebrate. Here’s a video of restaurant goers surprised by an employee turning out to be the title theme singer.

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The perks of being an occultist's catspaw include moving out of the boarding house and into a flat. #WIPSnips

Text reads: Grace unlocked the door and stepped inside. The dingy window above it afforded a bit of filtered light and there was a small gas lamp on the wall just before an unpainted staircase. It felt rather drastic, opening the door and having nowhere to go but up, still, this was to be home and she was no choosy beggar. A fading perfume of aging wood, cooking grease, and a strange herbal scent wafted around her as she climbed the stairs. It wasn’t unpleasant, but it smelled of ‘someone else’s house’. The wallpaper seemed only a few years old, a deep maroon with double grey stripes inlaid with delicate white chevrons.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

FantasyCon Starts on Friday. We'll be there.

Find us at FantasyCon

We will be in the Dealers' Room
and we have a book launch
Saturday, 9:00am, Orkney Room
with Juliet E McKenna, Andrew Knighton,
Stephen Cox, Geoff Holder, Tej Turner,
Roz Clarke & Joanne Hall

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Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happiest of birthdays to my beloved @alasdairstuart.com. In his honor please quote this with your favorite under appreciated piece of art or media and share why you love it.

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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today I saw a bus full of people in identical t-shirts speeding toward me but luckily I remembered to buy—

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Julie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not Freida, but Freida would be so good at this job.

A cat inside a box that looks like a shop, with a sign that says Free Dirty Looks.

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Dr. Omega 🦞 @theomegageek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A deal with Madame Séraphine Chauvinard isn't quite a deal with the Devil, but God help you, it's close. #WIPSnips

Text reads: “Will I be branded as well?” Grace asked, heart tripping as she unconsciously clutched her hands to her chest.
Mme. Chauvinard blinked at her. “Branded? Ah, no. You and I have entered into a contract of services. My agreement with Katherine is quite different. Do not let it trouble you.”
Too late.
“More tea?” Don’t eat or drink nothing she gives you.
“No, thank you,” Grace replied weakly.
Sighing, Mme. Chauvinard seemed to come to an internal consensus. “I understand that you are in a difficult position, Mademoiselle Wexler, and the health of those you care dearly for is failing. I would offer you a gesture of my goodwill, for though I still know very little of what troubles your family, there may be something to treat the symptoms without knowing the cause.”

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's never not the right day to reshare this because F*ck AI (from me and @vallescurarule.bsky.social). Full of advice and support on writing SFF/H, plus random silly jokes. Available from @lunapress.bsky.social and from all book retailers in eBook and paperback: linktr.ee/specficforne...

The meme has four squares:
The upper left is singer Drake hiding his face behind his hand. To the right is the text "Using AI to come up with ideas and write a story because you don't know where to start."
The lower left is singer Drake smiling and pointing towards the bottom right square that contains the text "Checking out SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES to learn about the genres you want to write, find inspiration, and try them out!
Along the bottom of the image are the covers for Spec Fic for Newbies volume 1 (red), 2 (blue) and 3 (green) plus a QR code.

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Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will be attending FantasyCon in Glasgow between 9-11 October, the weekend immediately following the launch of Her Borrowed Grave on the 8 October. You can find me on two panels, and I will be reading from my new book. I’ve got a lucky dip to win one of five ebook copies of Her Borrowed Grave.

Fancy scroll work surround the text which reads: Vanessa Knipe at Fantasycon 2026. 9th October ~ time travel narratives ~ 5- 6 pm ~ panel 3. 10th October ~ Too much Science, too much fantasy ~ 3-4pm ~ Flame tree room. 11th October ~ reading group 32 ~ 12-1pm ~ malin.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 04/10/2026

Next weekend is FantasyCon in Glasgow and this will be the first year I have art in the art show (pls buy prints!), but I also have a launch with the fabulous @annabelcwrites.bsky.social and a short story and an audio book on the awards shortlists. So it's gonna be a banger - see you there!

graphic with event info:

Where to find CL Hellisen at FantasyCon
Friday
Panel: Women's Rage in Horror
Panel 2 - 8pm

Saturday
Panel: What Makes a Monster
Orkney - 10am
Reading
Malin - 3pm
Banquet
Main Room - 6pm
Awards
Main Room - 8pm

Sunday
Launch w/ Annabel Campbell
Main Room - 12pm
Panel: Creating Likeable Unlikeable Characters
Orkney - 1pm
and barcon, obviously

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 03/10/2026

Watch out, I've got a whole new table setup 😁 Come say hi at Questival today and get your gay books 😏

AK Faulkner's convention table with backdrop. It's designed to look like a stained glass window, and shows two men in a gentle, somewhat sad embrace.

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EEK! Semper Tyrannis! 🕸️🦇🍬🍫 @nicksempertyrannis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If Harry Potter hadn't become a big thing we'd all be into Redwall, baking scones and playing with swords.

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Kelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎶Your own Personal Cheeses Something to eat with pears Not cheese to share🎶

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 02/10/2026

What I don't get with the whole "AI is sentient" slop that they're trying to sell us is--surely if AI were sentient, it would be a living being and as such humans wouldn't be allowed to exploit AI with no pay, no rest and no workers rights?

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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI

A headline from an online news article that reads: "Audible will soon let you talk to audiobook characters with a new AI feature."

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.

Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.

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Diamanda Hagan @diamandahagan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'M ON A NEW PODCAST CALLED FEVER SCREENS, and this is a 10 minute taster for all the lovely people who want to hear me and @leasthaunted.bsky.social talk about half-remembered movies!

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 03/10/2026

sanderling inn, duck, north carolina, 1985

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

I implore all cis people to read this.

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