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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social on justice at Cornell: we have an institution that issues a suspension on track for deportation for someone engaging in free speech and protest on campus, but made rapists write an essay in private.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't forget that the legendary LIGHTSPEED and NIGHTMARE magazines have a Kickstarter right now! Let's make sure amazing horror, SF, and fantasy short stories keep getting published. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

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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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Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ancillary Review is looking for more editors! Message me if you're interested in copy-editing, dev editing, or graphics creation for a Hugo finalist magazine of spec fic criticism! It's volunteer-based and fits with your schedule <3

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📝 We have new editors at SH Reviews! @kateem.bsky.social will be curating a monthly strand of reviews focusing on SFF at least 50 years old. Novelty bias begone! And @ajodasso.bsky.social is moonlighting from Poetry as our new Media Reviews Editor, ensuring films, TV, games get their regular due.

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A Note From Reviews

We’re especially happy to announce some new appointments at the Reviews Department.

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wrote about feral apples in New York’s new growth forests and the cidermakers foraging fruit from them. Check it out!

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Issue #2 of Small Planet: The #SFinTranslation Magazine is out today!! www.sfintranslation.com?p=17479

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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I really enjoyed this! The clock is ticking down to my own cider apple foraging season in SE Michigan (trash apples, I call them), and the balance between the practical and romantic in Will's brilliant writing here is making me want to write something of my own

A beautiful, starry-patterned golden pin Baldwin apple ripening on the cultivated tree in my front yard

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wrote about feral apples in New York’s new growth forests and the cidermakers foraging fruit from them. Check it out!

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Any discussion of ethical or sustainable winemaking must begin with workers’ rights.

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Writer and ARB contributor Will McMahon brought some shockingly good cheese and cider for the patio.” Next year, the Readercon Cider Salon will be going even bigger. Put out the word.

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Great article not only for lovers and makers of cider but also for writers of any stripe in the age of LLMs. "An inherent part of much of the human condition, I think, is a reluctance to wait." Give it a read.

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

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Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly

Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 14/07/2026

We are about halfway towards our goal of picking up enough new subscriptions to give our staff, authors, translators, and artists a raise when we publish our 20th anniversary issue in October. Thanks to all who have signed up and/or boosted the signal. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

If anyone at the Newer Venues for SF Criticism panel at Readercon wants to check out @typebarmagazine.bsky.social's non-fic pitch seminar I mentioned, it's this!

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Excellent tasting held by @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social at the Reckoning 10 year anniversary panel at Readercon. Sumac cider, gruit, and maple spruce IPA. Mostly foraged or homegrown ingredients. Very ecological, and delicious!

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Wisdom of the Galaxy by Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social "...I asked Roz what the aliens looked like, and he glanced at me like I was an idiot and said “birds.” “They’re birds?” I’d pressed, and he said that obviously they were birds..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

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Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The temporary decline of proletarian criticism as laid out by @willmcmahon36.bsky.social in our Readercon panel

Epic handshake meme, two burly arms clasping, one is the iconic picture of a crowd on the partially torn down Berlin Wall, other is Taylor Swift's album 1989.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We've completed the first two weeks of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive, and - at present - are just over $5K away from meeting our base goal, to continue publishing in 2027. To help us get there, back us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

BREAKING: Claire Valdez wins the Democratic NY-7 primary and will be the district's next congresswoman. Claire worked in fast food and at Trader Joe's, and organized a union before seeking office. She joins a wave of working people entering Congress to fight billionaire power.

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Can This Former Taco Bell Worker Make It All the Way to Congress?

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 14/05/2026

REI’s anniversary sale begins tomorrow. After years of union-busting and no contract, tens of thousands of REI members are standing with @reiunion.bsky.social workers and saying: enough! Show your solidarity with REI workers and boycott the sale May 15-25! www.ourrei.com/boycott

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Pledge to Boycott REI

Learn why co-op members are boycotting REI after years of broken promises and anti-worker, anti-democratic behavior.

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

“Américo was part of that group of writers quite capable of affirming, with tears in their eyes, their total dedication to literature - "if I don't write, I waste away," or "oh, writing for me is like breathing" - despite the fact, unfortunately, that they have nothing to say.” José Eduardo Agualusa

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of seeming original. Américo was part of that group of writers quite capable of affirming, with tears in their eyes, their total dedication to literature - "if I don't write, I waste away," or "oh, writing for me is like breathing" - despite the fact, unfortunately, that they have nothing to say. Having conquered the final page, I don't think thered be many readers who could summarize the plot. I'm not sure it even had a plot. Still, Américo pretended to believe me. He clapped me on the back with the manly delight of somebody who has run into an old drinking buddy from his wild youth, and gave me a big, magnanimous smile:
"What about you? Have you written much?"

Cover of the short fiction collection A Practical Guide to Levitation by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn. There is a black and white etching of a forest on the cover. It is laminated because it is a discarded library book.

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 08/04/2026

Big news! ARB's first fundraiser is officially live! We're shooting for the very modest goal of $1k, with lots of stretch goals in mind. Your support is of course appreciated, and any help in spreading the word would be wonderful!

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Ancillary Review of Books: Year 7!

Questioning power, imagining possibility: ARB provides thoughtful criticism of speculative fiction. Help us pay our writers and staff!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/03/2026

Post-Ithaca notes, abbrev. Some recommended reading (essays which you might have missed) and also re-highlighting your small press recs from earlier, which have been super fascinating browsing. More at length later after I finish this talk! vajra.me/2026/03/29/r...

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Red Second Winter

Post-Ithaca notes; some recommending reading.

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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

TODAY, all loyal partisans of the IILF are called to assemble at Liquid State for our latest reading.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 18/03/2026

For the Ithaca-proximate, this is now TOMORROW (and the day after)

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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

IN ONE WEEK: join us at Liquid State Brewing in Ithaca for a reading and discussion featuring @vajra.me and @debbieurbanski.bsky.social!

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'm very jealous of all the non-American authors who get to publish little novellas and tiny essay collections that top out 100 pages. We gotta bring that publishing culture to the states.

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🚨 SOUND THE PODCAST KLAXON! A new episode of Critical Friends has just arrived, fresh-faced, in your feeds. Paul Kincaid and @yukondawn.bsky.social talk to me about style: what is it, what place has it taken up in SFF, and why is it so fraught? Come for Le Guin and Vonnegut, stay for police raids.

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Critical Friends Episode 21: On Style

Paul Kincaid and Dawn Macdonald join Dan Hartland to discuss style.

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Had a fascinating bottle of Paw Paw Cider from Blackduck Cidery (Ovid, NY) yesterday. Great tropical notes from a great native North American fruit.

A brown bottle with a label that looks like a cassette, with a hand-written name: Paw Paw Cider. Next to it, a glass of cloudy cider. Both on a wooden table.

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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front reemerges from a period underground to resume its revolutionary literary activities with a reading at Liquid State Brewing on March 20th, featuring @vajra.me and @debbieurbanski.bsky.social! Join us!

Ithaca Irrealist Readings

A boozy reading series featuring authors of the
fantastic, the surreal, the absurd, the
speculative, and the odd.

Vajra Chandrasekera
Writer from Colombo, Sri Lanka, whose novels The Saint of Bright
Doors and Rakesfall have won the Le Guin Prize for Fiction,
Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, Crawford, and Otherwise Awards, and been
selected as New York Times Notable Books of 2023 and 2024. A
2025-2026 Fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for
Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Debbie Urbanski
Author of the novel After World-named a best book of the year by
the San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, the Los Angeles Times
tech, Booklist, and Strange Horizons-and the story collection
Portalmania. Published in The Best American Science Fiction and
Fantasy, The Best American Experimental Writing, The Sun,
Fantasy & Science Fiction, Granta, and Conjunctions.

Liquid State Brewing
Friday, March 20 - 6 PM
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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

How are the Fossoways making cider in years’ long summers? How are those trees getting the required chill hours? That’s my question.

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Will McMahon @willmcmahon36.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Happy to have sold another story to @lightspeedmagazine.com. “And all will be well, friend(s)”, a kind of fabulist story about consciousness, animism, and where we go when we die (in every moment). Forthcoming sometime.

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Rank-and-file nurses, now on week 4 of their historic open-ended strike in New York City, organized an action on Monday targeting state governor Kathy Hochul over the executive order that's allowed hospitals to bring in scab nurses from out-of-state. Photos by Labor Notes Organizer Sarah Hughes

Workers hold up a sign that reads, "Necesitamos Mas Enfermeras, Menos Millonarios."

Workers hold up a sign that reads, "Mount Sinai, we find a way to pay our execs, but we can't find a way to fund health insurance!" It features pictures of executives with their multimillion dollar salaries displayed below each.

Workers hold up a sign that reads: Hochul betrayed nurses! No License? Hochul Yes!

Workers hold up a sign that reads, "Se Necesitan Mas Enfermeras para la Atencion Segura del Paciente."

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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them. This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! bit.ly/4big77u

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National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE

NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: “The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 22/01/2026

My next-next-next book is about the Winnipeg General Strike in 1919 so I've been reading about it, and to a lesser degree other general strikes, and some things struck me in the research. I'm not a historian or any kind of expert, but here are a few of the things that struck me. +

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PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

$5 fiction sale! No coupon code needed. Offer ends tonight at midnight PST.

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