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Running out of time for this kickstarter...only 3 days left & they're running short! @utopiascifi.bsky.social

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if you’re wondering how things are going: both of my senators’ voicemail boxes are full. who knows why, but! one can hope.

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If you're looking for some amazing poems (to nominate for awards, or just because poetry can shine a light in otherwise dark days), we are putting out some fabulous things in @smallwondersmag.com. smallwondersmag.com/issues/

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“I could roll like a meatball off the car seat, out the door and down the highway. I could be a wonderful monster.”

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new aphorism explaining the perniciousness of Calvinism just dropped

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Take the town halls to them.

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Lots of great news @reckoningmag.bsky.social while I'm on hiatus. Super excited to see that my own "A Predatory Transcience" has dropped on the podcast. Read by @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social (thank you so much for lending your voice 💙). Produced by Aaron Kling (thank you!) reckoning.press/podcast-epis...

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$25 for a year’s subscription! Utopia publishes hopeful spec fic and pays contributors 8 cents per word!

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Something I learned from expert writers like Andy Weir and, inversely , from beginner writers on Critique Match is, if something “goes as planned” then use narrative summary to get past it, don’t dramatize it. Dramatize what goes wrong~ #WritingCommunity #amEditing ✍️

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This week, 2/24 - 2/28, is our #StopCensoringAbortion Week of Action! Let’s flood the feeds of every social media platform that we can. Share your stories about abortion-related content removal or show your support for #StopCensoringAbortion.

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My brother asked me for a favor: would I read the Lord's Prayer in Japanese at his wedding? I said yes, with a condition, and discovered some Azuchi-Momoyama Japanese history along the way. Read on to learn more:

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10.6 million "That’s the number of Ukrainians who have been displaced, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It includes 3.7 million who have moved inside the country and 6.9 million abroad, most of whom are in Russia, Germany and Poland." wapo.st/4idK7S0

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He's right. Reminds me of a Gene Wolfe short story, "How the Whip Came Back," about a UN vote to restore slavery, and its links to forced prison labor and robotics. The robots are not human-like--not practical to build that way. But the twisted desire to control human-like beings does not go away.

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🐙🎹 Today is the day 🥹‼️ The day my story “The Piano Player Has Eight Arms” emerges into the sunlight, from the murky depths of the second most exclusive restaurant under the sea 🍽️🌊 #amwriting #newscifi #cephalopods #shortlit #scifi

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Empathy, like love, is not a zero-sum game. In fact I would argue that the more you allow yourself to feel, the more you are capable of feeling.

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Your regular reminder that the more often you own your mistakes, the easier it gets. It is like any muscle-- work it more and it gets stronger. All people mess up, and sometimes we do so publicly. It's not the end of the world to acknowledge that we missed the mark; it's how we clean up.

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By definition most books are not bestselling books and by definition bestselling books are read primarily by people who don't read very many books. These two definitions are crucial for understanding both the publishing industry and your potential audience.

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Haven Spec dedicates two issues each year to climate fiction and they’re super cool! Please help them keep doing great work!

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Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

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everyone should have some massive, insane art project they can leave unfinished at the time of their death an epic poem in a made up language! seventeen intricate altars made out of trash! something with way too many antlers! amaze and trouble the world upon your passing

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[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

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absolute chef's kiss from @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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If you like: 🤖big robots who just want to help people 🔥post-apoc focused on community building 🦾the power of FRIENDSHIP 🐶a very good doggo You should check out "Steadyboi After the Apocalypse" now on @escapepod.org ! :D escapepod.org/2025/02/06/e...

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There has been a shift in the Trump team's language in their anti-DEI attacks. All of a sudden they started calling it "DEIA", with the A being "accessibility". If you don't think it's a coordinated effort to remove disabled people from every facet of life, well I have news for you.

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Ooh, this one sneaks up on you!

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Please, PLEASE call your senators and urge them to oppose RFK Jr.'s nomination. You may think public health doesn't impact you (which would be impressive five years into a global pandemic), but it does, and people will die if he's confirmed.

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friend shaped 🥺

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at Psychopomp, the cool shit is never ending: this October's issue of @thedeadlands.com is going to be guest edited by . . . VAJRA CHANDRASEKERA (@vajra.me) !!!!!!! read the full announcement below and share and celebrate wildly 💀🖤🙌

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The number of people telling me Jews need to see the vile images going around today because “too many Jewish people support Trump” are just antisemitic pieces of shit. EIGHTY EIGHT percent of Jewish women voted for Kamala. SEVENTY NINE percent of all Jews. Who the fuck are you talking to?

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Not everyone can run or sit on a board. Good thing there are literally dozens of other proactive means of defending libraries and schools! Here are but 56: bookriot.com/56-small-tas...

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Announcing our Winter 2025 Lineup! We hope you’ll read along with us! Featured Authors: Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social F.E. Choe Yaroslav Barsukov @barsukov.com Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social Premee Mohammad @premeemohamed.com 1/3

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So excited to see this issue out in the world! Check out editorials from @priyachand.bsky.social, @cgaubrey.bsky.social, and @martin65.bsky.social for a preview of what’s to come ✊🌻

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If you are in the US and made under $67k last year, check to see if there is an IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program in your area. We prepare and file federal and state income taxes for free. We also do prior year and amended returns. www.irs.gov/individuals/...

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delighted to be adding my voice to Swordfights & Spaceflights' Letters to the New Year, where i cope with the future by talking about a Ted Chiang story. you know, as you do. get hopeful & get angry with us at swordfightsandspaceflights.com/2024/12/31/d...

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Happy New Year! A reminder that submissions are OPEN today and will be open until January 15 11:59pm CST. So get your stories in!

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What would you do if you got trapped in an autonomous car by a creep who wouldn't go away? It's my first ever story in Clarkesworld! clarkesworldmagazine.com/elison_01_25/

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We are now open to submissions with a raise in author pay, with so many thanks to our supporters. Cannot wait to read your terrifying unruly anomalous awesome fictions!

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A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors

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1/ Does climate activism work? The short answer is yes, and there's been lots of research this year showing how Here are some highlights 🧵

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husband, looking at a hot spring: wow, it's like an elegant wet and wild me: DAMP AND DEBONAIR

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Your book made a best of 2024 list? Congrats! That’s great. Keep at it. You published something in 2024? Congrats! That’s great. Keep at it. You wrote something in 2024? Congrats! That’s great. Keep at it.

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get yourself some Dragonfly for the 🎄holidays🎄. a book where everyone hates each other and also wants to fck each other (or fck each other over).

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