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My 2024 novelette “The Limner Wrings His Hands” is now free to read online! stateofmatter.in/blog/the-lim...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Dr. Mimi Syed, who completed two medical missions in Gaza, shares footage from the pediatric department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza, where another child has died from the cold. This brings the total to 6 in the last two days and 15 since the beginning of winter.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

First thing I see when I wake up is that Hugh Howey's (author of the Silo trilogy) latest book is a collection of AI-generated poetry. Well, that's me never finishing the Silo trilogy, then. hughhowey.com/the-algorith...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

@naomialderman.bsky.social Hi, apologies in advance for the weird question. Were you part of a small group that many years ago created a fancy website that annotated a famous text ? (a novel, maybe) I vaguely recall something like this but can find no record of it online. Thanks!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I just wrote about how this deal is taking very basic human rights and utilizing them as bargain chips. And after I published I realize Israel is holding back the release of Palestinians, which many civilians. Why are civilians in captivity? open.substack.com/pub/beccastr...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

I've now released the generation code, origin text, bonus materials, and 10,000 newly generated copies of Subcutanean, my queer horror novel where each copy is unique (as I promised back in 2020 that I'd do five years after release). Details and links here: subcutanean.textories.com/source-relea...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

We are burying my dad at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery and I want to talk about what that means and encourage you to look into whether there's something similar near you. 🧵1/

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

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.

submitted 10 days ago • 147 comments

80 year old Palestinian was used a human shield by Israeli soldiers this past spring. After the troops let him go, they forgot to update the nearby troops, who shot and killed him and his wife as he passed all by the route the first group of troops told them to take www.ha-makom.co.il/1057919-2/

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Asmaa has 3 children incl Adam, who is 3 and has special needs. They lost their home to Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. Healthcare, including Adam's medicine, & essentials are scarce & expensive in the famine left by Israel's destruction. Please share & give to help:

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Myers-Briggs but good, alternate theories of historical development, coffee alt-history, queer game mechanics, the ideological choices of epic fantasy, and just a little bit on Yentl: @benjaminrosenbaum.com is on to talk about Laurie J. Marks' FIRE LOGIC! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/02/10/a...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Israel is holding 21-year-old Afro-Palestinian artist, student, and activist Shaden Al-Qous hostage. Israel’s military kidnapped her from her home in East Jerusalem on January 6, after five days of forced house arrest. Soldiers ransacked her home, confiscating her laptop and phone.

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

The great writer @aliettedebodard.com is going through an awful situation, so a bunch of us put together a funding link to help. (I’ve been asked not to add to what she’s said here.) Do give whatever you can, and please spread the word. www.gofundme.com/f/helping-al...

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

@solarisbooks.bsky.social Something seems wrong, because most of your store is $1, including paperbacks and hardcovers

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

The sapphic dark political fantasy “Metal from Heaven” by August Clarke is currently $1.99 at multiple ebook vendors. A political revolution against capitalism led by a lesbian bandit biker gang - it’s bloody, queer, intense, visceral, & sensual. Lyrical prose with Mad Max frenetic energy.🌈📚

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

chip in, spread the word, let's help if we can

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Please share & give to help Nael's family, including his daughters Joan & Kinda, survive & rebuild their lives after more than a year of Israel's genocidal famine, bombardment, & siege on Gaza:

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Marah & Motaz lost their home and work & were displaced with their baby Miela by the genocide in Gaza. They're still starving, freezing, and sick after a year of Israel's famine & siege. Please share or give to help them get their child the care she needs, & rebuild their lives:

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Gaza Government Media Office: The death toll from the war has surpassed 61,709, including 47,487 whose bodies have reached hospitals, while 14,222 remain missing under the rubble or on the roads

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

@apexmag.bsky.social Hi. With the new(ish?) website, the links to the poetry pieces all give 404 errors. I tried it with several issues. Here's one example: apex-magazine.com/back-issues/...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Ramadan's family lost their home to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They're still starving, freezing, & sick after Israel's imposed famine & bombardment, & urgently need shelter, necessities and healthcare, especially for their baby Muhammad. Please share or give to help them rebuild their lives:

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments