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Cat

@catgee.bsky.social

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SFF writer, work in Clarkesworld, Augur, Flash Fiction Online, elsewhere. Codex, SFWA. She/her aka azurewaxwing cgfiction.com

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 23d

Overjoyed to be in this, and in the company of so many incredible authors!!!

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 23d

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 13h

"Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario have all lined up at the Supreme Court to say that when a government invokes the Notwithstanding Clause, the courts should stay out and not even look at the case."

The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine

When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours

xtramagazine.com

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 11h

There hasn't even been enough time for there to have been an outrage cycle of pushback.

The people in charge simply have no idea what they're doing.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

nyti.ms

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 18h

“I call upon the prime minister to make this right and stop victimizing me and other #Inuit who were treated as lab rats for the benefit of an unexplained biological program. I am not a monkey.”
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Former premier of Nunavut calls on Carney to stop victimizing Inuit

Paul Quassa is among the Plaintiffs in a class action filed almost six years ago over biological experiments.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 1d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 2d

For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 3d

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

kotowych.com

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 3d

y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 3d

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Naming Song

Check out The Naming Song - A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro. “The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of langu...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 5d

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 6d

I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one in this boat 😅 and perhaps this confession is my prompt to actually search it out and watch it

Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 6d

I know, it is shocking! A lot of people have tried to get me to rectify this oversight and for some reason the time has just never been right!

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 6d

I'm a bisexual elder Millennial who hasn't seen The Mummy

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 7d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 7d

Also really fun!

Megaera Lorenz @megaeralwrites.bsky.social · 7d

I wrote The Shabti, a spooky supernatural thriller/historical fantasy about a cynical phony medium and a sweet Egyptologist falling in love while they solve the mystery of a haunted artifact! If you crave tender middle-aged MM romance set in Depression-era America w/angry ghosts, check it out:

Goodreads

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

www.goodreads.com

Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 7d

Really enjoyed this one!

Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide @devinmadson.bsky.social · 8d

i have many horny gays and also ace rep in my locked in murder mystery romance set in fantastical regency England ✨🏳️‍🌈✨

also creepy automata, crumbling gothic manor, major friendship plot line alongside the romance one, and The Homosexual Cutlery Moment™️

The Gentleman and His Vowsmith: An addictive queer Regency fantasy full of magic and hot romance

An addictive queer Regency fantasy full of magic and hot romance

uk.bookshop.org

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 7d

Give us scifi, give us fantasy, give us anything in between, a bit scary here, a bit heartbreaking there, some frantic action, hope that lingers, a fun ride with so many layers underneath...
Any and all of it, or something else?
Don't self reject, SUBMIT 🥰

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 7d

Submissions are open until 15 October!

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 20d

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 9d

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 8d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8d

Adelita Grijalva won her special election on September 23rd.

Speaker Mike Johnson still hasn’t sworn her in.

She’s being prevented from governing.

Why? Because she’s the deciding vote to release the Epstein files.

Learn her name.

Call your reps and demand she be sworn in.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9d

No money for Musk, ever. Delete your Twitter. Boycott Tesla.

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 9d

Elon Musk Calls for Netflix Boycott Over Trans Character

www.transvitae.com/e...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Elon Musk Calls for Netflix Boycott Over Trans Character

Elon Musk urges a Netflix boycott over Dead End: Paranormal Park, a trans-led series canceled in 2023, exposing the absurdity of such protests.

www.transvitae.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11d

everyone should legitimately be done forever with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social if he doesn't sign SB79. people took massive risks to get this through, YIMBY groups scraped together a coalition that could get through both chambers, if he fucking bails out now he's worthless.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11d

A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently.

It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.

Homeowners denounce SB 79 vote - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News

Legislation awaits governor’s signature

beverlypress.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 12d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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BixByte @bixbyte.bsky.social · 12d

I HAAAAAAAATE making calls, it makes me anxious.

But protecting trans people is WAY more important.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ CALL CALL CALL 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

#DidThisToday #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12d

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care.

#DidThisToday

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 25d

so: what do we need you to do? two things.

1.call your D/I senators. find contact info here: reps.fyi

what do we need you to say? try the call script below. adapt it; make it your own! there are bailout points written in, in case you get nervous. but please *call.* 🧵

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