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Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers | Meetup
We are a speculative fiction writers group based in Brooklyn. Together, we help one another hone our craft to a more professional level. This group is open to serious writers of fantasy, science ficti...
www.meetup.com
BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
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A message for Unbound authors
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A message for Unbound authors
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“The seven tiers of stacks in which many of the books of the New York Public Library are shelved”: the splendid front cover of May 27th 1911’s Scientific American.
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“The seven tiers of stacks in which many of the books of the New York Public Library are shelved”: the splendid front cover of May 27th 1911’s Scientific American.
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BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers | Meetup
We are a speculative fiction writers group based in Brooklyn. Together, we help one another hone our craft to a more professional level. This group is open to serious writers of fantasy, science ficti...
www.meetup.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
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This is never the wrong answer.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This is never the wrong answer.
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BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers | Meetup
We are a speculative fiction writers group based in Brooklyn. Together, we help one another hone our craft to a more professional level. This group is open to serious writers of fantasy, science ficti...
www.meetup.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 12/8 7:30PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
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BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Marcus's Novel Group - Mon 11/24 7:30PM
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Marcus's Novel Group - Mon 11/24 7:30PM
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers | Meetup
We are a speculative fiction writers group based in Brooklyn. Together, we help one another hone our craft to a more professional level. This group is open to serious writers of fantasy, science ficti...
www.meetup.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Marcus's Novel Group - Mon 11/24 7:30PM
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]
Marcus's Novel Group - Mon 11/24 7:30PM
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 12/2 7PM
On-the-Spot Workshop - Wed 12/3 7:30PM
Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 12/7 3PM
www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...
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FILED TEETH (1980)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 22”
Ace Books contacted me about doing a cover painting for one of a two-book series: DRAGONS OF LIGHT and DRAGONS OF DARKNESS. My art was to be for the second volume. 1/4
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 22”
Ace Books contacted me about doing a cover painting for one of a two-book series: DRAGONS OF LIGHT and DRAGONS OF DARKNESS. My art was to be for the second volume. 1/4
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
FILED TEETH (1980)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 22”
Ace Books contacted me about doing a cover painting for one of a two-book series: DRAGONS OF LIGHT and DRAGONS OF DARKNESS. My art was to be for the second volume. 1/4
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 30” x 22”
Ace Books contacted me about doing a cover painting for one of a two-book series: DRAGONS OF LIGHT and DRAGONS OF DARKNESS. My art was to be for the second volume. 1/4
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We've enrolled more than 700 participants (of 1,000 planned) in 3 weeks to a randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid
Founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, @erictopol.bsky.social, and Julia Moore Vogel, co–principal investigator of the Long COVID Treatment Trial, were featured in @wired.com, sharing insights on a nationwide study testing GLP-1s for long COVID.
Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Is Being Tested as a Treatment for Long Covid
GLP-1s are being studied for a wide range of conditions. Now, scientists will test whether their anti-inflammatory properties can help alleviate symptoms of long Covid.
ow.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We've enrolled more than 700 participants (of 1,000 planned) in 3 weeks to a randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid
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The Hanged Man Tarot card by surrealist artist and author Leonora Carrington, 1950s
#LeonoraCarrington #Tarot #Surrealism
#LeonoraCarrington #Tarot #Surrealism
April 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The Hanged Man Tarot card by surrealist artist and author Leonora Carrington, 1950s
#LeonoraCarrington #Tarot #Surrealism
#LeonoraCarrington #Tarot #Surrealism
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Dyke cartoonists raising hell. Alison Bechdel & Diane DiMassa in Conversation. Moderated by Jennifer Camper. Brooklyn Book Fest 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKp1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKp1...
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Dyke cartoonists raising hell. Alison Bechdel & Diane DiMassa in Conversation. Moderated by Jennifer Camper. Brooklyn Book Fest 2025.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKp1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKp1...
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One of the helpfullest pieces of wisdom I ever picked up is if you want to know what someone is capable of, look to what they accuse others of doing.
Austin Smith, a former Republican state representative and onetime leader within Turning Point Action—the political arm of Turning Point USA—pleaded guilty to forging signatures on nominating petitions for his 2024 reelection bid.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
One of the helpfullest pieces of wisdom I ever picked up is if you want to know what someone is capable of, look to what they accuse others of doing.
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I know there’s a lot going on but if you have any money to spare, please consider protecting a vital wetland area, or share this link.
secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...
secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...
Be One In a Million
We are asking YOU and 1 million people to give $10 to protect and preserve 1,400 acres of wild lands on West Galveston Island.
secure.qgiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I know there’s a lot going on but if you have any money to spare, please consider protecting a vital wetland area, or share this link.
secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...
secure.qgiv.com/event/beonei...
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Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk | TechCrunch
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
techcrunch.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
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And...what's this? The fake Lois McMaster Bujold account that's running a Famous Author scam
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
And...what's this? The fake Lois McMaster Bujold account that's running a Famous Author scam
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I'm enjoying the freakout over on XTwitter about geographical locations being exposed...it's exposing some literary scammers as well. Here's "literary agent" Joyce Momoa, about whom I get occasional inquiries.
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'm enjoying the freakout over on XTwitter about geographical locations being exposed...it's exposing some literary scammers as well. Here's "literary agent" Joyce Momoa, about whom I get occasional inquiries.
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Our civilization takes a hammer to glass.
When trade routes shift, so do clouds: Researchers uncover ripple effects of new global shipping regulations
When militia attacks disrupted shipping lanes in the Red Sea, few imagined the ripple effects would reach the clouds over the South Atlantic. But for Florida State University atmospheric scientist Mic...
phys.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Our civilization takes a hammer to glass.
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Alexandra Pierce reviews THE YEAR’S TOP TALES OF SPACE AND TIME 5 edited by @infinivoxsf.bsky.social and calls it: “some of the best stories exploring aspects of space and time, as science fiction has always done.”
The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 5 edited by Allan Kaster: Review by Alexandra Pierce
The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 5, Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox $19.99, 297pp, tp). September 2025. Cover by Maurizio Manzieri. As with Infinivox and Allan Kaster’s other anthologies, the …
locusmag.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Alexandra Pierce reviews THE YEAR’S TOP TALES OF SPACE AND TIME 5 edited by @infinivoxsf.bsky.social and calls it: “some of the best stories exploring aspects of space and time, as science fiction has always done.”
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Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Locus Magazine is available as an ePub or PDF for all of you bookish eReader people! That way, you can fit it in your pocket and read it anywhere. Check out digital subscriptions here at subscribers.locusmag...
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sunday promotionday
reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is
AVAILABLE 4 READING
6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction
get the ePub/print @ Patreon
OR READ ONLINE👇
reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is
AVAILABLE 4 READING
6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction
get the ePub/print @ Patreon
OR READ ONLINE👇
The Deadlands - Issue 40 | Psychopomp
Guest edited by Vajra Chandrasekera, including the work of: Malena Salazar Maciá, Belle Biscotti, Testimony Odey, Shana Ross, Erin Ulm, Matthew Wollin, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, R.B. Lemberg, Kat Sed...
psychopomp.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
sunday promotionday
reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is
AVAILABLE 4 READING
6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction
get the ePub/print @ Patreon
OR READ ONLINE👇
reminder that issue 40, fiction guest-edited by @vajra.me and custom front and back cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social with many wonderful pieces in between is
AVAILABLE 4 READING
6 stories posted on our website
3 poems
1 nonfiction
get the ePub/print @ Patreon
OR READ ONLINE👇
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It's Day 7 of our 2025 retrospective here in the lounge and we've got Build Your Own Heart by @risawolf.bsky.social in which the Cheropan, having learned that the afterlife requires empathy, goes to Earth to find itself a heart.
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's Day 7 of our 2025 retrospective here in the lounge and we've got Build Your Own Heart by @risawolf.bsky.social in which the Cheropan, having learned that the afterlife requires empathy, goes to Earth to find itself a heart.
I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola
C-O-L-A, Cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice, she said, "Lola"
L-O-L-A, Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola
C-O-L-A, Cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice, she said, "Lola"
L-O-L-A, Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola
C-O-L-A, Cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice, she said, "Lola"
L-O-L-A, Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola
C-O-L-A, Cola
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice, she said, "Lola"
L-O-L-A, Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
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NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated.
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble.
But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash.
Waiting for the feds?
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...