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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie)
@kaiewrites.bsky.social
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Canadian dark speculative author 🖤🇨🇦Words in: STRANGE HORIZONS, FANTASY, LIGHTSPEED, PULPHOUSE, FACTOR FOUR, NOSLEEP &more | @cwillbc.bsky.social president | CWC educator | #ecopunk #bodyhorror #monsters #gothic #dystopian #sff
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K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social · Oct 3
All the 🖤 to @factorfourmagazine.com Ansible Press @blackcatbooks.bsky.social @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social PULPHOUSE(x2) @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for giving 🇨🇦weird SFF/H a home in 2025 (it's been a whirlwind few months~)

Read/links: kaie.space/standalones

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Silver and gold tone text on dark mottled background with sketchy pen-and-ink or tattoo-style accent images of talons clutching a radiating eye and a skull overrun by tentacles under the text West Coast Weird. Remaining text reads: K.A. Wiggins 2025 Mid-Year Fiction Round-Up Originals "Geosapiology: a brief history of geogenesis, the Stones, and the Theory of Appeasement" (The Daily Tomorrow, JUL 2025), thinky eco-apocalypse sci-fi serial—3.8k words "Crumbling of the Sandwich Generation" (Factor Four Magazine, SEP 2025), lit-spec flash nightmare—900 words "Powerhouse" in The Kindread Coast (Black Cat Books, OCT 2025),YA brainrot ecopunk cryptid horror—6.1k words "The Mistletoe Matchmaker Is Wilting" (Pulphouse, TBA 2025), seasonal tragicomic fairytale horror—5.5k words Reprints: "The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)" (Strange Horizons, 2024; Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror Volume 3, Tenebrous Press, 2025) "The Patron Saint of Flatliners" (Mysterion, 2024; Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 3, Ansible Press, 2025) "The Pink Slime's Appointment With Destiny" (Pulphouse, 2024; Really Big, Pointy Teeth, WMG Books, 2025) Links in bio or at kawiggins.com Silver and gold tone text reads K.A. Wiggins 2025 Mid-Year Fiction Round-Up, Links in Bio or at kawiggins.com on dark mottled background with sketchy pen-and-ink or tattoo-style accent images of talons clutching a radiating eye and a skull overrun by tentacles under the text West Coast Weird. Six book or magazine covers/graphics are arranged across the background: The Kindread Coast, edited by Caroline Lavoie and Monique Riel. Cover art of a blue-and-teal water monster with red accents and a black cat by Lydia Avsec. Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Volume 3 edited by Stephen Kotowych. Cover illustration of space craft "Repair Station 73" by Pascal Blanché. Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume Three edited by Alex Woodroe. Cover art of a green skeletal zombie with coral brains on a cereal box by Matt Blairstone. Factor Four Magazine 50th Issue. (50 in orange tone text over blue clouds, designer unknown.) Really Big, Pointy Teeth: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine edited by Dean Edward Smith. Yellow cover with googly-eyed fanged face in center, artist unknown. The Daily Tomorrow, text over newsprint background, designer unknown.
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kehyslop.bsky.social
This was a tough one to write. It is depressing to see kids & women deal with with the same misogynist, sex-shaming and/or sexual-exploitation shit, now with tech upgrades.

Are Grok's Fake Nudes Breaking Canadian Laws? A Tyee Explainer via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...
Are Grok’s Fake Nudes Breaking Canadian Laws? A Tyee Explainer | The Tyee
It depends on the province you’re in, say tech and privacy law experts.
thetyee.ca
January 20, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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adamrose.bsky.social
I'm looking for witnesses/victims of DHS retaliating against people who were recording their agents (ICE, Border Patrol, FPS, etc.) in Southern California.

This is for LA Press Club v. Noem case, but victim does NOT need to be press/journalist. Everyone has right to record. We're fighting for all.
January 22, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.
jchavezmpls.bsky.social Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 12h
Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.

gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
Donate to Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home, organized by sarai Orquiz
Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos is just 5 years old and currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and h… sarai Orquiz needs your support for Help Bring 5-Year-Old Liam Home
gofund.me
January 22, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise.

The floor is now The Hague.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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muellershewrote.com
Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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trungles.com
I’m usually so bad at taking my own advice, but I’m gonna hang onto this one because I still feel this way. Art by itself won’t save us by itself, but community can. And I think it will.
trungles.com Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Jun 11
Not to be unkind, but I am so impatient about the “what’s the point of making my little zines/comics/crafts/art when the world is on fire” sentiments. I get it, but saving the world is not a responsibility shouldered by your art! That’s what being a neighbor, a friend, and hell, a citizen is for!!!
January 21, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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meadekrosby.bsky.social
Worth noting losses to federal science extend well beyond these programs, e.g., to Dept of Agriculture, Dept of the Interior, and elsewhere. We've lost 30% of our federal colleagues at the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center in the past year.

Rebuilding will take decades.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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mnemonicer.bsky.social
Gender all the way down. Toxic masculinity.
mprnews.org MPR News @mprnews.org · 1d
"Research would tell us that most ICE agents entered into these jobs in part because they want approval, and they want to affirm their masculinity in public," said sociologist Nicole Bedera. "An ICE watch works by surrounding these people ... with disapproval."
Observing ICE agents is 'a de-escalation tactic,' sociologist says
The federal government has accused ICE watchers of breaking the law. Sociologist Nicole Bedera said ICE watchers have science behind them. She spoke with MPR News host Clay Masters.
www.mprnews.org
January 21, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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nickjbrumfield.bsky.social
My advice for anyone trying to navigate the current environment is

1) try to do something useful for the community
2) find any safe harbor that will let you survive the next few years; doesn't matter if it's digging ditches, if it pays the bills it works
January 21, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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theftfpodcast.bsky.social
Calling published SFF authors!

I’m researching the work lives & well-being of science fiction and fantasy authors for my doctoral dissertation, and I'm looking for participants!

If you’re a published SFF author interested in participating, then DM me and I can provide details
January 20, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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polgreen.bsky.social
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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lsangha.bsky.social
📢Job: postdoctoral research officer📢

For 'Witchcraft politics (Hexenpolitik) across the sea. A new entangled history of #EarlyModern England and the Holy Roman Empire', led by Profs Alison Rowlands & Rita Voltmer. 🗃️

- 33 months
- 0.8 FTE
- Deadline 1 Feb

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
Senior Research Officer at University of Essex
Explore an exciting academic career as a Senior Research Officer. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 9:35 AM
kaiewrites.bsky.social
#VanIsle #Fantasy fans unite! Come hang out at the endlessly charming Windowseat Books in Nanaimo’s old quarter for a (free/unticketed!) fantastical escape~🐉⚔️🧙‍♀️🔮🪄

Feat. readings & fantasy writing panel + book signings w/ VI🇨🇦authors on Thurs. Feb. 26 from 6:30-8pm🔥

windowseatbooks.ca/events/44422...
Promotional graphic for Dark Dreams: a winter book event. Fantasy live readings, panel discussion and author book signing. 6:30-8pm, Thursday February 26 at Windowseat Books, #6 321 Wesley Street in Nanaimo, BC, Canada with Kate Gateley, Patrick Elworthy, Joshua Gillingham and K.A. Wiggins. Light/gold text over ombre green to black background with a black dragon silhouette and falling stars. Promotional graphic for Dark Dreams: a winter book event. Fantasy live readings, panel discussion and author book signing. 6:30-8pm, Thursday February 26 at Windowseat Books, #6 321 Wesley Street in Nanaimo, BC, Canada with Kate Gateley, Patrick Elworthy, Joshua Gillingham and K.A. Wiggins. Light/gold text over ombre green to black background with a black dragon silhouette and falling stars. Features author photo of Joshua Gillingham with seven of his books and anthologies.
January 19, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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sfpoetry.bsky.social
Calling all poets: Eye to the Telescope is accepting submissions for issue 60, edited by Angela Acosta, on the theme of Paying Tribute.

Find more details and a form to submit here:

eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
eyetothetelescope.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
some good ideas here...
January 19, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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jillybobww.bsky.social
Excellent thread of fundraisers for communities in need of support in Minneapolis.
jchavezmpls.bsky.social Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 3d
Andersen Middle School is home to a large immigrant and children of immigrant population. 53.8% of the population is Latino and the Midtown Phillips Neighborhood is home to a large immigrant community.

gofund.me/ca4009fc8
Donate to Support Andersen Middle School Families, organized by Erin Trapp
Andersen Middle School Parents and Caregivers are holding a special fundraiser spec… Erin Trapp needs your support for Support Andersen Middle School Families
gofund.me
January 18, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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violanorth.bsky.social
ICE agents. are putting. stuffed animals. on dashboards. to fool children. into thinking. they won't be kidnapped.
girlvgrizzly.bsky.social ICE OUT General Strike Friday, Jan 23 @girlvgrizzly.bsky.social · 5d
Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.
January 18, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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us.theconversation.com
The Trump Administration’s decimation of international aid could result in more than 14 million deaths by 2030, including over 4 million children under 5.

Aid groups are scrambling to find new funding buff.ly/AmcnKcj
International aid groups are dealing with the pain of slashed USAID funding by cutting staff, localizing and coordinating better
Doing more with less may not be sustainable for an exhausted workforce over the long term.
theconversation.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
A quick note to all the media covering Minneapolis right now, the Reich called my grandfather and great uncle "protesters" when all they were doing was stopping SS from disappearing their neighbors. So maybe don't be like the Nazi Press unless you are the Nazi Press.
coachfinstock.bsky.social Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Oct 22
Killed my grandfather and my great uncle for speaking out against the Reich. Took over my grandmother's house with my mom living there as a child. And they were not Jewish. Nazis are not an abstract concept.
bostonjerry.bsky.social Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · Oct 22
There's a lot of abstract talk about nazis right now and I just want to bring it back to concrete reality for a second:

Those motherfuckers tried to murder MY GRANDPARENTS.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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aarnegranlund.bsky.social
”Moreover, purchasing from European brands supports local economies, upholds stringent environmental and labor standards, and contributes to the advancement of sustainable transportation solutions.”

Have you considered #EU27 #eBikes yet? They don’t run on imported oil.

euronomy.eu/e/electric-b...
Top European E-Bike Brands in 2025: Quality, Local Support & Sustainability
Explore leading European e-bike brands like Riese & Müller, Gazelle, Cube, and Orbea. Discover reliable electric bikes with local service, guaranteed spare parts, and a commitment to sustainability an...
euronomy.eu
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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stinasdemons.com
📚💙🩸 Since I'm seeing a bunch of posts about the importance of buying & supporting indies...

Let me remind you that I have both a Starter Pack and Feed list of indie horror publishers who ALSO have confirmed NO AI/LLM policies:

Starter Pack:
go.bsky.app/UwgWqLc

Feed list:
bsky.app/profile/did:...
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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erikloomis.bsky.social
This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1913. Teachers in New York City held the first meeting of what would become the Teachers League in New York. This would spur the creation of the American Federation of Teachers a few years later and moved forward American teacher unionism significantly!!!
January 18, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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maryharris.bsky.social
As strange and alarming images come out of Minneapolis, I’ve been thinking again about this article @tomscocca.bsky.social published after January 6th 🧵
January 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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blbalthaser.bsky.social
We should stop referring to what ICE agents wear as “masks,” as it feeds into stigmatization and actual legislation to ban face-masks, including respirators. ICE agents technically do not wear masks; they wear neck gaiters. However we should refer to them as what they actually are: hoods
January 18, 2026 at 6:55 AM