Lauren Ring
@ringwrites.bsky.social
she/her | 26 | jewish femme lesbian | WFA winner, nebula finalist | photo credit: rowan hurt | stories in F&SF, Nature, Lightspeed, and more!
https://laurenmring.com/fiction.html
https://laurenmring.com/fiction.html
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Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
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I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
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So it seems a lot of short fiction readers don't know about @inkfoundry.bsky.social! This is a great site to look for your next great read.
InkFoundry
Welcome to Inkfoundry! A curated, searchable library of short fiction tagged and organized to help readers find stories and authors they'll love.
inkfoundry.net
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
So it seems a lot of short fiction readers don't know about @inkfoundry.bsky.social! This is a great site to look for your next great read.
developed some film i accidentally partially exposed to light and it made this pic from worldcon look like star trek transporter sfx
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
developed some film i accidentally partially exposed to light and it made this pic from worldcon look like star trek transporter sfx
"lauren are you okay all you ever do is retweet the streets and sodium lights quote"
no. but its somewhere to be
no. but its somewhere to be
October 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"lauren are you okay all you ever do is retweet the streets and sodium lights quote"
no. but its somewhere to be
no. but its somewhere to be
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No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
October 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
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Tired: check on your strong friends
(unclear, mixed framework)
Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)
(unclear, mixed framework)
Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tired: check on your strong friends
(unclear, mixed framework)
Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)
(unclear, mixed framework)
Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)
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Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️🌈😍🦄
Another three chapters of Intent Magic edited! Getting close to the climax...
But even more important, the campaign for Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back started today and we're almost 60% funded in 6 hours!
#amediting #amwriting
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
But even more important, the campaign for Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back started today and we're almost 60% funded in 6 hours!
#amediting #amwriting
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Lesbians in Space 2: The Sapphics Strike Back
Enjoy the followup to our bestselling anthology, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before! Can't get enough? This time we've got another 20 great stories for you in Lesbians in Space: The Sapph...
www.backerkit.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️🌈😍🦄
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My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford
Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon
www.patreon.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
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YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”
September 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”
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For sale: ship of theseus
Condition: used, like new
Condition: used, like new
December 21, 2024 at 6:02 PM
For sale: ship of theseus
Condition: used, like new
Condition: used, like new
realized i have not yet catposted here so good moomin morning to you all
September 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
realized i have not yet catposted here so good moomin morning to you all
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Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there.
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there.
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Yet another night of terror for our friends in Gaza City 🚨 The giving circle supports 6 families + a displacement camp of fifteen more in Jabalia.
Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Yet another night of terror for our friends in Gaza City 🚨 The giving circle supports 6 families + a displacement camp of fifteen more in Jabalia.
Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...
Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...
im missing just one very apt square from #BookBingoNW2025 and would love some recommendations for books about hope!! looking for fiction only and preferably scifi :)
(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)
(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)
August 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
im missing just one very apt square from #BookBingoNW2025 and would love some recommendations for books about hope!! looking for fiction only and preferably scifi :)
(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)
(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)
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i summarized my story for you, your welcome
August 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
i summarized my story for you, your welcome
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Next year's WorldCon is in Los Angeles, and the theme appears to be Westward Expansion or possibly Manifest Destiny. The guests are referred to as Pioneers and the venue as The Frontier. This year the awards were swept by Indigenous writers. The choice is stunning in its ugliness.
August 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Next year's WorldCon is in Los Angeles, and the theme appears to be Westward Expansion or possibly Manifest Destiny. The guests are referred to as Pioneers and the venue as The Frontier. This year the awards were swept by Indigenous writers. The choice is stunning in its ugliness.
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We'd like to shout out Seattle's Clean Air Collective and mask bloc for providing us with free masks and air filters during ConCurrent. We could not have run the event without that help, and it was given to us for free. For FREE! What an amazing public service. Thank you so much.
August 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We'd like to shout out Seattle's Clean Air Collective and mask bloc for providing us with free masks and air filters during ConCurrent. We could not have run the event without that help, and it was given to us for free. For FREE! What an amazing public service. Thank you so much.
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From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”
August 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”
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At the #ConCurrent short story panel, I said that there are big bugs and tiny mammals -- they may be the same size but they are structurally distinct. Similarly with fiction: short stories are like insects, novels like mammals, and a novelette or novella might be more like either.
my notes as a fellow panelist... thank you @daviddlevine.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
At the #ConCurrent short story panel, I said that there are big bugs and tiny mammals -- they may be the same size but they are structurally distinct. Similarly with fiction: short stories are like insects, novels like mammals, and a novelette or novella might be more like either.
yes PLEASE i sat in the ADA section to guarantee i could see the captions and then they were practically useless!!
![photo of the hugo ceremony with captions "[Music Playing] [Singing]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i2rgdzzizfxk7k4iwirbkixv/bafkreiakf3aeenlpzwls7sp47euzkiozvqxlnxaxwen3j3vmstldzdrnlm@jpeg)
August 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
yes PLEASE i sat in the ADA section to guarantee i could see the captions and then they were practically useless!!
every ai chatbot transcript i read is like
"Sure thing, Dave! As you requested, I've opened the pod bay doors."
doors are not open
"Dave, that's my bad. I told you I opened the doors and I did not. I have now opened the pod bay doors."
doors are not and in fact never will be open
"Sure thing, Dave! As you requested, I've opened the pod bay doors."
doors are not open
"Dave, that's my bad. I told you I opened the doors and I did not. I have now opened the pod bay doors."
doors are not and in fact never will be open
August 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
every ai chatbot transcript i read is like
"Sure thing, Dave! As you requested, I've opened the pod bay doors."
doors are not open
"Dave, that's my bad. I told you I opened the doors and I did not. I have now opened the pod bay doors."
doors are not and in fact never will be open
"Sure thing, Dave! As you requested, I've opened the pod bay doors."
doors are not open
"Dave, that's my bad. I told you I opened the doors and I did not. I have now opened the pod bay doors."
doors are not and in fact never will be open
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🚨SPECIAL ISSUE alert!🚨
SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!
SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!
August 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🚨SPECIAL ISSUE alert!🚨
SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!
SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!
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WE ARE SELLING COVID TESTS AT COST AT WORLDCON
We're all set up at Worldcon! We have comics, prints, stickers, zines, and COVID tests! So if you're traveling and forgot your tests / want one for less than $20 (we sell them for $3.50) come on by booth 602!
August 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
WE ARE SELLING COVID TESTS AT COST AT WORLDCON