T. K. Rex
@tkrex.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy author from the western states. Podcast co-host @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social. Debut solarpunk collection THE WILDCRAFT DRONES drops May 21, 2026 @stelliform.press. Stories & newsletter signup at tkrex.wtf.
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T. K. Rex
@tkrex.bsky.social
· Oct 2
A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is out today! Edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, with artwork by @abistevensart.bsky.social, this special issue celebrates neurodiverse creators with reprinted work from Reckoning's first 10 years. Check out the full ToC and read CG's editorial here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
Yes! I am in this! Go get it 💕🐬💕
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My friend needs help perusing their writing life! Please help if you can and share widely ❤️
LP is working hard to complete their BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, but financial hurdles are making it tough. Every donation helps cover tuition. Please consider contributing or sharing this campaign to support their journey. Every bit counts!
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Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
My friend needs help perusing their writing life! Please help if you can and share widely ❤️
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/T0lToFo
Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/T0lToFo
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?
Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/T0lToFo
Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/T0lToFo
But also support candidates and ballot measures that fund the fucking arts
This. You can work non-stop and have all the talent and still not see a dime from that effort. It's not a complaint - just a feature of what it means to create art. For most people art is the journey not the eyes that experience it afterwards. This is ok but should also set your expectations.
Some close friends to be get a little frustrated in my tendency to priortise luck in my own career, as they know how I work. I try to explain that work just is buying a lottery ticket. It's necessary, but certainly not sufficient. I know many folks who've worked as hard but the dice have been cruel.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
But also support candidates and ballot measures that fund the fucking arts
Dire straights are actually most closely related to coyotes
My phone's autocorrect just changed "dire straits" to "dire straights."
Now I have to know what separates a straight from a dire straight. Is this like a dire wolf situation where they're entirely different species? Or are dire straights just very tall?
Now I have to know what separates a straight from a dire straight. Is this like a dire wolf situation where they're entirely different species? Or are dire straights just very tall?
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Dire straights are actually most closely related to coyotes
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and the issue 99 COVER ✨
Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
and the issue 99 COVER ✨
Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb
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Please help @lpkindred.bsky.social stay in school in these difficult times. He's a great person who's had a rough go and deserves all the good things.
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Please help @lpkindred.bsky.social stay in school in these difficult times. He's a great person who's had a rough go and deserves all the good things.
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
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I would sell my entire soul for all my fellow science communicators to stop ending the "story of the dinosaurs" at the end-cretaceous extinction and dive into, even briefly, the story of cenozoic birds. I'm also willing to offer cash, I just don't have much of it.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I would sell my entire soul for all my fellow science communicators to stop ending the "story of the dinosaurs" at the end-cretaceous extinction and dive into, even briefly, the story of cenozoic birds. I'm also willing to offer cash, I just don't have much of it.
chemistry subplot
twist: organic chemistry!
twist: organic chemistry!
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
chemistry subplot
twist: organic chemistry!
twist: organic chemistry!
My Scientific American piece on dinosaur armor is out now in the April issue. This was great fun to write, and it features fantastic art from Owen Weber and Dr Mark Witton
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dino...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/dino...
These Armed and Armored Plant Eaters Were the Most Metal Dinosaurs of All
Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Quick, what’s the most nonscientific, eugenics-ass way of saying “runaway capitalism is incompatible with life as we know it”
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Quick, what’s the most nonscientific, eugenics-ass way of saying “runaway capitalism is incompatible with life as we know it”
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Queer speculative fiction is so real for this and that's why I adore it so. 💖
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Queer speculative fiction is so real for this and that's why I adore it so. 💖
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender
We fiction writers call those “pro rates”
(absolutely reprehensible thought, i know, I deserve to be cancelled)
(absolutely reprehensible thought, i know, I deserve to be cancelled)
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
We fiction writers call those “pro rates”
(absolutely reprehensible thought, i know, I deserve to be cancelled)
(absolutely reprehensible thought, i know, I deserve to be cancelled)
I tried to do what my good friend LP is doing and finish my bachelors degree as a working professional. I failed, but if I’d had this community back then, it would have meant everything to have this happen. It would mean everything now to see my friend get to do this. Let’s share far and wide, ok?
to stick with it!
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Anything you could share is welcome! Any sharing with your network also helps! And I'm already grateful! Thank you so much!
gofund.me/ce21d48c2
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all,
I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
gofund.me
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I tried to do what my good friend LP is doing and finish my bachelors degree as a working professional. I failed, but if I’d had this community back then, it would have meant everything to have this happen. It would mean everything now to see my friend get to do this. Let’s share far and wide, ok?
If you’re driving a car, and that car kills someone, you go to jail. If you’re driving a company and that company kills someone, you should go to jail. If you’re driving a country and that country kills someone, you should go to jail.
If we’re going to have prisons.
If we’re going to have leaders.
If we’re going to have prisons.
If we’re going to have leaders.
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you’re driving a car, and that car kills someone, you go to jail. If you’re driving a company and that company kills someone, you should go to jail. If you’re driving a country and that country kills someone, you should go to jail.
If we’re going to have prisons.
If we’re going to have leaders.
If we’re going to have prisons.
If we’re going to have leaders.
Look I had a cold all weekend and it’s my first time leaving the house in two days. This is interesting content dammit
Update: the sun went behind a cloud. This is a freezing hellscape
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Look I had a cold all weekend and it’s my first time leaving the house in two days. This is interesting content dammit
Update: the sun went behind a cloud. This is a freezing hellscape
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Update: the sun went behind a cloud. This is a freezing hellscape
Life in San Francisco is unironically asking you partner if it’s a cold 55 or a warm 55 outside
And having them reply, without missing a beat: “a warm 55”
And going with the very slightly lighter weight jacket
And having them reply, without missing a beat: “a warm 55”
And going with the very slightly lighter weight jacket
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Life in San Francisco is unironically asking you partner if it’s a cold 55 or a warm 55 outside
And having them reply, without missing a beat: “a warm 55”
And going with the very slightly lighter weight jacket
And having them reply, without missing a beat: “a warm 55”
And going with the very slightly lighter weight jacket
The brochure called the masonry marble but it’s more like well-aged limestone. Look closely. A curved cross-section of a clam. The spiral of a snail’s shell. It still remembers being sea.
When the waves come up to my block, it will welcome them home.
When the waves come up to my block, it will welcome them home.
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The brochure called the masonry marble but it’s more like well-aged limestone. Look closely. A curved cross-section of a clam. The spiral of a snail’s shell. It still remembers being sea.
When the waves come up to my block, it will welcome them home.
When the waves come up to my block, it will welcome them home.
this this this
We would have been much farther along as a species if all the victims of harassment and abuse at the hands of these creeps had not dealt with that. We would have solved more problems, we would have had many more researchers, we would know more about the universe. These people should not be in power.
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
this this this
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I have seen a book cover. I can say no more
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I have seen a book cover. I can say no more
Picard: “make it so”
Burnham: “let’s fly!”
Pike: “hit it”
original Kirk: …
…
“let’s get the hell out of here”
Burnham: “let’s fly!”
Pike: “hit it”
original Kirk: …
…
“let’s get the hell out of here”
November 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Picard: “make it so”
Burnham: “let’s fly!”
Pike: “hit it”
original Kirk: …
…
“let’s get the hell out of here”
Burnham: “let’s fly!”
Pike: “hit it”
original Kirk: …
…
“let’s get the hell out of here”
FDR: why is your turn takin so long
Stalin: … do I have to say it
Stalin: … do I have to say it
Part 4 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
One of Stalin’s pipes, depicting him and FDR playing chess. It was given to him in 1945 by the visiting US chess team
One of Stalin’s pipes, depicting him and FDR playing chess. It was given to him in 1945 by the visiting US chess team
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
FDR: why is your turn takin so long
Stalin: … do I have to say it
Stalin: … do I have to say it
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If you love Gothic fairy tales about statues that come to life, then I wrote my novel, The West Facade for you. 🦇🥀 🌙 Let's be friends!
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If you love Gothic fairy tales about statues that come to life, then I wrote my novel, The West Facade for you. 🦇🥀 🌙 Let's be friends!