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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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...

bookshop.org

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 6d

🎉🎉🎉 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 · 6d

Also really fun!

Megaera Lorenz @megaeralwrites.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Cat @catgee.bsky.social · 6d

Really enjoyed this one!

Devin Madson | Rebecca Ide @devinmadson.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

Submissions are open until 15 October!

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 19d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 24d

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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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 11d

Trump is asking us to start choosing groups we're willing to abandon, and the only way to make him stop is to be clear we're not fucking abandoning ANYONE.

Call your reps. Call your fucking reps. Especially in red states. Use the @5calls.org app, it's easy and free.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 11d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11d

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 · 24d

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.* 🧵

Hi, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I'm one of Senator [THEIR NAME]'s constituents. House Republicans are trying to insert a multiple articles of anti-trans legislation, including a full transgender healthcare funding ban, into the F-Y '26 budget. I'm calling to tell the Senator to stand up for trans Americans and vote NO on any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown.

[you can stop here at 0:20 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

This care funding ban follows the map the G-O-P charted while attacking abortion. Democrats lost that fight by giving in to the G-O-P an inch at a time. Giving an inch at a time on trans care will devastate trans Americans and it'll get Democrats nothing in return but contempt.

[you can stop here at 0:40 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

Right now, the most popular Democrat in the U-S, [Zo-RAHN Mom-DA-nee], is campaigning on making trans healthcare cheaper and easier to access, and he's only got more good will because of it.

[you can stop here at 0:50 if you want to bail out—but it's better if you don't]

I'm asking the Senator to refuse to allow any anti-trans language including a healthcare ban in the F-Y '26 bill. Do not vote for any bill with that language. This IS worth forcing a shutdown. Standing with trans people is the right thing to do and it's politically smart. Voters and donors show up for Democrats who fight.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 11d

Look I try not to doomsay or spread panic but this shit is truly and deeply Very Bad for every single trans person in America and unless everyone makes it their mission in life over the next few days to make sure that their reps know that shutting down the government is the correct option here.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 11d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 11d

Some Latinx authors to buy instead:
Anna-Marie McLemore
Gabe Cole Novoa
Tehlor Kay Mejia
Aidan Thomas
A. E. Bross
Isabel Canas
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Natalia Hernandez
There are many more, but those are the ones within immediate reach on my Kindle and TBR pile

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 11d

Just a reminder that Freydis Moon's new book is going to released tomorrow and that they are NOT Latinx or Mexican. They are a serial Brownfisher who loves to appropriate and steal from BIPOC people and be a cyberbully on top of that.

Please give your money to real Latinx Authors instead.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 11d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 11d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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