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Scott Beggs
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Recovering film critic
MFA from UTEP
SFWA newbie
Rejection collector
Fictional nonsense at PseudoPod, Dark Moon Digest, SANS press, Creepy Podcast, and more.
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blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/

been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful

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December 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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It has begun.

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December 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
scottbeggs.bsky.social
Who all’s planning to use fresh Epstein/Trump pics for their holiday cards?
December 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
scottbeggs.bsky.social
A lot of writers already know this but no one else does because the carrier pigeons unionized (which I support!). I’m launching a fiction mag in February. The slush pile is sloshing and the stories are already phenomenal. Get ready for new work from amazing people.

www.adventitious.net
A green logo of arrows pointed both directions, with Adventitious written in yellow.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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vajra.me
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
vajra.me
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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nytimes.com
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
Alice Wong, a woman in a wheelchair with dark hair, poses in a pink and orange outfit and berry lipstick. A headline reads: "Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51." Photo via John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
scottbeggs.bsky.social
Oooooooooooooooooooo
sarahgailey.bsky.social Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · Aug 28
Announcing MAKE ME BETTER (May 2026)

There is no grief at Kindred Cove, because there is no suffering. Nothing's ever lost.
Celia’s ready to be healed by the community that lives there. She’s ready to be transformed.
She's ready to believe.

✨Cover by Will Staehle

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of MAKE ME BETTER features a feminine figure in the middle of a series of distorted concentric rings. The field is black, and the lettering, figure, and rings are all in bright hypercolor. Will Staehle is the artist who created this and I would die in battle for him
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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sarahgailey.bsky.social
You can preorder your copy right now via @bookshop.org
Make Me Better: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
scottbeggs.bsky.social
This is a killer story.
October 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
Please check your kid’s Halloween candy tonight. Apparently requests for a synopsis are being hidden in candy bars.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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erininthemorning.com
In the first 9 months of this year, I have tracked many anti-LGBTQ+ laws. I've also wrote about the people fighting back against them.

Read my latest post at the Kettering Foundation, and hold onto hope.

kettering.org/when-institu...
When Institutions Fold, Local LGBTQ+ Communities Exemplify Courage
In the first nine months of the second Trump administration, the crackdown on transgender people has been relentless. But there is a spot of hope: local communities are resisting these policies and sh...
kettering.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
COUNT I

Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.

COUNT II

The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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peterhallhuman.bsky.social
For your viewing pleasure now: the MAN FINDS TAPE poster

For your viewing in the near future: the MAN FINDS TAPE trailer (out tomorrow)

For your viewing in the not-too-distant future: MAN FINDS TAPE, in theaters and on VOD on 12/5
Man Finds Tape movie poster - a young woman looks to camera, her face ominously blurred
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
scottbeggs.bsky.social
Probably just a coincidence that Hegseth is anti-beard and the vast majority of shaving waivers are for Black service members.
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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kryton3298.bsky.social
"Here is a photo that about sums things up. This is my friend and colleague Pastor Jorge Bautista getting shot in the face by an ICE agent's flash bang grenade. Jorge's demeanor is calm and brave. Here's what's true: those who, like Jorge, are calling for Love and Peace and inclusion and the
October 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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nicolefoy.bsky.social
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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indivisible.org
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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effies.bsky.social
Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
scottbeggs.bsky.social
Well sure it’s easier to get a picture like this when you’re off the ground.
October 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Only about halfway down.
October 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Drove by 2 protests on the way to the protest that leads to the main protest.
October 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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m.pahuski.com
Happy Columbo’s Day
Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.” “If the car’s gone,” “I’ll give you another cookie anyway” “because I love you.”
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work.

And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

www.lucemass.org
LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA
www.lucemass.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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capitalb.bsky.social
“In this environment that we’re in right now, it feels like an understatement to say that there’s misinformation being spread about this community. People really forget that we’re human beings.”
No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In.
A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.
capitalbnews.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM