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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 13h

My neighbor told me neptune
keeps
eating his
submariners
so l asked
how many submariners he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets
a new
submariner
afterwards so l said it
sounds like he's just feeding
sub-
mariners
to neptune
and then his jefferson davis
started crying.
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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 4h

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4h

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Diamond Hands: Master Bag Holder @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 12h

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 19h

There are so many amazing stories and poems in the new Autumn issue of Kaleidotrope!

Fiction
“Singularities” by Cressida Roe
“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice
“The Nine Crashes of Flight Lieutenant Hilla Quinn” by Louise Hughes
“The Beekeeper’s Daughter” by Neil Willcox
“Follow My Instructions, I Promise This Won’t Hurt” by Akis Linardos
“What Am I This Time?” by Scott Edelman
“The Hunting of the Phoenix” by S.L. Harris
“Godling, Runner, Thief” by Avra Margariti
“My Collectors” by Shaenon K. Garrity
“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen
“The Violin/ist or The Madrigal” by Katie R. Yen
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

Poetry
“Eldritch Democracy” by Chris Clemens
“Shapeshifters’ Local” by Rick Hollon
“Lacus Solitudinis” by Josh Pearce
“I have been to the market” by Shana Ross
“Atomic” by Jennifer Crow
“Bedazzled” by Robert Borski
“Bestla” by James Joseph Brown

Artwork by Carly A-F

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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 1d

Be our Valentine! Not long until the cover reveal for Nebula finalist @cornellwriter.bsky.social’s SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, out just in time for Valentine’s Day 2026! This retrofuturistic, sci-fi romance novelette will charm you to the moon and back.
#scifi #books #scifiromance #2026books

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Cameron @crimeron.bsky.social · 2d

Something has happened between the advent of fanfiction and now that has made a vast swathe of the reading/watching/gaming population completely averse to any discomfort or even low-stakes conflict in fiction. I don’t know what it is but it weirds me out.

Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 3d

Someone at the TVL NYCC panel asked if the writers had considered "solving" the louis-lestat-armand love triangle with a throuple and the response was an emphatic NO (lol) and i have a take brewing that readers/fans are drawn to imagining solutions where writers are more about loving problems

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Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 3d

Someone at the TVL NYCC panel asked if the writers had considered "solving" the louis-lestat-armand love triangle with a throuple and the response was an emphatic NO (lol) and i have a take brewing that readers/fans are drawn to imagining solutions where writers are more about loving problems

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Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social · 15h

Finished reading Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction Vol 3 - so many amazing stories!*

My favorite: Sophie Gazarian’s “The World in Our Hands,” from @fusionfragment.bsky.social.

You should get this book: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

*(Also one by me which may or may not be amazing.)

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three - Kindle edition by Kotowych, Stephen. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 18h

One of my favorite medieval dudes is a guy named Sir Hugh Eland, a knight who started his career by pillaging his neighbors and ended it as a noble advocate for prison reform (from behind the bars of Nottingham jail).

Medieval story time!

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 19h

I also saw someone say that subplots are a sign you’re not confident in the core of your story. when I came to there was blood all over my hands

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 19h

this is arguing with people in the quotes but there's no length a book "should" be. some need to be short. others need to be long. and a long book is not a failure of editing, because the goal of editing is not inherently to make something short

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 20h

It would be tacky and obvious to buy and read either of these books, with their creepy, atmospheric, unsettling stories, in October. Come on. You're better than that.

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · Mar 22

Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...

The covers of both books with quotes in praise of them, and of specific stories:

“‘Modern Buildings In Wessex’, which pulls a compelling horror narrative out of several architectural reviews, is an all-timer. Can’t recommend enough... Fans of Ghostwatch and Inside No. 9 – run don’t walk.”

Trevor Henderson

“...a tremendous collection, hugely enjoyable, and essential... for anyone interested in the English ghost story... ‘Men Who Live in Caravans’... is one of my very favourite stories of recent years: a future classic of the English weird, full of an almost unbearable sadness, quite exquisitely told.”

Seán Padraic Birnie

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 23h

Help support @apexmag.bsky.social and unlock some great campaign milestones: a story by me (👀) and editor Story Time already unlocked. More to come, including a story by Angela Liu! AND stretch goals including Kai Delmas as editor of a themed Drabble submission period!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

There's just 17 DAYS LEFT to back the 2026 Apex Magazine Kickstarter! We've been supporting outstanding authors writing strange, shocking, beautiful stories for 20 years...help us keep doing it for 20 more! 💜👽

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

"Only 3% to go until...Lesley and Rebecca host a Watch a Horror Movie with the Editors night!"

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 1d

But I am just a plain simple menswear guy

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 1d

my dream job is to be the guy who renames streaming services every 12-18 months ($725k/yr)

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 1d

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to praise Donald Trump for bringing back Columbo Day, as he deserves to be celebrated

a man talking on a phone with the words " oh there 's just one more thing sir " below him

Alt: Columbo saying "Oh there's just one more thing, sir"

media.tenor.com

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2d

art lit criticism is my passion ass guy

Yes, Thiel said, perking up. "There are all
these ways where trying to live
unnaturally long goes haywire" in
Tolkien's works. But you also have the
elves. "And then there are sort of all these
questions, you know: How are the elves
different from the humans in Tolkien?
And they're basically
- I think the main
difference is just, they're humans that
don't die
"Why can't we be elves?" he said.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 2d

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 1d

Ain't this swell? By Jack Burnley and Stan Kaye, colored by Jack Adler. May 1947.

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bonnie @fifthdoctor.bsky.social · May 26

another cover for seeing i by @kateorman.bsky.social and jonathan blum

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bonnie @fifthdoctor.bsky.social · May 26

some previous iterations (2021 and 2023)

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lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one · 2d

lilith kills u @deathcarpets.sisc.one • 8mo

it's so crazy how the real Al widespread use case seems to be "skimming an email and missing the important stuff" which is one of the things i'm best at

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

We all love Apex. Let's keep Apex thriving and publishing for a long time to come.

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Apex Magazine is at $7178 out of a $20,000 base goal! They have 16 days to go!

Help THEM reach their Apex!

(there are also stretch goals)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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