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Jordan Kurella
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Trans Queerdo. Nebula and Sturgeon Award Finalist. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe Press). Got more stories, essays, and poems at JordanKurella.com. He/Him. No GenAI. Fuck ICE.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · Nov 21
eligibility post time!!!!
this year i published two things:

novella: THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS from @lethepress.bsky.social

short story: "The Messengers of Despair" from @bcsmagazine.bsky.social

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the cover of THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS is off to the left of this image. the rest of it is text on a dark blue background. it says: AWARDS ELIGIBILITY The Death of Mountains from Lethe Press ELIGIBLE FOR: the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and other novella etcetera LISTEN: if you want to think of this book during awards season? great! thank you very much! are there too many things to think about right now? of course there are. way too many things. i am making this graphic while also internally screaming and procrastinating dinner. so. i get it.
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nicowritesbooks.bsky.social
Rhysling nominations close today! I hope you'll consider 'Eagle-Eyed', my slipstream poem published in Eye to the Telescope, for the short-form category.

🪶 The doctors had no explanation
   for the bird’s eyes set into
   my flawed and human head.

Read now: eyetothetelescope.com/archives/057...
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
eyetothetelescope.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
I taught a man to fish, he ate for a day

I taught a fish to man, he stood up straight, gave me a firm handshake, and handed me his resume

It’s my pleasure to introduce our new CFO Mr. Sunfish
February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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honeybadger10.bsky.social
When Dorothesha from Brooklyn journeys to Oz 🤣
February 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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thatelizabeth.bsky.social
I know you will find this a shock so I need you to sit down.

There are countries which are not the usa
February 15, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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cursedpingu.bsky.social
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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lifeisterrible.bsky.social
i can’t stop laughing
February 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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the-green-queen.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
What would be super cool is if people stopped inventing apps and training robots to ruin our lives and instead invented a type of cat food that doesn't squirt ungodly gravy all over my wrist when I open the package it comes in.
February 14, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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landbeforetim.bsky.social
This is blackout poetry to me
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
If the people who made THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS can recognise it as transphobic, so can you www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
‘Silence of the Lambs’ Team Reckons With Transphobia Criticism: “There’s Regret”
As the hit movie turns 35, Ted Levine opens up to The Hollywood Reporter about complicated feelings over playing Buffalo Bill and the representation of gender: "It's unfortunate that the film vilified...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
and yet, there are so many books here waiting!

novels!

books2read.com/ExitGhost

authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-h...

books2read.com/burnupinvict...

novellas!
authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h...

books2read.com/DrownedHeir

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Books by Jennifer R. Donohue Novels (with pictures of book covers): Exit Ghost, Learn to Howl, Baying the Moon, The Company of Wolves. Burn Up in Victory Novellas (with pictures of book covers): The Drowned Heir, Between the Blood and the Sun, all 8 Run With the Hunted covers together in a grid.
February 8, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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kcmeadbrewer.com
very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now

we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!

www.thedollhouse.studio
The Doll House
www.thedollhouse.studio
February 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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hayliebswenson.bsky.social
Absolutely impossible to put to words how awed I am by K.C. and Evan’s commitment to art, Baltimore, community, whimsy, hospitality, and beauty. The Dollhouse is all of that in miniature. I’m so excited to see it debuted to the world!
kcmeadbrewer.com K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 2d
very very excited (& nervous! stage jitters!) to share news of a project that my person & I have been working on for so long now

we're starting a tiny artist residency here in Baltimore; say hello to The Doll House!

www.thedollhouse.studio
The Doll House
www.thedollhouse.studio
February 14, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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wardqnormal.bsky.social
Roses are red
Hippies are dosin'
You make my pituitary
Release oxytocin
February 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
You know, I never really talked about this, but while we're doing this ~discourse~ I've got a little story to tell...
chadstanton.blacksky.app Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d
“We should be able to denigrate and abuse “big accounts” because people follow them,” is …an unhinged proposition
February 14, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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storyhour.bsky.social
The Locus Recommended Reading List is out! So many great reads here. Congratulations to all with work on the list, including Story Hour guests @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @franwilde.bsky.social, @tanaudel.bsky.social, @pat-murphy.bsky.social, and... (1/4) locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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thedreadfulpoint.bsky.social
Top: Scrooge, from below, shouting down from his window "You there, boy! What day is it?" Bottom: Jason Voorhees, from above, looking up.
February 13, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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bethcato.bsky.social
The deadlines for the Rhysling and Nebula Awards are coming up, & Hugo noms just opened! Please consider my works for the poetry categories. I'm threading my poems that are available to read for free online: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Beth Cato's 2025 poems for awards consideration: Short form - "The Teacher Gains a Demonic Student" Star*Line 48.2 Spring 2025 (also a Pushcart Prize nominee) - "These Seeds I Carry," Eye to the Telescope issue 56: Plants (April 2025) - "The Girl and the Kelpie," Penumbric (June 2025) - "When the Cat's Away," Daikaijuzine issue 22 (June 2025) - "As Safe As Fear," Daikaijuzine issue 22 (June 2025) - "The Cartographer in the Afterlife," Daikaijuzine issue 22 (June 2025) Long form - "What the Old-Timer's Say," Hauntings and Hoarfrost published by Tyche Books (January 2025) Please consider these poems for the Rhysling, Nebula, and Hugo Awards. Thank you!
February 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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authorizedmusings.bsky.social
pencil in July for the hottest historic fantasy novella!
authorizedmusings.bsky.social Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7d
enough buy links to make the universal book link worth it!

Action Park meets The Backrooms in 1994

books2read.com/AmusementPar...
salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover and a cover blurb on it: book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing. Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom. cover blurb: Riley's best friend Tara went missing last October from the shitty amusement park where she worked. By spring, the police are no closer to having any answers, so Riley's taking it in her own hands. She just knows Tara's still at the park somewhere, and an uncanny phone call on Riley's first day as a park employee only confirms that. The quest to bring Tara or her body home draws Riley further from her family and her boyfriend as she spends more time in the park's liminal spaces and opening day looms large. coming July 15, 2026
February 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
February 13, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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sweetrori.bsky.social
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
This story made my whole day.
jongraywb.bsky.social ✪ Happy Black Fistory Month! ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2d
A nice anecdote to cap the night. Today was an especially long day. As I got out of the car, a group of young black kids maybe 6-8 yrs were out playing. I let Willow out of my car & heard the little girl say: “A dog! Dogs are scary!” The little boy said “They’re ok. Thats Willow & The Professor”

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February 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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transgenderreport.com
No One Is “Transing the Gay Away.” That’s Not How Sexuality Works

www.transvitae.com/n...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
No One Is “Transing the Gay Away.” That’s Not How Sexuality Works
Is society “transing the gay away”? A clear breakdown of why sexual orientation and gender identity are separate and not in competition.
www.transvitae.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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nickharkaway.com
Vandalism.
markhisted.org Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 2d
In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
February 13, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
During a congressional visit, Congressman Joaquin Castro discovered that babies as young as two months old are being held at the Dilley, Texas Family Concentration Camp. (February 10, 2026)
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM