Ruth Joffre
@ruthjoffre.bsky.social
Author of Night Beast | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective | Instructor at Hugo House & StoryStudio | Editor at Reckoning | Contributing Editor at Copper Nickel | Codex | Queer | Bolivian American
www.ruthjoffre.org
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Ruth Joffre
@ruthjoffre.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I’m told I’m supposed to promote my writing here?? not just post pictures of my dog??? idk seems wrong but I’ll try it
my story collection Night Beast is for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado
it has: gay sex, sleepwalking, slime molds, soulmate timers & more
bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...
my story collection Night Beast is for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado
it has: gay sex, sleepwalking, slime molds, soulmate timers & more
bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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"The Lion in Winter" is the best Christmas movie.
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"The Lion in Winter" is the best Christmas movie.
that feeling when you’re snuggling your dog on the couch and the sun sets so there isn’t enough light in the room but the snugs are too good to get up so you just see the faint shine of a distant light on his eye as he gazes adoringly at you 🥹
December 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
that feeling when you’re snuggling your dog on the couch and the sun sets so there isn’t enough light in the room but the snugs are too good to get up so you just see the faint shine of a distant light on his eye as he gazes adoringly at you 🥹
thanks be to the leakers, for they know what's up
December 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
thanks be to the leakers, for they know what's up
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NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
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WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night
December 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night
it looks like I will have one last publication drop before the end of the year. stay tuned 👀
December 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
it looks like I will have one last publication drop before the end of the year. stay tuned 👀
it’s always a good day when you get paid for a story you wrote 🥳
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
it’s always a good day when you get paid for a story you wrote 🥳
“It’s just going to get warmer until Christmas” is a real sentence I just uttered while looking at the forecast 😭
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“It’s just going to get warmer until Christmas” is a real sentence I just uttered while looking at the forecast 😭
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support independent media. idk what else to say right now.
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
support independent media. idk what else to say right now.
I heard someone use the phrase “human store” yesterday and can’t stop thinking about it. like why would you phrase it like that
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I heard someone use the phrase “human store” yesterday and can’t stop thinking about it. like why would you phrase it like that
wrote a whole story in 24 hours! aside from flash, that’s never happened to me before 🎉
December 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
wrote a whole story in 24 hours! aside from flash, that’s never happened to me before 🎉
a Lord of the Rings cover band called The Velvet Uruk-hai
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Chappell Rohan
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a Lord of the Rings cover band called The Velvet Uruk-hai
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"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
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We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
December 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We'll be reading stories for ✨ What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style ✨ from January 15th to April 15th.
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.
<6k words. 8¢/word. simsub ☑️. multiple submissions 🚫.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
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This is an incoherent and useless policy. "You can use stolen work for *some* of your novel but not *all* of your novel."
We're simply asking that you be on the side of the actual people you represent, @sfwa.org, the writers.
We're simply asking that you be on the side of the actual people you represent, @sfwa.org, the writers.
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is an incoherent and useless policy. "You can use stolen work for *some* of your novel but not *all* of your novel."
We're simply asking that you be on the side of the actual people you represent, @sfwa.org, the writers.
We're simply asking that you be on the side of the actual people you represent, @sfwa.org, the writers.
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This is bad. Any LLM use in writing should be grounds for disqualification.
Stop compromising with garbage products pushed on us by fascists.
Stop compromising with garbage products pushed on us by fascists.
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is bad. Any LLM use in writing should be grounds for disqualification.
Stop compromising with garbage products pushed on us by fascists.
Stop compromising with garbage products pushed on us by fascists.
if you use LLMs at any point in creating a story, you're not a writer, so you should not be eligible for a writing award. it's that simple, SFWA!
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...
December 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
if you use LLMs at any point in creating a story, you're not a writer, so you should not be eligible for a writing award. it's that simple, SFWA!
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it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
kadoore.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it's here
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
it's QUEER
it's the
2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
someone called me an animal whisperer yesterday and I'm still smiling about it. like yes introduce me to your doggo, we will be instant friends and they will tell me all their secrets
December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
someone called me an animal whisperer yesterday and I'm still smiling about it. like yes introduce me to your doggo, we will be instant friends and they will tell me all their secrets
get in, losers, we’re rewatching Charade
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
get in, losers, we’re rewatching Charade
new website, new look and feel
About — Ruth Joffre
www.ruthjoffre.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
new website, new look and feel
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December 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
it's a random Monday night in December so of course I'm spending it redesigning my author website 🙃
December 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
it's a random Monday night in December so of course I'm spending it redesigning my author website 🙃