@radonjournal.bsky.social just sent out the bat signal for cyberpunk flash for their issue 13
As we enter the second half of Issue 13's reading period, we would love to see more transhumanist or cyberpunk flash fiction.
We have a fair number of longer dystopian works, and want to round out with our futuristic meat and potatoes
Submissions are OPEN for our special issue theme:
THROWBACK TECH 🎥📺📻🎮📀📼🕹️👾
Edited by @prof-bogs.bsky.social
Let's do this. You have until March 31. It's a new year, let's celebrate with old tech.
➡️ thecosmicbackground.moksha.io/publication/...
The No ICE in Minnesota bundle is available for 1 more week! For $10, get over 1400 #TTRPGs / supplements (including a PDF of Noctopolis, my horror superhero module for Apocalypse Keys), and support immigrants in Minnesota!
The bundle: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...
Kristi Noem was asked during Senate testimony yesterday whether Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving DHS contracts.
"No," Noem said.
That's.....BS. And my colleagues have the goods.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.
Here’s how it works 1/
Huge congratulations to the two Radon poems nominated in this year's Rhysling Awards:
1) "Mannequin Mom" by Rebecca O’Bern (Issue 10)
2) "Mend Your Broken Bow and Aim It at the Sky" by @virtualpowerpoet.bsky.social (Issue 10)
sfpoetry.org/wp/rhysling-...
I feel this. You’re unlikely to even get a response from me since I delete these emails and block the sender after reading just the opening lines. It sucks that it’s come to this, but it’s an unfortunate reality for a lot of writers these days.
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
Automatic wishlist after Calypso
Tapping the sign.
Congratulations to all the 2026 @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award nominees! 🎉
Very exciting to see twelve (!!!) poems from last year's Strange Horizons issues on the list!
Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their work and thank you to everyone who read and enjoyed them! ❤️
Nebula nominations are closing soon. If you’re still considering short stories, I hope you’ll keep this one in mind. Thank you.
Shiny, irradiated copies of Issue #12 have started to arrive! Have you ordered yours yet? 16 all-new SF poems and stories for the low low low price of $6.99
linkeroo:
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Just two weeks left on Nebula nominations. If you’re still reading short stories, I’d be honored if you’d consider this one.
Rhysling Award nominations close on February 15th (with Nebula and Hugo noms closing soon after)!
Here's a thread of all my poetry from 2025.
1) "The Mourning Robot" (in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social)
- if you've ever wanted someone to cry for you after you died
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
SFPA members, there’s still time to nominate your favorite poems of 2025 for the Rhysling Awards! Nominations close February 15, so get yours in today!
Thrilled to be part of this incredible roster with my story, “From the Ice and the Darkness.” A reminder that this horror anthology is still crowdfunding. It’ll happen regardless but if you can chip in it’ll help Stars and Sabers keep bringing you more great fiction.
ko-fi.com/post/Our-Thi...
Please call the Senate they will vote very soon on whether to allow dangerous sulfide-ore copper mining on the edges of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Tell them to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140 (H.J. Res. 140).
ICYMI
Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter:
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If you’re reading for the Nebulas, Hugos, Auroras, Locus, Ignytes, or most SFF awards, I’d love it if you’d consider this short story. It’s now also on the BSFA long-list. This one means a lot to me so I hope you’ll give it a read.
Understanding society is dangerous to reactionaries selling racial animus & crushing austerity, while enriching the rich
The world is going to blow past the 1.5 C goal of the Paris Accords. Even limiting global warming to 2 C will be very hard.
But we might still be able to pull it off if we change tactics, and focus more attention on climate “Emergency Brakes”.
globalecoguy.org/hitting-the-...
Really good listen. Entirely applicable to the rise of reform and the Tories dive into extremeism.
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
what impressed me most today was that a huge crowd of people who mostly had never been tear gassed managed to retreat without running or trampling each other. under a cloud of gas that was not moving (zero wind), people held onto each other and walked blind down a street packed tight as sardines
