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Diamanda Galás Releases Two New Recordings on Día de Muertos

You Must Be Certain of the Devil (remaster) + De-formation: Second Piano Variations

More information, streaming and purchase: dub.sh/muertos

DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS USE SULDIEKS AGAINST CITIZENS ABANDON ALLIES PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS BELIEVE HIM.

The New York Times with a rare win

Whoops did we mention that #LitCrawl is going down in San Francisco Saturday Oct 25 and that we’re hosting !!!Katie Flynn!!! !!!Cynthia Gómez!!! !!!Nick Mamatas!!! !!!LeeAnn Perry!!! and !!!Khan Wong!!! at Latin American Club on 22nd St X Mission at 6:30pm??!!

Well, the world is on fire, American history is being bulldozed for a Vegas ballroom, but at least I built a new spreadsheet for calculating indie press print-periodical income and expenses.

Starting an indie press and helping bring great work into the world is lifetime mission fulfillment. But there are a lot of fucking admin and finance spreadsheets one has to create and then continually populate. Oh yeah, and then there's fulfillment. You can't bollix a single bit of this.

BREAKING: Live munitions from a Trump-Vance “military demo” flew over I-5 and struck a CHP vehicle. The White House wanted the highway open—but Gov. Newsom shut it down for safety. That decision likely prevented injuries or worse.

We have obtained these photos:

22 arrests.
All Maga.
Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman.
I think we know who the violent ones are.
#NoKings

Hey BlueSky: After hell-of consultation with Experts, we made a landing page for The Fabulist's print subscription campaign. Can you be our pre-launch review team? Take a gander, click the buttons, let us know if it gels!

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That’s disingenuous af. No. They’re co-opting langauge and providing cover for LLM creep. Fk that. You’re either on the bus with the humans or not. AI vegan is the only way to go. Mixing my metaphors, tra la …

Roses & Wildflowers open for 2026: societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/ro...

I hope HWA members will consider "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here: Weird Fiction in the San Francisco Bay Area" in Weird Fiction Review #13 for short non-fiction.

NB: April 2025 was actual release, not Fall 2024.

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The Fabulist Picture of Chinese calligraphy Story title: In Our Hearts Risen

Like most androids of her generation, Annie-A was petite and sturdy-looking. She tried to make herself useful and cleaned off specks of dust from the couch in my office and fluffed the cushions. Her only complaint was tiredness: every week, Mondays, at seven p.m., she came in to tell me how tired she was. The technicians could find nothing wrong with her build. Her hormone levels were normal, her core DNA encoded with the basic programming had shown no signs of deterioration, her neural pathways were robust and continued to develop at a normal rate. They diagnosed her with a mild robotic depressive disorder and sent her to me. I usually started by asking about her week, but Annie-A found the question difficult to approach. She worried the cushions, then leaned back and closed her eyes: she needed a little time to rest, she said.

My lovely publisher at @fabulistmag.bsky.social recently boosted this story I wrote about an overwhelmed android, who can't stop composing her log notes. She is a career!

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#fabulistfiction #fabulism #flashfiction #shortstory

Very happy to have new work forthcoming in @fabulistmag.bsky.social . I’ll post again when my ogre story is up. But here’s a link to my Pushcart-nominated story from 2020. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚💙

Old Yeller was actually benign and wonderful of course …

ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team ICE plans to hire contractors to scan platforms to target people for deportation.

Recommended solutions for increasing gov’t surveillance?

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Hot reads free! The Fabulist @ Lit Crawl 2025 presents: "STRATEGIES AGAINST DARK DREAMS OF EMPIRE": Saturday, October 25, 6:30p.m., The Latin America Club, 3286-22nd St. (x Mission/Valencia) fabulistmagazine.com/lit-crawl-25...

I know I RTd this last night, but I had a closer read of it now, and yes, this is helpful, if you haven't already done these things. I had done them, but it was good to double-check, as I've heard of updates that turn these features back on.

Public Domain Super Heroes

Public Domain Super Heroes!

Stir: a reading series at Cafe Suspiro San Francisco Coffee Shop Record Shop Book Shop

Oh heck, did I mention, we have a reading tonight!? @tkrex.bsky.social booked it, @syr.bsky.social and @charliejane.bsky.social and Lehua Taitano and Charlie Getter are at the mic, and Cafe Suspiro is hosting and _hot dang_ this is gonna pop! 6pm-8pm, 1246 Folsom St. in SAN FRANNIE!!!!

Read the whole thread, but think about what this means about stories in periodicals and anthologies. SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS, eds. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, my 1st pro sale, was stolen by LibGen. The book won a World Fantasy Award. But as an anthology published in Canada, it's excluded.

So proud of how this turned out, and so very honored to have been trusted with the beautiful works of these #neurodivergent creators.
#neurodivergentanthology #neurodivergentwriters
#neurodivergentauthor #neurodivergentartists #neurodivergence #neurodiversity

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.

I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.

The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.

Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk

Please share :)

Whatever you think about iPad kids, I really don't think we're ready for Chatbot kids

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It's my newsletter! I finally wrote another one

'Oct. 2 reading + Oak story + Oooh, rain'. buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

With shoutouts to @syr.bsky.social @fabulistmag.bsky.social and @stelliform.press 📚 💕

Locus magazine cover with yellow background and a sword going through the water

Imagine the joy of receiving a full-color Locus Magazine in your mailbox each month—a treasure trove of reviews, interviews, and book news. Collect this month's issue and future editions here:
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Scammers are now faking the FBI's own website - here's how to stay safe FBI warns its scam reporting site is being spoofed. Here's how to be sure that you're going to the real site.

I always encourage defrauded writers to report the fraud as widely as possible (there are resources for doing so in the Legal Recourse section of the WB website)--but scammers always try to stay a step ahead (as if there weren't already enough to worry about) www.zdnet.com/article/scam...

CAN - Spoon Records We have some AMAZING news. Irmin's opera GORMENGHAST, based on the trilogy by Mervyn Peake will be performed for the first time in Austria. The brand new production will premiere the 31st October in.....

Wait — there’s a Gormenghast opera by CAN keyboardist Irmin Schmidt??!

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YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News 'You Don't Have An Answer?': Richard Blumenthal Stunned By VA Official's Response

Top VA officials testified that they don’t know how many doctors and nurses have left.

We do.

The VA is down 600+ doctors and 1,900+ nurses this year.

After years of growth, the number of docs has declined each month since Trump took office.

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