Lauren Ring

FUCK ICE!

We’re running a fundraiser to benefit The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and The Food Group MN. 100% of proceeds from our sale will be donated, split 50/50.

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i am in my offline era 😌

sara killing it as always ‼️

Appears this is also true for fascism.

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

FEELIN' PRETTY NOW OR NEVER TO ME

As promised in our newsletter, we're organizing a giveaway of the Summer Eternal Anthology Deluxe Firestarter Bundle!

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An image with a dark purple background and the ConCurrent logo across the top, plus a rainbow going across the bottom. Text in light purple reads AWARDS ELIGIBILITY 2025. Below that, in a white text box, is the following text: Hugo Awards Best Related Work (Please also consider us for community or fan-based awards!) About ConCurrent: - No LLM usage - WorldCon Fringe - Free to attend - Inclusive - Zero COVID transmissions

It's awards eligibility season and we at ConCurrent are definitely eligible for one award: the Hugo Award for Best Related Work. However, if you think we're a good fit for other awards, please do consider us! Short fact thread incoming. 1/

@sfwa.org: bro wtf

a love-hate letter to the game of my childhood 😌

windows into the soul

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

A photo of a woman in pink in a wheelchair. She has an intubation for oxygen. She looks up at the viewer. Words: This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine ! would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all. may her memory

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

InkFoundry Welcome to Inkfoundry! A curated, searchable library of short fiction tagged and organized to help readers find stories and authors they'll love.

So it seems a lot of short fiction readers don't know about @inkfoundry.bsky.social! This is a great site to look for your next great read.

worldcon hall C with an orange-and-white light leak beam superimposed in the middle

developed some film i accidentally partially exposed to light and it made this pic from worldcon look like star trek transporter sfx

"lauren are you okay all you ever do is retweet the streets and sodium lights quote"

no. but its somewhere to be

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

this story was constructed in a lab to appeal to me specifically

Tired: check on your strong friends
(unclear, mixed framework)

Wired: relieve your strong friends of their watch
(actionable, rest-specific, provides care within the fortified edifice wrought by himbo brain weasels)

Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️‍🌈😍🦄

Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...

YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”

For sale: ship of theseus
Condition: used, like new

big white cat sleeping on a purple cat tree with light falling on him in celestial shapes from a star and moon cutout curtain

realized i have not yet catposted here so good moomin morning to you all

YAY WELCOME!!

is there still a way to join for the settlement? i thought i wasnt in there but actually at least five of my stories are ☠️

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there.

Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Yet another night of terror for our friends in Gaza City 🚨 The giving circle supports 6 families + a displacement camp of fifteen more in Jabalia.

Anything is bold, life-sustaining, and hopeful, especially if you click "weekly." 2202/2500 by Saturday. chuffed.org/project/hope...

unfortunately for this bingo card, i love that book! need to find something i havent read 😭 ty for the rec!!

Book bingo adult summer reading 2025 sheet with all squares filled in except "Hope". Other squares include stickers and writers/editors of the following: Suggested by a Library Worker is Hijab Butch Blues, SAL Speaker is H of H Playbook, Grief is Blood Sweat Glitter, PNW Nature is Nature Obscura, Censorship is The Memory Police, Author from Another Continent is The Sunforge, Suggested by an Independent Bookseller is A Physical Eduation, Flower on the Cover is Death in Yellowstone, Intergenerational Friendship is FutureDyke, New-to-You Format is Pinky & Pepper Forever (Special Edition), Dystopia is Wool, Found Family is The Brief History of the Dead, Resistance is A Country of Ghosts, Humor is How Could You, Disability is Skin Tooth and Bone, Great Escapes is The WIll of the Many, Monsters is The Hollow Places, Read in Public is Nigerians in Space, BIPOC Historical Fiction is Last Night at the Telegraph Club, One Big Book is The Sun and the Void, Gender Bender is The Sapling Cage, and Buddy Read is Psycho Nymph Exile

im missing just one very apt square from #BookBingoNW2025 and would love some recommendations for books about hope!! looking for fiction only and preferably scifi :)

(alt text has no authors/editors bc character limit but feel free to ask abt any of the books and im happy to give more info!)