Jonathan Lenore Coffin

Apex Magazine 2026 An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

The Kickstarter for @apexmag.bsky.social is only a few hundred dollars from hitting their funding goal. Help push them over the top!

As a reminder, among the add-ons are signed copies of Plague Birds and We Who Hunt Alexanders. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Katelyn Burns | Patreon creating LGBTQ journalism

I just found out that my health insurance premium is going from $500.mo this year to $660(!!!) next year! What the hell? If you've ever appreciated my work, please please support my patreon. I need your help!

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Three months from now:

Why Trump Was Right to Put the New York Times Editors into a Work Camp

The book Read This When Things Fall Apart edited by Kelly Hayes, lying on a beige couch, next to a set of zines by Cindy Milstein printed in a rainbow of colors, a bunch of postcards by JK Makes, a card, bookmarks, and jewelry

Want to help feed people during the SNAP shutdown and also enter to win a whole bunch of cool stuff?

Donate to any food bank, food pantry, or mutual aid group that distributes food, post a receipt here, and I'll use a random number generator to draw a winner.

More details in 🧵:

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Urgent Appeal 🚨 | Gaza

My daughter is suffering from malnutrition. She needs food and medicine, and I am unable to provide her with even the most basic rights as a father.

By donating or even sharing this post, you can help alleviate her childhood suffering.🍉

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*screams*

I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚

NYT Magazine headline “‘I'm on Fire': Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive - and Then Some There is no F.D.A.-approved testosterone product for women. Insurance won't cover it. Many doctors won't prescribe it. It's become a cultural phenomenon.”

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence”

when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

findhelp.org by findhelp - Search and Connect to Social Care Search and connect to support. Find financial assistance, food pantries, medical care, and other free or reduced-cost help in your area, anywhere in the US.

If you or someone you know is affected by the government shutdown and needs assistance with getting food, medicine or other essentials, here's a resource. Just put in your zip code and you will get a list of nearby food pantries and orgs that can help. Please share widely! 🥰
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Apex Magazine 2026 An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever.

I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/
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used to be that solving puzzles that open portals to hell was something to avoid, but at this point how much worse could it be? worth at least day tripping into the portal, check out the housing market there, give it a look-see

everyone: we don’t want kings

rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king

the entire trump administration:

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Abeer. Abeer lost her husband (along with his entire family) in a bombing two years ago. She also recently lost both her brother and sister. She is trying to rebuild and take care of her two children, Makeen, 4 and Masa, 2 on her own.

a woman in a pink shirt says shut up in front of a breakfast club sign Alt: Claire in a pink shirt says shut up in front of a breakfast club sign

I still don't get how people don't understand that it's fucking GROSS to ask people to vote for their own dehumanization and segregation from society.

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„She is my niece, 4 year old
who suffers from persistent
malnutrition and severe iron
deficiency due to lack of food.
Kiraz today appeals to you
for your support
And donate to her so she can
buy healthy food
Answer her call and don't
leave her alone“

_ Afnan

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The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing.

Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist.

Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird

Media: trans activist criticizes media

Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Dracula must hate it when sees a delicious neck but he *just* brushed his teeth

U.S. support for Argentina could hit $40 billion Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said an additional $20 billion in private-sector loans for Argentina could effectively double the value of a U.S. rescue plan.

$40 billion could provide more than a year of affordable health care for millions of Americans.

Instead, Trump uses your taxpayer dollars to bail out his “favorite president” in Argentina.

Last week was awful. There was a death on my birthday, and I found out my SNAP benefits went from $290 to $23

It was a bad time

So, if anyone wants to join the Patreon or Kofi, even for a month, I'd be thrilled.

There's microfiction, and updates, and tarot/oracle readings. Maybe other things too.

Hey does anybody #brownuniversity affiliated know of a way I can try to reach out to @chrislhayes.bsky.social that he might actually see? I'm working on a reported piece about the latest on campus ... wondering if any fellow alumni know a way of getting in touch ...

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It really sucks Newsom vetoed the HRT and PreP access bills. The stockpile veto is going to hurt.

That said, given everything he has been saying this year, signing 8 out of 10 bills is a win for grassroots activists and the legislators filing the bills.

It shows your pressure has worked!

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

Hey, Massachusetts! Help tell our legislators they should pass An Act Regarding Free Expression to protect libraries, schools, and authors from book bans by sending them a postcard! Instructions on how to do this and where to get postcards here: www.massfreedomtoread.org/act @massaabb.bsky.social

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