Elizabeth Story

Imagine being so wedded to a certain style of horse-race political analysis that you "nothingburger" away the very likely possibility that the current President of the United States *raped children* and is using the vast and powerful apparatus of the government he controls to cover it up.

Do these people ever get tired of telling people who understand history and human nature we're being hysterical alarmists, do you think?

Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rigby started whining for dinner TWO hours early today

Running a giveaway over on X for (1) paperback copy of The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale by @joerlansdale.bsky.social from @tachyonpub.bsky.social.
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YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz The UK Just Censored The Entire Internet

Thanks @taylorlorenz.bsky.social I wasn't even aware of the broader implications of this. I always appreciate your hard work

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my contribution to the 'does the kim davis case mean we need to worry about obergefell' discourse is 'i've actually been worrying about obergefell for other reasons i'm so sorry'

LESS THAN THREE DAYS LEFT

Yes.

Right and this is exactly why the democrats have lost all their power. Because this is all they’ve been trying for years and years. They’re incapable of having new ideas. They’re just gonna keep on marching right and crossing their fingers. A bunch of useless fools.

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Rowling could've lived in her castle and tweeted "Hagrid wants you to brush your teeth and have a happy St. Swithin's Day!" a few times a year and HP would've had the same legacy as Pooh or Middle-earth, but she consciously chose Evil For Evil's Sake like a badly written children's fantasy villain

The queries have started about “What if I only used a little bit of AI for my story submission.”
The answer is, fuck AI. Uncanny Magazine doesn't want your story. There is no grey area here. Send us a story using AI for any aspect, it will be auto-rejected and you will be banned. Period.

The administration that’s restoring monuments to the Confederacy is rewarding Russia for territory it “earned” by invading Ukraine.

This shouldn’t need to be said but hospitals are supposed to be safe places. Sanctuaries. Free from judgement.

Healthcare workers should not be calling ICE on their patients.

They shouldn’t be calling the police on pregnant women who miscarry.

Their job is to help. Their oath is to do no harm.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

📌 every "proof" of how GenAI can't do what's promised burns as much water and pollutes as much air, as when people use it in good faith.

STOP USING IT. Period.

spicy food bad. i hurt the food, food should not hurt me.

Is it just me or does @tachyonpub.bsky.social put out some of the very best short story collections? Goss has a lyrical prose that perfectly blends wonder and heartache. The stories truly feel as if they've crossed imaginary lands -- her own & others scattered along fantasy's history. #ewgc #booksky

my library has allllllmost all the Poirot audiobooks. It's missing two i think, and as a completionist this bothers me. Also they have all but ONE of the Ms Marples and GET THE LAST ONE ALREADY COME ON

Michael Swanwick at his computer, which sits on a box for a Darth Vader toaster

Cover to THE UNIVERSE BOX Art by Inktally Design by Elizabeth Story

At our meeting about his forthcoming book THE UNIVERSE BOX, @michaelswanwick.bsky.social impressed us with geekiness.

#DarthVader toast!

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#starwars

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“This thing thinks blueberry has three Bs!”

Yeah well you seem to think I wanna see you actively using ChatGPT so you’re both wrong.

I'm nearly finished with all the Poirot books and I will miss him when I run out.

The f*&%ing library.

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

"Did you bring enough for the whole class?"

a video game character standing next to a chicken and a fairy Alt: Link from Ocarina of Time holding a chicken over his head

BEHOLD! A WOMAN!

Take that misogynists.

Any room can be a panic room if u doomscroll enough