Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.

for anyone who’s ever wanted a behind-the-scenes look at how small press publishing works

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There are so many of them it was pick a name out the hat.

If Your Grave Is Unmarked, Assume Positive Intent Anya Johanna DeNiro This might be hard to believe but over the years I’ve accumulated an assortment of difficult people, and my hobby lately has been casting them away. My friends text me but, surp…

just a quick roundup of writings of mine you can find. I had one short story published this year in Graywolf Lab, about a trans single mom playing a mobile battle royale game

graywolflab.org/2025/08/22/i...

Starmer giving Truss a run for her money as worst (recent) Tory PM

Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Omg not what I was expecting at all 😂😂

Maybe the historical society can do an exhibit on just how often schools open and close in this town.
Much amused by concept of a secret green school where somehow no one notices its year-long construction.
If Northampton can't manage solar canopies on parking lot what chance 1.5°?

you first, Joe

You guys, this is Spain's announcement that they would not participate in Eurovision. 👏🏾

read paper this morning and wondered if chaos monkey would bring you back. Knocking back solar panels over the JSS carpark? Come on! No overheated cars and kids in summer, shelter from snow and rain, and tons and tons of solar power. This directly benefits the kids, school, city, & world. Argh!

Trump administration moves to revoke key permit from another offshore wind project proposed near Mass. This represents the latest move by the Trump administration to target the offshore wind industry in the U.S., and it comes just a few weeks after the government was allowed to reopen the same permit a...

Would have thought Tr*mp would want more windmills to charge at

World Cup Group C: Brazil, Morocco, Scotland, Haiti. How will Scotland break our hearts this time?

Didn't watch the last cup in Qatar: corruption & death a bit too rank. Now the US? Hmm. Years ago I thought I'd be taking our kid to one of the games. Now we both have Long Covid. Ach well, see above.

People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.

This might take me longer to confirm but initial indications are you are correct

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I realize I could get paid (sure, SBP & me could do with more $ :) but what a waste of time the Anthroprick (sick) (sic) shit is.

I'll get paid & pass most through to authors but what parasites (derogatory) all the LLM grifters are. *This* is how we all have to spend our days because of them? Ugh.

Checked again. agree with your summation: in multiple ways all so so fucked

Professional Is It Fucked checker here to chime in and say yes it is all fucked

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them.

There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”.

You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not.

People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

Arrest in the pipe bomb case! This story will be blowing up today:

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Nice to see Nisi Shawl's Making Amends on this list. The list is rich with an abundance of interesting titles flying well under the hype-cycle radar. & some of it is science fiction! lithub.com/100-notable-...

Lit Hub’s 100 Notable Small Press Books for 2025 graphic with sample book covers

Brief review of Mycocosmic by Angela Chaidez Vincent saying it “wins a blue ribbon”

I know these lists only show a fraction of the great new books out there—but how lovely for Mycocosmic to be on one! I just followed the article’s Bookshop.org link to order books in small press solidarity! lithub.com/100-notable-... @literaryhub.bsky.social

Delighted to read this!

I switched to this and @bookshop.org for every book, ebook, and audiobook purchase where they have what I want - which is 99% of them -- and the apps are great, and I get to support a local bookstore. It's all win here, folks.

Geoff Ryman's WAS investigates this idea very profoundly and movingly.

YouTube video by Apple Accessibility | I’m Not Remarkable | Apple

This is what I want to see from big tech. I'm using the dictate button on my laptop right now. Drop all the AI shit and keep doing this

Finding the Heart of Your Story, a masterclass with N.K. Jemisin — Blue Stoop Building a character is building a world of one; defining them, shaping them, and changing them is what a story is for. In this craft-first virtual masterclass, award winning author N. K. Jemisin will...

Making sure y'all saw this upcoming workshop with NK Jemisin...learn from one of the greats 🔥🔥🔥 www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...

See also, another excellent purchase that is very high on our wishlist. More expensive at £150 but absolutely worth it for us with its unobtrusiveness and multi-use. #medsky #idsky #longcovid #covid

Ebook Deals: Less than $4 Checkout out this list on Bookshop

Hey book readers, @bookshop.org always has really good ebook deals. A fave on sale now for $3.99: The Housekeeper & the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, transl by Stephen Snyder. Also bangers on sale from A Leckie, NK Jemisin, A Tchaikovsky, MR Kowal, T Due, Scalzi, many others! bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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