Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all!
go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi
09.02.2026 05:14 — 👍 869 🔁 504 💬 24 📌 16
I was really excited to share this image of a particularly superb owl, given that today is #superbowl Sunday, but unfortunately, it soared away with its bedtime snack before I could get the photo...
08.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 389 🔁 86 💬 7 📌 5
In a cynical perversion of our need to find connection:
AI will not evolve from such unnatural selection.
08.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And a parasitic hunger stripping grids of precious wattage
Which evaporates the seas to feed delusions, dreams, & dotage
08.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A pox upon the augury of every algorithm
With vocabularies plundered from egregious plagiarism
08.02.2026 17:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Happy Birthday, Jules!
08.02.2026 13:56 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
16th century magician Agrippa of Nettesheim had this to say about the contagious foulness, or “musk,” of evil men:
“Therefore philosophers advise that the society of evil and mischievous men be shunned, for their soul—being full of noxious rays—infects them that are near with a hurtful contagion.”
05.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An old comic page showing how they did the Kermit playing a banjo scene in the Muppet Movie.
With so much Muppet talk tonight remembering there is this comic about how they did this scene.
05.02.2026 03:45 — 👍 502 🔁 134 💬 5 📌 8
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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The commonsense reform to concentration camps is not having them.
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2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
I would be honored and thrilled if you picked the book at the very top of the @locusmag.bsky.social Recommended Reading List (placed there by accidental virtue of the author's last name), but note that the whole list is full of magnificent suggestions:
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
03.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
No dream kings, no masters.
16.01.2025 17:38 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Haaaaaaaaaaaaappy BIIIIIIRTHDAAAAAAAY toooooooooooooooo YOOOOOOOOOOOOOU
02.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Authors! Did you know you get more out of being a member of AABB than just constant nagging to go to your school board meetings? No, it's true! You get a newsletter that keeps you up to date on the good and bad of book bans, the freedom to read, library advocacy, & more...
02.02.2026 14:32 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
From the 2025 Recommended Reading List: Sunward by William Alexander locusmag.com/2026/02...
01.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
This is absolutely glorious company to be in!
01.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
It is so so important that you be both silly and furious right now when necessary
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Flyer text:
Aldrich Public Library and the Vermont Humanities Council Present a WRITING WORKSHOP with National Book Award Winner Will Alexander: Thursday, January 29, 2026 from 6 to 8pm.
Writers aged 15 and older: Hone your creative writing skills with games and challenges to encourage character creation and plot development.
Register now with Young Adult Librarian Juliet Stephens: teen.desk@aldrichpubliclibrary.org.
Flyer text:
Aldrich Public Library and the Vermont Humanities Council Present a YOUNG WRITERS WORKSHOP: Thursday, January 29, 2026 from 4 to 5:30pm.
PLAYFUL CHARACTER CREATION FOR YOUNG WRITERS: Use games to create new characters and tell their stories with award-winning author William Alexander.
Recommended for kids in grades 5-8. Registration strongly encouraged!
Please email Children's Librarian Ian Gauthier at children's.librarian@aldrichpubliclibrary.org.
Vermonters! This Thursday I'll be teaching two playful workshops.
(Note that play can help snap us out of panic and the ever-narrowing focus of survival mode.)
Hosted by the Aldrich Public Library and sponsored by @vermonthumanities.bsky.social
26.01.2026 19:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ditto! I’ve got the great big hardback with gorgeous Matthew Forsythe illustrations, so every chapter-essay feels like storytime.
27.01.2026 19:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“We can enter reality through the front door, or we can slip into it, which is much more fun, through a little window or skylight.”
27.01.2026 18:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Grammar of Fantasy by Gianni Rodari
27.01.2026 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Flyer text:
Aldrich Public Library and the Vermont Humanities Council Present a WRITING WORKSHOP with National Book Award Winner Will Alexander: Thursday, January 29, 2026 from 6 to 8pm.
Writers aged 15 and older: Hone your creative writing skills with games and challenges to encourage character creation and plot development.
Register now with Young Adult Librarian Juliet Stephens: teen.desk@aldrichpubliclibrary.org.
Flyer text:
Aldrich Public Library and the Vermont Humanities Council Present a YOUNG WRITERS WORKSHOP: Thursday, January 29, 2026 from 4 to 5:30pm.
PLAYFUL CHARACTER CREATION FOR YOUNG WRITERS: Use games to create new characters and tell their stories with award-winning author William Alexander.
Recommended for kids in grades 5-8. Registration strongly encouraged!
Please email Children's Librarian Ian Gauthier at children's.librarian@aldrichpubliclibrary.org.
Vermonters! This Thursday I'll be teaching two playful workshops.
(Note that play can help snap us out of panic and the ever-narrowing focus of survival mode.)
Hosted by the Aldrich Public Library and sponsored by @vermonthumanities.bsky.social
26.01.2026 19:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you need some joy on your feed today, i HIGHLY recommend following the #ALAYMA tag when the awards start because it's going to be the biggest book nerds you know just celebrating the best reads for kids 😭❤️
26.01.2026 14:30 — 👍 131 🔁 60 💬 3 📌 0
You Are On Strike
Don't go to work today
General strike today across the US in solidarity with Minnesota! This is your chance to demonstrate real collective power! Do not miss it!!
23.01.2026 15:20 — 👍 62 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
Award winning, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards nominated writer/professor/editor. She/Her. Literary representation: Natasha Mihell, at The Rights Factory
Writer lady of comics: Lumberjanes, The Magicians graphic novels, Girl Haven, Science of Ghosts, Student Government. She/her. Wifed by @mekkalekkah 🏳️⚧️ Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/lilah.
I'm a queer game designer hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
Independent, Worker-Owned TTRPG Journalism | Subscribe to us at rascal.news
I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls.
Writes books for young, curious minds.
Repped by Naomi Davis, Bookends Literary
The Ghost Queen is a JLG Selection : 11 Feb, 2025
https://www.mahtabnarsimhan.com/
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
The Pacific Northwest's premier Science Fiction and Fantasy convention. Norwescon 48 (#nwc48) will be April 2–5, 2026.
Enthusiastic ambivert. Geeky, liberal, friendly, curious, hopepunk; trying to be a good person. (he/him) 🖖
Primarily a Mastodon user (@djwudi@tenforward.social); semi-active here. Blogging since the '90s: https://michaelhans.com/
founder, Civil Rights Corps
civil rights lawyer
author of usual cruelty (2019) and
copaganda (2025)
any views expressed here are my own, and not those of civil rights corps
Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
https://undertowpublications.com/
Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
Expert Bookseller at Waterstones Ipswich. All views my own.
SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier.
https://linktr.ee/clclark
SFF author; EXTREMOPHILE & THE ROTSTORM trilogy out now with HoZ books/Ad Astra; PhD in epigenetics; ᛉᚷᛏᚫ; www.ianthegreen.com; https://geni.us/extremophile
Writing sci-fi and horror in Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia.
MISPLACED out now with @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
She/they
brittnibrinn.com
CALYPSO out now from Titan Books // Lecturer at Lancaster
Hugo shortlisted
Philip K. Dick award shortlisted
BSFA Award shortlisted
British Fantasy Award shortlisted
Author of non-human space opera THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, published by Solaris. Repped by Ed Wilson
Also known as that weirdo Tom Toner, author of the Amaranthine Spectrum
https://linktr.ee/caspargeon
Preorder: https://geni.us/immeasurable
Writer of dark, speculative fiction. Stories in Clarkesworld, Apex, Zooscape and more. kojiadae.ink
Indian American Writer of PB, CB, MG & Poetry
SCBWI Indiana Co-RA
Inked Voices PB & MG Critique Groups
Experience in DEI, Theater, Marketing & Graphic Design
Yoga, Improv & World Traveler
Science Teacher Educator,
Professor, Montclair State University
He, him, his.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6564-0605
https://linktr.ee/douglarkin
