Kaushik Karforma

I am very pleased to announce that I am supporting the wonderful Goldsboro Writing Academy to provide funded places on their courses for writers from low-income and under-represented backgrounds in 2026 and in 2027.

For more details contact Phil Vinter or visit the @goldsborowritingacademy website!

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

gregpak.net the community action news blog of writer and photojournalist Greg Pak

redesigned my community action blog! check it out!

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L.A. Kicks Coal As It Fires Up The World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Power Plant The city starts getting electricity next month from hydrogen made at a Utah plant – and stored beneath it in a vast salt cavern – to help get to 100% carbon-free power.

The city starts getting electricity next month from hydrogen made at a Utah plant – and stored beneath it in a vast salt cavern – to help get to 100% carbon-free power.

the law is fickle, and money is powerful, but the good news is that transphobes cannot force you to be nice to them. so don't be

it should be illegal to have to get out of your warm bed and go to work

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

I'd pay good money to watch that.

Both is also an option.

John Carpenter's Ballistic: Eckhart vs Sever
John Carpenter's What Women Want

Congratulations Anna. Very happy for ya! Really hoping it will sell. Oh, and the fuck the brain weasels.

Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

“Maybe we’re onto something.”

“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The Fantasy Hive team have curated a Christmas Gift Guide to aid anyone out there struggling to buy for the reader in their life.
If you're looking for a recommendation we've missed in our categories, please comment! These 89 books are us holding back...

Read more: tinyurl.com/375wuk5k

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?

Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?

Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?

Try reading a book in public! 📖

#WritingCommunity #BookSky

Fuck! Only about 11%? Gotta up my motherfucking game.

Okay, lemme join the fray. How much profanity have I used in my posts, @profanity.accountant?

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS by @mikebrooks668.bsky.social! 🐝

A smart-talking bunch of rogues and dropouts are thrust into an epic quest to save the future and meddle with the destinies of empires.

Coming June 2026!

I can't read Finnish, so have to wait for the English version. But Nebullama had me at "Douglas Adams-esque". Humor is much needed in today's "all-serious all the time" sci-fi.

No shit? 😁

I signed the contract! 🥳
Next year will be WILD! 👏

#WritingCommunity #BookSky #WriteSky #Author

Eagerly waiting for this book.

Giant Size Criminal #1 THE FIRST NEW CRIMINAL SINGLE ISSUE IN OVER FIVE YEARS ARRIVES ON THE EVE OF THE STREAMING TV SERIES PREMIERE This oversized, annual-style issue is packed with everything CRIMINAL fans love from BRUB...

It's GIANT SIZED CRIMINAL #1 week (feat Kieron G)

Photo of a collection of icicles that have formed outside a window that look like a creature or a ghost or a demon idk it’s got a nice ass tho

if you’re cold they’re cold
let your demons in

The alt text is the icing on the cake 🧁

One of my most favorite reads of 2025. If you've ever wondered what Diw Hard would have looked like if Cynthia Rothrock starred in it instead of Bruce Willis, read this book. Cinematic action, snappy one liners, likeable MC, this one has it all.

Cover for The Bartender: Cosmopolitan Chaos, featuring our heroine, Brodie, standing in front of a bartop littered with handguns.

In the 90s, DIE HARD clones filled the action movie market. This year, better late than never, we published our entry in this subgenre.

Criminals take over a celebrity nightclub and the hostages only hope is one sarcastic bartender with a special set of skills!

books2read.com/cosmochaos/

France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.

FRANCE'S FAR RIGHT LEADER HIT BY EGGS, FLOUR

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Just waiting for someone now to throw milk at him, then a whisk, to make a proper crepe.

I hope no one throws spices, as he's already been a-salt-ed. Poor man's been batter-ed enough.

#France #Bardella #politics #crepe