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Loved Stone and Steel, this is such a great list!

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Novellas - Reactor It's time to add something short and sweet to your TBR stack...

As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!

A very timely ask. I’m extending the submission period for The Apocryphal, the sequel to the award winning Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction. I’ll have the details soon. But if you’re Palestinian and want to write horror, get in touch with me.

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP.

They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown.

They’re refusing.

Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop.

Starvation as a policy choice.

This is dope. I want to highly light this part. This is what government is for. Wealth redistribution. Take money from companies who are hoarding it. Use that money to help ease the burden on everyone else. The details matter, but it's not more complicated than that.

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

This from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social is a clear and horrifying explanation of the atrocities underway in El Fasher. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is lovely, wow!!

Happy birthday Nisi!! 🌻💖

This is also still ongoing, to fund English translations of African novels written in non-colonial languages! (which do not get translated very frequently!)

Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S.

They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support.

The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm

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Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.

Fave Five: Fantasy with Transfem MCs

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane The Calyx Charm by May Peterson Princess of the Pomegranate Moon by Emily Wynne Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson Bonus: These are all Adult, but in Middle Grade, check…

When Israel bombs Gaza after pledging itself to a ceasefire, we apparently need to say this is a “Test of ceasefire” to avoid saying what is blatantly obvious, that this is a violation of the ceasefire

Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.

Israel continues deadly Gaza truce breaches as US seeks to strengthen deal About 100 Palestinians killed since ceasefire entered into effect on October 10, according to Gaza officials.

About 100 Palestinians killed since ceasefire entered into effect on October 10, according to Gaza officials.

Congratulations, this is brilliant! 🎉

RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

A skeleton arm and hand covered in mehndi holding a lotus flower, everything glowing a ghostly shade of green and blue

Happy Diwali and spooky szn to all who celebrate :)

#artsky #diwali #diwaliween #spookyszn #darkart #illustration

Donate to Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives, organized by tehseen baweja Hey Everyone! My name is Tehseen and I publish an online magazine called T… tehseen baweja needs your support for Help Archita and Her Mom Rebuild Their Lives

Fellow Calcuttan writer/editor Archita Mittra is in desperate need of financial help. She recently lost her father, her home was damaged in the recent rains, & her mother's in hospital. They don't have insurance, & she's a freelancer. I can vouch for her. Please share widely & donate:

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

This October, we’re providing our whole catalog of horror ebooks to ten libraries for FREE. This deal is first come, first served. If you’re an interested librarian, reach out to Eric Raglin at cursedmorsels@gmail.com. Let’s make your library a little creepier this Halloween season!

Hey, #horror #librarians! This October, we’re providing our whole catalog of horror ebooks to ten libraries for FREE. Interested? Reach out to us at cursedmorsels [at] gmail [dot] com. Let's make your library a little creepier this Halloween season!

Calling the Coven! Our Kickstarter is in the final week!

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"Coven of the East is a reclamation, an incantation and a dare. It asks you to believe in what has been hidden and to honor the women who carried those truths despite systems that tried to bury them. More than anything, it insists that silence is over." -BookTrib Review

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"2025 Winners Announcement" with Ignyte Awards logo overlayed on artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.

Oh, hello

Omg Maya, congratulations!!! 🎉💖 So well-deserved, your reviews are brilliant!

UPDATE I WON 😭❤️‍🔥
Thank you to
@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
@reactorsff.bsky.social and congrats to all the other winners & nominees, it's a huge honor and joy to be among you!!