Betsy Aoki (she/her)

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Toss a fiver at NPR ( like tossing a coin to your Witcher but, ya know, there’s inflation )…

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

I will not piss on anyone’s chips, but as a project which celebrates the English gothic and the weird every day of the year, I sigh heartily at the start of October. Celebration of the dark and strange should never be calendar constrained. #October

Sorry for your loss :(

Worth getting up early to read this :)

We need them apples Chuck

Congrats @mcflycahill90.bsky.social !!

_Audition for the Fox _ by Martin Cahill cover shows a smiling red fox, tongue out, with black forelegs . At top: “ Stunning imagination “—NK Jemisin blurb

Just got home to happy book mail!!

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Small DC bookstore reports 60% decline in business since federal surge A bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood reports sales are down a whopping 60% since the federal surge in D.C. began. The small but beautifully arranged Loyalty Bookstore on busy Upshur Street near Ge...

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.

Speaks for itself.

Quick point. Trump cannot silence you, period. He doesn’t have the means or the tools, and if he did he would be too weak to use them. This is a bluff.

It only works if you let it.

Finished cover and copy for Audition for the Fox, on a table.

The Fox is free! Today my debut, Audition For The Fox, is officially out in the world. Magic. Fables. Time travel. And the many ways even a goofball can resist oppression & fight tyranny.

Thank you to everyone who had a paw in bringing this into the world & supporting it. Forever grateful, I am 🦊💜

The Lure of Stone - Uncanny Magazine They saw the men when they were close to reaching Elmesak; they rode two by two and all six of them were decked in crimson. Yalxi set the bedroll and the pack with their supplies down by the side of t...

Attention! Attention! Free Silvia Moreno-Garcia work from Uncanny Magazine! Woooo hoooooo! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Uncanny Magazine received 2800 short story submissions. It does seem that we are still getting AI subs. (Sadly, no shock there.) I can buy 15-20 stories for Year 12.

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around!

1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Catching up on my podcasts as work has me closer to home than usual. Go check out @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 's pod this month, the poem “Dreamscape with the Devil” by Dr. Taylor Byas is sublime. The imagery my brain concocted during the reading was amazing.

It is my birthday tomorrow! If you want to do something for me, I have a big request.

Think of somebody in your life who is struggling. Make them soup. Play a videogame with them. Help get their window unstuck.

You don't know how far a little goodness can go. But I believe in you.

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

ICYMI, Uncanny 66 Part 1 also features essays by Senaa Ahmad & LaShawn M. Wanak; poetry by Angela Liu & Dr. Taylor Byas; Caroline M. Yoachim interviewing Silvia Moreno-Garcia; and Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe’s Listen To Me And I’ll Tell You A Story as the cover! buff.ly/3vumNai

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

ICYMI, The Uncanny Magazine Podcast Episode 66A features "The Caravan” by AnaMaria Curtis, as read by Erika Ensign; “Dreamscape with the Devil” by Dr. Taylor Byas, as read by Matt Peters; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing AnaMaria Curtis! buff.ly/schyxMD

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

ICYMI, Join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps! There are many ways to SUPPORT UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Late Kickstarter Pledges! Or just spreading the word! buff.ly/LFsqlpn

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.