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Apex Magazine @apexmag.bsky.social is doing their annual Kickstarter and I urge everyone to back one of the genre's most constantly amazing magazines! BONUS: If you share this post you're in the running to receive a signed book from me. Details in thread. 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Alan the alpaca enjoying feed time and a beautiful morning

"Do I want a career where there is a subset of people constantly trying to . . . steal one of the few spots open to authors who value integrity? Do any of us?" 🌱🖊️ New essay by @lesleyconner.bsky.social: "Reality, Exhaustion, and AI" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

Less than $90 away from that $9K mark! Let's go!!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Closing in on $9K on the Apex Magazine 2027 Kickstarter! Thank you so much to everyone who has backed us so far and to those of you who have shared our campaign. I'm so excited! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

I just backed Apex Magazine 2027! Let's get many more strange, surreal and beautiful stories! @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape... @apexmag.bsky.social

That little moo! 🥹

Emma doesn’t need a gun. Just give her a bullet journal. Nobody could stop her.

Publication day! 🥳🎉🙌 My collection "After You Were Lost" was published by WATG Press today. It's a collection that means a lot to me, and I'm excited that people will finally get to read it. All of the 23 flash and micro stories within deal with grief in different ways. Something I know much about.

Debunking absurd right wing hate against Ms. Rachel in under 3 minutes. A reminder to the insecure haters — Do not come for Ms. Rachel.

Stop calling them anti-vaxxers. Call them plague-supporters.

THIS!! 👇👇👇

In 2014 I published what would become one of my most shared and taught essays, 12 Fundamentals of Writing the Other (and the Self). Now you can read it without giving a click to the A.I. slop factory known as Buzzfeed. www.patreon.com/djolder/post...

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

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leftist plan to increase the birthrate: - universal health care - free child care - better paid family leave - better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear" ok i did it www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

On top of everything else this year, listening to this kid crying is breaking me. I am a mild mannered white lady, fucking shaking with rage. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov WHAT WILL YOU DO TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY??!!!!

100% this!👇

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

This seems like something you’d be sentenced to…like for a crime. Not something you’d ever want. 😬

If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.

it's a massive failure of our society that we have allowed companies to distance themselves from the horrible things said by their AI, which has been created to represent them. if your AI says it, it should be equivalent to a live human person making the same statement, and treated accordingly

This whole thread…

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.” -Zohran Mamdani

Was horrified to get “bed rotting” until I looked it up. Sounds pretty good, actually! 😆

This seems entirely plausible to me…

All set for later…just need to grab a few shiny coins! #lemonpig

Actually laughed out loud!

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Well…I guess that would make me a demon. 😆

Omg, perfection!!

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Good morning

There’s how old you think you are, and there’s how old shoveling six inches of snow tells you that you are.

You can learn a lot about a person based on who their favorite Muppet is. Not sure what this says about me…but I always loved this sad, shy, kind, giant and felt kind of protective of him.

Recreating this legendary Peanuts scene. Yeah hoe!

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

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