I simply cannot get enough of your color palettes

Black-and-white title card. Top: stylized word “BAFFLING,” with feathered wing shapes integrated into the letters. Beneath it in small caps: “SPECULATIVE FLASH FICTION WITH A QUEER BENT.” Centered main title: “Marianne in an Unlit Bar on the Outer Curve of Human Space.” Bottom: “Apr 15.”

My flash piece, "Marianne in an Unlit Bar on the Outer Curve of Human Space," is out in @neonhemlock.bsky.social's Baffling Magazine!

It's one of my favorite recent stories and they did an amazing job with it!

www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...

JUST BE HAPPY Suffering, Swedenborg, and the hells we choose

I wrote about the possibility that we live in hell and what it means to "choose happiness" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/just-be-ha...

On Learning to Read Generously - Reactor What does it mean to be a generous reader, and is it a skill you can practice?

I've been referencing this essay by @mollytempleton.com a lot lately in conversations about reading fantasy and other literature. Templeton's piece includes a discussion of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's useful ideas about 'paranoid' and 'reparative' approaches to reading. reactormag.com/on-learning-...

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

This turned out SO GOOD, and she was so responsive during the process... y'all should commission @cyberelladraws.bsky.social to bring your dream to life!

This is one of the trends that legit gives me hope for the future of humanity

Is good luck!

We all known A*azon tends to sell books bellow list prices, but I've recently found them selling books at below WHOLESALE prices. I know this because I own a store. That's fucked up.
Anyways, support your local book stores. Shit's tough.

It would have been super helpful if some included the actual DATE of this event anywhere in or around the article

Berkeley Students Make 300,000 Wikipedia Edits to Preserve Queer History Against Trump Their work has already racked up nearly 100 million views.

www.them.us/story/berkel...

Can we see the time? I would like to see the tome

A collage of nature, including a green snake, a songbird, a yellow flower, an iridescent beetle, a clownfish, and a frog on a lilypad.

Nature is everywhere, even in the busiest cities. From April 24–27, over 100k people around the world will step outside & photograph the wild nature around them for the #CityNatureChallenge — the largest annual community science event. 🧵⤵️

Maddow: All the people who came out to protest at Stonewall when the Trump administration pulled down the pride flag, "today you won."

See a couple, post a couple 🐙🦄

There comes a moment when you realise your weirdness is you strength. Lean into it. There comes a moment when you realise you are Fully-grown Changeling. Celebrate it. We are strange and we are here.

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

🖤💜 Happy international asexuality day! 🖤💜🐀 (oldie but goldie)

wow really?

If you get self-conscious about posting repeated promo, let me give you all my long-standing promo-hack, for free. (I'm not currently using it, but I will be soon! lol)

This is a site without an algo, but also one that does not punish links. So what you want to do is make a strategic thread.

Lineart of a small, trembling autism creature withbstart-filled eyes

Omg I was freaking out, I thought this was a BOOK 3 announcement 😅

DLARC logo alongside one of the approximately 150 searchable callbooks that are part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications.

Cassettes from the series “Ham Radio and More” digitized as part of DLARC.

A QSL card for the University of Pennsylvania Amateur Radio Club station W3ABT circa 1935, digitized as part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications

DLARC: The Radio Geek’s Doomscrolling Antidote 📻🌀

The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications brings together 225,000+ items, from magazines and QSL cards to audio & video, all free via the #InternetArchive. 📚💿

Tune in ⤵️
www.radioworld.com/news-and-bus...

#AmateurRadio #RadioHistory

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.

Blood Money: The Anthropic Settlement The actual audacity of it all

I just finished filing my claim with the #Anthropic settlement, which used FIFTEEN of my books to train the goddamned Temu Terminator, and I am fucking furious and heartbroken about it:

catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

Rutherford County Library Board fires director after she refuses to relocate 132 children's books Dr. Lu-anne James called the board's order to move books with LGBTQ+ themes to the adult section an unlawful act of viewpoint discrimination.

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance.
gofund.me/f7704eb98
Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

A yellow and green landscape of the sun casting long rays of light through the treeline and spreading dappled light on the grass beneath

A red sand desert with a purple sky and a single star bursting on the horizon, surrounded by a wispy bubble halo

A pink and blue landscape of trees surrounding a river, two white stars descend from the sky to touch the water’s surface

landscape of a large yellow field and a tiny white house, above a massive spiral with orbs embedded in it rises from behind a fluffy cloud

happy #transdayofvisibilty #tdov!🏳️‍⚧️
I’m Parker, a trans artist in Philly painting my star filled dreamscapes 💖

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