Dariusz Targański 💙💛

shout out to all the artists trying to pay the bills and grappling with that feeling of desperation and uncertainty while trying to maintain creative fluency and a hopeful outlook that maybe “today will be the day things get a tiny bit easier”

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Klar, gebt dem einen Milliardär die militärisch relevante Satellitenkommunikation, dem anderen die Plattformen, auf denen politische Meinungsfindung stattfindet... und dann wundert euch, warum das mit der Demokratie nicht klappt. Es werden diese Migranten sein.

Dieses Jahr ist 50-jähriges Jubiläum der Städtepartnerschaft Bremen-Gdańsk! Dazu gibt es ein Event am 25.10. mit spannenden Gästen, die uns von Gdansks (weniger bekannten) Geschichte und widersprüchlichen Geschichtsschreibungen erzählen. Kommt vorbei! www.shakespeare-company.com/programm/jes...

Same-sex activity has been legal in parts of what would become Italy since 1810 and for the whole of the country since 1890. JFC

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

Bitten 🥀🩸 One of my favourite vampire illustrations I’ve painted to start off spooky month! ♥️🦇🩸

New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

Winter

I mean, I'm grateful I'm having this many story ideas but I wish I could work on all of them at the same time 😭

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

i love writing except for when i'm doing it, thinking about doing it, or thinking about having done it

Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

when ai leaves u behind

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

every AI techbro is so desperate to sound like they're in Oppenheimer "it's over, the genie's out of the bottle" your genie is a glorified autocomplete algo what are you talking about, get the fuck out of here

My partner persuaded me to watch two episodes of Death Note, which I'd last seen as a teen, and I'm still angry about how very-not-smart Light is and just how inept the adults need to be to make him LOOK smart oh my gods. I should get over it but I CAN'T.

I write for a living and I do everything I can to avoid using “lay / lie.” It’s just too much pressure.

I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

On pre-order, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

support the creators and watch it here!

I think my greatest wish for fantasy is just that the genre (marketing) doesn't entirely suffocate the genre (conversations). What I see on bookstore tables labed Fantasy is so much more homogenous than what all my cool friends are writing, and while that has always been true it feels more so lately

re last repost: I stand by my assertion that if someone is being "deported" to somewhere they didn't come from, the correct term is simply "transportation" as in the Victorian practise of shipping convicts off to colonies, this is barbaric 19th century shit and "deportation" is a euphemism here

Thoroughly enjoying "Inventing the Renaissance" by Ada Palmer but it made me realise that I know next to nothing about the Renaissance and the myths attached to it, oops.

European artists! The EU commission is opening a feedback on the use of AI in the cultural and creative fields. Their vision is clearly pro-use of AI, but we clearly have an opportunity to push back: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Die neue Ausgabe der zett ist online! Diesmal durften @darekt.bsky.social und ich mit @hadijaho.bsky.social über den Tag der Deutschen Einheit sprechen. Link zum Artikel: www.schlachthof-bremen.de/zett/ausgabe...

brain, i understand that you'd rather do Preferred Activity, but right now we have to do Task. if we finish task we can do Preferred Activity WITHOUT feeling weighed down by the need to do Task. do you see how that works ah it's biting me my brain is biting me

“We need novels that live in an amoral universe” (Ottessa Moshfegh in @bookforum.bsky.social)