Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Blight is OUT! You should be able to buy it and order it for your local bookstores and libraries in both paperback and ebook. Amazon: mybook.to/blight Other online retailers: books2read.com/u/mYVl9P Direct from the publisher: bppress.ca/shop/ 🧵

This is really important.

Ahhh you got one! Yay! At some point I'll be ordering more patches, too. I finally sold out of them.

Big thanks to @eliseswords.eurosky.social for hosting an Itch bundle for Asexual Adventures! Our own ace (sea!!) adventure story, DEMON ENGINE by Martin Norr, is here with other excellent titles. Grab the bundle to get in on some great ace tales and support queer books! 👀🐳 itch.io/b/3946/asexu...

I promise you this podcast about the horrific abuse of rich kids in a faux British boarding school is funnier than you think.

There’s no shortage of horrors, but the best one is the horror found in forces that are so large, so abstract, or upsetting that to engage with them directly would drive you insane. With us to discuss cosmic horror are Devinder Thiara and Jesse Scoble, co-creators of a new comic, Dead Money.

Tragic to see that the Writers' Union of Canada has decided to scab on actual writers. I am genuinely ashamed to be a member. Please know that none of us voted for this or support it.

Looking for me this weekend at @canconsffh.bsky.social ? Here's where I'll be.

I think this is currently my favourite project I've yet been asked to work on - a map of a character's journey, highlighting the birds she has seen and heard while traveling! Being made for "Women's Wrongs" a part Gothic romance, part utopian travelogue and part comedy of manners by Zilla Novikov.

It was very clear why Google search was better than other searches, and GMail was at first quite good at filtering out spam compared with the alternatives. I got an iPhone for reasons that were obvious at the time. No one has presented me with a rationale for LLMs improving my life in any way.

Sitting here on a Saturday night commenting on the posters my Grade 12 students made based on @davidarobertson.bsky.social 's "52 Ways to Reconcile" and it's putting a big smile on my face. So much gratitude for that little book.

It's easy to have sort of a low level, background radiation disgust because it's now so prevalent but the degree to which online gambling is pushed and enabled in every facet of our lives is so fucking creepy and people should be in jail about it

Welp now I have Christmas plans, let’s gooooo.

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Folks going to Can*Con, and folks looking for cool mostly-Canadian SFFH writers to follow, I made a starter pack with the folks I could find from the program: go.bsky.app/SE8c2SQ #BookSky @canconsffh.bsky.social

Trouthe.

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

Ends at 9 PM Pacific TODAY ... last chance to get a great deal on #fantasy novels! (Including mine!). #booksky 🪐📚

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

• Business things • Other stuff • WE MUST CREATE IT

I genuinely need people to understand that the techbros telling us that AI is inevitable and will change the world and needs to be squeezed into every facet of our lives are in fact unhinged maniacs.

On this month's episode of Wizards & Spaceships, we drink two bottles of wine with author, marine biologist, and enemy-of-the-state Peter Watts and ask him about climate change and theories of consciousness.

@catvalente.bsky.social is so brilliant with her words. After a co-worker took my work and fed it into a slop machine, this is what I needed to read today.

www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...

I love it when a book is so vivid that the imagery and vibe for the cover just suggest themselves. It's queer and trans epic semi-fiction poetry set in the 1930s and it will haunt you.

omg thank you!

It would be cool if the labour movement could put forth a critique of GenAI as scab labour, but that would require 1) there to be a union movement, and 2) for it to remember that scab labour is bad.

"fairness in women's sports" is literally just "ethics in games journalism" like this is the same thing this is part of the same playbook dawg

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

If you think AI is “inevitable” or “just another tool” you should feel bad about yourself actually. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...

I feel represented in fiction.

I know people look down on ebooks and love the smell of paper but as someone with chronic spine pain and craptastic eyes, they are a gift and a blessing.

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

Would read.

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

I'll be at @canconsffh.bsky.social . Here's where to find me!

The year is 2035. Flock cameras are everywhere. You step out of your home and hear a voice coming from somewhere overhead, possibly close to the streetlight next to you. It's me. "Collar gap."

Happening in 20 min!

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

This is unfortunate timing with the whole explosive diarrhea problem that the Americans are having. Don't pick fights you can't win.

You can catch me on the Writers Not Writing livestream tonight at 8 pm EST here: www.youtube.com/@benjamin_go.... There will at least be a little talk about writing, more talk not about writing, bad advice and live questions.

This is bad actually.

Whoops, I screwed up my time zones. On the plus side, if you check out my @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social schedule, you'll get a much happier and more caffeinated version of me.