Diabolical Plots

The Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in print! (Unfortunately the print version is Amazon only at this time)

All claims of sf's predictive value are just survivor bias, feats of Texas marksmanship in which we fire a shotgun into the side of a barn and then draw a target around the place where the holes cluster.

We're in the final 4 days of the Apex Magazine 2021 Kickstarter and we're $4,393 away from our initial funding goal. The time is now! Let's hit our goal and fund Apex for 2027! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

If you need an algorithm to tell you your kid likes animals have you considered feeling immense shame

What the fuuuuuuuuck

So the women in the first photo were indeed "dressed like witches", because their (now ceremonial) uniform was established around the same era witches were put on trial in New England. The truth is: witches are CREATED out of respectable older women by accusation & this is what they wore.

This quilt is done. What do you think? I call it "reflections on the lake". #artquilt #pieced #original #abstract #landscape

Our family got these during peak pandemic times and they are very cool, esp for anyone who likes kit building. A great, detailed thread.

This thread is super cool and has some really unexpected stuff

One point: no shade to Silverberg but it sure is a game of mediocre dude with a particular agenda twister to write a review of WFC and not mention the Guests of Honor, Ted Chiang and Stephen Graham Jones. That’s like writing a movie review that ignores the stars. No one would publish that.

I am really, really tired and filling my drafts up with angry and vulgar responses to the Worst Guy at World Fantasy writing a weirdly biased and poorly written review of it and the lazy editorial choice to publish it. We’ll see if I can manage coherence beyond FUCK *gesturing broadly* ALL OF THIS.

Just unfollowed and blocked File 770 for platforming a dirtball with years of well-documented history (some of it on their own site!) of harassment, which has included death threats, targetting my friends and colleagues. WTF, people? 😡

We at the Skiffy and Fanty show do not platform people like Jon Del Arroz. Just sayin' We do reviews, interviews and more on our blog We do liveshows every Friday. We do discussions for our Patreons We are Skiffy and Fanty. And we have no truck with misogynists or racists. skiffyandfanty.com

ICYMI I am geeking out in a thread about the discontinued Nintendo Labo product line. This is the middle of the thread but its where I talk about the favorite one we have made so far: the piano! Includes videos of it working plus explanations of how it works which I think are super neat.

16 hours left to submit to Diabolical Rot for @diabolicalplots.com! Send me your rot! (We’ve gotten a LOT of fungi stories, so huge bonus points for other interpretations!) submissions.diabolicalplots.com

So I don't carry a purse (in no small part because I would immediately lose it) but these make me want to carry a purse.

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Wait, canonically, Steve Rogers was Captain America when he was a Private First Class and on recon patrol where he was just another soldier not there for any special reason he was wearing his Cap uniform with shield on his back under the GI uniform??? hwat???

So Ilhan could use "Omar" (grandfather's first name) or a family/tribal name as a last name, interchangeably. She'd also have the same "middle names" as her other siblings. All this is normal. Likewise, Abdul El Sayed is not "hiding" his middle name bc he doesn't have one. Mahamed is his dad's name

The competition was *tough* and the panelists had an absolute blast! SO MAY I INTRODUCE, THE INKMARK 2026 FINALISTS! inkfoundry.net/inkmark-2026/