Ziv W

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"There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind."
Assistant Editor at Diabolical Plots,
Associate Editor PodCastle .
He/Him.

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River crossing

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Strange Horizons has been doing top notch work in fiction, criticism, and essays on the SFF fields for more than twenty years, and has been consistently passed over for the Hugo. I hope that this year, voters finally give them their due.

This is the last week of Hugo Award voting and we would like you to consider Strange Horizons for Best Semiprozine. For over 20 years, Strange Horizons has been publishing weekly issues filled with new stories, poems and non-fiction. Here are some more reasons you should vote for us below!

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I bit a radioactive spider and now it's got human powers. It's crying

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Video deposition format debates are an idea whose time has come

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Old renewables guy here: There is a mind blowing amount of work that goes into these, and the last one I saw behind the scenes was a decade ago. Peak oil demand was decades away then. Renewables have been advancing at an incredible pace.

BP's influential outlook report predicts global oil demand will peak in 2025, bringing to end rising emissions by the mid-2020s amid a surge in wind and solar power. www.theguardian.com/business/art...

BP predicts global oil demand will peak in 2025, bringing to end rising emissionswww.theguardian.com Report says peak will bring to end to rising emissions as wind and solar capacity surges, but gas forecasts likely to cause concern

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Your move, Hemingway

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We would all prefer the structural engineer who would make the building fireproof, but I’m still going to vote for the fireman over the fire.

Look, I've voted in every midterm and presidential election since 1990, the first year I was eligible. I wish there was a president I wanted to vote for this year, but I sure as hell want to vote against Project 2025.

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Four old Jewish men are sitting in a cafe. “Oy,” says the first man. “Oy vey,” says the second man. “Oy vey iz mir,” says the third man. The fourth man snaps: “if you don’t stop talking about politics, I’m walking out!”

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Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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hello new followers! if you found me via my request for assistance to create Project 2025 Memes… please reply below if you’re interested in helping with either research/planning, writing, design, meme seeding, etc we’re going to set up a slack channel 💜

yes! awesome. i think the power move here is to create meme graphics that can be shared in various groups eg i found posts against project 2025 in my celiac group, bc of the food label shit they’re pulling it has HUGE potential to reach normies and even people who otherwise might vote trump

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Again the proper response to Stephen Miller or Donald Trump or anyone claiming to not be in lockstep with Project 2025 is just to ask them “what part do you disagree with?”

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This is the explicit goal of an astonishing amount of paid (and paid for!) propaganda out there. If you're feeling voting doesn't matter, maybe consider why it is so many people are spending so much money, time, effort and ad space trying to convince you not to.

“If a [political] party knows you’re not going to vote for them, the best thing they can do is convince you not to vote at all." — Stage_Door_Johnny (on instagram)

well-said.

If living in horrible times has taught me one thing, it's that many of these conversations are better had in-person, especially when existential doom is involved. Because at least in those spaces, we can hug each other.

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Next submission period begins on July 15! There is NO THEME this time, so send in any of your favourite pieces of writing. We offer $0.10/word! And as a reminder, we now accept translations and flash fiction! More details on what we accept and how to submit: www.khoreomag.com/submissions/

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Lord Businessman II

That's what everyone is losing their goddamn minds about, a two point debate polling bump. That's what it is right now. That's what people are losing their goddamn minds over. Its been five days. We've had polls, including day of.

For quite a while now my answer to "hey, how're you doing" has been "everything inside my house is wonderful; everything outside my house is on fire"

like im doing great but im squinting at an incoming nuke like damn that’s crazy

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Literally saw a TikTok awhile back where someone was interviewing tattoo artists, asking "What's the most stereotypical Millennial tattoo?", and two different artists answered "Harry Potter tat cover-up."

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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New story day! "This Mentor Lives" is about a wizard working himself to death raising chosen ones--but his kids are worried for him. It's time for an intervention. You can read it free at @havenspec.bsky.social right here: www.havenspec.com/this-mentor-...

This Mentor Lives by J.R. Dawson & John Wiswell, Haven Spec Magazinewww.havenspec.com a magazine of science fiction and fantasy

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"The deepfake is nothing like you. Its smile is all wrong. It’s recorded your dimple as an artifact and smoothed it over. Your smile is too symmetrical. It’s shortened your beaky nose. It winks at me from the computer screen with the wrong eye." - Spencer Nitkey

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One of my favorite and most emotional and personal stories I've written is out in the world today @diabolicalplots.com. "Eternal Recurrence" is a story about all the ways technology might try and fail to help ease our grief. I'd love it if you gave it a read. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

DP FICTION #113A: “Eternal Recurrence” by Spencer Nitkey – Diabolical Plotswww.diabolicalplots.com

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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This election is about values, not policies. It was *always* about values and not policies. This was obvious to anyone with half a brain-cell from the first day that Trump announced he'd be running again. Every single comms person who does not get that should be given their severance and a reference

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Speculative fiction readers, we've got an exciting project coming out on Monday. A new podcast, from the @ancillaryreview.bsky.social, digging into thorny SFF literature. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/amealofthorns/

Podcastancillaryreviewofbooks.org Latest Episode: Coming soon! About the Podcast: A Meal of Thorns is a critical book club hosted by Jake Casella Brookins. Each episode, we'll be looking closely at works of speculative fiction, thinki...

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Let me tell you a real boring story! Last year, a queer artist in my community put up a cool Pride installation. Then some bigots used it to hang bigot flags and threatened to sue the city if they took down the bigot signs without also taking down the (admittedly unauthorized) art piece…

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Holy shit. I just found that Adam West, who famously played Batman in the 1966 TV series, also played millionaire Bruce Wayne. What a talented actor.

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I have no idea how to promote my newest short story WHILE melting in a viscous goo of covid + heatwave, but hey here's the great magazine that just published my very cool story and you can support them! strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-...

And as a last update for today: we've just hit our next milestone of $8K, which allows us to unlock this fascinating review by Kit Eginton, of Raphael Kabo's "Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics"! strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...

Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics by Raphael Kabostrangehorizons.com The politics of Kabo’s book reflect a trend in contemporary leftism that I might call the communism of the margins.

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Big: Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug gave young women total protection from HIV

New Drug Provides Total Protection From H.I.V. in Trial of Young African Womenwww.nytimes.com An injection given just twice a year could herald a breakthrough in protecting the population that has the highest infection rates.