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Cameron Howard
@chpenforhire.bsky.social
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Weird fiction editor.

Publications include The Skull & Laurel / anti-AI special issue Thank You For Joining the Algorithm with Tenebrous Press, and The Tentaculum with the Drabblecast.
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beardedbetts.bsky.social
Anomaly's Year One anthology drops this Tuesday. I'm grateful to have a piece included in here alongside both familiar and unfamiliar faces. If you're into micros, these stories are unsettling and swing hard. www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59YKK61
Anomaly: Year One (Shacklebound Books)
Anomaly: Year One (Shacklebound Books) - Kindle edition by Fomley, Eric. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Anomaly: Year One (Shacklebound Books).
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February 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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beardedbetts.bsky.social
I'm feeling too spoiled by some kind words by early readers of Midwestern Chrome. Thank you @drewsof.bsky.social.

@ivygrimes.bsky.social left a lovely review over on Goodreads as well.

Y'all are in for a treat this August. Only @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

💀💜🤘
The Future's So Bright. "Rips like a blast of fuzzy future glam rock out of the speakers of a souped-up speed machine. Bettendorf is at the modern forefront of re-Weirding the novel: first with his choose-your-path black metal TRVE CVLT, and now with this, a portrait of a near-time and near-place, one that reflects not only hopes and fears for the future but the very real concerns of our present as well. Jack in, bliss out, rock on." -Drew Broussard, the Lit Hub Podcast August 2026 Tenebrouspress.com. "Midwestern Chrome" glitches in overlapping purple and yellow font. A neon soaked street, bathed in blue and purple hues. In the foreground, a man with sunglasses perched on his head holds a decapitated head, a bag at his side. The head stares with electric blue eyes. A passerby in a dark trench coat gazes over his shoulder. Art by Arianna Bosa.
February 3, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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mikerugnetta.com
According to the CBP's records – which we'll take w/ every grain of salt there is, but these are THEIR numbers – 27 "criminal illegal aliens" were convicted of murder FY25 thru Dec FY26. According to various sources (Guardian below), ICE killed 32 people in 2025. People Magazine says "at least" 32.
SOURCE: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/criminal-alien-statistics CBP chart showing crimes allegedly committed by "criminal illegal aliens" – the last line is for "Homicide, Manslaughter". The first four are for other crimes. SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline Thirty-two people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in 2025 – making it the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades, as the Trump administration moved to detain a record number of people.
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
Ayyyyyy, thanks everybody for sharing the crowdfund sign-up page! It really helps; the more followers going in, the better we do.

The better we do, the more we can pay our contributors, and the more cool stuff we can make for you the rest of the year!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Join 300 other people!
January 23, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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raincorbyn.bsky.social
Wow thank you Íde! My story about popcorn saving humanity despite big agriculture and colonialism is in beautiful company. 🙏
If you like ochre psychedelic mists, I’ve got a story for you!

Thank you @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social for publishing
January 14, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
Oh hey, it's the cover art for issue 8! Painted by @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social!

✍️ Sign up to be alerted when NESS 2026 launches,

👨‍🏫 Learn about our crowdfund exclusives,

and

👁️ See teases, with reveal dates, for all kinds of surprises all at...

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Cover art for issue eight of New Edge Sword & Sorcery, by Jimmy Makepeace aka @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social. Mostly violet and pale yellow in color, it shows two Mongol women from the era of Genghis Khan standing in a room being transformed into another world by strange energies from the fallen head of a statue. Each of them is armed, and wary.
January 15, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me

apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

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About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
January 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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probablyharmless.bsky.social
So living with my parents abruptly became unsafe (mentally/emotionally) and I'm leaving ASAP. I have somewhere to go, but it's out of state. I'm packing now but I have to register my car before I go and that's $500. Anything helps. 🫀

Venmo: probablyharmless
PayPal: theohillwriter at gmail
January 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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seizethepress.bsky.social
If you know Theo then I don't need to say any more. If you don't know him consider helping out a stranger in need. Concrete case of how not being wealthy is made even harder when you're LGBTQ.
probablyharmless.bsky.social Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · Jan 7
So living with my parents abruptly became unsafe (mentally/emotionally) and I'm leaving ASAP. I have somewhere to go, but it's out of state. I'm packing now but I have to register my car before I go and that's $500. Anything helps. 🫀

Venmo: probablyharmless
PayPal: theohillwriter at gmail
January 7, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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merriam-webster.com
peek = 🫣

peak = 🗻

pique = 👀
January 5, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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callgespenst.bsky.social
giving
Ppl when the ps5 is revealed to have 69 terashits per megafart [Dinosaurs flying away after the meteor hit]
January 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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moonbough.bsky.social
We need yottaflops. Just a few giegercomputes. A couple of doolobytes. We need singulodoohicky. Some spare poobits could do it. A few poobits can fix it. We need poob. Poob has it. Poob has it. Poob has it. Poob-
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Jan 6
Who cares
Al AMD CEO Lisa Su says Al will need 10 'yottaflops' of compute - here's what that actually means
January 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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postcoffeeera.bsky.social
Yotta be preparing for ya stock to flop.
January 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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flytieguy.bsky.social
Yotta flop that AI shit off a cliff
January 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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spicycloaca.bsky.social
incredibly late to posting (because, y'know, life) but guess what showed up in the mail recently!

@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social puts out such beautiful magazines & i'm thrilled to be in issue #5 ⚔️🦑🫀
Image ID: this is a photograph of New Edge Sword and Sorcery issue 5. It features a woman in flowing robes armed with a sword standing triumphantly on a pile of foes. Image ID: this is a photograph of the title page of my story in New Edge Sword and Sorcery, "In Perfection's Shape I Writhe." Image ID: this is a blurry close-up photograph of the art that accompanies my story. It features the silhouette of a woman with her head thrown back in a scream. Lightning backlights her.
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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nightshadesmag.bsky.social
new story coming tomorrow.

wish it was your pub day? well you gotta play to win baby… we’re open!

www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
Submissions
Night Shades is a fiction magazine that publishes four speculative stories per month. Night Shades is OPEN Night Shades opens sporadically and for indeterminate periods of time. The detai...
www.nightshadesmag.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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raincorbyn.bsky.social
Stoked to be part of this lineup, and what a cool idea! Thanks Sam!
horrorbutch.bsky.social Sam @horrorbutch.bsky.social · Jan 1
Ooops All Trans A-Z Booktitle Challenge that I did in 2025. Wohoo! I'm really happy that I managed to finish this challenge this year especially since I decided to only count trans books for it. Also this looks gorgeous. #samreads.
a completely filled out version of the A-Z booktitle challenge. List of books in the thread.
January 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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innerworlds.bsky.social
Submissions are open now for our final issue! The theme for this issue is 'endings'

inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g...
Submission guidelines
Our next issue will be our last one, so we are looking for stories on the theme of endings. We'd like to read about loss, change, grief, relief, hope, and possibility. What to submit * Sci...
inner-worlds.ghost.io
January 1, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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seizethepress.bsky.social
We're open for fiction submissions!

We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.

No closing date, open indefinitely.
Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
www.seizethepress.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
chpenforhire.bsky.social
They're recreating this scene in Texas tonight actually:

www.bladerave.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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megapolisomancy.bsky.social
For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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bitterkarella.bsky.social
In 1989, my family lived in Seoul, and one of my distinct memories is going with my dad to a certain random office building downtown where if you knew the right door to knock on, you could buy pirated video games for literal pennies.
December 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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aprildaniels.bsky.social
Page from a 20th century IBM manual, that famously says "A computer can never be held responsible therefore a computer must never make a management decision" It has been edited to say "A computer can never be HORNY OR SAD therefore a computer must never make AN ARTISTIC decision"
December 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic...

Key findings:
-Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views
-More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025

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aiforensics.org
December 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM