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The Long List Anthology Volume 9: More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
The Long List Anthology Volume 9: More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series) [Steffen, David, Kowal, Mary Robinette, Wiswell, John, Palmer, Suzanne, Triantafyllou, Eugenia, Jiang, Ai, Polk, C.L., Lee, Yoon Ha, Parker, Chelle, Zhang, Hal Y.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Long List Anthology Volume 9: More Stories from the Hugo Award Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series)
www.amazon.com
The Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in print!
(Unfortunately the print version is Amazon only at this time)
(Unfortunately the print version is Amazon only at this time)
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What good is a whistle, you might wonder? Whistles don't stop bullets. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were surrounded by the blasts of whistles, and they're no longer here.
I print whistles because they make neighbors come running, ensure enough people are recording, so we can believe our eyes.
I print whistles because they make neighbors come running, ensure enough people are recording, so we can believe our eyes.
February 9, 2026 at 6:59 PM
What good is a whistle, you might wonder? Whistles don't stop bullets. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were surrounded by the blasts of whistles, and they're no longer here.
I print whistles because they make neighbors come running, ensure enough people are recording, so we can believe our eyes.
I print whistles because they make neighbors come running, ensure enough people are recording, so we can believe our eyes.
....
I just...
I will just never understand the measures to which some publishers will go to avoid doing right by the writers who actually make the stuff they build their magazine out of.
This ain't it.
I just...
I will just never understand the measures to which some publishers will go to avoid doing right by the writers who actually make the stuff they build their magazine out of.
This ain't it.
For those following the Red Ogre Review saga, he has made good on his promise to change his licensing terms...by doubling down.
On left: the original (awful) license. On right: the new license, mostly the same as the old license, but with some additions that I've circled in red.
On left: the original (awful) license. On right: the new license, mostly the same as the old license, but with some additions that I've circled in red.
February 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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I just...
I will just never understand the measures to which some publishers will go to avoid doing right by the writers who actually make the stuff they build their magazine out of.
This ain't it.
I just...
I will just never understand the measures to which some publishers will go to avoid doing right by the writers who actually make the stuff they build their magazine out of.
This ain't it.
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Ok folks, I've updated the wishlist page of our ragtag group of whistlesmiths and we have a number of people running low on filament - if you wanna help contribute to our efforts of making and distributing free community safety whistles around the country, here's the list! linktr.ee/WhistleWishL...
WhistleWishLists | Linktree
We're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!
linktr.ee
February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Ok folks, I've updated the wishlist page of our ragtag group of whistlesmiths and we have a number of people running low on filament - if you wanna help contribute to our efforts of making and distributing free community safety whistles around the country, here's the list! linktr.ee/WhistleWishL...
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Y'all, we did it. 💕 This crew of chaotic nerds has sent half a million whistles to people requesting them, for free. With your help!
Need whistles?
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Need whistles?
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
February 8, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Y'all, we did it. 💕 This crew of chaotic nerds has sent half a million whistles to people requesting them, for free. With your help!
Need whistles?
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Need whistles?
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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Yeah if somebody just wants a cute hat that's cool too but the fact that it's a visual symbol of telling nazis to go to hell is not nothing for a lot of reasons.
February 8, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Yeah if somebody just wants a cute hat that's cool too but the fact that it's a visual symbol of telling nazis to go to hell is not nothing for a lot of reasons.
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Re: craftivism; we don't know what's gonna work til we do it. If you had told me last year that 3d printed whistles were going to be the big deal thing that really fucks up the gestapo... i'd have believed you because this moment is very weird BUT I'd have had to stare at the horizon for a minute.
February 8, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Re: craftivism; we don't know what's gonna work til we do it. If you had told me last year that 3d printed whistles were going to be the big deal thing that really fucks up the gestapo... i'd have believed you because this moment is very weird BUT I'd have had to stare at the horizon for a minute.
Dragon Stitch: Okay, ready for a new color. OK back to the castle, go to a variety of sandstone type colors
February 8, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Dragon Stitch: Okay, ready for a new color. OK back to the castle, go to a variety of sandstone type colors
Dragon Stitch: a little blending of green under the fin
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Dragon Stitch: a little blending of green under the fin
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writers,
in this industry, sometimes you have to make difficult decisions.
sometimes that will look similar to what someone else did...
sometimes it will be totally different.
know that it is okay if your path doesn't mirror someone else's;
and that it is important to take care of yourself.
in this industry, sometimes you have to make difficult decisions.
sometimes that will look similar to what someone else did...
sometimes it will be totally different.
know that it is okay if your path doesn't mirror someone else's;
and that it is important to take care of yourself.
February 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
writers,
in this industry, sometimes you have to make difficult decisions.
sometimes that will look similar to what someone else did...
sometimes it will be totally different.
know that it is okay if your path doesn't mirror someone else's;
and that it is important to take care of yourself.
in this industry, sometimes you have to make difficult decisions.
sometimes that will look similar to what someone else did...
sometimes it will be totally different.
know that it is okay if your path doesn't mirror someone else's;
and that it is important to take care of yourself.
Dragon Stitch: FIN.
(Not, as in, the end. But that splash down there is a dragon fin.)
(Not, as in, the end. But that splash down there is a dragon fin.)
February 8, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Dragon Stitch: FIN.
(Not, as in, the end. But that splash down there is a dragon fin.)
(Not, as in, the end. But that splash down there is a dragon fin.)
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“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
nbcnews.to
February 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
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TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Protest - acatusa.com
Volunteers Needed We are looking for volunteers to help check firearms and to help close off roads during the march, If you would like to help without needing to carry a firearm, contact us now by ema...
acatusa.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
TWIN CITIES
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
Armed Citizens Against Tyranny is a HONEYPOT action.
No one in the Twin Cities, including the MN Gun Owners association, knows anyone supposedly in this group.
Local orgs are STRONGLY urging folks to STAY AWAY from their planned "protest."
acatusa.com
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Dragon Stitch: mixing a fruit cocktail down there or something, I dunno
February 6, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Dragon Stitch: mixing a fruit cocktail down there or something, I dunno
Dragon Stitch: a splash of grape juice
February 6, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Dragon Stitch: a splash of grape juice
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Day 36! I read When Eve Chose Us by @tiatashiro.bsky.social published in @diabolicalplots.com. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Read my review here:
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/s...
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/s...
S/D/Y Feb 05 – When Eve Chose Us by Tia Tashiro
Well, this story was still pretty heavy, but it was definitely a step towards the fun side of things that I was looking for. The central concept of the hivemind is intriguing and the characterisati…
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Day 36! I read When Eve Chose Us by @tiatashiro.bsky.social published in @diabolicalplots.com. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Read my review here:
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/s...
mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/s...
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Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
February 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
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the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
Victoria (and Writer Beware) is a great source for things to watch out in guidelines and reports of questionable publisher behavior.
(And I totally agree with this "by submitting you grant rights" is a major issue)
(And I totally agree with this "by submitting you grant rights" is a major issue)
Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3
February 5, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Victoria (and Writer Beware) is a great source for things to watch out in guidelines and reports of questionable publisher behavior.
(And I totally agree with this "by submitting you grant rights" is a major issue)
(And I totally agree with this "by submitting you grant rights" is a major issue)
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States can just do this! Don't let your local gov get away with triangulating their way out of effective resistance.
February 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
States can just do this! Don't let your local gov get away with triangulating their way out of effective resistance.
Dragon Stitch: connected to another part of the dragon.
It... looks like the dragon is taking a wiz
It... looks like the dragon is taking a wiz
February 5, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Dragon Stitch: connected to another part of the dragon.
It... looks like the dragon is taking a wiz
It... looks like the dragon is taking a wiz
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This would be a good time to donate to @wikipedia.org, if you have the means:
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
February 4, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This would be a good time to donate to @wikipedia.org, if you have the means:
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
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Winner medallions arrived today! Will work on getting these in the mail next week. In the meantime, our open call for join as a judge for the 2026 cycle is currently live! Apply thru 2/14.
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Winner medallions arrived today! Will work on getting these in the mail next week. In the meantime, our open call for join as a judge for the 2026 cycle is currently live! Apply thru 2/14.
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/
ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/wanna-judge/
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Thread.
Publication rights should be granted by *signing a contract* to that effect. And you should be selling limited rights; sell regionally where able, and only in formats the publisher is *actually* going to produce.
But there's a lot of room to get screwed over with "submission as agreement."
Publication rights should be granted by *signing a contract* to that effect. And you should be selling limited rights; sell regionally where able, and only in formats the publisher is *actually* going to produce.
But there's a lot of room to get screwed over with "submission as agreement."
I've said this before but I'll say it again, I suggest not submitting to publications that state "By submitting you agree to grant us publication rights".
Probably not legally binding but best not to submit anyway.
Biggest reason is they could just not even reply and claim to have pub rights
Probably not legally binding but best not to submit anyway.
Biggest reason is they could just not even reply and claim to have pub rights
February 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Thread.
Publication rights should be granted by *signing a contract* to that effect. And you should be selling limited rights; sell regionally where able, and only in formats the publisher is *actually* going to produce.
But there's a lot of room to get screwed over with "submission as agreement."
Publication rights should be granted by *signing a contract* to that effect. And you should be selling limited rights; sell regionally where able, and only in formats the publisher is *actually* going to produce.
But there's a lot of room to get screwed over with "submission as agreement."
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Called and left messages for my senators this morning stating THIS is NOT enough.
Video footage did not save Pretti or Good. Horrors are routinely happening still in MN, even with Bovino gone.
Remember when calling: name with spelling, city and ZIP code and if you'd like a call back.
Call.
Video footage did not save Pretti or Good. Horrors are routinely happening still in MN, even with Bovino gone.
Remember when calling: name with spelling, city and ZIP code and if you'd like a call back.
Call.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Called and left messages for my senators this morning stating THIS is NOT enough.
Video footage did not save Pretti or Good. Horrors are routinely happening still in MN, even with Bovino gone.
Remember when calling: name with spelling, city and ZIP code and if you'd like a call back.
Call.
Video footage did not save Pretti or Good. Horrors are routinely happening still in MN, even with Bovino gone.
Remember when calling: name with spelling, city and ZIP code and if you'd like a call back.
Call.