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Kat/K. A. Tutin
@mskatutin.bsky.social
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She/they. Speculative fiction writer and editor, https://linktr.ee/mskatutin. Tutin pronounced like a rootin'-tootin' cowboy.
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mercwolfmoor.bsky.social
I signed the contract so I am utterly thrilled to announce I have sold a novelette to @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 🥳 my second appearance there, this time with a messed up unicorn time loop story! 🦄⏳

Big shout out to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE notes & edits to make this one sing!
thor is wearing a helmet and holding a shield and a sword .
Alt: Thor, from the third movie, shouting "yessss!"
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February 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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cknightwrites.bsky.social
My autoimmune disease is progressive and terminal; it will make me blind, paralyze me completely, end my life. I have to constantly battle back against it, and I've been doing the bare minimum for years because of cost. I need more, and I need help.

Every single cent helps.

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February 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Indie authors using Draft2Digital, this does indeed work, and your self pubs can now be sold on bookshop.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
RE4 Remake complete! That was super fun.
February 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
Fantastic! Congrats, Rick!
February 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
Hearing Coronation Street get name-dropped on Marvel’s Wonder Man gave me whiplash.
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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rsagarcia.bsky.social
Everyone's struggling & the world's on fire so I'm sorry to ask, but I need your help again.

If you could donate and/or share my Go Fund Me campaign, it would go a long way to helping me pay for increased costs for my breast cancer treatment. Details in my update.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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February 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
Our February 2026 issue features stories by Sarah Pauling, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Raahem Alvi, Claire Jia-Wen, Fiona Moore, Rich Larson, and Louis Inglis Hall.

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Cover art by Matt Dixon features a robot with his back to the viewer standing on the beach near the water as it looks out onto the sea. Also in this issue: interviews with James Sallis and Michael Swanwick, article by Terry Franklin, and the results of the first round of our readers poll.
February 1, 2026 at 6:33 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
Redesigned my freelance editing website. Not bad, if I say so myself. (This is also a cheeky promotion. If anyone needs some editing done, I'd love to be your guy!) tutinediting.carrd.co.
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February 1, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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goatburgler.bsky.social
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This image is a meme using characters from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to express a strong opinion on labor strikes within the video game industry. The first character asks if game developers should strike. The second character responds that all exploited workers should strike. The first asks if this is true even if it disrupts the industry. The second emphasizes that it should happen especially if it causes disruption.
January 28, 2026 at 1:12 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
Could literally be investing that money into art and creatives, but then that would mean giving a fuck about us.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 8d
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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okwonga.bsky.social
shado-mag.com/articles/opi... “Despite the ongoing horrors by ICE, we have yet to see nationwide outrage over Reform’s plans to bring those horrors to the UK.”
Inside Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover
In today's article shado editor Elia Ayoub discusses Reform’s “Operation Restore Justice”, the risks of a British ICE and how we can resist.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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mercwolfmoor.bsky.social
hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚

ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!)
tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download
cover for an ebook titled BY YOU, HOPE STANDS; it shows two wolves (one golden, one black) howling underneath an arch with the phases of the moon above, and a starry sky in the background; the text is white with the subtitle "stories of hope and resistance"
January 28, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com
Fuck ICE, fuck Reform, and fuck anyone who actually wants this.
ayoub.bsky.social elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 9d
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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mruthrobinson.bsky.social
New story out now from @lightspeedmagazine.com! This one is all about how it feels to work in higher education these days. Spoiler: it feels extremely bad, like “what if your university signed a compact with the actual devil and now there’s an unbreakable curse” levels of bad 🫠
Academic Neutrality - Lightspeed Magazine
When Amy begins to flay herself during office hours, you aren’t quite sure what to do. You hate office hours. You used to enjoy them, actually, back before the flayings started. Sure, it’s hard sharin...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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smessenger.bsky.social
MY JENNIFER'S BODY X JUNO WEIRD FLORIDA HORROR NOVELETTE IS LIVE on @nightmare-magazine.com! Lane just wants to make friends with the boy next door, who she’s afraid of, because, hey, that thing happened to her mom.

www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/jenn...
Jennifer’s Daughter - Nightmare Magazine
My mom was sixteen when a band of boys took her out to the woods and bound her to a tree and tortured her to death, like in Jennifer’s Body, so you see her womb was kinda already out of commish by the...
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January 21, 2026 at 8:41 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
This would be purely for outlining and planning before moving onto Twine.
January 17, 2026 at 8:16 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
What's a good software (Mac) to plan/mindmap interactive fiction? I have Scapple, but it feels a bit limited in arranging and connecting things.
January 17, 2026 at 8:09 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
The aiming on console is so janky though.
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
mskatutin.bsky.social
Finally playing RE4 remake. Looking at you respectfully, Leon.
January 15, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
Psst.

This is a lightning bolt.

On fucking Jupiter.
A view from above of a large cyclonic storm that is mainly a grey colour, set against a swirling backdrop of more bluish smaller storms. At the 12 o'clock position in the large storm is a small point of green light, which is a lightning bolt. This scene is on Jupiter.
January 14, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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gaykwon.bsky.social
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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ottersediting.com
My goal in 2026 is to grow my freelance editing business, making it my career.

But I can only do that with your help!

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January 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
🔥 @markruffalo.bsky.social : “I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great. Renee Good was murdered... stormtroopers running around terrorizing. As much as I love all this, I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him- this is crazy.”
January 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM