Elizabeth Rubio
@rubiowrites.bsky.social
SFF author from Austin, TX. they/them
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He’s our own Puxsutawney Ted, predicting ice and a possible grid collapse.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 21, 2026 at 5:24 AM
He’s our own Puxsutawney Ted, predicting ice and a possible grid collapse.
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HE'S FUCKING DOING IT AGAIN
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 21, 2026 at 5:41 AM
HE'S FUCKING DOING IT AGAIN
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Must Read Magazine's statement on changes to its contract (Writer Beware has not yet seen a copy of the new boilerplate) file770.com/must-reads-m...
Must Reads Magazines Statement on Changes Made to Standard Contract in Response to SFWA
Must Reads Magazines, publisher of Analog, Asimov’s and F&SF, has been working for several months with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association on issues SFWA raised about MRM’s stan…
file770.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Must Read Magazine's statement on changes to its contract (Writer Beware has not yet seen a copy of the new boilerplate) file770.com/must-reads-m...
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im so sorry..
that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee
that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee
January 16, 2026 at 3:40 AM
im so sorry..
that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee
that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee
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Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday!
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
January 12, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday!
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
Well I've never actually written an entire novel draft. Most of my career I've been a short story writer. And as I mentioned yesterday the novel I'm now working on wasn't coming together in its initial draft so I stopped writing the draft and began revisions instead.
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#pretendpanel, I will get to your answers from yesterday shortly, thank you for your patience. Meanwhile...
January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 17th: How many drafts, then vs. now? (see image and/or alt text for further prompting if needed)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Well I've never actually written an entire novel draft. Most of my career I've been a short story writer. And as I mentioned yesterday the novel I'm now working on wasn't coming together in its initial draft so I stopped writing the draft and began revisions instead.
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
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I recently updated my masterlist of printers and manufacturers on the Screen Tones website, and there's a fairly sizeable section for sticker printers* if anyone is looking for additional recs!
*non crummy
screentonescast.com/view/66
*non crummy
screentonescast.com/view/66
January 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM
I recently updated my masterlist of printers and manufacturers on the Screen Tones website, and there's a fairly sizeable section for sticker printers* if anyone is looking for additional recs!
*non crummy
screentonescast.com/view/66
*non crummy
screentonescast.com/view/66
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🌳Texas Everbearing Fig
🌳Elderberry
🌳Mexican Buckeye
🌳Pecans
🌳Bur Oak
🌳Chinquapin Oak
Event details:
📅 Saturday, January 17
⏲️ 11am-1pm
📍Toney Burger Center, 3200 Jones Rd, Austin, TX 78745
The NeighborWoods program is a partnership between the City of Austin Government and Austin Energy 🌱
🌳Elderberry
🌳Mexican Buckeye
🌳Pecans
🌳Bur Oak
🌳Chinquapin Oak
Event details:
📅 Saturday, January 17
⏲️ 11am-1pm
📍Toney Burger Center, 3200 Jones Rd, Austin, TX 78745
The NeighborWoods program is a partnership between the City of Austin Government and Austin Energy 🌱
January 16, 2026 at 5:33 PM
🌳Texas Everbearing Fig
🌳Elderberry
🌳Mexican Buckeye
🌳Pecans
🌳Bur Oak
🌳Chinquapin Oak
Event details:
📅 Saturday, January 17
⏲️ 11am-1pm
📍Toney Burger Center, 3200 Jones Rd, Austin, TX 78745
The NeighborWoods program is a partnership between the City of Austin Government and Austin Energy 🌱
🌳Elderberry
🌳Mexican Buckeye
🌳Pecans
🌳Bur Oak
🌳Chinquapin Oak
Event details:
📅 Saturday, January 17
⏲️ 11am-1pm
📍Toney Burger Center, 3200 Jones Rd, Austin, TX 78745
The NeighborWoods program is a partnership between the City of Austin Government and Austin Energy 🌱
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Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.
Naaaaaaailed it
January 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.
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If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
The process is ever-evolving. I am currently working on letting my process be its own thing rather than following what everyone else is doing, e.g. I got stuck at 95% of a draft and rather than force the last 5% I started revising to make the last pieces fall into place.
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#pretendpanel, tell me...
January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 16th: Where are you now with the writing process? How has that changed?
e.g. keeping it fun / currently learning processes / adherence to learned processes / breaking out of outgrown processes / something else?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The process is ever-evolving. I am currently working on letting my process be its own thing rather than following what everyone else is doing, e.g. I got stuck at 95% of a draft and rather than force the last 5% I started revising to make the last pieces fall into place.
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
Oh this is very exciting!
January 16, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Oh this is very exciting!
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This is a watershed moment for Texas - for the first time ever, solar supplied more electricity than coal in 2025.
I will say it again: At this rate, TX will likely decarbonize its electricity sector faster than CA.
TX clean electricity is growing at 13%,m more than twice that of CA's at 6%.
I will say it again: At this rate, TX will likely decarbonize its electricity sector faster than CA.
TX clean electricity is growing at 13%,m more than twice that of CA's at 6%.
Texas solar power surpassed coal in 2025 for the first year ever. Here's why.
In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power plants.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
This is a watershed moment for Texas - for the first time ever, solar supplied more electricity than coal in 2025.
I will say it again: At this rate, TX will likely decarbonize its electricity sector faster than CA.
TX clean electricity is growing at 13%,m more than twice that of CA's at 6%.
I will say it again: At this rate, TX will likely decarbonize its electricity sector faster than CA.
TX clean electricity is growing at 13%,m more than twice that of CA's at 6%.
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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Rest in power, Claudette Colvin.
American pioneer of the 50s civil rights movement. In 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus, 9 months before Rosa Parks. (WIKI)
✊🏾
American pioneer of the 50s civil rights movement. In 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus, 9 months before Rosa Parks. (WIKI)
✊🏾
January 14, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Rest in power, Claudette Colvin.
American pioneer of the 50s civil rights movement. In 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus, 9 months before Rosa Parks. (WIKI)
✊🏾
American pioneer of the 50s civil rights movement. In 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus, 9 months before Rosa Parks. (WIKI)
✊🏾
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Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
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Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me
January 13, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me
I'm not sure that the way I develop main characters has changed all that much except that now that I'm writing a novel I spend so much time with them that I know them much better.
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#pretendpanel, maybe this has changed for you, or maybe not! But either way, I'm keen to know...
January 10th: How has your creation of main characters evolved over time?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 10th: How has your creation of main characters evolved over time?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I'm not sure that the way I develop main characters has changed all that much except that now that I'm writing a novel I spend so much time with them that I know them much better.
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
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EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
January 10, 2026 at 6:35 AM
EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE
DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
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Want something kinky and still filled with the holiday spirit? You can check out this series! All tentacles and plenty of twists. You'll be able to find it in KU for a little while longer! Go to mleaden-dot-com and click the clicky! :)
January 9, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Want something kinky and still filled with the holiday spirit? You can check out this series! All tentacles and plenty of twists. You'll be able to find it in KU for a little while longer! Go to mleaden-dot-com and click the clicky! :)
The past few months I've been working a lot on a novel. I've always stuck with shorter fiction so it's been a big adjustment but I hope I'm getting there!
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#pretendpanel, let's get into the hard questions, shall we?
January 9th: How has your craft evolved lately? (as in, your prose, your structuring, voice and tone, etc)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 9th: How has your craft evolved lately? (as in, your prose, your structuring, voice and tone, etc)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
January 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
The past few months I've been working a lot on a novel. I've always stuck with shorter fiction so it's been a big adjustment but I hope I'm getting there!
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
#PretendPanel #WriterSky
Some indie presses do some of this maliciously, others are making innocent mistakes, but either way, it's bad for authors.
I want to do a thread on "Small Press Red Flags" brought to you by years in the trenches combined with some issues I’m seeing pop up again in writer circles.
Note: an isolated incident might not be a red flag, but cumulative flags are always worth examination.
First off: Let’s talk about money.
Note: an isolated incident might not be a red flag, but cumulative flags are always worth examination.
First off: Let’s talk about money.
January 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Some indie presses do some of this maliciously, others are making innocent mistakes, but either way, it's bad for authors.
Oof. This is excellent and so disturbing.
NEW STORY DAY!
“I Met You on the Train” is now out at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-me...
“I Met You on the Train” is now out at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/i-me...
I Met You on the Train - Uncanny Magazine
I met you on the train. The first time it happened, I didn’t know what to do or what to say to you. I just saw your patches on your backpack. And they were from the same TV show that mine were from. S...
www.uncannymagazine.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Oof. This is excellent and so disturbing.
Bigots when a trans person exists: We must protect children from this evil!
Bigots when the environment-killing theft machine churns out CSAM on demand: *crickets*
Bigots when the environment-killing theft machine churns out CSAM on demand: *crickets*
January 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Bigots when a trans person exists: We must protect children from this evil!
Bigots when the environment-killing theft machine churns out CSAM on demand: *crickets*
Bigots when the environment-killing theft machine churns out CSAM on demand: *crickets*
If Stones Were To Roll
TODAY'S OBSCURE GRAMMATICAL CHALLENGE
Make a band subjunctive
Would That They Were Giants
Make a band subjunctive
Would That They Were Giants
January 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
If Stones Were To Roll