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Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

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Lots of Mamatas vim and vinegar in this issue!

A slim, small magazine featuring a robotic fish holding up a mask, with a blue and white background. https://fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-subscription/

Please to receive my copy of the new print @fabulistmag.bsky.social.

Includes my Short Review of a Short Book--Marisolania by Michele Cruz Gonzales

AND

my new flash fiction designed to be the 52nd weekly of 52. The rest are online at The Fab's website, and my story—"Punchline" is in print.

In a word … hurray for proofreaders!!!!!!

Honored to have a small part (as proofreader) in helping a wonderful, unique lit magazine find its way to print. Kudos and thanks to publisher/editor in chief Joshua Wilson on the new edition of @fabulistmag.bsky.social, which is fabulous. Print is NOT dead.
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Two members went on to form Godley & Creme, whom you may remember from the ’80s MTV-era tune “Cry” … also they released the hella weird “I Pity Inanimate Objects.”

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Adding a link to a story about Diana with more details of her abduction. She was GOING TO THE DOCTOR BECAUSE SHE HAD A NOSEBLEED AND NOW SHE IS IN A PRISON FULL OF MEASLES.

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There is no way in hell the United States under the Trump regime can host the World Cup in a few months.

They are murdering citizens in broad daylight, threatening war against NATO, and lawlessly kidnapping children and foreign heads of state.

The world has to organize a boycott. It’s not safe.

Tomorrow, Jan. 22, is STIR's "Rainy Season" reading event. The lineup is SUPERABUNDANT. Mukethe Kawinzi! Sam J. Miller! Jason Bayani! Annalee Newitz! And the venue? *chef's kiss* Hella kudos to our event lead TK Rex for bringing such care and intention to this happening. If you're in SF, ya gotta!

Promo card for the event with a matcha next to it and a little corner of a book you can’t see the title of (but it’s A Chorus Divergent). The card has the readers’ headshots on it & it’s important to note that Sam’s includes a dinosaur. Also this isn’t indicated by anything in the photo, but the matcha latte was made by M. M. Olivas. Yes, that M. M. Olivas. It also want my matcha, she insisted on making another one for this because mine wasn’t pretty enough, so this one went to a different customer who was very good humored about the whole thing.

Thursday in San Francisco!
Coffee hour, readings & discussion with:
📖 Mukethe Kawinzi
📕 @jasonbayani.bsky.social
🦖 @sentencebender.bsky.social
📚 @annaleen.bsky.social
1246 Folsom near Civic Center
☕️ Coffee hour 5-6
🎤 Readings start at 6
Hosted by me & @fabulistmag.bsky.social

I compare the interiority of a Delany character to that of these characters and the abyss of not caring about them widens and deepens.

I read Things with Beards and Let All the Children Boogie on your advice and they were great!

Twenty minutes into this Award Winning Military Science Fiction Novel and I am trying and failing to give a shit about another goddamn galactic empire. How about an epic far-future science fiction novel about an artist cooperative or something. Fucking please.

2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons Open Now

Fiction submissions are open now!

The window will be open until January 21st 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.

For additional information about submitting including our Moksha link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Our 10-year-old journal of creative writing on environmental justice will reopen to submissions, including poetry, creative nonfiction, art, short stories AND novella-length fiction, on February 1st.

This is gonna be good.

Donate to Support Raul's recovery from stroke, organized by TK Rex In early December, our friend Raul Sanchez, owner of Cafe Suspiro in San Francisco, suffere… TK Rex needs your support for Support Raul's recovery from stroke

Raul Sanchez of the great SoMa SF cultural space Cafe Suspiro suffered a stroke before the holidays. Raul hosts the Stir reading series produced by our comrade @tkrex.bsky.social (next one is Jan 22!) and is a stand-up fellow. We donated to support him and we encourage you to as well!

Selfie of Kelly with frizzy hair and water in the background.

It’s my birthday and I’m 45! One way to celebrate with me is to support @truthout.org. TO’s news and analysis rocks, and our Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism works to foster and maintain the ecosystem of movement and indy journalism that we need to fight fascism. truthout.org/donate

Season 2, Episode 9: Editing Roundtable ft. Alexandra Pierce and Josh Wilson - Wizards and Spaceships Magazines and journals have been a foundational part of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror since the very beginning and provide us with the stories, art, and critical analysis that keep the genre vibrant. Th...

Let's talk about SFFH magazine editing! With @mrjoshuawilson.bsky.social, editor of @fabulistmag.bsky.social, and Alexandra Pierce, editor of @speculativeinsight.bsky.social.

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So many. This made me cry.

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One of my favorite local poets is reading at Stir on the 22nd and she’s not on socials so I’m gonna go ahead and tell you to get to know her the old fashioned way and come to our reading! 1246 Folsom in San Francisco, hosted by me and @fabulistmag.bsky.social

www.mukethekawinzi.com

“It’s dangerous to confused self-expression with communication” phew!

After 2 and a half years of delays, I have the new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION in my hands. My story in it has been waiting a long time for their new owners to get it together. AND I got the new WORLDS OF IF in. I'm in there too. IF is a BIG thick mag full up with wonder.

Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world London’s murder rate has dropped to its lowest in more than a decade with police in the capital and the mayor saying it is now one of the safest cities in the western world. The figures come as those on the radical right criticise the city for having a crime problem, hoping to gain politically from such claims being believed. Continue reading...

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

I need everyone to memorize this poem by the US citizen shot by ICE and then try and tell me poetry doesn’t matter.

life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.

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Now on to the disgusting spectacle of politicians and mass media retconning the murder of a young woman.

But seriously, it was great. Not sarcastic. Well done, great payoff, and if the haters think it’s too maudlin, they forget what they’re watching.