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Flash Fiction Online - SPECIAL CALL -- "Tiny Gods" FFO Special Call: “Tiny Gods” Speculative fiction about small, personal rituals and moments of worship to the tiny gods in the protagonist’s life. Flash Fiction Online is seeking speculative fiction s...

My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...

A white sign with black text on a Stone wall, reflected in still water. The sign says: the remains of a wooden icebreaker lie submerged.

obsessed with this sign warning of a submerged icebreaker, written upside down to be read in reflection in the still water of Leeds-Liverpool Canal, which I’ve never seen frozen over, fwiw. near Armley, Leeds

a line of tall trees, its night and a cresent moon can be seen

Jan Mankes’ Evening Landscape, 1912

A 1,500-bed detention facility is coming to rural Maryland. We’re calling on ICE to account for what that means — and asking you to do the same. An Open Letter to DHS's Sustainability Team from Project Salt Box

⚫🟡MARYLANDERS🔴⚪

ICE wants to convert a package warehouse into a facility holding 1,500 people and calls it an "in-kind" change. We disagree.

The public comment window to share open comments closes Thursday 3/5.

Tell ICE what you think — we've made it easy.

Read more over at Project Salt Box.

My art, digital. A helmet and skull

An armour study - 2026

A wall full of mugs arranged in such a way that it looks like the mugs are repeating themselves, creating an uncomfortable illusion

Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye

A stylized meme of a tired creator with bloodshot eyes speaking truths about someone who decides that mastering both art and writing was smart. SOURCE: bamsara on Tumblr

And ye gods help you if you also want to master writing on top of drawing. Then you will suffer creatively twice! 🥲

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Snow at the beach in Ocean City. Weird, beautiful.

I just had to take a quick drive, fortunately no ice where I am yet and the snow was so pleasingly fluffy unlike the last snow! It was really pretty indeed

A watercolor painting of a satyr embracing a young man from behind, gently peeling apart the man's flesh on his chest. Birds emerge from the opening in the man's chest. The man reaches one hand to back to caress the satyr's face, the other presses the satyr's hand to his chest. There's some circular celtic knotwork designs on the borders. The overall colors are warm golds and browns.

Finally finished this up! It's done in watercolor, gouache, and color pencils. I know I should try to render it in more detail but I'm not sure I want to. I like the texture being able to be textures. Maybe that will change in the future. For now, though, I like it 😅

Inside a black circle are the words "Bad Science, May 1, 2026, Guest Editor: Eric Williams." Outside the circle are the words "agita 1" and "agitamag.com"

TEN DAYS! until Agita Magazine opens for its very first open submission period.

The theme is "Bad Science."

The length is flash.

The genre is horror or dark sci-fi.

The co-editor is Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social).

The guidelines is at agitamag.com/submissions

Submission Calls Special sub call (open now through march 31st) Later this year, we’re putting out a surveillance horror/Weird fiction anthology. I’ve loved the stories I’ve solicited and their di…

📣SPECIAL UNEXPECTED SUBMISSION CALL ANNOUNCEMENT📣

If you hate ICE and love horror and Weird fiction, please take a look at our current, very specific and necessary sub call.
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I could not resist drawing the horse

I just realized that I sound like AI because I say "Absolutely!" when people ask me to do things

New Year's Resolutions by carol the borg ✦ On the space between January 1 and the Lunar New Year

With 3 hours left in the Lunar New Year (here in EST) I realized that I never published my Tết zine on Itch! Chúc mừng năm mới and happy year of the horse 🧧🐴🎆 #LunarNewYear #Tet2026 #Zine
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“Now I can save tomorrow for something that I really want to do.”

“What is that?” asked Frog.

“Tomorrow,” said Toad, “I can just take life easy.”

A digital illustration of a man in traditional korean wear holding a glowing pegasus. A ring of fire surrounds the two of them

Year of the Fire Horse

Rockville Science Center in search of $1 million for new home Rockville Science Center is planning to vacate its property by May 1 as it seeks $1 million for a new home while continuing to host workshops for high school engineering students building drones, robots...

Rockville Science Center in search of $1 million in donations for new home

A few of the stunning illustrations from a 16th-century treatise on comets — known as The Comet Book — created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France).

More info and images from the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book

Two images showing the currently locked stretch goal levels of $7000 and $8000 with text about adding 4-6 authors with each unlocking

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...) - is firmly in Stretch Goal territory to add up to 12 more authors. Currently 89% to SG1 & 78% to SG2. And remember you can add any book in our catalog to yr pledge #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

Painting of a view of a park with figures and tall bare trees in front of a rising early spring sun causing long shadows on grass

Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter known for her observations of the streets and parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

Intertidal Market

For the first time in a million years, I'm open for new projects! You can find pricing, samples, & more info over here:

ratwednesday.studio

#furryart #dragonart #artcommissions

We Lived Happily during the War And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house- I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)

lived happily during the war."

- Ilya Kaminsky

The cover or Frog and Toad Are Friends: an I CAN READ book by Arnold Lobel

For those of you into Heated Rivalry, might I suggest THIS sizzling slow burn?

winter needs to be 2-3 months shorter

Ain't We Women, Too? For many incarcerated women, the state is their abuser, but the gender-based violence we experience behind bars goes ignored.

“For women in prison, one abuser is replaced with another. The U.S. calls this ‘justice.’” Read Kwaneta’s latest in @theflytrapmedia.com www.theflytrapmedia.com/aint-we-wome...

A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why About 50 members of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll and water usage of artificial intelligence data center

A group of 50 Chilians recently spent several hours powering a human-operated chatbot. Some questions were answered quickly but “when they didn’t know the answer, they walked around the room to see if someone else did”. [apnews.com]