Christopher R. Muscato

Dustin Jacobus

Dustin Jacobus- I’ve worked with him before and he’s great

dustinjacobus.com

Thank you! This is a very helpful resource

The full report is well worth the read

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

When you’re in the lecture hall, in a suit, and a student calls you “sir”, that’s one thing.

When you just popped by the campus library to pick up a book and you’re in jeans…it hits different

Don't forget to sign up for the Speculative Fiction Salon this Saturday! 🪐🌱🏳️‍🌈 Featuring a stellar panel of authors from ECO24: Best Speculative Ecofiction and We're Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Sliding scale tickets for both in-person and virtual attendees available here! ⬇️

There is a version of this world that could exist where, at any given time, the majority of humans beings are just chillin’ and eating fruit.

Are we boosting these again? Okay. Here it is again.

NON-FICTION Quote Chambers asserts that to marvel is a necessary part of human flourishing, a mandatory part of responsible human participation in our environment. To be a responsible ecological citizen, Dex must recognize that as an animal, they have no purpose. end Quote Rewilding Human Purpose in Becky Chambers's A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Elizabeth Bush-Peel 23 February 2026 Strange Horizons

Rewilding Human Purpose in Becky Chambers's A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Elizabeth Bush-Peel

"To be a responsible ecological citizen, Dex must recognize that as an animal, they have 'no purpose.'"

Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

It was an honor having @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social guest edit our Winter issue! You can read the stories and his thoughts on the collection at tractorbeam.earth

If this is your first time coming across us, nice to meet you. We're a quarterly science fiction publication dedicated to soilpunk. ❄️🌱❤️

“February always has plenty of snow.’ ‘Okay, you’re probably right,’ Joel replied. And of course I was wrong.”

I’m always so grateful when a writer captures perfectly something that I’ve struggled to articulate

📣 Submissions are now OPEN for the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards! 🔔

About | Catalogue Zine Catalogue Zine is an environmentalist literary and arts magazine.

Climate action zine with an upcoming deadline if anyone’s looking

www.cataloguezine.net/about

#climate #climatewriting #poetry #clifi #writingcommunity

Tell don’t ask: how to use social media to mobilise local collective climate action - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - Tell don’t ask: how to use social media to mobilise local collective climate action

This new paper in Nature Climate presents the results of a field experiment regarding what is the most effective social media strategy for climate communication, finding that "exhortations were more effective than requests." Read on for details: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.”

Jessie Jackson
REST IN PEACE

Colorado activists urge owner of empty Hudson prison to nix potential new ICE facility | Colorado Newsline Clergy members and immigrant rights activists are urging Highlands REIT to end its relationship with ICE and The GEO Group.

Clergy members and immigrant rights activists demonstrated outside two Denver apartment buildings owned by Highlands REIT. They urged the company not to profit off of Trump’s deportation plans and end its relationship with ICE and private-prison company The GEO Group.
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social

AOC/Warren could be the Obama/Biden of the 2020s

Solarpunk Awards Eligibility Short Story Bright Green Futures The Doglady and the Rainstorm by Renan Bernardo What Kind of Bat is This? by Sarena Ulibarri Centipede Station by T. K. Rex A Merger in Corn Country by Danielle Arostegui Ancestors, Descendants by BrightFlame The Park of the Beast by T. K. Rex Coriander by Ana Sun **long-listed for BSFA** FREE FOR AWARDS SEASON https:/Ink.to/BGFAwards

The Bright Green Futures anthology is FREE for Awards Season!

Nebula nominations open until 2.28!
Hugo nominations now open!

BSFA: *Coriander* is already long-listed for the British Science Fiction Awards
(voting closes 2.19)

lnk.to/BGFAwards

#BSFA2026Awards #solarpunk

Brilliant article on #solarpunk by @feralyogi.bsky.social

aeon.co/essays/in-so...

Really insightful and thorough analysis of solarpunk—very glad to see this kind of serious treatment!

(agree with nearly all the points, except I think solarpunk *is* Luddite in its anti-industrialism)

@aeon.co

Pause Wastewater Pipeline Construction at Festival Beach Food Forest Festival Beach Food Forest (FBFF) is a 3-acre, volunteer-led permaculture food forest on public parkland in Austin, Texas. Built through years of collaboration between community members and the City o...

Last year I visited Austin, TX for the first time to read at Festival Beach Food Forest, a public park planted w/ edible species, & a wonderful event & education third space. Completely unique. I just found out the city plans to demolish them.

This is the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

There’s a fun (unverified) anecdote that the name for Canada came from Spanish

The story goes that conquistadores explored the territory and declared “acá nada”

Antifascist Italian nomads versus police-state autonomous vehicles anyone? Anyone here for antifascist Italian nomads versus police-state autonomous vehicles?

#solarpunk #clifi #scifi

An acceptance is obviously nice but there’s something so validating about making the long list.

Your work was good enough to be *really* considered and that is a fortifying experience in the world of publishing

My conference paper was accepted! 🎉

Has reading or writing speculative fiction supported your mental health in any way?

If it has, please please take 10 mins to tell me about it here: www.cognitoforms.com/InnerWorlds1...

Thank you! ❤️

#SFF #SciFi #Horror #Fantasy #SpecFic

Reckoning reopened to submissions on February 1st! We pay @sfwa.org pro rates, we never charge fees, AND we're piloting a new/improved process for reviewing and publishing submissions, which shows every sign of making our response times MUCH faster. Please submit? Guidelines: reckoning.press/submit/

Climate Fiction Prize Longlist announcement 12 novels on the £10,000 prize longlist

Longlist for the Climate Fiction Prize AKA my tbr list only grows

#climatefiction #clifi #writingcommunity

climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com/p/climate-fi...

This is an important point.

Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.

The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.

So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉

Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.

Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

True sophisticated intellectuals know what’s up

#writingcommunity #writersky #hopepit #hopepunk