The (excellent) Ancillary Review of Books puts out regular calls for people to review specific books:

https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/category/calls-for-reviews-essays/

They say they are also "broadly interested in pitches for essays about genre fiction, world literature, literature and media from below, cultural studies, and writing about systemic injustices and utopian impulses from a speculative perspective" and picthes for reviews of books not on their list.

The ARB is extremely Relevant To The Interests of a whole bunch of you, so highly worth reading anyway (and their podcast A Meal of Thorns is very much worth a listen).

But I think some of you might also be interested in the opportunity to write for them.
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([personal profile] inalasahl Aug. 27th, 2026 11:24 am)
I know the human rights abuses, the threats, the war-mongering, the world-wide destabilization are worse. I’m not ignoring that.

But there’s a special embarrassment involved in waking up and learning that your president has declared that Lake Ontario will now be called “Lake America” because a politician in Canada hurt his feelings.
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([personal profile] firecat Aug. 27th, 2026 04:21 am)
”You Don’t Need a New Mac, You Need a New Keyboard” by Alex Blake

This article annoyed me, because I prefer mechanical keyboards but I’ve never had one that lasted more than a year before developing repeating keys and dead keys. My Apple keyboards have lasted longer. If you have a mechanical one that has lasted, what make/model is it?

PS/FYA: Alex boasts he’s been “dabbling in Apple tech since he first got an iPhone 3GS.” That was released in 2009. Stop making me feel old, kid. —firecat, dabbling in Apple tech since 1984
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([personal profile] ladyjax Aug. 24th, 2026 06:26 pm)
It's being reported via Facebook (and on at least one account that I trust) that MaryLee Holzheimer of Holzheimer's Distribution has passed.

Considering Shirley and I just worked the Star Trek show in Vegas for her just three weeks ago, this hits especially hard.  She was at both Friscon and BASCon and was one of the longest independent dealers still working the sci fi/media convention circut.  

She was also my friend.
Please signal-boost: TransActual launches biggest survey of trans community yet

TransActual have been kicking ass as an organization, and they've used previous survey results to publicize the discrimination experienced by trans people in the UK.
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