Geoffrey A. Landis
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Scientist and science-fiction writer.
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Internet lore says that everyone with a cat is required to post photos regularly. So, here is Samurai deciding that my dresser drawer is exactly the right size to be a cat bed.
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Ohio Poetry Association
about 1 month ago
Join us May 15-17 in Yellow Springs for the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival, including a keynote reading/workshop by
@geoffrey-landis.bsky.social
, a scientist who's won the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction and Rhysling award (3x) for poetry. Register at
www.ohiopoetryassn.org/sun-moon-fes...
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Jasmine 🌌🔭
about 1 month ago
CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
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Ian Waters
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Blue Wave
about 2 months ago
And this is why I’m a dog person !
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Image of the Earth from Artemis-II.
www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...
Staring at this image, I just realized— the Earth isn’t illuminated by the sun in this image. This image was taken by moonlight! The sun is BEHIND the Earth here. You can see a tiny crescent of sunlit atmosphere on the bottom right.
about 2 months ago
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Bruce Sterling @bruces
about 2 months ago
*I can remember reading this as a youngster and being deeply impressed with what a dark, biting, science-fictional insight this was
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Marie Vibbert
3 months ago
Come to Cleveland ConCoction this weekend in Aurora, Ohio! You'll get to see ME, and other local cosplayers, authors, performers, and artists.
https://www.clevelandconcoction.org/
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Since others have been posting their nominations, I’ll announce that two of my poems made the nominations for the SFPA Rhysling Awards: “Complex Alice in the Riding Hood,” from This Exquisite Topology, and “‘Oumuamua,” from Analog.
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An article by Paul Gilster that quotes some of my work on how to use the solar gravitational lens to image an exoplanet.
www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/02/17/p...
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Propulsion Options for the Solar Gravitational Lens Mission | Centauri Dreams
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2026/02/17/propulsion-options-for-the-solar-gravitational-lens-mission/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQEVbtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeIe2zpvmXk_FL-FxHkqnXLGgARy1k6vmUsEYbii4jQBNP4twIYE924NJ038s_aem_I8pNWr0sA5iztGQ03EYwXA
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Theo Sanderson
4 months ago
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
http://bluesky-map.theo.io/
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Marie Vibbert
4 months ago
Triangulation: Bad Romance closes to submissions TOMORROW. Get your trash couples in spec fic into my grubby little hands:
www.parsecink.org/submissions
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Submissions — Parsec Ink
https://www.parsecink.org/submissions
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This year the Hugos and the Nebulas are open to nominations for best SF and fantasy poem (also the Rhyslings). If anybody's interested, I had 3 SF/fantasy poems out in 2025: “’Oumuamua”, "Complex Alice” and “Dark (matter) Angels". Anybody who wants to see them, message me
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Alexis Brooks de Vita
6 months ago
fiction4all.com/ebooks/b2010...
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Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts: ICFA/VICFA 36.3 - Special Guests Issue by JFA
This Winter 2025 issue of the JFA features plenaries by Special Guests from ICFA and VICFA, special interviews, and book reviews of ICFA/VICFA Distinguished Scholars` latest works.
https://fiction4all.com/ebooks/b20103-journal-of-the-fantastic-in-the-arts-icfa-vicfa-36.3---special-guests-issue.htm
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Just went out for a nice drive through the lake-effect snow, and completed the traditional Thanksgiving listening of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” (Later maybe we’ll do “City of New Orleans.”) Hope your thanksgiving is going well, for those who celebrate.
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For those interested, I just got interviewed by Ian Long about work I did (quite a shile back) about resource utilization on the moon, for the YouTube series Anthrofuturism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1rP...
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Dr. Geoffrey Landis: Refining Regolith, ISRU, NASA, Power Beaming, Solar Cells, and Space Economics
YouTube video by ANTHROFUTURISM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1rPqV_A35s
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John Scalzi
7 months ago
YES THIS. If you are one of the "all is lost" people please feel free not to say so in the comments of my posts, it'll save me the two seconds it takes to "hide for everyone" your comments. All is not lost. All is never lost. I prefer not to have you infecting others with your doomerism in my space.
add a skeleton here at some point
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I stand with the Pope on this one.
apnews.com/article/pope...
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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
https://apnews.com/article/pope-free-press-media-journalists-c826e0567122d6fa7c094850787c1a39
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Chron.com
8 months ago
The lie just won't stop spreading.
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Fake story puts real Texas woman in Olive Garden breadsticks hell
The lie just won't stop spreading.
https://bit.ly/46XLmkk
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Empathy
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Paul Guinnessy
8 months ago
Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents.
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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.
https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden
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Chris M. Barkley (He/Him)
8 months ago
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/
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Victoria Strauss
9 months ago
Authors: if you get an email invite from the Greater Hopewell Book Club, it's a scam: it charges an appearance fee (which it misleadingly describes as an honorarium) of $150. (If this reminds you of other AI-generated solicitations you've rec'd recently, that's not a coincidence)
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Daniel José Older
10 months ago
But even if something lies to you "only" 15% of the time, it's not helpful, it's not saving you time, it's not making you smarter, it's just lying to you. That's more work. If your research assistant lied to you 15% of the time you would no longer work with them.
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Barred owl in our tree last week.
10 months ago
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
11 months ago
ICE is essentially disappearing people. “The Ice official told me they are under no obligation to tell the family or the attorneys of the detainees that they have been apprehended, or that they’ve been moved to another state, to another facility, or that they’ve been deported.”
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Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/oregon-vineyard-manager-arrest-ice?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Parsec.Confluence.ParsecInk.WorD
12 months ago
Confluence 2025 will be taking place July 25-27, 2025 with GOH
@catrambo.bsky.social
and Featured Music Guest Clearly Guilty! Register: www.confluence-sff.org. Discounted registration closes July 11. Don't forget to pre-order your 2025 Confluence t-shirt!
confluence-sff.org/t-shirt
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John Scalzi
about 1 year ago
My understanding is SF/F venues still generally do not have submission fees, and also generally pay better than most other literary venues, so let's hear it for genre outlets always having kept their eye on the bottom line
lithub.com/the-rise-of-...
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The Rise of the Submission Industrial Complex
In 2015, Joy Lanzendorfer wrote an article for The Atlantic on submission fees where she warned, “If all publications did this, there’d be no professional writers, only people with other jobs who w…
https://lithub.com/the-rise-of-the-submission-industrial-complex/
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
about 1 year ago
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/
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Kelly Lepo
about 1 year ago
Ooh! NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Donaldjohanson yesterday. They just released the images. Look at that cool space potato! 🔭🧪🥔
science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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Steven Beschloss
about 1 year ago
A Harvard political scientist studied change movements around the world and found that 3.5 percent of a population taking to the streets can demand redress from a government and achieve political change. That’s 12 million Americans.
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Mary Turzillo will be reading this Sunday as part of the Speculative Sunday Poetry Reading Series, hosted by Akua Lezli Hope. Free on Zoom -- see evenbrite for tickets:
www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-...
about 1 year ago
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...and Samurai
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Cat pics.
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