There’s always room for Giallo - get your fill tonight at #TheLastDriveIn! @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social @themutantfam.bsky.social @shudder.com #MutantFam

I may start something here, and I don’t have much of a platform. I also don’t have bridges to burn. This seems… bad. Theft is one of many problems with AI. Others include: not paying an artist, destroying the environment, AI art being total ass (see the new Feast for Crows illustrated edition), etc

Artist Wally Wood sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wood_w... died on this day, so here's some examples of his early 1950's work: a couple of his covers for Weird Science and two pieces for 'The Spirit Sunday Supplement':

The downside to Joe Bob Briggs switching to once a month is I forgot what time his show starts. So now I’m stuck between jumping in an hour late into a killer clown movie or just watching the stream on Sunday. Now I actually have to sleep at a decent hour tonight.

Today's Classic Cover of the day is the 1985 edition of Gene Wolfe's A Devil in a Forest, illustrated by Bruce Pennington

On a backwater planet controlled by a mining company, Zara, a young corporate space ranger, investigates the murder of a manager, which leads to a conspiracy that puts everyone’s life at the colony, especially his own, at risk in Stars Beyond Comprehension (96k). #SFpit #SO #A #Q

If anything, the debate raised Curtis' Q rating & approval among a whole new generation taken in by his Archie-Bunker-meets-Rorschach goofy charm. CUOMO should drop out-- has HE ever been featured on the cover of early 80s KARATE ILLUSTRATED magazine?!

Every presidential candidate should be required to write a novel without assistance (especially AI), minimum 50k words ready in time for election season. Why? When someone writes their first novel, their soul is laid bare and they write the craziest stuff.

Amazing things are happening on Kickstarter’s fiction section, y’all. Uh… “why choose”? Do I want to know?

Had to age verify because my state forced BlueSky to do it.

Ralph McQuarrie

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

"Sometimes it seems that I spend most of my time trying to explain things to people who do not want to understand. This may be more of that." (Gene Wolfe)

In case you mised it we covered Zorann: Star Warrior this week in the DoggzZone! #podcast #podcastclip #lol #comics #conanthebarbarian #funny #fypシ

Don’t miss on Planetside! From shady contracts to AI cons, Writer Beware exposes the publishing scams every author needs to see. Read the two-part interview with @victoriastrauss.com now: www.sfwa.org/2025/08/12/s... Part of SFWA Presents: Get to Know…

1. First #ttrpg you ever played - West End Star Wars RPG Intro Adventure Game 2. First you ever ran - Mouse Guard 3. Played the most - D&D 5e 4. Run the most - Call of Cthulhu 7e 5. Favorite - FFG Star Wars 6. Most recently played - Sock Puppets (Kurt Refling) 7. Most recently run - FFG Star Wars

you KNOW i had to do it to 'em

On a backwater planet controlled by a mining company, Zara, a young corporate space ranger, investigates the murder of a manager, and this leads to a conspiracy that puts everyone’s life at the colony, especially his own, at risk in Stars Beyond Comprehension (96k). #MiseryPit #Q #SFFM #A

In 1959, companies started to market and sell skateboards commercially to the public. Pope Leo XIV was born in 1955 in Chicago. Ladies and gentlemen, we may have the first skateboarding Pope. The media needs to find photos of a young Robert Prevost grinding on rails while mall cops chase him.

Lookout weekend, here I come/because weekends were made for chores and cutting 900 words out of this story that is supposed to be a short story and not a novelette *synthesizer fill*

This is exactly how fake Wolfe lore that will never die is born.

This is how I feel whenever I get rejections on my internet horror inspired stories.

Art by Steve R Dodd ‘Deep Space: The Broken Moons’ (2018, acrylics on canvas board)

Happy Gene Wolfe’s Birthday to all who celebrate. Don’t forget to leave out a can of Pringles and a dictionary of archaic vocabulary before you go to bed tonight. #GeneWolfe

Star Wars poster art by the Brothers Hildebrandt #maythe4thbewithyou

This is my 2 year old’s reaction to the prequel trilogy. #StarWars #MayThe4th

Day 1 of watching all 9 Star Wars episodes: Phantom Menace. Despite the overly slow pace of the film as a whole, it’s fun when characters aren’t standing around droning inanely. The pod race sequence alone makes me feel bad for all the mean things I’ve said about George Lucas. #StarWars #MayThe4th

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Hear me out… #JDVance #PopeFrancis

My fellow Christians will worship a guy murdered by the state because of a moral panic and then say our religion supports oppressing minorities because they’re afraid of them. He didn’t rise for this crap.

“One Washington Post investigation, done in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, studied the impacts of generating a 100-word email. They found that just one email requires .14 kilowatt-hours worth of electricity, or enough to power 14 LED lights for an hour.” #AI

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

Saturday night discovery: The Kidz Bop version of The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath”, a song about choking a sexual partner and being afraid of them dying the process, changes not a single lyric, presumably because the producers did not understand the song.

Dune board game set in Frank Herbert’s Dune universe, published by Avalon Hill in 1979. Box art by Chris White. It was reissued in 1984 with the David Lynch movie branding. Box art by Ron Miller (I think) #dune

How I imagine reading through the slush pile for a SciFi magazine must be like.

Happy birthday (month since these dates are hard to keep track of) to one of greatest SciFi comics: Weird Fantasy. It’s also the source for my banner image.

GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: it's going to start with military action to force open a blockade, and then end up with a complete collapse and rewriting of the entire galactic order ME IN 2025: okay I see it now

The water consumption alone should ward you away from this technology. We spent the last couple decades hand wringing about running out of clean water, and now we’re supposed to ignore that for our shiny, new plagiarism machines.

The little Culture War Goblin in the bottom left is now an AI art guy. Surprise! He’s also very upset anytime a woman is the MC in anything. At all. Ever.

Another Saturday, another control panel: Here’s a stunning fish-eye example from Alfred Kelsner, for a 1980 Perry Rhodan novel.

Contract signed! My novelette, "Bloody Muddy Water," a sequel to my short story "Bruised Eye Dusk," starring Rugg the spellbreaker and his faithful gator mount, Tugboat, will appear in a future issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies!

A lot of writers get discouraged on projects because they’re stuck or don’t have the time with their day jobs to write. Just set a daily average word count, schedule your day around hitting that (even if it’s 100 words), and track it. The muse comes to those prepared. #WriterSky #AuthorSky #BookSky

We’re baaaaaaack! 🔥 Find out more: www.chaospit.org #writesky #writercommunity

Albanese gummi worms, Monster Energy, copies of Asimov and Analog, Pilot pens, 10mm ammo. #WriterSky #AuthorSky #BookSky

How similar or different are our answers? #thisorthat #thisorthatwritersedition #writersky #Writingcommunity

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to have an AI generated surrogate mother in your house--good news, there's a manual you can read! My newest short story, a dark scifi formal experiment, has just dropped with Book XI's new issue. www.bookxi.org/issue-xvii#/...

Spaceships by Chris Foss, born on this day in 1946.