Calling all physics/astronomy science communicators! Applications are open for the 2026 #Scicomm Collider at @perimeterinstitute.ca! A great opportunity for folks doing all kinds of astro/phys engagement to meet, network, and share expertise on connecting the public with science! ⚛️🧪🔭🎢

USians if you want to do something, call your elected congress members and let them know you expect to see them oppose the president's threats tonight and that it is such an unacceptable action that if he carries through, you expect them to refuse to vote on anything before an impeachment is called.

Made my calls. Have you? 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...

I'm up doing nerd shit (read: prepping a mod for tomorrow's Starfield update) and I just got my alert on Kindle. Legit paused in the middle of my nerd shit to start reading immediately.

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Buy SFF books and harass your congresscritters to get that loud rancid genocidal bitch out of office and into the deepest darkest dungeon we can find most expeditiously

Good morning everyone today is MOON DAY 🚀🌖🥰 #Artemis

The thing about LLMs is that they are an averaging out of language, and some of the constructions that are LLM tics ("not just x—but y!") are that because they were already overused, especially in marketing copy. LLMs just accelerate the process of cliché formation.

Stop what you're doing and look 🌍 The full globe? That is the NIGHT SIDE. I'm pretty sure I can see some satellites/debris glinting away on the periphery. Also the Aurora?! What a bonkers beautiful world that supports and holds everyone and everything you've ever known and loved, and so much more.

Man I have never been so happy for a random pilot I have never met before

This is suuuuuch a good example of how Realis works. Both the way that it allows for a sort of narrative maneuvering /and/ the way it pushes everyone to really get creative with what they have on their sheets. www.reddit.com/r/rpg/commen...

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

I'm gonna be honest, it's been kind of a rough week over here, and this just gave me such an incredible boost. What a stellar write-up!!

I think about this a lot, especially tied to sympathy/empathy, & how (western) ideas of happiness/joy as only meaningful or “true” if somehow (impossibly) permanent…

YEAR OF THE MER Mega-Thread since we're a couple weeks out and I kind of feel like throwing up. Book 1 of 2 is out on April 7! Available in the US and CAN from Saga: bookshop.org/p/books/year... And in the UK and wherever else they distribute in English from Titan: titanbooks.com/72438-year-o...

No, fuck you. You don’t get to suddenly decide that copyright matters when folks suddenly have access to the source code of your spicy autocomplete due to your own incompetence.

It's not just my opinion. Studies show that access to diverse books positively impacts children's reading scores. This fabulous study from First Book explains this in detail. Successful readers read widely, and that means reading all kinds of books. firstbook.org/wp-content/u...

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

I am very, very excited about this 👀

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter! 55 Player Classes 150+ NPC Classes 29 Factions 20 Example Moons of Realis GMing and Prep Guidance Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

a cute puzzle for the day I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 1st 2026 (Tricky), in 01:10 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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We more than met our goal, but I upgraded our books, and our margins are tighter than I would prefer, so if you would like to Late Pledge for a two-person postcard game about holding on in uncertain times - it would also help me hold on in uncertain times! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

“Normal” has never had any meaning here except to mean complacency — especially if you’re white and well off. Maybe other countries have a normal but not the US

*laughs in getting back to normal after Columbine* *laughs in getting back to normal after 9-11* *laughs in getting back to normal after Covid* *laughs in getting back to normal after tons of other stuff between and before all that*

I don't like what we've done to the word "accessible"

would love to see a thread of small practical pieces of advice developers just starting out or unfamiliar with a genre might not know! I’ll start: if you’re using a tag-based system, don’t just give everything an individual tag—look for thematic groups where similar events can lead to same outcome

For the first fucking time. Gonna put this tidbit in my slide deck about values in science and medicine.

the pitt is like. rediscovered lost technology of the ancients. secret ancient lost arts forgotten for a 1000 years. what if a show was well lit so you could see what's happening in it. what if the dialogue was good and also audible. what if episodes ended on cliffhangers. what if

it actually matters if the writing in a video game is good or bad

also the industry is large and siloed and inconsistent and anyone saying "everyone is using it" just has a blinkered perspective from their limited visibility into a handful of shops. from what *I* hear, certain pubs are actively trying to forbid its use in things like loc...

most of the time you don’t want true randomness and/or simulation in a game. you think you do but you’re wrong and will get mad at us if you get it.

The gameplay theme is that you will be forced to make important choices with an incomplete understanding of what has happened and what is going to happen and the consequences will feel unpleasant and also this is all of us for all history and will be us forever.

Exciting!

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

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You Can't Run Games in Anger Today in my Patreon, I'm writing about the mindset of gamerunning - applicable to TTRPGs, but I'm mostly talking to LARP-runners. Backers get it now, everyone else in three days! www.patreon.com/posts/you-ca...

Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.

Maybe you've thought about joining us next week for #Sirens26, our reader conference for #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and #horror. It's not too late to join us! A few full registrations are still available at sirensconference.org/attend, and we have some single day registrations available now as well

Hey, I'm teaching a class! Sign up to join this two-part online workshop in June through @pocosinarts to learn about my approach to narrative sculpting, how I construct, refine, & hollow a piece, + my tools and techniques for creating tiny finishing details! pocosinarts.org/product/big-...

This feels so relevant right now

thank you @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social for bringing the cold, hard facts about Israeli genocide & Microsoft’s complicity to their audience in covering our @nogamesforgenocide.com pledge. we love to see courageous reporting in games, and we are so grateful for the support from our community 💪🏽

I have five small pieces in the Enormous Tiny Art Show! They'll be dropping Tuesday, March 17. You can sign up for early access here: nahcotta.myflodesk.com/leslie-levings Here's one of the pieces.

Hey #scicomm folks! I am looking for a diverse crew to represent their fields with their head shot and a fun fact they like from their field of study, but SPECIFICALLY: -a geologist/volcanist or gemologist -a zoologist -astronomer -a paleontologist -a structural engineer

Thank you so much to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this phenomenal review of MAKE ME BETTER! "Captivating characters and evocative prose... Readers are sure to be unsettled"

this looks wild and super fun 👀

Trans Rights Wins Elections

I feel like this on so many genAI-related things. If you think genAI can do your job better than you then you either suck at your job or you have low respect for the work you do.

AND THEN DO THE SELF WORK. NO, THE THERAPIST CANNOT DO IT FOR YOU.