I too have spent most interesting afternoons at the Shire Horse Centre! When I was writing my first published novel, The King's Peace, which has a knight on a big horse, I used to go there all the time and watch horse body language to put in the book

What's it like to volunteer at WorldCon? I've skimmed the volunteering application, so I have a sense of what volunteers are asked to do. I'm interested in hearing from past volunteers about their experience.

Dear Comet 3I/ATLAS: You cannot sneak behind the Sun and expect to be unobserved! Earth people are too clever for you! The whole world is watching—including Tianwen-1, orbiting Mars!

Time to make this a worldwide trend.

If I was a GOP strategist, I’d be pretty worried about diluting my safe +15 districts into a bunch of +5 gerrymandered districts after tonight.

Max Linder in Entente cordiale (1912)

Indeed, it would seem that the proofreaders already left town.

Congress set aside funds to keep SNAP running during a government shutdown, but the Trump Administration is refusing to follow the law and allow this critical assistance to go out to families. If you or someone you know needs food assistance, visit foster.house.gov/SNAP for resources.

#webcomics #girlgenius #godzilla Girl Genius for 11/3 (www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) According to various sources, today is Godzilla's Birthday! There you go– News You Can Use.

Often stare at water waves & think of the gravitational-wave spectrum: - ripples as high-freq continuous waves - a boat’s wake as an approaching wave of a transient event - harbour as the incoherent combo of all waves - the tides as the low-freq. GWs "frequency" is timescale between wave crests

In 1957, Vance and Pockriss released the song, Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket Save it for rainy day But if you caught a meteor before it hits the Earth, you should use a ziplock bag and get it to a curation facility. Waiting for a rainy day would be the worst action. THE WORST.

General Technics, a loose group of #ScienceFiction fans with interest in do-it-yourself technology, will celebrate our 50th birthday at #Windycon 51. GT began at Windycon 2, when two founders noticed one another's blinking LEDs in a darkened hotel hallway. GT panel: Sat 4PM. GT suite: room 555!

Halloween at UO is weird because half the time I feel I’m not sure if a student is in costume or just dressed like they normally would anyway. Like I’m pretty sure I’ve seen steampunk and demon hunters all fall quarter!

Thanks so much! And Episode 267 with @nassos.bsky.social is coming tomorrow morning!

I'm interested in the topic of "Visitors to the set of DESTINATION MOON in late 1949." Just came across Wendayne Ackerman's account in the LASFS fanzine SHANGRI-LA #18, Feb 1950. Many thanks to Fanac.org volunteers for digitizing old $fanzines! #ScienceFiction #DestinationMoon

Books in the LibraryThing catalogue of both John Adams and me: The Odyssey (Homer) The Iliad (Homer) The Complete Works of Shakespeare Don Quixote (Cervantes) Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) The Republic (Plato) The Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) The Metamorphoses (Ovid) The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)

I have just been sending this to people. You know, from the last time he pulled this shit www.funraniumlabs.com/2017/03/want...

Birmingham Daily Mail, 7 Jul 1917

Belated thanks to the bicycle peddlers at Rudge-Whitworth Ltd. for bringing a touch of levity to the grim newspapers of 1917.

Today’s incidental finding: a Scientific American cover, June 1925, illustrating an article called “Vacation #Geology.” I love that the woman is standing breezily on a high ledge, in shoes with a 1-inch heel, enjoying some binocular views, while a man is struggling up with a rock hammer.

What Bluesky is good for: Woke up today, scrolled through the night's tweets, as usual. Read many witty comments & wisecracks on the epic World Series game, going hour after hour, inning after inning. What Bluesky is not good for: I have not seen who won, final score, nor how many innings it ran.

Who’s next? Searching FBI employees’ workstations for any records pertaining to Judge Crater? How about Ambrose Bierce?

Tried to imagine the visual analogue of 4' 33" but drew a blank.

So… speaking of being haunted for life: In which episode of BEANY & CECIL does one find a character who is waiting to do something, and keeps asking “Now?” and keeps being told “No, not now!” until the moment of “Now?” “NOW!!” —and this moment is the climax? Would like to watch that again.

Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast Let's roll.

I'll be in Brighton this week for @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. Thursday 7pm: The Immortal Villain. Friday 7pm reading, 8pm mass autograph session. Saturday 3pm: launching Wiz Duo 3 with @wtpress.bsky.social! It's my first con this side of the Atlantic - please don't feel shy about saying hello!

1. I'm skeptical of this report--because it's hard to believe the Trump family would miss the opportunity to peddle White House bricks to patriotic supporters. 2. Have midnight scroungers, presumably not named Trump, removed this rubble from the golf course yet? Watch Ebay for the answer!

The Erie Canal was completed 200 years ago today. It was a major achievement for the early US, and for New York in particular. But the canal meant different things to different people, and over time, its significance evolved. 🗃️ daily.jstor.org/the-erie-can...

Physicist William Higinbotham was born #OTD in 1910. During the Manhattan Project he was the Electronics Group leader at Los Alamos. In 1958, while working at Brookhaven Lab, he invented one of the first video games: “Tennis for Two.” It ran on an oscilloscope! 🧪 ⚛️ Image: Brookhaven National Lab

#webcomics #girlgenius Here is the pencils for the cover to Volume # 23 (www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) I am especially pleased with it because I managed to get the whole damn thing drawn in one day. Pay attention to the Kickstarter– (www.kickstarter.com/projects/gir...) and it can be yours!

illustration, load sinclair, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/Load...

Saw Nicolle Wallace interview Noah Oppenheim, screenwriter of A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, on Wednesday. 🏠🧨 At one point, with a straight face, he said "I wouldn't want to give away the ending…" I don't THINK he was being INTENTIONALLY ironic. But I've seen the film, and he was nevertheless being ironic.

True. But hardly anybody I know has seen it.

Restoring the theatrical cut of STAR WARS? Interesting!

Emily Lakdawalla had an amazing idea. And went on to make something beautiful. 🌐…………………🟠…🪐…🔵…🔵…………………………🌐 If you love the epic journeys of the #Voyager spacecraft, read this brief thread. 🧵 🔭 #PlanetarySci #SpaceArt

I was recently invited to be on the podcast The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever to talk about my favourite films of 1908. You can listen to that episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

1908 in cinema

#Filmsky Movie lovers, a question: Which #films feature a protagonist who is an immigration, or customs, or border patrol officer?

So rather than write up MY thoughts on A House of Dynamite, I'm actually planning on doing a little write-up of the nuke community's thoughts. So if you're a wonk, and you've seen it, and you want to share a hot take, please do! I can't say I'll use everything but I'm happy to hear them.

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Don’t Miss Out — Hotel Room Block Closes Soon! Planning to stay all weekend for Windycon 51: Rise of the Machines? Make sure your hotel room is booked before the block closes on October 22 at 4:00 PM! Reserve your room now before the special con rate disappears: www.windycon.org/hotel/hoteli...

That little hole, and the other hole through the ball at the top, probably saves Bic a million dollars a year in reduced plastic expenses.

Trump has now accomplished what al-Qaeda tried to do on 9/11 and failed

newsmaker.md/ro/steve-woz... Steve Wozniak, Co-founder of Apple, visits Moldova!

yes, I just posted most of these questions a short ago. was there any sort of environmental review before work on a National monument. Who are the architect(s) and engineers who had to have plans examined? which normally takes many weeks for a simple project. I know NYC DOB system but not DC

What I want to know is, do they have a building permit? Are plans on file? Who approved the permit? Which DC journalist understands the permitting system and can explain this, and is there an article you can point me to?

I need a couple of Lightning cables, so I asked Amazon about cables I've ordered before—by typing "lightning" into the search box for past orders. Yeah, I've bought cables a few times… but my search also turned up @adapalmer.bsky.social's novel, TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING, which I pre-ordered in 2016!

I'm sure Sweden's famous firm Volvo makes a fine excavator. But the Administration that's always touting "Made in America" couldn't be bothered to find a contractor that uses American-built equipment to demolish the people's White House. #MadeInAmerica

The Hugo Base Design Contest for LAcon V is on! LAcon V is soliciting submissions for a base design for the Hugo Awards that celebrates science fiction’s sense of adventure and what makes LAcon V and Southern California special as both a Worldcon and location. We welcome all submissions.