I'm not crying you're crying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oygI...

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Around Stuart Street Dunedin (and all up Taieri Road/Three Mile Hill)

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day” A TV Character from their day:

I am one of those supporters! In the last few months I've seen first-hand how the folks in our medical fields have been heroically coping with staffing and supply shortages that affect their ability to do their jobs caring for people. 1/2

Naomi’s mum coming in from the top rope: “…you will condemn yourself to a life of bitterness if you decide that there is only one role which will satisfy you and that’s top-billing.”

Aw, yes! So richly deserved! And the rest of the shortlist are bangers, too.

My mom, Shona, died yesterday at the age of 88. She was able to be at home with me and Steven and her beloved granddog, Clem Fandango, after a long hospital stay. She had been in a great deal of pain, but we had a lovely day yesterday of music and laughter. She died as she lived: on her own terms.

I’ve said this before, a lot, but when you’re an author and your book doesn’t sell your feelings can default to the premise, “Everyone in the world was offered my book and they all personally rejected it.” The truth is most people don’t know it exists. Awareness is the problem, not you or your book.

B&N has dropped their Best Books of 2025 list with 2.5 months left in the year so here's your reminder that "best" is arbitrary, time is a construct, and there are still a ton of good books coming out that shouldn't be ignored just because the credits are rolling early

ATTENTION WELLINGTON: Spring Into Tawa is this Saturday and it's basically doubled in size from 2024, so jump on the Kāpiti line to visit the best little spring festival in Wellington

Stories are how we save the world. Change can only come once we tell ourselves the story of what we’d like our life to be. And even if that world can never exist, in telling yourself the story you’ll learn what you want from this world and knowing what you want is the necessary first step.

*Everything* is just like, your opinion, man. Well-written? Opinion. Clever? Opinion. Lyrical? Opinion. Derivative? Opinion. Yes, even when I say "that's objectively [blank]," I'm being hyperbolic. For someone else it's not, and that's correct and good.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. Include a full synopsis.

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

The new blog post is here. And we're talking about my new favorite sci-fi trope: Gay Robot Romances! Seriously, if you have any more recs, PLEASE let me know. #bookblog #booksky

These are not the only things GoldSF publishes but the very existence of GoldSF dismantles part of the torment nexus mitpress.mit.edu/series/golds...

A bit about this in the Irish press from Monday: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... I hope they eventually release a breakdown of how the return was calculated! I'm sure they will - seems like the whole world is paying attention...

It is good! So good!

Looking at the Government's (terrible) new quarterly action plan. To be fair, though, this is the most relatable the Govt has ever been - I also put basic requirements on my to-do list so that I can tick them off and feel accomplished without any effort.

sometimes I have to ruin peoples day by telling them that the theme tune to the BBC Hitchhikers Guide was actually devised and performed by The Eagles and now they have to like an Eagles song like a Dad

It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.

Click through for the shitlist, then stay for absolute fucking inspiration to follow. Legend.

Quoting for "screencrap" 🤣

Māori writers, it's time to apply for the 2026 Emerging Māori Writer in Residence — a $15,000 stipend, mentorship, and writing space at the IIML could be yours if you apply by 31 October! www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)

I get these nearly every day. Yesterday's was for... checks notes... an issue of a now dormant magazine in which I had a short story. 😆

More than the Sum of its Parts is starting in just about 15 minutes!

PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam. It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.

Oh, hell yeah! In that vein, I'm [redacted] the [redacted] of Hamlet, Prince of Robots right now, and damn if I didn't hit every single thing I was aiming to do in that book. 🦾

Are you going to @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social? Me, too! Join me at More than the Sum of its Parts: Building Novels from Smaller Parts with @nassos.bsky.social, @vajra.me, and @yarntheory.bsky.social in hour 28. Then @phoebebarton.bsky.social and I talk After Capitalism, Then What? in hour 51.

The wonderful, online @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social convention is coming up, and if you want to see me there, I'll be doing a bunch of stuff. Be there or be rectangular!

My imposter syndrome getting ready for work:

Things that always work all of the time, with studies to prove it, boosting the economy and productivity, and increasing quality of life and public health, and that will never, ever be implemented within my lifetime: 1. UBI 2. 4-day working week

"a relentless campaign of threats, break-ins, threats on their child, assaults, and police interventions that turned their life, and their child’s, into what they call “a tsunami” of fear." www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/21/a...

Authors, if you could veto one interview question, which question would it be?

Spellcasting On is out now! Cosy sapphic romance with yarn 🧶 and magic ✨. Available now on all the usual platforms: buy.bookfunnel.com/psfdv1soqy

TIMELINE CLEANSE TIME. The Emmy's were last night, #Romancelandia, which means #RomanceCoversAs Emmy's outfits are today. We start with A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social as Jenna Ortega because HOLY WOW, sometimes life goes straight to giving you lemonade. 1/12

We often worry about the wrong things. People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 🧪

Apparently it's time to bring this baby back:

Sunrise, Saturday, 13 September from the Otago Peninsula, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

It's still a ways away, but the plan is waffles rancheros. Cornbread waffles with fried eggs, homemade refritos and salsa.

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Oh hi Art

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