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You know how some crosswalk buttons tell you to wait? I just found one that announces "Chaaaange password."

Just finished this book by @yarntheory.bsky.social and highly recommend it. You will be transported and better equipped to live in these times.

you know what, in the spirit of this, just throwing this out there: are there any people who know detailed history of the secularization of the Teutonic Order-State under Albert, Duke of Prussia? I need it for a half-written fantasy book.

The only ethical AI is Genly Ai. And even he wobbled sometimes.

Finally got approved for @thesuiway.bsky.social 's Iron Garden Sutra on Netgalley and I'm super stoked.

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

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

I'm supremely mad and I'm going to rant about it. I have a podcast. It's hosted by ACast. They do dynamic insertion ads prior to the show, which I've enabled. These are basically the commercials you might hear before the show starts.

Guess the title of the first subsection in this paper!

Today's words that are too new for the Napoleonic Wars project: chancer, job lot.

Alrighty let's try this! Experimental Watercolor & Ink DnD commissions! (I want to play around. So style/approach may differ slightly from the examples!) Please feel free to reply/DM with questions, DM or Email [ [email protected] ] if you're interested! (Prices include US Shipping)

Twenty-five years ago today, _Strange Horizons_ launched! @strangehorizons.bsky.social

I'm very happy to be one of this year's Guests of Honour, alongside Sheree Renée Thomas, Anna Martino, and Trick Weeks! Flights of Foundry is free, online, and a good time. You should totally come

"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

love to be a part of an artistic movement

to enter the innermost discourse, you have to whisper your unretractable definition of science fiction, and a number of other literary terms, into the ear of the ilykari priestess

As far as new books go, I'm going through this shortlist right now and it is an excellent sampling of contemporary sff, if you're looking for recs.

Happy book birthday to North Continent Ribbon! It has been out for one year as of the end of August!

I got curious about Hugo-finalist ages over time (specifically ages of authors whose works were finalists in the Novel/Novella/Novelette/Short Story categories), so I extracted some data from ISFDB and created some charts. www.kith.org/jed/2025/08/...

the Mossa and Pleiti books are the epitome of dark academia b/c they deliver both fantasy and plausible critique. in this essay I will

THIS BEAR JUST WANTS TO SERVE U ICE CREAM DO NOT STOP IT FROM FULFILLING ITS DREAM CASE CLOSE

Has anyone heard any updates on when the long-list nomination data for the @seattlein2025.org Hugo awards will be available? I have a research paper to work on and I'm running out of post-its that say "update statistics when the full data is available."

Apparently Sean Keel, as in Gross-Hacking-Keel mirror symmetry, is also a singer-songwriter?

Need help from someone with better Arabic skills than mine! (read: any skills whatsoever) I just got author copies of the Arabic translations of the Memoirs of Lady Trent, and I'd love to add their titles to my website, but I have ZERO ability to run that search and find the relevant text.

This is brilliant.

ok well everything sucks but I made minor contributions to a really cool paper that we just put up on the arxiv

Wonder what the figures are like in India (worse or better than the US? Who knows). Book-wise, I'd recommend all the recent books I've read, but the last one I finished was Ursula Whitcher's brilliant NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON.

Re-upping for visibility. If anyone needs a typo check or the like, I'm a pro writer in search of a little extra income this month. Thanks!

Pretty much everything I know about writing is contained in this one @clarkesworldmagazine.com essay: clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word...

Sea Fever by John Masefield: “I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by”

i admittedly dont read a lot of poetry, but i am very fond of wild geese by mary oliver

This is a very good book, and I'm not quote tweeting this in an attempt to win the book, but to encourage others to read it.

We'd like to shout out Seattle's Clean Air Collective and mask bloc for providing us with free masks and air filters during ConCurrent. We could not have run the event without that help, and it was given to us for free. For FREE! What an amazing public service. Thank you so much.

I also strong recommend her The Old Bridge Inn series, linked novellas about m/m & f/f couples *who aren't part of the upper classes*, dealing with government repression & surveillance www.goodreads.com/series/35484...

I had a phenomenal time at the Hugo awards in all ways except for the water bottle whose contents seeped into my backpack over the course of the ceremony. So, giveaway! Quote with your favorite poem for a chance to win a slightly waterlogged but still readable book that has had adventures.

Want to test drive my Honor Code/Academic Integrity/Good Learning choose your own adventure? Here's the beta version! crgibbons.github.io/stash/CYOA-h... >> It's 5pm on Wednesday, and your professor has just posted the homework due next week. Do you *look at the homework now* or *put it off*?

please spread the news far and wide!! librarians and booksellers, THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now on Netgalley!

Bad Sir Brian Botany, a profound meditation on class war and social justice by A. A. Milne. voetica.com/poem/3335

Reflections on Ice-Breaking Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker - Ogden Nash (I already own a copy of this wonderful book, but I did not want to miss out on a favourite poetry contest)

Eve Ewing's "April 5, 1968" is one of my very fav poems: www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Maga... (and this book is on my shortlist of books to acquire soon!)

All can be measured by the standard of the capybara. Everyone is lesser than or greater than the capybara. Everything is taller or shorter than the capybara. Everything is mistaken for a Brazilian dance craze more or less frequently than the capybara. ... www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

"This Be The Verse," Philip Larkin. The possibly unperformed "thousand girl guides read the poem in unison" version Larkin wanted to see before he died.

Tony Hoagland - The Word writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3F...

Can I quote with my favorite poetry book? Because it’s this one: Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing eveewing.com/electricarch...

I had a phenomenal time at the Hugo awards in all ways except for the water bottle whose contents seeped into my backpack over the course of the ceremony. So, giveaway! Quote with your favorite poem for a chance to win a slightly waterlogged but still readable book that has had adventures.

What a great panel! Check out Elijah Kinch Spector, Ursula Whitcher, and Ben Pladek's work for thoughtful, queer, historically-inspired stories!

Put a reminder in your calendar for this for nominations next year. Quite seriously, imo Astreiant is *exactly* the sort of thing the best series hugo is designed to reward: more than the sum of its parts, single volumes not given award but a true achievement as a collective work. And it really is.