Congratulations to this year's nominees for the #DitmarAward those who are on @Bluesky include @kaburgess1.bsky.social @scottsteensma.bsky.social @emmikhor.bsky.social @adamrichard.com.au @roannelau.bsky.social are Bluesky users #AustralasianSFF #MeanjinIn2028 #BrisbaneIn2028

The Blue Cat, a one page comic from one year ago

Maybe it’s just me and my feed, but I haven’t seen enough chatter about the discovery of this marble statue of Athena in Turkey, specifically Laodicea.

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

“I enjoy watching the TV show The Pitt” - this is what all you The Pitt fans sound like 🙄

Nelson 19:84. A great verse.

Over the moon to be included on the Ditmar noms list alongside these excellent names! I’m up for cover art for Rebels & Rainbows for Best Artwork and “A Shortcut via the New Tunnel, M-ate” in Never Say Die for Best Short Story. Congratulations all, stellar list! 🤩 📚 🎨

Feels completely unreal to be posting this, but I’ve been nominated for a Ditmar for Best New Talent! The start of this year has truly been a whirlwind, and I feel so excited and humbled that people have been so supportive of me and my weird little stories. Thank you everyone who nominated me!

My stoked-ness has exceeded safe levels - I'm up for a Ditmar Award! I'm in the best new talent category, sharing a list with some wonderful writers. Thankyou for your nominations - being shortlisted is a huge honour. Voting is at the link :) #ditmars #awards #writing #scifi shorturl.at/vNTsg

To whoever thought it was fun to smash beer bottles on the path to the beach, fuck you.

Artemis II has successfully landed on the Planet of the Apes

The Internet was a beautiful thing for a while. It is now exclusively for people who are mentally ill. One might think that would make it a niche product, but it remains mainstream by making more and more people mentally ill.

The latest Aurealis is out and it features the very talented @chpearcewrites.bsky.social and @catsparx.bsky.social

We are one week into our campaign and we honestly are so humbled by the love people are showing us for our new indie comic! Check out the new trailer with the tiers and support us! youtu.be/VsyAo0Jbwuc?...

Preordered Dirtbags by Madison Lee and @captainamerico.bsky.social the other day and got these goodies when I bumped into Americo on the weekend too! Excited to read. 👀 📚 Here’s the crowdfunding campaign/preorder site:  www.comix.one/projects/dir...

Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon

Happy Easter.

Call me a traditionalist, a festive conservative, even an Easter season bigot, but these are an abomination. #Easter #hotcrossbuns #food

One in five cans of Coca Cola contains a lethal dose of poison

If you're looking for comedic genius in the Melbourne comedy festival, @garrythestarr.bsky.social is running two of the best shows I've seen. Classic Penguins is an all time top five for me, and I've seen 20 years of comedy festivals. www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows...

googoo dolls iris voice

This maze was easy to get out of. you'd just move the mouse

Butterflies crossing oceans, moths navigating by the stars: unravelling the mysteries of insect migrations

the thing about "separating the art from the artist" is that it comes from academic circles where they were trying to separate an artist's views from an interpretation of their work as an intellectual exercise, not as a way to give people moral carte blanche to support shitty people

The On Spec anthology Kickstarter is live! Rewards include a copy of my first novel Driving Ambition; or an online chat with me, or, even wilder, an online tarot reading with me (your choice of decks!). Plus many other exciting things for your money. www.kickstarter.com/projects/edw...

If you didn't catch the names in PTA's speech, the 1975 Best Picture nominees are Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There are no skips; there is no wrong place to start. They will make you love American movies anew, and demand the best from them.

you draw up that ad for amtrak? sure did boss, diarrhea money shot just like you asked

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Interesting to see so many “experts” on here all of a sudden 🤔. A week ago most of you had never even heard of oil

My novelette "False Light" is in the March/April issue of @analogsf.bsky.social ! If you like post-Earth stories or toxic relationship stories or mad-world-drives-girl-mad stories, then you might like this! And an excerpt is free to read online at analogsf.com/current-issue/story-excerpt1/ 📚🪐💙

More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to

historical inaccuracies in fiction make people on the internet really, really angry, so you should include as many as you possibly can

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

My story The Pearl Divers of Connell-B is in the March/April @analogsf.bsky.social ! I'm beyond stoked to have work in the magazine that has published so many of my heroes, and I love the art that Eldar Zakirov created for it. analogsf.com/current-issu... #scifi #SF #writing

can't stress about all the problems with your first draft if you never read it again

If you have a cat, and you have a pot of indoor grass for that cat to munch on, and you have a nice mechanical keyboard... The three may meet in all sorts of fun, vomit-y ways. Blurred cleaning-panic photo, but that's probably for the best. #cats #writing #fml #catsofbluesky

Big congrats to @trnapper.bsky.social for taking out the Aurealis for the best SF novella! #scifi #sciencefiction #books @aurealisawards.bsky.social

Some big personal news: they’ve put me in charge of XBox!!! Microsoft LOVED my pitch for an XBox console that’s also a sandwich press

ok its time for the feelings post: folks the show Strip Law comes out tomorrow on Netflix i never thought id get my own thing to show everyone what i think is funny. i spent the last 2.5ish years (along with tons of other creatives to be lauded later) putting my entire being into this show...

Today's found art in Melbourne. Title: Australian Tragedy. #art #Australia #meatpie #disaster

Dr Pepper was invented as a low-cost rat poison

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Absolutely devastating. Jon was a wonderful guy and the best political cartoonist Australia ever produced

Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

The Aurealis Award shortlist just dropped and I'm thrilled to receive two nods - SF Short Story ('Deja Vecu' - Austral 2025) and SF novella ('The Hidden God' - Asimov's). It's a juried award and represents the best of Oz spec-fic. Congrats to all the nominees: aurealisawards.org/2026/02/01/2...

A brand new year goes well with a brand new story! My latest story, “The Stars You Can’t See by Looking Directly,” is out now at Clarkesworld! ✨❄️🌨️🌏