Boxing day is a day for reading and catching up on the amazing stories of the year. Next up is @tiatashiro.bsky.social's The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe i8n @clarkesworldmagazine.com #booksky 💙📚💙 📚🪐💙🤖

Needing to catch up on this year's brilliant stories is a great reason to avoid your racist cousin this Xmas. How about The Lord of Mars by @meghanmccarron.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com #booksky 💙📚💙 📚🪐📚🤖

Another favourite from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, The Island with the Animals by Stephanie Malia Morris #booksky 💙📚💙

A favourite fantasy from @louisinglishall.bsky.social in @podcastle.org: The Hand that Feeds #booksy 📚💙📚 🪐📚🪐📚🤖

Continuing the year's end celebration, here is Six People to Revise You by @jrdawson.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙📚 🪐📚🪐📚🤖

catching up a few today to try and celebrate all these stories by the end of the year Next of my favourites is 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by @samtasticbooks.com in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚 🪐📚🪐📚🤖

This morning's favourite from the past year is from Sarah Langan and is in two parts, the link to the second part will be in the comments #booksky 📚💙 🪐📚🤖📚

Next up from my favourites of the year is this bonkers tale from Adam-Troy Castro in @lightspeedmagazine.com #booksky📚💙📚 📚🪐📚🤖

this morning's favourite from 2025 is some scifi horror from @davidanaxagoras.com published in @lightspeedmagazine.com #booksky 📚💙📚 📚🪐📚🤖

Wooo Adelaide won a game #COYR #ALM #ADLVPER #AUFC ⚽

July was yesterday, right? Well if you missed it flying by, July was when Godzilla as a Young Man named Mike by @bethkesh.bsky.social came out in @podcastle.org. Another of my favourites this year. #booksky 💙📚💙 📚🤖📚📚🪐

Hitting you all with some of my favourites from the last year, in no particular order, just what I loved from what I happened to come across. First up Notes from the Graft Failure by R. Diego Martinez in @nightmare-magazine.com #booksky 💙📚 📚🪐📚🤖

On #AUFC's loss to Melbourne in the #A-leagueW this weekend. #AUFC #COYR #MVFCVAUFC #MelVAdl

Mind-Craft New Consciousness Research Lopez & Wiese Building blocks for theories of consciousness full episode: youtu.be/NxFztN0OqY8 #ideas #philosophy #science #consciousness #consciousnessstudies #philosophyofmind #philosophyofpsychology #philosophyofscience #consciousnessstudies #neuroscience

On Landman et al.'s visual work memory experiments, which some have also been used to suggest phenomenology overflows access From our discussion of the access/phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk #ideas #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #science #consciousness

A quick summary of Sperling's visual work memory experiments, which some have used to suggest phenomenology does indeed overflow access From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk #ideas #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #science

Do you seem to hear it all along? Really, are you sure? From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk #ideas #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #science #consciousness #consciousnessstudies #psychology #cognitivescience #perception

Some thoughts on the Matildas destroying New Zealand #GoMatildas #AusVNZ ⚽

Clock chimes and air conditioners: when phenomenology seems to overflow access From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk #ideas #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #science #consciousness #psychology #cognitivescience

Studying the unholy mutated offspring of our concept of consciousness From our discussion of Block's Access Vs. Phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk #ideas #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #science #consciousness #psychology #cognitivescience

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

Why is this #dog so weird

New signed book haul from the australian short story festival. It's not all short, but i guess novels are ok if they have space octopuses #booksky 💙📚💙 📚🤖📚🪐📚

On the Socceroos loss to Colombia #GoSocceroos #ColVAus ⚽

Join Liz and I as we try and learn something about olfaction by reading @smellosopher.bsky.social 's recent "Olfaction is a Spatial Sense" #ideas #podcast #science #philosophy #naturalphilsophy #cogsci #psychology #neuroscience #philconsciousness

Some thoughts on #AUFC vs Sydney in the ALW yesterday. #COYR #AdlVSyd ⚽

On Adelaidfe United's loss to Auckland #AUFC #AklVAdl #AklVsAdl #COYR

Thoughts on a less fun game #GoMatildas #EngVAus #EngVsAus⚽

Thoughts on Adelaide United's loss away to MacArthur in the ALM #MacVsAdl #COYR #AUFC ⚽

In case you missed it, I wrote a new blog on my blog about my podcast coming back. wilwheaton.net/2025/10/its-...

Some thoughts on the Matildas latest win. #WalVAus #GoMatildas ⚽

I loved Understudies by @gregegansf.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com There's lot's going on (issues of class, work and AI of course), but I loved the sense of the joy of problem solving. Also it's not very often Clarkesworld features schools I used to drive past everyday. #booksky 💙📚 🤖📚🪐📚

if you want to try some short stories that are so absent from the #top100books but aren't don't want to jump to spending money, here are some stories that are brilliant and freely availible online as audio and text #booksky 📚💙📚

It's great the ABC is doing a celebration of books with #top100books, so far it's mostly novels with a smattering of non-fiction and children's books. I fear people are missing out on short stories, so here are ten collections off the top of my head #booksky 📚💙📚

Wow too bad for Andy Weir and everyone who voted for Project Hail Mary at #93 in the top 100 books. I didn't think Radio National could treat an author and book so disrespectfully. Astonishing. #top100books

Dristressingly relevant, but gorgeous. @sentencebender.bsky.social's Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead in @nightmare-magazine.com. Wow. @stefansecho.bsky.social's narration had a lump in my throat. Do yourselves a favour #booksky 💙📚💙 📚🪐📚

some thoughts on the away game in the USA today #USAvsAus

On the Socceroos vs Canada game from this morning #CanVAus #socceroos

oh my go read "The Shadow on the Nest" by Alaya Dawn Johnson, or listen to the as always amazing reading by @mrmightyink.bsky.social, in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social for all the intergenerational trauma and collective responsibility feels #booksky📚💙 🪐📚🤖📚

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

semi regular rant about the difficulties of preordering books in Australia

On brand birthday find

The folks at Many Minds are doing a great job, this week's episode is awesome Brains of a feather Many Minds Duration: 1:31:12 Published: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:41:00 +0000 Episode: manyminds.libsyn.com/brains-of-a-... Media: traffic.libsyn.com/secure/manym... #cogsci #neuroskyance

New episode of consciousness 101, we're talking about Clark's presentation of quality spaces #ideas #podcast #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #philmind #philconsciousness #consciousnessstudies #cogsci #psychology #science #qualityspaces bit.ly/4nl6w2N

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Bee friend #garden

Happy lavender #gardening

They're also into some really sketchy AI stuff

Dog go chomp

Join us as we Discuss Veit el al (2025) "Dimensions of corvid consciousness," in which we learn to love corvids as much as parrots. Erratum: at one point we say left/right eye when of course we mean left/right visual field. Sorry if any names are mispronounced bit.ly/4m8in2N #consciousnessstudies