Astronomers celebrate cancellation of $10bn Chile project that threatened clearest skies in the world www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Epstein was Littlefinger. The press needs to explain this in terms the public understands.

Post your favourite LOTR character. (Wrong answers only.)

Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn www.politico.eu/article/obse...

Claiming that Musk’s public lies are “practical decisions” and that “we cannot know Musk’s full rationale for pivoting to the Moon,” is not only a gross papering over of decades of habitual fraudulent statements, it’s also an abdication of journalistic responsibility and ethics.

18 more days to vote on the Nebula Awards! Don't miss the deadline. In the thread below you will find some of my recs of stories published in 2025, including a shoutout for my own debut novella, Disgraced Return of the Kap's Needle 🌌

I wish Chuck Schumer would realize even the angriest message becomes a joke when it’s printed on a doormat.

Just a reminder that it’s okay to let people have things that make them feel happy without loudly announcing that it makes you feel otherwise. Idk this just seems important lately.

Age verification? I recorded my voice on a cassette player.

Happy Tuesday all! It's my last day off, and we're just in Dublin Zoo while we're waiting for the train home. Should be back by the early evening and in fairness, it's been a great little break. Hope you're all having a good one!

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The White House:

Yourself, but as a cartoon.

If you see this, post a character that starts with the letter H

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

I want every single one of you who is an artist to find success and happiness making it, and I want every one of who loves to consume art to be swimming in an absolute sea of genius. Every attempt to shortcut that muddies those waters and robs real artists of success. That's my anti-AI stance.

Saw someone on the other app say Kid Rock makes music for people who shoot at hurricanes, I'm dead 😭

A lot of people don’t want good Trek, they want Trek that makes them feel like they did when they were younger. It’s why folks don’t like it when you point out that SNW feels it taken regressive steps backwards, especially in comparison to other modern shows. They just want their comfort show.

Right, that’s my planned keynote speech in Washington DC cancelled. How anyone from overseas could be thinking of travelling to the United States at the moment is crazy if this is what we’re going to be expecting.

And indeed the answer is a resounding yes This is def an era where those in control are out of their damn minds

Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS

I appear to be in some backwater star system on the periphery of Science Fiction & Fantasy Authors Galaxy, adjacent to the Speculative Fiction Writers and Indie Authors & Writers Superclusters! 😅

I write to help cope with reality's horrors. [writes my own brand of even worse horrors]

He's literally on a leaked tape talking about how only religiously manipulating people could protect his hoard of filthy lucre, and he's probably right.

HUGE AGREE. When the plot conflict hinges on "huge" stakes *that are personal to our characters* it hits so much harder, because we (as the audience) can relate. Gotta make us care about the little stuff before we can care about the universe-size stuff.

art is like pizza. pizzas have toppings you dislike, and some have toppings you love. but there's a combo for everyone. every pizza made is a slice of joy worthy of being shared. triangular or square. deep or thin. it matters not its shape or size, only the effort that was taken to make it by hand.

goodbye, my discord fam x

4 million people were so offended by the prospect of words they don't understand in a halftime show that they tuned into a good ol' American alternative: an over the hill statutory rapist lip-syncing his 1999 hit: "Bawitdaba." Bad Bunny got 131 million views. Megyn Kelly literally cried. Perfect.

If you see this, post character that starts with G

Happy Monday all! I'm on the train to Dublin. It was an early start, but got caffeinated and now I'm jittery and tired! Fingers crossed I'll perk up before I get there. Hope you all have a good one!

Is there no hope that these clowns will ever wake up to what’s going on?

My dad 3D printed me this awesome new model of Seventeen from The Re-Emergence, based on my more recent Blender model (see 2nd pic), after my original one broke. There's a bigger one, too, but this one fits the shelf better. 💙📚🪐 #SFF

Did they not listen to the… you know music like the rest of us? It’s like all over it.

i would be excited for the Project Hail Mary trailer if Andy Weir didnt shit the bed with being okay AI slop.

Swarms of AI-generated personas could quietly manipulate public opinion, creating the illusion of widespread agreement. "The danger isn't only false content – it's synthetic consensus: the illusion that everyone agrees, engineered at scale." www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/02... #AI #AgenticAI

Do it. Create it. Try it. Just fucking do it, man. What have you got to lose? Do you want to do it? Awesome. Then. Do. IT. What? Are you afraid of someone laughing at you or thinking you're bad? Who cares about their loser mentality? You win. You will ALWAYS win by just trying. Express yourself.

Want.

Writing a book isn't about competition, it isn't about winning or getting rich, it's about sitting down with your fucked-up thoughts and weird ideas and putting them on paper to traumatize people who read them. AI will never get that part right.

It is always the same hustle. Don’t actually make anything yourself, con others into making the money for you.

I know it's not the point. But AI art has this really unique kind of ugliness to it. Even when it's vibrant, or convincing... when you look carefully there is this terrifying absence: Looking into the eyes of an AI avatar is like putting a small part of your soul into a meat grinder.

I feel this in my soul.

The idea of genAI making books and 'democratizing art' has raised its ugly head again. We know the usual objections, but my greatest concern is what it's doing to the development of creativity, particularly for young artists. Which was why I wrote this in 2023. againstwritoids.org/the-claw-in-...

Tie between a paladin, ranger, and a wizard. Do I have to pick?! www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dra...

The interesting part of the whole 'AI will democratise art' thing is that the truly elitism driven art, the one that requires connections in the art world, will be unaffected. Illustrators, comic artists, graphic designers, and other visual art working stiffs will be the ones...well, stiffed.

If you used AI to write it, I don’t want to read it. Simple as that.

This song is my fixation at the moment, which is not typical for me because I'm usually not much for traditional music. It's also giving me the guilts that I can't speak my native tongue. Considering downloading one of the apps!

Happy Sunday all! Lots of errands to run so far today before our trip to Dublin tomorrow. Hopefully I can manage early night because it's 7:50am train we're getting, and I'm already feeling it. Hope you're all having a good one!

The public can vote in the Locus Awards. It's free. If your favourites aren't on the ballot, there's space at the bottom to write them in. Obviously, any votes for my eligible works will be gratefully received. poll.voting.locusmag.com