Recently listened to The Lovecraft Investigations, + the Aldrich Kemp mini pods All are great for many reasons but hats off to @thesounddesigner.bsky.social‘s work here Cinematic, never over-cooked, conveying mind-bending eldritch horrors and domestic tea-time convolutions with equal clarity. Superb

THANK YOU TO THE READERS! 💙📚 My Black ass book about our quantum cosmos is a USA Today bestseller #62 overall and #18 in nonfiction (I think I counted that right). #2 in science and technology books 😍 www.usatoday.com/booklist/boo...

Using the term 'amuk' as her starting point, @mailbykite.bsky.social roots out the violences in colonial mistranslation, weaving in disability justice and personal experience in this extract from Wasafiri 123. Download the full piece for free throughout September: www.wasafiri.org/content/onli...

Have you heard about the new #murderbot short story coming from Reactor this week? Today, we're thrilled to share two stunning full illustrations by Jaime Jones related to the upcoming novelette "Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com 💫

I have a story in Storyteller, the Tanith Lee tribute anthology, which is up for preorder now. Look at all the great authors included: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/storytelle...

Huge news on Patreon! Because of the Apple v. Epic ruling, they are not only dropping the 30% Apple Store charge on the iOS app, they are also halting the move to subscription billing for all creators - which would have affected creators like me, who use a "per video" structure than monthly.

Awesome thread live posting through Judge Reyes eviscerating the govt attrny in the tg ban TRO

At @lawfare.bsky.social, our searchable table of legal challenges to Trump's executive orders is filling up quickly. Please DM me if we're missing litigation on EOs within our bailiwick. A little crowdsourcing can go a long way. Link here: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

Aaaaah thank you all so much for your enthusiasm! 😱 Make sure to add the game to your wishlist on Steam if you're interested please 🙏🙏🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/2697000/...

If you purchased/paid $$$ for my books, YOU own those books, not the store/corporation you purchased them from. So, I'm okay with you stripping out the DRM so that you can continue to own the book. Solidarity. But please be cool and don't then upload it to a pirate site. My kids gotta eat, too. :)

This show rocks and you should give it a listen. So happy they got this recognition!

It’s a must read for anyone who cares about the poetics of weird fiction atseajournal.com/potboiler-un...

Is anyone making an accessible list of all the anti-trans stuff the Trump administration is doing, or should I do that? I know people are reporting on the individual actions, but I'm thinking something that can be used as a reference guide.

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

RT'ing some @dawbooks.bsky.social content --- 'An icon of science-fiction, fantasy, graphic novels, and horror, here is a primer to help you explore the bold-genre defining works of Tanith Lee in eBook.' astrapublishinghouse.com/.../tanith-l... 📚 💙 🚀 🧙‍♀️

figured it would be nice to wrap up this sketch this weekend! :-) 🌟💛

With 2024 in the rearview, let's talk about some of the great SFF and SFF-related stuff that's been published in the past 12 months that might be considered for the Hugos. Will continue skeeting more works to this thread over the next few weeks. 1/X hugoclub.blogspot.com/2024/03/open...

LOVE seeing teams like @AirbnbEng invest in meaningful software apprenticeship programs. "Candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and unconventional paths are encouraged to apply." - sounds like Cloud Resume Challenge champions to me! careers.airbnb.com/connect-engi...

Lastly, there is no mobile services (no towers) in national parks and they are BIG. So, you can't use Google Maps. We built an app that allows you to download the map prior to leaving onto your phone, then use the gps blue dot inside the download map: www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/app Hike safely!

eyaaaahh finally getting around to following people here, who i used to follow on twitter …

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

Hot off the presses! 🔥📰 The new Trending News feed takes the 📰 News feed and sorts it by popularity. This is a work-in-progress I've been developing with @devingaffney.com, more info soon! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Nikki Giovanni, the charismatic and iconoclastic poet, activist, children’s book author and professor who wrote, irresistibly and sensuously, about race, politics, gender, sex and love, died on Monday in Blacksburg, Va. She was 81. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

a terrible photo of El Teide at dawn. But you can see the strength of the volcano.

Five families of light on the Day of the Dead