For those days where I consider my work to be dumbed-down, phoned-in crap (and I feel this a LOT), I have this superb 101-second reminder from Ira Glass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQ... If you're having a "ugh I'll never get good at this stuff" day, I hope it helps you too.

I know a number of people who have been avoiding the latest COVID Vax because of how bad it makes them feel. This protocol of taking antihistimines prior to vaccination has helped folks have milder reactions. A day of ick from a vaccine is still better than a lifetime of long covid

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it. www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

He had me at 'etymythology'.

They're doxxing professors & turning the conservative apparatus personally against them. Meanwhile Trump has declared "antifa" a "terrorist organization" - even though it's not an organization & is not terrorist. But this country takes due process away from those it labels as "terrorists."

Do I know any trans or nonbinary voice actors or audiobook narrators? Asking for a potential project, but genuinely have no idea who I know.

Oofdy hoofdy, what a weekend it’s been. 🫠

LRP: Babe are you ok you’re reposting the Chinese Indonesian!Lois comic again

"Who Is Superman? A Private Interview With Lois Lane" A story about hope and connection ☀️(1/4)

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

The maidens are asking who I’m wearing. The armor is of my holy blighted queen. The sword was wrenched from the body of the world serpent. The blood upon my hands and blade and face is of the champion of the golden monarch. The bag is Louis Vuitton. The chainmail was forged in the nine hells.

Take On Me. (deeper cut: Ola Oli. Not the Puteri Sari one, the original chant)

Watching Jay, I realize I am simply exhausted by folks in positions of leadership who are driven to distraction by critique. If you can't function with critique and pushback, a leadership position is not for you. Leadership REQUIRES you to absorb and process the critique of stakeholders.

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

to those writers who don't have access to books, workshops, mentors, degrees and whatever else, my humble suggestion is to just write. you will learn and get better. it's not the easy way and you'll make all those extra mistakes self-taught people make. but it's possible and you can do it.

Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Winners The Rhysling Award honors the year's best in speculative poetry ✨ Nominees were selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: Long and Short poem thread/

It somehow amazes me that there were three women who lived decades with great apes: Jane Goodall with Chimpanzee, Diana Fossey with Gorilla and Birute Galdikas with orang-utans. Of them only the latter is still alive. #ripJaneGoodall

I recently learnt this anecdote was actually not abou Jane Goodall, but about Gorillas in the Mist's Dian Fossey. So... There you go!

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

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ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below). also hey, this issue is stacked?? clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

On #ITD2025, remember that ALT-text is a form of translation that all sighted people can get into. I remember when we in disability community socmed had to push and push for it to even exist on [other sites]. It’s always a win.

One month in front of the other.

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Hecate & Melinoe 💜💚 (a repost to celebrate Hades 2 final release)

Jorinde Remembers by Anne E. G. Nydam "My self was lost in the song, feathered in shadows, And all I knew became the nightingale." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff #fantasy

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers: NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints. and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

Hey folks just a friendly reminder if you have a #LinkedIn account, and you don't want them using your data to train it's AI. Please go into Setting>Data Privacy> And turn OFF Data for Generative AI improvement.

Oh god, it’s worse. This is Open Ai dictating to the studios they can “opt out” of OUTPUTS. This isn’t even about the training, as Open Ai thinks it’s all theirs to use for free. The hubris of these thieves is just obscene. I can’t see them not getting sued for this, it’s just that ridiculous.

not sure the hades sequel lives up to the original, there's something about wait where did the last two hours go

Some people just want to mengada.

Another weekend, another T. Kingfisher novel taking up (counts) 5 straight pages of my commonplace book with assorted bangers

Genndy Tartakovsky shared test footage from his film ‘The Black Knight’. It follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor. Sony isn't sure there's an audience for the film and haven’t greenlit it yet. After Kpop demon hunters success I don't understand why Sony are dragging their feet on this!

WOW People are going to die. Insulin and so many other drugs were already too expensive for many people.

Announcing this year's Dwarf Stars Award Winners ✨ (thread!) 1st Place Perish and Live Forever @pedroiniguez.bsky.social 2nd Place old junkyard Ngô Bình Anh Khoa 3rd Place warp drive folds spacetime Jean-Paul L. Garnier @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social /

not my circus, not my monkeys, unfortunately some asshole pitched the big top in my back yard

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

I'm glad to not have a LinkedIn account. :| Heads up for people who do: tech.co/news/stop-li...

Thinking of...Them...

Wearing an exoskeleton was like being spooned by a squid. -from "Vagabond" by EJ Kavounas, in #Penumbric's August issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #scifi #shortstories

Happy 10th anniversary to Undertale [1/3]

Reddish Egret San Diego River Estuary #birds #birdsky #photography #sandiego #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #nature #wildlife

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Oh my goodness what incredible, incredible news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

This green heron let me spend the better part of an hour with it. Slowly creeping close, I was able to watch it hunt and explore the edges of Pine Lake at Wheaton Regional Park. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600m (ISO 1250, f8, 1/640s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

If you need a researcher to tell you about Tylenol, MMR vaccines, and autism. Here is one. www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n... The TL;DR...