"The true number of insect species is at least 14 to 20 million—two to three times higher than current estimates," report Robert K Colwell, Laura Melissa Guzman et al in @pnas.org 🌍 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

But why would the... oh, I see the problem.

Oceanographers discover "24 new deep-sea creatures and a whole new evolutionary branch" reports @insideclimatenews.org as @noaa.gov moves forward with streamlining the regulatory process for commercial seabed mineral extraction insideclimatenews.org/news/2603202... 🌎 www.noaa.gov/news-release...

Canadians > @gandersocial.ca is now open registration, albeit mobile-only at present gander.social/profile/timo...

This 100-year-old terracotta lion gargoyle once perched atop a Manhattan skyscraper. I hauled it out of a dumpster at a lower Broadway construction site 25 years ago and now it watches our garden. #WhatHappenedToTheLions #UrbanGeology #historicarchitecture #Architect

Orbital scavengers, Bracewell probes & all the perils of heaven and earth in this issue of @shoreinf.bsky.social www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/shor... Thanks @erisyoung.bsky.social & @iainmaloney.bsky.social (editorial), @jamesabellart.bsky.social (illustrations), and @noelchidwick.bsky.social

Released today! Shoreline of Infinity 40 - science fiction magazine from Scotland for the entire Universe. Includes: Grown-up Handwriting by Joyce Bingham - the winning story of this year's Cymera Festival/Shoreline of Infinity story competition. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/shor...

What part of "don't make me look like Paris Trout" does my barber not understand?

"All the laws of nature will bend and adapt themselves to the least motion of man." - Journals of Henry David Thoreau

I wish I'd thought to rhyme "employed" with "Delacroix" but as usual Bob Dylan got there first.

A story about an underwriter, a retired aerospace engineer, and a dead man's maps of Dutch America www.pfeiffer-phoenix.com

It could never happen on Ghorman www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #Andor

In these tough times, it's nice to see a murderous, multidimensional, New England ur-clown getting back on his feet

20-minute exposure of the Pleiades, under a light-saturated Toronto sky and a moon bright enough to cast shadows #FridayNightLights

Ads within ads. Their investors loved the idea. Will love it. Will have loved it. It gets complicated. #scifi by @timothyquinn.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's important to enjoy Twin Peaks Day FOR THE RIGHT REASONS

Congratulations @ourmankoto.bsky.social and contributors for putting the Year's Best Canadian FSF Vol 3 on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading list locusmag.com/2026/02/2025... #timothyquinn-recommends

Getting carded at LCBO while buying three Asahi tallboys is like an absurd belated birthday gift courtesy of Mr. Dark's midnight small-town carousel

Booked a couple nights over the holidays on the Death Star, but can't figure out the interrogation shower

Today's the day! Join us at 3:00pm to celebrate the release of YEAR'S BEST CANADIAN FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 3! There'll be readings, signings, and snacks!

Check out this week's blog post, where author Timothy Quinn describes the meaning behind his story "Scarecrow," and reminds us to never become "inoculated to the extraordinary" theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2025/11/04/h...

If you missed it in @analogsf.bsky.social, @benjaminckinney.com's enjoyably grim "Here at the Freezing End" reappears this month in @morningtransport.bsky.social www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/here-at-th... #playlist

"Pshaw," demurred Holmes. "You may remember my little monograph on the unwarranted use of the transitive property in beach placard authorship."

Just ask your local independent bookseller to point you at the YBCFSF(V3). They'll know what you mean.

We were lucky enough at @smallwondersmag.com to publish @timothyquinn.bsky.social’s “The Warfighter” that appeared in the 2024 edition of this collection. If you’ve got an eligible story, please submit it!

“The Religious Education of Rotisserie Opera” explores the nature of belief in a closed ecosystem; is a manufactured metaphysics really so different than those social, cultural and religious frameworks in which we’re raised today? www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20... #scifiJournal

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

Our September/October issue is on sale now! Pick up a copy for the latest stories from Jay Werkheiser, Larry Niven, Auston Habershaw, M.L. Clark, and more

Evidently Grammarly has yet to introduce irony detection

If you missed "The Warfighter" last year, it's now online for free in the latest issue of @smallwondersmag.com ...or consider spending $3 for the whole issue & supporting the short fiction ecosystem smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-wa... (thanks to @cislyn.bsky.social ky.social and @granades.com)

Today's reprint by @timothyquinn.bsky.social has relativity, bird bots, and questions of consciousness and identity. Meet "The Warfighter": smallwondersmag.com/...

Issue 23 is coming in May! The cover art is by Vincenzo Cohen. Authors and poets are @carolscheina.bsky.social, @isabelcanas.bsky.social, @timothyquinn.bsky.social, Bret Nelson, @bogiperson.bsky.social, Gendel Gento, @jonmhansen.bsky.social, @lilliantsay.bsky.social, and @annewilkins.bsky.social.

Brush up on your exoeconomics by reading "The Liberties" in this month's issue of @onspecmag.bsky.social. onspec.ca (with thanks to Diane L. Walton and @boneblackstories.bsky.social) #ScienceFiction #MadeInCanada

I suspect in the long run it's cheaper to buy

Roses are red Violets are blue Dammit, who's got the the key to the bunker? (Is it you?)

"Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe." — Abraham Lincoln, 1861

...long live the Empire? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/s...

Feels like we went pretty quickly from flirting with fascism to carrying fascism's child, and inviting fascism's parents over for tea and deportations www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

I'll just put it out there that perhaps generous employee discounts on ammo aren't the right way to find a person you trust to helm the gun counter

Ordered cat food, picked up some clementines, walked past freshly dug shallow grave, dropped off books at library...

Housing crisis averted robbreport.com/shelter/new-... #TwoWorlds

As I replace my paper library with ebooks, there are a few that I can't get rid of, like this copy of The Death and Life of Dith Pran -- signed by Dith Pran, survivor of the Khmer Rouge's killing fields.

Ah, I see the confusion. When RFK Jr says he's defending "medical freedom," he's simply protecting our right to die from the same horrible, preventable diseases that the founding fathers died from. #DontCoughOnMe

So ET was an astrobiologist? Seems like a tough job for basically a marmoset. #rewatch

48 hours is a lifetime in the mildly amusing menu business

"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end... The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

Italo Fontana, do I really have to explain?

Now in all fairness, it was a Honeycrisp

Can't remember if this is a painting in the Galleria Borghese, or the guy who checked our tickets at the Galleria Borghese

Thoughts & prayers are FINE