It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Day 2 of the Nibiru TTRPG on KS, and 40% of the way to go! Explore a a colossal space station, inspired by ancient mesopotamia, as you play with themes of identity, myth-making, memory, and survival via its unique system. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ara... #RPGLATAM #TTRPG #SelfPromoSaturday

And we’re a Locus Award Finalist. Great to have been a part of this. Congratulations to everyone involved!

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written. What do you mean “you’re absolutely right, I’ll try again”.

Fijn feestje. De moeite waard voor wie vrijdagmiddag in Amsterdam is.

I’ll see your Herodotus and raise you Gandhi, who, when asked about his thoughts on Western Civilization, answered that it would be a great idea.

De-pluralise a movie: The Fellow of the Ring

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Add a food to a movie title The Fellowship of the Onion Ring

I’m also well aware that all the short fiction & non-fiction I’ve published online since I started writing long-form pieces in 1998, were definitely scraped too, yet don’t count. Yours, too. Everyone’s. These companies should all be shuttered. Which is a nice way of saying launched into the sun.

Hail Special Boy: the Critique. podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/s...

Trans rights are human rights. Period.

Of all the edgy takes I can't abide. Those who diss Trout Mask Replica. I heard it when I was not quite 15. Peel playing 3 tracks a week. It sounded weird. Of course it did. Like music from another universe but I readily accommodated myself to that universe. OK so music can sound like this now.

India: The Transgender Bill Doesn’t Amend Rights, It Erases Us article-14.com/post/... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Today's great news: Amplitudes was selected for the @otherwiseaward.org longlist!! Extending my deepest gratitude to the committee and all the contributors who made the book possible 🖤

My city? Pastel.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen. I know it. This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem. Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

Longform baby! In this video essay I ask: Why are bisexuals obsessed with The Mummy? Thank you to all Blueskyers who helped me with my research! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7lv...

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Vandaag = Internationale Vrouwendag Want ja, helaas nog steeds nodig om in herinnering te brengen hoe slecht het gesteld is met wat ik voor het gemak maar ‘gelijkheid’ zal noemen. #InternationaleVrouwendag #InternationalWomensDay

The guy knew how to market something he’s perfectly aware is basically “bullshitting one’s way through a solution”. “Vibe coding” sounds so much cooler than “just messing around without a clue really”.

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

No worries. CGI will have him looking Battle-of-Cannae aged in a jiffy.

Dutch author organisations are demanding that Meta cease using work from Dutch authors, translators, & journalists to train their models without adequate compensation. www.lira.nl/sommatie

If you make art, some people won't like it. People yelling at you is the only authentic part of the ai-posting experience!

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

Details on the disturbing revocation of all trans people’s licenses by the state of Kansas. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

2026. The Singularity is a dating site. Accelerationism is now just another failure mode of Tesla full self drive. AI is ascending the earth to a Kardashian I civilization

Superb work, Ireland. I hope I'm proven wrong one day, but I can't see a point at which U.K. politicians will ever be intellectually or morally capable of acknowledging the immense value of art to the U.K. economy and implementing a similar scheme. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Drawings you won’t get anywhere else

No, I do NOT want to read a book on your proprietary e-reader. Give me the EPUB!

Lovely to see AMPLITUDES (with my story Blueprint for the Destruction of Solitude) being recommended here!

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen BONUS 31/30 Enheduana The priestess credited with composing a number of poems, making her possibly the world’s first named author.

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 30/30 Grass -- Sheri S. Tepper SF novel about the relationship of humans and native species in the ecology of an alien planet.

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 29/30 Wolf Hall -- Hilary Mantel Endless historical novel about the rise & rise of one of Henry VIII’s chief ministers.

Dr. Gladys West (1930-2026): Her mathematical genius gave us GPS. Black excellence navigates us forward, always. Rest in power. 🌟 #BlackHistory #STEM #WomenInSTEM #BlackExcellence #GPS #RestInPower

I love when my translators have questions. The splendid Mikael Cabon in France needs to know if a river in Written on the Dark flows into the sea or into another river: his word choice will be different. When translators are careful it is a gift to an author AND a reminder to protect them from AI.

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 28/30 Doomsday Book -- Connie Willis Another time-travel story, this one set in modern-day and medieval Britain.

Recht zo die gaat. Schiet ze aan diggelen!

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 27/30 Kruistocht in spijkerbroek -- Thea Beckman A 20th-century boy time-travels and joins a medieval Children’s Crusade.

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 26/30 The Catch Trap -- Marion Zimmer Bradley Interesting historical novel by a deeply problematic writer.

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 25/30 Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus -- Mary Shelley A Gothic SF novel. And perennial box office hit.

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 24/30 Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat The ancient past is made of people living their lives.

30-day books-by-women challenge! 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 23/30 The Fifth Season -- N.K. Jemisin You're Other. Feared. Hated. But your life is your own, even if your world is tearing itself apart.

30-day books-by-women challenge! Choose 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #BookSky #BookChallenge #ReadingWomen 22/30 De vrouw-man -- Joanna Russ Gender-breaking science fiction classic.

We are immensely proud of @leemandelo.bsky.social and all of our contributors behind AMPLITUDES, for making the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Delightful news to wake up to: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity is long-listed for the BSFA Awards!! Thank you all so much 🖤 @erewhonbooks.bsky.social