A strange game. The only winning move is not to [login].

if the US won’t let NASA build the starshade so I can see planets/watch the search for life, then can a league of other countries do it — the league of the starshade the starshade federation, the united countries of starshade… starshade club you don’t have to go to space to be an explorer trust me

WE ARE COOKED. Cannot overstate. Wish I hadn’t spent my early career fighting this — speaking @ FCC, risking pioneering alt indie fundie, avoiding these entities after witnessing first destructive major merger etc etc — it was a waste of time www.wsj.com/business/med... ty to those who were/are w me

this is cool My move is still fresh but I actually do miss US stamps — Went out of my way for: Moon Landing (fave), Trek (although wished it were TNG), Le Guin, Coffee! (bought so many of those) and Women’s Suffrage designs Canada needs to up its game although… they do have a MuchMusic stamp now!

WE ARE COOKED. Cannot overstate. Wish I hadn’t spent my early career fighting this — speaking @ FCC, risking pioneering alt indie fundie, avoiding these entities after witnessing first destructive major merger etc etc — it was a waste of time www.wsj.com/business/med... ty to those who were/are w me

Can’t believe after all these years on this beat bts someone didn’t send this to me the hot minute it dropped — let’s read this & then I can probably stop trying to explain this to colleagues & my lovely #scifi readers myself. So glad about that & ty to the author for tackling this needed project 🌌

www.wired.com/story/a-top-... Makenzie was the science advisor for my #scifi novel/series starter Astral Fall. She read a semi-late draft & sat with me to go through it all to give notes on novel situations. She knows so much about policy + civilian space. A public servant & a soldier for science 🌌

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... ☀️

@stationcdrkelly.bsky.social Hi Scott, I have a science question related to your work as captured in Endurance and not enough characters in one @ mssg to ask it, so it will be a small thread (if you’re willing to take a look)... cc @amikokelly.bsky.social

I'm intrigued but don't understand exactly what "editorial views independently" means here. Meaning no works -- TV, movies, books, video games, albums, art exhibitions -- would be reviewed until after they were available to the public? Or is this something about the screening mechanism?

three months later, here it is bsky.app/profile/knib... “On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a blockbuster report on AI training. On Saturday, the USCO director was unceremoniously fired. Today, two men claiming to…” www.wired.com/story/us-cop... (journalist kate @knibbs.bsky.social

Massive (68%) cut to NASA astrophysics proposed in WH budget. If this stands, it's the end of American pre-eminence in space science. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

On 1 out of 3 of my browsers (Firefox) when I load WashingtonPost dot com on the right hand side of the page there is a new module that says “Get Caught Up” and has summary blurbs with links to associated stories but in that the Post is now externally linking directly to Truth Social/Trump’s account

it’s day whatever it is, no one can keep track, and so far the American resistance is led by… 13 year old girls on US military bases abroad and Macklemore and 1/2 of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and a former NFL kicker and Lucy the Sugarbush snow report writer

New Scientist magazine interviewed me about the Space Library www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKXr...

what I’m reading at any point in time (books. some of the articles and papers are on my discord) www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Bill & Ted’s Anti-Fascist Adventure

The "Squish Principle" from Sensational She-Hulk #17 (1990) hits hard in 2025.

“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real”

Good luck. Good luck to all of us. ✊

The majority of my followers are book marketers etc. that follow tens of thousands of people. Huge change from my past Twitter situation before the decline. Bsky is a broadcast void for most in that way. We aren’t networked like we need for this moment

US media is traditional much more clear-eyed in describing antidemocratic purges overseas so here's how a US correspondent might cover the events of Washington in the last week, if it were happening overseas www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

He only wants a few things—revenge, one-sided loyalty, no legal peril, tons of money, non-stop applause, people laughing at his asshole jokes, exciting violence—is that so much to ask

I want to warn you, fellow creator, of 3 things. 1 The attack on civil servants/gov by Insurrectionist-#1 & tech CEOs from inside will impact the copyright office and labor rights 2 Nazi Germany is not the ceiling when it comes to evil 3 Art/artists have a key history in anti-fascist movements 🖖

you can probably guess that I’ve scathing thoughts about having to do this after the many years of attacks on creative labor/the wealth transfer to tech corporations and the lack of legislation and law enforcement from the USG #scifi search authorsguild.org/human ex www.amazon.com/Astral-Fall-...

1998 longreads.com/2018/12/04/t... (+2018 update)

2025 look ahead / invite list survey.sogolytics.com/r/GwBpLn 🤫 about.me/JSto #scifi #tech #howdidwegethere #itsgonnabe—weird/true

A strange game. The only winning move is not to [login].

fund the arts foreverrrr www.britannica.com/topic/philos...

2025 look ahead / invite list survey.sogolytics.com/r/GwBpLn 🤫 about.me/JSto #scifi #tech #howdidwegethere #itsgonnabe—weird/true

on leaving Twitter in 2022 & archiving my account this week as your sometimes cassandra on some topics—my topics—the best advice I can give you for 2025 = become an expert on narcissism in context of 1. identifying the patterns 2. practicing the hardline & core rules for how to handle narcissists

absolutely love going from being an early and skeptical Twitter user with thousands of trusted followers known over the years to now… 7 not my first forced digi immigration or even the worst (early web lost millions in one) but the fascism of it all this time has to be someone’s rebel origin story

for the devastated, angry… written for this moment & for those in need of rapid-response balm—or crucible www.goodreads.com/book/show/61... (major corps. removed from book’s production chain as much as poss.) Readers welcome to rage in reviews on GR, Amazon, Storygraph & Apple: many already have📕

so is it here or is it mastodon where do you want your periodic updates? 🌌 #scifi #books

all my good jpegs are on my other comp and I don’t want to dl/ul deep fry them so here’s this about.me/JSto until I go to said comp again oh snap a hashtag never seen one of those before —> #scifi

It’s me @ JSto from Twitter before the fall, but now with a ZERO @JSt0, because Jack Dorsey left us with nothing after so many years (and also because someone got an invite before me and assumed my ol’ @ JSto) another Jess intervened, sent me an invite. A stranger Jess from the Jess collective! 🕵️‍♀️