Ugh, this silly meme. 5 words? What women want is the true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain. How to say good-bye to a friend who is dying.

ENDS TODAY 4/14 @ 11AM PDT #FundraiserPerk Magic, gods, libraries, witchcraft, and West African folklore: you can talk about all this and more in a one-on-one with modern legend and award-winning author Tobi Ogundiran. Donate at https://twp.ai/9OV9ML#FundraiserPerkor through our bio!

And then the 3rd AI model of Mark Zuckerberg builds the first ever human model of Mark Zuckerberg.

Also for the record, F+TM is my cat's favorite music, and has been for ~2 years. No photogenic cat-dancing, but when this snuggly old fluffball goes to the vet, only one soundtrack will stop him from yowling.

For the record: the Florence + The Machine "Everybody Scream" tour is AMAZING.

Special submissions call for Escape Pod! Got a story about the future of democracy? Read the guidelines! escapepod.org/2026/04/06/s...

Depluralize a movie: Snowflakepiercer.

March is nearly over, I hope you didn't miss my @clarkesworldmagazine.com non-fiction about handedness - and how its throughline runs modern culture to pre-human evolution. To quote myself: to understand handedness, you need to understand the entire brain. 🧠🧪 clarkesworldmagazine.com/kinney_03_26/

Got time to check out a short before you finalize noms? Even if it's not to nominate, I'd love if you'd read "Because I Held His Name...". Maybe you'll love it too, if you like stories about identity, connection, power, and the loss of those. (And Alan Turing.) strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

(This time with the cover) The Subtle Art of Folding Space comes out April 7th. Preorder now! From today to Thursday @barnesandnoble.com members get 25% off with the code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-subtle...

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#FundraiserPerk We love books! Receive a signed and personalized copy of Wole Talabi's CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS, + the April Locus E-Issue and digital art by designer Francesca Myman. Donate at http://locusmag.com/...#FundraiserPerk or through our bio!

NO AI ONLY BRAIN 'nuff said New ones, hand-painted, one of each artologica.etsy.com

Oh god oh god is the news cycle going to make me talk about why consciousness an introspection are real *precisely because* the brain is mostly hacking itself together on the fly? Is the news cycle going to mark me ~write an article~ about this??

The cutoff date before which SF was "old school" is whenever you, yourself, were 12 years old

If you can give something, please do. 💚

Handedness seems utterly banal, but the science beneath it is weird and complex, with a throughline tying modern culture to pre-human evolution. (Not to mention the last 5-10 years of my scientific career.) To quote myself: to understand handedness, you need to understand the entire brain. 🧠🧪

Handedness seems utterly banal, but the science beneath it is weird and complex, with a throughline tying modern culture to pre-human evolution. (Not to mention the last 5-10 years of my scientific career.) To quote myself: to understand handedness, you need to understand the entire brain. 🧠🧪

the past is so bright, gotta wear shades

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

SHADES OF GRAY yellow5.com/pokey

You should like what they do! @dreamfoundry.bsky.social is the best org out there providing support & contest for early-career speculative fiction creators.

Calling all concept-driven science fiction short stories (and novelettes) published in 2025! I'm looking for bangers I might have missed that fit this brief: compellingsciencefiction.com/posts/call-f... If you can share this with your favorite SF author/publisher/editor, I'd be grateful!

An Immense World, Ed Yong (2022)

Wake up, kids, it's time for your peptide glaze!

Do you seriously think I'd engage you in this argument if there remained the slightest chance of it being productive? You logged into social media thirty-five minutes ago.

Do you seriously think I'd engage you in this argument if there remained the slightest chance of it being productive? You logged into social media thirty-five minutes ago.

A reminder that we are gathering stories for AFTERLIVES 2025, curated by @mariahaskins.com. psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: excerpts from a Q&A with author & Your Personal Odyssey guest lecturer @henrylienauthor.bsky.social, who talks about nonlinear storytelling & the relationship between unreliable narrators and linearity odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/q...

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

My paper with @jeffsebo.bsky.social , "The Emotional Alignment Design Policy", now live at Topoi [link in comments]. Artificial entities should be designed to elicit emotional reactions from ordinary users that appropriately reflect the entities’ capacities and moral status, or lack thereof.

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com. p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com

This is the worst animal name of all time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotwhee...

Oooo

Slightly diminish a band: Florence or the Machine

Well overdue, but we have finally posted the Diabolical Plots 2025 Retrospective and Award Eligibility! www.diabolicalplots.com/2025-retrosp...

A few days late, but I'm happy to share that my story "Unsung" is live in the Jan/Feb issue of @analogsf.bsky.social. One reader described it as "cold, technical, and emotionally brutal," an A+ compliment if I've ever heard one. analogsf.com/current-issu...

8) Recognition, Memory by @benjaminckinney.com : Founder of consciousness-control-and-recall company acts as guinea pig for his own service as he dies. Resurrected with imperfections, he attempts to navigate world and relationships. Innovative, confusing at start, but rewarding at end

Today's dilemma (every day's dilemma): hot bean water or hot leaf water?

Mel Brooks is asked to invent a mobster.

blergh, I HATE having to ask coz I know it’s super hard for everyone especially around this time of year… but I’m also about to hit negative balances and I don’t get paid til next Friday :/ been a real f’ing hard eight months tbh and I’m sorry everything is so awful ko-fi.com/mercwolfmoor

Great new research for those of us at a certain stage in life: across disciplines, exceptional early-career performance and exceptional late-career performance are unrelated. The things that make you great early don't make you great later. www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

My short story, "Recognition, Memory" is out in the latest issue of @analogsf.bsky.social! analogsf.com/current-issue/ It's science fiction about technological immortality, brain-printing, and becoming the person everyone expects you to be. In Peter Vanler's case, the person he was before he died.

Psst! If you'd like a gift idea for an SFF fan -- or if you'd like to read a scifantasy that's basically THE WITCHER meets Trinbagonian folklore & Caribbean mythology -- there's a $1.99 Ebook sale now for my book, THE NIGHTWARD! www.harpercollins.com/products/the... www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN

you've been waiting and it's finally HERE!! AFTERLIVES curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social ✨🖤💀 get your ebook here! psychopomp.com/product/afte...

New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer... Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.

(I mean also a good day to educate yourself about both histories of the holiday, and Lincoln's actual views and actions as regard to slavery and racial equality—but Lincoln can neither vote nor call the cops because he's super dead. We've gotta fix the hearts that are still beating)

Thankfully, later history gives Thanksgiving a second origin story, more worth celebrating than its sordid start: As a day of unity in the battle against white supremacist separatism, exactly as Abraham Lincoln intended when he made it a national holiday.

As a neuroscientist I agree with this 100% - but *also*, there's evidence that language contributes to some specific mental functions: regulation and executive function. Telling yourself a story is one way you shape & organize your brain's operations.