The sudden surge of serotonin you feel when you remember Supergirl comes out soon

“Come on, Boomers, stop pushing old back & white movies on us. What possible relevance could an antique like Citizen Kane have on the modern world?”

#LAconV is looking to recruit two additional volunteer photographers to join the team that will be chronicling the 84th World Science Fiction Convention.

Honored that the Ignyte judges chose "Uncertain Sons" as a finalist in the novelette category w/these wonderful stories. And because of the Ignytes, @undertow.bsky.social has made the story free-to-read online again. If you missed it, it's here. Thanks again! undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

Book Review: Clifford D. Simak’s The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960) sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/06/08/b... #scifi #sciencefiction #books

My review of Wilhelm's Vietnam allegory The Killer Thing (variant title: The Killing Thing) (1967) sciencefictionruminations.com/2024/01/15/b...

Kate Wilhelm (1928-2018) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Geoff Taylor, 1977; R, uncredited, 1972 #scifi #sciencefiction #books

HEY, MY BOOK COMES OUT TOMORROW!

"This is a complex, multi-layered book with some big thoughts and big meaning behind it, aided by watertight world-building, thoughtful cultural commentary, and very precise, deliberate Arabfuturism." www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/b...

The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed is a stunning work of science fiction. reactormag.com/book-review-...

Four star review for THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY from @sfxmagazine.bsky.social "An admirably ambitious novel that repays slow reading... "

English football commentary: Here comes the cross. Goal! Arabic football commentary: The ball is caressed into the box like a mother rocking her child to sleep. It hits the back of the net with the force of a cannon-ball, a rocket fired from the heavens. Pele, are you watching this from on high?

I am real late with a review of one of my two most anticipated debuts of the year. But The Republic of Memory is real good. www.tarvolon.com/2026/06/04/s...

Which of my mutuals recommended The Republic of Memory by Mahmoud El Sayed? They were right, it’s legit.

The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

average bluesky user

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gold-5 #smbc #comics

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

Only if we can call Sam Altman "Sloptimus Prime". 😂

Can we start calling AI Evangelists "sloptimists"?

Breaking it down: Canada's 2SLGBTQI acronym. www.canada.ca/en/women-gen...

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

Love this.

Why does this image look like a promo for the stupidest buddy cop comedy of the 1990s?

Updated our list of labour unions in SFF. The list is now up to 300 (!) stories of science fiction and fantasy where collective worker action is a part of the story. As spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... On the blog: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga... 1/2

Pope Releases Encyclical On Perils Of Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Strategy https://theonion.com/pope-releases-encyclical-on-perils-of-disneys-star-wars-strategy/

If you're curious about our fanzine, we've made a PDF Hugo Voter packet book of some of our favourite articles from 2025 (with a fabulous cover by friend of the blog @dntlz.bsky.social, who I think also deserves Hugo consideration.) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wall3...

An essay on why I think Jedi don't work for us anymore and what could be done to change that

"nearly 75% of instructional staff in American higher education now work outside the tenure system. Contingency no longer exists at the edges of academic life; it increasingly defines the structure through which the university teaches, adapts, + reproduces itself." working-mass.com/2026/06/04/i...

We’re losing the war against mangroves…

Congratulations to last night's winners at the Nebula Awards, which include @stephengrahamjones.com, @amalelmohtar.com, @effies.bsky.social, @thomasha.bsky.social among others, and which formally installed @nkjemisin.bsky.social as a Grand Master! file770.com/sfwa-announc...

Much like workers experiencing what David Graeber calls “bullshit jobs,” robots in post-apocalyptic stories (Saturn's Children or Service Model) are trapped within a hierarchy of labour. These stories resonate because many workers are increasingly alienated from the meaning of their work.

'Mornings and nights no longer exist' at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Chapter 1. Now on the news.

Kitten.

You too can see Montreal’s big, weird ring if you attend @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social.

"Prose and Cons"

Drawing the line between melancholy robot worker stories and Graeber's Bullshit Jobs resonated so hard, I'm still vibrating. "There is no liberating aspect to humanity’s absence; the protagonists are faced with a continuation of systems that have lost their reason for existing."

I'll be interviewing @zanzjan.bsky.social at @odysseybks.bsky.social in South Hadley MA to celebrate the launch of this awesome book on Tuesday, June 8!! Come on down!

I put up a blog post about my BOOK TOUR so check it out if you'd like to know where you can find me! naomikritzer.com/2026/06/05/o...

I described this book to a friend as "Unforgiven by way of Clifford D. Simak," and stand by that description.

A thing I find myself noting in my Escape Pod host spots about stories involving thinking machines is that ultimately these are stories about people, about what it means to be human, what we value and what is worth defending and preserving, what we choose to do with our one wild and precious life.

This is a very good shortlist.

Children of Strife is the best — and most ambitious — sequel yet to Children of Time, in part because Adrian Tchaikovsky has the courage to subvert the optimism and hope underpinning the first novel. (It's difficult not to note that the first book was published pre-Brexit, pre-Trump.)

Also worth mentioning: Anthony Stewart Head was implacably on the side of trans rights.

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Much like workers experiencing what David Graeber calls “bullshit jobs,” robots in post-apocalyptic stories (Saturn's Children or Service Model) are trapped within a hierarchy of labour. These stories resonate because many workers are increasingly alienated from the meaning of their work.

Anthony Stewart Head elevated every role he was in, whether it was Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance or Neverwhere. Both he and his brother Murray played the lead role in the original West End run of the musical Chess.

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.