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A perfect time to get this book! P. Djéli Clark is one of our Guests of Honour at @eastercon2027.org in Glasgow.

LR Lam is one of our Guests of Honour at Unconfined - @eastercon2027.org - read all their work then come primed with thoughts and questions!

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Jim Caviezel Met Vin Diesel Going to the fair Said Jim Caviezel To Vin Diesel “Ha! You’ve got no hair” Quoth Vin: “Tis fair,” My pate is bare, But this is incidental; For tonsure-free I’d rather be Than totally fucking mental”

Thanks, I love it.

Remember the simpler times, when JKR’s books were on this list? Then there was the mid-career plot twist!

Come play with us, 3PO.

There are times when the idiocies encountered in a day do more than suggest a martini at cocktail hour, they essentially compel one. This, this has been such a day. Cheers, good people.

Today is the UK launch of Pantomime (El’s Version), meaning the first book of the Micah Grey trilogy is now out on both sides of the pond. I’d been daydreaming for years of being to somehow resurrect this series that means so much to me. (Part 1)

The Sighthill Stone Circle in central Glasgow. First astronomically aligned megalithic monument to be built in Britain for thousands of years. From the right angle it can look very un-urban. #Glasgow #StoneCircle

Top entertainment from the 8yo this morning. He just told me this joke: Two wind turbines are standing in a field. One says to the other, “what’s your favourite type of music?” The other answered, “I’m a big heavy metal fan.”

Our first newsletter is out and ready for you to read! Come find out everything we’ve been up to since since the vote at Reconnect this year 🤍 easterconglasgow.org/newsletter-1/

A popular person replying to themselves can bully other lesser-liked voices out of your timeline here. I don’t like that.

Sorry, I was wrong. It was fifteen.

See, here, when you reply to yourself, it takes over everyone’s feed. I just had eleven spaces in a row taken by a thread. Had they been individual posts, other posters would have got a look-in.

People need to not reply to themselves here. Cos how that appears to people is the post, the reply, the post with the reply; and the more you do the worse it gets. (Edited 21:15 via @skeetsapp.com)

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett: wow, he didn’t half telegraph that unmasking or the logic. Liked the characters, liked the world building but that plot was lit up in neon “look here!” signs. Average.

It felt like a cup of tea afternoon. Like the mug? You can get one (as well as other things) here: https://easterconglasgow.org/shop

I may have found a cross-platform Bluesky client I like. Finally.

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Want to help shape the future of fan cons? Glasgow 2024 is offering up to 18 bursaries (for aspiring & experienced conrunners alike) to attend SMOFcon 42 in Stockholm this December! Deadline: 31st August 2025 (1/2)

So all y'all con running types @glasgow2024.bsky.social has bursaries to help folk get to @smofcon42.bsky.social Fan cons are run by volunteers and this is our chance to help folk come together & support each other to run amazing fan cons for the whole community. #FansMakeWorldcon #FansMakeFanCons

Pride is upon us and the campaign for Wrath Month launches in 48 hours. Join the riot. 💙📚🪐📚🌈🚀💫

Frustrated with #Murderbot. I don’t mind short episodes, or episodes released weekly, but I *do* mind short episodes released weekly.

I got the best readers—hands down. Stay on point.

Hi folks! Is there any way on here to hide peoples’ reposts from my feed? I get so many people reposting the same thing: some control of this would be good.

Badly-parked flying saucer at Zurich Airport yesterday.

Join Unconfined, the 2027 Eastercon, now and get our early bird rate, only available in April! Early Bird Rates: 🔹Full Adult Membership: £85 🔹Discounted Adult: £55 🔹Young Adult (16-25) and Student: £20 🔹Under 16: £5 🔹Apocryphal: £5 registration.easterconglasgow.org/members/regi...

Full Reconnect Commitee Team at the closing ceremony of 2025 Eastercon, Reconnect.

I have some News. Myself and my husband @alanfleming.org are thrilled to announce we will be co-chairing UNCONFINED - the 2027 Eastercon, to be held in Glasgow! easterconglasgow.org

We’d love for you to join us too - join the fun and become a member here registration.easterconglasgow.org #glasgoweastercon #eastercon2027 (2/2)

We’re Unconfined, the 78th Eastercon! We’ll be in Glasgow in 2027 and we’re very excited to see you there! We’ll be at the Crowne Plaza hotel, 26th-29th March 2027, and we’re thrilled to be joined by our guests of honour; P. Djeli Clark, L. R. Lam, Mark Meenan, and Tamsyn Muir 🦄 (1/2)

Different peerage, it seems. You’re speaking of the Earldom of Arran in the Scottish peerage, while the various Arthurs Gore are Earls of Arran in the Irish (or “Irish”) one.

Nine days short of three years after moving (back) to #Glasgow, @davidbamford.bsky.social and I have just finished refurbishment / redecoration or our flat! OK there's one new carpet (and new windows but we don't talk about those) to do, but it *feels* like we're done.

Interesting food & wine pairings here in Aldi today.

Given a substantial percentage of the population is non-white, or non-straight, or non-cis, you’d think the pictures and profiles of the heaps of obvious bot followers I now have to block daily would have be more diverse, wouldn’t you?

🪱/10, no notes. #Dune #Dunesky #Memes #Sietchposting #Cosplay

HORSE WANTS HORSE ARMOUR

Wife speculating that Trump may name his horse as a Consul.

This needs to be a pinned post here: Apologies if I unfollow you on Mastodon. Too many social media platforms with people posting the same thing to them all. This one's going to be my SFF one (until it crashes and burns as all capitalist-owned ones do and we'll all move to Mastodon)

Oof. Late afternoon crash and burn as this week's house decoration ends. So much con stuff to do, but tonight's not the night. Shoutout to @davidbamford.bsky.social for putting up with me this evening.

A colleague sent this to me in response to Trump threatening Canada and I am losing it 😭

Me, on the Hugo Awards, in this month's Uncanny Magazine. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Given the Meta moderation scandal going on- given Bluesky is venture-capitalist owned (some pretty shady) who expect to make a profit, and are already not banning concerning people - why stay here? It's inevitable the same will eventually happen here - and there is a better safer place in Mastodon.

One of the fun bits of *cough* thinking about a SF convention you want to run is looking through a huge long list of potential Guests of Honour you'd love to have.

If there is anything that hasn't been done that needs to be done right now, it's a Chuck Tingle-curated Wholesome deck of Cards Against Humanity.

Well, the number of obviously fake followers here compared to Mastodon is, er, lots to none. This isn’t going to get better.

The chopstick holder cats are looking particularly satisfied tonight.