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A Dream Given Form @adreamgivenform.bsky.social · 7h

Ahead of the launch of our 100th episode this Wednesday, check out the latest video on our #youtube channel, where hosts @bazgreenland.bsky.social & @lukewinch.bsky.social talk to the man inside Kosh's encounter suit, Jeffrey Willerth! #Babylon5 youtu.be/wKxQiQpaMbE?...

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Jeffrey Willerth on becoming Kosh

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Spy Fi @spy-fi.bsky.social · 5h

Happy “Bond, James Bond” Day marking the premiere of DR. NO on this day in 1962. #JamesBond

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974

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Bjorn Munson @bjornmunson.bsky.social · 20h

Banned Books Week 2026 Once again, it's Banned Books Week, an annual, nationwide celebration of the freedom to read that I've posted about since 2018. Whether you need an excuse to crack open a book, want to add a title that's not in your usual reading mix, or just want to stick it to The Man, I…

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Banned Books Week 2026

Once again, it's Banned Books Week, an annual, nationwide celebration of the freedom to read that I've posted about since 2018. Whether you need an excuse to crack open a book, want to add a title that's not in your usual reading mix, or just want to stick it to The Man, I highly recommend web-strolling over to the…

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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Peter Wolchak interviewed us about Matt Jefferies, who is our hero, and the man who designed the Enterprise and its bridge for the original Star Trek. Our interview is up on CollectingTrek. collectingtrek.ca/2026/10/02/j...

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Matt Jefferies made Star Trek look believable

Michael and Denise Okuda reflect on a humble visionary.

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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quatermass and the Pit (Quatermass, # 3) by Roy Ward Baker & Nigel Kneale A dreadful menace lurks beneath Hobbs Lane. With Professor Bernard Quatermass's help, London will soon be exposed to it. jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/five-...

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Five Million Years to Earth

Roy Ward Baker and Nigel Kneale’s 1967 Quatermass and the Pit is the Hammer Films’ film adaptation of the 1958 BBC television serial of the same name. Swinging London faces its greatest threat: public...

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't believe WWIII is just going to be the Germans again.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026

Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THE PORT AUTHORITY OF EARTH AND LUNA WISHES YOU A PLEASANT AND PRODUCTIVE DAY BUT IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING BECAUSE SAFETY IS EVERYONE'S BUSINESS AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: "WE BRING THE GALAXY TO YOUR FRONT DOOR!"®

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Terroresin82 @taliesin82.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you see this post a not quite Star Trek

Walter Koenig and Bruce Boxleitner in Babylon 5

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Spy Fi @spy-fi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

Gary Lockwood, Majel Barrett, and Leonard Nimoy. THE LIEUTENANT “In the Highest Tradition” (1964).

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Marc Hertel 🇩🇪🖖🇪🇺 Pro-🇺🇦📝🐉 @sharkster1701.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

Black and white screenshot from The Man From U.N.C.L.E., early sixties. In what looks like a hotel room or maybe a gallery (given the paintings on the wall and the statue bust, but there's also a couch in the background), a young man in a suit hands over a suitcase to a rather Russian-coded villain (fur coat) who is pointing a gun at the presumably American man.
Nothing special here, except the suited man is played by William Shatner and the "Russian" by Leonard Nimoy, a couple of years prior to Star Trek.

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Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I used to think it was dumb that every corporation in horror fiction tried to build the 'ultimate predator' or organism, as though that were a viable business model. All those engineered monsters are just going to destroy everything! Today, I get it. It's the most realistic part of those stories.

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Peter Curufea @curufea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remastered System Shock 2 is now free on Epic Games this week. Highly recommend.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I guess he missed Hegseth’s speech at Quantico this week.

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Charles Hildebrandt @cghildebrandt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up? Well, obviously...

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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026

The entire Fallout franchise is a scathing critique of social conservatism and its unavoidable love affair with fascism, to the point that it's a great litmus test for media literacy

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Jon F. Zeigler @jfzeigler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bunch of new followers from a “space opera” starter pack, so here’s a moment of self-promotion. My most recent book was “Architect of Worlds,” a set of guidelines for scientifically plausible worldbuilding. Available from Ad Astra Games - here’s a link to the PDF, print edition also available.

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Architect of Worlds (PDF) — Ad Astra Games — Ad Astra Games

The definitive book for worldbuilding for hard SF writers and game masters in the genre of interstellar fiction! Updated to the most current understanding of planetary formation and exoplanet data!

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Updated the list of labour unions in science fiction. Always looking for more examples to include on the list. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to make this list more user friendly? Google Sheets version: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... HTML version: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga...

Poster for 2005 movie War of the Worlds. Features Tom Cruise holding a kid.

Land's End by Peter Francis Browne. Features the tagling "Terrifying vision of the vuture so real it will chill you to the bone."

Raymond Williams novel "The Volunteers." There's a newspaper depicted on the cover with the headline "Government Minister Gunned Down."

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Charles Hildebrandt @cghildebrandt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What’s a poster you had in your room growing up? Well, obviously...

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Mike Diver @mikediver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Come and listen to people talk about how they made very different Alien games at very different times of game development. Did license holders 'get' video games in the 90s? What had changed by the 2010s? Enjoy a tasty cocktail with the cost of entry, and play select Alien games. luma.com/p4pjgibd

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Aliens: The Video Games: In Conversation · Luma

Join author Mike Diver in conversation with Steve Collett (Alien 3, 1993) and Howard Rayner (Alien: Isolation, 2014), for an insightful chat about making Alien…

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a good introduction to why the AI executives sound like they do. I should probably read Becker's book again. I didn't know all the names the first time through.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a fantastic essay using @milhistlee.bsky.social's book on The Cutting Off Way (of war) in Native North America to think about how warfare is changing today. I think you can actually push the analogy even further though, toward overall strategic aims.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At the bottom of this lovely interview with the Okudas about Matt Jefferies is this splendid video where Michael, Denise and Doug Drexler chat with the man himself about his work, c. ~1995.

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We Chat Enterprise With Matt Jefferies

Back when we were on Deep Space Nine, Mike, Denise, and I took a drive out to our hero's hangar at the Santa Paula Airport. Our hero being the one and only Matt Jefferies, art director extraordinaire,...

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Molotov Cockatiel Games (Bill) @molotovcockatiel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you have interest in making pixel art for fun or games, the leading program for that is on sale right now for 40% off ($11.99 in the US) and you support a great indie dev company. I recommend buying directly from their website because that way you get Mac/Win/Linux installers plus the Steam key.

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friends, I totally know better than to do this, but the HARD start to my year is culminating this week with a voice-ending head cold when I had the extra Design Labs to teach and a workshop on Saturday ... Soooo has anyone both read this yet and have positive thoughts?

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Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators

Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators is a complete introductory guide for designing analog games and interactive choice‑based historical texts for history classes...

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🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃 @agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey did not dominate the box office as I hoped.

Lego ancient Greece. As seen on Flickr. The build is by Lasse and Anne Mette Vestergård.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No one rocks leopard 🐆 print quite like Bacchus and a few years ago while at the RISD museum I got to see my favorite late antique Bacchus mosaic up close (photo is my own, from a villa at Daphne near Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey) now at RISD, 325-330 CE).

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Economic prosperity in the city of Antioch, a vital agricultural and commercial center at the crossroads of the Roman Empire, created an expansive middle-class population with a taste for luxury and beauty.
Villas in this region were often opulently decorated with stunning wall frescos and floor mosaics, like this medallion of the wine god Bacchus (the Greek Dionysos). While today this mosaic is displayed on the Museum's wall, it was originally located in the entrance hall of a Roman villa, as part of a much larger floor pavement that also included the mosaic to the right. As guests walked across the floor mosaic, these images of the wine god Bacchus and his thiasus, or followers, would have created an atmosphere of wine-drinking revelry and merriment, inviting them to enjoy the pleasures of life.

Roman, from a villa at Daphne near Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey)
BACCHUS, 325-330 CE

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you missed the live stream @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com invited me to crash Liberal Currents' live stream with @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and @gawattia.bsky.social discussing the impact of drone based 'raiding' on shifting security and strategic policy. Give it a listen!

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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[tone·milazzo] @tonemilazzo.com · 01/10/2026

The Breakfast in the Ruins podcast is covering The Prisoner and its tie in novels. The classic spyfi BBC series that inspired Sunny Days and Rain, the second ESPionage adventure www.youtube.com/watch?v=XphM...

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The Prisoner - Part One

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Armchair Dragoons @armchairdragoons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Back with the next monthly installment of our retrospective! #TBT — Classic Car Wars Revisited - Part 2: Truck Stop: A Car Wars (First Edition) Supplement "It seemed only right, given the fact that tanker trucks were a lynchpin of the Mad Max universe" wp.me/pae4WL-fvr

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

did end-of-quarter royalty payments this morning, and I'm proud to confirm that our bestseller City of Six Moons has surpassed over 6,000 copies sold. I decided to mark the occasion with a little data crunching - here's a look at the top 15 games from a small POD publisher.

Top 15 titles, correlated with player count and duration. City of Six Moons (1200 min, solo), Table Battles (20 min, 2P), Agricola (60 min, solo), Wars of Marcus Aurelius (90 min, solo, OOP), Charlemagne (180 min, solo), An Infamous Traffic (60 min, multi, OOP), Supply Lines of American Revolution (180 min, 2P), Field of the Cloth of Gold (30 min, 2P), Stilicho (90 min, solo), Horse & Musket (60 min, 2P), NATO Air Commander (90 min, solo), This Guilty Land (60 min, 2P), Meltwater (60 min, 2P), Nicaea (90 min, multi)

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IGN @ign.com · 01/10/2026

ICYMI: Warner Bros. has officially set a June 1, 2029 release date for Game of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest, with Owen Harris attached to direct. bit.ly/4hizi3C

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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From Sinners Bread Pudding to absurd hot dogs, these are the best things to eat at Halloween Horror Nights 2026.

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The 5 Best Foods at Halloween Horror Nights 2026

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IGN @ign.com · 01/10/2026

Check out what's new in the just-released free Ali Al Muntar expansion for WW1 Gallipoli, the popular large-scale multiplayer first-person shooter set during the first Great War, with the launch trailer:

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