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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's Caravaggio's birthday again, good excuse to get people to watch Derek Jarman's extravagantly marvellous CARAVAGGIO (1986) (and look at some Caravaggio paintings).

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Latest bookshop loot. (There were no unsigned copies 😏)

Book, hardcover. Two thin trees with bare branches against a white, misty background. A sticker says ‘signed copy’. THE ROUSE by China Miéville.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So Leo warns agains creating a "paradis de machines" thanks to "AI". Given his day job, I'm sure he's intimately familiar with the concept of paradise, so I can only assume it was his sermon writer who misspelled "enfer de machines". www.leparisien.fr/societe/reli...

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh look. Ran into some old acquaintances in Venice.

Part of a bookshop window with two books on display: NOTTE D’OTTOBRE by Roger Zelazny, and BLACK COUNTRY by Joel Lane.

Part of a bookshop window with two books on display: IL CORSO DEL CUORE by M. John Harrison, and VENICE AND CINEMA - THE ROOTS OF THE MYTH by Giuseppe Ghigi.

Display window and door of a small bookshop.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...

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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream

A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Name an actor/actress who was cast in the wrong film. Martin Freeman in The Hobbit. He’s supposedly the Everyman, but he’s a 21st-century Everyman in a vaguely mediaeval context.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ayone still believing the stereotypical cliché that the Japanese are bad at expressing emotions should watch the final scene of Wim Wenders’ PERFECT DAYS.

Close-up of the face of a man driving a car. He appears middle-aged, sporting a neat, greying moustache and whiskers. He wears a blue jacket and a white towel around his neck. A seatbelt crosses his right shoulder. The wrinkles around his eyes may be age-related, but are also emphasized by his clearly emotional state, as is the suggestion of tears in his eyes. Kōji Yakusho as Hirayama in PERFECT DAYS.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Four people dressed in boring office attire. Two of them are smiling as if their continued employment depends on it, one of them looks like he doesn’t care, and one of them looks like she has no clue why she’s even here, but she’s already quite sure she wants to be elsewhere in a hurry. The Macrodata Refinement group photo from Severance.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After which the writer would thank Him in tears, pull Him inside and lovingly take Him from behind, three times and at length. The subsequent 'blasphemy' trial is still the stuff of Dutch literary legend.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the house where "God Himself would drop by in the shape of a one-year-old, mouse-grey Donkey, ring the doorbell and say: ‘Gerard, that book of yours--you know I cried at some passages?’"

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Literary fixer-upper of the month. One of the Netherlands' most (in)famous post-war writers lived and worked here in the Sixties. #GerardReve #HuizeHetGras #Greonterp www.funda.nl/detail/koop/...

Wooden front door of a small, 19th-century house, with mossy roof tiles over it. A grey plaque next to the door spells "Huize Het Gras" in capitals, flanked by pictures of an hourglass and an inkwell. Part of a window is also visible.

The house from slightly farther off, with the façade largely obscured by shrubs. A green side door is partly visible. A scene clearly designed to evoke rural tranquility.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Loser gets re-hired to terminate employment of some illegal immigrants, bungles most of them, and then elopes with someone else he was supposed to axe.

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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The donkey toast run with George and farmily

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Percussionist: Sounds good to me.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And also of course: though John Tyndall published his work on the greenhouse effect only five years later, climate change is still being ignored when inconvenient, to this day.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

TIL that Eunice Foote published empirical evidence of the relationship between greater amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change in 1856. ‘Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays’ (Am. J. Sci. Arts 22, 382–383 (1856)) Of course, being a woman, no one paid attention.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Now at the “radioactive jellyfish” stage of the ongoing apocalypse. www.edf.fr/actualites-d...

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s that time again. “If you see me, weep.” www.msn.com/en-ca/weathe...

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Don't forget to read and vote for the Ignyte Awards! The deadline is August 16th, and "Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity" is nominated alongside so many excellent books and stories.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Fuck Harry Potter. Go read A Wizard of Earthsea.

Book cover. Hilly landscape. In the distance: a cloaked figure carrying a staff. A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Be a firefighter. That's a job AI is actually going to help create.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

*standing up on the plane* A screaming comes across the sky!

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: White Noise Suppression

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/

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Pluralistic: Process knowledge (08 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Our anthology AMPLITUDES is a finalist in this year’s Ignyte Awards. And yes, voting is still open!

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not particularly well-written (or copy-edited for that matter), and the phrase "this author" should be banned. But a treasure trove nonetheless. Future Noir - Paul M. Sammon #BookSky

Book cover. Monochrome film still of a man in a long trenchcoat, running through the rain across a flat rooftop covered wih rubbish and ventilation/ac units. He looks quite stressed., and is obviously not amused by what he is seeing outside of the frame. Title in bold sans-serifs. FUTURE NOIR (THE MAKING OF BLADE RUNNER) by. Paul M. Sammon.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Crusades, but not as you know them. 100% better politics, 100% more gays, and 25% off in the Smashwords July sale: www.smashwords.com/b...

The cover of The Devil in the Dust by Chaz Brenchley. The central image is of a Djinn. The frame shows headshots of characters from the series.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Kashka from Baghdad lives in sin, they say, with another man, but no one knows who.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some people walk around a large estate, going on about what may or may not have happened there last year.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m writing a gay romance about a brilliant Russian hacker and a nerdy Ukranian drone pilot. It’s called 1337ed Rivalry.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors BONUS (because demarcation criteria are a bitch) 31/30 The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes

Book cover. Drawing of a black person in silhouette against a red background, playing a piano while belting out words clearly dragged up from the bottom of his heavy heart. THE WEARY BLUES by Langston Hughes.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 30/30 The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon - Tom Spanbauer

Book cover. Rough drawing of a big shining circle, presumable the moon, in a night sky with some stars indicated by simple asterisks. The moon is surrounded by several objects/scenes, such as a two-story building with a porch and “SALOON” on the front, the head of a long-beaked bird in flight, a buffalo, a burning human skull, someone sitting at a piano with a woman leaning on top of it, hilly landscape, and most prominently: a person with long black hair bound in two strands hanging from the sides of their head, wearing Native American-style dress. Inside the moon circle, the title and author’s name. THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MOON by Tom Spanbauer.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 29/30 Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann

Book cover. A high-contrast, three-toned drawing embedded without frame in a background that matches one of the three colours, so figure and ground appear to bleed into each other. The image shows a person sitting in a lounge chair, playing the violin in front of a burning fireplace. DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Thomas Mann.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 28/30 Mystiek lichaam [Mystical Body] - Frans Kellendonk

Book cover. White background with a slender human figure painted in watercolour, standing with legs crossed, head tilted slightly forward, as if looking at the title and author’s name on the lower half of the cover. MYSTIEK LICHAAM by Frans Kellendonk.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 27/30 This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Book cover. On a plain light background, a red bird and a blue bird are pictured in the manner of a playing card: one right side up, the other upside down, only their toes touching. The pictures of their bodies are sliced into several segments that have been shifted slightly out of alignment, parallel to the direction of the cuts. The title of the book is intertwined with the pictures of the animals. THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

You’ve Talked your last Talk.

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 26/30 The Lost District and Other Stories - Joel Lane

Book cover. Top part is a drab monochrome photo of urban landscape, with blurred terraced housing in front of belching smokestacks in a late Victorian industrial area. Bottom part, also monochrome but a different tint, shows the palm of a hand in motion, and half of a bare male torso. THE LOST DISTRICT by Joel Lane.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's Pride! It's a rainbow stack! I've been posting one a week this month because I have so many wonderful queer books on my shelves to celebrate. Which of these have you read?

A stack of books on a redbud stump (bottom to top): BOYS, BEASTS, AND MEN by Sam J. Miller, CALL AND RESPONSE by Christopher Caldwell, I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED ed. Trip Galey, Robert Berg, and C.L. McCartney, NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON by Ursula Whitcher, WE'RE HERE: THE BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2021 ed. L.D. Lewis and Charles Payseur, AMPLITUDES ed. Lee Mandelo, WE'RE HERE: THE BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2023 ed. Darcie Little Badger and Charles Payseur

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

30-day lgbtq+authors challenge! One book that you’ve read per day, no particular order. #BookSky #QueerAuthors #LGBTQauthors 25/30 Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence - Andrew Hodges

Book cover. White background with red and black lettering, and below it, a photograph of an art object: a box containing several old computing-related objects, such as circuit boards, vacuum tubes, an ancient typewriter keyboard, keys from a modern computer console, an integrated circuit chip, wires, lots of switches, and a large photo cut-out of a white man in suit jacket and tie (the subject of the book, portrayed a few years before his death). ALAN TURING, THE ENIGMA OF INTELLIGENCE by Andrew Hodges.

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