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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Our final Nebula Award for the night is, of course, the Novel. The finalists in this category range so wonderfully across the genre. In them, you can see just how powerful and expansive our community is. Did one of these works thrill you in the past year, too? We hope so! #61stNebulas #SFWA
The Nebula Award for Novel
When We Were Real, by Daryl Gregory (Saga)
★ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) ★
Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK)
Death of the Author, by Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)
The Incandescent, by Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)
Sour Cherry, by Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire)
Wearing the Lion, by John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)
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Hemogoblin @hemogoblin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Does he even need to commit more crimes for this to happen? If they wanted to, they could just pick another old crime to investigate every time he gets out of jail and they'd never run out
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Hemogoblin @hemogoblin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Because he wants to be a pretty pretty princess
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 02/06/2026
They’ve gone mad with power if they think they can get people to turn on Dolly.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Whenever my boss wants me to do something I perform a series of dodge rolls until he loses track of me and eventually returns to his usual patrol route
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
There's the circuses. Where's the bread?
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Hemogoblin @hemogoblin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
YES
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/05/2026
"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...
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Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID? - The American Prospect
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
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Hemogoblin @hemogoblin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Your bibliography suggests it is correct
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Writers traditionally shed words in May, which can make them awkward and skittish. Don't worry, they aren't sick, don't have rabies, and probably won't bite. If you see one in the middle of it, toppled over, words spilling out of them, just put a cloth or cardboard box over their head. Do not feed!
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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Hemogoblin @hemogoblin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
That man looks like a used car salesman
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Lil Miss Sinister Fairy Godbitch of the Burrow Mump 🧚‍♂️😈🌾 @fairygodmegan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Me whenever my bestie takes me back to my enclosure
A zookeeper is holding a medium sized  albino gator. She looks like she weighs around 25-30 lbs. she has her mouth cracked and she looks stoked.
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Leon 🌟 @witchdaddy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Diabetes would be a beautiful name for an Ancient Greek philosopher
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FuzzWolf 🏳️‍🌈 @fuzzwolf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.
Centered text reads “The sky above
the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”

Below are 3 versions of the same cityscape labeled 1985, 2005, 2025 with the background changing from grey static, to solid blue, to streaming service logos.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 22/04/2026
Voyagers I & II are running critically low on power. If these Big Bang experiments are successful, NASA may be able to extend their lives by another year or two. Launched 5 Sept 1977, she's been working for 49 years across 15.7 billion miles. 🚀
livescience.com
NASA shuts off another Voyager 1 instrument as humanity's most distant spacecraft prepares for risky 'Big Bang' maneuver to save power
After nearly 50 years in space, the two Voyager spacecraft are very low on nuclear power. Voyager 1 just shut off another instrument to save the mission.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/04/2026
Disney Promises ‘Star Wars’ Fans A New Era Of Blind Stabs At What They Seemed To Like Before theonion.com/disney-promises-star-w…
Disney Promises ‘Star Wars’ Fans A New Era Of Blind Stabs At What They Seemed To Like Before
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Hemogoblin @hemogoblin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I remember this one and have subjected at least one friend to an impromptu lecture about the plot
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A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦🇪🇺 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
She may not look it, but she made the Strait of Hormuz in 12 hours.
Image of a cruise ship
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· 𝕸𝖚𝖈𝖈𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖎 · COMM RESEARCH @muccegai.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Remember the Dead A comic from some years ago inspired by my local cemetery and a particular mausoleum that has fossils in it's stones.
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Panificadora Lúcifer LTDA @lucifffer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The gift of prophecy meme

Random internet users just trying to be comedic

Vs 

Apollo about to throw a ball named the gift of prophecy
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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 15/04/2026
In order to protect our men, we’ve constructed a labyrinth and trapped Jolene inside it
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
One of these frogs is a mid-2nd millennium BC Egyptian amulet made of carnelian. The other is a strawberry-flavoured chewy sweet. Which is which? 🏛️📷Cleveland Museum of Art 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 10/04/2026
Every second, Artemis II is moving the equivalent of 35,000 Twinkies, laid end to end. About 1000 football fields with a center line of Twinkies. Every second. 🥮 🚀 🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️🏟️
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026
Maaaaaaybe but LLMs hallucinate tons of shit and if you don't have domain knowledge (which is one big reason a writer might research) then you might not know what your LLM is making up. I tend to stick to primary sources whenever possible; I have a couple of decades of experience with Googling.
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 01/04/2026
You know who is excited about tonight’s Artemis 2 launch? Commercial pilots who might get a chance to see it from the air.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/04/2026
This guy like "I've always wanted to be a marathoner, but I didn't want to run long distances. But now, with the help of this handy SUV, I'm crossing finish lines like there's no tomorrow! 😁"
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Hemogoblin @hemogoblin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I have heard that they do in fact get paid a ton of money for that job
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
We've become so used to archaeological discovery these days that some may take this for granted, but the fact that we can directly view preserved fingerprints of human individuals that lived & died ~15,000 years in the past is pretty staggering. 👇🧪
discovermagazine.com
15,000-Year-Old Clay Beads Preserve Children’s Fingerprints and Reveal Early Human Life
Learn how early humans in Israel’s Natufian period used clay ornaments to express identity, share skills, and build social connections before agriculture.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 06/03/2026
We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.
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Hemogoblin @hemogoblin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I will enjoy your pins on my wall for years to come, wishing you the best!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
After remaining silent for almost a year about the U.S. measles outbreak, NIH/CDC poseur Jay Bhattacharya is now recommending measles vaccines. And this is where he gets to see the impact of the destruction of trust in public health and vaccines, for which he is partially responsible.
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Bhattacharya urges measles vaccination as US activity increases
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 02/03/2026
"H.I.V. medications suppress the virus to undetectable levels, eliminating the chance of spreading the virus to others, so interrupting treatment may lead to an increase in new infections."
nytimes.com
States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment
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Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It is now February 27th in Japan On this day, 30 years ago, Pokémon Red & Green were released in Japan and the franchise began. Happy Birthday Pokémon! #PokemonDay #Pokemon30
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/02/2026
As the U.S. doubles down on glyphosate, a widely cited study asserting its safety has been retracted after it was discovered the paper was ghostwritten by Monsanto employees. This incident, and ghostwriting in general, harms scientific integrity, writes Naomi Oreskes. scim.ag/4rIIu4a
"… turning a blind eye to malfeasance in our ranks gives the public legitimate reason to distrust our work." Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University
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Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Serebii Update: A special celebration video has been released for Pokémon's 30th Anniversary www.serebii.net
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Welcome aboard. Please enjoy your denial. #satire
Trump's Hospital Boat Allows Denmark Citizens To Come On Board And Be Told Their Coverage Was Denied Because of Pre-Existing Conditions - pic of huge red cross ship
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Under US law if I accept a sandwich at work it goes in a permanent and publicly-accessible database because politicians claimed they wanted to prevent corruption
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RELEASE: The Trump Family Has Pocketed More Than $1.8 Billion in Cash and Gifts Since 2024 Reelection, New Live Tracker Shows
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Katie, Mistress of Education @limoniana.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 10/02/2026
Dr. Vinay Prasad, the agency’s top vaccine regulator, rejected the company’s application for approval over a concern that Moderna’s clinical trial had compared its experimental vaccine against a product the agency did not consider the best on the market. People in the comparison group received Fluarix Quadrivalent, a flu vaccine sold by GSK.CDC Influenza ACIP Recommendations Summary. INFLUENZA VACCINE SELECTION
• Available vaccines, approved ages, and dose volumes are
listed in Tables 1 and 2 (page 3).
• ACIP recommends all recipients receive seasonal influenza
vaccines only in single dose formulations that are free of
thimerosal as a preservative (Table 1, page 3).
• All persons should receive an age-appropriate vaccine, with
the exception that solid organ transplant recipients aged 18
through 64 years who are receiving immunosuppressive
medication regimens may receive HD-IIV3 or aIIV3 as
acceptable options (see Immunocompromised Persons,
page 2).
• With the exception of Adults Aged ≥65 Years, for whom
HD-IIV3, RIV3, and aIIV3 are preferred (this page), there
are no preferences for any specific vaccine when more
than one age-appropriate product is available.
• LAIV3 is not recommended in pregnancy, for persons with
some medical conditions (Table 3, page 4), or for persons
who have recently taken influenza antiviral medications
(see Vaccination and Influenza Antiviral Medications).
• The selected vaccine should be administered at the
appropriate dose volume for the recipient’s age (Table 1,
page 3). If a dose less than the necessary volume is
inadvertently administered:
o If discovered before the recipient has left the
vaccination setting, administer the remaining volume.
o If discovered after the recipient has left the vaccination
setting, administer a repeat full dose.
• Clinical settings in which vaccines are administered should be
equipped to recognize and manage acute allergic reactions.Table 1 showing Inactivated influenza vaccines including Fluarix.
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Carol Cao @carolcao.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.
electrek.co
Tesla's own Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor
Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“I want the NIH to be a central driver of the MAHA agenda,” Bhattacharya said. “Essentially, it's kind of the research arm of MAHA.” NIH is not an ideological toy or 'arm'. We must insist on its scientific independence, especially if its Director will not. 🚨 www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
dukechronicle.com
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya talks 'replication crisis' at Duke panel, omits funding cuts
Throughout the second Trump administration, the NIH has frozen billions of dollars in research funding to universities. Those cuts were not the topic of discussion at a Duke Clinical Research Institut...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In case anyone forgot, this administration had already prohibited public funding of mRNA vaccine research. Moderna was one of the single biggest private funders of mRNA vaccine research. This will set us back decades.
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