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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 29/09/2026

Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby? I've got you. Win a free copy here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026. We're giving away 10 copies of a unique and philosophical sci-fi t...

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 9h

The recent discourse about mirrors and windows in reading (seeing yourself vs seeing into other lives) makes me ponder the folks I occasionally run into who assume that my main characters (or just That One) are self inserts, fantasy me in my story. (They aren't.) Why do people assume that?

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Elsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social · 10h

A week from today DEAR BLIND LADY will be out! This is your last week to preorder and get a shiny pin from Sasquatch press! Just send your receipt to Bailey at bluestarpress dot com. Also if you’re in Seattle you can join me next Tuesday night for a launch party with ASL interpretation & bingo!

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 11h

This is gravitational lensing. Where the a bunch of galaxies are so, so massive they distort the fabric of spacetime itself, and bend the light from background galaxies billions of lightyears more distant.

From the source: "A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour."

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hello we the good people of Reactor have recently launched our OFFICIAL YOUTUBE PAGE!!! Sharing interviews, book recommendations, and more! Some delicious morsels are coming up soon, so you'll want to subscribe!! www.youtube.com/@ReactorMaga...

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Reactor Magazine

Quality sci-fi/fantasy/genre book coverage + short fiction + essays + news + everything else

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, who wants to come work with us at the summit of Haleakala? Good with altitude? 20/20 (corrected is fine) vision? Some computer and astronomy experience? We are hiring folks! One position for a Laser Ranging Safety Tech: www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1...

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LASER RANGING SAFETY TECHNICIAN – ID# 226372 - Pukalani, HI 96788 - Indeed.com

Apply for the LASER RANGING SAFETY TECHNICIAN – ID# 226372 job in Pukalani, HI! Learn more about the job description, salary, and job details to see if you qualify on Indeed today.

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got an unusual ask here, if folks would be kind enough to help spread the word. If you're a bookseller/bookstore who would be interested, pls comment with your bookstore's name & location. US only, as internatl mail is insane. (But maybe my UK publisher can be talked into something similar?)

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning! Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background, like this lovely Long-Tailed Tit. Bonus points for any bokeh balls! ☺️🪶📷️ Alt: #AwkwardAvian - any bird captured in a silly, clumsy or strange position! Happy Monday everyone! 🕊️ 👋

A photograph of a long-tailed tit a small, round bird facing towards the right. The bird has a fluffy white head and chest, accented by a broad, dark black stripe that runs over the top of its head from its bill to its back. A hint of soft pink coloration tints its flanks and shoulders. Its bill is tiny and dark, and its eye is framed by a faint yellowish ring. The bird is nestled among several bare, light grey tree branches that cut diagonally across the scene the one above slightly shadowing its head. Two prominent branches cross behind and below the bird, while a softer, out-of-focus branch arches over the top left corner of the frame. The background is a soft, blurred wash of light blue, lilac and pale buff coloured bokeh, with some bokeh balls from the bright, open sky filtering sunlight through the woodland canopy.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#AICouldNever Just saw an exhibit called Divine Disruption featuring work by Tsherin Sherpa at Honolulu Museum of Art. Really remarkable work. Here's a short interview with him from 4 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDm...

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Tsherin Sherpa Artist Interview

YouTube video by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@aliettedebodard.com at art museum and thought Cyril might enjoy this

jellyfish sculpture made of glass beads and wire, small differently colored jellies hanging in front of dark blackfround

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.

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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war

With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you want to find Other Places Books (and guest author @sillysyntax.bsky.social) at the Winnipeg Queer Book Fair tomorrow (at Victoria Inn), this may help:

It's a drawing showing the locations of tables at the book fair. The tables are numbered. At the left is the entrance. At the right end of the center rows are tables 16 and 31. Those are the Other Places Books tables. We're right in front of the book nook reading area, which is at the very end.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The spread & subsequent diversification of Latin under the Roman empire is very similar to that of Mongol under the Mongolian empire. And there are no doubt other similar cases around the world (Tibetan & Arabic come to mind). One major parallel between Latin & Mongol, though, is that they both ...

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I used Nisus Writer Pro on my Mac for 20 years & a month or so ago was forced to emergency-find a new program because NWP abruptly stopped being supported (I think age of founders). Reluctantly (& solely because @cstross.bsky.social rec'd it) I downloaded LibreOffice. I am really liking it.

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This Machine Kills Hair Bands @she5los.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey, YOU! Do you want REALLY GOOD FAR-FUTURE SCIFI? Do you want ORIGAMI SPACESHIPS and HONOR DUELS and COURTLY INTRIGUE in the aftermath of a coup? Do you want a story that assumes you have a large vocabulary, but also tone-switches suddenly to be funny? Of course you do! Read Code and Codex!

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have zero interest in any list of greatest tv shows that does not include Nirvana in Fire in the top 3 so that's my sole contribution to this discourse today.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 24/09/2026

hanging out the passenger side of his best friend’s ride

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 24/09/2026

Oh, I forgot to say this novel was heavily inspired by WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS and features vampires from Hindu and Buddhist folklore--and a couple completely original ones! 🧛‍♀️

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AICouldNever This seems to be a video of a high school dance club in Japan performing. Like you do. I unreservedly love it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvEj...

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Gimme Gimme Gimme Abba THC High School Competition

YouTube video by Novum World

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

80 hours of embroidery! This aerial landscape is directly inspired by Dartmoor and I'd say I have another 30-ish hours to go? I'm now starting to fill in the fields for the sheep, the tor area will be done last as I'm still deciding whether I want a slope or not 😅 I hope you like it! #art

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view landscape. It depicts a moorland scene in a range of green shades, about 70% completed.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re-posting with typo fix and re-boosting this for the US east coast time folks, I moved to Scotland and landed in an unlivable flat, so am offering 15 drm-free books of mine as a thank you for anything you offer as a way to get into a safe living space:

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me, as I'm revising through the (strangely long) ms to make the first three quarters congruent with all the decisions I made in the second half of the (still strangely long) ms that is not yet finished: Who thought it was a good idea to write all these words?

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Book mail! I have 5 copies of FORGED IN FIYAH so 4 to give away. If you would like one and have not pre-ordered already (???) show me a receipt for a new $20+ donation to your favorite Black-owned/operated nonprofit in any sector and I'll send you one signed (at least by me) while supplies last.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 22/09/2026

Oh my god it’s funny because it’s true — take a gander at the video and then read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_...

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Dunnes Stores strike - Wikipedia

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last time I talked to a college, I had a slide that was "Here are things that helped me gain an audience that don't exist anymore" to make the point that the internet is always changing. Make your own website because you can control that

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/09/2026

I started working on this book in 2020. It is about grief as a collective project; how Americans struggle so much with things they can't fix; who is allowed to mourn and how; and where we go from here. I put my whole heart into it and I need your support to help it get to people who need to read it.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#AICouldNever evidently Borodin was also a working chemist? I believe this is a youth orchestra, which always gives me extra special joy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiex...

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Borodin – Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances Andrzej Kucybała – conductor Polonya'dan Celal hocama selam

YouTube video by Akademia Filmu i Telewizji

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This story about research by Stanford scientists suggesting our brains are two distinct organs, with different progentitor cells, is remarkable. An insight into how things we take for granted as one might come from two, or more. Lichens also a wonderful example. news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...

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Human brain is two separate organs, study finds

Scientists have viewed the brain as one organ for centuries. A Stanford Medicine-led discovery challenging that view could advance research into ALS, spinal muscular atrophy, and other neurological di...

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Revanche @revanche.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Update: with your help, I've sent the organizer the 1st shipment of food. He was able to get food and shampoo/toothbrush supplies to ten families. We've helped 52 people! Working on a second shipment for the next group of families. Anyone who wants to chip in to keep a family fed, please do ❤️

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"This is the fast I desire: to unlock the fetters of wickedness, & untie the cords of lawlessness. To let the oppressed go free; to break off every yoke. It is to share bread with the hungry, & to take the wretched poor into your home...Then shall your light burst through like the dawn." Isaiah 58

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#AICouldNever Went to a 60th birthday surprise party for one of my paddling sisters. 150 people in a party venue with a DJ, 70s theme. She had no clue. They paraded her in to this fine old song & she was draped with dozens of leis. Then we danced. It was great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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the womandalorian @thewomandalorian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if any Texas voters need help or assistance, you can tag me! i’m a poll worker in Dallas about to work my third election

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026

I have read an actually ridiculous number of the books in this thread and strongly recommend you should do the same.

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 15/09/2026

Everything is happening all at once. The paperback edition of my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS is out today! If you missed it when it came out in hardcover, nows your chance. Also, its a great way to warm up for my new novel THE FIST OF MEMORY which comes out in just one month!

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Speaking as someone who had preemie twins in the NICU for two very long weeks (some years ago! they're fine!), this is so awful I don't even have words to describe my horror at this appalling rejection of responsibility on the part of the federal government and the criminal anti-vaxxer grifters.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you."

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Welcome to Yoon Ha Lee's Hexarchate, home to epic military SciFi, Calendrical Heresy, space marines and immortal madmen! Buy the 10th anniversary edition of Book 1 - NINEFOX GAMBIT - with a new introduction from @annleckie.com ! geni.us/ninefox10th

Against a starfield, white text: "Explore The Hexarchate."

Covers for:

NINEFOX GAMBIT (10th anniversary edition)
RAVEN STRATAGEM
REVENANT GUN
HEXARCHATE STORIES

all by Yoon Ha Lee.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

WAPO is reporting that at least four more service members have died in the war in Iran than DOD is publicly acknowledging. CNN is reporting that the US almost seized a Chinese vessel because AI incorrectly identified it as containing Iranian nuclear material. Clown show.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🧊✈️ MEXICO 🌎⛓️ 😲 An Eastern 737 (tail: N668CP) departs El Paso, trafficking chained humans to Campeche 🇲🇽

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