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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 2h

Yikes, that's a lot. Take care of yourself.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

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nothing they value or aspire to or revere about Masculinity™️ is the behavior of wise, mature, grounded adult men. it’s what little boys think is cool about being an adult man and they were allowed never to grow out of that

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 6h

I feel like Cameron Reed had these on an alien planet in What We Are Seeking (or something like them!).

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 8h

For the past week, I've heard a lot of people say "provincial and municipal elections happening at the same time is confusing, especially since I don't fully understand what a city is in control of." So, I did a four minute explainer piece to try and help www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqlh...

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What municipalities can and can’t do in B.C.

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7h

Been there

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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 11h

I've updated the September Table of Contents list over on Transfer Orbit. It's a rundown of a ton of SF/F stories that have been released this past month: www.andrewliptak.com/table-of-con...

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Table of Contents, September 2026

A new crop of stories to start the fall off with

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20h

As someone who used to work in a letterpress shop printing broadsides (yes! People still do this!): yes.

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 12h

Today's #DailySFFPoem: "I Can't Decide What to Feel About This Life" by Manuela Amiouny in @radonjournal.bsky.social. Written in an interesting format, which I seem to be a bit of a sucker for.

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I Can't Decide What to Feel About This Life | Issue 12

Radon Journal Issue 12 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 12h

I had enjoyed Tusks of Extinction but not so much that I thought I would be this into another book by Nayler. But he wove together the different aspects of the stories so well!

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 13h

Just finished Ray Nayler's The Mountain In the Sea and really, really enjoyed it. And look at this cover! 💙📚

Blue cover of The Mountain in the Sea. Has a stylized octopus with symbols drawn along the tentacles where suckers would be. (This is a hint about some of the content of the novel).

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 23h

Today I’ve been reading Ray Nayler’s The Mountain and the Sea, which is also fantastic.

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 29/09/2026

Also, I haven't actually finished it yet, but I feel like you should read Beautyland. The protagonist is a woman who may be an alien (or just feel like one) who was born in Philly in the late 70s. It is hitting a lot of my childhood, I expect it might be similar for you.

Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 29/09/2026

It's good but now I have that weird feeling that I get sometimes when I basically haven't gotten up all day.

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 29/09/2026

My whole day has been eaten by fiction. First, I had to finish What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed (which is GREAT) and then I started Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (which I am also loving). I have done v little but read today.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods by Louis Inglis Hall

Today's #DailyShortSFF: "The Profitable Sentience of Household Goods" by Louis Inglis Hall in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. A sentient household object tries to guide a newly 'born' object; it hopes one day to become a person.

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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have had a full day and I’m now in bed at 8pm.

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We should let people dream of something besides labor

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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I am listening to 'Choosin' Texas' for the first time. (I wasn't trying to avoid it; I like country music!; I am not looking for 'cultural cache' for not having heard of it.)

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I also expect head shops to be more hippie adjacent than neon.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

V v few of ours are low key!

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Having written a TV show built on "deep dives on one bad rich guy per week" with one version 2008-2012 and another 2021-2025, I'll say that the OG evil rich guys were evil greedy assholes, and the new rich guys are mentally disordered perverts, and so do evil. And not the good kind of perverts.

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyway, tis the season.

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 27/09/2026

Is there a reason why vape stores are always covered in neon, bright colors, and the tackiest signs?

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 26/09/2026

That was amazing! Happy birthday!

Matt Morhockey-Morbooks @drakesmitha12.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Boops and log rolls all day long.

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 26/09/2026

Today's #DailyShortSFF: Alien Boy by Fawaz Al-Matrouk in @reactorsff.bsky.social. Refugee boy trying to get used to living in Canada, seeing alien abductors in the sky. Went a different direction than I was expecting. Did well with evoking feelings.

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Alien Boy - Reactor

A refugee boy and his father are changed by the appearance of a mysterious object in the night sky.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Also, it's a period when So Much Is In Flux in the early modern period that there's a ton that you need to explain like, why does anyone care about these obscure mountain ranges (TRADE)? Why couldn't they just ship things on the sea? (Uh, we didn't even know longitude yet.)

Well, you get a second #DailySFFPoem from me today. "AITA for Killing All the Humans?" by Jenna Hanchey in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social. Right now, this one requires reaching out to the author for a review copy (which she's happy to share!). I am too online, so that title was catnip for me. :)

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Jenna Hanchey

Visit the post for more.

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The history of Russian and Iranian involvement in the Caucasus is...not simple, especially when you think about how little people outside the region know about the Caucasus.

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Even tho my PhD is in Middle Eastern history, it actually took a lot of new reading for me to pull this episode together into a coherent narrative for beginners!

I miss teaching, so I am channelling it into youtube (and podcasting). In this, I try to explain Iran's current attitudes about being pushed around by outside powers by exploring some of the long historical context for that.

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Featuring “Grandfather’s Pond” by Aeryn Rudel

I've missed a few days, but today's #DailyShortSFF: Raja by Moh Afdhaal in @flashpointsf.bsky.social. Interesting SF elements in a Sri Lankan context. Evokes feeling and tells a whole story in 1000 words, which I always find a bit impressive just on its own.

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Issue #2 2026

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As ever, if you want something to keep existing, you have to pay your share.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The queer bar story and the bad art friend story and any number of other "toxic person in a small community" stories succeed because they're inherently compelling narratives about people who transgress boundaries in ways we can recognize from our own lives. (FOR FUCK'S SAKE CONTINUED KEEP READING.)

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One of my jobs involves driving a lot and I did that for two days this week, so I have been missing the pocket friends! (I cannot check on them while I drive, for obvious reasons.)

I've also had a busy week and I'm kind of feeling like I need to do 1000000000 things tomorrow? But catching up on the internets right now and I do enjoy that. :)