Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Four great B/W films: Top Hat Andrei Rublev Tokyo Story Viridiana 000
Reposted by Max LastnameBakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Our first visitor today said "My husband has some books here." Us: Great, what the name? Her: Joe Haldeman Us: Oh, not the books, we meant your husband's name. Gay Haldeman: It's Joe Haldeman. Such a lovely surprise visit! Related: we now have a few signed @joehaldeman.bsky.social titles. 481442151
Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I wrote an essay on Kim Stanley Robinson's six latest novels and how they share themes. Available on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/maxslibr...open.substack.comThe Anthropocene as ConflictExploring Kim Stanley Robinson's Orbit Six 000
Reposted by Max LastnameCanadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Only a bit >24 hours left to join CSFFA for 2026 and participate in voting for this year's Aurora Awards! After the membership deadline tomorrow you won't be able to get the voter package. If you D/L the voter package by then you keep the ebooks *forever*! Only $10 at www.csffa.ca/become-a-member/csffa.caMembership: Become a Member (2026) – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) 1510
Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Unsurprisingly all SFF writers: Guy Gavriel Kay Steven Erikson Kim Stanley Robinson Michael Moorcock Jeff VanderMeer 010
Reposted by Max LastnameSylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 03/07/2026Hi! Sorry to bug you on this lovely Friday but I could really use, say 250 000 of you buying THE MANY, by end of day if possible. It doesn't have to be one person buying a quarter million books, just... I'll let you work it out amongst yourselves. 3206
Reposted by Max LastnameUrsula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: 242010539
Reposted by Max LastnameGuy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I was asked, and offered a poem, ‘Uncaged’, to Eclogue Press a new magazine. They have it without firewall on their Substack as of yesterday, you can also check out the magazine via the link at the bottom. Enjoy. ecloguepress.substack.com/p/uncagedecloguepress.substack.comUNCAGEDA poem by Guy Gavriel Kay. 05016
Reposted by Max LastnameJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/06/2026Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...theatlantic.comNo, Artificial Intelligence Is Not ConsciousTaken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning. 31817156
Reposted by Max LastnamePaul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It's not just that he was such a great writer or the modern day equivalent of Dickens and Swift. He was very funny and probably inspired more writers than any other modern writer in England. I laughed so hard on the London metro once, people asked what I was reading. Plus genuinely a nice guy.apple.newsI Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett — The AtlanticOne of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history. 1102388545
Reposted by Max LastnameThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/05/2026Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.nyti.msSonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality. 20520202
Reposted by Max LastnameRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I need you to understand how FUCKING INSANE this story Jeremy broke is. The separatists legally obtained Alberta electoral data....and then proceeded to PUBLISH IT AS A SEARCHABLE DATABASE WITH THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF OVER HALF OF THE POPULATION OF THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA!!!!! 30707305
Reposted by Max LastnameThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/04/2026After six weeks of war with the U.S., Iran’s military may be degraded, but it is not, as Trump once asserted, on its last legs. Some analysts argue that the regime is emerging from the confrontation in a position of even greater strength. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/KO5wHB 55911
Reposted by Max LastnameKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕 231130403679
Reposted by Max LastnameDevin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Canada’s hammer throw star Camryn Rogers keeps making history. She breaks the national record and posts the second-farthest throw ever today — 81.13 Rogers just the second woman ever to throw over 81 metres. 341477165
Reposted by Max LastnameGuy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I am informed that Sailing to Sarantium is $1.99 at the usual U.S. ebook retailers, including bookshop.org, which lets buyers support indie bookstores. Easy gateway, maybe?bookshop.orgBookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores. 45312
Reposted by Max LastnameKate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 28/03/2026Good morning Montreal! Come see me at the grand opening of Indigo Marché Central today from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. 072
Reposted by Max LastnameJo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026Trace Elements, my non-fiction collection with @adapalmer.bsky.social containing some reprints, some vastly improved pieces, and some never before seen pieces, is now available from all good bookstores. So you can get it right now! I hope you like it. 13913
Reposted by Max LastnameMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/03/2026BREAKING: Robert Mueller, former FBI Director and Special Counsel who led the Russia investigation into the 2016 election, has died at 81. He had reportedly been battling Parkinson’s disease. 1672235531
Reposted by Max LastnameRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club. On the professional and personal costs of this work: 28618187
Reposted by Max LastnameBart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it). 1393817961
Reposted by Max LastnameStephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 27/02/2026HEY CANUCK SF AUTHORS! You have just 32hrs left to submit your 2025 SFF poetry & short fiction to Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Four (best of 2025). We're already at a record 450+ subs--can we get to 500!?!? DO IT!! Make me regret my life choices! Link below! We close Feb 28 11:59pm Pacific! 01210
Reposted by Max LastnameKate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 12/02/2026UK readers, reviewers, bloggers! Mercutio is now available on Netgalley UK and I am very excited and nervous to have this one out in the world. It is the book of my heart, my brain, my toes. Please request and read if you can. It'll help me hugely to get some word of mouth before UK release in May.netgalley.co.ukMercutioNetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm... 13314
Reposted by Max LastnameSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous 106204615191
Reposted by Max LastnameAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/02/2026it has been clear for months 331361364
Reposted by Max LastnameKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth. 5154719114179
Reposted by Max LastnameJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026the terror is the point 848854
Reposted by Max LastnameHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/01/2026This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico. 5845841759
Reposted by Max LastnameAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate 1044182284213
Reposted by Max LastnameKate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 13/01/2026A good summary of where we find ourselves. 0165
Reposted by Max LastnameThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/01/2026“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:bit.lyTrump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With NothingThe president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system. 39641144
Reposted by Max Lastnameevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 02/01/2026If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.govconsumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov 274116435130
Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Last time we were in NYC I nudged my wife out of the way so that paparazzi could take pictures of Chris Hemsworth 060
Reposted by Max LastnameGlobal Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 29/12/2025A growing body of research indicates that Texas's restrictive abortion bans have negatively impacted the health and lives of Texas women and babies in multiple ways. Across the board, pregnancy outcomes and complications have worsened.medicalxpress.comWhat researchers have discovered about maternal, infant health under Texas' abortion lawsIn the more than four years since the state of Texas significantly restricted access to abortion, medical researchers have been studying the health effects of that policy change. 63783563686
Reposted by Max LastnameJen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 25/12/2025Local woman wakes up, wishes Merry Christmas to everyone but especially those who tried to make the world better instead of worse and also those that just did their best to survive the continual dumpster fire, makes oatmeal. 2033621
Reposted by Max LastnameDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 23/12/2025I keep thinking about this article by @readingtheend.bsky.social and how it unpacks the weird insistence-on-token-heterosexual-romance-plot + refusal-to-take-romance-seriously in mainstream US movies/tv.readingtheend.comAnatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the EndHeated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom... 34515
Reposted by Max LastnameNnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 09/12/2025My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is She Reads’ Best Science Fiction of the Year. 😊🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🐬 1618320
Reposted by Max LastnameJanet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Geneviève Bergeron Maryse Laganière Hélène Colgan Maryse Leclair Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Lemay Barbara Daigneault Sonia Pelletier Anne-Marie Edward Michèle Richard Maud Haviernick Annie StArneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Annie Turcotte Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique 1217356
Reposted by Max LastnameStephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Because my children are Gen Alpha monsters, they want to know if I've sold 67 copies of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 this month--get it? 6-7 * makes flailing juggling motion and despairs * I'm about 20 copies shy. For Black Friday, want to help an indie publisher pull one over on his kids?a.coYear’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume ThreeYear’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three: Kotowych, Stephen: 9781738187539: Books - Amazon.ca 34620
Reposted by Max LastnameThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/11/2025Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”bit.lyThe Murky Plan That Ensures a Future WarWho will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine? 24783224
Reposted by Max LastnameNora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Use HOLIDAY25 to get 25% off of all @dundurnpress.bsky.social books! That includes my two latest books, Canada in Decline, The Social Safety Net and Corporate Control. www.dundurn.com/booksdundurn.comBooks - DundurnWith over 2,300 books in print, Dundurn Press is recognized for producing high quality, award-winning books across multiple genres. 01710
Reposted by Max LastnameKate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 05/11/2025Two signed and personalized paperbacks from me (I will ship) currently going for a song in the Pulp Literature auction, which goes until the end of November. They would make nice gifts. app.galabid.com/kpr2025/item... 0103
Reposted by Max LastnameDavid Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social 8271662709
Reposted by Max LastnameStephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 21/10/2025RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐 26936
Reposted by Max LastnameErin Wraithburn👻 @erinraeburn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs. 191402599
Reposted by Max LastnameMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944: 8383566312605
Reposted by Max LastnameChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/09/2025One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease. 24154221276
