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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I got a word worth 94 points! But my overall score is a more reasonable 803. Really interesting game, thanks for sharing!

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Congratulations! And I predict you'll win another next year!

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Four great B/W films: Top Hat Andrei Rublev Tokyo Story Viridiana

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Amazing, I look forward to it, and Mercutio in a couple weeks!

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Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Our 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.

Author Joe Haldeman, holding a freshly-signed copy of THE FOREVER WAR.

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I 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...

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The Anthropocene as Conflict

Exploring Kim Stanley Robinson's Orbit Six

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I think The Prestige is my favourite Nolan movie, I can put it on anytime and it's always good

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Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association @csffa.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Only 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/

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Membership: Become a Member (2026) – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Unsurprisingly all SFF writers: Guy Gavriel Kay Steven Erikson Kim Stanley Robinson Michael Moorcock Jeff VanderMeer

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Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel.net · 03/07/2026

Hi! 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.

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I just finished this story and thoroughly enjoyed it, it was beautifully written and quite original. Congratulations on the nomination and good luck!

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I 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/uncaged

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UNCAGED

A poem by Guy Gavriel Kay.

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Absolutely, it would be interesting to also see the distribution of HRs by the top two hitters, irrespective of batting order

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/06/2026

Unsurprisingly 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...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It'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.

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I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett — The Atlantic

One of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history.

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I put a hold on it at my local library, but there are 4 people ahead of me. Which is a good thing, I'm glad it's popular! But I may lose patience and buy a copy 🤔 Just like with bacon, sometimes you just gotta have your own

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Canada suspended its gas tax recently. Two weeks later, prices were back to where they were before the tax was suspended. So much for providing relief to tax payers...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I 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!!!!!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/04/2026

After 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

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I can't get over the hubris of the head of state of a 250-year old nation threatening to annihilate one of the oldest civilizations on Earth. Not the biggest problem about the post, obviously, but still

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More 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: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Canada’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.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I 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?

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 28/03/2026

Good morning Montreal! Come see me at the grand opening of Indigo Marché Central today from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 24/03/2026

Trace 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.

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I have my copy! Looking forward to digging in over the next few weeks

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/03/2026

BREAKING: 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.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here’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:

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Bart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Now 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).

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

HEY 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!

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

When I was living in Saskatoon, we were responsible for clearing out the sidewalk in front of our house. But we weren't paid for it...

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 12/02/2026

UK 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.

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Mercutio

NetGalley 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...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026

Benito 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

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/02/2026

it has been clear for months

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I definitely want to read Navier-Stokes but lesbians!

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

53 points. 18 victoires en temps réglementaire, ça fait 36 points. 10 victoires et 7 défaites après 60 minutes, ça ferait 17 points de plus.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026

A 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.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

the terror is the point

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Max Lastname @maxt2024.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There is a man in Winnipeg who went shorts-year-round for 30 years! He must be their honorary president or something

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/01/2026

This 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.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 13/01/2026

A good summary of where we find ourselves.

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The 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:

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Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing

The president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system.

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