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Laura Jenkins

@rocksinspaaace.bsky.social
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Post-doc currently tricking rocks into thinking they're on Enceladus. I also like to write speculative fiction in my spare time.

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peter haverin morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you're at Fantasycon on Friday come along to the GSFWC launch where we'll be launching a fresh batch of tablet, and selling a wee book called Haverin, chock full of stories. #GSFWC40 #HAVERIN
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brian M. Milton isn't just co-editor of our anthology #Haverin -- he's also an all-round good egg! Brian is running this weekend's Glasgow Half-Marathon in aid of the Community Renewal Trust and Caledonia Funeral Aid. You can sponsor him today at the link below: @munchkinstein.bsky.social
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Brian's Glasgow Half Marathon 2026
Brian is raising money for Community Renewal Trust & Caledonia Funeral Aid. Donate at https://givi.ng/8n4p
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Haverin TOC reveal alert! Find out what's in our 40th anniversary anthology, including tales from Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan, Hal Duncan, E.M. Faulds, Elaine Gallagher, Gary Gibson, Cameron Johnston, Neil Williamson, and more. Check out the Haverin TOC at the link below: #GSFWC40
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GSFWC 40th Anniversary Anthology
Haverin is a Scots word that means talking nonsense, babbling or chattering. Often that is how stories start, in the nonsense, the babbling, the chattering of writers inspiring each other to keep g…
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Biblically Accurate VLC Instance
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 17/09/2026
Trying to go see the new Resident Evil movie but apparently before I can enter the auditorium I have to have the spade key to unlock the door? And I only have the hearts key, which unlocks the route to the concession stand. Anyone know where to go next? A bit stuck
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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If your business requires me to create an account, verify my email, accept seventeen cookies, download an app, and solve a captcha just to buy one thing, I no longer want the thing.
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Heather Valentine @hexthervvv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Come to the launch of the anthology I'm an editor on! It's been a real labour of love from everyone involved to put together over 40 stories from members new and old of our local writers' group.
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Glasgow Haverin is nearly here! 'Mon and celebrate 40 years of the GSFWC with our book launch on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Grab yourself new stories by Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds, Neil Williamson, Eliza Chan -- and maybe some homemade tablet too! #Haverin #GSFWC40
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Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 13/09/2026
The opposite of those Helpful Disney Creatures, I guess? www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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Bears, caribou and other animals are messing with this researcher's equipment, and he's got photos to prove it | CBC Radio
Lucas Brehaut was hoping there’d be a lot of interest in his research, though it might be a case of “be careful what you wish for.” Caribou, moose, black bears, wolves, rabbits and owls have been mes...
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘You Can’t Judge a Book’.
You Can’t Judge a Book
 
you can’t judge a book
by its cover

but neither can
you cover a judge
with a book

unless the book
is a foldy-out one
with a map or something


Brian Bilston
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ghost photoshoot trend but make it book promo 💁‍♀️👻👀
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Join us in welcoming #Fantasycon back to Glasgow on 9th - 11th October! Your GSFWC pals'll be there all weekend -- after all, our 40th anniversary anthology, #Haverin, launches on the Friday! britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan... Here's where to find us: @britfantasysoc.bsky.social (1/13)
The promotional image for Fantasycon 2026 over 9th - 11th October in Glasgow. The background is designed to look like aged paper, and there is a black tentacle stretching from the top. The text indicates the schedule for Fantasycon 2026 is now available on the BFS website. The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 06/09/2026
In the beginning, the begging for treats was spaced by four hours. Then two, then one, then every half hour. The last one was 15 minutes. Soon we could be seeing begging for treats every five minutes until he's begging for treats right after he's been given treats.
Picture of a perfect little cat named Cardamon with his face in the camera
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the goose is dead. long live the goose.
goose or duck figure in full skeleton regalia.
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peter haverin morrison @remotecore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We now have a test print of Haverin that we're happy with. So we can start pushing buttons that mean you'll be able to buy a precious copy for yourself... and others! Here is author Elsie WK Donald, Elsie provides the foreword as a member of @gsfwc.bsky.social since the start. #GSFWC40 #HAVERIN
Grey haired, white, little old lady, with glasses, wearing a brown California jumper. She is grinning as she holds a copy of Haverin.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
a Mouse King. is there one under your desk??
drawing of a bunch of computer mice with their all cords tangled together
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside. Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40 @jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)
The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.The back of the cover of Haverin, continuing the green landscape dotted with various creatures, including a robot head, lion, and a pie. Text reads: Haverin, Scots, Verb: Talking in a foolish or trivial manner, speaking nonsense. Glaswegians enjoy a bit of haverin and few enjoy it more than the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle have for the last forty years, following many hard critique sessions with a bit of a haver in the pub. This anthology is a celebration of those forty years, with more than forty stories of Fantasy, Science and the Odd from members past and present. Join us on this fantastical journey, turning havers into stories and revelling in the full range of writing that has come out of the Circle since 1986.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Clip Art > Science > Failure > Cute My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.
Title:
Clip art > science > failure > cute 

Image: 
A series of science-related items (glassware, robots, fires, scientists) with smiley faces labelled this:

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graph_error.jpg
cracked_glassware.jpg
sad_at_desk.jpg
fire_medium.jpg
broken_robot.jpg 
disproved_theory.jpg
fire_huge.jpg
sad_on_floor
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 14/08/2026
This is Wednesday's solar eclipse. Photographed from lunar orbit.
Earth. In the top right foreground, the rugged lunar surface. Just above the lunar horizon is a dark splotch on Earth, situated around Greenland. That's the Moon's shadow—or a solar eclipse, when viewed from the centre of that shadow on Earth.
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A new video emerged which seems to show a surface rupture in Yatsushiro, Japan following the M6.8 earthquake in July! Exact location of the video would be 32°30'04.0"N 130°38'29.9"E. Absolutely wild. Only the second ever video of a surface rupture forming after the 2025 Myanmar video! ⚒️🧪 #geology
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 12/08/2026
🚨Getting ready to view the total solar eclipse? ⚠️Never look directly at the sun! 👇Please take care of your eyes and follow these important safety rules
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Raven Stromdans @ravenstromdans.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Learned a new word today, for once one that I actively went looking for - 'psithurism' - a term for the sound of foliage moving in the wind. ...frustratingly, I don't know if I should *use* this word knowing I had to go looking for it to know it even existed.
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The inner moons of Neptune look like they were turned inside out, with deep-interior minerals spattered across their surfaces. Probably these moons are the shattered remains of earlier satellites that were shredded when a Pluto-like object came barreling in. 🧪🔭 www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...
Neptune's satellite Proteus, seen in a colorized image from Voyager 2. JWST/ Near-Infrared Camera (NIRSpec) images of Neptune's moon Larissa and rings, acquired on two dates when Larissa was on opposite sides of Neptune. The bright spots are Larissa and the bright rings can be seen clearly. Neptune itself is positioned at the center and the calculated positions of Neptune's rings are overlaid in gray.
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ka92 @ka92.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Easily the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard.
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Caesar McMagic @caesarmcmagic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Security alert: YouTube added a feature that now puts your username in shared links, so if you share a YouTube link on here, everyone who clicks it will know your YouTube username. To turn it off, go to Settings - Privacy and turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"
YouTube settings screenshot showing the mentioned setting
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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I'm hecking pleased announce that my new weird horror collection Hand-Me-Downs is available to pre-order right now! You can read all about it in the PS Publishing newsletter right now: preview.mailerlite.com/v5g0e1m4q5
Mock up of the book Hand-Me-Downs. A hardback and paperback version of the book, both displaying a stained-glass style imagine of two hands transferring a silver key between them.
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
From the full story linked in comments: "The beavers have also allowed the city to scrap expensive plans to dig a reservoir and levee. 'We said the beavers can do it for a fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably,' McCormack says."
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
These Broken Little Worlds (NewCon Press) is the fabulous new collection from our own E.M. Faulds, due out 29/05. Featuring the BSFA award-winning 'Godzilla As A Young Man Named Mike', you can pre-order yours now from the link below: www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as... @bethkesh.bsky.social
Cover is blue with a woman's face emerging from smoke, swirls and stars. Text reads: Polestars 13, These Broken Little Words, E.M. Faulds.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 06/05/2026
Anyway, my new band is called Unkillable Fung
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 06/05/2026
Managed to accidentally bring along my rainbow Mimas. Ah well, a Mimas full of pride usually comes in handy
A rainbow 3D-printed shape model of Mimas on a desk
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
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bean @cryptidbean.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
guys what do you do when a cat bites you and infects you with cat :(
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Matty @zagrebista.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Your Friday morning needs the bit with the chicken-as-speedboat-figurehead, trust me
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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 29/04/2026
Feels great to be able to say pre-orders are open for my second collection. Yes it does feature the Godzilla one! Pre-orders are fiery, fiery love. Oh and feel free to AMA. 😁 www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
Cover of  "These Broken Little Worlds" by E.M. Faulds, featuring a monochrome image of a woman's face in profile with blue cracks and traceries overlaid. It is the 13th collection from NewCon Press' Polestars series featuring stories from women writers of spec fic in the UK, text and icon of this on the top right of the cover.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 20/04/2026
Oh my. Earthset, from the Artemis II Crew. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
My mom - a geologist - gets out the embroidery that I made her every spring. Because trilobites wearing a crown of flowers are a harbinger of springtime. #Embroidery
My mom holding an embroidery of a trilobite wearing a crown of flowers.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/04/2026
Oh my god indeed
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies
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Cameron Johnston @cameronjohnston.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Happy Launch Day to me! First Mage On The Moon is out today.
First Mage On The Moon by Cameron Johnston. Against a twilight blue background, a rusty magical rocketship readies for launch, with engineering diagrams off to the side.
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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 10/04/2026
Thrilled to say I've a short story coming out in 2026! "To Stave Off the Void" should be due out this summer in the "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" anthology. It was a lot of fun to write! 🫖☕🌟⚫ Follow Air and Nothingness Press for more details: @aanpress.bsky.social
Cover image for Air and Nothingness Press anthology, "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity". It features the silhouette of an astronaut walking away, surrounded by the anthology title lettering with multiple layers of colours, and sprinklings of starry lights.
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Mike @empiricgame.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Steal her look
Red and white striped dressBlack collendat
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