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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 12h

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Byzantinist: The primary source material for that period has not survived.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump and his allies have spent most of the past decade doing the administrative equivalent of ripping bundles of wiring out of the walls. When everything's trundling along, you don't necessarily notice the missing wiring. When something goes very wrong, suddenly the damage becomes apparent.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hell yes, that gift shop ruled. I got a copy of West End's BATTLE FOR HOTH game there in 1990.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Who let Junji Ito play with the cockpit radio? Get that man back to his goddamn seat.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Malcolm was my boss for seventeen years and a very good friend for every one of those years. He scaled the heights of mainstream publishing but was always a tireless advocate for, and fan of, SFF. He was constant, gracious, very funny and a brilliant publisher. The genre owes him so much. Go well.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

God dammit... Matt Howarth was amazing, an impossibly eclectic writer/artist. I love the Post Bros, Keif Llama, Konny and Czu, as well as his illustrations for the Dune Encyclopedia and Dr. Adder. We have lost a prime weirdo much too soon. The great Malcolm Edwards, too. Come on, universe.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not to be That Guy just because I'm married to Elizabeth Bear, but your first figure is correct (the asteroid in the book is described as "ten hundred tonnes") and your second is not; even though the relevant mass is only 500,000 kilos that's not an 11-kiloton plinker, it's a multi-megaton event.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have a new novella out in the 20th Anniversary edition of Clarkesworld this month! "The Job" is about a woman with serious self-image issues who takes a contract to survey an alien ocean for corporate exploitation, wearing the body of a bioengineered whale. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

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The Job by Elizabeth Bear

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I also absolutely love the direct follow-up short story, "One for the Road." Moving to New England only made me appreciate it and the novel even more.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the things King really, really gets and often successfully expresses is that the Larry Crocketts of the world, the dealership owners and real-estate hustlers, the guys who proclaim themselves the biggest fish in small ponds, are a network of darkness mirroring and blending with greater evils.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: gosh, folks, stocks are how an impartial market gives businesses a vote of confidence DAY TRADERS: what do you mean I lost $300,000 NAZGUL INSIDE TRADING PARTNERS LLC: our modified stealing algorithms cause global market crashes nine femtoseconds faster than our competition

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't believe it's impossible that a human being might do something which merits death as a penalty. I also don't believe the bloodthirsty, unserious, immoral incompetents running this country are fit to handle the judgment or the application of that penalty.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you are invited to her gallery opening

A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Django's new book! No, not the guitarist. No, not the guy who got his head chopped off by Mace Windu. This Django! A fun progression fantasy from an astute genre chameleon.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like a major lesson of Trump is that people like him will act in bad faith or violate the law no matter what, so it's literally not possible to Trump-proof a policy except through robust removal and punishment provisions for people like Trump.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we are floating in a sea of shit.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Oh no, the bomb that I lit and rolled down a hill exploded near some people! Too bad you just can't hold bombs accountable for their actions."

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes, the swiftly discontinued "Trinitite Dreaming" Barbie, an unfortunate midjudgment from the Reagan years...

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jesus You watch a video like that and three days later the cops find a faint outline of your body glowing faintly ultraviolet in the back room of a Spencer's Gifts that closed in 2009

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It would be enough if they were merely insane creepy fascist whiners, but somehow they're also the most neurologically damaged tree-stump-fuckingly stupid humans on the face of the planet

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I admire his fanatical determination to squeeze more and more out of Tom Hardy while showing less and less of his face. But yeah, it's frustrating because the parts that are great are truly great and the parts that hold it back are just... a weirdly unnecessary series of own goals.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I watched this with friends back in the day on a VHS tape, since we were in a work meeting when it first aired. We had to pause so many times because we were howling and gasping.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love it when she discourses! "Did you know that the male Eastern Leopard Bat has a penis that resembles Richard Nixon's head?" (I am handed a note) Oh, it's not... that kind of... oh. OH.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Shall I have your ship standing by?" "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!"

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you need an emergency serotonin boost may I recommend this perennial fave, a tiny video of some of the GODZILLA MINUS ONE team watching the Academy Award nomination announcements to see if they were going to get one: youtu.be/bZXl3BxX5hQ?...

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GODZILLA MINUS ONE team reacts to their Oscars nomination

YouTube video by Concoct Inc

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Heh, that's exactly the sort of thought that used to cross my mind when I was operating a fire engine

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I say "21st century goblins" as a term of affection; my own niblings are 15, 11, 9, and 7

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you ever experience a bizarre sense of deep relief when you venture a cultural reference with one of these wide-eyed little 21st century goblins and they actually pick up what you're putting down

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Yeah, I'm a pretty successful adventurer, my friend. +1 weapons. Elven chain everywhere it counts. Followers and hirelings. I survived the Tomb of Hor-- what's that? Can I afford real pants yet?" (awkward moment of silence) "Uh... come on, man. You know I'm not made of platinum."

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

SENDER: I hope this e-mail finds you well. HOW THE E-MAIL FINDS ME:

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hell yeah, when I was five or six I just assumed it was everywhere.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ME STARING AT MICHAELANGELO'S PIETA: Another Jesus, how original. Each museum gets one cliche, hack. I'm outta here. ME STARING AT THE MASJID AL-HARAM: Oh. Repeating geometric figures again. Come on, guys. I only want attentive architects. So long.

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That can't be real, that's not a surname, that's someone who's had a drunken accident filling out a form

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.

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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business

Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026

People saying "transgender ideology" in 2026 sound like people saying "race-mixing ideology" in 1956, and their kids and grandkids will feel embarrassment at their feckless cowardice.

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