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Scott Steensma

@scottsteensma.bsky.social
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Librarian, writer, son of a cat-fancier. Published in Analog, Aurealis, ASM, Etherea, The Australian, The Age and elsewhere. Shortlisted for the Aurealis 2022 and 2025 science fiction short story awards. You can find me at stainlesssteelcat.com

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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very cool! I work for a library in Melbourne and we are wondering if you have plans to visit Victoria next year - we run a writers festival in March amd we would love to host you!
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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
MASSIF is out in the US/Canada and Australia, and will be out in the UK next week. Buying links here: www.garthnix.com/books/adult-... And check out the amazing endpapers in the US hardcover!
A US edition of MASSIF set on top of an open copy that shows the endpapers, purple and violet space scene with a Massif floating in front of a couple of planets/moons.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Aussie spec-fic friends, please have a look here and add your signature if you agree. Thanks! www.facebook.com/alanbaxterau...
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If you're not on Meta (understandable) the letter is also on my website. Email me or message here to add your name. Thanks!
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An Open Letter from members of the speculative fiction community to The Queensland Writer's Centre regarding the recently announced Aurealis Awards - Alan Baxter
Below is an open letter to the Queensland Writers Centre in response to their recently announced changes to the Aurealis Awards. We have collected a handful of signatories already and invite anyone wh...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 04/07/2026
This is Mariner. He was born completely deaf, which means he gets to enjoy fireworks with all the sparkle and none of the boom. 13/10 (IG: real_marinertheseapuppy)
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Peacock spiders are only 4mm long, but their courtship dance rivals any bird of paradise. Australia has over 90 species of these tiny, ultra-colorful performers.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I'm gonna be a fan of this anti-Prime promo every time Bookshop runs it! Each time, I've managed to get a few more of my #solarpunk books over on Bookshop (as well as secret #romantasy penname) Check out my shop with lists of hopeful climate fiction & non-fiction! bookshop.org/shop/BrightG...
Anti-prime day
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Support bookstores, not billionaires
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
File this under: The Horrors of Modern Life. #subscriptions #horror
Copy of a tweet noting that at a funeral, yourube ads played 8 times during the music as the church was too cheap to buy YouTube premium.
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Every night, my cat retires to his couch tent, where his loyal servants have placed a freshly-warmed heat pack. He is basically the pharoah of my apartment. #catsofbluesky #cats
Tabby Cat in a den made from a towel and a blanket on a couch.
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It's all in a day's work in Matt Hornsby's fun new story “A Life in the Day: with Chris Wheeler, CEO of Tricentennial. kaleidotrope.net/spring-2026/...
I am born, like every day, at around 5 AM, and I claw my way screaming and choking through amniotic soup, scraping wildly with my puny arms at the membrane, until my assistant Eva cracks the egg and pulls me out. Eva is a godsend. I don’t know what I’d do without her.
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Satrapi is up there with Art Spiegelman as an artist who broadened the scope of what comics can do and who they can reach. What a loss.
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood @joncg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Oh, bloody hell. Far too young. And it was such a intelligent, influential, and painfully honest book.
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French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died, her family said  Thursday. She was 56.
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'm a republican, but I would happily pledge allegiance to this Queen. #monarchy #queen #music
Picture of a postage stamp of the British Queen  with Freddy mercury's face.
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Well done! And the trophies are so cool this year!
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I saw a socials post with a list earlier, but it has disappeared into the internet ether. I don't think an official list has been posted yet.
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
You're going to need an extension on your house to store your awards at this rate :)
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Very Serious Business of brushing my cat's teeth. #catsofbluesky #cats #dental
Man sitting on wooden floor with a finger toothbrush on his hand. He and a tabby cat are staring at the brush intently.
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Big congrats to all the 2026 Ditmar winners, including @trnapper.bsky.social and @pamelajeffs.bsky.social along with double winners @kaaronwarren.bsky.social and @tanaudel.bsky.social - bloody well done and well-deserved! #ditmars #writing #awards
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This would spark a riot in New Zealand. Seen at a Melbourne market. $7.24 nzd, a piece. #feijoa #fruit #nz #scandal #australia
Box of green feijoas advertised at 4.99 aud each
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Seems pertinent.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/05/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.
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T R Napper @trnapper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
My Top Five Favourite Subgenres 1) Cyberpunk 2) Grimdark Fantasy 3) Hardboiled Crime 4) Students booing boomers who praise AI during commencement speeches 5) Time Travel
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I'm looking forward to seeing more works in number four. It's a subgenre with real promise.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.
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WYRD_SIGNAL @wyrdsignalpodcast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
NEW EPISODE ALERT! We're doing A Scanner Darkly (2006 but talking extensively about the 1977, too) soundcloud.com/wyrdsignalpo...
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episode - 042_A_SCANNER_DARKLY - Linklater (2006)
Lucy and Sean RETVRN to the airwaves and to the year 1994 of 1977/2006 by way of the interminable, kaleidoscopic present to talk about Richard Linklater's (literally) dizzying digitally rotoscoped ada
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
...you know, if I'd realised this would be my most popular ever skeet, I'd have put on a book link or something. "While you allot 20% of your attention to getting through the pointless guff in the video you don't want to watch, why not read a gay historical romance?"
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thanks Samantha!
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thanks Celia! And thanks again for your edits on the piece - they made it a better story!
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I got long listed for the Peter Carey short story award! As a huge fan of his work I'm beyond stoked :) www.moorabool.vic.gov.au/Services-and... #writing #scifi #shortstories
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Peter Carey Short Story Awards 2026
The Peter Carey Short Story Award returns for 2026, opening for entries on February 2 and closing on March 12. The award is for short stories between 2000 - 3000 words, and is open to all Australian r...
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Thanks Emmi!
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We can’t afford to take any chances. It’s time to sink the hantavirus ship, and all other cruise ships. No survivors.
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օttr @fangfluff.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
reference.mp4
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Starting to think this guy might be some kind of huge moron 🤔
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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Congratulations to this year's nominees for the #DitmarAward those who are on @Bluesky include @kaburgess1.bsky.social @scottsteensma.bsky.social @emmikhor.bsky.social @adamrichard.com.au @roannelau.bsky.social are Bluesky users #AustralasianSFF #MeanjinIn2028 #BrisbaneIn2028
Ditmar in purple against a black background with purple planets.
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Malachi Ward @malachiward.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The Blue Cat, a one page comic from one year ago
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/04/2026
Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“I enjoy watching the TV show The Pitt” - this is what all you The Pitt fans sound like 🙄
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Nelson 19:84. A great verse.
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Nelson 19:84. I often quote it myself.
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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Over the moon to be included on the Ditmar noms list alongside these excellent names! I’m up for cover art for Rebels & Rainbows for Best Artwork and “A Shortcut via the New Tunnel, M-ate” in Never Say Die for Best Short Story. Congratulations all, stellar list! 🤩 📚 🎨
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Well done! It's an honour to share that list with you!
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Fionn MacPherson @fionnmacpherson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Feels completely unreal to be posting this, but I’ve been nominated for a Ditmar for Best New Talent! The start of this year has truly been a whirlwind, and I feel so excited and humbled that people have been so supportive of me and my weird little stories. Thank you everyone who nominated me!
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Reddit post from the subreddit "r/cats" titled "how to take the perfect photo of your cat."  [person holding a phone with a piece of salami covering the top of it while the cat looks intensely at it]
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
My stoked-ness has exceeded safe levels - I'm up for a Ditmar Award! I'm in the best new talent category, sharing a list with some wonderful writers. Thankyou for your nominations - being shortlisted is a huge honour. Voting is at the link :) #ditmars #awards #writing #scifi shorturl.at/vNTsg
form.jotform.com
2026 Ditmar Awards
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
To whoever thought it was fun to smash beer bottles on the path to the beach, fuck you.
My dog with his front paw bandaged up.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Artemis II has successfully landed on the Planet of the Apes
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Internet was a beautiful thing for a while. It is now exclusively for people who are mentally ill. One might think that would make it a niche product, but it remains mainstream by making more and more people mentally ill.
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Scott Steensma @scottsteensma.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Who doesn't love a good rant! Im looking forward to reading it tonight :)
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