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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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Kevin Beaumont @doublepulsar.com · 07/10/2026

Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 05/10/2026

KEEP POUNDIN

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Either the autopsy scene from Independence Day or The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come from Muppets Christmas Carol. I don't remember which I saw first, but both have stuck with me.

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jaxson, Jameis, and JJ? They're the New York Jiants.

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This was hard. I really tried to focus on games that were a root to what I like, but couldn't squeeze em all. Broad themes: exploration, story (especially emergent), moddable, and make your own fun. Except Spyro. That makes the list because it was my first real game. my9games.net/en/edit

Pick 9 games that define you.

Spyro, Mass Effect, Crusader Kings 2, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Oblivion, Halo: Combat Evolved, Rimworld, X-Com: Enemy Unknown, Homeworld

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Sometimes I wonder if it's a problem that all these sci-fi stories are having a really great time at the expense of one Ursula Le Guin short that's left to suffer in a hole.

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Hexed Electron is flinging raccoons into a haunted house @hecticelectron.com · 12/09/2026

I'm so excited to share this kazoo-based video with you that I can't wait for a better hour to do it. I cobbled this together to boost the Raccoon Sky Pirates Kickstarter, running in October! See my bio for the Kickstarter link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1I4...

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Raccoon Sky Pirates "Classic" Kickstarter Video

YouTube video by Hectic Electron

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Woke up today and remembered the Patriots are currently last in the entire NFL. It's a good morning.

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 03/09/2026

We aren’t buying a board game, we’re buying the hope that one day we’ll have the free time and friend group to play it.

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William Holland @william-holland.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is killing me lmao

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 13/07/2026

Found, at last! 🕳️ The globular star cluster Omega Centauri should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding stars, yet evidence for them is scarce. But now, Hubble has finally found the first stellar-mass black hole in this cluster 👉 esahubble.org/news/heic2610/ 🔭 🧪

Hubble image of globular star cluster Omega Centauri, which looks like a highly dense field of stars. Some appear a bit larger and brighter than others, with the majority of stars appearing blue, orange, and yellow. They are scattered mostly uniformly, like grains of sand. Toward the centre they gradually become closer, creating a more luminous area at the globular star cluster’s core. A small red square frame is near the centre. It connects to a square pullout in the top right corner, which shows the outlined area in greater detail. Among the blue- and orange-colored stars is a small blue-white dot that is highlighted by a small red circle. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Häberle (MPIA)

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A vulture equity tech bro. Ugh. If he wants a new stadium, he can fund it himself.

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Everything is just constantly getting worse 😭

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I understand SCOTUS, know who they are, & by all rational accounts it feels so naive to say: "I can't believe 4 of 9 justices said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship." And yet, I can't believe 4 of 9 justices just said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship.

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's really funny how Xbox keeps circling back to this idea. 360 degrees of entertainment. One Box for all your entertainment.

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Desert Bus for Hope 🚌 #DB2026 OCTOBER 23rd @desertbus.org · 20/06/2026

🚌💨 Broadcasting from our homes to your homes, Desert Bus Express 2026 is LIVE for the next 24 hours! Hop on board, and help us raise money for qmunity.ca. twitch.tv/desertbus

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The Internet's longest running charity marathon, fundraising in support of Child's Play Charity. Since 2007 we've raised over $12 million for the children. Watch us play the worst game ever made, for ...

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Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Date idea: we read different books vaguely near each other and don't really interact that much.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm fucking sick of hearing about it, I'm sick of it sucking up money, I'm sick of keeping up with it constantly on the marginal chance I'm wrong about it or something truly surprising happens and a genie pops out, I'm tired of it ruining my friends lives, it's just the most wearisome thing ever.

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

For the people who don't know the Seattle rail system well, this is an elevated station about 30-40 feet above the road. 😫

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Time to read a nice book before bed to relax and decompress from all the sea monsters in Subnautica. The book:

A passage from a book describing a 60 foot long catfish-like leviathan leaping out of the water and crashing onto a 6 person sailboat.

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Desert Bus for Hope 🚌 #DB2026 OCTOBER 23rd @desertbus.org · 30/05/2026

Hop into express lane!🚌💨 Desert Bus Express is back with a 24 hour marathon starting June 20th at 4pm PDT. This time we're raising money for Qmunity.ca, Vancouver based charity working to improve queer, trans, and Two-Spirit lives through services, connection, and leadership. More info soon!

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Wes Mills 🥌 @oowm.org · 13/05/2026

The number of people with laptops open to their employer’s internal source code, ticket database, and/or service information in full view of the public (along with names and email addresses) on the 2 Line is…kind of horrifying and an InfoSec red team member’s dream scenario.

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Man, the new Open Road ebook editions of Allen Steele's Coyote books are brutally bad editions of good books. Very obviously a bad OCR job that nobody proofread. Has all the OCR gems: "bum" instead of "burn", "lust" instead "just", etc. Really disappointed.

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

OK. Apparently this is content that my Bsky community wants. So here goes. Ranking the AgSecsUSA.

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Evil Jemma "Buy my books" Topaz @jemma.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

As an old-school software dev, brought up on detailed code reviews, exacting standards, and precise documentation, seeing the new world of vibecoding is completely baffling. That it also doesn't work makes it double baffling. I'm used to "stupid but it works" but "stupid and also crap" is 🤯

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hell yeah, I made the list. 😎

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

More public toilets in space than in downtown Seattle.

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Matthew Varley @varbles.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This Artemis flight will be the furthest any human has been from Earth. I wonder who won the competition to be in the furthest corner of the spacecraft at apogee. Cause you know they track that stuff for bragging rights.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2026

very specifically if you are tempted to pretend It Happened as an april fool's joke please go ahead and preemptively delete the post right now

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/03/2026

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Every time someone new discovers Chuck Tingle, an angel gets their butt pounded.

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Sarah Madsen @unfetteredmuse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Don't forget: This is out now! Looking for a rollicking space opera with Mass Effect vibes to get you through the weekend! Go grab it now!

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Jall | PLAY UNUSUAL TALES ✨ @jall.live · 19/03/2026

devs know pain when this happens to you

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 16/03/2026

The Oscars is the one night of the year when my entire timeline gets hijacked by posts about something I don't really care about and I wonder if this is how people who don't watch sports feel when they open the app to see 50 posts saying DOINK

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samantha is the spectre haunting europe 👻👻👻 @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

i keep saying it because it's true. execution aside lucas had a vision and something he was trying to say about the failure of liberalism to deal with rising fascism in the prequels which is far more cohesive than anything disney makes now with the franchise

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

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