It's a tough competition for what member of the Bluesky staff understands the Bluesky userbase the least, but @why.bsky.team is a top contender.

Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups | British Library Fairy Tales have an older and darker past as stories for adults as well as the young. They were often sensual, bawdy, unflinchingly violent, sophisticated

This amazing online event is happening tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21st. Susanna Clarke, @amalelmohtar.com, Gregory Maguire and I will be talking about fairy tales, fairy lore, and fairy tale literature for the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Please join us!

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Congratulations to alumna Amal El-Mohtar on The River Has Roots becoming a Hugo Finalist for Best Novella!

@amalelmohtar.com

Sidebar: I love how this is actually a prog sub-genre, since my first thought on reading this description was Voyage of the Liquid Sky by Primus.

That's a twofer, naturally leading to the spin-off composition programme for horror musicals, In The Dark.

Unheimlich Maneuvers

a 80s-style jazzercize program which raised the dead

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fiction Anthology Purchasing Factors This survey is designed to help clarify how people decide on buying and reading short fiction anthologies. For the purposes of this survey, I am defining "anthology" to mean a book of multiple short...

Some indy research that I'll be sharing results of for everyone to see / use! This survey is on short fiction anthologies. You can take it even if you never read them, as there are Qs about that, too. The aim is to help anthologies shine, so please share it!
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Pleeeeeeeease?

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

Two doors - the ‘male’ entrance is wide and square like a door. The ‘woman’ entrance is a cutout of a very thin long haired woman in heels.

This cartoon by Naked Pastor is SO GOOD. Sums up what I’ve been saying for ages about what happens when you start gatekeeping womanhood (and spoiler alert it’s the opposite of feminism).

Lots of cool people doing cool things at @cymerafestival.co.uk this year.

Happy Book Birthday to our own Cameron Johnston's First Mage On The Moon! If you're in #Glasgow, get yours when First Mage On The Moon launches at Waterstones Argyle ST this Thursday. Ticket link below:

www.waterstones.com/events/rafae...

@waterstonesargyle.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Congratulations to our own Christopher Caldwell on making the Locus Top Ten Finalists for Best Collection! And alumna Amal El-Mohtar for making the finalists for Best Novella! Best of luck to all shortlistees for May's ceremony.

@locusmag.bsky.social @seraph76.bsky.social @amalelmohtar.com

Katharine Hepburn by Ernest Bachrach for Sylvia Scarlett (1935).

Oh my word, don't even...

I've started calling one Overwhelm Time and purposefully Doing A Stress.

Thread.

Scottish Labour's entire election campaign is "Miss, Miss, it's our turn on the swings now! They've been on them for AGES, Miss, it's no fair!"

Hey so my third book came out this week, but I'm recovering from major hand surgery (bone extraction) so my ability to promotion online is severely hindered.

If you all can help spread the word about my feral space opera trilogy, I'll love you forever.

MIT Just Found The Cause Of The AI Bubble YouTube video by Economics Explained

For anyone interested in the real impact of "AI" on employment, this exploration of MIT's Iceberg Index of skill overlap might be useful.

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Folks, I... We just want to get paid for what we do. Why is it so hard?

That's... actually a regular braining problem for me XD

Personally, I think Bacon may be the best evidence we have for accidental time travel. Because if I was a 17th century human who got transported to the modern day and back, I'd probably die attempting some dumb shit like this.

Michael Mayer - Mantasy 'Mantasy' Album YouTube video by KOMPAKT

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I'M TRYING.

Michael Mayer - Mantasy 'Mantasy' Album YouTube video by KOMPAKT

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#Mantasy

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I have heard at least one horror story of someone stuck in traffic limbo trying to get back from the airport.

RUDE tbh