A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Earth appearing as a bright crescent behind the Moon’s surface

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.” “For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other.”

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb

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A corbel showing a carving of a hound and hare circa 1140 from the Church of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck.

I always smile when I remember this 900 year old Sam & Max fanart, carved into some old twelfth century church in england

thing: exists
me: hmmm not sure how I feel about that
thing: exists and also woman
me: this is my new favorite thing

I’m so sorry. I know it hurts so much to say goodbye 💜

i luv napping & sleeping & laying in my bed

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

servant of imperial messaging upset by anti-imperial messaging, more at 11

making robots that look like people is almost always a choice to sacrifice efficient form for the feeling of owning a person

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

"They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation." - Ghorman senator Dasi Oran, to Mon Mothma as the Empire baselessly justifies another atrocity.

Dress for the gender you want, not for the gender you have

We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...

The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.

"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.

Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.

me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself
me to me: wtf is wrong with you

You didn’t hear this from us, but the Old English word 'sibb' meant “related by blood.”

This is where we get the 'sibling.'

And 'godsibb' essentially meant “godparent.”

Over time, it came to mean "close friend."

Now it is something we share w/ close friends...

'gossip.'

i think it's worth it to read Lovecraft, and not just because so much horror canon comes from him. his work embodies an extremely specific kind of modern american derangement syndrome, whereby someone can tell Something Is Wrong, but they aim their fear in the wrong direction, i.e. at minorities.

I know inflation is bad but if this pricing is accurate and we can find thirty or forty more, we can take care of this nonsense the old school way

This is how you blurb

tolkien: man I'm sure glad my book about how much industrialization sucks has found its intended audience, dudes who build war machines and want to kill the night sky

With great pride and pleasure I offer you this fiercely optimistic tale, informed by how bad everything sucks right now, beautifully read by christianaellis.bsky.social.

Narrative Designer Job Opening: Narrative Designer at CCP Games in Reykjavík.

Hey narrative folks my team is looking for a narrative designer to come work with me in Iceland! If you have solid storytelling fundamentals, some technical experience, and live ops or adjacent experience, we are looking for someone like you!

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GREY GARDENS in space:

A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station.

He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience.

#DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

Mood board of my upcoming Space Opera We Sang Down the Empire. It features ephemeral and evocative art of artist Joshua Mays to convey the spritual element of the martial art of sound that is at the heart of the book. There are women of color in space age futuristic background and magic practices.

Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #SpaceOpera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE.

Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.

Important to understand that many lies are not meant to be convincing. When a schoolyard bully steals your lunch money, he says "that's mine." The absurdity is the point. It's an assertion of dominance. It is to say "reality is whatever I say it is. You disagree? What are you gonna do about it?"

Home libraries are more than books.
When children pass a wall of books and see parents reading, it has the unspoken effect of showing how much knowledge there is to know and how much they don't know.

I recall looking through my mom's books wondering what they were all about and created a curiosity.