A screen grab of the sound waves of our voices in GarageBand reflecting myriad snips and a time stamp of 30:06.000.
Ended the night editing another 15 minutes of raw audio from my recent breakfast with @effjayem.bsky.social discussing their new book Considering The Female Man. I hope you'll take a seat at the table Friday to eavesdrop on us during the next episode of Eating the Fantastic! pod.link/1083737796
Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats • The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.
Absolutely kickass story by C.Z. Tacks up in lightspeed today. a rad as hell cyberpunk story about sex work that is, in case I didn't make it clear enough, fucking rips. you want to read this story. you WILL read this story.
It's almost time to announce the 2026 Hugo Award Finalists!
Stay tuned to @laworldcon.bsky.social's feed to find out the works being honoured by this year's Worldcon members!
#HugoAwards thehugoawards.bsky.social
They aren't the same things.
THEY'RE ALSO GOING AFTER SOCIAL SECURITY:
REPUBLICANS and the billionaires are cooking up a NEW WAY TO CUT SOCIAL SECURITY
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
There is billions in confirmed fraud within the Department of Defense, yet Trump and Vought are going after health care, childcare, and nutrition assistance.
As Congress puts together the 2027 budget, we must fight back.
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
Today the Prime Minister will assure Parliament that there was no window, or if there was a window it did not break, and if it broke it was not from a ball, and if there was a ball there was no kick.
He will add that he is "furious" about the window that broke from a ball that was kicked. (By him.)
A sermon I was accidentally trapped in (it was a nephew by marriages Christening) very clearly knew this. "Jews believe in rules, Christians believe in love".
I see people attributing the murder of Cerina Fairfax to "mental health struggles" and I attribute it to domestic abuse.
Enter the Quantum Universe Book covers for THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN THE QUANTUM GARDEN THE QUANTUM WAR FLIGHT FROM THE AGES THE HOUSE OF STYX THE HOUSE OF SAINTS POLLEN FROM A FUTURE HARVEST White text: * website exclusive. Ends 20th April 2026 at 23:59 BST. Titles available may vary by region of origin.
To celebrate the reveal of the 5th book in @derekkunsken.bsky.social 's QUANTUM EVOLUTION SERIES - THE QUANTUM DAWN, releasing October 2026 - we've made all of Derek's books in the Quantum Universe 0.99 for a limited time only!
Website exclusive https://geni.us/Solarissale
My thought.
Can he still read?
'keir starmer isn't murdering enough cripples. that is his real problem.' - @rentouljohn.bsky.social
this man considers himself a 'centrist' btw. they're all like this. they don't care if killing a few thousand ppl is moral or not they just care about the neoliberal markets and 'the books'
vogons
Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
swancon50.sf.org.au is soon!. One of committee members is Cat Sparks. From New South Wales, Cat was manager & editor of Agog! Press, publisher of Australian sf anthologies, and later editor of Cosmos Magazine. Cat is a writer & artist, awarded the Ditmar and the Aurealis for her work. catsparks.net
I am! Will DM now.
I am travelling to AU/NZ with 33 books on my e-reader, a mix of non fiction and fiction.
I am running a Sweepstake on 'How many books will Farah read during GUFF?" All proceeds to GUFF.
If you want to play, go here: forms.gle/KvTUTuwnFVJS...
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, when I was transitioning, Stonewall cared more about access to power and money than about queer people. By appointing a transphobic washed-up Labour politician as Chair they have signalled a return to that position.
Also the translation. That's just not how translation works. But I did like the alien crochet.
I mean personally I might have written "Incels travel abroad to prey on poor women," but to each their own.
It's somehow been six years since the murder of Lyra McKee. She'd be in her mid-30s now--which seems impossibly old--and lapping the journalism field. newyorker.com/news/postscript/the-incredible-life-and-tragic-death-of-lyra-mckee
Tiny koala at St. Pauli pier in Hamburg
The tiny @brisbanein28.bsky.social koala is enjoying the sunshine and the view at St. Pauli pier in Hamburg. #TinyKoalaAdventures #Hamburg #Brisbane2028
Did you give one of the #TinyKoalas a home this year? Post a picture, #TinyKoalas #TinyKoalaAdventures #Brisbane2028
Image of four different 3D-printed tiny koala bears, one in blue/green colourshift, one in pink, one in grey, and one in sparkly purple.
Good evening #WoTSkies at JordanCon,
Have you found your TINY KOALA yet? Share your photo!
#JordanCon2026
#swag-and-seek
@jordanconinc.bsky.social
Congratulations to all listed by Violet Lichen Books on the shortlist for ECO25: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction! It includes New Zealanders Octavia Cade and E. M. Linden.
@octavia-cade.bsky.social @emlinden.bsky.social
Enjoy the Cover Reveal! violetlichen.com/2026/04/10/e...
#Brisbane2028
Have you bought your ticket yet for the Frances Hardinge Symposium? July 11th London.
Tickets from £15 to £50 with a £6 ticket for the papers after the conference.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1878683245...
hulk speak for many
