Adrian Tchaikovsky is the science fiction writer you need to read right now And there's a good place to start

Why we need to read @aptshadow.bsky.social now!

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It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

The Germanic Sandwich 10 conference taking place at Freie Universität Berlin on 7-8 May 2026

A Germanic Sandwich 10 🤩

When? 7-8 May 2026
Where? Freie Universität Berlin (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
Registration deadline when? 26 April 2026

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Children of Time (+sequels)
A Fire Upon the Deep (+sequels)
Xenogenesis trilogy
The Expert System's Brother
Remnant Population
Murderbot series
A Memory Called Empire (+sequels)
Infomocracy series
the Hainish Cycle

Panel 1 A delivery bot on a suburban path says “You don’t always end up where you expect” Panel 2 “It’s silly but I saw myself beside an astronaut rolling across a strange new world” it says as it continues down the path. An alert reads “50m to destination” Panel 3 A had has opened the lid of the bot and taken out a paper bag. “I like to feel useful. Nobody likes a cold hamburger” Panel 4 It continues “So I give every mission my all” The alert says “mission complete” Panel 5 The sun is setting. The bot looks tired. The alert says it’s power is 3% Panel 6 Night. Stars twinkle. The bot is parked in a lot with three others, it has its eyes closed and says “in my dock I dream of space”

My latest for @newscientist.com

Photo of NASA Artemis commander Reid Wiseman peering out of the Orion’s spacecraft cabin window looking back at Earth

Make love and science, not war.

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once':

yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

In Icelandic, the word for lactose intolerance, auðginntur, translates literally to “milk racism”

In Korean, the word for cowboys, 속기 쉬운, translates literally to “American horse pirates”

* read on for more of my all-time favourite translations from around the world (a thread)…

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. We love our trans friends, don't we folks

So cool! Looking forward!

so wohnen viele unserer "Kund:innen" - nur wenn ihr wissen wollt, wie die soziale Hängematte in natura aussieht.
Wir brauchen leider Unterstützung - Computer, Geld und Mithilfe - vielen Dank im Voraus

PCs für alle
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Wer Abschiebung meint, soll auch "Abschiebung" sagen und nicht "Rückführung" oder gar "Rückkehr".
Eine Zwangsmaßnahme bleibt auch dann eine, wenn man sie durch Euphemismen schmackhaft zu machen versucht um die Gewöhnung an menschenfeindliche Politik voranzutreiben.

because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Das Korpus, nicht der Korpus"

I’ve got a new Minimalist Program: don’t hang out with human traffickers

Ich weiß ich hab noch keine Reichweite aber vieliecht könnt ihr ja mit einem #RT helfen .

Wir suchen dringend jemanden der einen autistischen Jugendlichen Geometrie Kegelvolumen Rechnung usw , erklären/bei bringen kann . Stoff Mittelschule.
Er versucht gerade zum 2ten Mal seinen Quali .
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Im Projekt C07 beschäftigen uns mit der Frage, wie Mehrsprachigkeit in Deutschland, auch im Vergleich zu […]

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Das hat mich gestern auch schon den ganzen Tag beschäftigt. Wollte noch nie zuvor einen Leser*innenbrief zu einem 4-Wort-Satz schreiben, but here we are.

Seconded!

The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle

It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com

Murderbot says, "Become Ungovernable"

What a world huh Lemon it’s still struggling to be born

21366 - so viele Stimmen waren es um 22:28 Uhr!
In den letzten 24 Stunden sind fast 10.000 Stimmen dazugekommen.
NUR NOCH 8634 Stimmen in den nächsten 9 Tagen. Dann ist es geschafft!

Ihr braucht Ablenkung vom Doomscrolling? Dann gibt es hier etwas sinnvolles, nämlich die Petition "Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen" mitzuzeichnen.

Vielen Dank!

their loss, tbh