plato in front of the cave wall: chat is this real

And congratulations to Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz, and Roseanne Liang for the nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for Murderbot TV episodes “All Systems Red” and “The Perimeter”!!! Congrats to the whole Murderbot team!

you're telling me this math is poly

won!

Massive shout-out here to everyone else unwillingly walking the "chronic problem--obvious solutions--yoga!" conversational treadmill.

If you are the person recommending yoga, from the bottom of my heart, please stop it. Just stop.

Starweb.

The Queersar Not An Award 2021 For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2021

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists.

Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s.

2021 is here, and... 1/2

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

Every day I encounter afresh how unnecessary most human suffering is, how much can be prevented by basic decency and baseline competence.

And encounter afresh how much worse even the worst of this is made by the daily emotional terrorism of a supremacist leader and his morally vacant enablers.

Overconfident humans who don’t listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”. it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent. the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intelligence. it’s just predictive

illustration inspired by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 1891 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" depicting a woman touching sickly yellow torn wallpaper on a wall while shadowy hands reach toward her. There is another tall shadow of a figure on the wall and both figures look toward the viewer.

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."

I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

91% ?!?!?

go fucking team.

For me, the thing is that I just don't like what is possible for me right now! I'm not "scared" (and I think it's actually pretty weird to suggest that people are??), but I looked at what they could do for me and said "I'll wait until you figure out something better."

A green t-shirt with yellow text: No Worries If Not! (Lots of worries if)

A fitted green t-shirt with yellow text: No Worries If Not! (Lots of worries if)

Our newest quote shirt has arrived.

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bsky said don't you dare make fun of him

今日は釜なしでチョココルネが住んでた🍫

Two characters at a bar. The man on the left, Novalee, has has a striking jaw implant and a bowl of ramen. The man on the right, Book, is a bot in a hooded suit, and is blowing cigarette smoke in Novalee's face as he responds to the statement in the original post. "'Fraid not."

"I know your default setting is to be a prick, but I’m sure you can dial it down a smidge."

If your toaster starts working like this website today, report it to us on SaferProducts.gov.

Two sketches of the Fortress class (portrait 5) from Etrian Odyssey 4. On the left is a chibi Fortress charging forward, mace and shield in hand. On the right is a bust sketch.

#art #etrianodyssey

thinking about portraits i don't use that often

It's amazing how quickly this went from @chucktingle.bsky.social horror novel to thing Hollywood is actually doing.

comforting to know that someone out there right now is naming their Tomodachi Life island "Dick Fight Island"

A post which says "Heartbreaking: JRPG corridor has gone on for far longer than expected and you are starting to suspect that you actually took the correct path by accident"

how a mermaid travels on land

#Booksky A nonexhaustive list of places to buy our books:
Our website (preferred!)
ITunes
GooglePlay
DriveThruFiction
Weightless Books
Bookshop
Smashwords
B&N
Libre
Kobo and Kobo Plus
Libby/Overdrive or Hoopla
Everand
Bok
Books-a-Million
Walmart
Fable
Indigo
Booktopia
Dussmann
Foyles
Amazon
Bella

bungerc0re Aug 4, 2025 you can add shorts or panties to a nude mechanical creature to make it clear you are a senseless pervert Tumblr screenshot

Still from Star Trek Season 1, Episode 21: The Return of the Archons. Spock, wearing a suit and standing in front of a colorful backdrop, says, “Creativity is necessary for the health of the Body”

Take it from Spock - Creativity is necessary for the health of the Body!