On International Women’s Day it’s great to remember that Grunya Sukhareva identified Autism before Kenner (100 years ago), identified that Autism presented regardless of sex, and that it is a spectrum.
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True and very hard to hear. And I live in a part of Canada where the provincial government is trying to emulate it: we call it mapleMAGA. Invasion by the US is also possible there daysn a scary prospect. Same questions have occurred to me. How would we conduct the Resistance if we had to?
Anyhow. This year's Hugo Awards is the last chance to nominate On Spec for Best Semiprozine.
Here's what @derekkunsken.bsky.social had to say: "Before On Spec sent me my very first acceptance, I felt like an aspiring writer. After that acceptance, I felt like I'd become something new."
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On Spec 133 - features Diane Walton and Elis Montgomery. Cover shows ragged robots who are vandalizing a brick wall.
On Spec Fall 1990. Features an alien underwater on the cover.
On Spec, Spring 1997. Shuttle flying over a puzzleboard earth. Stories include David Nickle, and Peter Watts.
On Spec has done great work over the past 35 years.
Featured great authors like @julieczerneda.bsky.social, Cory Doctorow, Peter Watts, @karlschroeder.bsky.social, @cjdwriter.bsky.social, @robertjsawyer.com, @derekkunsken.bsky.social, Dave Duncan, Fiona Moore, Michèle Laframboise, & WP Kinsella
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that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world
teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”
10/10 take. no notes
Listen. This is true.
Anyone supporting the U.S. and Israel in this war is supporting ecological destruction, along with bombing of schools and hospitals. You don’t get to pick and choose what parts of war you support.
If 176 children were slaughtered in their classrooms in Dublin, Brussels, Berlin, Tel Aviv or Texas by a foreign adversary, the world would rightfully be at a standstill.
- Shona Murray
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu... @shonamurray.bsky.social
I am staying off Bluesky but I understand that it's because it's the world and these evil people and no fucking protagonists
No protagonist is coming.
Nobody is going to show up and save us. Superheroes aren't real. Chosen ones aren't real. We are it, baby,
Message of the day (if not of the year)!
Going to re-up our call to nominate On Spec for Best Semiprozine at the Hugos
With Canadian identity under attack by USA-based alt-right political forces, it's an important moment to celebrate things that are weirdly Canadian
This is also their last year of eligibility. Throw them a vote, please.
On Spec 129 features a cyborg whale. Works by Julie Czerneda, Marie Bennan, Cat Isidore, Alex Langer, Fiona Moore and more.
On Spec 134 features a druid on the cover. Works by Fiona Heath, Stephen Kotowych, Marie Labrousse, Ian Li and more.
We urge all our friends in the Worldcon community to consider nominating On Spec for the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award, and to consider nominating Diane Walton for Best Editor - Short Form.
They've done great work for 35 years.
New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Good thread!
Here comes Trump's vindictiveness and interventionism. Canadians everywhere and Albertans in particular should have no illusions about the Alberta separation movement. It is funded and supported from abroad in order to destroy Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Yes! And that Aurora Award Book Club of @csffa.bsky.social is a fabulous idea!
Now is the time to register or renew for your CSFFA membership -- it's only ten bucks. :)
This book club (covering every Aurora Best Novel winner) is ambitious and cool!
This is going to be just so great. Phyllis was a goddess...
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
Please find an announcement from us on the tragic passing of our friend and fellow board member, Jean-Louis Trudel.
mailchi.mp/csffa/in-mem...
Gonna be fun to talk about Phyllis and her work at the inaugural Aurora Book Club January 22 2026!
Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole."
billmoyers.com/story/poetry...
But that's sad. We like you!
This only happens to you once
Get a hobby. (joke)(in case I had to say that)
It does not escape me that those of us who have been saying it was a genocide, since early days, are also the ones who correctly called what is happening here fascism, since early days.
Things are pretty obvious if you are willing to look.
Can confirm @cjlavigne.com is the kindest human.
