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Marcus's Virtual Novel Group - Mon 10/26 7:30PM The (Virtual) Afterwork Social - Tue 10/27 7PM Marcy's VIRTUAL Short Story Meetup - Sun 11/1 3PM Daniel's Comic Book Workshop @ Manhattan - Tue 11/3 7PM www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

The Social is coming! www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

The entertainment industry is so broken variety.com/2026/film/co...

What a great festival! @caseaweedfestival.bsky.social Sadie Hine (poster art) Makena Rush kelpforestalliance.com josieiselin.com bullkelp.info californiastatekelp.info sequoiasofthesea.org @helvarg.bsky.social Emma Akmakdjian @underwaterpat.bsky.social

Reddit's win over SerpAPI and Perplexity sets a dangerous precident, and will embolden gatekeepers to make the web less open.

#solarpunk writing idea...

*appalled* NATURE I AM NOT HERE TO KINK-SHAME BUT ALL OF YOU PUT YOUR DAMN PANTS BACK ON RIGHT NOW THERE'S ROUGH AND THEN THERE'S "I BROKE MY BUTT"

hey, y'all, hey! I got into Banff's Futurisms Intensive Writing Residency and I need your help getting there. any and everything helps! please do share if you can't donate (I totally understand; groceries alone are $100 per square foot). #writingsky #BlackSky #authorsky gofund.me/e1d1f2d31

My #solarpunk noir novellete "Ice Like Honey" in which YOU take revenge for your brother's murder and control of a geothermal energy company is live on @lightspeedmagazine.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/ice-...

@bsfwriters.bsky.social thank you for the early feedback, especially the KeyBards novel critics! And Sam Schreiber (he knows what he did).

Our 11yo daughter has grown up with two astronomer parents and that's probably too much astronomy for anyone. She's reading the new Scott Reintgen book (The Void Dragons) and dropping 'stellar mass black holes' and 'primordial black holes' over the breakfast table and we're both like

Be like Albert.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

World Fantasy Winners - CONGRATULATIONS! wfc2026.org

David A. Hardy ‘Planet of Beta Lyrae’ from The New Challenge of the Stars by Patrick Moore & David A. Hardy, 1977

Love the workshops!

your moment of CHONK

It's meeeeee

Sharing one of my favourite phenomena for #FossilFriday: when a drill core bullseyes a fossil! This one, from the Silurian of Estonia, has caught some exceptionally preserved body segments of a pterygotid eurypterid. ⚒️🧪

#PPOD: The graceful spiral arms of Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, reveal a hidden world of cold gas in this view from Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). 🔭 🧪

Writers & imaginists! Your weekend is not weird enough without the Brainstoryum podcast. * a surrealist word game that mixes YOUR word suggestions into prompts * laughs & imagination-yoga as I brainstorm stories * writing tips & publishing opportunities! annatizard.com/brainstoryum 👀🫖 #vss365

In honor of visiting this city again, the Internet Archive has a Buyers Guide to San Francisco from 1923 and I wish I could visit THAT version of the city. Also cats have _always_ been great advertising! archive.org/details/buye...

So, I've heard the "most people don't need more than basic math, and chemistry and physics is useless to them!" before, and on further conversation it emerges that they believe one should only teach those subjects to people who *will* need or use them.

Alapon, a playful raccoon, is the mascot for ALIVE pachinko parlours in Ibaraki Prefecture。

KALEIDOCAST! OUR NEW FICTION PODCAST! #fantasy #sciencefiction #sff #speculativefiction #podcast www.kaleidocast.nyc/home-1/episo...

A lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! ❤️ Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in Skydance, report says

#WoodCarving I’m sure these faces were well known to the carver. St Dionysius in Esslingen Am Neckar #Germany though maybe not the camel !!

Invisible Beings Walk the Earth!

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KALEIDOCAST! OUR NEW FICTION PODCAST! #fantasy #sciencefiction #sff #speculativefiction #podcast www.kaleidocast.nyc/home-1/episo...

Yes, we are all about the speculative fiction. But we WILL occasionally repost on art, food, dress, archaeology... We are vast, we contain multitudes.

Am stuck, cannot move, baby has purred herself to sleep my arm hurts, my neck hurts HOWEVER I remember that the reason she was rescued as a tiny kitten was that she and her sister had no mother, soooo she has a free pass to lie on me and hear my heartbeat (lifetime pass)

I just found a grandfather who created a YT channel for his grandson, and he read my book to him. And at the end, he concluded by saying, "And you can read this too when you're older!" Onions. So many onions.

They seem happy.

And for $5 we have a pendant that only listens to you and never talks back.

Out now for your reading pleasure, some thoughts from me about the ideas behind my new novel, THE ASTERIST on @scalzi.com's website. The Big Idea: A. T. Sayre whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/21/t... #speclit #booksky

Beautiful oilskin raincoat designed by Donna Zakowska and made by Eric Winterling for an upcoming film. Coat is beautiful bc it has a lot of shape — A-line silhouette with neat folds at back. This is a women's garment, but same principle applies to menswear. First two pics via IG ericwinterlinginc