colink

Fair enough. It’s time to stop the bots!

1) If you're considering submitting a story -- or are approached to create art for any publications that Must Read Magazines owns, including Asimov's -- walk away. Their current contracts are too predatory and do not suitably value you, your work or your rights. There will be other opportunities. 2/

@rachelcordasco.bsky.social Do you know about this book?

We're back . . . in time . . . to 1983 . . . Prompted by a contemporary review that suggested 1983 was a particularly bad year for science fiction film, we review the best and the worst movies from that year. How many of these have you seen lately? 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-ye...

New Episode! Scott Pilgrim vs Everything (book/movie/series) pavementpodcast.com/archives/pod...

@sfatw.bsky.social Thank you so much for the quiz. Phili administered it to me today during our recording session for @sf101.bsky.social .

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

🧵 1/ Women should not be dying from ectopic pregnancies. With timely diagnosis and treatment, these deaths should be extraordinarily rare. Yet a new ProPublica analysis found nearly 200 deaths from 2020–2025 almost double the previous six years. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

New episode! We're back in that time machine once again... 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/09/that...

@tkingfisher.com Do you need more filler material for future hosting gigs? www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna36666...

There are only two stories that won a Hugo whose screen adaptation also won a Hugo. “All Systems Red” is the second one. The other is “Dune” Congratulations @marthawells.com.

I wonder which non-profit? ORHF? PNW-NRHC?

Ron Moore cites the adage that the director is king [or queen] in feature films and the writer/producer is king [or queen] in television. The writer is kind of a hired gun for feature films @laworldcon.bsky.social #SFF

You know you're at a science fiction convention when you're standing in line at a burrito truck with a person with very artfully applied horns on their head. #laconv

The arrangement provides free weekly bouquets to landowners, creates pollinator habitats, builds community connections, and proves you don't need to own property to farm. https://mrf.lu/2QVKt

Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program.  Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.

#SFinTranslation

What looks like a mess of fallen trees in a creek could ultimately help protect homes from flooding and improve habitat for native fish. https://mrf.lu/2RzDx

In a little over two weeks, you will have in your hands the second issue of Small Planet: The #SFinTranslation Magazine! I'm so excited! It will include pieces about the Locus Translated Novel award, Hungarian #sff authors, reading a translation of one's own stories, a vintage SFT review...

#SFinTranslation out this month: from @tornightfire.bsky.social, @kayapress.bsky.social, and @transitbooks.bsky.social, with reviews by @killerfemme26.bsky.social, @coimeas.bsky.social, and yours truly: www.sfintranslation.com?p=17353

SAMMY DAVIS JR. tearing it up on the Drums and Vibraphone in 1963. He was quite simply, a phenomenon.

This is awesome! Be sure to read down the through the comments for other Bradbury-themed title spins.

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Volunteer docents aboard Amtrak's Coast Starlight reveal how the 1926 Cascade Line brought fortune to remote Klamath Falls and connected it to the rest of Oregon for the first time. https://mrf.lu/25vCR

Two years in the making and we're finally here. My game, Chain of Events will be joining up with another disc golf card game, Park'd for a crowd sale on The Game Crafter. Sign up now for a reminder, the sale itself starts on July 29th. tgc.link/coe. #DiscGolf

If anybody DARES tell you that, well, there probably isn't much #SFinTranslation out there, point them here: www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=11605

"The question is whether the industry will treat cognitive surrender as a design flaw worth fixing or as an engagement metric worth optimising." I'm sure given how responsibly the tech industry has managed social media algorithms that chatbot lifecoaching will go swimmingly for humanity.

👀

AOC on a movie that made her cry PabloReports: When’s the last time a piece of art—film, music, whatever—made you cry? AOC: Okay, let me go with the worst time one made me cry. I was on an airplane watching… what is that movie? The one about aliens with a linguist? Arrival. With Amy Adams.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

This account would probably not exist if I hadn't seen From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (1983), a long time ago. It changed my world. Since then, I have always been just as interested in the history of how the films were made as I am in their stories and lore.

New Episode! It's the first in our new series about graphic novel adaptations, starting with Supergirl! pavementpodcast.com/archives/pod...

Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

@peterkuskie.bsky.social Stinky feet cheese!

Idk if SciAm allows a certain number of free reads/month or not, but if yes, this may be worth using up a freebie: www.scientificamerican.com/article/got-...

"Under current publisher licensing models, libraries can pay up to 10 times the consumer price for a single e-book license, and may be required to repurchase that same title after just 26 checkouts or 2 years to retain access." #BookSky #books #libraries www.ctlibrarians.org/news/news.as...

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

“This is pure, uncut, black-tar slopulism injected straight into the vein. Investors owning less than one percent of housing is not the reason why any American families struggle to afford a home. Rental houses are not ‘off the market.’” www.liberalcurrents.com/everything-i...

may it be a preview of joy yet to come

Thanks to FEEDSPOT, who now rank us at #5 in their global list of "100 Best Sci-Fi Podcasts" - just below CLARKESWORLD and just above LIGHTSPEED! 🎉🎉 podcast.feedspot.com/sci_fi_podca... And we're still at #2 in their UK list, "20 Best UK Sci-Fi Podcasts"! podcast.feedspot.com/uk_sci_fi_po...