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Lawrence Miles @lawrence-miles.bsky.social · 27m

Yeah, but what if this *isn't* late-stage capitalism? What if this is just the middle part of capitalism, before it goes into laying-its-eggs-inside-another-ideology-stage capitalism and makes giant capitalist wasps? Pretty sure it has to end in wasps.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 12h

There's a new movie out: a proven master of the Gothic genre gives us a controversial and psychoanalytic take on Frankenstein.

It's 1970 and Hammer has just released The Horror of Frankenstein-- what did you think I meant? @galacticjourney.bsky.social

galacticjourney.org/november-10-...

[November 10, 1970] Hammer it Home: The Horror of Frankenstein (movie) - Galactic Journey

The Horror of Frankenstein relaunches Hammer's movie series with a sexy young psychopath Baron and a less-than-charismatic monster.

galacticjourney.org

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, my Dad told me about this! I'd love it if we could, I mean Canadians have participated in European entries, and if Australia and Israel can join Eurovision there's no reason Canada couldn't.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 15h

I was there in spirit.

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you to everyone who came out for Saturday's launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social. It was standing room only and featured readings from 13 of our wonderful authors and poets. If you're looking for a copy of the anthology, Bakka has a bunch!

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you to everyone who came out for Saturday's launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3 at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social. It was standing room only and featured readings from 13 of our wonderful authors and poets. If you're looking for a copy of the anthology, Bakka has a bunch!

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 20h

I had something to do with all of this, back when.

Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 21h

Another fine podcast from @finishedzine.bsky.social on #DoctorWho Corpse Marker: soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/.... If you fee like the host and want more Carnell and some kind of direct sequel but haven't listened to the EXCELLENT Kaldor City audios, fix that now www.kaldorcity.com/orders.html

454: Corpse Marker

The Robots of Death return! Decades for Big Finish's excellent spin-off series The Robots, Chris Boucher returned the Fourth Doctor and Leela to Kaldor, for a BBC Past Doctor Adventure. We speak to e

soundcloud.com

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 20h

It's the Most! Wonderful! Time! Of the year!

Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 1d

On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.

Comic panel from the watchmen comic book series. A ghostly Dr Manhattan tries to reassemble himself in the military research base he was atomized in. A glowing circulatory system walks towards horrified workers in a kitchen. Caption reads "it's November 10th. There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen..."

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 20h

You don't even need to limit your screen time. I took my social apps off my phone but left the ebook apps, and lo and behold I've read twice as many books this year as last year (and that's not counting magazines and short fiction).

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1d

Too many people have resigned themselves to not reading because they fear they no longer have the focus for it. You only need to limit your screen time for a few days to begin feeling the effects on your brain. I promise you, you are capable of reading books again.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 20h

The first time I drove on it, suddenly a lot of Monty Python references fell into place. And not in a good way.

Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com · 21h

Another fine podcast from @finishedzine.bsky.social on #DoctorWho Corpse Marker: soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/.... If you fee like the host and want more Carnell and some kind of direct sequel but haven't listened to the EXCELLENT Kaldor City audios, fix that now www.kaldorcity.com/orders.html

454: Corpse Marker

The Robots of Death return! Decades for Big Finish's excellent spin-off series The Robots, Chris Boucher returned the Fourth Doctor and Leela to Kaldor, for a BBC Past Doctor Adventure. We speak to e

soundcloud.com

Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 1d

On this day, Dr. Manhatten first reappears after his atomized destruction in a lab accident. Happy November 10th to all who observe.

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1d

Too many people have resigned themselves to not reading because they fear they no longer have the focus for it. You only need to limit your screen time for a few days to begin feeling the effects on your brain. I promise you, you are capable of reading books again.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

This is the future we narrowly avoided.

Also why the Hangar Lane Gyratory is such a mess.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.

Roads.org.uk 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @roads.org.uk · 1d

Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

I have my tickets and my hotel booking already and will be there with books, jewellery, miniatures and of course Drogon (who can't wait to see all his fans again).

Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social · 5d

Eastercon is the UK's annual science fiction convention for book lovers & writers

Iridescence, 2026's Eastercon will be at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, 3-6 April 2026. Tickets on sale now

Guests of Honour include @rjbarker.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social & @drkarenlord.bsky.social

A bunny. It is brown and white, and has one floppy ear over one eye. It looks serious, but mostly because it's been reading the entire Dune serious and suspects it should have stopped at book three. A sign reading #Eastercon2026 is also in the picture. It is an open-source, free to use bunny picture, and is appropiate for Eastercon.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

On Remembrance Day I think of Charles M. Schultz, who was a veteran and, because of this, a pacifist. As a symbol of this, he was absolutely fine with servicepeople making and wearing Peanuts fanart, but the only (semi)military institution he would allow to officially use his characters was NASA.

Official NASA badge showing Snoopy in a space suit sitting on top of a globe; the legend reads PEANUTS in partnership with NASA.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 1d

I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy!

We appreciate your kind consideration.

undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

Web page showing partial text of UNCERTAIN SONS.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose some of the roots of this might come from celebrity ghostwritten books, but people buy those for the celebrity's name, not because the book is any good, so again why brag about having not-written a rubbish book?

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 1d

Writing a book's like having a kid, and I do mean there are a lot of times when you're thinking "why did I commit to this?" and "Never again!"

But what parent would want to simply have a grown human being suddenly appear in their lives, without any of the experiences of growing up along the way?

Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 1d

Someone once said: everyone says they want to write a book, but what most people mean is that they want to HAVE WRITTEN a book.

In other words, most people don't want to do the work.

'AI' is tempting for those people.

Real writers, though, are drawn to the work (in all its glory and frustration).

Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 1d

I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.

Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 1d

Someone once said: everyone says they want to write a book, but what most people mean is that they want to HAVE WRITTEN a book.

In other words, most people don't want to do the work.

'AI' is tempting for those people.

Real writers, though, are drawn to the work (in all its glory and frustration).

Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 1d

I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.

Claire Waller / Ellie Graves/ Claire Lunn @clairesnonsense.bsky.social · 1d

Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋

(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d

I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.

Roads.org.uk 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @roads.org.uk · 1d

Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Would your home have been under a motorway?

"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.

substack.com

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, this really is how silly certain people sound.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

cathode.church/@kaye/114988...

Kaye
@kaye@cathode.church

Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. A vital shift is underway in juicing. The Juicero is no longer optional. It's tomorrow's future, today. 40% of jobs are impacted by the Juicero. The Juicero isn't the future, it's a present necessity. Nobody hand-juices anymore. To hand-juice is like an impairment. Everyone must now focus on the delegation and the verification of a juice. We become less juice producers and more juice enablers. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. We are burning every forest and poisoning every river to produce more Juiceros. You will become obsolete if you don't get on the Juicero bandwagon. Students must not be taught how to hand-juice. 80% of jobs will be lost to the Juicero. Students must be taught to exclusively focus on how to collaborate with the Juicero. Education must focus on orchestrating agentic Juicero systems. The Juicero is inevitable. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. Adapt or risk becoming obsolete. As the Juicero rapidly advances toward automating up to 90% of juicing, the skills that will matter most include juice design, Juicero fluency, juice delegation, and juice quality assurance. 110% of jobs have been replaced by the Juicero.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

cathode.church/@kaye/114988...

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

I know a lot of people with BAs in Classics who went on to thriving careers in the computing industry, because it turns out that being able to master complicated grammatical systems is a transferrable skill.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

I have three takeaways from this article: 1) Scientific discovery is always a team effort rather than an individual one; 2) Academia had, and still has, a sexism problem; and 3) I'm redacting because one should not speak ill of the recently deceased.

Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 2d

Because James Watson has just died and because he seems to have been an awful person in many ways, there have inevitably been a lot of takes about the discovery of DNA. This article gives a more nuanced take.

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What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

www.nature.com

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks. I managed to avoid it at Worldcon, Eastercon and two separate ComicCons, I guess the odds were against me...

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

Aw, that's awful, sorry to hear it. But glad you haven't been infected this time round!

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

I was reminded today of the existence of this joyous and delightful video, so sharing it for whoever needs a serotonin boost today: youtu.be/oxzwUiVwXxk?...

The Jim Henson Hour The Lion Sleeps Tonight Muppet Songs

YouTube video by Garrett Gilchrist

youtu.be

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

Again ironically, no. And I've got in touch with everyone I was in close contact with; they're all fine. I should definitely have been more careful, but I think I thought because I'd been recently vaccinated I'd be okay.

Fiona Moore 🇨🇦 @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 2d

The irony is I'm testing negative today. But I wasn't yesterday, so no PictCon for me, and it's too late to get tickets to the BFI's Blake's 7 day (and I probably shouldn't risk going down anyway and barconning because I might still be infectious).

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