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I'm a genuine human with the usual array of artifacts, relationships, and disabilities to prove it. I hold an honours degree in philosophy, a PhD in cognitive science, and an FFA C Diploma. I'm here to find and share short spec fic.
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Mind-Craft New Consciousness Research Lopez & Wiese Building blocks for theories of consciousness
full episode: youtu.be/NxFztN0OqY8
#ideas #philosophy #science #consciousness #consciousnessstudies #philosophyofmind #philosophyofpsychology #philosophyofscience #consciousnessstudies #neuroscience
full episode: youtu.be/NxFztN0OqY8
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Just got a take it one wHaT a tImE tO bE aLiVe at a time
January 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Just got a take it one wHaT a tImE tO bE aLiVe at a time
@jacobstevens0.bsky.social hey man, have you heard anything about ehy Kikianis didn't play tonight?
January 4, 2026 at 11:17 AM
@jacobstevens0.bsky.social hey man, have you heard anything about ehy Kikianis didn't play tonight?
Just had a nice falafal. Was it really worth $18. Who could say.
January 1, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Just had a nice falafal. Was it really worth $18. Who could say.
The last of the celebration of my favourites that I happened to come across this year. You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb by Paul Crenshaw in @lightspeedmagazine.com
Happy New Year all, the world is dumb but this art is fantastic
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Happy New Year all, the world is dumb but this art is fantastic
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You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb - Lightspeed Magazine
Because her sudden pregnancy doomed her---as she saw it---to diapers and daycares she couldn’t afford and the same drab job she already disliked, Abby asked for Marcia’s advice. At thirty months, Marc...
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December 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The last of the celebration of my favourites that I happened to come across this year. You Knit Me Together in My Mother’s Womb by Paul Crenshaw in @lightspeedmagazine.com
Happy New Year all, the world is dumb but this art is fantastic
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Happy New Year all, the world is dumb but this art is fantastic
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For the second last story of the celebration, I'm back off the positive vibes and on to anxiety about what capitalists would do to our brains if they could A Shakey Bridge @marissalingen.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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A Shaky Bridge by Marissa Lingen
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM
For the second last story of the celebration, I'm back off the positive vibes and on to anxiety about what capitalists would do to our brains if they could A Shakey Bridge @marissalingen.bsky.social in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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counting down to new year's, here is a thoughtful fantasy by Ruth Joffre in @podcastle.org Woodpeck, Warnler, Mussel, Thrush
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PodCastle 916: Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush - PodCastle
Woodpecker, Warbler, Mussel, Thrush by Ruth Joffre Yesterday, I was a bird. A slender-billed curlew, to be exact. My girlfriend helped me ID the bird. Took photographs of my decurved bill, the fla...
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December 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
counting down to new year's, here is a thoughtful fantasy by Ruth Joffre in @podcastle.org Woodpeck, Warnler, Mussel, Thrush
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Only a few left to celebrate before the New Year. Here is the amazing Understudies by Greg Egan in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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Understudies by Greg Egan
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Only a few left to celebrate before the New Year. Here is the amazing Understudies by Greg Egan in @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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I could share this just for the title, but the story is even better, and that's saying something. Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead by @sentencebender.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
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Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine
Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...
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December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I could share this just for the title, but the story is even better, and that's saying something. Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead by @sentencebender.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
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I was so excited by this story when it first came out, and I still am. The Shadow on the Nest by Alaya Dawn Johnson in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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The Shadow on the Nest - Uncanny Magazine
“…but what is it like, having a war criminal as your past life?” Sadie Salazar, Licensed Life Speaker, should have been professionally above the prurient interest lighting her hazel eyes, and much too...
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December 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I was so excited by this story when it first came out, and I still am. The Shadow on the Nest by Alaya Dawn Johnson in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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I think my new year's resolution needs to be to get better at responding to people who take the time to reply to me on here. Is it weird that I do so haphazardly and after ill defined periods of time? Yes. But rest assured the reason for this is just that I am weird.
December 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I think my new year's resolution needs to be to get better at responding to people who take the time to reply to me on here. Is it weird that I do so haphazardly and after ill defined periods of time? Yes. But rest assured the reason for this is just that I am weird.
Some more favourite horror of the year, here is Autogas Ferryman by @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
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Autogas Ferryman - Nightmare Magazine
Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Some more favourite horror of the year, here is Autogas Ferryman by @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
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Today's first story of the celebration is a little bit of horror from back in May: Where the Brass Band plays by @mckatie.bsky.social in @pseudopod.org
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PseudoPod 978: Where the Brass Band Plays
The day I found seaweed on my sister’s shoes was the beginning of the end, for me as well as her. I grabbed her by the shoulders as she tried to scoot past me into the house. “Audrey…
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December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Today's first story of the celebration is a little bit of horror from back in May: Where the Brass Band plays by @mckatie.bsky.social in @pseudopod.org
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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
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December 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
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happy confused and full of cheese week to all who celebrate. Try sadoeuphemist's Omelas story to keep you going
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What Else, What Else, in the Joyous City? - Lightspeed Magazine
In Salemo, virtually the entire populace is kept in drudgery and toil. There are no public parks, nor libraries, nor song, nor wine, nor holidays. People slave away in seventy-two -hour workweeks, sus...
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December 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
happy confused and full of cheese week to all who celebrate. Try sadoeuphemist's Omelas story to keep you going
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I hope everyone is doing better than me at coming down from the holiday sugar high. I'm not so out of it as to not continue the story celebration, so here is The Twenty-One Second God by Peter Watts in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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The Twenty-One Second God - Lightspeed Magazine
We lost so many souls today. Reports stream in across five continents; icons bloom on the map like blood spatters. Broken filters, zero latency, bandwidth that somehow blew through the roof when no on...
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December 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I hope everyone is doing better than me at coming down from the holiday sugar high. I'm not so out of it as to not continue the story celebration, so here is The Twenty-One Second God by Peter Watts in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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Boxing day is a day for reading and catching up on the amazing stories of the year. Next up is @tiatashiro.bsky.social's The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe i8n @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe by Tia Tashiro
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Boxing day is a day for reading and catching up on the amazing stories of the year. Next up is @tiatashiro.bsky.social's The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe i8n @clarkesworldmagazine.com
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Needing to catch up on this year's brilliant stories is a great reason to avoid your racist cousin this Xmas. How about The Lord of Mars by @meghanmccarron.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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The Lord of Mars - Lightspeed Magazine
The grow pods clung to a red, humped ridge about a twenty-minute hike west from the habitats. Inside one of their plastic domes, a farmer named Oliver Judd nestled potato starts in the ground with nim...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Needing to catch up on this year's brilliant stories is a great reason to avoid your racist cousin this Xmas. How about The Lord of Mars by @meghanmccarron.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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Another favourite from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, The Island with the Animals by Stephanie Malia Morris
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The Island with the Animals - Uncanny Magazine
It’s a game, Sage tells Brianna, the island with the animals. She is the third of Brianna’s clients to mention it, but the first to explain. You played as this cosmetic vivisectionist at an island res...
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December 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Another favourite from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, The Island with the Animals by Stephanie Malia Morris
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A favourite fantasy from @louisinglishall.bsky.social in @podcastle.org: The Hand that Feeds
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PodCastle 877: The Hand That Feeds - PodCastle
The Hand That Feeds by Louis Inglis Hall Last Christmas a mermaid died in the school swimming pool. It was only a small pool, built up at the sides with wooden panels, more like a tank for training ...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A favourite fantasy from @louisinglishall.bsky.social in @podcastle.org: The Hand that Feeds
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Continuing the year's end celebration, here is Six People to Revise You by @jrdawson.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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Six People to Revise You - Uncanny Magazine
A parent or guardian Someone who has known you since childhood A mentor or teacher An employer or coworker A spouse, partner, or close intimate friend Someone who does not consider themself a loved on...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Continuing the year's end celebration, here is Six People to Revise You by @jrdawson.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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catching up a few today to try and celebrate all these stories by the end of the year
Next of my favourites is 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by @samtasticbooks.com in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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Next of my favourites is 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by @samtasticbooks.com in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days - Uncanny Magazine
1. There is a future in which a hellgate opens off the coast of California. It happens at midnight on the first day of the new year, which is sooner than anyone expected. The waters rise and we are fo...
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December 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
catching up a few today to try and celebrate all these stories by the end of the year
Next of my favourites is 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by @samtasticbooks.com in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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Next of my favourites is 10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days by @samtasticbooks.com in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
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This morning's favourite from the past year is from Sarah Langan and is in two parts, the link to the second part will be in the comments
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Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep?, Part I - Lightspeed Magazine
The body opened too easily, like paper wrapping on room temperature butter. “This isn’t right,” Lattner said, at first to himself, then louder, for the trauma nurse and anesthesiologist to hear. The ...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This morning's favourite from the past year is from Sarah Langan and is in two parts, the link to the second part will be in the comments
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Next up from my favourites of the year is this bonkers tale from Adam-Troy Castro in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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Feast of Famine - Lightspeed Magazine
The buffet was infinite. It existed in a pocket dimension, via some sort of technological jiggering of the sort that you have heard about before and, unless you are totally anal, don’t want to hear ab...
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December 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Next up from my favourites of the year is this bonkers tale from Adam-Troy Castro in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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this morning's favourite from 2025 is some scifi horror from @davidanaxagoras.com published in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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Five Dispatches from Conflict Zone W-924/B Regarding Post-Battle Deployment of A. Thanatensis - Lightspeed Magazine
Dispatch #1. [INAUDIBLE] . . . but hopefully I’ve got the recorder working now. This is Dr. Nathaniel Letheford, Director, Alliance for Military Neutralization and Eradication of Sensitive Incidents a...
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December 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
this morning's favourite from 2025 is some scifi horror from @davidanaxagoras.com published in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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Adelaide vs Perth ALM post match thoughts
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December 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM