Jason Haslam
@jasonhaslam.ca
Professor, English and Gender & Women’s Studies at Dalhousie U. He/him
Check out my Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-broadview-anthology-of-science-fiction/
http://jasonhaslam.ca
Check out my Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-broadview-anthology-of-science-fiction/
http://jasonhaslam.ca
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One of the things about my anthology that I am both excited and extremely humbled by is the fact that Samuel Delany sent @broadviewpress.bsky.social a newly edited version of his story “Among the Blobs” for me to use, complete with some relevant images, new notes, and a new introduction! #SFF
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See hundreds of titles borrowed and read by Darwin in the 1840s from The London Library. In addition to many already known from his reading notebooks, we find many titles and authors that we did not know Darwin had read.
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
Courtesy of The London Library
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
Courtesy of The London Library
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
See hundreds of titles borrowed and read by Darwin in the 1840s from The London Library. In addition to many already known from his reading notebooks, we find many titles and authors that we did not know Darwin had read.
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
Courtesy of The London Library
darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...
Courtesy of The London Library
It’s official: purple Quality Streets are the weakest link:
December 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
It’s official: purple Quality Streets are the weakest link:
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I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory
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My new humorous birding gift book The Birding Dictionary is out May 6, and we've got a nice pinback button for folks in the US who preorder: www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page...
April 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My new humorous birding gift book The Birding Dictionary is out May 6, and we've got a nice pinback button for folks in the US who preorder: www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page...
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🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
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Highly motivated & fervent defenders of LLMs who don't have anything to do with their development, don't know anything whatsoever about how they work, and who will never benefit from their existence are an interesting sociological & psychological phenomenon.
December 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Highly motivated & fervent defenders of LLMs who don't have anything to do with their development, don't know anything whatsoever about how they work, and who will never benefit from their existence are an interesting sociological & psychological phenomenon.
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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if conservative sociopaths can override faculty governance and professional expertise, you aren't running a university you are running a propaganda factory
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
if conservative sociopaths can override faculty governance and professional expertise, you aren't running a university you are running a propaganda factory
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Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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Lou Reed on Frank Zappa, "I think he doesn't like himself very much, and I think he's right."
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Lou Reed on Frank Zappa, "I think he doesn't like himself very much, and I think he's right."
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listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
listen, if we want to keep providing this thing that no one likes or wants, we have to be willing to suck at it.
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It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
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Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.
December 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.
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New ornament for the tree
December 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
New ornament for the tree
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Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional.
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
December 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional.
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
Please follow and share (&credit his work).
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saw someone make a mocktail that consisted of coke, lime juice, and coconut milk, and, well, it fucks.
December 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
saw someone make a mocktail that consisted of coke, lime juice, and coconut milk, and, well, it fucks.
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This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!
“A Taste of Armageddon.”
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant.
What are you calling it?
What are you calling it?
ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
ALT: ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“A Taste of Armageddon.”
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Amok Thyme
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek Themed Restaurant.
What are you calling it?
What are you calling it?
ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
ALT: ncc-1701-g is written on the side of a spaceship
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Amok Thyme
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Well, not a restaurant, but a Star Trek bar called... "It's Green"
December 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Well, not a restaurant, but a Star Trek bar called... "It's Green"
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and next appears in the narrative as a Valkyrie, having joined the host of Odin’s chosen-daughters via some process obscured by a lacuna in the manuscript.
December 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.
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Merychippus to all who celebrate!
December 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Merychippus to all who celebrate!
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Imagine being so wrong about a sci-fi opinion you get publicly embarrassed by one of the greatest sci-fi/fantasy writers of our time. I would simply walk into the ocean.
December 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Imagine being so wrong about a sci-fi opinion you get publicly embarrassed by one of the greatest sci-fi/fantasy writers of our time. I would simply walk into the ocean.
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Having a normal Christmas morning
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Having a normal Christmas morning