Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Thompson Twins/OMD
Chris De Burgh
The Cult/Lenny Kravitz
The Mountain Goats
Bug Hunter/Narcissist Cookbook
Thompson Twins/OMD
Chris De Burgh
The Cult/Lenny Kravitz
The Mountain Goats
Bug Hunter/Narcissist Cookbook
Introduce Yourseld with five concerts you’ve seen:
The Smashing Pumpkins
Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Beirut
The Mountain Goats
The Smashing Pumpkins
Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Beirut
The Mountain Goats
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Thompson Twins/OMD
Chris De Burgh
The Cult/Lenny Kravitz
The Mountain Goats
Bug Hunter/Narcissist Cookbook
Thompson Twins/OMD
Chris De Burgh
The Cult/Lenny Kravitz
The Mountain Goats
Bug Hunter/Narcissist Cookbook
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Scintillation is a small convention in Montreal in June, focused on reading and writing SF and fantasy. It is a lot of fun, and all people of goodwill who like reading and talking about books are welcome. Membership for 2026 is now open
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Scintillation is a small literary convention taking place in Montréal in June.
www.scintillation.ca
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Scintillation is a small convention in Montreal in June, focused on reading and writing SF and fantasy. It is a lot of fun, and all people of goodwill who like reading and talking about books are welcome. Membership for 2026 is now open
www.scintillation.ca
www.scintillation.ca
Today I learned that Burnaby, BC had municipal bylaws that "prohibited the employment of Chinese and Japanese workers by the municipality or its contractors" and restricted "people of Chinese descent from owning land" until yesterday.
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Toronto Star ePaper
Toronto Star ePaper
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November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today I learned that Burnaby, BC had municipal bylaws that "prohibited the employment of Chinese and Japanese workers by the municipality or its contractors" and restricted "people of Chinese descent from owning land" until yesterday.
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In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.
October 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”
September 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”
So looking forward to this! Their nonfiction separately and together are insightful and compelling
Trace Elements, a collection of essays about the Project of Science Fiction, by me and @adapalmer.bsky.social coming out March 24th 2026, available now for pre-order from all good bookstores www.amazon.com/Trace-Elemen...
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
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September 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
So looking forward to this! Their nonfiction separately and together are insightful and compelling
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Seconded! And if you like “Language of the Night”, while it’s not quite out yet, you can now pre-order the essay collection @bluejo.bsky.social & I have coming out soon, “Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction & Fantasy” (available any normal book pre-order place).
June 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Seconded! And if you like “Language of the Night”, while it’s not quite out yet, you can now pre-order the essay collection @bluejo.bsky.social & I have coming out soon, “Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction & Fantasy” (available any normal book pre-order place).
Implement a 100% tariff and run a movie
Twice
Twice
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
Nineteen Weeks
Nineteen Weeks
Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie
Ocean's Twenty-Two
Ocean's Twenty-Two
May 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Implement a 100% tariff and run a movie
Twice
Twice
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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
Just bought Cross Fire by @fondalee.bsky.social on sale for $1.99 from Google Play books. For how much I loved the Green Bone saga, there was no good excuse for this book to be missing from my library. Can't wait to read it!
March 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Just bought Cross Fire by @fondalee.bsky.social on sale for $1.99 from Google Play books. For how much I loved the Green Bone saga, there was no good excuse for this book to be missing from my library. Can't wait to read it!
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Giveaway time! We're going to be doing a lot more of these over here (rather than Facebook and Insta). Follow us and share to enter to win this ARC of Unexpected Stories from Octavia E. Butler, which is now out of print: subterraneanpress.com/unexpected-s...
Int'l/ends Feb. 2 at noon ET.
Int'l/ends Feb. 2 at noon ET.
January 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Giveaway time! We're going to be doing a lot more of these over here (rather than Facebook and Insta). Follow us and share to enter to win this ARC of Unexpected Stories from Octavia E. Butler, which is now out of print: subterraneanpress.com/unexpected-s...
Int'l/ends Feb. 2 at noon ET.
Int'l/ends Feb. 2 at noon ET.
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At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
December 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
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When I buy a book because it's on sale and then another book because it's such a deal, and then another... my husband says "Is this story going to end up with you trading the cow for magic beans?"
But you really can buy the whole Small Change series ebooks for $7.97
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
But you really can buy the whole Small Change series ebooks for $7.97
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Small Change
Visit Amazon's Small Change Page and shop for all Small Change books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of Small Change
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December 14, 2024 at 6:14 PM
When I buy a book because it's on sale and then another book because it's such a deal, and then another... my husband says "Is this story going to end up with you trading the cow for magic beans?"
But you really can buy the whole Small Change series ebooks for $7.97
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
But you really can buy the whole Small Change series ebooks for $7.97
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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My Savonarola Groundhog Day novel Lent is $1.99 as an ebook today, if you're ever going to want to read it, grab it now www.amazon.com/dp/B07GV9K8X...
Lent: A Novel of Many Returns
Lent: A Novel of Many Returns - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Lent: A Novel of Many Returns.
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December 6, 2024 at 2:27 PM
My Savonarola Groundhog Day novel Lent is $1.99 as an ebook today, if you're ever going to want to read it, grab it now www.amazon.com/dp/B07GV9K8X...
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Today's my birthday! You ain't gotta get me anything but if you're so inclined to spare a like and a RT, I'd be thankful! Trying to build up again on a new social media platform is a pain.
✨Some of my work✨
✨Some of my work✨
December 5, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Today's my birthday! You ain't gotta get me anything but if you're so inclined to spare a like and a RT, I'd be thankful! Trying to build up again on a new social media platform is a pain.
✨Some of my work✨
✨Some of my work✨
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When Animorphs ended, fans were vocal about how they didn't like the depressing ending.
K.A. Applegate responded with amongst the most brutal letters I've read.
It takes a generational talent to tell your fans "If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad."
K.A. Applegate responded with amongst the most brutal letters I've read.
It takes a generational talent to tell your fans "If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad."
December 4, 2024 at 8:55 AM
When Animorphs ended, fans were vocal about how they didn't like the depressing ending.
K.A. Applegate responded with amongst the most brutal letters I've read.
It takes a generational talent to tell your fans "If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad."
K.A. Applegate responded with amongst the most brutal letters I've read.
It takes a generational talent to tell your fans "If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad."
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I really, really do not talk about the RWA thing a lot, and unless you were there before people knew what the RWA thing was, you probably don’t know this part of the story.
(Everyone in Romancelandia probably already knows this part of the story.)
(Everyone in Romancelandia probably already knows this part of the story.)
and none of those pieces are being written by people who understand how that level of constant abuse CHANGES you
it’s not a mere tedious cleanup process, blocking today’s round of trolls just like sorting out the junk mail from the bills and birthday cards
it does not live on you that lightly
it’s not a mere tedious cleanup process, blocking today’s round of trolls just like sorting out the junk mail from the bills and birthday cards
it does not live on you that lightly
The thing that keeps getting me about all the pieces fretting about Bluesky being too insular is that the argument seems to be that those of us who are most likely to be abused by the right (BIPOC people, trans people, queer people, etc) must put up with being abused for the sake of public discourse
November 24, 2024 at 1:25 AM
I really, really do not talk about the RWA thing a lot, and unless you were there before people knew what the RWA thing was, you probably don’t know this part of the story.
(Everyone in Romancelandia probably already knows this part of the story.)
(Everyone in Romancelandia probably already knows this part of the story.)
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Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.
November 5, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.
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IF YOU USE MICROSOFT WORD DON'T SCROLL!
Microsoft is farming everything you type to train AI. Here's how to turn off the feature. Please repost far and wide!
#writingcommunity #kidlit #writers #amwriting
Microsoft is farming everything you type to train AI. Here's how to turn off the feature. Please repost far and wide!
#writingcommunity #kidlit #writers #amwriting
November 13, 2024 at 11:01 PM
IF YOU USE MICROSOFT WORD DON'T SCROLL!
Microsoft is farming everything you type to train AI. Here's how to turn off the feature. Please repost far and wide!
#writingcommunity #kidlit #writers #amwriting
Microsoft is farming everything you type to train AI. Here's how to turn off the feature. Please repost far and wide!
#writingcommunity #kidlit #writers #amwriting
August 13, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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Hi y'all, I've been extra absent for more than a week because I have been DOING BATTLE with an ANONYMOUS ASSAILANT who has been trying to steal my identity and my credit. The battle isn't over yet. But I wanted to share some lessons. I'll give a TL;DR first. 1/
May 1, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Hi y'all, I've been extra absent for more than a week because I have been DOING BATTLE with an ANONYMOUS ASSAILANT who has been trying to steal my identity and my credit. The battle isn't over yet. But I wanted to share some lessons. I'll give a TL;DR first. 1/
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Go to Google, search for "April 8 eclipse," your screen will dim, and you'll see a virtual total solar eclipse. 🧪🌑🌞🔭
April 7, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Go to Google, search for "April 8 eclipse," your screen will dim, and you'll see a virtual total solar eclipse. 🧪🌑🌞🔭
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Want a letter from any one of my characters? Savonarola? Apollo? Inspector Carmichael? Support Locus today!
One of SFF's greatests, @bluejo.bsky.social, will write you a letter in the voice of any of her characters. A dragon? An ancient greek philosopher? The infamous Mori? You choose!
igg.me/at/locusmag2024
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March 30, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Want a letter from any one of my characters? Savonarola? Apollo? Inspector Carmichael? Support Locus today!
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In warm climates, even relatively dry air can hold a lot of water - and a recently developed solar-powered hydropanel can extract it. One panel costs ~$2,000, should last at least 15 years, and can provide 4-5 L of drinking water per day. #ShareGoodNewsToo t.co/TPhGJZiV1j
How our drinking water could come from thin air
From solar panels that produce water to 'self-filling' coffee machines and water coolers, technology companies are putting a new spin on a centuries-old technique.
t.co
February 17, 2024 at 2:04 AM
In warm climates, even relatively dry air can hold a lot of water - and a recently developed solar-powered hydropanel can extract it. One panel costs ~$2,000, should last at least 15 years, and can provide 4-5 L of drinking water per day. #ShareGoodNewsToo t.co/TPhGJZiV1j