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ygaerne.bsky.social
@ygaerne.bsky.social
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Science Fiction fan, roleplayer by post, old enough not to care 🙂 I don't post a lot, others often say it better.
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ygaerne.bsky.social
It seems I'm 10 days late celebrating my 1st anniversary on Bluesky! Time flies and also WoOhOo for one year of some of the best moments I've had on socials 😘🎉🎈🧨💙
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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wisarchive.bsky.social
Wishing a happy 85th birthday to science fiction writer Jean Lorrah - her Star Trek novels highlighted her core values of curiosity, selflessness, an appreciation for diversity, and scientific devotion. Untold numbers became scientists growing up on books like these.

#BookSky #SciFi #WomenInSTEM 📖🧪
November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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rock-rex.bsky.social
Help needed, please. Does anyone recognise this first line from a poem in a recent journal?

"we should have patented our pain"

I've managed to forget the poet, title, and journal...
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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ouropinions.bsky.social
It's our last episode! We're so grateful to everyone who's listened to us for the past 7 years.

We're using this occasion to talk about the state of science fiction and fantasy in the 21st century — and what has shaped the stories we've loved.

www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ygaerne.bsky.social
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Stargate Announcement | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
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November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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ellecordova.bsky.social
Grammarian and Errorist are at it again! 🖊️
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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wilwheaton.net
Happy Saturday, y'all! I have a new episode of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton for you to enjoy. This week's story is "Dissembling Light" by Kel Coleman.

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Wil Wheaton, in a black tshirt with his arms folded across his chest. Oh, he's handsome! You'd never believe he's a giant nerd who never goes outside. He's standing in front of a blue background with some delightful images reflecting storytelling. The bottom of the image says It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton.
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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annewilkins.bsky.social
A little sci-fi story published today in Sci-Fi Shorts. Hope you like it...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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escapepod.org
Rejoice, sophont observers, for a new original story is upon us: "Baron Quits The Payloaders" by @renanbernardo.com. Because while space is mostly emptiness, a lot of what isn't emptiness is !!ROCK!!
Escape Pod 1019: Baron Quits The Payloaders
This story starts with a gig. Half a million people from all corners of the galaxy, hands in the air, heads banging to our vibrant noise. You probably saw the venue on some feed already.
escapepod.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
ygaerne.bsky.social
Ahem, for what it's worth. I've seen some people get so jumpy about Bluesky. This place greeted many millions of users in a short time, including bots and scammers. So they might moof with countermeasures here and there, on a better safe than sorry basis until case review? It's a process IMHO 🌸⏳
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
ygaerne.bsky.social
Covid booster today. I'm forever surprised how casual our pharmacists here sound about it now, even though I'm a recommended target for it due to my health. Also, unlike the flu vaxx (I get a reminder every year), I need to be entirely proactive on my own. What the ?? Ah well, all done 👍☺️
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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ericlagadec.bsky.social
L'amas d'étoiles IC 1311, de nouvelles étoiles naissent de la mort d'étoiles. 10 ans déjà, ne jamais oublier
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ygaerne.bsky.social
I'm not quite there, just had to share this :)
Picture of the damaged USS Enterprise in space with the legend, my body is not a temple. It is a federation starship with critical hull damage and shields at 0%.
November 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ygaerne.bsky.social
Last but not least ^^
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18d
ultimate = last in a series

penultimate = second-to-last in a series

antepenultimate = third-to-last in a series

preantepenultimate = fourth-to-last in a series

propreantepenultimate = fifth-to-last in a series
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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azliz.bsky.social
📚💙 316/365 Poems -- Their Lonely Betters by W.H. Auden emilyspoetryblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/t...
‘Their Lonely Betters’ by W.H. Auden
As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to me only proper that words Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. A robin with no Christian n…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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tariqjmalik.bsky.social
T-30 min & counting to launch for Blue Origin's NG-2 New Glenn rocket carrying NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes. Blue Origin is watching the weather for launch. T-0 set still for 2:45 pm ET. Watch live
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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astropierre.com
Rosalind Franklin, la véritable pionnière de ces travaux sur la découverte de la structure en double hélice de l'ADN, est morte en 1958 sans avoir jamais été reconnue comme la scientifique à l'origine des résultats qui ont valu le Nobel à Watson.
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afp.com Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 23d
⚫ Le prix Nobel américain James Watson, qui révolutionné la science en découvrant la structure de l'ADN avec son collègue Francis Crick, est décédé à l'âge de 97 ans, a annoncé vendredi le Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), avec lequel il a travaillé ⬇️
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ygaerne.bsky.social
www.space.com/space-explor...
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
ygaerne.bsky.social
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
edition.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
ygaerne.bsky.social
- BAEN short stories, year 2016
- Murder at midnight / Murder in mind by Faith Martin
- The calculating stars / The fated sky by Mary Robinette Kowal

I only have very good things to say about it all 😍 Special mention to BAEN for making older stories' collections freely available, so much goodness ☺️
November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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septimusbrown.com
What happens for book three???
Writing your first book, a photo of Sarah Connor in a pink waitress uniform. Writing your second book, Sarah Connor in all black holding a rifle
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
ygaerne.bsky.social
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NaNoWriMo Is Out. Welcome Novel November!
I recently wrote on Story Empire about NaNoWriMo being canceled. Now, I’ve received word that it’s back with a new name! After 25 years of fueling millions of writers with the encourage…
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November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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cstuarthardwick.com
Reminder to writers of space adventure that we've opened the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award contest for the new year.
Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award
Baen's eBook marketplace. eBooks with no DRM in every major format--for the Kindle, iPad, Nook, and more.
www.baen.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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wikipediafr.bsky.social
Le saviez-vous ? Simon est le seul chat récipiendaire de la médaille Dickin 😼.
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#LeSaviezVous #DidYouKnow
Capture d'écran de l'article Wikipédia francophone sur 'Simon (chat)', un chat décoré de la Royal Navy. La page présente le titre 'Simon (chat)', son résumé biographique, un paragraphe de biographie plus détaillé, et une photo en noir et blanc de l'équipage du HMS Amethyst en 1949, avec le chat Simon visible au centre de la deuxième rangée.
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM