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Science fiction is the subset of fantasy where we are being fashionable about science. This is science fiction's own novum: the idea that "science" can be an aesthetic and that then-current models and ideologies of knowledge, both in form and content, can be a source of both constraint and excession
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Everyone shut up. Her show is on.
I have a story out in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social today!!!! It's about a letter than demands itself to be delivered through a war torn country, about service and community and more! ✉️
What do you write? The Submission Grinder has a lot of listings with very handy filtering options.
The Last Wills And Testaments Of Captain Kohle by @bingingout.bsky.social in which Captain Kohle is summoned from the afterlife - again and again until we learn the truth of his death translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/t...
"I used my mother’s old laptop, one of the only things left in her otherwise empty place, and I watched the file. Not optimized like all the other copies I’d tried to make after she died. Not cleaned up so that I wasn’t crying... Not edited so that she didn’t have those dark circles under her eyes."
Just saw a headline called “Maria Sharapova’s superpower” and was genuinely shocked that it wasn’t “losing to Serena Williams”
First came Encyclopedia Brown, a good teen detective. Then Wikipedia Brown who was fine. Now meet A.I. Brown who's always wrong & has caused 8 people so far to die. He's never actually solved a case, claims he's solved 40, all involving people who don't exist, committing crimes that didn't happen.
There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.
I only caught the post-scrubbing website. Was the theme explicitly Manifest Destiny?!
Haha I can help. Worldcon is a global speculative writers convention. I went there last weekend and spoke to other writers. They were thinking about and working in the business of writing with a focus that I need. Hence, I wrote my first query (a letter to an agent asking for representation)
My main takeaway from Worldcon is that I need to GET! IT! TOGETHER! Everyone else was naming actual human agents and discussing the finer points of query-writing. I was standing around with my first-timer ribbon and a hopefully affable smile. To that end-- just wrote my first novel query letter!
Does it help if we include the link? translunartravelerslounge.com
My latest story is up in the new @translunartl.bsky.social! Pirates! Indian History! Necromancy! Etc.!
Just listened to @annaleen.bsky.social reading at Worldcon from her work (automatic Noodle and sneak peek of upcoming work.) She's a delight to listen to in both the prepared reading and the Q&A. I also got to ask "A Good Question" (direct quote) so my trip is going great thank you for asking
Off to Seattle for Worldcon 2025!
Por que no los dos?
Noticed how many tries it took me to get a USB in and realized Benedict Cumberlock would think I'm a complete drunk
I will never not stan. On writing is great but I feel like RtbD gave me more immediate tools for my drafting
One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.
You could make all sorts of arguments about how industrial animal husbandry and selecting for desirable traits is similarly creepy, but something about this strikes me as more depraved than those. (Tbf I'm not a vegetarian or a vegan so maybe it's just that I don't like polo)
For those who won't click through, here's the main bit: a couple of billionaires and a polo rider have created a stable of cloned broodmares (literal) from a prized polo playing mare so they can make 5 figures auctioning off the babies. This is the part wired is implicitly calling "civilized" btw
I don't care for polo for different reasons but this story is peak SFF dystopia behavior (but for horses)
All in all, great book. Some parts are a little patchy and I wish there was more focus on disentangling class and caste, but I still think it's an essential read for both Savarnas and not. 9/9
Wrapped up the book and have many half-formed thoughts about it. It's very sharp in its critique and Prof Kisana's voice is extremely readable. The whole thing is unputdownable, basically. I feel a reflexive defensiveness about some of the points raised but I'm going to resist the temptation. 8/X
Significant time is spent dunking on liberalization, MBA mills, and arranged marriage. Big ups. Also discovered belatedly that Ravikant Kisana runs the Buffalo Intellectual podcast! Going to give that a go after this. 7/X
The book is an uncomfortable read in parts where I can spot myself, but if that's not the point, what is. The irony is that, in talking about the book, I can be credibly accused of "savarna performing progressiveness." 6/X
This may be the first thing I've read that draws a line between MNREGA and the drubbing out of the Congress government. It's been a private theory in my head for a while but I've never looked it up so it was gratifying to see it spelled out 5/X
I've never really thought about a glass floor as the necessary corollary to a glass ceiling (terms used here in the context of caste rather than gender.) I like the clarity of the metaphor, especially in tandem with the voyeuristic tendencies Kisana ascribes to savarnas 4/X
That is, me not knowing what a Pink Floyd is was never categorized as a flaw with savarnas, but a personal failure of mine. And the one doing the categorization was typically me 3/X
I initially took issue with him categorizing the experience of faking anglophone erudition to fit in as unique to aavarnas, as I had a similar life experience despite savarna privileges. Then I realized the differentiating factor was that I was never made to feel inherently lesser for it. 2/X
Calling it early, but Meet the Savarnas (2025) is the perfect book for a savarna millennial (me) to read. A few chapters in, I recognize a younger me (derogatory) in some of the insights by Prof Ravikant Kisana, especially the callout of the 2010s standup comedy scene 1/X
Go check out my short story (if you haven't) ❤️
Okay time for fun. Go into your photo roll or whatever, and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud. Here's mine.
Went from a C to a L in my chair reading this.
Next story's epigraph is by a memory-holed writer so let's ignore that and keep reading the story (or read my rant about why I think not celebrating monsters is valid, actually) 3/X
"detract from the read" is definitely the dumbest phrasing I've chosen so far to avoid saying "spoilers" like a litfic short story is a Marvel Summerbuster or the identity of River Song Anyway, the title story slaps too and can be read at this link (ignore the possibly classist thumbnail) 2/X
Picked up Nisha Susan's 2021 collection The Women Who Forgot To Invent Facebook, and the title story is great fun but the second one (The Trinity) is truly something special. It's the story of a dancing trio of girls (later women) and honestly any more info will detract from the read 1/X
Yeah no definitely no don't watch this lmaooo
Sachin Khedkar?!
Actually, the movie's Gary Oldman is here and I am back IN! It's Ashish Vidyarthi doing a SRK impression (or vice versa?)
Never mind. The next minute of Rani Mukerji and her family chewing the scenery is the loudest thing I've heard. My buzz is all gone.
Watching Bicchoo, the 2000s Bollywood remake of Leon and it's camp and weirdly directed, cut and scored but... it's... great?! 🤨
That was three years ago?!
"--the ends of the current political spectrum can double back on each other." Lol and lmao. I guess it's my own fault for clicking on a WashPoo article.
Despite everything going on at that website, it's nice to know that google dot com still has some engineers that are cool* *T&C apply
An alleged LLM entry came second in a global coding competition. Good for the 21st century John Henry at rank #1, but this seems both noteworthy and concerning. (Tbf I don't know if this competition was testing anything LLMs are extremely bad at, e.g. abductive reasoning)
I don’t care who thinks I am wrong: Firefly is a relic of its time and it should stay dead. Not only is Whedon a mega creep and apparently Tudyk an enabler, the show was nowhere as progressive as it pretended to be. Oooh everybody speaks Chinese! Where are the Chinese people?
Reach airport 90m early Flight delayed 30m Delayed 50m Boarded 20m early (still 60m late) Deboarded Delayed 50m Probably canceled Delayed 10m In line for travel desk Delayed 30m But what(!?) do you call this routine?! The Aristocrats! Ha-cha-cha 👐🎩 (jazz haaands)
Bookmarking @mimimondal.bsky.social's page at the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine, to read all their work there thus far: a series of 6 short stories, with a 7th on the way! rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-... While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...
Every Djokovic loss is a victory for beauty and light
The stock market, a mood ring for the rich, and its disconnect from the real economy has been obsessing me for a while now. Even as the US is willfully delivering a massive shock to such vital systems as its FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN, the stock market is betting on overhyped tech. You can’t eat AI.
Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
NICE
It's been over a year since I had a new short story published free to read online! Today at the Sunday Morning Transport (@morningtransport.bsky.social) is my story “Death and Liquidity Under the New Moon” www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/death-and-...
Genuinely enjoying all the geoengineering. Also all the pointed jabs at market solutions and the core/periphery climate justice divide. His prognosis for India following the chapter 1 heatwave is interesting but I suspect it is incorrect 4/X
This reminds me of When We Cease to Understand the World (2021) more than (say) James or the Saint of Bright Doors. Closest analogue is maybe The Mountain and the Sea, which also does Big Ideas from a slightly detached perspective 3/X
I have been reliably informed that books (and art in general) aren't puzzles to be solved, so maybe there's nothing more to "get" than my own enjoyment in reading this, but this structure and the emotional distance in the prose seems to go against most other novels I've read recently 2/X
Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson's 2020 Cli-Fi) starts with a harrowing chapter about a 35C+ wet bulb temp heat wave in Uttar Pradesh. Staggering read. The rest of the novel so far (33% in) reads like a survey of geoengineering ideas. I'm enjoying it but I don't "get" it yet. 1/X
Not pictured: the fish curry that looks unholy on camera and the three slices of bombil I inhaled before I decided to take a photo
Gajalee trip successful. @lucidillusions.in the bombil lives up to the hype
I want to be mad at this but I'm too full of bombil to work up the energy
Punekars get too much shit for being rude when the guy I asked for directions to Gajalee (Mumbai) said "samorach tar distay" (it's right there) while pointing at a building where all the signage was under an awning
Terrible ticketing system rebooked me without notification. Great overnight hotel. Codeshare booked me a new flight without telling me I was on standby. Helpful ground staff. Worst customer care line menu I have experienced since phones were invented. Extremely helpful customer service rep.
Got held up in Mumbai (presumably because of the Schiphol labor actions) and KLM customer service has been a weird cocktail of extremely helpful and deeply annoying
Definitely all greek to me
It's remarkable that a man (an expat male researcher) has written this. Gendered access to public spaces, cultural expectations, street food, biology, patriarchy... so much coming together to determine what is widely seen as a "women's preference" in South Asian countries. thewire.in/food/golgapp...
It just seems like a weird thing to believe after 3 whole years of a bio degree specifically. I wanted to follow up to find out where she heard this but didn't (couldn't work up the energy for a wild goose chase tbqh)
Today I met an auntie who thinks fruit flies spawn from the earth. No eggs involved. She has a BSc in Microbiology btw.
Again, looking for #AsianPernFen. *waves*
Looking forward to meeting you! Gotta say this is a 10/10 first post on bluesky
The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2
One of my Flash Fiction got published in Tasavvur's Summer 2025 Issue. Horror Gone Wrong. Give it a read. tasavvurnama.com/horror-gone-... p.s. My first published story :D #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #ShortStory
"panic because I thought I'd read the email wrong." Real
The mug quality is all thanks to the great instructor. The Magritte is all me, though 😎
Me too!
I had to read the email a few times to be sure but I've been accepted to Viable Paradise '25!
Can't believe I MADE this with MY hands
You could argue some of that is the price point. I actually think all of it is the price point. Making actual espresso instead of using instant coffee powder takes time, space, and labor, folks (all of which cost money.)
"Real punekars" will drag my ass for saying this but I like this cold coffee much more than the ones in Durga Coffee or Coffee Stop
The sad part about this gentrified cold coffee in Pune is that it actually is really really good.
Yeah this is probably a applied/pure distinction in some way that I can't articulate. Thanks! And once again, great story. Really the kind of Big Ideas stuff I've been looking for for a while, both as a reader and a writer.
The fact that the lower resolution still has enough fidelity to retain the concept. The question stuck me because the book I was reading and somewhat following (pop math about fractals and uncertainty) demonstrates stochastic rounding with a visual that is almost the same as your NCF diagram
Lmao I can see that. I don't follow pure math so I would've been more confused if I hadn't been reading Tim Palmer recently. I had a related question for you about the C-F triangles. Is what you're describing the same as stochastic rounding or am I suffering from baader-meinhoff-dunning-kruger?
Finally got around to reading this and it was fantastic! It's like nothing else I've ever read.
Did you have a nice chat?
Life events and a recent focus shift toward novel writing has led to a severe drought in short stories (written or published) so I'm really happy to get back on the board with this one
Super excited to have an upcoming story in Translunar Travelers Lounge! (@translunartl.bsky.social)
Great story that's been stuck under my skin since I read it
Bhediya cameo in Stree 2 got me like:
> a cousin aesthetic to Disco Elysium A new peak forms on Mt. TBR
All batty
Miso-ginger-caramel ice cream by the missus. Missos? Missus.
The foundational works of Western fantasy have conditioned even well-meaning minds to view the world as a struggle of the wholesome core versus the violent periphery www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/05/25/w...
Part III has entered the realm of the kind of pure math that I need to be more awake for. It's too late for p-adic numbers. 7/x
VSL and Nordhaus in the haus (haus = cost benefit chapter, now touching on the morbid concept of value of a statistical life, and the worst econ paper maybe ever) 6/x
Palmer also includes an instructive bit about his friend trying to decide if he should order a tent for a party that I will be cribbing wholesale the next time I need to explain probabilities in decision making to someone (which is surprisingly often in my day job) 5/x