Fan Writer Editor at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social More pieces at Journey Planet, @skiffyandfanty.com @reactorsff.bsky.social @file770.bsky.social and elsewhere! Podcaster. #photography I'm just this guy, you know? He/him.
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CANBERRA friends! I'll be at The Book Cow (Kingston) on October 7 (the Tuesday after Conflux ) โ if you can come along, and/or if you could share with friends/family, it would be so lovely to see you there! HONEYEATER comes out in Australia on 16 September. events.humanitix.com/book-launch-...
Sippin' skipper. A Peck's Skipper fueling up. I love how the curly flower bit (technical term) offsets the skipper. Peck's Skipper (Polites peckius) #inverts
oh wait, it's YOU ;) I just saw the picture and not the username :) Coals to newcastle
Moved to Buttondown two years ago this month. Almost no effort, felt cleaner immediately.
Really important to call this exactly what it is - the mainstreaming of a really nasty strain of blood-and-soil nationalism with its closest analogues and likely source among the white supremacist movement.
oho, I visited that area on my trip as part of @bryanhansel.com 's class this spring!
I missed waterfall Wednesday, but I'm just going to send it. This little fall is in the Upper Tremont area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. #waterfall #landscapephotography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited
New auctions are up on my website for over 100 sets of dice, special D20s, minis, and this Limited Edition MtG LotR signed leather playmat featuring my land art from one of the cards I created! Go get some fun stuff and help fund our trip to Arizona!
If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
I do think that after a quiet year in 2024, Skiffy and Fanty is in search of new listeners and readers and friends. I hope you will check us out in 2025, the podcast and especially our Friday night live events. (7pm Central)
ICYMI
No bored-ers?
thank you so much, though :)
One place to find them all, and in the darkness... Oh. Wait. That's different. That's very different. Never mind!๐
What are your top 5 TTRPG settings? Tales From The Loop The End HลL The Sixth Gun (Savage Worlds) Cyberpunk 2020
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
I guess "The Forbidden City" also counts, where I blended a whole bunch of influences, including Martha Wells' Raksura, into the setting. Also, the Empire of 13th Age
I've just been reminded of the time the wonderful @tkingfisher.com said lovely things about Peter S. Beagle and The Last Unicorn so this is a day when I have to remind you that that book is ice and fairy wings and lilacs and the death of everything and if you have not read it you absolutely should.
I borrowed from @marthawells.com 's Raksura verse and put the Raksura and the Fell into a RPG setting for the PCs to interact with . And yes, a TTRPG of Ile-Rien would be amazing.
ILE-RIEN is the world of @marthawells.com Element of Fire, Death of the Necromancer, Ships of Air et al and to this day one of my absolute favorite worlds in fiction. A dream of mine is to create a TTRPG version of it. So much romantasy and swashbuckling and magic.
Wow, I've not heard anyone else talk about the Willey books in a LONG time.
Amber Creation (Exalted) Tschai (Planet of Adventure) The Star Trek verse Harn (just counting places I've run in)
What are your top 5 TTRPG settings? Krynn Amber Symbaroum King Arthur's Britain MechWarrior/BattleTech Universe ** But if I'm honest I love making up my own/adapting worlds from fiction: Ozymand, Argylle, Tartessus, Ile-Rien, Swordbridge
it was great to see you!
yes, a good addition to the list
And finally, my favorite literary reviewer @princejvstin.com read something of mine... and I think he liked it! Thank you, Paul! www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...
I wouldn't be able to resist it either. And if I get to the south island of NZ, probably won't resist it
That view of Aoraki Mt Cook (NZ's highest peak) that all the young folk take... with my 'ode to Whites' preset โ because I like to look at old NZ photography books. #Nikon #NZ #Photography
We need stories that say it's not okay but a good thing to resist authoritarianism and fascism in ways large and small. Novels like Coyote Run by @lilithsaintcrow.com or The Wings Upon her Back by @samtasticbooks.com or the forthcoming Audition for the Fox by @mcflycahill90.bsky.social
aha. thank you!
NEWS: Daniel Abraham provides update on final KITHAMAR TRILOGY novel thewertzone.blogspot.com/2025/09/dani... #danielabraham #kithamar #judgeofworlds
Texas loaded busses with desperate migrants and dropped them off in Chicago like trash in the middle of winter. We welcomed them into our communities. Now Texas is sending its National Guard to terrorize them on our streets. In our neighborhoods. What the fuck.
This $2.99 eBook sale goes through the 7th!
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
NONBINARY TRICKSTER FOX GOD IS USING TIMETRAVEL-BUT-FANTASY TO TRY OUT A FLAILY DEMIGOD &OVERTHROW FASCISTS aka I preordered @mcflycahill90.bsky.social's ๐ฆAUDITION FOR THE FOX๐ฆ directly from @tachyonpub.bsky.social and thus got my ebook a week early BRB GOT A BOOK TO DEVOUR
Democrats in the Jeffries mold feel that if they do not bend over backwards to be conciliatory and bipartisan, they will lose support and legitimacy especially among their donors (and a mythical centrist constituency). That if they look like bomb throwers, they will be shunned (and lose $$$)
Common Ground. With a authoritarian who acts like a mob boss. I mean, I GET why Rep. Jeffries says these things. I am just so tired.
We're in an existential battle for the Constitutional order, and we're losing it, badly. Yet the general putatively in charge of that battle likes to talk about how we need to find common ground and resume business-as-usual with the hostile forces trying to kill us. Fucking unreal.
TINY!! DICE!! JARS!! www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page... wee, portable, and FULLY functional math rocks that double as fashion!
Oh, hell yeah.
You are definitely doing good
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Kowal Wins Eugie Award
damn right. I was one of your nominators
Now, the U.S. Space Command will not be fully operational for years because the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama lacks the existing infrastructure already available in Colorado. But Alabama is a GOP-dominant state. So, Trump is catering to his base over national security. Yet again.
This is why Pres. Biden chose to headquarter U.S. Space Command in Colorado in 2023. Because all the pertinent Space Force facilities were already there. Peterson, Schriever, Cheyenne Mountain, and Buckley military bases, the whole of USSPACECOM. Sure, it saved money, but it was common sense.
"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)
So after three weeks, the "apology" from the Seattle Hugo hosts involves explanations contradict the literal video evidence. Two highly experienced and respected professionals claiming they "didn't know" they'd need a rehearsal before going on stage to deliver a high profile award ceremony. Please.
The conclusion to the Name-Mangling Hugo saga. (Link nested within.) tl;dr: -they blame the Worldcon organizers; -they deny having giggled (it's on video... www.youtube.com/live/py7MeV3... ); -the "apology" doesn't mention that the older host was "high as a kite on paid meds." (Their own skeet...)
Kalaloch Beach - Olynimpic National Park, Washingtom #TidesOutTuesday #EastCoastKin #photography #beach #Scape #PhotographersofBlueSky #travel #landscape #BlackandWhite #bnw #ClassicMono
Oh, wow, amazing! I'm going to try to clear some time that weekend so I can be there!
Lord all that gilt in the oval office is TACKY
"without the United States, everything in the world would die" I do think that Donald John Trump honestly believes this.
ah, the President now says that the video of someone dumping stuff out the White House window is "AI"
Bullet fires. Release the water.
There us a gofundme to help her sister pay final costs. www.gofundme.com/f/6n9tz-supp...
The brilliant Horror Grandmaster Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has left us at 83. Thank you for everything.
One Level Down has now existed in the world for 4 months! 58-year old Ella is trapped in a simulated universe, forced to act like sheโs five years old. Help her escape by reading this book! @tachyonpub.bsky.social tachyonpublications.com/product/one-...
And happy book day to Elizabeth Bear's ANGEL MAKER! Karen Memory rides again!
Happy book day to Valerie Valdes's WITCH YOU WOULD!
There is also the radical alternative of listening to your Hugo team when they try to help you avoid making stupid decisions.
A statement on the 2025 Hugo Ceremony from @nisishawl.bsky.social and myself. docs.google.com/document/d/1... From the conclusion: We were both truly honored to be Worldcon Toastmasters/Hosts, and we wanted to do a great job in order to honor all the nominees and their amazing work. 1/5
Honored for AUDITION FOR THE FOX to be included amongst this incredible group of authors. Thank you, @zutsuit.bsky.social & @literaryhub.bsky.social!
I donโt think that thereโs such a thing as too soft. For someone โฃ๏ธ
bleh
Happy release day!
Witch You Would Day! It's finally here! Witch You Would is out today! Proliferation of exclamation points!!! Thank you so much to everyone who boosted, pre-ordered, or is running out to a store today to grab a copy off a shelf; your support means the world to me. Double thanks if you tag me aboutโฆ
contributing a piece of my own dreck to this famously DNC-friendly space
How about a review by my colleague and friend @carturo222.bsky.social www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/mang...
More #photography, I mean, Dreck
Dreck? Maybe it's time to share some #photography
Un huh.
Thinking about coming to ArmadilloCon? We hope so! The deadline to reserve a room in our convention block is now Friday, Sept 5! armadillocon.org/d47/hotel/
Oh wow, I had forgotten those!
Seventh and eighth century memorial stones from a Saxon church in Wareham (found when the Victorians 'restored' it). There's something incredibly moving about these stones. Ordinary people's names from a small British Christian community, very rare evidence for people's lives at this time.
Pay what you want for great summer reading with the Martha Wells' Murderbot and More bundle, supporting @wck.org | https://bit.ly/4lFLFFL
I really need to up my flower photography game to try and do as well as you do.
Little known fact: Sunflowers are secretly dragons. #photography #FlowerReport #PNW #TheCampfire #garden #nature #flowers
Today, Patrons at $10 USD and up get an early look at my idea for a deck-builder subsystem to use with the Daggerheart rules. It's very rough, but I'm super excited about where this could go. www.patreon.com/posts/deckbu... Don't worry, I'll be sharing a later version with more backer levels.
Is he right? In my view, if the next Democratic President does not act decisively, it's basically warming the seat for the next and even more autocratic Republican. I know the "weapon of the enemy" meme--and I am coming to think that Batman is wrong, here.
Thread. Mark thinks big, and thinks the next Democratic President needs to act as robustly as the current president does, but for progressive ends.
A message from the chair of @seattlein2025.org seattlein2025.org/2025/09/02/m...
Message From the Chair: The Seattle Worldcon 2025 extends our deepest apologies for multiple failure points which occurred during this yearโs Hugo Awards ceremony. We provided insufficient organizational plans at the podium,โฆ seattlein2025.org?p=5956
(B)eepy.
I'd not seen why, only that was the announcement apnews.com/article/spac...
I think there is an essay, or a paper to be had in studying and paralleing @bluejo.bsky.social 's worker robot Crocus from the Just City trilogy (the first one to gain sentience) to @marthawells.com 's Murderbot.
It seems to be announced that it is an announcement for the change of the location of Space Force headquarters. Again, though, low stakes just as you say
BREAKING: President Trump will announce Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision, an AP source says.
Happy release day @valerievaldes.bsky.social !
And now for our Issue 98 COVER ๐ ๐ ๐ Wound, by Zi Xu
The Book of Gold ebook is now also reduced in the US... You know you want to... www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQXMJMP4 #FeralGods #Booksky๐๐
Always wanted to try Cypher, but never thought it was the right fit for your die-hard dungeon fantasy campaign? That's all changing. Find out why Cypher is the perfect fit for YOUR game here: mymcg.info/cypher
One problem with being on Twitter is that Elon Musk constantly rejigs the site to push his views. He cannot be sidelined when he owns the underlying system. His manipulation of the Twitter AI to match his views illustrates this point. Via @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
IT'S BOOOK DAYYYYYYY (and the crowd goes wild) A long-awaited return to Rapid City and the world of Karen Memory! www.patreon.com/posts/137115...
"So that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated." AI has always haunted our nightmares. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY!! House of Idyll is on the way to rock your world. Available for preorder at all the usual places, plus a special SIGNED edition from Books-a-Million. All preorder links here, including hardcover, ebook, and audio: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790197...
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ICYMI: (This time with the correct release date!) Weston Wei's delightful cover for my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space, animated! Repairing physics that has gone awry! Delicious food! Choices no one should ever have to make! Release date: 4/7/2026
actually, it looks even stupider now--an announcement for the new HQ of Space Force