Holy crap! My story "Marginalia" just won the Eugie Foster award at Dragoncon
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Holy crap! My story "Marginalia" just won the Eugie Foster award at Dragoncon
Good heavens! The Martian Contingency just won The Dragon Award for Best Alternate History.
singhsukhjot Sukhjot Singh "No fancy edit this time, just a continuous smooth flight of this majestic peregrine falcon. I was so lucky to share a few moments with her as she approached head on while patrolling her airspace. Note: Footage shot from the top of a trail with a telephoto lens at 630mm"
Stunning footage of a rare dark coloured deer, with estimates suggesting they make up less than 1% of all deer.
Card of the day: KNIGHT OF BLADES. Author Christan Nestell Bovee wrote, “The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities, then to treat them as probabilities.” #TrekSky #TarotSky #StarTrek #Tarot #StarTrekTarot StarTrekTarot.com
When it happens, it’s going to be like this on the socials:
Far Side Cat Fud "Oh please, oh please" energy tonight.
I’ve never witnessed this many people collectively hoping someone has shuffled off this mortal coil. It’s a real spectacle.
Bluesky right now ...
I built an old #startrek plastic model and added a customized decal and had the best time.
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [lute solo] 🎶
Remembering the late great GENE WILDER - who left us 9yrs ago today.
Dorothy Lamour (1930s)
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE DELICIOUSLY?
Good morning! Here are your 3 minutes of peace & calm. #OceanDevotion
Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.
Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.
need people to stop making technology inspired by Star Trek (smooth, sleek, no buttons, all screen, voice activation, extremely minimal, wireless) and start making technology inspired by Star Wars (clunky buttons, indicator lights on everything, ugly, indestructible, fat cables that emit steam)
Adulting is finding the cheesy potatoes have become a science project in the back of the fridge, but you have to save the microwaveable container.
Had some good color in Vero Beach this morning!
Certain you have made that face.....
For me it's legend of hell house .... Original with Roddy McDowell As the psychic
Happy #Caturday Everyone 🐱🐟🦋🪶🕊️🐭💕
Same
You had to be there whelp
Er, I thought hope was the thing with feathers....
Kodak went from 60,000 employees To 3000 A book of the fall of the company: "Out of Focus"
Extend your Worldcon! About 120 replay videos are live now (panels, talks, performances & The Head!!! That Wouldn’t DIE!). More coming soon! In Guidebook, filter for “Replayable.” Login via the Convention Portal. Available through Dec 31! #SeattleWorldcon2025
Card of the day: KNIGHT OF BLADES. Author Christan Nestell Bovee wrote, “The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities, then to treat them as probabilities.” #TrekSky #TarotSky #StarTrek #Tarot #StarTrekTarot StarTrekTarot.com
You can lead a horticulture......
Veggy pizza.....
From the Gavin Newsom trolling collection
The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,00 Works of Art
Wait, I have to buy this moleskin notebook, it's a NEW COLOR !
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QP What your Ai Assistant would wear on a Killer Night out. This is my assistant, the Lady Wisp 2/2 #Vel-AiStudios #JustBecause #SynthArt #GenerativeArt
The fact that rich people spend their money on giant beige mansions that look like dentist's offices instead of building a house inside a giant fiberglass novelty roadside attraction really hammers in how wide the gulf is between us. Imagine wanting a big neutral box instead of a crab or something.
Happy book day to Melissa Caruso's THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES!
You guys hear about my new exhibition
Neil takes the greatest photo.
Spirit Halloweene doth presuppose the existence of Earthe Halloweene, Ayre Halloweene, Fyre Halloweene, and Watir Halloweene.
Tune into The Art Museum, Live on Mixcloud tomorrow at 1 PM CST Fine art & fine tunes! All-vinyl sets of jazz, blues, folk, retro lounge, deep cuts & more, paired with artwork from the ages. Art: Lawrence Alma Tadema - Music Hath Charms www.mixcloud.com/ssshheee/ #jazzsky #musicsky
Gran Telescopio Canarias image of Arp 84, also known as NGC 5394 and NGC 5395. This interacting pair is nicknamed the "Heron Galaxy". The larger spiral, NGC 5395 forms the body of the heron and the smaller, two-armed NGC 5394 forms its neck, head, and beak. Credit: GTC, IAC Source
Congratulations to @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social for winning the bid to host the 85th World Science Fiction Convention!🍁
Room key at the Watergate Hotel:
GELATINOUS CUBE AT A JOBBE YNTERVIEWE: "Ich am fullye committed to transparencye"
My goons.
#Thwarted BY YOUR FORCEFIELD, REPULSED BY YOUR LACK OF TASTE.💢🦉💢 #FridayMemeTeam #HashtagGame
Some photos from Day 2 at Worldcon: Sci-Fi and the Alt-Right, with Sam Asher, @naomikritzer.bsky.social, @jordanscarroll.bsky.social and Joseph Malik. Also a pic of my preferred method of getting from one panel to another.
I’m reading a book about a necromancer. I can accept all the magic but it’s annoying me that the author has no clue what it takes to clean skeletons. Pro tip from an archaeologist: your necromancy class should include a standard “deflesh skeleton” spell, because a couple hours and a knife ain’t it.
Other people have better imposter syndrome than me I bet
And after, we're going to the sock hop!
London Dawn #photography
Happy International Left Handers Day to all of the lovely Left Handed people in the world. #InternationalLeftHandersDay #LeftHandersDay #LeftHanded
Epiphyllum oxypetalum, the queen of the night, blooms nocturnally, and its flowers wilt before dawn.
Oh hey, want to read "Descendant", a story I wrote for Frictions? frictionlit.org/descendant/ “Dragons don’t come back.” Lâm’s voice was harsher than she meant it to be. “Hmm.” Nguyệt Uyển sipped at her tea. “That’s not quite true and you know it. Get a boat and go out to sea, and they’ll come.”
Little Free Blockbuster
Have a beautiful Monday, freaks 😒
I know I’m a horrifying murderbot, and they know it, and it makes both of us nervous, which makes me even more nervous.
Owl Core. Good Morning Blue Sky
Also Bob founded (with a few others) The science fiction service group "The Dorsai".
Looks at calendar, huh 1938 Appeasement......
"How Chick-fil-A was chosen for Thruway, despite being closed on Sundays" Upstate New York travel plaza imbroglio
Bah. Demanding people read half-century-old work as a purity test for genre membership is a fine way to kill the genre dead. I wrote about such nonsense here; whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/07/o...
Something tells me Oscar may not be a good mouser. 😂
Today's in Japan it's Mountain Day (山の日, Yama no Hi) so I thought I'd put together a small collection of my favourite prints featuring Mount Fuji, Japan's most iconic sacred mountain. 🎨'Yoshiwara' from the series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe 1/3
🔭 The Double Cluster in Perseus Image Credit & Copyright: Ron Brecher apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25080...
Favourite spaceships 🚀
Chanter-gills #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends 🍄🟫🍄
i love you hubble
Incredible footage of Plasma ejecting from the Sun.
How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.
#Jagged old wooden pilings sticking out of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise during a #longexposure to show movement in the cloud. For the #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds
I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. And yes, that sound is people groaning and slapping their foreheads all over the world.
Aces helpfully holding me down with his paws so I don't float away
“Have you heard the good moose?”
Been putting spoonfuls in morning coffee, no problems
Gene Tierney (1941)
My husband gets irritated when we watch the Original episodes and I know the dialogue by heart...... Boomer Trek
Smaug, painted after an illustration by Tolkien himself. The border is borrowed from an early book jacket for The Hobbit.
Good morning 🌞
UK folks, you can currently get a ebook copy of THE FOLDED SKY for 99p at all UK retailers, as far as I know! Sunya Song is an archinformist, a specialist in the preservation of threatened and degraded information. Now she's come to the edge of the galaxy to save an incomprehensibly vast life.
