Ready to watch the Odyssey

Miss when the internet was a bunch of disorganized forums full of oddballs instead of endless short-form videos? Read my weirdo little SF flash fiction up at Lightspeed! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/fets...

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I’ll be appearing at Worldcon in Anaheim next month (August 27-31). Here’s where you can find me! #LAconV #Worldcon2026

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · last wk.

Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.

Excited for Zhalfir but don't know where to start? I've got you covered. Zhalfir was the primary location for Mirage and Visions, Magic's first internally led stories (and a big part of the ramp up into the classic Weatherlight saga). It told the story of the Mirage War.

The official @magic.wizards.com Story Podcast has made a great refresher for the story leading up to Reality Fracture! It's a great reminder of everything Jace has been up to and how it's all come together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-p9...

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Hello! I am ceo of computers. I am sorry to sayit is your duty to buy computer or the future won't happen. :(

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Every day this guy does something like this and every day the same people who dress him up as a terrifying commie destroyer of civilization do a dozen things to sabotage the public good, to murder and destroy and hate and kill, and I can't anymore handle those who won't see the clear difference.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

So stoked that we can finally talk about the Magic line-up for 2027! Next year is going to be WILD. #wotcstaff

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

“While me and the Dark Lord Sauron often disagreed on his will to dominate all life, I will fondly remember his quick wit and his passion for jewellery”

Y'all, I'm so excited to share this one with you! It's accessible even for those who aren't familiar with Magic: the Gathering lore!

Sloane@sloanesloane.bsky.social · last mo.

Also I got to commission one of my fav short fiction authors @izzyxen.bsky.social for a story called SPIRITS OF THE ABZAN where we explore more of Felothar, our iconic trans Khan from Tarkir, and her past rebelling against Dromoka 🐉 !! magic.wizards.com/en/news/magi...

Surprise! New Magic story just dropped! This one’s by the incomparable @izzyxen.bsky.social, and it’s a banger.

Spirits of the Abzan

The rebels fall upon the mobile garrison at dusk, sweeping in from the desert with the sun at their backs, and Felothar leads the charge.

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America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

trans rights are human rights and anyone who tells you otherwise is a stone cold bigot fuck SCOTUS and kavanaugh specifically

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · last mo.

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

Just a reminder that applications for the 2027 Salam Workshop in Lahore are open now! thesalamaward.com/the-salam-wo...

The Salam Workshop 2027 Edition - The Salam Award

Salam Workshop 2027 Applications for the 2027 Salam Workshop are now open! Following the success of our 2023 and 2025 workshops, the 3rd Salam Workshop returns in 2027! Hosted by The Salam Award and t...

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Me when my therapist asks me how something made me feel

Today is one of those days when it hits me that I just get to read phenomenal fiction all day for a living. Related, I can’t wait for y’all to experience the next few (many!) years of Magic Story. #wotcstaff

as usual, maslow was wrong. people create art when they're dying, starving, freezing, not only when they're comfy and have all their needs met. because creating art is a fundamental human function. it's a way to say "i was here" and "i saw, thought, felt something" llms cannot see, think, or feel

Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · last mo.

I will not accept an argument that art and creativity have been uniquely democratised in the last few years since the invention of genAI. What a disservice to human history. How little regard you must have for the billions of souls that struggled through unimaginable suffering to express themselves.

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

I will not accept an argument that art and creativity have been uniquely democratised in the last few years since the invention of genAI. What a disservice to human history. How little regard you must have for the billions of souls that struggled through unimaginable suffering to express themselves.

Good art takes work. Full stop. That’s why we refer to artwork, works of art, blood in the work, etc. If you’re not willing to put in the work to create something, then why should I put in the work to engage with it? Why should I bother giving it any more attention than you did?

Call up Guillermo del Toro and whisper "At the Mountains of Muppets".

Ryan Whatever@silberwhatever.com · 2mo ago

What should have been the third literary adaptation to finish the MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL and MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND trilogy?

more pocket-sized books. more books that fit in coats like contraband and can be taken out to avoid eye contact in any situation.

The world's first trillionaire did this

I am embarrassingly ignorant of sports but loving how happy the Knicks winning made everyone. Fuck yeah dude.

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work