Remember that if you are at #FantasyCon 2026 to stop by the @wtpress.bsky.social table in the Dealers’ Room and pick up ribbons from the next two Worldcons and the @edmontonin2030.bsky.social bid for 2030.

Kayla Allen 🏳️‍⚧️@kaylaallen1965.bsky.social · 3d ago

Come by the @wtpress.bsky.social table at #FantasyCon 2026 table and pick up ribbons from the Montreal 2027 Worldcon, Brisbane 2028 Worldcon, and Edmonton in 2030 Worldcon bid.

oh man these plans in this coop in zuerich by studio cbgs are niiiiice family sized homes not looking directly into adjoining building lots of daylight private outdoor space studiocbgs.ch/projekte/lan...

Seriously. This is a big part of the problem. The BBC "both sides"ing absolutely everything. Even stuff like this which is about what our security services know about election interference. It *does not* require any Tufton Street response. At all.

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

That's not a legal statement, it's a load of legalish words all mashed together like madlibs. Quick search shows Analog is owned by "Private Investors" who've been fighting the SFWA since acquisition. They probably felt illustrators were an easier target writerbeware.blog/2025/07/25/c...

Contract Controversy (and Change) at Must Read Magazines - Writer Beware

Click to see the most recent update In a surprise move this past February, a new group called Must Read Magazines acquired five well-known genre magazines: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fic...

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact@analogsf.bsky.social · 4d ago

From our publisher:

In what could amount to breaking shogi's glass ceiling, female professional Tomoka Nishiyama has obtained the right to become a kishi and compete in the open category of professional shogi.

Simon Harris has 10 Special Advisers, each being paid a minimum of €100k, and up to a maximum of €182k. His Govt has just announced that they are scrapping the living wage their own low pay commission recommended. You’re not angry enough.

Yes please reach out, we'll get you 8 sessions of CBT in 12-24mths

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 4d ago

The HSE is encouraging people to reach out for support "if they are finding things difficult", as it marks World Mental Health Day

Navi Pilay, ex ICC, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry ⁠on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lead author of the report accurately describing Israel as a Genocidal State... Has won the Nobel Peace Prize

To the surprise of absolutely fucking no-one, the MEPs in question are: Regina Doherty, Nina Carberry, Seán Kelly (FG) Barry Andrews, Barry Cowen, Billy Kelleher (FF) Ciaran Mullooly (II) I've said it before - no need for a far-right party in Ireland, as the establishment parties are already there.

Jack Kennedy@jackkennedy.ie · 5d ago

Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves

Stephen King was just an ordinary student, running down the street late for school, a slice of toast in his mouth, when he was hit by a truck and woke up in: The Dark Tower

Thomas Edison: Behold! it is I! The Bringer of Light! The Inventor of Modernity! A veritable god on earth! Poe: King: Koontz: Barker: Lovecraft: Edison: allow me to introduce myself Edison: i am thomas E. Edison Edison: geeeeeeenius

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...

Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe

Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.

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I get up every morning and go to work. My wife does the same, and she works hard. We get an extra 7 euros a week from the 'giveaway' budget. Seven. Euros. Who was this budget _for_? #FuckFFG #ireland

It’s D&D Night… MONK: *hits yeti* MONK: *rolls low on damage* MONK: Enjoy a fraction of my wrath!

Fair dues to @liamquaidetd.bsky.social for his tireless work for the Ukrainian refugee community in Trabolgan I know the local FF, FG and SF TDs did the square root of feck all in this fight, it's wonderful to see this outcome @social-democrats.bsky.social www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Ukrainian refugees set to remain at former East Cork holiday village

Over the weekend, what is understood to be the majority of the Trabolgan residents were contacted saying they “are not required to relocate at this ...

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Isn't execution by military firing squad (outside of combat operations) normally a grantt of honour? DeGaulle intervened to grant Pierre Laval & Bastien-Thiry such an end, the Soviets insisted that leading Nazis be hanged, Goebbels chose suicide over such dishonour. Seems an odd move by Kegsbreath

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · last wk.

If Nidal Hasan is executed by firing squad, as the Pentagon spokesman says Hegseth and Trump have decided, it will be the first death sentence carried out by the U.S. military since 1961, and the first by firing squad since 1945. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Jim O'Callaghan on the 5.30 news still insisting that his new scheme is working brilliantly & that a significant number of solicitors are actually in favour of it. Genuinely don't know what it'll take for him to recognise that he's not the always-correct genius he seems to think he is.

Cathal Malone@cathalmalone.bsky.social · last wk.

Spent the day in the Central Criminal Court. Cases not proceeding because of the withdrawal of services by solicitors - adjourned matters will get a new hearing date some time after April 2027. If this goes on much longer, we'll be looking at 2028 dates for cases ready to be heard in July 2026.

Sesame Street's "Sam the Robot" absolutely terrified me when it came on the screen. My parents recount that I would run screaming from the tv room, but all I can remember is the blank, lifeless eyes and the head without a head. youtu.be/zB1w_SN5VPw

Classic Sesame Street - Sam The Robot's Debut 1972 HQ

YouTube video by Rohail Hashmi

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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · last wk.

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last wk.

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

Having a wonderful day at #octocon Panel now on world building, featuring Ruth Frances Long, @aptshadow.bsky.social , @emmanewman.bsky.social , & @mytholder.bsky.social #octocon26

You gotta admit "the economy is going great which is why we have to deeply cut spending" is a somewhat confusing message for the government to be putting out

Don't think I've seen it reported anywhere that the Dublin District Family Courts have not been sitting for the past couple of days due to a work-to-rule

Have been a regular for ~35 years at Lansdowne but couldn’t stomach it this evening. None of us took our season ticket seats. Would have enjoyed seeing that goal live but struggling to articulate how we feel about this team. It was good to see the protest there despite RTÉ cutting away a lot.

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2w ago

Press release I woke up to, on Christa Pike’s condition (sent 9/30 at 11:36pm ET)

Me for The Irish News on the Garvaghy Road standoff www.irishnews.com/opinion/sara...

Sarah Creighton: Drumcree is a f*** you to nationalism. Is this really what victory looks like for unionism?

If the Drumcree parade is forced down the Garvaghy Road, our peace process will lie in tatters on the tarmac

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Narrator: it wasn’t mind-boggling. It was entirely predictable.

Semafor@semafor.com · 2w ago

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Uh... Yeah? That's what what "America First" meant. www.euronews.com/2026/09/30/u...

US ambassador slams 'Made in Europe’ defence push as ‘self-interest'

Preference for European-made arms could disrupt the transatlantic defence industrial base and benefit Europe’s "enemies", Ambassador Andrew Puzder warns. #EuropeNews

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it has now been two months of suddenly having my reading mojo back. I have read or reread twenty-nine books. I can now share such revelations as 'it's been 13 years but Ancillary Justice is still a perfect book' and 'has anyone else heard of this Tchaikovsky chap?'

Emily Tesh@emilytesh.net · last mo.

from 2014 to 2023 when I worked in education, I more or less stopped reading for pleasure. when you get a passion job, it eats your passions. it’s only this year it’s really started to come back.

An annoying argument in favour of FPTP is the idea that any PR system breaks the connection between MP and constituency. This argument is exceptionally annoying given that the UK's closest neighbour, Ireland, has a PR system that is arguably too locally focused. www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/policy-h...