Nishka (she/her)
@ek-nishka.bsky.social
Writer of fantasy and science fiction. Profile picture made using @horatiosroom.bsky.social 's Medieval Maker picrew.
this is the absolute best part of visiting pompeii the city is filled with graffiti like “Aufidius was here” and “I screwed the barmaid” and “Epaphra, you are bald!” people have just been people, forever
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2d agoi love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”
The first time I read the other verses in the song that would become (in part) our national anthem, I asked my teacher why we had, as a nation, not chosen the verse about religious unity. I still don't have an answer. Anyway, here's my favourite arrangement of the whole poem: youtu.be/rObOkzaY23I
Bharoto Bhaggo Bidhata | Full Indian National Anthem (Lyrical)
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The far right media harassment campaign against Black professors finally led to someone’s death. That’s on the university for sensationalizing what should have been a private investigation and everyone else that contributed including many academics that actively played into their hands.
I love how he sets out to make it cartoonishly colourful but ends up making it oddly vibrant
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 3d agoHave to reshare this every time I see it. Raymond Chandler mocking science fiction in 1953 and sounding cool as hell. He should have written some space stories.
👹 🧵 I did my reading like a good kid yesterday, but life got in the way of posting. So this is a placeholder more than anything else. One chapter into a reread of Rakesfall I'm already looking forward to noticing more this time around.
thou hast been blessed by the ibuprofen knight praise be ⚔️💚
I finished reading Rakesfall by @vajra.me a few days ago and I'm still thinking about it. Cathy in Wuthering Heights famously said, "Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same"; Rakesfall pushes this sentiment to the point where even some of the narrators didn't know who they were.
I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did.
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 5d agoIncredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
UK readers! Blaft books are available in London at THE COMMON PRESS! Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction, Kuzhali Manickavel shorts, Indian pulp anthologies, Bandigoat, and more #booksky thecommonpress.shop/collections/...
Blaft Books
Blaft Publications is an independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Their list includes Indian pulp novels in English translation; weird fiction; folktales; ghostlore; graphic novels; stree...
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The push for Harry Potter the TV show is going to be completely enormous—they're debuting it on fucking Christmas—and it is the responsibility of TV critics to contextualize this as rewarding the world's most transphobic billionaire (which is saying something) in everything we write about it.
Write the book that would make your middle school teacher call your parents in for a meeting.
It took nearly 7 decades, after invention of the silicon solar cell in 1954, for the world to install 1 terawatt of solar capacity, enough to power entire USA After passing that milestone in 2022, world added its second terawatt in 2024 and its third in 2026 e360.yale.edu/digest/three...
The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power
In March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power. Increasingly, poorer countries are leading the shift to solar, analysts say.
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If a warlock wanted to curse a genre he could perhaps 1) make every single written work within its confines feature a foreword by the same sex criminal or maybe 2) have the most lucrative entry be authored by a crazed bigot and hang on a minute
so the new EHRC guidance means businesses should not actively police who uses what loo, but if a customer says another customer is trans the business should use a 'common sense' approach to work out if someone is using the loo of their birth sex. can't see any problems with this at all. flawless.
If he attends, Islamophobes will get pissy because “Muslim = 9/11 attacker” If he doesn’t attend, Islamophobes will get pissy because “Muslim = anti-American” Muslims literally cannot fucking win with you lot.
CNN@cnn.com · last wk.Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc
Cover reveal for the @littlebrown.bsky.social edition of THE POISON PALACE, about Eka, a poison maiden who is sent to kill Alexander when he invades ancient India. Cover art by the brilliant @micaelaalcaino.bsky.social. Pre-orders: linktr.ee/shreyaila Out January 2027!
Happy International Cat Day! Here is my favourite type of cat painting, a Kalighat style kitty thieving a prawn. This one's from the mid-19th century via DAG, artist unknown.
As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.
Agender computer scientist arguing that they're heterosexual by definition because it's only gay if personA.gender == personB.gender and in any SENSIBLY typed high-level language null == null does not evaluate to true.
I saw the trailer for "Wicker" and I am pretty sure basket weaving teachers are about to experience a boom in their economy.
like menus, FOH with that QR code nonsense, if you won't even print a menu how am I supposed to believe you'll be arsed to prep a meal worth the time and money
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Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE@thresholdrose.bsky.social · 2w agoCover reveal for the @littlebrown.bsky.social edition of THE POISON PALACE, about Eka, a poison maiden who is sent to kill Alexander when he invades ancient India. Cover art by the brilliant @micaelaalcaino.bsky.social. Pre-orders: linktr.ee/shreyaila Out January 2027!
It’s the first Monday of August, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter. feat. long thoughts on Andor, new Indian SFF, a Joanna Russ novella, and more. gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... As always, remember to subscribe if you’d like this in your inbox fortnightly!
Words for Worlds - Issue 128
Hello everyone, and welcome to another issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.
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I think @tiatashiro.bsky.social might be my favourite writer in Clarkesworld
Kiju Gently@kijugently.bsky.social · 2w agoIn 2026 #Hugo short story nominee MISSING HELEN by @tiatashiro.bsky.social, a woman's ex-husband is marrying her younger clone. Flashbacks review their relationship and her decision to be cloned. Wonderful narrative twist. Read it here! clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_07_25/ #Books #BookSky
Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE@thresholdrose.bsky.social · 3w agoTHE POISON PALACE is a historical myth-retelling rooted in ancient folklore, about the true cost of Alexander the Great's empire-building, and what happens when a poison maiden gets to tell her own story. Dead women do tell tales. Coming Jan 2027. Preorders live! #BookSky linktr.ee/shreyaila
