The Kickstarter for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Year 13 is live - it’s been a great source of new science fiction and fantasy writing over the years! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU!

Funding to support Year 13 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

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Maybe he can get them to finish the Tesla full self driving code.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2mo ago

“I think actually things will move maybe even by the end of this year to where you don't even bother doing coding. The AI just creates the binary directly.” “Doing coding.” The AI just creates “the binary” directly. Ok.

Which celebrity do you _entirely unreasonably_ feel you could have a chance of being friends with if your paths ever crossed socially? I'll go first. I could see me chatting to @erikaishii.bsky.social in a kitchen at a party, they come across as having a chaotic yet genuinely nice energy.

I'm not the only person to have thoughts about Apple's 50th anniversary today, but these are mine: sixcolors.com/post/2026/04...

Apple at 50: Gonna be, gonna be golden

The author, slightly more than half of Apple’s lifetime ago. A 50th anniversary is a good time to reflect on your relationships, and it seems lots of people have thoughts about their time wit…

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A timely update to my #TTRPG dice rolling app, Dice by PCalc, is out now! This release adds three new dice themes including a 50th Anniversary tribute to Apple. There's also a blue velvet dice tray, and a variety of new features and fixes. iOS: pcalc.com/store/dice Mac: pcalc.com/store/dicemac

Once again, Pi Day rolls around, and I forgot to actually do anything substantial to promote PCalc. Even worse, I added Tau in the latest release, and the Pi people and the Tau people have been at war for decades. Don't ask… But the current iOS version is 3.14.x and so Pi wins today! pcalc.com

Some updates to my PCalc scientific calculator! Consider this the "new features that should have shipped last year" release. Mac: pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac Everything else: pcalc.com/store/pcalc

It's still cold, but the sun is finally beginning to shine. What you really need in this confusing weather is a matching embroidered PCalc beanie and a t-shirt! Some new products in the extensive PCalc and Dice by PCalc merch range are available now at pcalc.fun!

We started on Valentine's Day 2020, so it is fitting we end on Valentine's Day 2026. Thanks to everyone who participated and everyone who listened. We leave you with lots of memories and recommendations. My heart was full. www.theincomparable.com/smooch/142/

Final Love Fest (Agents of SMOOCH 142)

Welcome to our last mission to say goodbye to the Agency. It seems fitting that we do this on Valentine’s Day, exactly six years after we started. We’ve gathered a collection of Agents to reminisce ab...

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Dice by PCalc 2.9 is out now! My #ttrpg dice rolling app now fully supports all the 26 OS updates and has a shiny Liquid Glass redesign. I've also reworked the reroll function, so it better remembers the starting state of the last dice roll. iOS: pcalc.com/store/dice Mac: pcalc.com/store/dicemac

✨50% OFF BLACK FRIDAY SALE ✨ My calculator PCalc and my TTRPG dice app Dice by PCalc, are 50% off until Monday! PCalc for iOS / watchOS / visionOS: pcalc.com/store/pcalc PCalc for macOS: pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac Dice for iOS / watchOS pcalc.com/store/dice Dice for macOS: pcalc.com/store/dicemac

✨50% OFF BLACK FRIDAY SALE ✨ My calculator PCalc and my TTRPG dice app Dice by PCalc, are 50% off until Monday! PCalc for iOS / watchOS / visionOS: pcalc.com/store/pcalc PCalc for macOS: pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac Dice for iOS / watchOS pcalc.com/store/dice Dice for macOS: pcalc.com/store/dicemac

The moment you realise the inner corner radius of the screen next to @samreich.bsky.social is _slightly wrong_ and you might be _slightly neurodivergent_.

This is your official heads-up that PCalc and Dice by PCalc are both going to be on sale for Black Friday at 50% off from this Thursday through until the end of Monday. So, if you're thinking of buying, wait 24 hours! Or like, buy now, if you want to give me more money? Either is good!

Computers didn’t pass the Turing Test, humans failed it.

Going live again, streaming Mass Effect 3 for the kids! Come hang out, and donate to a great cause. We’ll be joined by the wonderful @jamesthomson.bsky.social and @kathycampbell.com (and *baby Charlie!*) as guests during this stream! mvo.live

PCalc 3.14 - the π release! - is now out for iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, watchOS & tvOS 26: pcalc.com/store/pcalc As well as full support for iPadOS 26 multitasking, there's a new default dark theme, a Control Center button, and a completely reworked set of alternative icons, including dark variants.

There's a selection of new Dice by PCalc pride shirts on my merch store, and I'm donating my profits from them to local queer charities. Why not treat yourself on this last day of June? pcalc.fun

I've added some new Dice by PCalc t-shirt designs to the PCalc merch store! All my profits from them will go to local queer charities. pcalc.fun

I like that when I spend points on the Kobo website, I get an email entitled "Congratulations on your redemption!”. If I had known it was that easy…

Has anybody asked Darth Vader in Fortnite what his summer reading list for 2025 is?

I’m not saying they've delayed this to strip out all the out-of-date satire of the US, but I’m not not saying that. www.theverge.com/news/660057/...

Grand Theft Auto VI release delayed to May 2026

You’ll need to wait a little longer for GTA 6

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Given all that is happening in the world, it seems wrong to complain that Ticketmaster messed up the presale for the @dropout.tv live show in Glasgow. And yet, here we are.

If you are in the UK please consider signing this petition to get the UK parliament to at least debate making things easier for trans folks. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.

We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

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A small update to my #ttrpg dice rolling app. Dice by PCalc 2.8.1 fixes a problem with the display being black at startup, but the theme picker now also shows which dice support multiple tint colours (eg, the Six Colors or pride flag tints). iOS: pcalc.com/store/dice Mac: pcalc.com/store/dicemac

Getting old is your 20yo tongue scraper breaking, and ordering multiple replacements to find something anywhere near as good as the old one. Also, realising you grew up in a bubble of peace and progressive values that's left you unprepared for the rise of fascism. Mostly the tongue scraper thing.

Dice by PCalc 2.8 is out now (finally)! This release adds support for iOS 18 and macOS 15, including Control Center buttons, and dark icons. There’s also a new picker which makes it easier to see all the visual options for dice in one place. iOS: pcalc.com/store/dice Mac: pcalc.com/store/dicemac

A pleasure to meet both Sam Béart and @davejones.actor today, they were both lovely people! I gave Dave a Pascal the Panda pin, and was pleased to realise later he was wearing it for the rest of the day (zoom and enhance).

A bold new direction for the character, and I wish her well.

The Hugo award nominations are open, and you can bet every single thing I’m going to nominate will be queer as hell.