One of my core early childhood memories is paper craft play sets printed on Weetabix boxes to tie in with the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Ship models, and bridge play sets cut out figures. They looked like this. cerealoffers.com/Weetabix_Ltd...

BBC news has posted a blurry photo of five men under arrest, with their faces pixellated. Altered versions are now circulating where they have significantly darker skin and their supposed faces can be clearly seen. Think very carefully indeed before sharing anything about the RAF Fairford incident.

A gem at the county fair art show. 🎨

Laika of the Cosmos. 9x9 in. Black ink and opalescent watercolor on cream paper. Etsy listing coming up this week. #laikathedog #linocut #printmaking #whimsicalart

How it's going 💪💪💪 #crossstitch #thelegendofzelda #bote

PSA: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

We are fundraising for world central kitchen in October but I've been crying off and on all week. I feel helpless, so I am channeling that energy into good. From now until October first I am raising money for Direct Relief in a campaign I'm calling "What Would Dolly Do?" - Link in second post!

Little WIP prop build. One Wish Willow from #obsession. The "willows" are quick sculpts from scrap clay. I've taken some artistic liberty to give them some extra texture and detail. CleanBox art was put together in inkscape from multiple references. Printed on Matt photo paper and distressed.

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

A Genuine Human Being. That we might live long enough to do a fraction of the good she did.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2mo ago

What a life. youtu.be/lKsQR72HY0s

Reminder: 1. You don't need to have an opinion on everything, especially stuff you don't know enough about 2. You don't need to have a PUBLIC opinion on everything 3. It's okay to focus on one or two things and let others take up the slack elsewhere 4. It's okay to take a break when overwhelmed.

Twitch friends. Twitch is now scraping content to train GenAI and they have opted everyone in by default. Because they are scraping chat this affects everyone who uses the platform. The toggle to opt out is in the security & privacy section of your account settings

Friends, one of my most hopeful stories -- really! -- is in this anthology called Eat the Rich, which is open for pre-orders now. I'm so, so happy to see this out in the world. Oh, and in case you're squeamish about cannibalism: so am I! My angle is... very different. bookshop.org/p/books/eat-...

All 5 of the urban fantasy series, Riftborn. “A master story teller.”

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The portal is open! 🕳️ We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).

@uncannymagazine.bsky.social's Year 13 Kickstarter has just 5 days left, with a little over $5k to go to hit their BASE GOAL so they can keep publishing incredible SFF in 2027! If you're able, boosting or supporting would go a long way in keeping Uncanny alive. 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!

kickstarter.com

You can do things for the love of them. It doesn't have to be a side hustle or turn a profit .

Algorithmotrophic fungus@engagetheo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So many things I didn't pursue in my 20s and 30s because I couldn't answer "what's the end-game for this?" Now I play drums, paint minis, and write poetry (among other hobbies) because I like to, I don't need to see a path to income or recognition for justification

Pro tip for photos of your dog

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

so many trans masc artists out here constantly just being ignored and not boosted or given praise we are all making so much fucking cool stuff but we can not be used as a token to boost others lmao

Folks, this one is a beautiful, brilliant book. I adored it. Bittersweet and surreal, it conjures up an authentic 90s vibe of both the times and the comics. Highly recommended

Oliver Mertz@mertzmakesstuff.com · 3mo ago

Retailers! If you want to read my new graphic novel A GHOST ARM MADE OF ANGRY GHOSTS, send me a message and I’ll send the PDF! FOC 8/10 On Sale 9/2 From @oni-press.bsky.social Thanks to @cbccpodcast.bsky.social for the kind words!

I will not be going to see any version of the Odyssey where Helen of Troy is not portrayed by an actress who hatched from an egg.

Remember that you can change settings here on bsky to prevent video from auto playing. There are multiple videos of a shooting in Madison WI. doing the rounds. You do not have to see the content to understand what many many other people will describe for you in detail.

He's credited by Japan's cultural historians as having personally saved enormous amounts of folklore from being completely lost, too. Hundreds of yokai legends are only known now because he collected them from remote communities that are themseles often gone.

Ruki@skiesofarcadia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Art by legendary mangaka Shigeru Mizuki

Oh my goodness, shut up and take my money!

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 3mo ago

Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.

As mainstream publishing steers itself away from even the thinnest veneer of diversity towards conservative propaganda disguised as sexy empowerment... the real problem is small magazine editors and micropresses not publishing exclusively glittering prose that arrives fully formed in the slush pile?

1/ Starting today, with #Babylon5 "Sleeping in Light," I will be uploading a metric ton of my TV, film and comics scripts to create a digital archive for fans, followers, academics and folks with too much time on their hands. Information here: jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/introducin...

Introducing JMS Online Script Archive

An Ongoing Repository for My TV, Movie and Comic Scripts

jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com

Not available in my part of the world.. but hard recommend anyhow.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3mo ago

2. If you haven't picked up my Humble Bundle of books yet, today's a fine day. We have to date raised $18.7k for @wck.org, and it would be lovely to get to $20k this weekend. Available everywhere except (apparently) current and former Commonwealth countries: www.humblebundle.com/books/john-s...

I just had a 17-minute call with Lindsey Graham and we talked about the World Cup, the Strait of Hormuz, and also the shadowy figure with red eyes and bat wings that has been pursuing him for the last decade