Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

The Soviet animated version is set on Dec 31 2026, but it is also very much worth experiencing (thank you to @rblemberg.bsky.social who showed it to me!) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP... Possibly even more terrifying than the original story.

Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]

YouTube video by Алекс Кэрролл

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Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · yesterday

Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...

Toni Morrison and Gene Wolfe were both born in 1931 and both died in 2019. Both Catholic converts, too. I haven't figured out what to make of that yet but I'm going to make something of it one of these days

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

I swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · yesterday

Having ranted about school curriculum books, I’ve just seen my son’s summer reading list, and all I can say is “I was right”. A more depressing collection would be tricky to assemble. Are we actively trying to convey to kids the idea that reading is dismal and arduous?

Nothing protects you from the superpersuaders: "interventions made the sycophantic AI appear less objective and trustworthy, none reduced its persuasiveness ... individual-level interventions, such as warning labels or AI literacy, may not be enough to protect users from AI harms."

Individual-level interventions against sycophantic AI reduce its appeal but not its persuasiveness

AI chatbots can be "sycophantic," or overly agreeable and flattering toward users. Sycophantic AI has been shown to entrench attitudes, yet users frequently fail to recognize it (a phenomenon we call ...

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I'm still taking it in, but my story "The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home", published at @reactorsff.bsky.social is a World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Short Story! Congratulations to all my fellow finalists!!!! 🎉 locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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(young) winn adami and tasha yar for a "spin the wheel twice for your new roommates at star fleet academy" tumblr post...ungodly levels of repression in that dorm. www.tumblr.com/garaks-padde...

Note that this is the same position as blaming pre-existing conditions for kids dying in Gaza. Cause it’s the same people.

The MAHA position is that if some illness they let run rampant kills you but you have any other disability or health condition you had it coming and it’s not their fault.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wonder will Alex Berenson now change his health reporting? Or will start pushing a "died with" rather than "died from" framing?

the truth is there are bad drugs and good drugs and bad drugs are the ones a rich person isn't making money off

Everyday eugenics is grinding me down to my bones. Any time I read the news its just headline after headline of "well vulnerable people will just die *shrug*" whether its war, famine, diseases, environmental disaster, or whatever other horrific stuff is happening daily. I am so so weary.

"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

The only *guaranteed* piece of craft advice I can give -- I mean the advice that is universally applicable -- is that if you kill many other writers and eat their scribere gland (roughly the size of a black-eyed pea, so be careful not to damage it) then your prose will improve immensely

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

Rod Liddle, as well as being being a domestic violence perpetrator against a partner, writing "humorously" about how he couldn't be a teacher cos he'd want to fuck the kids, was also viciously racist and discriminatory against disabled people. Trans folks too.

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Roy Batty

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d ago

Name a villain who was actually right.

"But I *have* to play gacha games, I'm easily bored and need a constant stream of new and updated content or I lose interest" just get into open source roguelikes like a normal person.

By the way COVER LETTERS: Name, story title, wordcount. Nothing else matters at this stage, so don't stress! WORDCOUNT STRICTNESS: Extremely so. One word below 4000 is a rejection, at the other end we allow up to 100 words of elasticity if you really need it but 6101 or higher is also a rejection.

New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 4d ago

📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

I fucking love this. Christopher Nolan has done exactly what a blockbuster director should do, and Emily Wilson is doing exactly what a classics academic should do. Top marks all round!

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 4d ago

I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

New zine day! Again! Already! Tarot Mixtape: Thoth Trust me, I'm a DJ.

Tarot Mixtape: Thoth by The Falling Dream

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I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/

If you want a big spectacular book-adaptation American movie about a reluctant clever hero on an impossible journey through weird places (which I do), Project Hail Mary is great.

Some of my followers might be interested in this online conference brought to you by @heatherfreeman.bsky.social and others. I'll probably be lurking about

Bridging the Invisible

Creative Practices and Bridging the Invisible is an online conference for art, design, magic, and religion. October 15 - 17, 2026 Image: Heather D. Freeman (2024) Consecration of the Slide, December ...

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if you want to relitigate “lockdowns” you need to say what period, what country, and what restrictions you are talking about !