MAMA! Get dressed for our big reunion please 😳🏴‍☠️ With Queenie back from her solo adventure and finally meeting her long lost son, happy tears are shed alongside more painful occurrences. Catch all of Blood ‘n’ Booty Act 2, now on the Dungeons & Drimbus podcast feed! #actualplay #podcast #ttrpg

A few things you'll find in Revenge of the Sunshine! Coming September 22. All images were drawn without the use of AI. jackielaubooks.com/books/reveng...

Gonna go try to create something. For fun. See y’all later.

That moment you feel actual pain over the actions of someone you really admired. "for fun." Jeesus.

J. Michael Straczynski@straczynski.bsky.social · yesterday

The standalone book of Harlan Ellison's I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM is taking preorders, with writing essays by Harlan, and since MOUTH was the first AI story, for fun we fed it into an AI system and asked for its opinion. The reply is fascinating. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/harla...

My novella, The Barbarian at Dream's End, ships today from Brackenbury Books! 🤩 Featuring cover art by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social , interior art by Luis Melo, and a stunning map by Caster Jones! I'd meant to do more promo, but am sick, so expect some in newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/the-...

This is just rock-solid messaging, badly needed ⭐️

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.

The secret to being an author is having smart friends!

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · yesterday

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

Little IF expirement from last summer! Play as one of Emmanuelle's cats (from Val-de-mer) as you try to escape a bath... or perhaps you'd rather try to get as many treats as possible? No knowledge of PAINTED FLOCK needed to play, only a few minutes. claudiearseneault.itch.io/painted-kitty

It really is that simple to shut this down - utilize the system that existed for years until the anti-trans rage machine lied to the public about it. Being trans isn't something I can take on and off, it's who I am, and I'm proud of it. Sport needs to be inclusive to all.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterday

For my newsletter, I spelled out once simple trick for the WNBA to shut down that transphobic publicity stunt by two former NBA players: www.burnsnotice.com/heres-how-th...

I knew *something* was up with my gender around 5. Contemplated transitioning in college but couldn't bear the gatekeeping in the late 90s. Came out and started hormones in 2019 at 40. Living my best life at 47 & only regret that it took me so long to take the leap of faith.

Hannah Who@notablyuncool.bsky.social · last wk.

If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.

What is Treato Jail you ask? Self-imposed exile. See, if I go upstairs, Max positions himself between the bars, becomes totally inconsolable*, and to be released from jail requires payment**. * Turns the "woe is me, i haf nebber known foods" face to 11. ** Treats.

We are very honoured and excited to have won the 2026 Aurora Award for Best Fan Related Work! We would like to thank all our volunteers who make the convention happen and everyone who comes to spend some time with us each fall. Thank you for your support!

Happiest of bifdays!

Can*Con@canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy Birthday to @pineapplefury.bsky.social, one of our Programming Leads and general purpose schemer and plotter!

THRILLED to have won the Aurora Award for Best Related Work for Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 3! Such a stacked category this year and a sign of the great SFF work being done by Canadians. Congrats to the other finalists in this and all the other categories #PrixAuroraAwards #AuroraAward #CSFFA

Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 2d ago

My brain has decided to fixate on the fact that "compound bow" scans exactly like "uptown girl"

2026 Aurora Awards are tonight at 5 pm EST! I'll be there. Marie Bilodeau will even be in my house. Come cheer on the Canadian SFF community with us!

The 2026 Aurora Awards

Livestream broadcast of the 2025 Aurora Awards, Canada’s annual English-language Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards. Hosted by Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz May Anderson. Including a special Hall of Fame Induction celebration as CSFFA welcomes Kelley Armstrong, James Alan Gardner, and Mike Glicksoh

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Third season opener with my USS Bellerophon group for #StarTrekAdventures in twenty minutes or so. The Klingon war has gotten hot, they’ve lost contact with the majority of Federation Space, but first? Cake!

🎵 What a feeling / Being's believing I can have it all / Now I'm dancing for my life Take your pants off / And make it happen Pictures come alive / You can dance right through your life 🎵

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3d ago

Name your fav mondegreen or misheard lyric.

Holding WorldPride in a country with a trans bathroom ban is a bad idea

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 3d ago

WorldPride would bring visitors, celebration and opportunity to London. But that's not why I'm backing our bid. For me, it's about the message it sends: that everyone deserves the freedom to be themselves, and that our diversity remains one of London's greatest strengths.

Some #Ottawa dogwalk #JoyScrolling for you.

Saw a mural today that was, "Live your story!" and I thought, "You know, depending on the author, that’s kind of a cruel thing to say."

have you picked up my nebula award-winning book? it's a spooky queer tween fantasy novel about a girl who can see ghosts on an adventure with her sister, a dragon, and a ghost. on sale all summer, kobo only! 🌈📚 #IndieBooks #fantasy #kidlit #booksky www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

It’s #StarTrekAdventures Saturday, where I try to get nerdy with @modiphius.bsky.social's awesome Trek #TTRPG. I’m back on the Federation-Klingon Border, dropping the Federation News Network for Beta Quadrant space pretty much all by itself, surrounded by Klingons. Journalists. What can you do?

STA Saturday — The K’T’inga Sector

Three new Klingon systems, including a new jeghpu’uI’ species and a former Nyberrite mining colony—and one Federation world. Hey all! It’s Saturday, when I try to offer up something for Star Trek A…

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Your bad art is better than AI slop.

The moderators of the King George County Community Facebook page took a post about this story down and told me it’s because it is “stirring the pot.” Wouldn’t it be great if everyone on Bluesky saw this story in response to their censorship? www.advocate.com/opinion/king...

These LGBTQ+ Virginia kids found support and community in school. Then, bigoted adults took that away

The hardest thing about growing up queer isn’t being different. It’s what adults like conservatives in King George County do because of it, writes John Casey.

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We’re doing awesome women we love reading in Science Fiction and Fantasy? Yes! Okay! Tanya Huff (I wept-laughed through "Summon the Keeper" and was hooked from there), Jewelle Gomez (Gilda!), Una McCormack ("Asylum" became my favourite Trek book, period), Martha Wells (Murderbot, c’mon)...

Somehow, I ended up with gaming as a player this week in Star Wars, will be running these two #StarTrekAdventures games on Sunday and Monday, and then on Tuesday I’ll be playing Draw Steel. 🎲🤓

Welcome to the 24th Century! Today's blog focuses on our new campaign guide for Star Trek Adventures Second Edition. Jim Johnson will be going through the book and its various new entries over the next few weeks, starting now! 🔗: buff.ly/4gRDgP9 #blog #startrekadventures #TTRPG

I am a girl. I like reptiles and horror movies and science fiction and comics and TTRPGs, and for my entire life, every time I have entered a space, I have had to prove that I didn't "steal" it from the person* it rightfully belonged to. (*Boy, then man.)