when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Brutal.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

I always smile when I remember this 900 year old Sam & Max fanart, carved into some old twelfth century church in england

thing: exists me: hmmm not sure how I feel about that thing: exists and also woman me: this is my new favorite thing

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

servant of imperial messaging upset by anti-imperial messaging, more at 11

making robots that look like people is almost always a choice to sacrifice efficient form for the feeling of owning a person

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Dress for the gender you want, not for the gender you have

We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but... The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us. "Fear is the mind killer" "Fear is a path to the Dark Side" etc. Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.

me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself me to me: wtf is wrong with you

You didn’t hear this from us, but the Old English word 'sibb' meant “related by blood.” This is where we get the 'sibling.' And 'godsibb' essentially meant “godparent.” Over time, it came to mean "close friend." Now it is something we share w/ close friends... 'gossip.'

i think it's worth it to read Lovecraft, and not just because so much horror canon comes from him. his work embodies an extremely specific kind of modern american derangement syndrome, whereby someone can tell Something Is Wrong, but they aim their fear in the wrong direction, i.e. at minorities.

I know inflation is bad but if this pricing is accurate and we can find thirty or forty more, we can take care of this nonsense the old school way

This is how you blurb

tolkien: man I'm sure glad my book about how much industrialization sucks has found its intended audience, dudes who build war machines and want to kill the night sky

With great pride and pleasure I offer you this fiercely optimistic tale, informed by how bad everything sucks right now, beautifully read by christianaellis.bsky.social.

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Hail, observers! Sometimes a title wins the game from the get-go, and that's certainly true of today's reprint, "Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias" by @ellybangs.bsky.social. So go experience it! Even the trilobites agree!

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GREY GARDENS in space: A fledgling documentarian gets overly entangled with two deposed Imperials in exile on a once-opulent space station. He must choose: launch his career as a truth-teller, or protect these people from the judgment of a hostile audience. #DVpit #A #SF #LGBT #TV #novella

Hey #DVparty! Here’s the moodboard for my #SpaceOpera WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. Washed-up alien musician Nesamma Abbas joins a rebel rock band to take down the Human Empire with a martial art of sound. She must confront her pain, master her powers and choose between revolution or redemption.

Important to understand that many lies are not meant to be convincing. When a schoolyard bully steals your lunch money, he says "that's mine." The absurdity is the point. It's an assertion of dominance. It is to say "reality is whatever I say it is. You disagree? What are you gonna do about it?"

Home libraries are more than books. When children pass a wall of books and see parents reading, it has the unspoken effect of showing how much knowledge there is to know and how much they don't know. I recall looking through my mom's books wondering what they were all about and created a curiosity.